The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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important distinction to make. In fact, genuinely happy
people are more at peace than they are ecstatic about everything
they experience.
This is because happy people are inherently coachable and
changeable. They are not stuck in their ways. They understand
that life requires growth, and when that growth
stagnates, discomfort begins to arise.
The true nature of life is constant movement and constant
evolution. If you do not keep up with that, life will all
but force you to change as it becomes less and less comfortable
to stay where you are. You cannot avoid all pain,
but you can absolutely avoid a lot of suffering by staying
focused on your internal growth.
BE AWARE OF WHAT YOU GIVE YOUR ENERGY TO
Sure, most people realize that if they work a job they dislike
or stay in relationships they despise for the majority
of their lives they aren’t going to feel great about it. What
many don’t realize, however, is that there are far more significant
things that we constantly offer our energy to that
create the quality of our lives.
Those disliked jobs and stale relationships aren’t problems,
they are symptoms, and at the root of all of it is where you
allow your mind to run. When you give your energy to
certain thoughts, they gain life. There’s a saying that the