The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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feeling, as we are strengthening the internal conflict and
triggering the fear that’s holding us back in the first place.
Instead, releasing resistance requires us to refocus. We
have to get clear on what we want as well as when and
why we want it. We have to identify unconscious beliefs
that are preventing us from showing up, and then we have
to step back into the work when we feel inspired. Wanting
is the entryway to showing up after resistance.
HITTING YOUR UPPER LIMIT
As discussed before, there is only a certain amount of happiness
that most of us will allow ourselves to feel. Gay
Hendricks calls this your “upper limit.”
Your upper limit is essentially the amount of “good” that
you’re comfortable having in your life. It is your tolerance
and threshold for having positive feelings or experiencing
positive events.
When you begin to surpass your upper limit, you start
to unconsciously sabotage what’s happening in order to
bring yourself back to what’s comfortable and familiar.
For some people, this manifests physically, often as aches,
pains, headaches, or physical tension. For others, it manifests
emotionally as resistance, anger, guilt, or fear.
It might seem totally counterintuitive, but we are not