Brianna Wiest - The Mountain Is You_ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (2020)

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how to adapt to a life in which you are relaxed and enjoying
it. You are going to resist it, feel guilty, perhaps
overspend or disregard responsibilities. You are, in your
head, “balancing out” the years of difficulty with years of
complete relaxation. However, this is not how it works.
When we are so deeply enmeshed in the feeling of “wanting,”
it becomes extremely hard to adjust to the experience
of “having.”
This is because any change, no matter how positive, is uncomfortable
until it is also familiar.
It is difficult to acknowledge the ways in which we are
so deeply inclined to self-validate, so we end up standing
in our own way out of pride. It is even more difficult to
acknowledge that very often, the things we envy in others
are fragments of our deepest desires, the ones we won’t
allow ourselves to have.
Yes, your brain is predisposed to want greater things, and
more of them. But by understanding its processes and
tendencies, you can override the programming and start
governing your own life.
YOUR BODY IS GOVERNED BY A
HOMEOSTATIC IMPULSE
Your brain is built to reinforce and regulate your life.