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

142 BRIANNA WIEST
We mentally become trapped in these places from which
we still crave an experience. What we don’t realize is that
we have to sort of free ourselves from it so that we can go
forth and create it in real time.
Instead of accepting the ways we think life did not work
out, we have to be able to see what was at the core of
our desire and figure out a way to still give ourselves that
experience now.
If you truly want to let go of a past experience, you have to
reenter it through your memory. Close your eyes and find
the feeling in your body that is uncomfortable.
This is your portal to its root. Follow the feeling and ask
it to show you where it started. You’ll remember a time,
place, or experience. Sometimes, the memory is fresh
enough that you don’t need to do this, and you can simply
reenter the memory by imagining that you are back where
it all began.
Now what you have to do is to superimpose a narrative
to your younger self. You need to imagine that you, your
healed and happy older self, is imparting some wisdom.
Imagine sitting next to your younger self as they got their
heart broken and giving them very specific instructions
about why this is absolutely for the best and although they
cannot know it yet, there is another relationship out there
that is far, far better.