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

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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CHAPTER 7
FROM SELF-SABOTAGE TO
SELF-MASTERY
MOVING FROM SELF-SABOTAGE to self-mastery sounds
like an extraordinary transformation, when in reality it is
the natural course of coming to understand that you were
responsible for holding your life back, and so you are also
capable of moving it forward.
CONTROLLING YOUR EMOTIONS
VS. SUPPRESSING THEM
The Buddhists believe that controlling the mind is the
path to enlightenment. 20 Enlightenment, by which they
mean, spontaneous and true happiness.
The idea is simple in theory and complex in practice: By
both exploring our understanding of the mind and training
it to behave in a certain way, we sort of purify ourselves
to experience the essential nature of what we are, which is,
as they believe, joy.