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

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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• Every difficult situation you swore you would never
get through or never get over.
• Every time you have genuinely felt happy and at peace.
Guaranteed, your responses to the first will bring a smile
to your face in that they will remind you that you have
worried constantly in your life, and yet they were mostly
unfounded.
Your response to the second will also be relieving, because
it will show you just how much pain you thought was insurmountable
in your life and how, in retrospect, you don’t
really ever think about those things anymore.
Finally, your answers to the last question will remind you
that your happiness has never come from things being
perfect on the outside, but from you being present and
open and connected to yourself and to the moment.
DETACHING FROM WORRYING
In the same way that it’s easy to become addicted to substances
or behaviors that allow us to avoid the present
moment, worrying is chief among the coping mechanisms
people use to distract themselves from what really matters.
Over time, you convince yourself that worrying equals
being safe. You think that by running worst-case scenarios