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

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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Happiness is your natural state. That means you will return
to it on your own if you allow the other feelings you
want to experience to come up, be felt, be processed, and
not resisted. The less you resist your unhappiness, the happier
you will be. It is often just trying too hard to feel one
certain way that sets us up for failure.
ARRIVE INTO THE PRESENT
There’s a saying that if you’re anxious, it’s because you’re
living in the future, and if you’re depressed, it’s because
you’re living in the past. When you’re living in the present
moment, you realize that both the past and future are
just current illusions in the infinite, eternal “now” and that
they are actually ways in which you can avoid being in
your body.
The only place to find happiness is in the present because
that’s the only place it truly exists. Trying to find happiness
by focusing on what could or might happen in the
future is actually a process of disassociation. Practice arriving
into today by focusing on taking life one day at a
time and doing the most with what you have in front of
you currently.
There’s a fine balance between living for the moment and
taking care of your future self.