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

9 4 BRIANNA WIEST
Sometimes, your instinct can move you to keep working
on a relationship, even when it’s hard.
Your instinct doesn’t exist to ensure you feel comfortable
and ecstatic at all hours of the day. It moves you toward
what you’re meant to do, because it shows you where your
interests, skills, and desires intersect.
INSTINCT AND FEAR CAN FEEL SIMILAR
To trust your gut is not to treat it as an oracle.
This is when the concept becomes so problematic. We
are not only believing random feelings blindly, but also
applying future meaning to them, assuming that everything
we feel is actually warning us or showing us
what’s ahead.
Let’s unpack why and how this happens and how you can
prevent it from ruining your life.
Feelings do not inform you of the right decision to make.
Right decisions create the right feelings.
Your feelings are not intended to guide you throughout
life; that is what your mind is for.
If you were to honestly follow your every impulse, you
would be completely stuck, complacent, and possibly dead