The Mountain Is You

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
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BRIANNA WIEST
THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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or at the very least in severe trouble. You aren’t, because your brain is able
to intervene and instruct you on how to make choices that reflect what you
want to be experiencing long-term.
You begin experiencing feelings of peace and joy in your life when you
condition yourself to take repeated daily actions that facilitate clarity,
calmness, healthfulness, and purposefulness, not the other way around.
If you want to master your life, you have to learn to organize your feelings.
By becoming aware of them, you can trace them back to the thought
process that prompted them, and from there you can decide whether or not
the idea is an actual threat or concern, or a fabrication of your reptilian
mind just trying to keep you alive.
Remember: Your brain was built for nature. Your body was designed to
survive in the wild. You have an animal-istic form trying to navigate a
highly civilized, modern world. Forgive yourself for having these impulses,
and at the same time, understand that your choices are ultimately yours.
You can feel something and not act on it.