The Mountain Is You

HONOR YOUR DISCOMFORT, BECAUSE IT’S TRYING TO TELL

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YOU SOMETHING
The greatest gift that life will hand you is discomfort.
Discomfort is not trying to punish you! It is just trying to show you where
you are capable of more, deserving of better, able to change, or meant for
greater than you have right now. In almost every case, it is simply
informing you that there is more out there for you, and it is pushing you to
go pursue it.
Instead of trying to pacify this discomfort, mental strength requires that you
listen, learn, and begin to change your course.
If you can begin to see your life as a feedback mechanism that is reflecting
who you are with the ultimate goal to help you live better and more fully,
all of a sudden you realize that it was never the world standing in your way,
but your own mind.
H O W T O T R U LY E N J O Y Y O U R L I F E
If you were to ask, many people would undoubtedly agree that they believe
the purpose of life is to enjoy it. However, so many people struggle to be
present and actually experience their lives as they are. The culprits are
varied and can include everything from unrealistic expectations
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to trying too hard to feel good. (It is, after all, something you have to allow.)
When you’re struggling, the most insulting and difficult thing that someone
can tell you is to “just relax” or “just enjoy yourself.” When you’re in

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survival mode, the last thing you can possibly think about is just sitting
back and rolling with the punches. This is the most important part of
learning how to enjoy your life again: When you’re in a place of trauma and
pain, you can’t try to force yourself to be happy. First, you have to step back
into neutral.
When you’re struggling and you try to make yourself feel good, you are
actually intensifying the polarity of your feelings. You are shoving the
“bad” feeling down in place of trying to feel something different. Ironically,
many people who struggle emotionally are, at their core, people who
actually just have a greater desire to enjoy life.

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