The Mountain Is You

HOW DO I OVERCOME ADJUSTMENT SHOCK?
When something positive happens in your life, you are going to have to
adjust your mindset about other things to create alignment and a new, more
accurate and sus-tainable perspective.

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If you have anxiety about having more money, you will need to learn how
to manage it better. If you have anxiety about relationships, you will need to
learn to relate to others like you never have before.
Your big life change is going to force you to level up in every way
imaginable, and the way to overcome the initial fear of stepping into the
unknown is to familiarize yourself with it, to make it a part of you, one that
you are certain you are prepared for—and that you deserve.
P S Y C H I C T H I N K I N G I S N ’ T W I S D O M
When we talk about “psychic thinking,” we are not referring to the palm-
reading, neon-sign-advertised occultist professionals you can hire to
evaluate your energy and predict your future.
Psychic thinking is far more insidious than that.
Psychic thinking is assuming you know what somebody else is thinking or
what they intend to do. It is assuming that the least likely outcome is the
most viable outcome, because you feel it most strongly. It is believing that
you have missed out on “another life,” a path you did not choose, that you
were possibly more meant for. It is believing that the person with whom
you have the most electric connection is your most ideal life partner.
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Of course, the way other people see us is dynamic. Their thoughts, feelings,
and intentions are largely if not entirely unknown to us. The least likely
outcome is just that: the least likely outcome. There is no such thing as the
path we could have taken, only a projection of our needs and desires onto
another fantastical idea of what our lives might be. Electric connection is
not soulmateship; love and compatibility are not the same thing.
Psychic thinking detaches us from reality. In place of logic, we put
emotions, ones that are often incorrect, unreliable, and wholly biased
toward what we want to believe.
Beyond being inconveniencing, psychic thinking is absolutely terrible for
your mental health. Psychic thinking breeds anxiety and depression. It’s not
just that something scares or upsets us; it’s that we believe that the thought
must not only be real, but predictive of future events. Instead of feeling like
we are having a down day, psychic thinking makes us assume we are
having a terrible life.
We heard “trust yourself ” and then began to liken ourselves to oracles, that
when a particularly triggering thought or feeling passes through us, it must
indicate something more to come.
Indeed, psychic thinking as a whole has begun taking on an entirely new
light because of the popularity of pop psychology, dating back to the 50s
and 60s. Trust yourself, the gurus tell you. Deep down, you know the truth.
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This is valid. Your intestines are literally connected to the stem of your
brain; the bacteria in your stomach respond to subconscious intelligent
awareness faster than your mind can. This is why your “gut” is indeed
correct on instinct. But when this advice is given to people who cannot

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differentiate a gut feeling from fear or from a passing thought that has no
bearing on reality or their lives as a whole, it becomes a dangerous practice
in which they become completely stuck and limited because they assume
their random feelings are all real—and then not only real, but a prediction
for what’s to come.
Psychic thinking is nothing more than a series of cognitive biases, the most
prominent of which are the following: CONFIRMATION
At any moment in time, your brain is inundated with stimuli.
To help you process, your conscious mind is aware of about 10% of it or
less. Your subconscious mind is still paying attention, logging away
information you might one day need.
However, what determines what makes it to that 10% of our conscious
awareness has a lot to do with what we already believe. Our brains are
literally working to filter out information that does not support our
preexisting ideas, and then to draw our attention to information that does.
This means that we are subject to a “confirmation bias,”
which is that we literally seek out and sort through stimuli that supports
what we want to think.
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