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 oth-
ers 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 ini-
tial 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 refer-
ring 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 assum-
ing that the least likely outcome is the most viable out-
come, 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 ab-
solutely 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. In-
stead 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 our-
selves 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 psy-
chology, 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 re-
spond 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 can-
not 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 be-
come 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: