The Mountain Is You

HONOR YOUR DISCOMFORT, BECAUSE IT’S TRYING TO TELL
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. How-
ever, 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 survival mode, the last 
thing you can possibly think about is just sitting back 
and rolling with the punches. This is the most import-
ant 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, peo-
ple who actually just have a greater desire to enjoy life.