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About The Mountain Is You Book
THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT SELF-SABOTAGE.
Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it-for good.
Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences at a cellular level, and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential.
For centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the big challenges we face, especially ones that seem impossible to overcome. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb.
In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.
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The Deepest Quotes From ‘The Mountain Is You’ By Brianna Wiest
In The Mountain Is You, Wiest tackles self-sabotage and how we can get out of our own ways. Here are the deepest quotes from The Mountain Is You that will inspire you to confront the mountain and finally climb to your new life.
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"Your mountain is the block between you and the life you want to live. Facing it is also the only path to your freedom and becoming.”
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You cannot stay where you stand if you want change your life.
"Your new life is going to cost you your old one. It’s going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense of direction. It’s going to cost you relationships and friends. It’s going to cost you being liked and understood. It doesn’t matter. The people who are meant for you are going to meet you on the other side. You’re going to build a new comfort zone around the things that actually move you forward. Instead of being liked, you’re going to be loved. Instead of being understood, you’re going to be seen. All you’re going to lose is what was built for a person you no longer are."
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10 best hidden quotes from "The Mountain Is You"
"In the valleys of our doubts, we plant the seeds of our resilience."
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"The shadows of our past are but the foothills to our future."
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision to move forward in its presence."
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Readers interested in personal growth and self-improvement will find "The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery" an invaluable resource!
Summiting Your Inner Peaks
This piece explores the metaphorical journey of climbing personal mountains. It delves into the idea that overcoming self-sabotage requires the same determination and resilience as summiting a physical mountain.
By addressing internal obstacles, readers learn strategies for self-mastery, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness, goal setting, and the power of persistence in reaching the pinnacle of personal growth.
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The Base Camp of Self-Discovery
Before embarking on the ascent to self-mastery, one must first establish a base camp of self-discovery. This concept introduces readers to the foundational steps of understanding their own patterns of self-sabotage.
Through introspection and acknowledgment of one's vulnerabilities, this guide offers a starting point for transformation, highlighting the role of self-compassion and acceptance in the journey.
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Navigating the Terrain of Self-Doubt
This article addresses the treacherous terrain of self-doubt that often hinders progress towards self-mastery. It presents techniques for recognizing and confronting these doubts, likening them to obstacles on a mountain trail.
By developing a mindset of resilience and adaptability, readers learn to navigate through self-doubt, turning challenges into stepping stones towards achieving personal goals.
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In order to grow and become our best selves we must be willing to let go of our past selves, our vision, and our thoughts pertaining to who we are and what we want.
We see this reflected back to us in every part of life. Species reproduce, DNA evolves to eliminate certain strands and develop new ones, and the edges of the universe are expanding forever outward. Likewise, our ability to feel the depth and beauty of life is capable of expanding forever inward if we are willing to take our problems and see them as catalysts. Forests need fire to do this, volcanoes need implosions, stars need collapse, and human beings often need to be faced with no other option but to change before they really do.
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What Does Having A Mountain In Front Of You Mean?
It does not mean you are fundamentally broken in some way.
Think about it- Everything in nature is imperfect, and it is because of that imperfection that growth is possible.
If everything existed in uniformity, the gravity that created the stars and planets and everything that we know would not exist.
Without breaks, faults, and gaps, nothing could grow and nothing would become.
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The fact that you are imperfect is not a sign that you have failed; it is a sign that you are human, and more importantly, it is a sign that you still have more potential within you.
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The Mountain is You
Point of Mountain
Someday we all we realise the mountain which we are facing will be very far away.
What will be us forever ? The lessons and we will keep growing with the lesson
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Your new Life is going to cost you your old One.
It is going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense of direction. We donot have get out of comfort zone.
"We have to gradually and slowly build our new comfort zone
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Raise Your Standards
Don't believe the sky is the LIMIT. If we observer carefully everything is infinite, we don't have to create LIMITS for our personal growth. Be Mindful and Selfaware.
We have to raise our standards too high
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These ideas make ME want to live again, to the fullest. Okay, maybe not the "fullest". But atleast try and live without worrying about my past and future and focus on present. In calm and positive manner. (Hopefully) :)
"It Can Feel As Though We've Hit Rock Bottom"
"The objective of being human is to grow."
we grow and we learn, sometimes the learning part may stop for us but we gather our thoughts and remember the times we really used to think, for real. Think real things, that are productive and were helpful towards us....
So, it's okay for people to stop growing for a moment (or as much time as one need) to gather their thoughts, take a deep breathe and remind yourself of all those things that makes you wanna go on. Even if those things are as little as one's habit of procrastinating but getting their job done or having negative thoughts but smiling.
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"Nature Is Imperfect And Because Of That Growth Is Possible."
life won't be the same each and every passing year, to learn and to accept is what some may find hard or difficult.
The fact that you are imperfect is not a sign that you have failed; it is a sign that you are human, and more importantly, it is a sign that you still have more potential within you.
Having potential or not is not anyone's business to judge, but one's business to find out about it. Accept it and move on with it. Make it a part of yourself. Embrace it with grace and convenience. Savouring every moment into the imperfect gestures makes it more human-like. More normal.
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Do The Dirty Work
You can't achieve the greatness you badly desire without doing the dirty work of sorting through your thoughts and feelings.
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Absolutely love this book! It helped me heal
Positive Disintegration
"Much like nature, life is very often working in our favour, even when it seems like we are only faced with adversity, discomfort, and change.
Our minds also go through periodic episodes of positive disintegration, or a cleansing through which we release and renew our self-concept.
The breakdown is often just the tipping point that precedes the breakthrough, the moment a star implodes before it becomes a supernova. "
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