…A student of mine exclaimed frustratingly while trying to coordinate her body to do some martial arts moves that she kept confusing.
To which I replied with something along the lines of: “Nothing is wrong with you. You’re learning. Slow down and stop thinking that anything is wrong with you. You’re on precisely the right path. It’s the rushing—your desire to get it correct now—that’s causing the confusion. Calm your mind and take it slow; patience is required for growth.”
So many times in life, what’s wrong with us is the fact that we think something is wrong with us.
And it’s precisely those beliefs that become the self-fulfilling prophecies that (continue to) make things go wrong.
What if—now stay with me here on this—nothing was wrong with you?
What if you were precisely where you were meant to be, as you are?
What if all of the people and things that were telling you that something was wrong with you were in fact… the ones and things that were wrong?
…What if you lived your life thinking you were… just right?
P.s. 48 Brianna Wiest Quotes from The Mountain Is You on Self-Sabotage and Healing