Mountain Frequencies are incredible students. When they find a topic that resonates with them, they are lifelong bookworms. Soaking up everything they can on a topic, or topics, since their thirst for knowledge never slacks, happily dedicating years and years learning. They love to learn and then turn around and help others by sharing their wisdom with them. Sometimes these are book lessons, sometimes they’re life lessons. Mountain Frequencies are true students of life, and whatever experiences they have, tend to be turned into really beautiful life lessons that they share with others.
Brené Brown is a Foundational Mountain Frequency, and we can see this clearly in her career trajectory. She spent incredible swaths of time studying and researching, only to turn around and develop a second career teaching others about her learnings. Mountain Earths’s also have a strong orientation towards having hard conversations, because they deeply believe in doing the deep emotional processing to learn the lessons that life is trying to teach them. The fact that Brené is now hosting these tough conversations on a national level, is a great example of her Mountain Earth energy.
She’s using her research around shame and vulnerability to shape how people learn about themselves, and ultimately do their emotional work, to have a healthier relationship with themselves, and others. Her latest book. Braving the Wilderness, tackles the complex topic of applying these concepts to social and cultural change.
These are big topics, and Mountain, as the strongest of all the Frequencies, are made for big, tough topics, and handling them with nuance and compassion. They have a natural skill-set for understanding complicated concepts and explaining them with simplicity and accessibility — that’s what makes them natural teachers. When they’re grounded in themselves — Brené talks about taking a year off her work to spend the time in therapy to work on her own stuff — Mountain have a deep capacity to be an immovable force of nature, changing the world around them in a positive way. They are slow and steady world changers, gathering momentum as their live evolves and grows.
If Mountain shows up in your Frequency, find ways to put yourself first. You learn through doing the deep emotional processing, and life has likely handed you a lot to process — take time for yourself. As you follow your passions and curiosities, you’ll start to get a sense of the big impact you’d like to make. The key to your success will be doing your internal work, so it doesn’t become the bottleneck to your life changing work.
