Brianna Wiest - The Mountain Is You_ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (2020)

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because the worst-case scenario makes you feel threatened.
This is why you obsess about that one, terrifying idea. Your
body is responding as though it’s an immediate threat,
and until you “defeat” or overcome it, your body will do its
job, which is to keep you in defense mode, which is really
a heightened state of awareness to the “enemy.”
WHAT IS A LOGICAL LAPSE?
Think of something that you aren’t afraid of, maybe something
that other people might find scary.
Maybe you aren’t afraid of flying in an airplane. Many
people are. Maybe you aren’t afraid of being single. Many
people are. Maybe you aren’t afraid of commitment. Many
people are. Surely you can think of at least one thing in
your life that you are truly unafraid of.
Why aren’t you afraid of it? Because you don’t have a logical
lapse there.
You can visualize yourself going on an airplane and successfully
getting off without freaking out. You can visualize
yourself being happily single or happily committed.
Even if the worst were to happen, you can think a situation
through in its entirety, from exposition to climax to conclusion.
You know what you would do. You have a plan.
When you experience a logical lapse, the climax becomes
the conclusion. You imagine a situation, you figure that