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

128 BRIANNA WIEST
To heal, we don’t need to avoid it. We need to develop
logic to see situations for what they are and respond appropriately
to them.
So often in life, our biggest anxiety comes not from what’s
actually happening, but how we think about what is happening.
In that, we reclaim our emotional freedom and power.
FAULTY INFERENCES ARE HOLDING
YOU BACK FROM SUCCESS
If you’re familiar with body typing, you’ll probably be familiar
with the terms endomorph, mesomorph, and ectomorph.
Though everyone actually falls somewhere within
the spectrum of these (meaning that everyone has varying
degrees of each), the traits you default to are typically your
primary body type. 10
If you’ve studied these types, you’ll know that endomorphic
bodies are often associated with increased fat retention.
The assumption here is that these people have the
worst metabolisms, but that is false. Endomorphs actually
have the best metabolisms of anyone. They are alive today
because their ancestors adequately adapted to survive.
Their metabolisms do precisely what they were intended
to do: store fat for later use.
Something similar happens with highly intelligent people
who experience high levels of anxiety. You assume that