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

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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a promotion or getting fired. A slippery slope, to play off
of that example, is another false inference in which you
assume that one event will set off a series of others, even if
they certainly will not.
These are just some of the myriad ways your brain can, in a
sense, betray you. Though it intends to keep you alert and
aware, sometimes, the threat becomes overinflated. Unable
to decipher the difference, your body responds regardless.
HOW DO I CORRECT THIS?
Correcting faulty inferencing begins with first being aware
that you’re doing it. In the majority of cases, once you realize
that you’re thinking in a false dichotomy or making
a hasty generalization, you stop doing it. You understand
what it is, and you let it go.
Training your brain to stop doing it automatically takes
time. Think of your mind like a search engine that autofills
your terms. If it’s something you’ve input many times over
the years, it’s still going to come up for a while. You have
to work on consistently adding new thoughts, options,
and stimuli to shift what it comes up with naturally.
This is not only possible; it’s inevitable. What you consistently
do is what you adapt to. Your brain will start to
reorient your comfort zone, and eventually it will feel as
natural to think logically as it once did to think dramatically.
It will feel as natural to be calm as it does now to