I feel like it's important to talk about how harmful it can be to ignore this subject. So if you have ocd or anxiety and still want to shift or use loa this post is for you. I want to stress that it is ok to worry about intrusive thoughts. Just because you dwell on an obssesion does not mean its going to manifest. However, I still feel the need to share ways you can prevent your intrusive thoughts from making you stress while shifting and using loa. First we need to fully know what we are dealing with and then how to fix the issue.
If you are not aware, OCD has four stages:
Obssesion - Unwanted, intrusive, and distressing thoughts, images or urges. (sometimes these thoughts are not clear and can just feel like impending doom without reason.) These intrusions are unwanted and are sent from your areas of your brain including the prefrontal cortex (orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate cortexes), basal ganglia, and thalamus. !!!
Anxiety - Intense fear and discomfort triggered by the obssesions. Dwelling on the thought, worring that you are a bad person by thinking a certian thing ( you are not ) or stressing that the intrusive thought will happen.
Compulsion - Repetitive behaviors or mental rituals performed to reduce the anxiety caused from these thoughts. ex; counting in your head, doing something untill it feels "even", washing your hands a certian amount of times, or even yelling and shunning the thought out of your head.
Temporary relief - The compulsions provide temporary relief from the anxiety, reinforcing the cycle. Once you do your compulsion it tricks your mind into thinking that these obssesions pose a real danger, and that compulsions are necessary in order to be safe. (these are what we want to stop so we can break the cycle.) And yes, telling the thought to go away and cursing at it is also a compulsion.
I'm going to start this of by saying, compulsions are bad. Please try not to give into them. I know it's hard at first and you will feel scared and uncomfortable but thats the point. You have to undo the cycle to build a new one. Compulsions give the intrusive thoughts meaning. We don't want this. If you give the thought meaning or show feelings to it your brain is going to think its important therefore it will keep sending you the thought. There is two ways to stop this, Ignore the thought, or decunsruct the thought (aka ERP.)
Ignoring the thought can go like this: Label the thought as intrusive but do not add emotion to it. But also don't push it away Ex; "This is an intrustive thought, I am going to think about something else now." If the thought becomes overwhelming and you can't get away from it, start manually breathing. This will distract your brain. We want to act like the thought is like any other thought you would have. The avarge human has about 60,000 thoughts a day. Do we remeber all of these? Of course not. This is because we dont attach any emotion or dwell on them. It's kind of ironic because this method is basically using loa. If we act like the thought is usless and not important it will become just that and our brain will stop sending us the thought.
Decunstructing the thought or exposing and response prevention (erp) can be a little more difficult. The goal here is to overcome the fear and expose our selves to the intrusive thoughts completely. I know it sounds scary but remeber if you have no intention of manifesting said thought then it simply won't manifest. (an intrusive thought saying you have intention does not count don't worry) I also use this to re script traumatic events or nightmares. Imagery rescripting is what I am going to call this method of moving away from your intrusive thoughts. Imagery Rescripting is a technique that is often used in therapy to deal with upsetting or significant images that occupy our mind and play a part in keeping our anxiety going. The problematic images that people often struggle with can be memories of the past, nightmares, or intrusive thoughts. You have probably noticed that with all of your intrusive thoughts or images, the common response is to try to avoid the image, to push it away, to shun it out of our minds. This is a very understandable reaction, unfortunately avoiding these thoughts and using a compulsion usually makes it worse. It makes us very fearful of the thought itself, giving the intrusive thoughts power over you, and therefore the thought becomes something more than a "just a thought." By rescripting you are no longer avoiding them. Instead you are actively approaching them. You run the full image/thought in your head and then re write it. You can do this however you want. Rescripting it can range from complete fantasy or staying in the guidelines of this reality. Ex; Inflating the image and adding different hues to it. Making the scary thing in the image look silly; this takes away power from it. Do you want Hatsune Miku to start e dancing on your fears? She totally can! Adding a comfort character or a s/o to the image and letting them change it for you/comfort you can also work. If it is just a thought I would try and see the full sentence of said thought and then change the letters in your head to make it say something else. Or you can make the letters change into silly little characters..make them dance! Important note - You have to first deal with the intrusive thought/image. You cannot skip over this part or else it will just be a compulsion. If it is to triggring have someone else in the room while you do it so they can wake you up from the visualization and help you ground yourself. I would only do this method if you know for a fact that you are ready to face your intrusive thoughts head on.
Crying or experiencing hard emotions while doing ERP is normal. Though, I did this alone, I would recommend someone you trust is there while you are doing it so if things get too overwhelming they can help you. I as well have ocd so most of this is from my personal experience.
If you have any questions about this my asks are open. :)
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another theme hope my future self likes this one sigh.. The words come easier to me when it's more recent shifts and I remember more so I’ll be writing about this one first.
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I love this dr dearly like most of my homes but there's something about this one that just makes me feel something else. Growing up watching the show made me feel comfort like nothing else. I was laying down on the couch, staring at the ceiling zoning out. I hadn't slept for a while, I had stayed up all night, I want to say it was due to sleeping issues but that would be a lie; I was watching youtube videos all night. And it was too early in the morning for me to fall asleep so I just stayed up for as long as I could. I had the thought about shifting here in my mind for a while so while I was zoning out I had begun to leave this reality. It was like my emotions were there and my senses were here for a while until I was fully there. I was then on my bed laying down, I have a very small but beautiful apartment. I couldn't see him but my s.o was cooking dinner and I remember hearing the sound of the food frying on the pan. I just stayed there for a bit, content that I wasn't moving. For some reason when I shift recently I end up going somewhere in a drastically different movement, I'll be laying down and then moving down a hill very fast. Anyway, I saw the view from my windows, the sun had just set, the summer breeze was drifting in. I felt at peace. At the moment I wasn't working, I scripted that I had previously modeled and then worked for NASA corps. It was pretty mundane at first, I had gotten up hugged my husband, ate, took a shower, and then wrote in my journal. My first few weeks looked like this along with chores, shopping and lots of napping.
My old coworkers' husband worked for the FBI and had offered me a job. I sat and thought about it, at the time I didn't remember this reality so I didn't know what the x-files was or really what I was setting myself up for. He reached out to me again and said he suggested they should meet me. I found it rude that he did that without my word but I would need to find a job soon, nasa's astronaut training was way too tiring to go back, and what else did I have to lose. - I hadn’t scripted any of this, I didn't know how I was going to land being there. I just let my subconscious do the work. I thought this was funny when I came back, so i'm putting it here. -
My husband is an architect working from home. He had finished his day up early that morning we had decided to go swimming. The drive was slow, quiet. The curve of the road was lethargic. This day was one of my favorites here, perfect weather, calm water. It was a good rest before I needed work.
By late July it was apparent that the rest of my time would be filled with late night car rides, door to door interviews, sunflower seeds, sealed conversations in cheap hotels, blisters from heels and most importantly the most mind-numbing rants from mulder. Haha yeah skinner I'm not gonna make it into work today, I just saw an anomaly....???!!... The first moments of being here felt safe and warm but as I threw myself into my work it melted away into a dark surrealist tone. The dreamlike feeling of the cases, almost ominous, made me feel on edge. Although I fit flawlessly, it felt like I was third wheeling most of the time, a child sitting in the backseat while her parents were bickering. Of course I'm exaggerating but it was a normal occurrence for me to turn up the radio to tune them out.
Thats all I feel like writing for now I need to study..
After you shifted for 27 years, how long had passed in your cr?
A couple of months, I don’t know the exact time frame but I wanna say 2 months and three weeks passed. A couple of things changed about this reality as well, I noticed that a certain actor is still alive; Jim carry to be exact. Before I shifted I swear I grew up seeing posts about how great of an actor he was, and how sorry everyone was that he had died. Not only that but I was certain that my brothers dad worked at a serious management job in a fast food company, but I guess not?? Whenever I bring it up my mom jokes at me because I am so certain that he did work there.
Also my other brother broke the microwave while I was “away”. tore the handle right off, and a couple days later it stopped working all together haha
I've seen that a lot of people are asking others what they should do on their shifting journey and I find myself conflicted with it. Of course there is nothing wrong with asking for help, but at a point in the endless road of questions the only answer you will find is your own.
How do you think we have all gotten this far? People who used this practice long before us didn’t have any sources or online forums to help them. There has been an infinite number of people who have been able to reach endless life, and yet you think you can’t? You should start thinking for yourself, sit with your thoughts, and be alone. What does shifting mean to you? Dissect it. Forget the terms you learned on your way here and indulge in yourself instead of others. People today seem to need constant gratification. As much knowledge as you have at your own fingertips it weakens your ability to think for yourself. To me, part of the idea of shifting is being with yourself, being with your thoughts, creating new ideas on what reality is or how it works. You don’t need to be right nor do you need one single answer. All you need is what is important and dear to you.
We are always evolving, without this trait we would be doomed to repeat. We would not be able to evolve without our mind. When we have lost connection to our knowledge we have lost connection to ourselves. Shifting is what you want it to be.
I have a few questions
Do you still go to school if so how do you balance shifting and school
Tell me about your longest shift and your most meaningful shift
Yes I still go to school, to be honest balancing the two is not that hard at least for me.
I usually shift at night, or when I wake up in the morning. The thing is my sleep is really bad so I’m already used to being a little unorganized when I do my school work lol So if i get back from a shift I’ll write down what happened to get it out/process and then go throughout my day like normal. (as much as I can) If something big happens I’ll probably be thinking about it all day.
My longest was about 27 years and it was to my kirasia dr, which is hard to talk about because of some reasons but It was very beautiful there, it’s just very personal.
My most meaningful experience is probably the first time I ever shifted. it was summer and I remember being really grateful for how beautiful it was that day and I went to lay down for an afternoon nap. I was getting comfortable and starting to relax. I started visualizing that place. Just swimming and how It would feel and then it wasn't a visual anymore, I was actually there. When I shifted, there wasn’t a moment of disbelief or surprise; it just felt right. I was mostly close to the top of the surface from what I can remember, but I couldn’t see the sky and it was hard to tell what was up and down. There were sea turtles and stingrays near me.. Which was the reason I came back. I was scared that the stingrays would hurt me, I didn’t have much knowledge about them so I was anxious about being near them and that kind of pulled me out of that reality. When I came back, I sat up and went “wow i just shifted” and then took my nap. But I wasn’t surprised… Which was confusing to reflect on, It had felt normal and like it was something that was always there. I want to say at least for me shifting has never felt surprising or out of place when you achieve it. It’s like remembering a childhood memory, or a primal instinct that has always been with me. That moment started my journey.
Is it possible to travel the universe through shifting or is that only for astral projection. I want to go to realities that I haven’t scripted and explore different life forms and experiences
Yup! You can do anything. I have shifted to places I didn't mean to, and places I didn't script for. I don't know much about astral projection but anything you can do with that you can do with shifting. Have fun!
Im so tired of seeing the term minishift. I don't care if you shifted for half a second, thats a full shift. Time is made up so why are you putting a scale up to how long your shifts are in order to measure your success?? It's so odd to me. Where did that term even come from.
im cooking up a shifting post so deviously philosophically scientific that Hugh Everett himself is tap dancing in his grave as I type this up
i have only my beautiful ask to thank for this you know who you are
2/18/25
Woke up at 4;30 am, listened to music for a while and the first shift was to my seven saint war dr (personal dr). I was holding a scroll while walking next to my desk in my chambers, it seemed I was trying to find something. I heard the sound of the paper and it made me jump and I came back here. the second I think was to my soul eater dr, I was holding my switch and feeling the buttons on it, it was fading out of my awareness. Last one, I was in my seven saint war dr again and there are these beds that rock back and forth (kind of like a cradle but for adults) and I remember it made me motion sick for some reason, we were in the library and there were people searching for us, the message was carried through the books - it was so weird it was like they were yelling it throughout the shelves - very surreal. Here I have powers gifted from the wind god, and I used them to teleport us to the mountains. I am never using them without preparation first because they are not fun at all and it was the most nauseating experience of my life.
2/10/25
I was in a river or a body of water and there were these two giant metal plates and I was trying to move one and it fell against the other one and made a loud noise. It was so pretty, the water looked delectable and the kingdom across the water was so pretty.
1/24/25
I was about to fall asleep then was slipping into a very weird political dream, snapped out of it and started to shift. I was rollerblading down the path to the beach in florida where I use to live while I was about to go onto the road a kia soul out of all cars pulls out so I keep to the side walk and I could see the ground very clearly while I was moving, came back here because I was going very fast and it kind of freaked me out.
2/11/25
This morning I wanted to go to a space reality. I was doing my usual routine and I shifted to a place where I was a child. I was with another kid. We were climbing up in a crashed spacecraft and I remember wearing a hat that I didn't think was mine. I came back here and then shifted to an alternate reality to the one I was in. I was in my room playing with wooden toys, but someone was coming(?) I remember I was on kelkeo.
12/26/24
Idk what my obsession with paper is recently but I shifted last night and was flipping through a book while my husband was standing next to me and I asked him if he taped the important part of it down and then I came back here because I was worried about me falling asleep ( i've been struggling with sleeping lately idk why but anyway I finally fell asleep at sorta normal time) Then, I wanted to go somewhere just now so I played the same music I shifted to last night and went to the same reality and I was laying on my bed trying to sleep and I could hear my husband rifling through my papers and scrolls I like to collect and for some reason my mind got really confused and came back here.
2/15/25
I was in bed about to sleep and was just thinking about my s/o and snuggling with them and I love the symptoms I get because my whole body gets tingly and then I’m there. I went there when we were in the middle of kissing, I came back here because I heard a lady’s voice behind me which confused me because we were alone in bed.
1/16/25
Early this morning, I was on a bike riding down a hill, I have no idea where I was, the feeling of me peddling down this street was like no other. I didn’t want to be there so I came back here.
Some time later, I was sitting in what I think was either Ryu Voin or an Ostova palace. There were beautiful paintings on the wall in front of me, murals. I was sitting on a chair, I remember feeling content.
before i had shifted i used to think shifters were the most open-minded people. Having known of the limitlessness, the ability to do so much, the knowledge of already being so much. I thought their experiences might make them better people, distinguished and graceful in their words and presence. But honestly, now, having this blog and a space to interact with so many shifters, I no longer think that way. It's all the same, a mirror of this current reality. Oppression, hatred, ignorance, the same old foolishness and denseness. Sometimes I feel terribly sad over it. Whenever I log on to this blog, I feel im in a huge crowd, being pushed around. Loud alarms and bells ringing all around me, pamphlets of... i don't know, worthless information like the prediction of the dates of the world ending, aka the same "Actually, i think-" "no, this is wrong because-" "you'll never shift because-" "Im so tired of people doing this because-" all scattered around in shifting tags. But i feel so euphoric that now i've shifted. Now im grounded in places better than this. I no longer have to rely on these people. I won't have to interact with these people ever again. Then i am able to put on a fake smile, let go of some things, and read the same "wild" opinions again. Knowing one day i'd be deserving of eternal freedom when i'll break away from this reality, and forget. Each and everything. When the time's right. I suppose I hate humanity. I can't do anything about it. I would be foolish to try to change the vast majority of people, who are reflecting themselves boldly all around me. The only place I could ever be comfortable in, is the world i've created inside of me. What I portray of myself on here, is a show. Nothing strikes me, maddens me from here, that's why. It will be a waste of my own energy.
hey quick question if thats alrighty? lately ive been kinda worried my dr isnt "real". My worries lately are "I can shift but for some reason I cant shift to my dr" beacuase its fictional. could I have a little help w this it would be appreciated!!
Hi,
So, I had this problem too a while back and there is a few solutions I can give you !
My personal opinion is that everybody's drive for anything is their emotions. Connecting your feelings to your dr is a very solid way to shift. What helped me the most was adding emotion to my dr, I would day dream about it and try my best to feel what it would be like to be in that situation or moment. You aren't just a place holder in your reality, you are apart of it - the one perceiving it.
Thinking about how others view you as well. When ever I shift to certian drs I like to think in my s/o's point of view. (you can do this with any one.) And I mean, I really try and think like them, inner monolog and all.
Another option would be taking a step back and take a break from thinking about that dr. Once you come back your brain will be refreashed and you can look at it with new eyes.
I know sometimes our brains like to give us bumps in our thinking, but I can assure you that your dr is real. And you can definitely still shift even if you have that mindset, but I hope you can overcome it!
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