I Like How More People Liked My Update Post Than The Original Instructions On What I Was Actually Doing

— Sally Owens

Me, every time.

not being able to choose a dr to shift to is messing with my head 😭

do I shift to my spiderverse dr?? my batfam dr?? my mha dr?? should I make new ones since those interactive fictions I love so much won’t leave my brain??

I really need to choose. like yesterday, I lay down, was like “I’m in my spiderverse dr” and then my thoughts start wandering and I confuse myself 💀

Beginner Mindset

Recently while doing a tarot reading for myself about my shifting journey, I drew a card that said I needed to "embrace a beginner mindset". I've been thinking a lot about what that means, and as a results I've begun the process of starting my shifting journey from scratch. Coincidentally, I’ve also seen a lot of posts from others about going back to that baby shifter feeling, when it's all about being IN your DR not GETTING TO your DR; thinking about the end result, not the way of getting there.

In that vein, today I saw a YouTube video about training your brain to lucid dream after years of failure, and re-capturing the feeling of excitement around it. I’ve decided I'm going to apply the techniques outlined there to shifting.

These were the main points:

List out all the things you're excited to do in a lucid dream and highlight your top three

Think throughout the day, “This is a dream” and then imagine if this was a dream, what you would do to take control and achieve one of your top three things.

Keep lucid dreaming at the forefront of your mind throughout the day

There were other points too, but these are the ones I think are most applicable to shifting. So from now on I'm going to focus on one DR, and start keeping that at the front of my mind and think about all the things I'm excited to do while shifting there.

I’ve already started by writing the list of 20 things and highlighted my top three (let me know if you want to see a follow-up post with my list). From here, throughout the day, rather than tell myself I’m dreaming, I’m going to go, “Oh, I’ve shifted!” and then imagine that instead of being wherever I am, that I’m currently experiencing something from that list. Preferably the top three, but it was very hard to pick just three things so I don’t see why I can’t expand it to more. The idea was to increase my desire to go to/excitement over that DR anyway, and that has definitely happened.

I’ve been thinking for a while that the reason some people might be having more success than me, is that for a very long time now I’ve found it really hard to daydream. I don’t know why, given I used to do it every night to help me sleep, but for years now it’s like I keep stopping myself, like it's silly or something. Being a writer I often get too caught up in what’s realistic or a good plot/scene rather than just enjoying the process, so I can absolutely see how I could get in my own way like that.

My hope is that giving myself these parameters like, “Imagine you’re actually having lunch in [x] right now!” or “Imagine what it would be like to learn [y]!” will help make daydreaming more achievable. Rather than imagining bigger stories, I’m just living through those tiny everyday moments. And from what I’ve heard from some of the bigger experienced shifters, imagining those everyday moments can really help your subconscious start to see your DR as a real place rather than a fantasy.

At the very least I’m going to try and do it every day for a week. Given I find it really hard to build habits, I’m not expecting to remember to do this very often in the first few days, so I’ll definitely be extending the experiment to up to three weeks if necessary.

Anyway, thanks for reading my first post and another Big Brave Step for me into the shifting community after two years of mostly lurking. Please send love and encouragement so I can do more of these. I'd definitely be down to blog how the experiment goes from day to day, or answer asks about my DRs (I have so many 😅).

One of my shifting pet peeves is that so many people call guided meditations, soundscapes and subliminal hypnosis videos by the same name. Like if it's any kind of shifting video whatsoever it's a "subliminal" now, no matter the contents. 🙄

shifting is comfortability

Do what feels right for you. If you believe that drinking water will make you shift, then so be it.

I think the reason why a lot of people struggle with shifting is because they may be putting aside their own needs and forcing what works for others onto themselves.

You will not be comfortable.

If you don’t like meditation but you’ve seen it work for people, then don’t force it upon yourself. Shifting is a very personal journey.

That’s why some stuff may work for other people and not for you, but thats okay. It’s not the end all be all.

Write down shifting attempts you remember and find out what got you close. With that you can make your method that is suited to your and your needs. If you believe this method will make you shift, then you WILL shift.

I hate to admit this but I'm a ho in every dr I have 😭😼

God forbid a girl has hobbies 😒😒

So it's actually been surprisingly easy to remember to practise throughout the day. I think it might be because lately I keep noticing a lot of angel numbers, so because I knew I was already checking the clock a lot I told myself, "Every time I look at the time I'll remember to say, 'I shifted!' and do my visualising."

The visualisations have NOT been clear at all, but I'm hoping that telling myself a little story about what I'm up to right now in my DR and just thinking about the fun and frustrations of everyday life will be enough to get my subconscious working on the problem. I've definitely thought more about my DR in a single day than I have probably ever.

And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like "I shifted for you".

“the shifting police aren’t real” tell that to the people who think they can dictate what people can & can’t script into their own fucking realities 🥰

when someone asks how bad can daddy issues get but I’m shifting for a father figure and a dilf in the same dr