Lorneytunes - Gaelic Princess

There have been some downright rude posts on here for a while now that I think started out as people trying to show "tough love" a la personal trainers, but it's incredibly irritating. If you have nothing constructive to say about shifting then just stick to memes/mood boards/storytimes.

Next person who swears at me over the fact I haven't shifted or tells me I'm an idiot for saying it, I'm going to shift to a reality where I have homing teleportation, warp to their location and smack them six ways to Sunday.

I know everyone likes to think that shitblr is significantly better than shiftok but it's slowly starting to become the same with the recycled advice and judgmental mindsets. Every single advice post is the exact same with the exact same rude "it's your fault you haven't shifted" vibe to it. Which, especially for mentally ill and neurodivergent people is extremely harmful and does nothing but make them feel worthless and like they'll never shift. It's not difficult to be kind, and if it is for you then don't make content that people will listen to.

You can tell this was written by a neurodivergent person because I can actually follow the damn instructions

The Hyperfixation Method

-By ZeeTheQueer

Hey all!

So this is the method I said I wanted to make. It's tailored towards my fellow neurodiverce shifters. I have ADHD and can find calming my brain to focus on just affirmations or similar for a lot of methods either hard, or it results in falling asleep to quickly for even an asleep method! So I wanted to create a method that could be used on it's own, or easily combined with other methods as well.

Before you start this method, we've got one 'pre-method' thing to do. Saturate your brain with stuff about your DR. Watch or read content that exists in this reality of the one you're shifting to. Until it's basically all you can focus on. Then you're ready to start the main part of the method!

Get into a comfortable position. Laying down for sleep method, sitting up for awake. You could also start with sitting up and lay down during the method.

Next close your eyes.

Start thinking about your DR. Whatever first comes to mind works, but I recommend starting with thinking about what you're doing when you first are conscious of that reality.

Start going through what all you'll be doing, every detail you can picture. If visualization is hard for you, focus on telling yourself what you're doing and seeing as if you're actively doing it in the moment.

I recommend using what are technically affirmations while doing the previous step. Things like 'I have a lot to do', ' I wanna go see my friends', 'I have to meet up with (person from DR) to go (random activity)'. Anything you'd normally say to yourself to keep your focus on what you're doing and need to do.

Continue to do this as long as you like or are able to focus your thoughts on it.

When your thoughts start to drift to something else from your DR, let it happen. Dive head first into the new thought and fixate on it. You don't have to stay focused on the moment you're going to gain consciousness there. You and the universe already know. Allow the changes in your thoughts. Fixate on each new one as they come.

If something not related to your DR comes up, twist it to fit your DR. That idiot driver who cut you off comes back to mind? Well now you're telling your s/o or friends about them and they're reacting to the situation.

Continue doing this until you fall asleep or shift.

And that's the Hyperfixation Method.

This! Oh my god this!

I'm so goddamn excited to be able to eat whatever food I want and not worry about it making me sick.

I'm finally gonna be able to try new things!!!!!!!!!!!

shifting so i dont have to deal with my ibs and allergies anymore 🤩🤩🤩

Betty Erickson Self-Hypnosis Technique

Okay, because @moonwillow473737 (sorry, your account isn't showing up to tag) asked, and nobody ever asks me anything, I'm writing this step by step guide on one of the most famous (and misused) self-hypnosis techniques out there: The Betty Erickson Method, also known as the 54321 Method. It was invented by the wife of American psychologist and psychiatrist Milton Erickson and is widely renowned as one of the best, and easiest self hypnosis techniques out there.

Once we get into the steps, you might notice the technique sounds familiar to you, as many psychologists recommend a variation of it as a grounding technique, and some shifters have attempted to include it in their methods. HOWEVER, I will point out that most people are doing it wrong, so if you think you already know how it works, I invite you to read on anyway and check your technique.

The Steps

The basic technique is pretty straightforward:

It's recommended that you have a plan for what you're going to do once you're hypnotised. Come up with your affirmations/suggestions ahead of time and repeat them to yourself a few times so you know you'll remember them when you're a dopey hypnotised mess.

Get into a comfortable position somewhere you can relax without being interrupted.

Keeping your head and body still, look around your room for 5 things you can see.

Repeat with 5 things you can hear.

Repeat with 5 things you can feel.

Then repeat steps 3-5 with 4 things you can see, hear and feel. Then 3, 2, and finally 1.

What Most People Get Wrong

These are the most common ways I've seen people get this technique wrong before:

Bringing in extra senses

Taste and Smell are very difficult senses to work with, and trying to find MULTIPLE things you can taste at any one time is insane. They're great for enhancing a visualisation session, but they're not helpful here.

Not using repetition

The most common mistake I see is people going "5 things you can see, 4 things you can hear, 3 things you can feel" and so on, rather than the above method. Focusing on each sense multiple times is important, for multiple reasons:

It makes the technique last longer, giving your mind time to settle into the rhythm.

It slowly narrows in your focus. You start out being aware of 5 things for each sense, then 4, then 3 and so on, until you've phased them all out and are focused inwards.

Repetitive tasks lull your brain into a sleepy state, which is what we want when we're working with hypnotic suggestions.

Examples

The more specific you can make the things you're noticing, the better. So here are some examples to help you.

Sight

Shadows on the wall

Beams of light coming through the window

The movement of a fan blade

Leaves moving in the breeze

Hearing

Your breath leaving your lungs

The Inner Sound - often manifests as a high pitched ringing that only appears when you relax or try to meditate. (Note: This is NOT tinnitus. Tinnitus is present at all times, often very difficult to ignore, and does not go away as soon as you stop paying attention to it.)

Your bedroom fan, if you have one

The breeze

Cars going past on the street

Birds singing

Touch

The weight of your blanket

The texture of your mattress

The sensation of your chest moving as you breathe

Air moving around your room

The feeling of your clothes on your skin

The weight of your glasses on your face (if you're wearing any)

Finally

I had a few more things I was going to say but, honestly, this is plenty. If it doesn't work the first time, try again. If you think you can't do it because you have ADHD - you're wrong, because I have clinically diagnosed, combination type ADHD and I can do it.

Now, if you'll excuse me, me and my boyfriend are going to the zoo tomorrow and it took me 90 damn minutes to write this when it was supposed to be quick and now it's nearly midnight. Good luck and good night.

Does anyone else have any combined DRs? For example:

One of my DRs is the Guild Hunter universe because the idea of angels and vampires running around as part of normal everyday modern life sounds awesome. However, I don't want to be a member of the hunters' guild, I just want to be in that world so I can romance an angel or a vampire. So I had to come up with a different job for myself.

Since the angels are the upper tier of society that most normal people don't interact with, I figured that I needed to do something that would make them interested in me or make me valuable to them. There's a lot of reference throughout the series to how much angels are fascinated by human artists (because their work shows the world in a way only a mortal's fleeting time on Earth could) so I decided to make this also my fame DR.

I did actually consider making it my streamer DR for a while but now I'm pretty settled on being a singer. I was thinking of going for a very bluesy lounge singer vibe, but then again... I also really love Dark Pop.

Anyway, tell me what outside the box things you've planned for your DRs!

Oh my god the s/o choosing you thing really struck a chord with me. Early in my shifting journey when I thought I was close I had a dream about one of my s/os finding me and carrying me out of this house I was hiding in. And while I was in his arms he said something like, "You're not ready for me yet."

Before that happened I had been SO SURE that I was ready to shift. That night I deliberately tried to make myself dream about him – thinking I'd see him, realise it was a dream, and then be able to shift from a lucid dream. But frankly, I embarrassed myself that day.

I spent that whole dream scared and running away from things and hiding and it made me realise that he was right. I probably wasn't ready to shift yet. Or, at the very least, I wasn't ready to shift THERE yet.

Fast forward a year or so and I've been getting all these signs and dreams again and it's right after I've gotten this newfound confidence in myself and rediscovered my inner strength. So I'm honestly glad my s/o showed up in that dream and went, "Girl, no. It's not time yet." Because I would rather go into that reality being a total badass than running and hiding and being a scared little victim all the time.

Permashifting the fuck outta here.

Things ain’t going great and I’m tired. Tired of it all. Time to live the reality I want to live

Spent 6 hours yesterday gathering and cleaning audio of my s/o to make a voice clone of them and now I'm back at it again today.

Could I do this with only a minute or so of sample data? Yes. Would I be satisfied if it wasn't absolutely perfect? No.

So here I am settling down for several more hours of work, just so I can hear Him say whatever I want in this reality.

If you never hear from me again it's because I finally ran the voice cloner and it turned out shit so I jumped into the sea.

Reblog if you’re polyamorous, support polyamorous people, or think polyamorous people and relationships are valid

I like how more people liked my update post than the original instructions on what I was actually doing 🤷‍♀️

"I can't visualise so I'm never gonna be able to shift."

"Bitch, can you orgasm?"

What's the "O method"?

NSFW subject warning

Okay I saw people here talking about this method, looked it up on tiktok, and thought I'd explain for anyone who doesn't have tiktok.

The O method has been a manifestation method for some time, and now people are using it to shift as well! The method is to jork it and state your desire right before you orgasm. Shifters talk about starting a shift during the euphoric high that's experienced post-nut, or to manifest a shift during this state.

My personal opinion: Though sexuality is often a taboo subject, I think it's a really valuable part of spirituality that often gets ignored. So fuck it, I'm posting about manifestation jorking.

Ellen Nosferatu energy af

(Also if this doesn't sound like a method you'd be comfortable with, please do not force yourself to do this method. Just thought this would be of interest to my fellow unhinged S/O yearners)