relating shifting to everyday activities
please note: you can shift no matter what you think or feel about shifting. you are not mandated to do this to shift. also this is not a method to shift at all. please don't come here to find a shifting method. i do not have that, but i do have something that can make shifting seem a little less of a goal and more of a byproduct. something that could change the way you feel about shifting.
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take an ordinary activity you do everyday. i'll take the example of washing my face in the morning. when i do it, i do it with multiple intentions in mind. i wash my face to: 1. clean my face and 2. feel refreshed. now, what if i add another intention to it? that is to shift?
that means, when i wash my face in the morning, i do it with the intention to clean my self and feel refreshed. but i also set another intention that is to shift. so when i wash my face, naturally i'm going to be feeling refreshed and clean. so naturally, i shift as well?
this is also somewhat related to 'habit stacking' in atomic habits. basically, you just stack an activity on top of another one that you do regularly. this is so that you build a new habit. just like in atomic habits, where you attach a new habit to something you already do, i attach shifting to regular tasks like washing my face. eventually, shifting starts to feel natural as it becomes a part of my regular routine rather than some herculean, separate task. most importantly, i'm associating shifting to a regular, everyday task which shifts my mindset and makes it feel easy.
essentially, shifting is a natural byproduct of an a simple activity i do such as washing my face. everyone focuses on shifting as the primary goal. what i'm doing here is going about my routine that feels natural to me while achieving shifting as a secondary goal. or not even a goal, just something that gets accomplished naturally while you go about being yourself and doing your routine that feels comfortable to you.
you aren't stepping out of your comfort zone neither are you doing any work. just going about your routine and shifting's just a little something that happens, why? just because it can. shifting's just going to happen as a byproduct, a side effect.
shifting is already something you can do so well. however, you may think of it as something intense or crazy, which is okay and won't hinder your ability to shift. but if you want to change the way you feel about shifting, associating it with something you do regularly can help. that's why i said the only purpose of my post is that it could help change the way you feel about shifting.
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another thing is to associate shifting with comfort activities.
what i'm doing is just closely relating shifting to a daily activity or a comfort activity. and while i'm going about my day doing regular things, shifting gets associated as a regular daily thing. this changes the way you feel about shifting so it doesn't feel like a mighty task.
when i did this initially, my goal was not to shift. it was to make myself feel more comfortable with shifting. once again, shifting isn't the goal here, its just a byproduct of your daily routine. something that happens naturally and is aligned to your routine.
remember shifting isn't the dependent variable. it is a byproduct that happens naturally. you and me and everyone has the freedom of choosing how we want that byproduct to appear.
some may ask: doesn't this contradict the loa i preach so much about? here's the thing- the loa makes shifting the primary goal, but for some people that i've talked to says that it just makes it seem like a task. what i've explained in the above paragraphs is that shifting isn't the goal but a consequence, a byproduct. and that happens naturally. and i feel associating it like that seems easier than just calling it a 'goal' which may make it seem like it needs some work.
(a/n: i'm well aware of my writing being wordy as hell, if something doesn't make sense, lmk)
