⊹ ࣪ ˖ hi lovelies! welcome to my blog - i yap here about shifting and the law of assumption (basically the same thing). i’m 19, use she/her and they/them pronouns, i identify as a lesbian i’m a slavic baddie, so slavic shifters follow me okay!!!
⊹ ࣪ ˖ about my journey :: i have been a shifter since 2020, almost shifted in 2021 and fully shifted in 2022. i take a lot of long breaks from shifting. i no longer participate in religion or the law of assumption (or manifestation as a practise) due to the negative impact it had on me.
⊹ ࣪ ˖ dni :: anti-shifters. bigots. people with limited mindsets. trump supporters.
an idea i’ve been getting at lately is that maybe being in the same spot isn’t always as bad as we see it as. maybe there isn’t a secret thing you’ll learn about shifting that will suddenly make it all click for you. maybe you don’t always have to change and learn more and grow and expand that knowledge. maybe there comes a point where it’s okay to stop — and this doesn’t define you or mean you’re failing or already have failed.
i think there comes a point where you really know everything there is to know about shifting. you can consume new perspectives on the same topics and new methods and new tips, that are mostly old tips just rebranded. but it doesn’t expand your knowledge. then all those perspectives on shifting and all that advice mix together and it’s just too much to know. one person says x, other person says the opposite and that can be said about any topic in shifting cause we all have our own takes on things.
the thing is, maybe all this doesn’t matter. shifting is not about how much and how deeply you understand it — people shifted in 2020 with a totally different perspective on what shifting is and how it works and if we assume the current trends and takes are right then they were wrong, so damn wrong, about what shifting is and how it works and still shifted.
i have to say when i was staring this journey i never cared, i didn’t care what was the „best” method or what shifting was deep down. it was all just… about fun. about the characters and the worlds we love and wish to experience and it was all about trying and just pushing forward — now, sometimes, it feels like shifting or more so the shifting community lost it’s essence.
things obviously don’t have to stay the same but i feel like we exhaust ourselves with new takes on how to understand shifting and on what’s right and what’s wrong and on debunking and attacking people over nothing. the shifting community is overflowing with advice and i understand we want to help BUT a lot of people, in their attempt to help, attack others and kind of tend to put themselves higher up. a lot of it is also shifting the blame — it’s not the universe, it’s all you!
i’m not here to argue who’s right, but i feel like there comes a point where we all hit a wall, where we understand shifting very much and still, it changes nothing. because the growth might not be as necessary as we are led to think. growth is great. awesome. but again, you don’t have to understand and explain every single mechanism in shifting to shift. you can not understand it at all, just know it exists and have a very faint idea of it, lay down, do what you see fit and shift.
i think we chase growth so badly, overall in our lives not just shifting, that we internalise everything. we internalise shifting and turn it into an endless mine of new ideas, takes and perspectives, endless hours of scripting and overthinking.
instead of focusing on the process that we take part in, the journey that inevitably leads us home, we focus or obsess over the destination so badly that we never even try to reach it.
so, maybe there isn’t more growth or knowledge to be gained. maybe what you started out with and what you have now is enough and maybe it has always been enough and maybe you just need to take a deep deep deep breath and chose to be an active participant in the process, instead of taking it out on yourself every time you „fail”. i feel like in 2020/2021 we didn’t really talk like this, like in this depressing manner… you didn’t shift? oh well, you can try tomorrow or in two days or more! at the end of the day you’re taking baby steps to get home, to get to the people you love that love you! 🫶
১ your childhood imaginary friend was actually a lonely deity, and they blessed you with powers because you never forgot them
১ you were a victim of a localized reality glitch; your body plugged the leak in space, which is now anchored inside of you wherever you go
১ you made a binding vow as a child that you then promptly forgot. the contract activated and gave you access to powers.
১ you won a previously unbeatable combat/heavenly trial and now you carry the combined power of the others who failed before you.
১ you were clinically dead for four minutes. you came back from the other side unharmed but not completely human
১ you were chosen as a vessel for an ancient entity, but your soul was so dominant that you accidentally assimilated them and their powers into yourself
১ you came across a forgotten forest while exploring as a child and drank from a well that wasn't meant to be drunk from
১ your parent chose to give you their own powers upon retirement
১ you were born with a natural deficiency in your soul, it doesn't hold boundaries allowing you to influence everything around you
১ you inherited a debt where the universe demands that you must posses an immensely terrifying power to repay an act a great ancestor committed against reality.
১ you caught a falling star in the sky still too hot to the touch and the cosmic rays instantly rewrote the wiring in your energy centers
১ you fell asleep in a forest and woke up with a spare shadow that obeys your will.
১ you survived a ritual gone wrong and ended up absorbing the energy meant to feed a god
১ you received a curse that was not intended for you. as a defense mechanism your body has inversed the effect, and it turned into a sacred blessing
১ you traded your emotions/soul/something precious for powers
১ you solved an impossible puzzle that turned out to be the physical lock to a sealed form of ancient magic
১ you're a cosmic being, you annoyed your sibling too much and got cursed to live a millennia as a human with powers you despise
Dude. I almost shifted, and now I'm, like, processing the fact that my DRs are real. I'll be there. With all the people I've scripted. They're real. My best friend is real. They're real. It's all real. It's almost overwhelming — like if I was suddenly able to feel the organs in my body. But, it's also so amazing. I can shift. I can be anywhere. I can be anyone. I can be anything.
I felt myself in my damn bed in my DOAWK DR. I felt the warmth of my best friend in one of my Better 'CR's.
I'm gonna shift. I know it. There's no doubt in my mind that I'm gonna shift. Be it to my DOAWK DR, to my Better CR, my waiting room, or one of the other fifty realities I'm currently scripting.
I could smell my best friend. I felt him. I heard him. He's real. I'm gonna fucking cry, he's real.
“Mfs will put on a subliminal, say a few affirmations, go to bed and expect to shift lolll”
What the fuck else are we supposed to do 😭 physically pull our awareness out of our skull and place it down?? Drive it down the street for a coffee and ask politely ??
i’m back and thought i’d talk about this. so disclaimers, obviously shifting doesn’t have to impact everyone the same, therefore the ‚can’ and not ‚is’ in the caption. this is not just my experience but also the experience i have seen a couple shifters share recently and i think this topic is worth attention.
this post is in no means a debate on topics of the limitlessness of shifting, but the limitlessness shifting inevitably advertises causes a lot of shifters to get lost in their DRs, even when they aren’t there. you obsess over your script and fantasise about your DR with every passing hour and try and try and try and fail. so then you obsess over the failure and your high school years pass you by, opportunities and goals pass you by, help passes you by, all because in your mind it doesn’t matter.
why? because sooner or later you will shift.
and so days, weeks, months and years pass you by and you still use that same excuse. you don’t even notice that that excuse is what makes you feel worse. that if you step away for a moment, and look at where you are, you’ll realise all this is manageable in baby steps and that you can’t hide behind the „inevitable success of shifting” forever. or you will just miss out on more.
what starts out innocent and fun turns into torture and a chore that bores into you restlessly. it starts as a side hustle, a practise you do when you have the time and it slowly becomes your life, so much that you put this life away. but it’s hard to quit. it’s hard to quit because this — shifting — has been your only hope for too long, it was meant to be your way out. your way to enter a world where you’re loved and you love yourself and things are different in so many ways.
shifting turns into escapism, you turn to it for answers any time life hurts or gets hard and you chose to ignore everything until you can’t. oh, well, you’ll just shift the next time and the next time and the next time. at some point it stopped being about fun and your dr and those fun worlds and started to be about distraction and distance from this one, without even needing to leave your CR, because you immerse yourself in your DR through other’s experiences and scripting and actually, you stopped trying long ago — or if you do try, you try like 10 times during one day and feel more drained and more like a failure with each attempt.
the thing is you have a life here, even if you plan to permashift, you still have a life here. you have family, friends and if you don’t then you have you. this version of you still deserves to be loved and taken care of. shifting isn’t an escape from hardship — there’s hardship everywhere. and using shifting to escape your problems or feelings doesnt help, it doesn’t solve anything, it just stomps them down for a moment, until they bubble up again, triggering you once more.
shifting realities isn’t a way to cope with life, it won’t fix this reality and it won’t fix how you feel. you turning away from bad moments or stress and turning to shifting isn’t coping — it’s unhealthy escapism that often masks other underlying issues like mental health issues or low self esteem. if you ignore your feelings and don’t process them, neglect your duties and withdraw socially when feeling bad and go to shift (because it doesn’t matter you can just shift away) and this becomes a pattern then shifting has already turned into something unhealthy for you.
now not to leave anyone hanging, i’d recommend: stepping away from shifting, try once a week or two weeks and then lessen the amount to none, focus on your life, focus on your work, school, friends, go see a therapist or start a hobby, when coming back to shifting after a while (like a couple months+ i’d say, because your life won’t change overnight) set ground rules: if scripting a body claim makes you insecure and makes you hate yourself more don’t do that, if trying more than once a week, with the way you live your life, makes you exhausted then don’t try more than once a week. don’t let shifting and lives you haven’t lived overshadow the one you have. even if you end up permashifting — it doesn’t mean you don’t deserve to be taken care of and loved properly in the process of getting to your DR.
so i’m back on here, unsure what exactly i will post. also i’m back on here cause i decided to come back to shifting on my own terms and see how that goes and also not clutch it tightly if i feel like this isnt it for me. if i shift i plan on posting storytimes so for now i’ll probs just reblog stuff lol <3
hey yall…. so i feel like i should say something, but this account will stay up until i decide to delete it or maybe if i decide to come back to posting here.
i feel like spirituality, religion and all that — in the long run it holds people back. or at least in my experience, christianity held me back and hurt me in so many ways as a kid and then i turned to spirituality (shifting/manifestation) which at first made me happy but as the years passed & i refused to let it go, it just made me miserable and stuck in a life i hate in hopes of „manifesting” a different life, or leaving this one behind. and ever since i decided to no longer subscribe to those beliefs that i was very tightly holding onto my life actually got better, i actually feel more in control, like im at least trying to be better and to do better, i go to therapy, im getting a job, im here, im focused, im not trying to leave this reality at any small inconvenience.
all of this isnt to say shifting isn’t real — this is a topic im forever at battle with BUT i did have a shifting experience however i am not sitting here in this moment and saying „yes the multiverse is real”. shifting is a phenomenon people experience no matter if it’s actually due to the multiverse being real and our awareness being able to travel through it or if it’s some other state of consciousness.
i think my questioning started once i began to learn about cognitive biases and realised how much some of them sound like manifestation to me and how many things were probably coincidental and thats why manifestation sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t - not because you’re not doing something good enough. it’s cognitive psychology mixed with patter recognition („i know smth will happen” and then it happens ≠ manifestation — it’s patter recognition). i feel like knowing this i cannot just keep going within the manifestation/shifting community as i once was.
i feel like we hear all the time about the possible harm of those practises and i dare to disagree, it isn’t the practices that are so horrible but the people who come into them with an unclear head — the sad thing about this is theres no fix, miserable people want something more, they want to feel in control, like they belong and achieve that through religion or spirituality way too often.
and what i want to say is that i don’t think i resonate with the version of me who subscribed to those beliefs. where i once saw magic and the key to understanding the universe, i now see my brain tricking me into believing my thoughts actually affect reality, because this was easier than to admit i need help, that all the things i wanted from other realities i should build and work towards consciously in this one. i don’t reject spirituality and religion as a whole, i have a ton of respect for all shifters and all people who manifest and those who preach it and those who do it in silence. i still stand by my post on how i first shifted, it’s real and i know because i experienced this but how shifting works is something i’m more willing to question.
i have been happier since i stopped trying to fill the shoes of 13 year old me who first found shifting when depressed, i am no longer that person or in that place mentally and when it did save me then, now it was just holding me back. same with manifestation. what once felt like control and salvation now just felt like a restriction. if this isn’t a way you feel that’s awesome but if it in some capacity is, you can always take a step back and look at the bigger picture.
i just thought it would be good to share this perspective, maybe someone resonates but i also have a lot of lovely great mutuals on here and i thought it would be nice to post this, clear this up and get it out of my head!
Horse Riding DR ; a never ending horse riding camp is a dream of mine, I always wanted to learn to ride horses and I was obsessed with them as a child, so this is my small idea that I haven’t made into a script yet.
Dream Vacation DR ; you wanted to go somewhere but never got the chance to? now is your time. or maybe the place you want to go to doesn’t exist? well, now it does.
Royalty DR ; you can be a part of the royal family or maybe you’re the beautiful villager chosen to marry the prince/princess? who knows… the possibilities are enormous and if you wanted romance the tropes are hot: forced proximity, enemies to lovers, forbidden love or arranged marriage.
Food DR ; where you can try any food you’d like, no bloating, no toothache or allergies. you can also eat food that doesn’t exist in your cr.
Detective DR ; you can fight crime or more like find the criminal, Nancy Drew style or as an actual detective with credentials.
Supernatural Creature DR ; you can be a mermaid, a goddess, a vampire, a witch and anything you’d like.
Study DR ; where you can find all the answers to your tests or study when your CR life is too busy to do so.
hi! i wanted to respond to this post but my keyboard was lowkey tweaking and i couldn’t write it out without sounding like i was having a stroke.
I first want to say that sexuality is very fluid, especially when you’re a shifter who can experience anything and everything. I do think that it is something you’ll have to work through yourself, the guilt of shifting for a man as a lesbian ( even though i believe that’s completely fine ) because unfortunately no one can give you any advice that will just upright rewire the guilt in your brain.
I will say that as someone who is AroAce here and not in their dr, it doesn’t feel much different than anything else. I simply feel comfortable with things I don’t feel comfortable with doing here, without hesitation. The beauty of shifting is that there are no limits to which version of yourself you can be, and you shouldn’t limit yourself either if you don’t want to!!! Shifting for a man does not change your sexuality, you’re still a lesbian ( unless you decide otherwise ) you’re just simply experiencing a life where you’re attracted to men.
I’m unlabeled but in my dr i’m open to dating everyone freely, because it’s simply just more comfortable for me. Same goes for gender, I’m Agender here but in my drs i’m more likely to pick a secular gender. I have drs where I’m a woman, where i’m a man, where i’m fluid. I also have drs where I’m one gender and strictly attracted to the same sex, and it feels natural to me because it is. I’ve had to learn to not try and force myself into a box of labels because the possibilities are endless, and it doesn’t have to make sense to anyone else.
That’s what shifting is, it’s fluid and ever changing — like you. So don’t feel guilty for wanting to try new or different things, because it’s normal and natural!!
hey so i actually saw this a while ago and just wasn’t sure if i wanna respond but like you’re right and i know you’re right honestly this whole shifting thing. kind of turned into a bigger life thing where i’m considering if i’m not attracted to men as well (or comphet lol) but like whatever !!!
i thought this may be useful to others out there cause i CANNOT be the only human ever experiencing this <3
so i might make an off campus dr cause it seems so fun but also someone needs to tell me if yall actually find the way too close sweaty zooms in on the men attractive cause what oh my lord. this is what it feels like to be gay around queer people. but i like hannah ok.
