π . hiya βοΈ( Λπ·Λ ) i'm maho. or maven, whichever tickles your fancy. i'm a shifter who's been in the game since about 2021, though I've been on shiftblr for a little less than a year. i'm an artist who often draws my dr selves + talks shiiiit lol. my main acc is s6xftunder ; if I like / fllw you, that's the name you'll see, not this one, but it is me :)
how I walk past lunch rush with a whole new plate in my hand carefully curated by stealing food off all of 1A's plates (he wouldn't let us get a third plate but I'm just a growing girl + beastly symbiote fr)
i find it funny how ure dni is just bigots now cus oh my god yesterday i saw a shifting post which was about shifting to realities without trans people from a terf and it had the most likes i saw on a shifting post ever i did not know the bigotry was that bad here. - πͺ·
It's horrible tbh. The most hate I see is from terfs. A lot of them use the idea of "I create my own reality based off my perceptions" as fuel to their fire, or to justify their views.
A lot of them are just pathetic, bitter losers who were hurt by men, and instead of healing, they associate their pain with womanhood. "I was hurt bc I'm a woman and to be a woman is to hurt." So when they see "men" (trans women) who can't experience the same kinds of hurt as cis women (child birth, periods, even rape) trying to "infiltrate" female spaces, they lose their fucking minds. All they see is a man in disguise who wants to hurt them and infiltrate their safe spaces.
Men do not need to be in disguise to hurt a woman. A man will never parade as what they hate most (women) to hurt a woman. He will just hurt a woman. Common sense is a terfs worst enemy lmao.
as a consistent anon for u i think u dodged the hatebullet for posting art as opposed to advice , the madder anons usually come for advice blogs that they have gripes about usually due to their dnis, but tbh dodging the racist anons is also lucky cus Iβve seen some realll bad ones on shiftblr that dislike poc
while im yapping can i become πͺ· anon ?
HELLO YES?! my first anon waow π€
But totally lol. I lowk think making art of my dr self ranks me higher on the loser scale but also, it could just be brushed off as an oc so, pretty ignorable.
I do think I'm pretty lucky bc if I did get racist anon hate I'd just tell them to k they s and that's not good form so everyone would jump me but idcccc I'm not arguing w a dumbass on tumblr dot com
Shifting + The conscious & subconscious mind. π»
So, something I've been thinking about lately is how shifting gets treated as this thing we have to constantly do, 24/7, when I honestly think it's more of a subconscious act than a conscious one. I initially started thinking abt this through a tiktok I watched, and I wanted to do more + my own research into things. Here is the fruit of my labour lol
So fyi, the conscious mind is the part of you that's actively thinking, analyzing, making decisions, questioning things, and trying to solve problems. You used your conscious mind to make the decision to read this post, + you're still using it to read this rn. The subconscious mind is more automatic. It stores your beliefs, habits, assumptions, and handles a bunch of other things in the background without you needing to think about them. Like your breathing or blinking pattern, for instance.
Notice how maybe your blinks and breaths feel awkward now that you're consciously aware of something meant to be subconscious? Yeah, hold onto that thought lol
A lot of shifting advice revolves around affirmations, which y'know makes sense. The idea is that the more you repeat an assumption to your conscious mind, your subconscious eventually accepts it as true. I think too many of us are actually overdoing it tho, with how much we feed our minds.
The shifting community is filled with so much info. Methods, symptoms, rules, affirmations, detachment, reprogramming, void state, lucid dreams, SATS, robotic affirming, visualization, blah blah blah. We're constantly absorbing "new" content, sometimes even from people who completely contradict each other. All of this knowledge is absorbed by both the conscious and subconscious mind, and it can be overwhelming for both.
I saw someone else mention this in a post of theirs (I cannot recall whom), where they mentioned some kind of physics law or whatev where, the harder you try to force something, the more resistance you create instead. Not bc effort is bad, but bc too much effort often comes from uncertainty. (It's fine to be uncertain, but uncertainty bred from too much info + pressure placed on yourself sucks mkay? You can be uncertain and shift, but uncertainty of this kind, I think, should be rid of).
Let's circle back to the breathing thing. Right now, you're probably back to breathing automatically again. But now that I've mentioned it, you're likely back to being hyper-aware of your breaths again, and it feels weird and unnatural. You're now consciously trying to control something that runs normally in the background just fine, and all it took was one mention, one shift of awareness, to cause discomfort. Also notice how choosing to forget about it, how letting yourself relax and shifting your thoughts to something else allows things to go back to normal. I think shifting is similar to this.
The subconscious handles automatic processes well, but when we're just constantly checking our progress, questioning every thought, analyzing every symptom, consuming ten new pieces of advice a day, and worrying whether we're "doing it right," we're just dragging the process into the conscious mind and then trying to operate something that works better without us beating at it with a fucking stick lol. It's like planting a seed. Plant it, water it, but digging it up every hour to check whether it's growing isn't gonna do jack shit.
OK, so wtf do we do about it then?
From what I've readβ RELAX!! Genuinely take a chill pill lol. You don't need any more advice clogging up your mind, fluttering around in your head making you wonder if you're doing everything right. There's absolutely a point where eating up more info stops being helpful and genuinely starts becoming noise. Give your subconscious a clear direction and then stop hovering over it.
Meditation can help ease the mind and connect the body, even if you just do it for 10 mins a day. I really don't think distracting yourself with other things will work here. If you know your mind is overwhelmed, you need to ease it before committing to anything else.
Create and follow a simple routine for yourselfβ meditate, affirm one or a few affirmations, then leave it be and stop checking for results. Don't think it's working? "I will shift regardless of my doubts", boom. Make up an affirmation to combat those thoughts. People learn better with consistency and repetition, not with constantly changing habits and info.
I personally have this issue where I watch myself shift, rather than just leaning into it. "Am I doing it right? Am I detached enough? Is it happening yet? Yo why does my ass itch?" I get so focused on the process of making it happen and I don't just allow it to. And the more attention gets shifted to monitoring and controlling every aspect of shifting, the less room there is for your subconscious to take the rails, basically.
Right, I've blabbed for too long, and it's taken me like over an hour to type this all out. I hope this made sense, and I hope it causes some of you to just slow down and relax. Breathe, take it bit by bit. Shifting is inevitable. Bc my punk ass says so.
I'm ngl I'm pretty surprised that I've made it this far into shiftblr with 200+ followers and I've not gotten a single anti anon hate. Like I'm a loser who draws her dr self literally all the fucking time, you'd think that'd draw some scums out but surprisingly not lol
My associations for Bao β autumn with its spicy drinks and dahlias; iridescent; a crow (or an owl); Twisted Wonderland; a traveling fair, specifically a mystery shop that disappears the moment you turn away
β Β° Maven β @sixfeetblw
My associations for Maven β summer and lilies (though also spring and lilies of the valley); grey, black, and denim blue; a black puma; MHA (and Tokyo Revengers); the streets of a small Japanese town
β Β° Rayne β @kxienverse
My associations for Rayne (for some reason, I imagine you being blonde) β summer and hydrangeas; mint with hints of pink; a fennec fox (or a sable); MHA (though I associate you with anime as a whole); a Japanese town near the sea
β Β° Luna β @marvelshifter111
My associations for Luna β winter just before spring, and snowdrops; purple; a serval cat; Marvel (and the many, many book fandoms you reblog and have DRs for); a rainy urban backyard in New York (or a forest)
β Β° Ness β @realitycanbewhateveridesire
My associations for Ness β autumn and marigolds; sage green and caramel; an owl (and a doe, in a way); The Owl House (or Stranger Things); a field full of wildflowers
β Β° Yex β @yextheshifter
My associations for Yex β summer and wildflowers; crimson or dark chocolate; a black jaguar (or a fruit bat); Marvel; a beautiful natural cave behind a waterfall
the look I give todoroki while we're paired up during a hero vs villain training exercise bc he stays taunting bakugo (the explosions are getting closer)
I'm not officially apart of toman. I rlly should do an intro for that dr lol, but the long and short of it is: I used to be a delinquent, not affiliated with any specific gang, but grew out of fighting in my late teens bc I got bills to pay and can't be playin smh. Later down the line after meeting toman, I basically became a honorary member through the power of friendship. Not in their ranks but I be there βΉοΈπΎββοΈ
I love ure summer layout I keep opening tumblr to see it oh my gosh..
That's so cool omg!!! π like that's so kind of you for saying, tysm! It can be a hassle sometimes but I really do like making those kinds of edits and changes, esp with the larger izuku graphic. It allows me to stretch my art muscles in a diff way from what I usually do!
and yeah I've also been just staring at my profile cuz I love it too lol
