#daemonism practice

[daemonsfordays]

There's something just so uniquely comforting like no other in waking up from a series of nightmares only to be soothed by your daemons and being able to let your partner sleep. I really am so blessed to have them in my life and I'm grateful to have known them for such a vast part of my life <3

~Em of Thom and Ani

[old-daemon-farts]

PDF found HERE

For newbies and anyone having difficulty talking with their daemons. My recommendation for anyone starting out is to find all the ways you communicate with yourself. Sometimes we come in with expectations that may not be compatible with our intrapersonal communication. Much like aphantasia, some people don't have an internal monologue which can seem like a road block, but there are so many other ways to communicate with your daemon.

[daemians-n-daemons]

An Exercise with my Dæmon

My Aza's been feeling less focused and less active and more sleepy lately. Our brain's been really busy and there's been less room for her to play a more active role. Out of curiosity, we decided to look at tulpamancy exercises and found a revitalization exercise. So why not try it, right?

I'll be honest, we weren't able to follow it and ended up doing it differently. But the exercise we did do was pretty sweet, so I figure I can share how that went for us and what we did.

So for the exercise we picked up, the first step was visualize your tulpa (daemon in our case) and "force" every aspect of their personality onto the visualization of them.

Wasn't sure what that meant exactly, so we started by projecting Aza as a dormouse in the palm of my hands, cupped in front of me. To help my focus, I found it easier to talk to her out loud. We went over some of her likes and dislikes, her voice, her appearance, her favourite forms, her opinions, things we like to do together, her favourite spots to be, moments we've shared, etc. She would chime in with comments, which technically was not allowed, but... oh well. I said everything I could think of about her as the thoughts came to mind, not worrying if I ended up repeating something in the process.

We ended on the knowledge that we both love each other. You love me, I love you, it was very sweet. It brought back some memories and put some focus on Aza and helped her ground her into herself. Like putting a little spotlight on her.

As mentioned earlier, according to the original exercise, for this step we shouldn't have allowed feedback from Aza since focusing on her feelings would have been step two. In the end it felt more like an bonding exercise by allowing her to comment and add things and react naturally. So we're glad we did it our way. Something about the rules being more like guidelines, right?

Here is the link to the original exercise if you're interested: https://tulpanomicon.guide/three-task-tulpa-revitalization.html

And if you give this exercise a go, either the original or what we did (or some variation of your own), feel free to let us know how it went.

[daemonsfordays]

Your Daemon & You (Pt 1.1/12)

We've been wanting to really talk about our daemons and these relationships for a long time as opposed to just reblogging forms but it can be really hard to think up prompts! This site has a lot of different questions and I think that's what we'll focus on for awhile, for our own alter-daemon relationships, learning about each other and for general daemon awareness! These will be longish posts, no tl;dr just for warning! Questions and individual answers under the cut. Not all alters may answer each question and not all may self-identify or identify their daemon. However we will differentiate based on text colour :) (Disclaimer: Colours may or may not be consistent which is why we've added ours and our daemons' names as well. Sadly tumblr is limited in its font colours)

When did you meet your daemon? -Em (of Thom and Ani): I was 16 and I had just finished the HDM series a couple days after my birthday. I was feeling lonely and wishing how I had a daemon of my own and Thom popped up as a red fox on the pillow beside me and simply said "But you do." With Ani, I met her a few days after creating her. She was quiet and demure as we were at work as a vet tech. It was so lovely to just feel her calm and assurance during work that day. -Kay (of Kekani): I formed in the body's mid-20s. Em (the only host at the time) had recently gotten back into speaking with their daemon after a long break and I think that influenced us a lot. I fronted back and forth with them, though we didn't know that at the time. I think Kiki was formed because of the newfound love Em had for their daemon and I believe that affected her development quite a bit as it mirrors the love I have for Kiki. And one day she was just there next to me. Never looked back. -Allison (of Azekia and Zephyrus): I am a fusion of two parts. In Ashley of Ziki's case, Ziki was a long time "imaginary friend" that either always was or evolved into a daemon. I had her since I was very young (3 or 4!) and she evolved with me. In Alice of Z's case, Z formed with Alice in our mid-20s. He just came right with her and has been with her since she arrived in our system. Thankfully when I fused, I got to keep both daemons! It had been a question of "what will happen??" for the first week post-fusion ^^; -Kell (of Isadora): When I formed I was bitter. I hated it. I was debilitatingly depressed. To be ripped away from your own world to a new one where you know no one and have left behind so many is hard, and it doesn't really ever heal. But I was followed by a weird, large cat. Constantly. She was always there and there was some kind of odd communication with her that I didn't have with anyone else. Eventually I spoke to a very old alter ("Auntie"), who explained the whole "system" issue, what that meant and how daemons worked/what they are. So I started speaking to mine. I learned what her form was (we don't have jaguarundis in my world) and eventually we decided on a name. I have to say that having her in my life has helped immensely. She's helped heal many wounds as well as helping ground me in my new reality -Eris (of unnamed): I'm kind of a weird one! I'm a temporary fusion of two of the kids in the system so either I exist in the system or those two kids do! We can't exist all three at once. The kids don't have their own daemon but when we're fused into me, we have a wonderful leopard gecko daemon! I'm not sure why honestly. I think it's probably a mutual want by both kids to have their own individual daemons and I think this wish definitely came into play. But from the very first time I fused into myself, I had my daemon! I don't think that he disappears when I'm the kids. I think that maybe both their consciousnesses hold a key part of my daemon so he can only exist when I'm me! Just a guess tho ^^

[old-daemon-farts]

PDF found here

[old-daemon-farts]

PDF found here

For fun or to take seriously. I love divination and anything to do with intuition is always very daemon relevant to me.

[old-daemon-farts]

PDF found here

[old-daemon-farts]

PDFs found here and here

Questions to ask yourself when starting into daemonism. Your daemon does not need a purpose to exist, nor do they need to help with anything, but if you are someone who likes structure or have difficulty in seeing how a daemon can be beneficial this may help.