Whether you’re consistent with journaling, never tried or you’re intimidated by writing your thoughts out for anyone to come across… this is my take on utilising writing to aid your shifting process. I keep multiple journals and it’s one of my most favourite things to do. I’ll always have one, I use them in every reality. Hopefully you find something useful <3
📓 Why keep one?
Like any benefits of writing, it can be therapeutic, give clarity, comprehension, focus, improve memory, be creatively stimulating, an outlet, etc.
Benefits :
-Tracking your patterns and process. Helps you become aware of your behaviour and thoughts patterns. See where you have and haven’t made process.
-Finding what works for you. What methods, affirmations, tools did you like using or helped you shift? When it’s time to try something new. To start relying on yourself instead of shiftok.
-Reinforces belief and assumptions. Builds confidence in yourself and choices through repetition. Rewiring limiting beliefs. Creating your own beliefs with structure behind it. Redefine your meaning of success.
-Clarity and intent. Maintain your intention. Avoid misdirected efforts. Bringing in motivation to attempt.
-To come back to. See where you were at a month ago, 3 days ago. Observe yourself. What was going on when you were shifting consistently or got close. Making connections. Seeing what you learn and unlearn through time. Where you’ve grown, where you’ve stunted.
-Strengthens visualisation. Drawing, writing, making collages can strengthen an emotional connection when you’re putting in so much personal detail. Zero in on your DR. Immersion.
-Reduce anxities. Getting down circulating thoughts and understanding why they’re showing up. Making it easier to confront. Just getting it out of you. Not feeling “stuck” in your reality.
-Grounding. Facing doubts will be increasingly easy to overcome. Brings more clarity. Immersion. Sustainable success, confidence.
-Keeping memories. Remembering your shifts, providing as much detail as possible. Rereading it just as clearly ad you experienced. Reminder you can shift when you’re in ruts. What you want to remember forever.
Among more, just mentioning my own experiences and what I find most helpful.
✏️ What is it?
It’s pretty self explanatory. It’s a dedicated space to document your journey. (Ideas below)
It can be kept in a physical notebook or on your device. You could get locks put on them.
You can write as much or as little as you like. Consistent or not. Daily, weekly, no schedule. There’s usually some pressure and perfectionism around the idea of journaling, which can be discouraging. Sometimes you just need to make a start.
Journaling demands nothing but for you to show up, and it doesn’t matter how. Your book will change with you, so finding the “right” aesthetic supplies to motive you, with all the pretty Pinterest stickers, glitter gel pens, washi tape and perfect writing format is pointless if you haven’t even tried to write yet.
Use them if you want of course, but pressuring yourself to prioritise making it look pretty and pristine will a lot of times make you procrastinate and counteract the purpose of why you’re writing.
There’s no rules unless you make them!
“ Create it first, make it good later. ”
🎨 Ideas
—Shifting log entiries. Date, method or tools used, your experience, your mental state and attitude beforehand, if you fell asleep early
—Your scripts, or a condensed version
—Track methods, affirmations, subliminals, guided meditations and whatever you try. Like it or not? Did it make sense to you, did they help at all? Stick to one for a while and see what happens before switching it out
—Collage pages for each DR or specific situations. Drawn, painted, printed
—Playlists reminding you each reality. Dedicated playlist to people, situations
—What you’re excited to experience
—Letters to people in your DR, pen pals or texts messages.
—List of affirmations
—Quotes and lyrics you like
—Methods, affirmations, mindsets and ideas you created
—Pros and cons of each DR. How real they feel, be specific. The most mundane to most exciting
—Train of thought page. Whatever comes up. Good or bad
—Parallel reality shifts and what made you realise you shifted
—Sensory page. What reminds you of a DR? Scents, textures, sounds, emotions, colours, places, objects
—Monthly calendar with highlighted dates of attempts, shifts, lucid dreams
—Diary entries as your DR self. Experiencing what you would like any other day. Your thoughts and emotions throughout that day
—Whats in my bag in a specific DR page. Seperate bags? Toiletry bag, products you use. Survival bag, must needs. School or class bag, your subjects, literature reads
—Page of your clothes and wardrobe in a specific DR
—Draw your room, house or floorplan
—Things you associate with each DR
—Drawing your DR self with people from your DR. Drawing them height accurate, spraying perfume or cologne on each person for added effect
—List of what your DR self would be obsessed with right now. Songs, shows, food, books, places
—Write your backstory or memories in as much detail as possible or drawings to go along with it. What effected you most? What made you who you are?
—Moodboards
—Vision boards you’d have in each DR
—Daily tasks you’d have in each DR
—Class or chore schedules
—Prepared speeches to people in your DR. Confrontations, wedding speeches, birthday speeches, workplace speeches
—If you haven’t shifted write down how you would tell your friends or shiftok how you shifted, what happened. Any details you would include. Write in present tense as if it already happened
