my view on shifting (a very personal viewpoint)
Before We Begin..
so I just wanted to make this a warning, that I will be talking about mental health in this post. as well as this post is heavily based on my experiences with shifting and life in general.
since around 2022, I had something called agoraphobia, I have talked about this in some of my earlier posts before as I like to talk about my recovery journey with that, if you don't know what agoraphobia is it is an anxiety disorder, a fear of being in situations in which you can't escape from which can also lead to not being able to leave the house, mine had stem from a few different things including other mental health problems, undiagnosed autism at the time and my emetophobia.
around autumn of 2024, I started my exposure therapy, in which it has helped me to get to where I am today, I went from not leaving my house, not enjoying the car and not even staying at other peoples houses to recently (and I mean recently as in this weekend) going to my grandad's for a whole weekend, going shopping in busy places and my anxiety practically being near to nothing. The reason I mention this is because I will be saying some stuff in this post that will sound out of place otherwise.
my view point on shifting, and where it stems from.
I have shifted or "mini" shifted a handful of times, each time felt un real and real at the same time. I have never really thought about it until recently or well every time I do something big in my agoraphobia recovery journey.
this weekend to me, was a big thing, and it felt unreal. a lot of things like this don't feel real to me anymore due to all the time I have spent isolated..
a quote from a voice message I left my friend after this weekend went like this "after my agoraphobia journey, a lot of things don't feel real anymore.. like this weekend. I know I did shift to a version of this reality, but to go from one place to stay at another place for a weekend then be back at home again, feels like shifting, that is what shifting is to me, and I'm hoping it brings shifting more down to earth for me." I know that might sound a bit crazy, in which why I had to explain the other stuff but it is true.
I believe a year ago, I made a post about how shifting to me is like going on vacation, and this weekend helped me bring shifting more into a perspective for myself, as you know from my previous post here - I over complicate shifting a lot, I over think it a lot.
and yes this is probably such common knowledge in the shifting community but when you experience something it really helps put things and other things into context, into a comfort of something.
shifting is simple, and it has been made simple to me. It really is falling asleep or whatever in this reality, spending time in another reality and then coming back here.
it is as simple as travelling to spend a weekend somewhere and travelling back home.
I know this post is pretty stupid, and sort of like "well yeah duh" post, however I have wanted to make this post, to sort of share that it isn't stupid to actually finally realise a thing that makes sense when it didn't at first, you don't have to have shifting make sense to you - but once it finally does, when it slips onto an easier slope, it feels like everything just falls together.