so i’ve known about shifting for many years and have on and off been interested in it and tried, but never been successful
i think my main issue is that i think it’s too good to be true, or that i’m undeserving of it
do u have any advice on keeping motivated? and i’m wondering how long it took u to successfully shift and how often u shift?
i’m not the best at giving advice, but i have these moments where i suddenly zoom out and realize how bizarre it is that we’re alive at all. existing is strange. consciousness is strange. the fact that we experience anything from a first-person perspective is strange.
everything is perspective. reality, as we understand it, is limited to what we can perceive and comprehend. so who are we to decide what’s too good to be true? what do we actually know for certain? we haven’t even scratched the surface of understanding the universe. most of the ocean is still unexplored. there are entire ecosystems we’ve never seen. so why do we act like we’ve reached the final conclusion about what’s possible? there were countless things throughout history that were once incomprehensible until they were discovered or proven.
those thoughts used to ground me before i shifted (it took me a year and i’ve lost count of how many times ive shifted by now) they scared me a little too tbh but they reminded me that certainty is an illusion.
and what makes anyone more or less deserving of shifting? even if someone is objectively terrible, shifting itself doesn’t operate on morality. it’s an experience available to anyone, the worst person you know could be shifting rn. at the end of the day, i just think we overestimate how much we know and underestimate how strange existence already is. if being alive isn’t “too good to be true” then why would shifting automatically be?
i have no idea if any of that was actually helpful, but i hope i didn’t accidentally send you spiraling into an existential crisis lol