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Telephone Sheep by Jean Luc Cornec
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flo-shifting · 2 years
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Shifting break update.
I've realized a lot in this much needed break.
Fist: I need to shift bc I don't know what I'm doing with my life and I don't even know where to start.
I'm a little of a control freak, I think. But not of the "good kind", the effective kind. I just want, need to feel like I'm having the life that I desperately desired, and shifting was the perfect way of having exactly what I had in mind since...ever?
All that, mixed with me being an obsessive dreamer... I don't think it's a good convo. I feel like I've put in hold a lot of things in my life, thinking it wouldn't be necessary to deal with them if I just could escape them eventually.
I know. Damn.
I can't neglect my life, I mean, I wish I could. Really, I wish I could just stop everything and just trow responsibility out the window and with that everything that I hate about myself and my life. buuuut, i guess not.
In a way, I am proud of this new adulthood that is blooming in me. I also know that growing up doesn't mean that my inner child is just gone. She's there. We talk a lot. She wants to shift. I don't know anymore if it's possible.
I truly don't know anymore.
I'm not saying it's not real or that this is a faith crisis and that I'll get over it. I don't think it's a matter of motivation, either. I just...don't know and don't have the energy or strength to just keep going out of pure determination.
I hope to do it. I'm not trying tho. Not like I used to. Not with methods or subliminals. I don't even know what I do. I just have hope, i guess.
I don't know.
I've been daydreaming a lot too. Maladaptive. In the sense that it's all the time, and it gets in the way of life. If I don't, I get bored and in that almost unbearable way that makes you think "man, I really can't stand being present". Which, yeah, yikes.
I'm really making an effort here, to cope with everything in my mind and shifting also. I always said, and it's true even, that when I found out about shifting something in me woke up. The world was different, the universe was there, at the grasp of my hand. And not being able to even touch it, experience it how I wanted it, was a big blow to my mental health.
High expectations do that to you.
Having a belief system that revolves around upbeat mentality, manifestation and big rewards do that to you too.
This community is full of young people. Some, very, very young. And lest be honest, mental health is not at his finest here. I've heard a lot of talk about how shifting can be traumatic, but only after you do it, and when someone openly describes being burnt out and depressed after seeing almost no results the only responses are: "don't give up, think about you meeting this and that"; "what if the next time you tried is when it actually happens"; "your cc wouldn't want you to give up on them".
I'm sorry, buy even with good intentions, those statements are draining at best. To want something so much and be convinced that if only you could do it, if you try hard enough and have more information and change your perspective and mind and whatever people will come up next! If you finally do it, everything will be fine. But you don't get it. Over, and over again. It's soul crushing.
On top of that, everybody seems to do it just fine. They get to live their dream life and have all this other people following their adventures, building a platform or getting money out of it.
And some seem to lie about it, which also piles up on everything that is going around in your mind with doubts and concerns.
Let's admit it: there are a lot of things in this shifting community that are shady. Not only the people on it, but the "information" and the credibility of it.
It's a lot.
Again, with this I'm not saying that it's not possible (for me shifting it's a matter of faith just like a religion, more than a scientific thing) but it definitely wore me out.
I've had a weird year. A really weird year, and shifting was what stared it all. I'm not sure of anything nowadays, only that our minds are our first and more important tool to understand life and be able not only to navigate it but to live it in a way that brings us joy and passion and everything we need to feel hole. And the path we take to get that, it's everything.
If you feel like shifting its taking a toll on you, that not shifting is making you feel insane...you're not alone. To believe in something so out of the norm it can be isolating, I know a lot of people found a community and friends and that's great! I'm truly happy for them, but also that's not the case with everybody.
Breaks are important. Yes. But don't be afraid of pulling back of trying if you notice it became obsessive and corrosive. If just the thought of never again trying to shift it brings you distress, then reexamine why shifting is so important to you. Why do you need it so bad. Be honest with yourself, but most important, be patience.
All things have their process, their time. This is true with shifting, but also with us. With our minds, body and soul. And to know yourself, to learn to take care of you and to do what it takes sacrifices what it takes in order for you to be well and safe, is more important than anything shifting related.
I used to think of taking care of my mental health as a tool for shifting. If I do this and that, the days would slowly become lighter. I was getting better (with its usual ups and down, but better nonetheless), but in my mind it was always now I'll shift, this was blocking me now there's nothing on my way.
The focus point was wrong. And the shifting cloud on my mind was getting heavier and heavier, I didn't realize at the moment, just bc I wanted it so bad that I couldn't think of shifting as a burden.
Like I said, I don't know anything anymore. Don't feel like I should, either. But being honest with myself is the most important thing right now. Of course, I want to shift. Shifting it's not the cause of my problems either, that's all me.
I'll be reevaluating everything now. Not wanting to prove it right or wrong. Not rushing, or expecting, nor obsessing.
For now, I'm allowing myself to give up on shifting, something I was sure I would never do in a million years.
We'll see how it goes.
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The serenade from the June 20, 1914 cover of Puck magazine.
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flo-shifting · 2 years
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Shifting breaks.
HATE THEM.
I've never known how to let go ANYTHING in my life. There is a quote that when I read it the fist time, completely broke me:
"Everything that I've ever let go, I let go with scratch marks".
And with shifting I just got so obsessed with getting it right and getting everything I ever dreamed of, I tried shifting everyday. Multiple time a day somedays. I was really determined to do it and do it fast and do it well.
Now I know it was a lot.
I mean, I did knew this all along it just didn't click like it does now. My first break was several moths after I learn about shifting. AND I COULDN'T DO IT. I would have to force me not to star a method (ik yikes) like it would be an habit, I would even tell myself that meditating before sleeping helped me sleep better (and it did) but then I would star affirming and then I was gone, doing it again.
I wasn't just getting frustrated with shifting, also with myself. It was a lot ngl. Slowly I did face the the fact that I was obsessed, but again knowing it and understanding what it truly meant are two completely different things.
Today I'm more chill about this. In part because I'm in a better place in my life and I'm capable of dealing with my mental health in ways that last year I would not even imagine (and I still have shit to work through), but I know that I wouldn't be in this place if I wouldn't gone through all this crazy process.
I'm taking a break now, like real one. I don't how to do it still, lol.
Like should I stop writing this blog? (that would be a bomer cuz I really like it but could always star a personal journal in the meantime) Should I delete tiktok? (That always sounds like a good idea but also boring...) Definitely stop trying to shift lol I do learn my lesson thank you very much
I also daydream about shifting a lot. Well, like my DR and staff. I'm going to be honest here, it's maladaptive level (like...Im not diagnosed but when u know u know). But I hear something so so good about dealing with maladaptive daydreaming and is don't try to fight it cuz it's just gonna makes it worse (which yeah), try redirect it.
And maybe I'll try that.
•Redirect any imagination (or maybe just letting it hang a minute or two before returning to my day to day stuff cuz this thing sometimes its my only entertainment I don't wanna be that healthy if it is a drag)
•Reduce shifting consumption (sometimes it makes me anxious anyway so wherever)
•Just go to sleep already
•STOP TRYING TO CONTROL EVERYTHING!1!!!111! how r u suppose to relax if you make a point by point plan ??? jeez it gets exhausting to live in my mind ngl
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flo-shifting · 2 years
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Places I want to shift to.
RICK AND MORTY DR.
Okey, I know that it's a crazy place to shift to, and it's a little dysfunctional and potentially traumatizing? But also I want that chaos and adventure and to go to those s p a c e p a r t y s.
Safety measures: I'm never in real danger duh, or in any situation where it gets gory or over the top violent. protagonist luck obvi but also that movie kinda rule where even if there are big explosions or anything like that nobody dies. also emotional safety measures, this family isn't that dysfunctional and actually good to each other.
Silly and out of cannon adventures kinda DR.
NARUTO DR.
Bro. I'm so going to overpower myself with this safety measures. Ain't no way I'm ever losing a battle or getting seriously hurt, oh, but where's the fun in that? It's not realistic at all! Excuse me??? actual ppl think this what the actual fuck
Bad bitch DR. I want so bad to have a battle where somehow I have to fight with eyes close, like I just want to be a ninja and trow knifes and run with my arms like that, I think is going to be HILARIOUS. Also, how the world gonna look like ????
General vibe: all the ninja stuff stars over when you're over 18 cuz it's messed up and i'm shifting w/ all my memories and I don´t want child soldier trauma thanks also I'm all in with crazy backstories so maybe I'm like a princess but i don't know this and also when I found out I'm so not gonna let it change me lmao i'm really like dEsIrEd rEaLiTy with this one uh. Also, nobody dies, like friend and foe alike I got no time for murderous bullshit, I just want to shift a few weeks before the groups are form and in the meantime just hangout, train and cause some trouble. also i might or might not be in complete love with lee and shikamaru i'm really reminding myself that i'm letting all be in the hands of the universe I don't want to chose things before hand u know but its hard i've been reading fluffy fanfiction i need a hug
AVATAR DR
I'm sure this is not a surprise, and I feel like it explains itself. It's my favorite show since I'm a kid of course I'm meeting this people and traveling the world in FLUFFY AND ADORABLE F L Y I N G APPA BABY? yes pls i want it now thxs.
Definitely a water bender, I want to learn how to heal and maybe blood bending? sorry I just think it'll come in handy Also I want the show plot, so everybody is like 20, and I want more of a slow vibe? so the 3 seasons are going to be way more than just 3 months, but I don't know exactly how much. I just don't wanna be in a hurry lol
Also, I'm thinking of making a DR where I am the avatar? is that too egocentric? lol I'm just thinking about it, who knows.
BATMAN DR
Not The Batman, just Batman. Kinda general comic knowledge DR. I want so bad to be part of the batfamily also wear a cape and have cool tools. Yes, I want all that.
Of course, I would shit my pants if I ever see the joker. But idk I feel like if I want to be a superheroe I also want Batman to be there as a mentor idk I also love this dramatic emo bat dressing men since I was a kid so maybe I'm working on some daddy issues with this one? lol no one can judge me
Safety measures: death in this line of work is so rare, for real, I'm taking no chances. Although I don't know the extent in which I can get away with this. I mean, shifting is limitless, or at least that's what I think. I just don't want people to get hurt in any reality am in, and specially I don't want to hurt people willingly or not.
Also, I want to have powers. I know it doesn't really go with batman, but I want everything lmao. I'm also getting rid of my backstory. I'll just be some kid in gotham, trying to have a life in this shithole city when oh wow it's that batman? no way, that's crazy! wait, what's that, batman? you think I'll be a good sidekick? stop, you're gonna make me blu-yes, am in. let's fucking go pls.
WINX DR.
WHY IS NOBODY SHIFTING TO CLUB WINX. Gorgeous, gorgeous girls want to be a part of a beautiful and strong group of friends that will literally go to the end of the universe for each other and spend their days in their magical fairy castle learning magic and how specifically it manifests to each of them and have gorgeous, gorgeous outfits made of magic and a dance sequence in the middle of the air to fight some emo punk witches until we all became friends in a soul touching enemies to friends to lovers trope kinda DR haha
Safety measures: my outfits are drop-dead gorgeous. If I fell in love with some girl flora im literally looking at you don't dare to break my heart it's already yours they also fell for me I KNOW THAT I'M LEAVING THIS THINGS TO THE UNIVERSE BUT ALSO CAN'T TAKE ANYCHANCES OKEY also I don't mine whatever type of fairy I would be I just want to be able to use magic for anything? like it has to be something that would be useful in battle but also day to day shananigans, but I want it to be surprise.
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flo-shifting · 2 years
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Why I'm not shifting.
SPOILER WARNING: cold feet.
I mean...am I the only one? I know that shifting is an ADVENTURE, a DREAM COME TRUE and I should be so so SO EXITED (and I am!), but also is scary. It's unpredictable. World changing, ME CHANGING.
I don't know if am ready.
All this time I tried to shift to no success and hear all this people say things like "EVERYBODY CAN SHIFT" and "THE ONLY THING STOPPING YOU IT'S YOU", I never realize how frustrated it made me (the last one????? like, how am I supposed to stop? I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I'M DOING HELP WHAT DOES THAT MEAN).
I don't really want to get into details, but my shifting journey is kinda rocky. I'm super grateful about all the things I've learned and who I am thanks to this process that seems to never end (pls can i get like a break in life or...), but it was a lot. I went through at least a dozen tower moments and maybe one or two ego death, (yes I'm exhausted) and nothing really works. I couldn't put my finger on what I was doing wrong, I had breakthrough, epiphanys, I CONTACTED MY GUIDES AND GOT A PENDULUM I mean what else is a girl suppose to do????
Nothing really. When they say that everybody can shift at any point and nothing really is holding you back but you, I think that's the truth. I still can't explain exactly how to shift, but also I'm not trying to anymore.
To try and learn more, and understand more and do more, that's not going to help you shift. You can shift and do these things, but any new methods that you try or changing your mindset isn't the trick. There is no trick, maybe. Who know, I haven't shifted lol
I think I'm finally understanding what not romanticizing your DR means, not put it on a pedestal and all. It's not our life's goal to shift, although it definitely feels like it would be our greatest accomplishment. But we are so much more than that, and to put so much effort and value on something so long in the future and under the condition that we shift it doesn't feel right.
I'm still scared of everything that shifting could bring in my life (mostly in love terms am so shit scare of being in love I'm not going to lie I already know that I have no chance with some of the people I want to meet) but also writing this made me realize that I don't wanna be scared anymore? idk i'm an aries moon and sag mercury once I express verbally what bothers me I lit let it go and forget about it forever or maybe I'm just tired hard to tell.
Also, I feel like I'm ready to shift. But also in need of a break. Definitely, writing this blog helps.
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flo-shifting · 2 years
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Shifting things I no longer belive in.
Time ratios.
Sorry, I don't think it's a thing, you just want to do math and that's cool and all, but couldn't be me.
Clones.
I hate that term. I don't think they're "clones". I'm not even sure if anything exist outside our individual perspective of reality. I mean, if it does and all realities exist at the same time regardless of our observation...they're not clones. There are us. We're them? We're the same thing, it's what I'm trying to say. We just forgot. Or don't even realized it.
Scripting.
I just don't see it as a fundamental anymore. I think it can become an obsession, and sooner than later all you do is script or scroll through Pinterest to perfect and update all your visual scripts and that's all you do? We need to let go of the planning state of our shifting journey to actually experience what we're manifesting.
But more than anything, I think it's just like any other technic of manifesting. You could do it even from your DR with no problem.
Dreaming about you DR means you're close to shifting.
I mean, you have your DR in mind, that's for sure. I just don't think these two things correlate with each other. And if people dream about their DR and then shift, it's more of a confidence.
You can't script out trauma.
I'm not saying you can't get trauma (and maybe we should have a conversation about how fetishized this terms has become). I'm just saying it's possible for you to decided to "leave some memories behind". When you shift to a new place and script you will have all the memories from that place, just like it happened to you (which it kinda did) you're choosing what to remember, you can do the same if you don't want to remember certain things when you go back to your CR.
IF we should do something like this is a different conversation, and I feel it's like a personal choice. I'm only saying it's possible.
You can't learn new things and bring them to this reality.
Why not? If you can remember what happened to you in your DR and bring that information to this reality, why would be different with other types of information? I mean, if this info is physical abilities I can understand it, but I think is totally possible if you want to remember a language and have the intention to still know it when you shift back.
You can't bring things from your DR.
HEAR ME OUT FIRST. I know that you can't, physical, "transport" objects from one reality to another BUT... couldn't you just shift back to an almost exact CR, with the only difference being that object somehow is already in your life? I think: yes, it's possible.
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flo-shifting · 2 years
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I think surrender is the final push.
Long story short, I'm highly skeptic of every "fact" about shifting that I hear in the shifting community. Not because it's from shiftok or amino or whatever, but because I realize that most of the beliefs this community has on shifting are just that personal beliefs, opinions.
Like when we expect to shift in just a couple of tries. LIKE WHAT? Who told us this? Why did we believe them?? And don't get me wrong I'm so glad for those that shifted on their first try or even after a few months (also kinda jealous, but I'm working on this lack mentality) how in the hell that became the standard that we measure ourselves with?!
We're thinking that two, three years to learn ON OUR OWN a skill like this is a long time? Guys, let's put shifting into perspective. If you want to learn how to astral project or lucid dream, more experience people will WARN YOU NOT TO EXPECT IT IMMEDIATELY. They tell you straight up: this could easily take you a decade, sit down and get comfortable.
Why do we pressure ourselves so much? I know that we shouldn't overcomplicate shifting, but also let's take all the time we can to actually learning about this. The amount of things I am discovering about not only myself, but about the universe. How energy is transmuted, how we co-create our reality and the amount of actual power our conscience has. IT'S INSANE, and all came through shifting.
Also, patience is so so so important. I know that sometimes accepting that something that you want is not gonna happened right now and there's nothing that you can do to change it feels like giving up or accepting also that you can't shift at all, or it feels like you're out of control. But this desperation is counterproductive, energetically you're blocking your own progress. The more you hold on to what you want, the more you're repelling it simultaneously. The universe it's fuck up like that.
I don't really care anymore how much time it takes me to shift, personally I think it is because I'm not doing methods anymore. I've never been very fond of them, to be honest. I've tried a bunch of them, got symptoms with some, got weird dreams with others. More than anything, they made me anxious, specially after they didn't work. So I stopped doing that, and now I just meditate for a while, set intention and just vibe with the idea of shifting before going to sleep. lol that's literally a method.
What I really don't like about how we approach methods is how they "end" when you shift or, more importantly, when you don't. I've been listening to some podcast on Spotify of Neville Goddard, and it really stuck to me the way this man view the universe and manifesting. I definitely think Neville Goddard teaches you how to shift, but not with methods like we normally do, but with continuous perseverance in the idea of already achieving the goal and focusing on your feelings.
He has this hole thing of being God and creation being finish, and the power of the mind over all but the great importance of our feelings.
Feelings make you shift. I'm so sure of this. They align you with your desired physically. I think it is because when we feel something, so strongly we feel it in our body, like how painful heartbreak feels or how big your chest can get when you feel proud. Feelings are fuel.
So my strategy became just affirming during the day, taking a moment to truly feel like I had already shifted. To explore the feeling and let myself get carried away with it. But quickly transform in me kinda forcing myself to stay in that same "zone", which maybe that's the idea. But I felt stuck, so I'm changing the approach.
Surrender.
I know that I sound like I'm crazy, but I've been getting this messages or "downloads" about letting go, about surrender completely to this process and just accepting that I'm being carry. Y'know. Divine Timing and all that.
Also, if you never read "A la deriva" you should. It's a short story of Horacio Quiroga, a big writer in my country that I read when I was in highscool, but it just got to me how it relates to how I'm feeling right now. So as it seem I'm talking about this now, the story is about a man that lives in the Amazonas, and one day like any other he leaves his house but a snake bites him. He's only option is to get on a little boat and float in the Amazonas to a doctor's house in the area. The point of the story is that as he drifts though the river his mind also stars to drift and, well, he dies.
And to continue with this insane analogy, I think I just need to surrender like the man in the story. Of course not to actually death lol I don't think surrender is the thing that's going to make me shift either. I think I'll end up having like an ego death or something. Like, I have all these limiting beliefs to myself that I'm deconstructing little by little, and this "final surrender" is the last step to a new breakthrough, or a new perspective, a new me.
Yep, a little dramatic, but I'm really excited.
I feel so liberated with this "new" way of shifting. Like I literally am putting it in the hands of fate and my own subconscious, I'll shift when the moment is right, and I'll also know it when I know it? idk I have been stressing over shifting and everything in my life for so long, I don't want to do it anymore, so I'm not lmao
Anyway... I'll be reporting anything worth reporting on this.
chausito.
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flo-shifting · 2 years
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Maybe I'm a bitter little bitch, but I don't like those post about motivation (specially those on tiktok) that go like: "You wanna give up? Don't! Just t h i n k of you cc, wouldn't they feel bad :( Just keep goin' whore".
Honesty, if I didn't give up on shifting is purely because I'm a stubborn capricorn with an aries moon.
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flo-shifting · 2 years
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So... I think I've been trying to shift realities for almost a year and a half.
And I know it is controversial. But it's also a matter of fate.
I've had this conversation with myself so many times. I am aware that it's hard to believe to say the least - it's crazy! Too good to be true, too dangerous if it is real. But also, I just want to do it so, so bad.
I want to know first hand just how crazy this universe we live in can be, how many possibilities truly there are to explore. I want magic, I want adventure.
More than anything: I want this to be real.
I am biased, of course. Since I can remember, I always wanted just what shifting is and has to offer. I feel this, it's also the case with so many people in the shifting community, and also the reason, so many don't take us seriously.
But like I said earlier, I've been trying for more than a year. This conversation for me is old and tiring. I no longer fear what others may say to me, if they'd think I'm crazy or delusional. I am both of these things and I love it!
Also, and more importantly: the possibility of shifting realities being real has open a door of misters into my life. I've grown so much in this past few months, in ways both beautiful and painful.
Today, I feel confident in my beliefs and ideas. I trust my own intuition and perception of the life I'm living. I'm open to be wrong, buy also to learn. I've learned so many things, of me and others, of the life and person I wish to become and manifest.
I guess the point of this blog is to connect more with this journey, and hopefully others.
And to find out the truth for myself, of course.
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