Let's Talk About SHIFTING - A discussion

What if there was no happy ending

"Shifting is so cool," I thought, but I can see why I was wrong. Shifting is not the destination, it is the journey to the destination. It's like a road trip: you are on your way to a new location. You gotta enjoy the ride there! Shifting is that ride, it is the road trip, not the destination. The destination is exciting, but you can't forget what got you there. So, now I am focusing on shifting itself rather than the reality I wish to visit.

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Speaking of realities, the top motivation for most shifters (me) is a specific person we like to call, a comfort character. Whether they are our lover, friend, teacher, parent, sibling, anything. Not only do we ignore the journey (road trip) there, but it also breaks us. Here's an example from myself: in my current reality (born reality) I don't want a boyfriend. Why? Because I have a specific standard in my head that matches no one that exists in this reality - yeah... There is a specific person that exists in a different reality that is my one and only (there are a few actually, because of different drs). To be honest, I don't like that fact. I think I deserve love in every reality, but then I have this belief that I don't need love here because I'll feel it somewhere else. But what about my soulmate here? It gets so confusing.

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My intuition tells me that shifting for a lover, or friend isn't the right way. We always promote shifting like "Date your dream man" or "Live a life on your favourite anime" I feel like it just sets up people for destruction. People want to shift because they want to experience a life where there is no trauma, no harm, everything is perfect. But life isn't like that. You never know what's going to happen in the future, whereas with shifting you do. Shifting is perfect: you script having a nice boyfriend, with cool friends, living the dream life, no worry for money, no trauma, high pain tolerance, perfect. But that's so fake. Life isn't like that. Of course if you're shifting to a tv series there will be conflicts, but you'll always know you'll make it out in the end. You don't know that here. Here, there is fear, harm, pain, everything is unknown. But that's the fun of it. Not knowing things is nice. I'd rather let the unknown (universe) lead me, they know more than I do. 

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We shift to feel loved, comfort, warmth, acceptance, it is an escape from this reality. The universe has been asking me why I don't just manifest those things here? Love, acceptance, a lover. I can manifest that and more. But why don't I? Because it won't be him. The person that I would manifest would not be the person from the other reality that I want, it would be someone from this reality. It's an unhealthy attachment issue. As a spiritual soul, I can say that attachment is not love. Attachment is the stress and fear of losing something we believe we cannot live without. Love is something unconditional, something that will always be there. There is no fear, no harm, just love. When we are unhealthily attached to someone or something we become controlled by it. We will do everything, even if it ruins our life, for that one thing that we think will make everything better. It won't. If you do achieve that thing you thought you needed, you'll want something else after and this desire for more will never rest. You have to just be, and search within yourself, love yourself! You don't need anything or anyone, you have yourself.

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I just got a quick idea! With shifting we script what we want our life in the desired reality to be like. What if we scripted our life here, as though we were shifting to this life. It could be used as a manifestation technique, even to manifest shifting!

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There is a lot of "old shifttok" information on wikipedia, but it explains quite a lot of cool information, so I would suggest reading some of it. Gets me motivated! Also, I've been researching about shifting online and there is a lot of information that makes shifting seem more logical. What I mean by that is like this: "do these steps and you'll shift!" or that you need to do something in order to shift. Shifting can happen whenever, you don't even need to do anything. It's just like everything else in life. Don't sweat it, just ride the wave, don't go against the current.

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- Lauren