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do you consider yourself open minded..?

I’ve been sitting on this question for a while, because I feel like my expressive writing ability has been on the fritz. I’m trying to get it back. 

So I’m going to start from the general (suicide in general) and go to the specific (medically assisted suicide/active euthanasia). 

First and foremost, I believe that bodily autonomy is an absolute human right with zero exceptions. As long as a person’s choice about xyr individual body is informed and uncoerced, anyone should be free to do whatever ze wants with xry own body always and forever. 

“Informed” and “Uncoerced” are key, there. Informed – if they understand that the action they take is likely to result in their death, and they understand that death is permanent and irreversible, and that if a person is not being coerced into the decision, then, if a person wants to take action likely to result in xyr death, no one should have the power to stop xem. 

After all, if a person wants to make that choice, the only way to stop xem would be to infringe on their bodily autonomy (e.g. by restraining them) which is unacceptable. 

So ultimately, yes, a person giving informed, uncoerced consent should be free to end xyr own life. 

However. 

Most humans, most of the time, have an extremely powerful survival instinct. 

If we didn’t, we would have gone extinct long ago. 

When a critical number of people have lost that survival instinct, that’s a massive warning sign about those people’s living conditions. 

If people are denied the freedom and resources to live and thrive as their authentic selves, and this drives them to lose their survival instinct, they are not making a free, informed, uncoerced choice to end their lives; they’re being socially murdered. 

Circling back to medically assisted suicide in particular, here we have left the realm of individual personal choice of one’s own body – medical euthanasia is not merely an individual’s choice, it’s an official, government-sanctioned stance of the medical community, society, and the state, that death is the best solution to some people’s lives. When a person seeks medical care and the doctor says “Have you considered just dying instead of being a useless eater burden to your family and society?” this is not a matter of individual choice. This is the combined forces of every social institution declaring that disabled lives are not worth living. 

People are “choosing” medically assisted suicide after being denied healthcare, housing, incomes, or freedom. This is no choice at all. This is social murder. Individuals should be free to end their lives if they choose to, but doctors certainly should not be able to suggest it as a treatment option. 

Consider also how the spectre of suicide is used against different parts of the disability community differently. For psychiatrically disabled/Mad/Neurodivergent people, suicide is held up as the threat justifying the necessity of incarceration and forced drugging. “If we let this person have bodily autonomy, they might kill themself, therefore, we have to lock them up and chemically restrain them.” For physically and especially mobility impaired people, suicide is pushed as the medically, scientifically, socially, and morally objectively correct “choice” (“No one would want to live like that and be a burden on their family”). The term “death with dignity” is so telling – “dignity” is defined as incompatible with disability, better to die abled (“with dignity”) then to live as disabled (“without dignity”). 

Manifestation in Pinterest Terms:

If you keep saving pink cars to your mood board, your algorithm is going to fill with pink cars and have a notice written: "based on your last saved pins." It shows you what it thinks you want based on what you keep addressing and choosing.

If you don't want to see pink cars, you either ignore the pins, or you click the 3 dots and touch: "hide pin". Then you stop seeing it again.. If you do, you continue to correct your algorithm.

If you want to keep seeing PNG icons, you WILL make a mood board for it. AKA, you're making room for it to stay and identify with you/your profile. The more you add, the more your algorithm produces it so you can keep engaging with it. Eventually, if that's the only category of pins you save to your board, you will inevitably be surrounded by PNG icons on your feed...

There's no way to unsuccessfully build an algorithm. You like that phone case? Save it! Keep saving it. You'll get more that look like it and you can keep saving it. Until you decide to click 'hide pin' and delete your mood board COMPLETELY, you will have the same algorithm. It's impossible to NOT see your pins unless YOU keep deleting them and no longer identifying with them by having them on your profile.

You build the algorithm. The algorithm doesn't build itself and it's not gonna self-destruct or test you. It simply goes off of what you keep selecting.

Thoughts/identity = pins. Repeated attention = saving. Rejecting old stories = hide pin. External feedback of who you're being = homepage.

-> Example of how NOT to use Pinterest:

save pin. delete pin. save pin. click not interested. save pin.

save pins of a topic you dislike and make an entire mood board about it.

-> Examples of how to use Pinterest:

save pin. keep saving pin. add to mood board. click not interested on pins that don't align with mood board/aesthetics.

sincerely,

08. 𝙎𝙃𝙄𝙁𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙄𝙎 𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙐𝙏 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙄𝙉𝙎𝙄𝘿𝙀 𝙉𝙊𝙏 𝙊𝙐𝙏𝙎𝙄𝘿𝙀 ༉‧₊˚ .

Please I want you to read this post, mabye it is too long for you, but atleast try it, I think it might be impotant for you specially for those who feel stuck in shifting.

After being in this community for a long time, and going on and off about shifting, being able to experience the contrast of the shifting community through the years, there was something I just noticed (Sorry If I am late) is the fact that shifting is something about the inside, about our consciousness and awareness.

When we first think about shifting, or someone asks us what it is, the primal answer would be: Is moving your consciousness to another reality.

But the thing is that we really don't understand this.

What I mean with that is that we spend so much time focusing on the physical symptoms when we are "Trying to shift" thinking that the physical symptoms are the answer or the measure of how close we are to being in our dr, when this is not the real measure.

I have always been really curious about the process of shifting around 2020. How would the change of realities would feel, can you feel how the realities change with your 5 senses? Is something instant? Or mabye is something of going to sleep and wake up.

After chasing so many times the answer I just conclude that shifting is not a magical world or something extraordinary taken from a fantasy book but instead something that we do EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Shifting is something about the inside, that is something clear.

But sometimes it is even a lot more complicated than we thought because it is something we are not USED to.

But Yuna, what do you mean that is something about the inside?

(coming from a procrastinator that often gets bored during attempts and STILL shifts anyway)

HI SHIFTBLR! I'm back with a big post.

So, I've been on tiktok lately and i've been seeing a lot a lot a LOT of people talking about how to awake shift and it really inspired me to speak on my experience because i don't really see that many people share their awake shifting experiences in detail.

Just for context, I use my own method to awake shift. It's fairly easy. All it takes is patience and some free time, that's all.

There's this girl on tiktok named Kas who PERFECTLY encapsulated my METHOD in a video but in way better words. She defined shifting as DISCONNECTION, IDENTIFICATION, AND RECONNECTION! That is exactly it! Most people get stuck on Disconnection and give up. I often get really bored before this part but trust me that's just your ego trying to stop you! Don't ever listen! You could live your dream life rn babes why would you quit?!?

So, THIS IS HOW IT FEELS TO SHIFT WHILE AWAKE:

I meditate by breathing in like 2-5 times, sometimes i do it for longer but i find that if i do it for too long, i end up falling asleep. This step is important but it shouldn't be overdone because your body isn't even needed to shift.

i immediately start on DISCONNECTION. I tell myself "I am disconnected from my current reality. I am not this body / vessel" until i start to feel a little floaty.

After feeling floaty, i'm still feeling connected to my CR but i kinda ignore it and just skip straight to connecting to my DR SELF via identity affirmations.

Usually at this point i start to visualize where i'll wake up and sometimes i get so deep in it that i dont even have to do CONNECTION because i'll start hearing stuff from my DR or feeling stuff. Like if i'm petting my cat, i'll subtly feel her fur but like in my CR if that makes sense?? It's like i can FEEL it as my DR self but my CR self is feeling the sensations. I actually hate this because it feels like a game of cat n fucking mouse. Like whats the point of that "phantom" ass feeling? Just shift and feel it for real lmaoo!!

I'm going to try to explain this as best i can: When I shift while awake, it's lik the reality fades in. Like, I'm in my CR doing affs, and then all of a sudden i'm in my DR. . . there is no distinction of travel between the two. i'm just here one moment and then the next im in my DR. I can never predict the exact moment because it just happens and im not even really paying attention when it does. I just notice that i'm there, yk?

lately i've been getting bored after the feelings stop, so i just kinda give up :/ but i still hear stuff from my DR so i count that as a partial shift, aka shifting regardless!!!

do you consider yourself open minded..?