#crself

This method has a couple parts to it so bear with me here, I promise it's a good one. (Hopefully)

Mind Reprogramming (daily task)

Awake Method

or Sleep Method

Part I - Mind Reprogramming

This is the most important part of the method, so pay attention carefully.

If you've ever been to the spooky side of the internet, or even played spooky games at a sleepover you'll probably have heard of the game I'm about to describe. If not, don't worry, as I said, I'm about to describe it.

Basically, how the game works is you go into a room (usually a bathroom) that has a big enough mirror in it. You close the door, shut any window blinds, turn off the lights - basically make sure it's pitch black and completely dark. Then the game gets spooky because your mind fills in the blanks and makes like, eyes behind you or warps your features. Some people control it and change their surroundings to purposefully scare themselves or others when recounting their time.

The Reprogramming works in a similar way/works off of this.

To reprogram your mind, go into the pitch dark room with the mirror and stand in front of it like in the game. Instead of spooky things, however, imagine you look like your DRself. Basically, help your mind "fill in the blanks" and spend 10-15 minutes doing this and "seeing" your DRself in the mirror. You can go as far as trying to invision the bathroom/equivalent room and getting it to look like the one in your DR.

I suggest doing this 3-5 times a day in order to reprogram your mind and get it used to seeing this DRself and associating it as being you. (Because it is.)

Part II - The Awake Method

This is method 1/2 and is for if you prefer or want to try doing it as an Awake Method. Sit in a comfortable spot, on a bed, in a chair, on your couch, wherever it is you want to shift. Then take some deep breaths and close your eyes. Start visualizing, you can affirm if you'd like to during the method, but you don't have to. It's recommended to affirm before beginning.

With your eyes closed, visualize yourself (in first or third person, however is easiest for you) exactly as you are in your CR. You're in the room with the mirror, the one from the CR, but it looks bright in your mind's eye. Visualize that the room is lit, basically. Now visualize yourself approaching the mirror.

At the mirror you see your DRself (the one you've been seeing in step 1) and they mirror your actions. They look just like your mind remembers. Then, visualize the bathroom behind them. Visualize them reaching through the mirror slowly, affirming that you are them, and offering you their hand. Visualize that they ask if you are ready.

If you aren't ready allow your DRself to continue affirming that you are shifting to them. If you are ready then take their hand and try as hard as you can to visualize the entirety of that bathroom. Imagine them pulling you through and you fall into them, colliding and lying on the floor of your DR. Visualize yourself getting up and looking in the mirror. You see only your DR bathroom behind you in the mirror, and you are your DRself in the mirror.

Take a breath and close your eyes. Do a final round of affirming as your DRself, then open your eyes and see that you've shifted.

Part III - The Sleep Method

This is method 2/2 and is a sleep method. To do this method please go lie down on your bed, a couch, or wherever it is you plan to fall asleep and shift. Take some deep breaths and affirm a bit while you calm down. Then close your eyes and do a few more affirmations. It’s just about time to begin visualizing, and you can affirm if you’d like whenever you want during the method, but the only time you really should is towards the end and right before starting the method. 

With your eyes closed, visualize yourself (in first or third person, however is easiest for you) exactly as you are in your CR. Visiualize that you're in the room with the mirror, the one from the CR, but it looks bright in your mind's eye. Basically, visualize that the room is lit. Now visualize yourself approaching the mirror.

At the mirror you see your DRself (the one you've been seeing in step 1) and they mirror your actions. They look just like your mind remembers. Then, visualize the bathroom behind them. Visualize them reaching through the mirror slowly, affirming that you are them, and offering you their hand. Visualize that they ask if you are ready.

If you aren't ready allow your DRself to continue affirming that you are shifting to them. If you are ready then take their hand and try as hard as you can to visualize the entirety of that bathroom. Imagine them pulling you through and you fall into them, colliding and lying on the floor of your DR. Visualize yourself getting up and looking in the mirror. You see only your DR bathroom behind you in the mirror, and you are your DRself in the mirror.

Turning to the door of the bathroom, imagine that it attaches to your DR bedroom, and take a moment to visualize that and build it up in your mind’s eye. You are shifting, so it may take a second or two to fully become apparent, and even if you’ve only got a vague clue or a vibe of the bedroom it’ll be fine walk into. Visualize your DRself going to the bed in your DR bedroom and lying in it. Fall asleep in your DR bed repeating the line “I am shifting, I have shifted” or something like it until you fall asleep. When you wake up you will have shifted. 

Important Notes:

It is not guaranteed that you will shift with this method, as everyone is different - but the method and the reprogramming will at worst do nothing but familiarize your mind with the image of you as your DRself. 

If you have trouble visualizing, don’t worry, visualize whatever feels natural, and don’t linger too much on one spot or another. 

The second pic I did my CRself !!! ( Idk how much it actually looks like me but it’s accurate enough )

(or at the very least this is something I do that helps me in more ways than one)

Write love letters to yourself.

Personally, I write four. One to myself as myself, one to my DRself as myself (whoever I may be focusing on that day), one to DRself as my DRself, and one to myself as my DRself.

I try to do this at least twice a week. It has the benefits of:

Improving my self-esteem

Helping me see the good in myself

Get into 'character' as my DRself

Find the insecurities my DRself has and how they differ from mine

Feeling more grounded in general

Sometimes these turn into rants about my day and what what wrong and that's okay too! It gives me a moment to breathe and let everything else. I always end these on a positive note so as to center myself again.

The city rolled underneath the tires of Dane’s Road King. Old memories of men in battle and their deaths. He remembered the pyres built. He remembered it all. Over it was over a millennia ago and it was all still fresh in his memory. With a groan, he pulled the throttle and headed to meet with his employer.

“Dane, I own the soul. The head was a little gift for your buddy. They have the rest of it.” Ira had been in her office when Dane found her. “You can get the body if you want.”

“What’s the catch?” Dane knew there would be a catch. Demons rarely did anything out of the kindness of their hearts. They weren’t programmed that way.

“Get me the soul of their leader.” She flashed a grin and reached into her desk. “His soul would be a fair trade for the location of the demigod’s body, don’t you think.”

“Where do I have to go?” Dane held out his hand for the file. He had to hand it to the demons. They kept very organized records of the souls they own. As he opened the file, there was Baldo’s name. It had all of his stats as well as his soul purity. Dane never cared much for it. The whole concept was arbitrary to him. What did it matter how pure or unpure your soul was? 

He skipped down to the details on the death of the demigod and looked up at Ira. “Cannibals. Shapeshifting cannibals.” Ira gave a shrug. “And what happens if they already ate the body?”

“Not my problem. Bring me their leader.” Ira may have looked like a beautiful kind woman but beneath the skin, she was a festering wound of wrath. She had zero cares outside of her own needs and desires. “You do remember how to claim a soul, don’t you?”