Intro To The M-Shift:
Before going into the M-Shift, there are a handful of things you need to be warned of/aware of. First and foremost is that this decision will affect your life for ages to come. Once you do this, it will not go away. It's like a muscle... No matter how much you don't use it, or how thin it becomes, it will always be there. Similarly speaking, the more you work it the stronger it will become. The M-Shift is a PERMANENT decision, and will remain with you until the day you die (This is NOT an exaggeration. Take this seriously).
If you intend to say yes to this opportunity, realize that you will never think the same way or be the same person. Your thoughts will forever have a trace of this experience. It will change you... you will be different. Some of you might have done this already, and you might realize you aren't the same person you were a year ago or ten years ago. For some Therians, they do this at too young an age to understand; some of them regret it later. So if you are going to do this, do it wholeheartedly. Do not do it with a trace of doubt.
You will forever have a part of your mind be Avian, even if you do not follow through with the P-Shift, and it will set you apart from others. You might not connect as you used to, or put up a barrier between yourself and others. Many already recognize that simply growing wings will make them a different person, but even this stage of the process will make you different.
The M-Shift is a shift of the mind, and throughout this experience you will combine who you are today with all that you have the potential to be, and in this experience it will hold true to you whether or not this is who you were meant to be, or if this is merely one of the many wrong paths you might step down in your life. You may read this guide, but before delving into this world take this warning into account. Into The Mind: One of the very first things we must do in any sort of practice similar to this is go into the mind. Particularly for this experience, for the MENTAL-shift, we must evaluate our inner workings. Not only our conscious thoughts, but also our subconscious and more ultimately, who we actually are. It is import that you truly know why you are doing this, if it is for an escape from your parents or something childish, despite you potentially being a child, then please don't go through with this. Some of us just already know and can feel another world is on the edge of what society blocks us from seeing and know that this life wasn't meant for us, and so we forge our own paths. If this is you and you know what you want, then proceed.
Emotionally, you have to want this. You have to want it as though there is a tugging on your heart, a piece of you missing, part of you lacking. You have to feel freedom in your blood when you think of flight, and a feeling of peace when you imagine flight in itself.
Mentally, you have to accept yourself and what you are to become, completely, totally and utterly. You have to associate yourself as an Avian even before you have wings, and when you think of a label for yourself “Avian” should enter your mind far before “Human”. Wings should be a ghost that you glimpse in every thought, until it's a part of you.
Meditative Learning is when you delve into your being while you are conscious, through very very deep meditation. It is where you eliminate your words and open yourself truly up, allowing you to do a conscious examination of your subconscious mind. A very simple exercise for this is as follows:
Put your hands in your lap, take a deep breath, and focus on your heartbeat. Calm it and still it, and think about your essence. All the labels you have come up with, sentences to describe yourself, phrases…. Throw them away. All gone. Don't use words anymore. Now, who you are… Add in your subconscious mind. Your emotions, decisions, feelings that guide you. They have a touch to them, a tangled mass of color, like a ball of yarn. That ball of yarn is you.
Look at all the strands of yarn, the feelings, the currents that guide you. That is you.
- Another more detailed method of Meditative Learning:
Find a comfortable position, and close your eyes. Slowly unwind the tension in your body, starting at your toes, then working up your legs, your torso, your hands, your arms, your neck, and finally your face. Let the muscles relax and go utterly limp, allowing your mind to separate slightly from your body. Let your mind develop, ignoring any physical presence, focusing solely on your consciousness. Slowly erase words from your conscious thought, allowing rivers of feelings to take over your mind. Instead of words, think in their meaning. Allow it to swallow you whole, and remain calm as it takes you over. Open your mind, allowing for more than just your first layer of thought. Allow yourself to feel everything within your mind, let it wash over you. Every memory, every passing thought, every hope, every fear, every doubt, let it run over you. Understand yourself, and see/feel how very uniquely you you are.
Spiritually, you have to make yourself an Avian before you take it onto the Physical level. You have to let your thoughts run wild and take over your spirit, your astral body, and the ebb & flow of energy should take you completely, so that spiritually you already have wings.
Dream Walking is similar to that of lucid dreaming, but instead of taking complete control over your dreams you set them in a direction and let your subconscious take over, and allow the dream to spell out to you what you are on that level for your memory and analysis at a later date. Oftentimes for this portion, it helps to keep a dream journal. When you dream, your subconsciousness awakens and it floods your mind in layers, a deep entanglement of everything within your subconscious mind. If you can realize that you are dreaming, you can stand back and view it all objectively as it plays out.
While there are many methods to lucid dreaming, the core is very simple: realize you are dreaming. A common way of doing this, is by getting into the habit of doing periodic reality checks throughout the course of the day. Once this is habitual, you will also do it in your dreams, allowing you for the opportunity to realize that you are dreaming. This is going to be very delicate, because you have to step back and allow your subconscious to continue the dream without altering it too greatly. You can then analyze this part of yourself through the layers of your sleeping mind.
M-Shifting Methods:
Prep
Wouldn't it be great if you could just decide “Hey, I want to grow wings!” and have M-Shifted, and move on to the complicated stuff? But no, we have to go through all this first, before we can even really expect solid progress. Without solid, palpable evidence until later in the process, doubts are going to be common place. After the Into the Mind exercises, you will no doubt have questions about this and yourself. Get a notebook or a diary or just a piece of paper, and write out your questions. Seeing them on paper will make them all the more real, and you can then write your answers to each question. Each doubt. Each discovery.
Try constant visualization of your wings. They will press against your back, you will feel the feathers against your fabric, their weight hanging off of your shoulders, the rustle of them when you move. When you sit in the car, feel them against the seat rather than your back against the seat.
Write down affirmatives in the journal with your questions, simple things to remind you of who you are and to drill it into your mind. Write the name you identify with (not necessarily your birth name, maybe it's the one you use here, or maybe it's just a name you have inside you but you don't use). Do not go off of your physical characteristics, but who you are within yourself. If you are a guy but identify as a girl, write you are a girl, and visa versa. Write your basic things out, building to where you want to go. For example:
I am Alexandryne.
I am Alex.
I am a girl.
I am a Therian.
I am an Avian.
I have wings.
I will, and can, fly.
And do something like that every evening before you go to bed, allowing it to sink into your mind in your last few minutes of consciousness.
Find a place that can really be yours, completely private. Where one day, you could take off and fly from (it could be your roof at night, it could be the woods behind your house or a clearing out of the way), and make it a constant in your life. Go sit on that roof every night, or under that tree every afternoon. Make it something actively a part of you, and picture your wings as you sit there, spread them out behind you, and feel the strength and power within them. Meditate on a sped up version of the P-Shift. Focus on the shoulder blades changing, on muscles forming, on your wing-bones growing and growing and your skin stretching around your wings, on feathers pushing through the skin, and then the wings growing and growing until they are full sized.
Active M-Shifting
This is the portion of the shift that you will be doing continuously throughout the day until it is second nature to you. This is where you act as you would if you already had wings. So, while going about your daily life, you will need to be constantly aware of wings on your back.
This is easiest if you have phantom wings. Phantom wings are basically astral wings, but you feel them and are aware of them even if you aren't focusing on them, like an arm or a leg. After practicing your passive M-Shifting enough, these will be ever present and it will make this step much easier.
This will result in being careful while laying down or leaning against something, reorganizing your feathers every now and then, and paranoia. You will need to act as you would with wings; avoid things that might let someone know you have wings, such as letting them touch your back or see your bare back. While swimming, wear a shirt. While in a locker room, change in a bathroom stall (although ofc if you don't have wings yet, don't let it hinder your social life, just a habit when it's not interfering).
Initial Progress
The progress caused by this will not actually be physical progress. It will be psychological, only. You should not have wing bumps, you should not have anything that you can feel with your hands. That is the meaning of m-shifting. However, that doesn't mean there isn't real progress.
You will probably notice placebo-like progress; your back will ache and your head will hurt and you will probably be tired a lot of the time. While nothing will be different in your body, you are convincing yourself both consciously and subconsciously that you are growing and will grow wings. It's somewhat like hypnotizing yourself, so that once you've completed this P-Shifting will be that much easier.
Symptoms will include but are not limited to:
Pains in your back
Tiredness and fatigue
Itching between the shoulder blades
Headache
Tired eyes
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