#all shifting journeys r unique and valid

[lilshifting]

confession?? i only got into shifting so i could get smashed. like genuinely i jus wanted that, and that’s like totally normal bc?? super normal, and i still do, i just think it’s so funny to think of where i came from just not knowing anything and thinking i had to lay in starfish and everything silent and everything clean to just spinning a spinner charm and if it says i’ll shift tonight laying down and saying “ok i’m shifting” and falling asleep😭😭 and the way that’s gotten me closer than anything shocks me

[late-to-the-party-81]

Sweet-Cheeks

AN: Hi folks, this is a bit different to my normal fics. Firstly, it was written as a gift for a dear friend, who isn’t on Tumblr, and has already received their copy. Secondly, whilst I have written WLW fics before (and will again), in this story our reader is specifically a Trans!Woman. If this is something you don’t want to read, please walk on by now. If this is something you are against, please unfollow this blog.

Are you still here? Thanks! In this story our reader was AMAB but has only recently come to the realisation that she’s a woman, so she’s still at the relative beginning of her journey, both emotionally and physically. Every trans person’s experience is unique to them. Some are comfortable involving their birth genitalia in intimate situations, some are not, and both choices are valid. In this story our reader is comfortable, to a certain extent. That may be different at another time, but suffice to say her partner is accepting of her choices. I hope that you enjoy this story. I believe that every person has the right to representation in all forms of media.

Thank you to @midnightf and @mobbucky for beta-ing this fic, and a non Tumblr friend for performing a sensitivity check. Divider by the wonderful @firefly-graphics

Pairing: Nebula x Trans!Fem reader

Wordcount: approx 3k

Explicit content, minors DNI

CW: Mentions of dysphoria, mentions of torture (carried out on Nebula in the past), self-confidence issues, friends to lovers, breast worship cunnilingus and fingering, pussy job, one mention of the phrase ‘girl cock’, cuddles.

Find my master list here

Sweet-Cheeks

“Sonofa…piece of crappy…aaggghhhh…cheap hunk o’ junk!!!”

You smiled to yourself as you sauntered through to the engine room of the Benatar, which also doubled up as Rocket’s tinkering area.

“I am Groot?”

You heard the questioning note in the young tree being’s voice.

“Nooooo, you cannot help. What do you know about the intricacies of these sorts of things?”

“I am Groot!”

You heard Rocket sigh.

“Yeah, you’re right. Sorry, it was nice of you to offer and I am being a grump.”

You rounded the corner and found your small furry friend crouched in the middle of a pile of machine parts and wires that, to the untrained eye, looked like a pile of rubbish. To be honest, to your trained eye, it still looked like a pile of rubbish. Groot sat to the side, on top of a crate, earbuds pressed into divots in his bark covered head, tapping a long root covered foot against the metal, in time to some music he was listening to.

Rocket sifted through the pile in front of him until he lifted up a spanner with a triumphant shout.

“Ah-ha!”

It was then that he noticed you, smiling at him

“Here’s the help I need! Lovelace, get your butt over here and hold this.”

He pointed to two pieces and when you took hold of them he started to tighten a nut and bolt.

“So, R, what you doin’?”

“Aah, you know, nuthin’ special. A small bot for Quill’s birthday that can carry stuff around for him, shift things to and fro. Was wunderin’ if you’d help with the coding? Live up to your nickname?”

Letting go of the now secured pieces, you tossed your hair over your shoulder. It was really growing out now and it made you happy, the way the lush waves framed your face. You looked down at your nails, neat and tidy, despite all of the various physical work you were involved in, and picked a small speck of dirt out from under one.

“Tell you what, R, I’ll supervise Groot doing the coding, he needs the practice.”

You turned to the sentient tree.

“How’s that sound buddy? Wanna up your coding game?”

“I am Groot!”

The reply was full of excitement, an unusual thing for him, given the depths of teenaged moody-ness he seemed to be in most of the time.

“Alright, fine…he can help you Lovelace, but I tell ya’ if it’s not ready, and working properly, there’ll be hell to pay.”

You rolled your eyes at him, and moved over to one of the side tables, rummaging through the items on it until you found your diagnostic pad, the reason for your foray down here in the first place. Turning back around you teased your friend.

“Don’t give me all that. We all know your bark is worse than your bite.”

You reached out and gave him a scratch behind his right ear, making him sag against you briefly, before you skipped out, hearing him shout from behind you.

“That’s cheating, Lovelace! Cheating!!!!”

Your chuckle echoed down the metal hallway as you made your way back to your quarters.

“Neb? Nebbbbbbb! You here?”

As you walked through the door you shouted out to your bunk mate. Whilst you got on well with all the rest of the crew, it was with Nebula you felt most comfortable. She’d accepted you exactly as you were, understanding that a person’s exterior was never a true reflection of their inner self. You both had days where you disliked how you looked, but when that happened, you buoyed each other up with encouraging words and silly jokes. You could honestly say she was your best friend, and you were glad that you had each other.

However, despite all the strides she had taken in accepting herself, she couldn’t get away from the fact that the Mad Titan had altered her, disfiguring her with mechanical parts to make her stronger, turned her into a sentient weapon, sometimes as a ‘reward’ and sometimes as a ‘punishment’. This unfortunately meant she needed regular diagnostics of those parts. Initially, it had been Rocket who’d carried them out, but after Thor and Drax had rescued you from a backwater planet, where you’d been forced into using your skills to support an intergalactic mobster, you’d taken over the job.

“I’m here, Sweet-cheeks.”

You laughed at the nickname that only she used, given to you after a disastrous attempt with make-up, that she said left you looking like you had two gumba sweets stuck to your face. She sashayed across the small space from your shared bathroom, flopped down onto her bed, pulled up her skin tight purple top and opened the access panel on her abdomen.

You perched next to her legs, connecting up the diagnostic pad and running through the programme you had designed.

“Any strange feelings in the last month?”

You were intent on watching the read-outs, so you didn’t see the strange look that briefly passed over her face.

“Erm, no. Nothing out of the ordinary.”

You nodded and disconnected the wires before you motioned her to sit up. You rose up onto your knees and shuffled closer so you could take readings from her optical implant.

“No dizziness or blurred vision?”

Nebula sucked in a breath before answering.

“No, none at all…”

“Perfect then, as usual.”

She gave you a weak smile as you stowed the pad on top of the small bedside table. You brushed a lock of her blonde hair out of her eyes (a new addition she allowed herself, as part of her route to reclaiming her autonomy), before drawing her into a hug.

“What is it, Neb? You can talk to me, you know that.”

She lay down, pulling you with her, arms around each other, with you pulled in tight to the side of her tall, slim frame. You sighed lightly into her shoulder as she absent-mindedly stroked your hair.

“We’re friends, aren’t we Sweet-cheeks?”

“Of course we are! Why would you question it?”

“It…it’s just that…I’ve never had a friend before. Every time Gamora and I got close Thanos would find some way of driving a wedge between us again. And then, just as she and I were really connecting Voromir happened. And I know I sort of still have her, but it’s not the ‘her’ that I started to feel a connection with.”

You hugged her tighter.

“Oh no, Nebs, it could still come. I’m sure you will get your sister back.”

“I hope so. But, you’re still, really, my only friend, the only person I’m close to.”

She pulled in a few deep breaths.

“…And…that’s why I’m scared…”

You moved slightly, to lie on your side and prop yourself up on your elbow, so you could look at her.

“Why are you scared? You can tell me…honestly.”

Suddenly, she pushed up from the bed, away from you, and started pacing.

“All these stupid feelings. Make me pathetic, make me weak.”

Reaching out, from where you were knelt watching her inner turmoil, you grabbed her hand as she neared you, halting her progress.

“Neb, we’ve talked about this, feelings don’t make you weak and pathetic. That’s your trauma lying to you.”

“But what if I’m wrong? What if I ruin everything?”

You were sure you had missed something, you were so confused.

“What are you going to ruin? You’ve lost me.”

She rushed you then, caging you in with her arms against the wall and her knees on the bed in front of you.

“No, I can’t lose you, but I…fuck!”

Nebula took you by surprise as she pressed her lips to yours, in a quick, and nervous, kiss. Realisation hit you. This beautiful woman, your friend, this tortured soul. You loved her.

Fuck! You loved her!

You already did your utmost to make her smile every day. Told her how beautiful, how worthy she was. You loved the way she did the same to you. There was no one else you’d rather spend your time with.

You looked back at her, searching her face, and the expression that met you was one of worry.

“Fuck… I shouldn’t have done that, I…”

You pressed your finger to her lips to quiet her.

“Shhhhh. You absolutely should have.”

Before you could overthink it, you wound your arms around her neck and pulled her back in, kissing her this time. In return, her arms wrapped around your back and bore you to the mattress, her tongue demanding entrance to your mouth, her legs straddling yours.

You were no shy and retiring virgin, by any stretch of the imagination, but this was your first time of any meaningful intimacy since you had opened up to yourself and began living your life as the true you, so you took time to just experience what was currently happening. The soft urgent-ness of her lips, the firm grip of her arms, the weight of her body atop your hips. The smell of her soap and her own unique scent, the sound of her soft moans and sighs amongst the wet smacking of your lips against each other.

Her hair tickled your cheek and you could feel her heart beating against yours where your rib cages touched. Her breasts were pressed to yours and you were thankful that she wasn’t wearing her leather top today, so you could feel them better as they brushed back and forth. The movement made your nipples peak within your own top, frissons of pleasure darting down between your legs.

More moans sounded in the relative quiet of the room, and you realised they were your own. How long had you wanted this? This yearning buried deep within yourself. You had been worried, the same as her, unwilling to make the first move in case it spoiled what you already had. But, now in this moment, if you never had anything more than kissing her like this you would be happy. The way she was making you feel was better than any fantasy you’d ever allowed yourself.

When she pulled back from your lips, you chased hers, needy and whining at the loss. She chuckled in response before kissing her way down your jaw and onto your neck, sucking lightly at your pulse point, which caused you to gasp and arch up towards her. Your arms moved of their own accord to skim down her body, slim and womanly, to settle briefly on her hips, before sliding up under her top, to press your hands to the warm skin of her back. You wanted, no needed, to feel more of her.

“Neb…..”

Your spiralling feelings pulled her name from your lips with a reedy cry.

“I’ve got you, Sweet-cheeks. I’ve got you…..”

She moved to sit up, still straddling you, and you helped each other remove your tops. She was bare under hers and the glow from the lamp highlighted the contours of her bared body; her perfectly formed breasts, her toned abs, as well as the implants forced upon her by her ‘father’. She was beautiful, and you felt ugly compared to her. You didn’t even realise you had wrapped your arms around yourself, protecting yourself from her gaze, until she tutted, took hold of your wrists and gently pulled them away.

You risked looking up at her face and had difficulty comprehending the emotions you saw there.

Hunger. Desire. Lust.

Your breath hitched, causing your chest to jerk up and drawing attention to your small breasts, encased within a black bralette.

“Don’t hide yourself, princess. Not from me. Never from me.”

She pressed a gentle kiss to your collarbone, trailing across the top of your chest until she reached the other side, before pulling at the lace over your shoulder with her teeth and letting it snap back. Her fingers skimmed up under the fabric, pushing it up and off over your head. Her warm lips made a path down the centre of your chest, over your sternum and her hands rested on the mattress either side of you.

“Please, can I kiss you? Can I make you feel good?”

Unable to speak, all you could do was nod at her, and in a flash she had captured your right nipple in her mouth and was gently rolling the left between her fingers. You arched your back into her touch and a cry of pleasure left your lips as your fingers sought her hair of their own volition, holding her to you. Your nipples were so much more sensitive now, although you had always enjoyed them being played with. You could feel her smile around your soft flesh before she pulled off with an obscene ‘pop’ and swapped her attention to the other side.

When she pulled off again you dragged her slightly up your body so you could latch on to one of her breasts. Her skin was delicious, her scent intoxicating. Your hands roamed her skin, feeling every bare inch, but it still wasn’t enough. Taking her by surprise you flipped the pair of you, pulling down her tight trousers and underwear, baring her to your gaze. She was as exotic and alluring as you’d imagined and you couldn’t hide the excitement in your eyes as you carefully pulled her apart with your thumbs and dipped in with the tip of your tongue to taste her.

The way she shuddered and whined under your touch made your own arousal that much stronger. You licked again, a broad stripe from her hole to her clit and she cried out loudly.

“Fuck, ‘so good, princess!”

Emboldened by her praise you hooked her legs over your shoulders and moved in closer. You lavished attention to her pussy, licked and sucked on every fold, before you latched onto her clit. Her hips bucked up, pushing her core against your face, so you placed your hands on her to hold her steady. You cast your eyes up, observing her reactions, the way her body, glistening with a sheen of sweat, writhed under your touch. Her hair was a messy halo on the pillow, as she palmed one of her own breasts with one hand and gripped the sheet with the other.

She was glorious, even more so when you pressed your first two fingers inside her. You twisted and turned them, learning the feel of her, which movements made her moan in pleasure. Then you found it. Your crooked fingers pressed against that spongy spot, making her wail incoherently. You doubled-down then, losing yourself in her softness, her wetness, her smell. You licked and sucked at her, stroked her insides until her thighs tightened against your head and you tasted her cum on your tongue. You slowly withdrew your fingers and lapped gently at her, as she came down from her high. As she relaxed into the mattress she tugged at you, pulling you off her pussy and dragging you up her body.

She kissed you deeply, moaning as she tasted herself on your tongue.

“I’ve got to touch you some more, Sweet-cheeks. Is that okay?”

“Very okay, Neb.”

You let her turn the pair of you back over, and she pulled down your trousers and underwear. It took all of your self-control not to try and cover yourself, to push all your insecurities to the back of your mind. You were hard and throbbing between your legs, so aroused by her that you wanted her to see. When you looked up at her face you were met with her coy smile. She brushed a thumb over your tip, smearing the sticky fluid she found there across your sensitive flesh, making you shiver.

She straddled your body again, sitting over your hips so her warm, wet core covered you, pressed down onto you. It felt so unbelievably good. She took hold of your hands and placed them onto her hips.

“So, I’m going to sit up here and rub off on your girl-cock. I’m going to make you cum and that’s going to make me cum. Okay?”

You responded with a whimper as she ground her hips down on you and began to rock back and forth. Your fingers tightened their grip as you helped to guide her, her slick mixing with yours to ease the glide. You were so on edge and she felt amazing, sat as she was on top of you. Her hands came to rest upon your chest, playing with your nipples again.

“You going to use me to get yourself off, lover?”

“Yes…” The confirmation was pulled from you, your eyes fluttering closed as you revelled in the sensations, her pussy leaking over you, the delicious friction her movements caused, all heightened by pinched pleasure darting from your chest. She was so completely wonderful. You turned yourself over to the pleasure, just letting yourself feel, just…experience.

“That’s it… that’s it! Take what you want Sweet-cheeks… such a good girl for me… making me feel so good, baby… you going to cum?...Going to make me cum?...Fuck… I’m close, so close, princess…”

She shuddered and whimpered above you as her second orgasm wracked her body, the bucking of her hips sending you over the edge and you came with a dizzying shout.

You were aware of Nebula collapsing down onto you, her weight pleasant and reassuring, her breasts pressed to yours and her head buried in your neck. Her fingers found your hair and stroked through the strands. You floated for a while in the post-orgasmic haze, just enjoying being with her like this. When she finally disentangled herself and made her way to the bathroom you shivered from both the loss of her closeness as well as the warmth her body had provided. She returned quickly though, damp washcloth in hand, wiping you down.

When she didn’t immediately get back into the bed you were concerned, but it only lasted a moment as she took hold of the edge of your bed and pulled it across the room towards hers where you lay. You laughed, jumping up to help her and moving the small side table out of the way, so she could push both your beds together. You grabbed a couple of spare towels and shoved them into the space between the two mattresses. You could both sort out something better at the next stop at a major space port, but it would do for now.

You both flopped down onto your new, combined bed and smiled at each other. She drew you into the circle of her arms, her forehead pressed to yours, gazing into your eyes.

“I love you Sweet-Cheeks.”

“Love you too, Neb.”

[shifting-lark]

wait so have u never actually shifted?? y r u giving shifting advice to people if you don’t even know you can do it

TW: Kinda negativity? Idk people questioning the “validity” of my blog ??? (idk if this even needs a warning but just in case)

Hello anon!

I have it listed in my pinned but if anyone didn’t know: nope! I haven’t fully shifted yet! I have mini-shifted once (post here) but other than that, I am still practicing shifting!

I do want to make it clear: I never claim to be an expert on shifting and I always give my personal advice, based on my own research and understanding!

If anyone feels this is a negative or doesn’t want to follow me or “trust” my advice anymore, by all means you can unfollow!! (I don’t mind /gen)

But again, I just give my support and my opinions and try to remind people that everyone’s shifting journey is unique so they may experience something different than I would

Have a good day friends!! 💕

[scrollofthoth]

So it begins...

Emergent Animism: Exploring a Spirit Haunted World

By Threskiornis

Foreword

“Magick is, if anything, extradimensional diplomacy.”

– Gordon White, Pieces of Eight: Chaos Magic Essays and Enchantments

Magi throughout the ages have defined themselves through their relationships with spiritual entities. Call them what you want. Their names are legion. Gods, angels, demons, djinn, elementals, faeries, ghosts, specters – the names and classifications vary from age to age and place to place. Every land and every culture has had contact with creatures that were in some way more than just material being. The nature of these beings often reflects that of the culture which discovered them, but they also have surprising commonalities no matter their origin. Even today people report contact with a multitude of cryptids and aliens. A Devil stalks New Jersey. A monster swims in Loch Ness. Bigfoot roams the Pacific Northwest, and Yeti in the Himalayas. Mothmen, Dogmen, and Lizardmen continue to be sighted all around the United States, and the world.

Some magi approach these beings for personal gain. Others simply want to communicate with and understand beings that exist beyond our knowledge of space and time. They can be approached with reverence, awe, and worship. Although most magi see themselves as equals. They can be approached with the intent to cajole, threaten, and command. Though I hope to convince you that a bully that attacks spirits is still just a bully.

To be certain, a magus can be successful without ever communicating with a spiritual entity. There exists plenty of valid magical paradigms that eschew dealing with spirits and concentrate on more abstract ideas. But if you’re like me, you thrive on the interchange with things that communicate and think. You need something more than just an idea to contemplate, but something that wants to engage with you just as much as you want to engage with them.

In our last book, Emergent Magick, some felt that we failed to deliver on the goods. It was never meant to be a how-to of spells and formulae. We insist that each magus find their own way. I’m afraid some of you may be disappointed again. This is a book on animism, not shamanism. And it defines animism in the broadest sense – communicating with spirits. There will be discussion of shamanistic techniques. This book will talk about communicating with the spirits of trees, animals, mountains, and rivers. But it contains much more than that. It’s an all-encompassing paradigm that gives a magus the tools to approach any spiritual entity.

It must also be stressed, and will be repeated, that Emergent Animism is just one Emergent Magick paradigm. It is not the “official” Emergent Magick paradigm. In fact, the contents of this book are in no way required to practice Emergent Magick. What it does provide is an excellent example of a classical magical belief system explored through the process of Emergent Magick. Even if your own personal magick doesn’t focus on spirit contact, Emergent Animism will give plenty of insights on how to use the Emergent Magick process in your own work.

Let’s get started. The spirits are waiting.

 Threskiornis, 16670, “Ego Sum Legio”

Scribe of the Order of Emergent Magi

11/20/2019

 Introduction

 As much as I would like to avoid it, I feel I must first define Emergent Magick (EMK). If you enjoy this publication, I recommend picking up, Emergent Magick: Rebuilding Our Tribes Through Ritual and Meaning. It really needs an entire book to get the concept across.

EMK defines magick as, “The art of altering consciousness.” In essence, the universe itself is created and directed by consciousness, and magick is a way to influence that consciousness. Consciousness itself lacks universally accepted definition. For our purposes it includes any sufficiently complex system that can perceive. If you accept that sub-atomic systems are sufficiently complex, and quantum theory proves that particles have some form of perception (in that they will act as individual particles or as a wave, depending on if they are being watched), this includes everything in the universe to a greater or lesser degree. Art, the activity of creation, influences consciousness. Ritual is the art of the magus, and it is specifically designed to alter consciousness.

In Emergent Magick, a magus performs rituals with the purpose of creating altered states of consciousness. The magus then takes what they learn from those rituals to build an ever more concise paradigm, essentially a model for the universe and a method to alter it. While a magus can certainly learn from the magi who came before them, it is what they learn through altered states of consciousness that best informs their magick. What a magus learns through altered states has more weight than anything they can learn by other means.

The ultimate goal of the magus is to perceive the unity of consciousness. To interact with it as part of a larger whole. This manifests in the physical plane by forming tribes of magi and working with them to experience their paradigm, form bonds of love and acceptance, and to influence the collective unconscious through the creation of culture.

At least that’s the short form description of Emergent Magick. Which finally brings us back to Emergent Animism (EMAN).  

 Emergent Animism is the art of communicating with the spirits.

 At least that’s the one-sentence vital core of it. Some old-school magi like to have things summed up in a sentence or two (and I am one of those magi). Why Emergent? First, because I am one of the creators of Emergent Magick and it is how I currently define my practice. Since Emergent Animism is my personal paradigm, it comes from an EMK perspective. Because the methods used to explore and define the paradigm are the methods of EMK. Personal experience takes precedent over accepted knowledge (though you should still be doing research). Those experiences are then shared with my personal tribe and their experiences added to the body of knowledge. You may notice the shifting tense there, because this is work that has been performed and is ongoing.

Which brings us to animism. Much smarter people with better sources have described animism. And I really want to just tell people to go read Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, by Mircea Eliade and Willard R. Trask, and then come back and continue reading this. But I understand that’s not a realistic expectation, so I’m going to give you my woefully inadequate description. Animism has been called the world’s first religion, and from the archaeological evidence and current anthropology there is little reason to doubt that all hunter-gatherers practiced some form of animism. Animism as a world view, sees the universe as populated with spirits. In animism, all things have some vital essence that can be communicated with, from spirits of rivers, mountains, and lakes, to trees, rocks, and clouds, also the spirits of humans, animals, insects, and the spirits of those living creatures that have died. Some animists also believe in alien spirits that come from other dimensions of reality. The practice of animism is the communication with these spirits through some form of altered state of consciousness. This can be ritual, dance, music, meditation, and the use of psychoactive substances. Shamanism is a particular type of animism where individuals of a tribe use altered states of consciousness to contact the spirit realm, referred to as journeying, and petitions the spirits for the benefit of the shaman and their tribe. I do not consider myself a shaman because I do not belong to an indigenous culture with a shamanistic tradition. I do, however, use many of the tools of shamanism in my practice.

In Emergent Animism, spirit is synonymous with consciousness. So, the art of magick in EMAN terms is the art of communicating with the spirits. Which entails all forms of conversations, pacts, offerings, and all the other traditional and non-traditional methods of contacting them. Although the goal of realizing a universal consciousness remains, perceiving a fragmented consciousness is the best humans can do in most circumstances. EMAN theorizes that working with beings made of pure consciousness will bring us closer to that goal.

Know right off the bat that I don’t think anyone should try to pick this up whole-cloth and use it as their own. All magi must ultimately discover their own paradigm and follow that. But I do know it has been helpful for me as a magus to read about other people’s magical perspective. To see what works for them and learn from it. I find the magical world to be sorely lacking in resources that describe exactly what magi are doing. There’s plenty of description of rituals and theory, but little of what a magus actually does on a day-to-day basis. I hope I can add a unique perspective and inspire some people to try these practices themselves. I say, “don’t follow my path,” but do feel free to steal anything that can work for you.

In Emergent Magick: Rebuilding Our Tribes Through Ritual and Meaning, there was some brief discussion of the Models of Magick. The Models of Magick are essentially different theories on how magick works. These include: Spirit Model, Energy Model, Psychological Model, and Meta-model. The Spirit Model is essentially synonymous with our definition of animism, in that all magick works through the agency of some spiritual being. The Energy Model posits that all magick works by manipulating certain energies. The Psychological Model sums up magick as a means to influence your own conscious and subconscious mind to make changes through yourself. The Information Model is somewhat similar to EMKs belief that consciousness creates the universe, and that consciousness is simply information. The Meta-model encompasses all other models and instructs the magus to use whichever model they find most useful at the time. Most magi follow a nuanced form of the Meta-model, since no one model can fully explain all forms of magick.

At first glance, EMAN seems firmly entrenched in the Spirit Model. You will notice that this book generally takes that perspective, and sees spirits as actual, fully-realized, entities in their own right. This doesn’t mean that EMAN can’t be effective within other models of magick. Perhaps you see spirits as just another form of energy. Maybe for you, the spirits are a reflection of your own subconscious. In the end, it doesn’t matter, as long as your magick is working for you.

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Audience funnelling is a way to introduce what you do via someone else’s audience.

The larger the audience you get in front of the higher the potential for audience ‘funnelling’.

Up until 2009, the primary channels for audience funnelling were events, TV interviews or newspaper editorials. Broad awareness with a broad mass of people. This incentivised companies to make generic products that suited generic people.

That era is over.

Now you can get in front of smaller digital groups that represent narrow bands of engagement and beliefs. If you make something worth sharing, these smaller groups are the ones you want to get in front of.

While not as glamorous as broad awareness, I would suggest they are more effective at audience funnelling because of how digital works.

There are conditions for success. Not all audiences are interested in what you do.

Audience Funnelling Summary TL:DR

There are three ways that New Zealand Made licence holders can effectively ‘audience funnel’ our smaller digital group of 25,000 NZ Made fans.

Unboxing Kiwi is ideal for new businesses without an audience. (no fee for licence holders)

A Kiwi Original is recommend if you have a uniquely Kiwi story and are contributing to New Zealand’s future. (no fee for licence holders)

Making It New Zealand is for businesses that have a fascinating making process that they haven’t shared with Kiwis. (fee for licence holders)

1. Audience Funnelling through giving away products

Giveaway your product on Unboxing Kiwi

Giving away a product that you make in New Zealand to New Zealand Made fans is the easiest way to get people who have a high affinity with New Zealand to tell the others about what they’ve discovered.

Here’s the domino effect of giving away your product to a New Zealand Made fan.

Explaining your product

Your product is unboxed on Unboxing Kiwi and explained using the collateral in the box.

What happens next

2. NZ Made fans are given the opportunity to win by describing a problem your product solves that’s relevant to them.

3. More NZ Made fans read the comments of fellow NZ Made fans and consider whether it is suitable for them.

Educated on your product

4. Some NZ Made fans decide it is suitable and go ahead and buy your product.

5. More NZ Made fans decide to enter the competition.

The result

Having educated many of the NZ Made audience about the problem your product solves, these people can now engage in conversation with non NZ Made fans.

You get the opportunity to both funnel NZ Made fans across to your digital assets and the opportunity to make ecommerce sales.

Customer Example

Block Dock solves the problem created by people shifting away from plastic shampoo and soap bottles for their shower or bath. As soon as you go to a bar of soap, you need a holder. Most of those holders aren’t as effective as they could be at preserving the integrity of the soap, or they create a puddle of soap and water in the tray. Not ideal.

So Block Dock sent in three of their products to be presented on Unboxing Kiwi and we published the video on our Facebook page.

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We asked fans to comment about why they need a Block Dock for their bathroom. Here’s what they said.

These comments helped the algorithm to introduce Block Dock to more NZ Made fans along with some paid ad spend from NZ Made.

The audience funnelling benefits of unboxing products

What business benefits the most from Unboxing Kiwi?

New businesses who are solving a problem in an entirely new way benefit the most.

Secondly new businesses also tend to have more product inventory than marketing ad spend so giving away product is more cash effective than paying for a marketing campaign.

Thirdly, new businesses don’t have a ready made audience so can benefit significantly from audience funnelling from an existing established source.

Finally, any businesses benefits by having a third party tell their story to their fans because the feedback in the comments reveals ways your product might solve a problem that you hadn’t considered before. It’s easy to become too close to your product in business and seeing an audience discuss the problem and solutions in your industry can be illuminating.

2. Audience Funnelling through an NZ Made interview

Tell your story on A Kiwi Original

Kiwis love hearing stories of what fellow Kiwis have been doing. By sharing your story with them, you become relatable. You begin to build a story bridge between your world and their world with the commonality being you are both living in New Zealand.

If you live in regional New Zealand, audience funnelling via an interview can be highly effective.

Here’s the domino effect of sharing your uniquely Kiwi story with New Zealand Made fans.

You get the time and space to tell your origin story. This is the genesis of you, your products and your business.

The story shares the full narrative including all the ups and downs which has a more engaging tone so connects better than simply the success story at the end.

You talk about the problem your product solves so those NZ Made fans that have the same problem will see your product as a solution to it.

Again you will have the opportunity to funnel NZ Made fans across to your digital assets and introduce what you do via a third party — which can be more effective than telling your story directly.

Customer Example — A Kiwi Original — Carac Group

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The NZ Made audience who watches you share your story love to share their favourite parts or congratulate you on what you’ve created. Business isn’t easy so a little external validation and celebrating the journey of business is a good thing.

The audience funnelling benefits of being interviewed

What business benefits the most from being interviewed on A Kiwi Original?

Businesses with a unique Kiwi story will benefit most from sharing their origin story. An interview creates an emotive link with why you do what you do. It’s real and because it is told in long form, you can share the whole story not just the highlights.

Businesses that are contributing to New Zealand’s future can engage with New Zealand Made fans who also care about the country.

Being interviewed enables you to access key moments of the history of your business through the questions that have sparked curiosity in the interviewers mind.

If a business owner hasn’t been interviewed on broadcast media and wants to get better in that area, choosing an interview in front of a friendly audience such as NZ Made fans can be a good first step.

Lastly, getting an interview effectively produced and distributed has a lot of moving parts. This can be difficult to produce yourself without the help of an external agency. For businesses that aren’t ready to take that step yet, being interviewed by NZ Made can help as all the production is taken care of.

3. Audience Funnelling through a mini-documentary

What are the benefits of getting featured on the Making It New Zealand series?

Sometimes showing your product or talking about your product isn’t enough. You need to be able show what you make, how you make it and that is best achieved by recording what goes on at your manufacturing premises.

Kiwis love to see how things are made and where you’re making them all around New Zealand.

Here’s the domino effect of sharing your making process with NZ Made fans.

Showing your making process

Showing your making process shows the complexity and level of detail you go to in making your products.

It gives you an opportunity to make it clear that what you make in New Zealand is different from the imported version.

What happens next

3. NZ Made fans get to see your video across all our newsfeeds.

4. We also share it on LinkedIn where your products are purchased by businesses.

Inspired by what you make

5. NZ Made fans tend to share these episodes widely because in many cases its the first time that cameras have been allowed into the manufacturing facility. You can expect 5–15,000 views by NZ Made fans.

The result

Having shared your making process with the NZ Made audience, you have created ‘NZ Made champions’ who can visualise what you make and where you make it.

You also get the opportunity to share what you make with your own customers, suppliers and partners.

Customer Example — Aerofast Tiedowns Making It New Zealand

Aerofast Tiedowns make strops for anyone who needs to tiedown a load. They are tested to breaking points beyond imported versions. They innovate on solving the weakest link on tiedowns.

They also take a great deal of pride in a clean and presentable manufacturing environment.

While you may be aware of their products, you wouldn’t know of all the R&D that goes on in the Christchurch factory until you watch the episode.

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Summary on Audience Funnelling NZ Made fans

Audience funnelling works best when you know there are shared interests between the two groups.

Promoting New Zealand Made goods or businesses to New Zealanders is an obvious fit.

If you are not making a product in New Zealand, the concept of audience funnelling still works, but you will need to find different digital groups to share what you do with them.

Don’t forget broadcast media. The validation that comes from ‘being picked’ for broadcast has a trust halo effect on your brand. Combine that with appearing in front of smaller digital groups that have shared interests with you and you’ve got yourself a winning formula.

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We created a link-sharing platform as a solution to an issue that we continuously came up against while running social media campaigns for the clients of our digital agency. The issue was, quite simply, that Instagram only allowed one link in a users profile. We commissioned a developer to build us a prototype of the solution we had in mind and thus, the first iteration of Linktree was born. We started using it just among family, friends and the clients we were working with at the time. It’s safe to say that our first three users would have been agency clients and perhaps a family member or two.How did you validate the idea?One of the incredible things about Linktree has been its organic growth. We created a solution to a problem that we thought was unique to us; but it turns out millions of other people had the same problem. One of the key moments of validation for us, was early on, when the platform was uploaded to Product Hunt. From that point the number of users signing up jumped astronomically, with people like Alicia Keys jumping on board. That’s when we really knew that we were onto something.Who is your target demographic?When we started out, three years ago, it would have been fair to say that our target audience was Instagram users, but in the last 24 months that’s shifted significantly. 40 percent of our users come from outside of Instagram, using the platform across social platforms like YouTube and Twitch and even in place of the likes of website tools Squarespace or Wix.Instead of building out Linktree with products that suit how we think it should be used, we really try and listen to what users are actually doing with the platform and developing products that are genuinely useful. It takes us in some surprising directions – like Linktree being used in place of websites or resumes – but ultimately helps us to meet the needs of our users.Any tips for finding first employees?After launching in 2016 we grew quickly. One of the key learnings was the importance of hiring quickly, but also of hiring right. When you’re in desperate need of those extra hands, it can be easy to jump at the first opportunity to hire but we’ve learned how important it is to slow down and be considered. It’s crucial that the people you hire truly align to the culture and ethics of the business you are trying to build.As a result, I’m super proud of the team we’ve grown here – they are curious, brave and vocal, and we’ve achieved some incredible work.What motivates you when things go wrong? What is the end goal?We have more than 3 million users across the world who use Linktree for all different reasons – the might be celebrities or major brands, but they might also be smaller businesses or individuals running their Etsy account. We’re very conscious that we are helping people to connect and do business – in whatever form – on the internet, and we take that responsibility very seriously.Quite simply, our end goal is to simplify the internet and to make it easier for side-hustlers, creators and entrepreneurs to share more, sell more, curate more and grow more.Do you have any advice for someone just starting out?Don’t wait, just start now. And build for scale. There’s no way we could have anticipated the scale at which Linktree has grown over the last three years, but it’s something that we always wish we had been more prepared for.What apps do you use to run your business?Zoom, Slack & Google Docs are critical for our teams spread across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, LA and London. In fact, when we first started Linktree, we used to receive a Slack notification for every new user. It’s not possible anymore (given we have over 10,000 new sign ups everyday) but their integrations have been a tremendous help with our customer support and marketing.We strive for agility across the company and having all teams on Confluence makes decision-making collaborative and transparent. Metabase has also been invaluable in terms of helping us to dig into our data and understand our user behaviour. It helps us to align any new features with messaging and to see what leads to conversion for our users.Would you ever sell the company?Linktree has been our passion project for three years now. We started the company as a side-hustle and have now grown the business to a point where it’s a key focus. It’s been an incredibly exciting journey. We might be at 3 million users but we still feel like we’re only just getting started.If you enjoyed this interview, the original is here.

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#TGTfeature 010: Kālī [FatKidOnFire; Infernal Sounds: Denver, Colorado, USA] Stepping even deeper into the depths of dubstep following Radikal Guru, #TGTfeature 010 is with Denver’s own Kālī ! She’s playing this Thursday at The Black Box along with Juss B. This and forthcoming #TGTfeature articles will highlight dedicated musical talents by featuring their recent work as well as an in-depth interview. After years spent hustling within the bass scene as DJ, promoter, and writer, Kālī is rapidly creating a name for herself due to her unique production style. We chatted about what brought her to Denver, her musical evolution and current studio mindset, as well as her namesake. A bit about Kālī: - Part of the burgeoning Colorado dubstep scene, known for her forward-thinking selections and tight mixing skills - Her remixes have been quickly snapped up by tastemaking labels FatKidOnFire and Infernal Sounds - Recently dropped full-length mixes for Sub FM, Elemental Arts, and Radar Radio

TGT: I grew up in Denver, so coming back here was a family decision for me and I didn’t really realize how crucial Denver was in America’s bass scene in the broader sense… but you moved here primarily for the music, right? Kālī: A solid mix between the music scene out here and starting a new chapter with Zach (Mesck) in a place that’s more aligned with how we like to live and the environment that we like to be around. In terms of music, there’s actually something happening here. I was living in Santa Barbara for five or six years and there was really no dubstep scene at all. It would be rare to find people that would be interested in dubstep, and when you’d make that connection it would just be like ‘oh my God, that’s amazing,’ but then there’s nothing to do with it. I still loved it, it kept getting deeper and deeper, but there was nowhere to play shows, no one for me to connect with – it’s just super stagnant. I’ve been DJing for, come this summer it’ll be seven years, I never could really put it anywhere and I couldn’t really share that with people – there was no community. The more I’ve gotten into it, like gotten serious with it, making music and wanting to dedicate time and energy and push myself in that direction, it became really apparent just how you need a community and you need those opportunities to play shows and have people hear you play and have people hear your music. And me coming from a long DJing background, it’s just as important to show people that you’re good at DJing – have sets that are a journey – know how to blend things, and lace everything together. I wanted that chance to play shows, it was that simple. And you want other people to validate your music as well. So to move from California to Denver, it was a decision between me and Zach – who’s my boyfriend – he’s in a place with his music, having lived in LA for so long, he was getting sick of it. The scene in LA, there were so opportunities, there were so many parties, but over the last few years, it’s definitely dwindled. And so we were both in a situation, in our own separate cities, our own lack of a dubstep community – at these pivotal places in our lives both separately and as a couple: me just starting to really get into producing, him wanting to have more time to dedicate, and just being in a community for both of us was really important. Above all else both of us wanting to start a new chapter together and build something in a place that was intentionally thought out: Denver, dubstep, The Black Box. We’d be going online, looking for houses, and we’d find a place we’d like and look at the address and we’d type The Black Box in on Google Maps before anything else!

TGT: Has Denver been what you’ve thought it would be? Kālī: Yeah! It’s really early to say, we’re still getting a rhythm, but so far so good. Coming from a scene, wishing I could play shows… Zach and I were in the U-Haul driving from Arizona to Utah to here, and I’m randomly talking to Nicole [Cacciavillano; sub.mission & The Black Box] while we’re in a hotel in Utah, just through Facebook, and she asks if we want to play that Youngsta show back-to-back, and it's like, I’m not even in the city and I’m already being asked to play and already being accepted and getting validated: it’s just really refreshing. I feel like as long as you’re passionate and have good intentions, and you’re doing things for the right reasons, people will pick up on that and they’ll want to support you – that’s the thing with Denver it seems that everyone just wants to support each other as long as they see that you have good intentions. I feel like that’s a big part of this new resurgence: people are not afraid to do crazy shit that years ago wouldn’t really be considered dubstep, but people are just down to be creative in the craziest ways. As long as it’s sick – and maybe you’ve never heard it before and you don’t why it’s sick – and it’s just like the weirdest, coolest thing you’ve ever heard but you’ve never heard anything like it… you’ll support it. People are just so supportive and open as long as there’s talent and passion. TGT: Your last few remixes kind of fit into that template: it is dubstep tempo-wise –– Kālī: tempo and bass –– but it’s not dubstep in that very traditional sparse sound… Kālī: Or like mid-range, or certain signature things… and I definitely trip myself out, because I’m still kind of new at producing and so I’m still trying to find my sound and figure out what works, what I like, what I don’t like. Sometimes I find myself wanting to make something “more dubstep” and then it’s not as detailed or developed as my other thoughts, and that’s because I’m not letting myself do my own things. And then I’ll just sit down and not have any preconceptions in my head and I’ll make something ten times cooler because I’m not putting this pressure. It can be so many things, it leaves so much for interpretation of what actually is. And that’s what I love about the sound, there’s so much room for interpretation and so many different sounds you could play. At the start of it, dubstep didn’t sound like anything else, so that was all new and refreshing, and now there’s a new and refreshing take on a genre that’s so different from any other: it just keeps pushing its limits and pushing its limits, just shape-shifting in so many ways. I think that’s really amazing, it encourages so much self-expression. The more well-received it is, the more people are just encouraged to be weird and themselves. As different and as crazy as people get with it, no one ever loses sight of the fact that it’s soundsystem music. If you don’t have sub bass, and it’s not 140, you don’t have dubstep. But everything else, do whatever the fuck you want, put in a million high hats: I don’t care, it doesn’t matter! To have that just be the only qualification, and then you can just go and run with it in any direction that speaks to you and you want to hear as an artist and put out there, it just leaves so much opportunity. Sub bass for the soundsystem, 140 just because that’s dubstep, and everything else: be you, do you, be creative. What do you want to hear, what do you think is sick… yeah, it’s cool in that way.

TGT: For your “Misdemeanor” remix, what were your goals for the track and how did that come together creatively? Kālī: I was actually doing a radio show, talking to Ashley Roth – Siren – about this last night. It literally just came out of the fact that I think Missy Elliot is so sick, and I was going down this weird rabbit hole of Youtube videos of like 90s hiphop and R&B at Zach’s house in LA, and then I stumbled upon that song. Then on the train back home, from LA to Santa Barbara, I started it, and it just started coming together. That song, I’m still getting my bearings producing-wise, but there’re definitely moments where a song I’m making just shoots things to the next level for me, ten steps ahead of anything I’ve made previously. “Misdemeanor” was the first song in my whole production journey that that happened to me… TGT: It’s got that magic to it! Kālī: Yeah, whatever it is. And it came together so quickly! You sit down, and hours later you have something and you don’t even remember what you did to get there. For whatever reason, that just came together. I think because I was just so excited to put down vocals – I look up to her so much, she just has this inventive badassness that is so her and has always stuck with me. I think I was just really excited to give her a proper treatment. I didn’t know how I was going to do it, I just wanted to do a remix, and then it just came together. TGT: And how did the FatKidOnFire release come together? Kālī: I had reached out to Olaf, I’ve been doing blog writing stuff for years now, so I’ve already been connected to these platforms, helping write for their releases and helping promote stuff. So I already have a decent amount of relationships built with these platforms, just through my writing. So I reached out to him, and I was like ‘I don’t know if you’d be interested, but I’m trying to put this out…’ and they were automatically down to do it, so I got it mastered – that’s the first tune I’ve ever had professionally mastered – I had Zach do the artwork for it and he killed it, and then it came together and it got way more plays than I ever thought it would! TGT: Within Hindu mythology, Kali is often misunderstood; what drew you to her, and what aspects of hers are you trying to channel with your music? Kālī: So, I came across that name, and that goddess, when I was in college taking just like a Hindu religious studies class. We were just learning gods, goddesses: the religion. And one day we were in lecture, talking about her, and she came up on the screen, all black with her tongue out. Learning about her, everything, holy shit she’s sick – I was by myself in lecture geeking out at how cool everything about her was, and how much I resonated with the dark aspect of her. But what really sold it for me, she’s dark but she’s not evil; but she could be misconstrued as evil or a menace or a demon; but she’s really not at all, she’s guiding people to let go of their egos and to understand themselves and not be afraid of life and certain things. That really resonated with me because dubstep can be seen as this evil thing, and people have told me ‘oh, don’t you have to be mad to make this music?’ and it’s like ‘not at all – no!’ For me it’s like I recognize that there is a darkness to people, they’ve been through things and have had experiences that are negative, but it’s helped shape them. And you don’t deny those experiences, you don’t forget that you had them but you make them a part of you, you grow from them, personal negative bumps in the road, learning experiences that you carry with you… and also what really resonated with me with her, is how she encourages you to let go of your ego and just see the truth in things. I want people to recognize and be comfortable in the darkness that they feel, and just like themselves and be accepting of that part of themselves. Darkness isn’t a bad thing, it’s just a part of life. It makes life whole and people who they are… it’s more an expression of the things that I like, and what I like to see artistically and what I hear out of music.

TGT: Has there been a direct connection between being a DJ, writer, and producer? Kālī: It’s been such a clear progression. I started really getting into this kind of music in the middle of high school, 2009, something like that. It just came from being a fan, like anyone else. You love the music and you want to listen to it constantly and go to shows and share the music and those experiences. That was in Pennsylvania, and then I went out to Santa Barbara for college. The first two years I was into the music in Pennsylvania, and the summer before I left for college I actually started DJing for the first time, because my friends got DJ equipment and so we were just all kind of fucking around and learning it at the same time. It just stuck with me, I just started DJing around with them, and then I moved to Santa Barbara and I had met a few people that were DJs around there, so I got connected with them. It was dubstep, but not nearly as concise and pinpointed as it is now: my taste was still very much bass-focused but still being molded. So I started DJing in Santa Barbara, and I had friends who let me borrow their old DJ equipment, put Traktor on my computer, taught me the basics. So I started in my dorm room on the desk, just making mixes and fostering that interest more and more and more. Then I started working with promotion companies that were throwing dubstep shows at the time, so I was selling tickets for them, working the doors, doing all that stuff, wristbands, trying to do anything to be involved, I just wanted to do it. I got involved in that way, and then I just kept DJing at parties, when I was old enough I was DJing downtown at bars, more hiphopy-dubstep – and my stuff is still kind of hiphop-influenced but in a much different way than it was back then. My sophomore year of college I started writing for EDMTunes, I got an internship with them, and I wrote and made connections; that’s when I did interviews, towards the end of me writing for them I really got super focused on the dubstep/bass music aspect of it. I did that for a few years with them and then got asked by Tony – who’s the talent buyer at Bassrush – who I’d met at Shambhala one year, and we just got along really well and just had a fun experience partying, and then a couple weeks after the festival he hit me up. That was right up my alley so I started writing for them, and that was dubstep-specific writing. I was still DJing and stuff, and then I moved from college to downtown Santa Barbara and became an adult [laughs] and then when I had my own place, was paying my own rent, had a job, all that stuff: this is the beginning of my adult life, what do I want to do? OK, I want to make music because I had promoted for shows, done the whole ticket thing, had been writing about shows, doing interviews with people, doing event promotion stuff for LA people, and I had my own blog at one time, too, just dubstep-focused blog – nothing was satisfying enough. It wasn’t close enough. I realized I wanted to be even closer. I’m still not close enough to this music I love, so that means I have to make it! It was that realization of this is what I want to do, I’m an adult, I have all this time, my life is starting, how do I want it to start, where do I want it to go, what’s going to make me happy, what’s going to get me even closer to the thing I love that I’m already close to, and that was just making music. So that’s that.

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Our Words Have Power (So Speak Kindly To and About Yourself)

“I monitor my self-talk, making sure it is supportive and uplifting for myself and others.” ~ Louise Hay

Three years ago, I ended up with no work in a foreign country. I was almost depressed, as I didn’t know what to say when people asked questions about my profession. The idea of making no income injected my mind with a wide repertoire of worries, fears, and concerns.

I was lost and stuck, and the way I was labeling myself at the time felt quite painful: unemployed. Not only did it look like I had a serious problem to deal with, I was starting to feel like I was a problem, myself.

We all perceive the reality of our experiences filtered through our own lenses, the expectations we set on ourselves and others, and our individual system of belief. To some people, being unemployed is a fact. Not good or bad, normal or abnormal, right or wrong. To me, it held a strong negative connotation. In a world that generally validates our self-worth through what we do for a living, being left with no work made me feel like a total failure.

Thanks to Wayne Dyer, one of the spiritual teachers who helped me grow into who I am today, I managed to change my perspective and see things in a much different light. Here’s what I remember him saying in an interview on YouTube: “Your only problem is your belief that you have a problem. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

His words spoke to me from the inside out. It came like thunder: a wake-up call that was going to shift my entire experience. The moment I decided to look at the situation from another angle, everything changed.

I decided to eliminate the world “unemployed” from my vocabulary, and I went for more empowering words instead. I was “job hunting,” and “looking for better employment opportunities” while being “in transition to a new career.”

Those feelings of frustration and sadness, which came with a deep sense of unworthiness and identity loss, got replaced by a much cleaner space of possibilities, hope, and curiosity for a fresh start.

By changing my perspective and the language I was using to describe my experience, I stopped feeling like a victim. Things were not imposed on me any longer, and I had power.

All of a sudden, I could see the bright side of the situation. When I was busy with work, always running somewhere, working overtime to reach goals and fulfill my duties, I so much wanted to get more time. When I was left with no job, I accused life of being unfair. It wasn’t.

I realized I had all the time in the world—and what a precious gift that was, because time never comes back! I had enough savings to rely on and a supportive husband, as well. And I had a dream to pursue—to do soul work with people and make this world a much better place. One year later, I got certified as a coach.

Today, I know that was a real blessing in disguise. “Unemployed” was not a weakness, but an opportunity for me to grow professionally and build a new career from scratch.

I have also learned that failing with anything doesn’t make me a failure, because I am not what I do. Being left with no work was an experience, and it didn’t have to define me or lower my self-worth unless I allowed it.

One more time, Wayne Dyer was right: I am a “human being,” not a “human doing.”

You see, the thoughts we think and the words we speak have tremendous power. Words are a form of energy, and their vibration has a high impact on the way we feel and think; they can either empower us or put us down.

I invite you to try the following exercise: think of a situation in your life that looks like a problem. Stay for a moment with that and get mindful of how that feels in your body.

Now, think of the same situation as if that was an issue or a topic for you to brainstorm, reflect, and deal with. Can you see the difference and how much lighter you feel?

You’ve done nothing else but replacing the word “problem” (which feels like a burden, something heavy for you to carry) with “issue” (much lighter, something that you could find a solution to).

When I was a child, my mother advised me always to pay attention to my words. “One can kill or save another with only one word,” she said. I didn’t get what she meant at that time, but now I do.

Looking back on my life, I came to realize I spent many years punishing myself with disempowering words about who I was. Thinking I wasn’t good enough, perceiving myself as a failure when I was making mistakes, taking myself for granted, unable to acknowledge my achievements, as if “anyone could do that” or “it wasn’t anything big or special.”

“Stupid me!” “I’m not good enough.” “I’ll never get this.” “This is too big for me.” “I am average.” That’s how the voices in my head used to sound.

Years later, thanks to the beautiful work of Louise Hay, I have learned that being mindful of my self-talk is one of the best forms of self-care and self-respect.

“You’ve been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.“ ~Louise Hay

I knew I would have never told my best friend what an idiot she was for doing this or saying that. And if she were to consider herself ugly or stupid, I would have never encouraged such an idea. I would have supported her in the best way I could.

It took me a while to understand how unfair I was to myself: talking to others kindly and showing them compassion while putting myself down every day. Just like everyone else, I was also a person, worthy of being seen and listened to, appreciated, understood, forgiven, respected, acknowledged, nurtured, and loved.

The day I stopped making myself small with my self-talk, my life transformed, and here’s what I know to be true today:

I am whatever I believe myself to be. If I think I am smart, beautiful, ugly, or stupid, that’s what my reality becomes. We all get to shape our own story by the way we feel, act, and think.

Besides that, I don’t have any weaknesses; I only have areas for growth.

While I am aware of the things I need to work on (do less and be more, become more patient and sometimes calmer, talk less and listen more and so on), the very fact that I have replaced the word “weakness” by “area for growth” is empowering. Like everyone else, I am on a journey called Life, and that’s all about learning.

My husband and I moved to Mexico a few months ago. We can understand Spanish, but neither of us can speak it. I could see this as a weakness, but I choose not to. This is nothing but an area for growth: we are both going to acquire new skills, expand our knowledge, and grow as individuals. We’ve already started to take lessons.

The words we use in our everyday life have power. They can either destroy or build relationships with ourselves and other people. Getting mindful of our self-talk is one of the best forms of self-love and self-compassion. Let us choose our words wisely.

“Language shapes our behavior, and each word we use is imbued with multitudes of personal meaning. The right words spoken in the right way can bring us love, money, and respect, while the wrong words—or even the right words spoken in the wrong way—can lead to a country of war. We must carefully orchestrate our speech if we want to achieve our goals and bring our dreams to fruition.” – Dr. Andrew Newberg, Words Can Change Your Brain

And now, I would like to hear from you. If there were one single disempowering word for you to eliminate from your vocabulary, what would that be?

About Sara Fabian

Sara Fabian is a women’s career and empowerment coach and inspirational speaker, on a mission to help professional women to discover their unique strengths, gifts and talents, boost their confidence, find their calling and live a meaningful life of purpose. For weekly inspiration, subscribe to her free newsletter at sarafabiancoaching.com or follow her on Facebook.

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