T.find refuge in another world, imagining it down to the smallest details. If at the beginning the Shifting technique it was a way to improve one’s performance, regain a condition of personal well-being and resolve some inner conflicts, today it is also an escape from reality that is involving more and more teenagers, especially between 14-15 years. Going beyond the classic meditation, through induced self-hypnosis you can live new experiences by “moving” to another world. Very popular on TikTok, it is becoming popular among the youngest.
Teenagers, with Shifting you can experience other worlds
“Who has never wanted to change their reality at least once? To be able to maneuver the world to make it the perfect place for us? On TikTok the guys seem to have found a solution through Shifting»Explains Dr. Elisa Faretta – Psychologist and Psychotherapist EMDR Italy.
It is on the social network that this particular meditation technique is depopulating it allows you to abandon true reality to enter an imagined and desired one called DR, a sort of “lucid dream” recreated through a trans state induced by self-hypnosis, or during sleep.
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“At the base of the shifting is the possibility of being able to choose one’s life in every detail in the new reality. From the color of the skin, to the clothes, to the relationships that could be maintained. And in order to make them possible, each of these will have to be written on a sheet of paper, which the TikTok platform calls scripting. This will give the possibility to choose the elements of the desired reality. A world to which certain adolescents are especially sensitive, for example those who are already fascinated by stories set in other worlds how Star Wars or Harry Potter“.
A social phenomenon (e)
Born on the social network, as the psychologist explains Shifting was certainly encouraged by the lockdown and the pandemic situation that led many young people to try to escape from reality thus immersing himself in alternative worlds, creating what in the language on TikTok is defined as “reality shifting”. It is no coincidence that this practice has become a real movement that it mainly involves the very young, between the ages of 14-15 who share information, help each other and help new followers to “shift” to other worlds.
“If in psychology” shifting “indicates cognitive flexibility and the ability to activate the mind towards different tasks, allowing the passage from one task to another and controlling the interaction between the two, in this case it can be a phenomenon that encourages disconnection from one’s real lifeprecisely because it is self-managed ».
What are the consequences of shifting?
Although in general this technique is used to improve one’s performance, to reach conditions of well-being and to help resolve some more or less latent conflicts and problems, some consequences can be serious “Applied in this way, Shifting may cause a shrinking of relationships and the desire to be in the real world.
Certainly not to generalize because fortunately there are many young people who know how to manage the charm of certain digital phenomena that hide great dangers behind them. But for some this can represent a search for an escape routea signal that something is not working in reality “concludes the expert.
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