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I was watching a nondualism YouTuber on how to recognize the source of your thoughts, until I suddenly stopped because I had an epiphany.
I don't want to sound like a broken record but I must ask this question once again:
đ¨. Your cells have lifespans, they live and they die. Your thoughts and feelings come and go, your hobbies and interests change over time. So what remains? The knowing, the awareness that you are not the same person. The awareness that knows that you don't like that certain band anymore.
Think about a wooden table, if it turned into a chair then what would you call it? Would it still be a table or would it be a chair? You can make arguments for either but the fact remains that both the chair and the table are made of the same material, wood.
You are the wood, no matter what happens to the body your awareness always remains the same. Similarly to a TV, no matter what is on the TV the TV remains a TV.
đ¨. Your true essence isn't tangible, it isn't physical it's boundless, without form and without limits.
đ¨. Now on to my next point! I already covered this in my "Reality is NOT Objective" post but I want to reiterate. The brain can be wrong, the senses can be wrong. Think about the times you thought your parents called your name, or when you fell for an optical illusion. Your ears and your eyes were wrong. Think about when you get your clothes and you can't tell if they're wet or just cold. Your touch was wrong. Think about when you're smelling cinnamon but it's actually nutmeg (this was a horrible example I literally could not think of something for scent) your nose was wrong. Think about the time you had to do a class presentation and you were so anxious about it, but when you actually begin to do it you think to yourself "Hey this isn't so bad." Your brain was just wrong.
The physical is not absolute, the senses can be mistaken. Awareness cannot. If your senses aren't to be trusted then why do you reduce yourself down to them.
đ¨. When you're shifting what's changing? Not your surroundings. . . it's your awareness. Think about when you're in a dream, does your body get teleported into the dream as well? No. Your body is still in the bed, it is the awareness that has changed. You probably have a different body, a different age, different family, etc. This is because your awareness is boundless, it is nothingness so it can take on many forms.
đ¨. Which ushers me into my next point there is nothing above you. Everyday we see something or someone that we believe to be above us.
"Ugh I wish I could have that much money!"
"I wish I had that talent!"
"I wish I could be able to travel like that!"
But you can because everything is you. That one celebrity who posts about their Grammy nominations is you. That one Olympian who won the gold medal is you. Why? Because they're forms of consciousness, and if you are pure consciousness that makes them YOU. You are not separate from that desired amount of money, you are not separate from that desired talent. It is yours. It is you. You just don't know it. This again is why knowing is all there is.
People often say that the only limit is the imagination, and if imagination is limitless that means there are no limits. The only limits that "exist" are the ones curated by the mind. But what is the brain but an organ?
When your stomach growls you know it's because you're hungry. Easy. Straight to the point. Period. You don't sit there for forty days and forty days thinking about every single possible explanation for that stomach growl, you just know you're hungry. The stomach is no different than the brain they both are organs that operate off biology. The brain is tangible, you say that you can grow wings and fly the brain refutes. It knows that humans can't grow wings so flying would be impossible.
However it's just a thought, and thoughts aren't real. They're neutral, they are meaningless. So what your brain says about what you can or can't do. You aren't the brain. So why listen to it? If it's possible to dream that you can fly then why wouldn't you be able to? When you're in a dream you experience it to be real. No one reality is more "real" than the other. If it exists within your awareness then that's it. That's all that matters.
So stop focusing on what's around you and direct that energy to the real you. All you need to do to shift is be aware of your desired reality (and guess what you literally are that's the entire reason why you're in the shifting community and have a desired reality in the first place" and know that you're there. Decide. Be.
đ¨.The fact of the matter is that you was always there, you're everyone because consciousness can't be bound. Don't worry about the when, or the where, or the how. The logistics is futile. Consciousness operates outside of human comprehension it doesn't have to make sense. You know that you are there and that's all you need to know. Stop trying to shift, your desired reality was never separate to begin with.