Andreea 🌙

22 & ferociously committed

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⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ 𓂃 you’re trying to feel your dr with your cr senses

⠀a lengthy shifting guide

why is it so hard to shift from your cr to your dr but not so much vice versa? you’ve spent the first large chunk of your life believing this reality to be the full extent and foundation of existence. even if you now logically understand this not to be the case, the years spent curating and deepening a mental, emotional, and physical anchor to this reality has warped your perception of reality and instilled in to you the subconscious idea that your cr is the default. and in treating it as the default, the end all be all, and in compromising with it, you reinforce the idea that you are attached or stuck here—that it is even a place to get stuck in in the first place. not only do you trap yourself in this reality and grant it power over you that it does not actually have, you start viewing your cr as the “starting point” too, and shifting as some form of transportation from point A to point B. accompanying this belief is an imagined distance created between your current reality and desired reality. you might’ve already recognised this in yourself; the feeling that your dr is somehow faraway, a place that needs to be travelled to.

it’s important to make and internalise the distinction between a shift in realities as an act of metaphysical travel, and a shift in realities as a shift in focus. imo the former is a much better descriptor for what shifting actually is in essence. i will go into more depth later, but a byproduct of being raised the way you were, growing up knowing nothing but your cr and rooting & centring yourself wholly (confined) within it, is the over identification you end up developing with your cr self. you are not living reality, you are watching it. but after years of the constant unbroken immersion, the two become almost impossible to distinguish. you define yourself by and take on as if they were your own the thoughts and identity and feelings of the “vessel” you are observing, and let them dictate how you experience reality. the lines begin to blur between you; your cr self, and you; your awareness/the observer.

feel your hand. don’t touch it, but notice it’s weight and temperature, or the air around it. now feel the feeler. can you feel yourself? or your body, maybe? now go a step further and feel the one feeling. you probably aren’t fully able to, but this is the observer. “the observer”, or the state of being after breaking the immersion, is you in your natural or purest state. it has also been described as pure awareness, the void state, ego death, sakshi, the self, anatta, and interpreted in different ways across a multitude of different religions and branches of spirituality & philosophy, all used as a means to an end for different things. fyi—i’m not saying you have to completely forsake your cr identity or start ignoring/dismissing your senses or thoughts to shift, just understand that those things don’t define you or your reality. the means to the end here is just getting a point across and hopefully helping improve with the approach you take to shifting. all of this to say, you’re not travelling from point A to point B. point A and B are not places you can (technically) even travel to or exist in, because you’re just watching/observing/being aware of. shifting is not the transportation of a self from one location to another. shifting is simply changing what is focused on/experienced; from one stream of experience to another. a shift in focus.

to summarise, you as in your ego, the you in this cr as you know it, your body, your brain, your thoughts, your identity, don’t actually go or shift anywhere. you, your awareness, in favour of perceiving you, your cr self, the one sat at your computer or phone or whatever reading this right now, starts perceiving a different you/ego/self—one that could have the exact same personality, memories, and thoughts, just in another realty, or one that is a different person entirely. there is only a change or “shift” for the observer, not the cr self or ego. so stop trying to feel your dr with your cr senses. you’re not going to. you’re so immersed in your cr and cr self that you automatically rely on this reality’s bodies’ senses to gauge your success when you try to shift, waiting for your cr self to get a cue that it’s never going to get. the surroundings your cr self feels aren’t going to go anywhere. nor are your senses going to shut off. your cr body will continue to receive sensory information, because that’s what bodies do. so don’t lie there expecting your bedsheets to disappear or magically warp into your dr surroundings or something and feel like you’ve failed when they don’t. shifting is not about somehow willing your surroundings to change or lying in your room forcefully convincing yourself that your senses are feeling something else, it’s about acknowledging what’s beyond those senses. feeling and connecting to what your dr self feels.

if you can still feel your cr, it’s not you feeling it, it’s your cr self. and you are not your cr self.

you can apply this to your thoughts too. your thoughts are no less your cr self’s than your senses are. if you start getting doubts mid attempt or can’t let go of the thought or feeling that you’re not in your dr, remind yourself that you are not your feelings or thoughts or doubts. you are simply observing them. of course your cr self will think that they’re still in their cr, they are. just ignore them and shift your attention elsewhere. your focus and awareness are what dictate what you experience, if you relinquish your focus from your cr and direct it to your dr instead, that’s where you’ll “be”.

obviously there’s no one set way to shift, so if you want you can stop reading here and apply this information to your shifting journey in whatever way suits you. if you’re interested in my method though, here’s the compilation of all this info into practical steps you can actually take to shift.

get comfortable somewhere you won’t be disturbed. close your eyes and focus on what you can see. the light behind your eyelids, shapes, colours, whatever. but instead of automatically interpreting these sensations as belonging to your cr, allow them to become sensory input from your dr. light? that’s coming from the lamp by the xyz in your dr bedroom. or maybe your in a field if that’s a fitting setting for your dr, and it’s the sun shining down on you. shapes? that’s because you’ve been lying down with your eyes closed for a while now, you’re tired after your classes or job or whatever you do in your dr. even if it’s nothing at all, let it be your drs nothing. just feel it. do this for about a minute.

then move onto your body. whether it’s sinking, lightness, tingling, focus on it. and do the exact same as you did for the previous step, interpret it as input coming from your dr. don’t worry if you can still feel your body lying in your bed, because your surroundings aren’t going to change—at least not physically. again, those sensations belong to your cr self, and they don’t prevent awareness from directing itself elsewhere. the goal here is to shift your focus away from them and onto something else, so hyperfocusing on your cr and worrying about your surroundings is counterintuitive. just gently guide your attention back to your dr, really try feel your dr surroundings and what your dr body is currently feeling. if you can’t fully avert your focus away from your cr, that’s fine, at the very least just try receive/tap into the input coming from your dr alongside your cr.

finally focus on what you can hear. if you’ve already managed to make a connection with your dr through your sight and physical senses just build up on what you’ve already got. feel grass tickling your skin? deepen the connection there by focusing on the sound now too, the wind blowing through it. see light behind your eyes? focus on the hum of the lights.

repeat these exercises over and over, deepening the connection with each cycle. if you don’t manage to get anything the first cycle just keep going until you do. it might take some practice. like i mentioned before, after spending so much time here and being in constant attunement with your cr self, the sense that your cr is the default starts to take root and it can be difficult to shake the feeling that you’re just indefinitely “here”. it’s normal for it to take some time to learn how to question this feeling and push past it. since you've never (technically?) been aware of anything outside of this reality, learning how to do so can be a bit like learning how to use a muscle you've never used before.

this method operates on the idea that reality is something that is tuned into through focus & narrowed awareness and not something metaphysically travelled across, so for the most success with it, i’d recommend starting to make a conscious effort to see your dr less like a place and more like a wavelength or channel, a perspective already existing beyond your current focus. shifting to your dr then becomes an effort to notice and receive input from this channel/wavelength, input that already exists out there and that simply needs to be acknowledged. you’re just picking up on what’s already there, feeling something that a version of you already feels.

persist in the belief that reality is observed and flexible. you’re not "stuck" anywhere unless you believe you are.

[wysteriadollface]

I’m quick as shit to block a misogynist OR a shifter with a superiority complex.

Let me be as clear as i possibly can

you are not special for having shifted! I don’t care how many times you have consciously shifted. I don’t care if it’s hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of times. You are not the authority, you are not the rule maker, and you are not the end all be all. Narcissistic gurus please go fuck yourself! In this reality, and the next.

you are just as valid and successful as these self proclaimed experts no matter how many times you’ve shifted (yes even if you haven’t shifted yet)

xo - Ria.

[andreeashifts]

louder for the people in the back!!!!!

[skilla-06]

Shoutout to my fellow aphantasia girlies in the shifting community. I remember when I used to think that the only way to shift was via visualization because that’s all people would talk about and all the methods was centred around it, I legit felt like I was cursed😭😭.

[andreeashifts]

bringing back memories...that mentality still isn't gone it just morphed into smth else...

[sistersweets]

fuck aesthetics my spirit conjured me here to say the same thing i say to every ex-vegan when they talk about how bland their food was:

veganism/shifting/manifestation is like sex.

if you're not having fun;

YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

[andreeashifts]

the permashiter experience is completely different from the shifter experience and no one can convince me otherwise

[pearlthreaded]

"you dont understand how to shift thats why u dont shift" can you imagine hearing that in another reality with diff rules for shifting?

if there is infinity, that would also mean infinite ways to shift, infinite things to understand about shifting. so why would you understand how to shift if there is an infinite understandings abt shifting? why bother yourself? how is that claim truth in any sort of way?

imagine hearing that said in an infinite amount of realities and look at how dumb it sounds now. son, shifting can gen happen to anyone involuntarily ✌️😭. it happened to me. i woke up in a reality where my bed was blue a few years back before i even knew what shifting was.

literally couldn’t of been said better

[andreeashifts]

“You didn’t fail at shifting, you succeeded at doing a method” is the most hilarious thing ever

So next time you choose to do a method ask yourself if you’re doing a method or actually shifting

[vanillebirkin]

this reality does NOT define you, and you are not changing anything.

im super tired of some narrow minded people pushing their limited beliefs onto us. im so SICK of misconceptions. This reality is merely a projection, the only thing that defines us is our consciousness. You are not bounded to this reality and the labels are just this reality's thing. you are a limitless awareness. The fact that people use terms like "race /gender/ age changing" actually shows that theyre still trapped in a 3D world mindset. 🤦🏻‍♀️ If someone thinks theyre "changing" something actually believes that thing was originally "different." Never even truly understood what multiverses and our infinite awarenesses is. Check SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLE. And why is there no such thing as "change"??? simple. The version of yourself that has been existing in that reality was born and raised in that body, within that family, with those genetics. That idendity is not a new "mask" for you, it's your one and only original self in that spesific reality.

Again, youre not changing anything youre just shifting your consciousness to that already existing version. That whoever you are in DR has always been like that, from their childhood photos to their physical features. It's really funny how people see this as an "ethical matter" or "physical transformation." lmao. They act like you're having cosmetic surgery. No 😭😭you're just switching to "another radio station." (if i have to give an analogy) That song was always playing on that station anyway... This reality cannot define us cause we are not merely this body or this location, we are the consciousness that chose that experience.

If there are infinite possibilities, then the "you" in each possibility is already legitimate and present. Nobody's gonna ask what they ''can't/can do'' in their OWN reality to some strangers feigning sensitivity on tumblr. thanks.

[skywalkerbound]

i started reading about nondualism from accounts like 4dbarbie and now i’m confused, i think it’s a philosophy i want to subscribe to but i don’t know how it goes hand and hand with shifting? have you heard of it?

let's break this down venn diagram style because i do like nondualism and there is quite a bit of overlap with shifting there

nondualism + shifting

nondualism has its oldest roots in hinduism (thank you to my ancestors i suppose). it dates back to the upanishads (which i highly suggest looking into for more clarity on how it functions as a philosophical concept). the belief is that reality is fundamentally one. at the absolute level, everything is connected, no separation present. it's almost yggdrasil adjacent, but again, no separation.

relatively speaking, however, there are multiple realities.

consciousness isn't something that is tucked away in your cabinet like a coffee filter, only used when you need it. it's the field that everything appears in.

as for the "hand in hand" part with shifting,

consciousness as primary: nondualism says that consciousness is the only true constant. shifting says that consciousness is what experiences realities. putting it together, all realities are appearances within the same consciousness, and attention identifies with one or another.

identity is fluid: nondualism references the self as "not ultimate" your physical form, your history, what you usually identify with, isn't a definition of you. it's flexible. shifting takes this idea and runs, the idea that there are all these different versions, yet they're all still you.

the world is not absolute: the reality you are currently experiencing isn't independently solid from a nondualism perspective. it's more like a projection of awareness. that maps onto shifting; realities aren't absolute and you can change your alignment to them.

absence of distance: from a nondual view, there is no separation between here and "another reality" because everything is already within the same unified field. shifting similarly says there's no distance you need to travel to shift, it's only a change in identification, alignment, or a shift in perspective within the same consciousness.

[andreeashifts]

<< nondualism

[playingthedeckabove]

things that will not stop you from shifting:

not believing in it

other people not believing in it

a mean comment from an anti on tiktok

having doubts

not making a script

having an overly extensive, thorough script

getting too excited

not feeling any excitement

not understanding shifting

not being “knowledgable enough” about shifting

knowing “too much” about shifting

struggling with mental health

struggling with physical health

loving your cr

hating your cr

literally anything in your cr

anything to do with ego

daydreaming a lot

romanticizing your dr

someone else shifting for your s/o

messing up when doing a method

not doing a method at all

not setting intention (accidental shifts are very real)

being “too early” in your journey

being “too late” in your journey

anything to do with time. because time isn’t real

growing resentment toward shifting

the number of times you tried but didn’t successfully shift (it only has to work once)

giving up

i could go on & onnnnnnn because the bottom line is. there is no world where it will never happen because it’s happening to everyone. nothing can stop you because shifting is inevitable ☆ﾟ・

[playingthedeckabove]

HIII i just want to say i really love the shifting advice you give, and I've been trying to shift for about a year now, and i have a question when your shifting, are you moving your consciousness to that reality or your awareness? i hope my question makes sense because i feel like knowing the difference would help me alot 😭

⋆.˚consciousness vs. awareness☆ﾟ・

anon you have no idea how bad i've wanted to touch on this because the way consciousness and awareness have been used interchangeably in the community has been driving me craaaaaaaazy. misinfo has been brewing and so many people have had a cup of it by now. so hopefully i'm not too late !! it's also a little hard to define the two but i'll do my best (╥ ω ╥)

consciousness is the capacity to experience. it's collective & infinite. you're conscious, your dr self is conscious, i think we're ALL conscious. if you were shifting consciousness, i would imagine that means that everybody in the entire multiverse is comatose until you shift there. but all realities exist simultaneously regardless of whether you've shifted there or not. they don't wait for permission to begin or continue from a transfer of consciousness. consciousness doesn't belong to anyone, it is simply what allows for experience. in the words of david lynch..... there is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us!!!

awareness is how you experience consciousness. you're not aware of everything existing in consciousness at once. right now you're aware of what you're reading, and you're aware of the human ego that's doing the reading. that's what you're shifting. you're zeroing in on one thing at a time rather than being aware of every single thing existing in the realm of consciousness simultaneously. that would be crazy..... you're becoming aware of a specific ego, doing a specific thing, existing in a specific reality.

it is important to me that people know that you're shifting awareness rather than consciousness becauseeeeeee:

the idea that you're shifting consciousness is what causes a lot of people to equate shifting with dreaming. they assume that you must be unconscious (as in asleep) to shift, therefore it is a dream. but you don't!! i love my awake methods dearly. it's honestly my preference to shift awake (i find it easier). and therefore people think if you must be asleep in order to shift, permashifting would leave your "clone" (which isn't a thing... but.... anyway) unconscious until death. but no!!! every reality keeps existing as it always would. you're only becoming aware of a different reality when you shift.

[andreeashifts]

big fan of this !!! (super agree)

[b3an-i3]

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Repeat after me:

"I don't need the void to shift"⭑.ᐟ

"I don't need to complete my method to shift"⭑.ᐟ

"I don't need to do every step perfectly to shift"⭑.ᐟ

"I don't need to make myself suffer to shift"⭑.ᐟ

"I don't need to fall asleep to shift"⭑.ᐟ

"I don't need to stay up to shift"⭑.ᐟ

"I do NOT need to do a 100 step method to shift"⭑.ᐟ

"I do not need loa to shift"⭑.ᐟ

"I do NOT need to force myself on a method I don't like to shift"⭑.ᐟ

"I don't need subliminals to shift"⭑.ᐟ

"I don't need to immediately feel my Dr surroundings to shift"⭑.ᐟ

"I'm powerful, I'm limitless and I do NOT need anything besides myself to shift unless I like it"⭑.ᐟ

[andreeashifts]

a round of applause for this one

[skywalkerbound]

i’m just sad, really. i’ve had minishifts but it feels like i have to strain for it. a real, long shift feels so far off. i know you say there’s no distance and i believe it. it just feels like there is and i’m tired of fighting the feeling off.

i hear you. this has been unfinished in my drafts for a while, and seeing your message got me to me finish it:

i can go the distance (an interlude of comfort for shifters who feel defeated, because sometimes it all just seems herculean)

there’s no distance, not really. you know it, i know it. let’s stare across it, anyway. let’s give it acknowledgment instead of bearing arms. it’s an illusion, yes, but tricks of the mind have their own way of piercing, jabbing, stinging, so much so that they put jellyfish to shame. if we sit with the wound of perceived distance, maybe we can heal it.

you’ve never not been going home. chances are, you’re like me, like mary henry declaring she doesn’t belong in the world. because of that, your awareness has been aligning and realigning itself with that intention since even before you knew about shifting.

i'll talk about myself for a moment. sometimes there's comfort in someone else's story that sounds like it could be your own.

i shifted after six years. six years with a home-shaped hole in my heart, six years of giving it my all when i sometimes doubted what i was even giving my all to, six years of the kind of despair that leaves you keeled over, gutted by the punch of wanting. i wanted so desperately and i had nothing here. so, shifting wasn't a thing on the side for me. it was an escape hatch, but the hatch felt jammed. there's a very different kind of fear and panic that accompanies that experience, of tugging on a handle that won't budge. i needed out. i cried oceans because i was afraid the out would never be open to me.

i know your pain intimately. when people leave anguished letters in my inbox, they sound like they could've been sent from a past version of myself. that's why this is acknowledgement more than advice. that's why i'm talking about the distance. it might be a creation of the mind, but it tortures regardless, and i know that better than anyone.

listen to me. for so long, i was on a self-assigned quest. i faced the trials and the tribulations, because i thought i had to. i believed i needed to earn the right to go home. in hindsight, it hurts to know i thought that way. it hurts to know that people still do. i nearly lost myself, convinced i would suffocate confined to the four walls i was dropped into. the idea that this is all there is was so shattering to me, not like glass, but like a china bowl. something sacred in me, my spirit, maybe, felt cracked.

when shifters tell you that you already exist in your dr, you take it as a fact. it is. now, take it as a blanket. let that statement wrap itself around you like it wants nothing more than to give you its truth in the form of a quilt. shifting is more remembrance than anything else. you exist in your desired reality, and you do so many normal, ordinary things there alongside the big ones.

you forget to turn your lights off sometimes, you have creaky floorboards, you sometimes eat the same breakfast several days in a row because you're having a busy week, you stifle a laugh in what should be a serious situation. you live and you love. you're doing it now and you're doing it there.

i held on. i don't mean that in a motivational way, to be honest. frankly, it was the ugly kind of holding on, with blood under my nails as i dug them into the edge of the cliff. the shattering i mentioned was a sensation that sometimes didn't seem to cease. despite that, i maintained a context. a context that frequently felt like a falsehood, a joke, a delusion, but a context that i was set on like an arrow to the bullseye.

i'm in my desired reality. i don't care that it's been over half a decade and i've never seen proper proof. i'm there, anyway.

that's what i said to reality, to myself, to the forces that may or may not listen. i didn't always say it loudly. sometimes it was shaky, sometimes it was uncertain, and sometimes it was muttered madly while i tended to my wounds. more often than not, it was said through tears, my face a waterfall. whatever state i was in, i never let go of being where i wanted. sometimes i didn't say it at all, i just held it inside of myself with such an unwavering determination. i never stopped dictating, even though i so often felt powerless.

the peasant who gives orders despite his status, might one day find himself to be king.

david bowie was right, we can be heroes. i found that to be true. it presented its trueness to me on what many writers who have run out of good, novel opening lines might describe as "a dark and stormy night". there was nothing special about it. my sadness was a quiet constant under the sand of my skin, inhabiting my bones. even with it, i shifted.

you don't have anything to earn. what you're trying to prove yourself for is already yours, under your name. it watches you strive to prove yourself when you're already enough. it belongs to you even without all the effort, especially without all the effort. it will always belong to you, it will always be within reach.

you are proof, because you are wherever you want to be. you don't find it externally because it is you. turn inward.

you're not making anything from scratch. there is no recipe to follow, no fire to put out. the pie is made, and it's warm, and it's sitting on the counter, and it's yours.

please, do not withhold home from yourself any longer. the key is in your pocket. the sofa feels familiar. the bed has sheets that are bliss like you've never known. the kitchen is stocked with all your favorite foods and drinks. you are promised love. please, just walk in. claim it. take it.

[andreeashifts]

one of my favorite tumblr accounts on here, that actually truly painfully gets it 💗

[cloverapple]

Idk who needs to hear this, but there’s nothing wrong with you

And I don’t say this to encourage you to stay in a state that’s killing you up from the inside. Self-improvement is always a win when it’s born from self-love and self-respect, not a panicked scramble to fix yourself like a broken machine.

You don’t need to change anything about yourself to shift. Or to manifest. Not your depression, not your doubts, not your neurodivergence, nothing. All you need is to recognize your power. But you love to be told you’re wrong. That it’s your fault.

“You check the 3D too much,” so you crave someone to tell you, that’s why you’re not shifting, you did this to yourself.

You want someone to point a finger and say, “You’re not shifting because you keep doubting.”

“You’re not shifting because you don’t believe enough.”

“You’re not shifting because you’re wavering.”

“You’re not shifting because you’re too attached to the outcome.”

“You’re not shifting because you’re not disciplined enough with your methods.”

“You’re not shifting because you think you’re shifting wrong, so now you are.”

“You’re not shifting because you haven’t let go yet.”

“You’re not shifting because you haven’t decided to yet.”

“You’re not shifting because you’re doing too many methods, or not enough, or the wrong ones, or the right ones in the wrong way.”

“You’re not shifting because you’re not applying XYZ law.”

“You’re not shifting because you’re not trying hard enough.”

“You’re not shifting because you’re trying too hard.”

You want someone to tell you it’s your fault, because if it’s your fault, it means you can fix it. That if you just contort yourself enough, if you just get the formula perfect enough, if you just align perfectly enough, then reality will crack open and give you what you want.

And so you stay trapped in the punishment. You stay in the loop of “I must be wrong, I must be broken, I must be flawed,” because it feels safer than accepting that shifting is your natural state, that your awareness is the engine, that you’ve never failed to shift, that you’ve never been separate from your DR, that you never needed fixing in the first place.

Because if that’s true, then there’s no excuse left. If that’s true, then you have to admit that the only thing between you and what you want is you realizing you already have it.

And that’s terrifying. Because if you’re not broken, if you’re not wrong, if you’re not waiting for someone to save you with the “right” method, then you are free.

And it’s in that freedom that you end up making peace with yourself, right here, right now. You don’t have to. No one’s holding you to it. Peace is never necessary to get your desires. But it will happen naturally at some point

Because you are awareness, and you will have this awareness forever. But you hate yourself. You think you’re powerless when you aren’t.

You let methods, laws, bloggers, desires, all of it—be powerful for you. You let them decide your worth, your readiness, your ability, your timing.

You are the constant here, and yet you keep kneeling to the ever-changing. You let a shifting method tell you if you’re worthy of your DR. You let a Tumblr post decide if you’re “doing it right.” You let your desires become your gods, and your gods become your jailers.

The door was always unlocked, but you’d rather argue about the lock than touch the handle. Because if you open it, it’s just you.

You, the awareness that’s been here since the beginning, forever capable, forever deciding, forever free. And that’s terrifying, isn’t it?

In my opinion (me) (mine) (Clover) (my own opinion), sometimes the blockages you think are stopping you from shifting are actually your key to shifting and manifesting.

You’ve lived your entire life with the way your mind naturally focuses, wanders, resists, obsesses. And then you find shifting spaces telling you:

“You have to ignore your CR.” But maybe the way you see past the illusion is to stare directly at your CR, acknowledge it as a mirage, and claim your power as a master shifter here. Maybe for you, seeing the illusion is how you step into your DR.

“Don’t daydream too much.” But maybe the way your mind drifts and creates entire realities in your head, is exactly how you focus.

“Don’t waver.” But maybe your doubts, your spirals, your racing thoughts are not chains but fuel. Maybe the reason you spiral is because your mind is so powerful, it’s already showing you exactly what to clear out on your way through worlds.

“Don’t overcomplicate it.” But maybe you need your charts, your logic maps, your wordy breakdowns, your layers of understanding before you can let go. Overthinking is only a curse if you believe it is; otherwise, it’s your tool for piercing illusion.

“Don’t script too much.” But maybe scripting is your ritual. Maybe your endless pages of stories, your color-coded Notion spreadsheets, your carefully chosen fonts are your gateway.

“Stop checking for results.” But maybe checking for results and not seeing them is the first step to you realizing how impossible it is that you “don’t have them yet.”

“Just act as if it’s already yours.” But maybe you can’t do that yet, and it’s okay. Because you can still observe that you are the kind of person who gets what they want, who shifts, who manifests, who always figures it out, even if you don’t “have it yet.” And that is, in itself, not acting but realizing that it’s already yours.

“Don’t use methods, just decide.” But maybe you like methods. They help you focus, give you a sense of ritual, make it fun, and the fun is the key.

“You need to fully believe.” But maybe you’re allowed to not fully believe. Maybe belief grows in the soil of testing it out, letting your actions prove your mind wrong, again and again.

“Don’t try too hard.” But maybe you’re a try-hard by nature. Maybe your fire, your desperation, your want is what cracks reality open, not what holds it shut.

You get told your mind is the problem—too loud, too soft, too imaginative, too skeptical. You get told your blockages are the reason you’re stuck. But what if they’re not?

What if your “blockages” are breadcrumbs your awareness leaves for you to follow, back to the door you’ve been searching for?

What if your way—the way you naturally are—is the map you’ve been seeking?

Shifting is not about crushing yourself into someone else’s mold, playing by someone else’s rules, or suffocating your instincts in the name of “discipline.”

It’s about becoming more yourself than you’ve ever been. So maybe don’t change yourself, but change the way you view that person. Because you’re powerful. You always have been.

I don’t guarantee my words or methods will make you shift. I don’t guarantee they’ll resonate with you. But this is what I wish someone told me way back when I started manifesting, not even shifting yet.

So, as a firm believer in “one man’s trash is another man’s gold,” someone out there needs to hear this.

[jadeshifting]

from “Encyclopedia of Witchcraft” by Judika Illes

this was so shifting coded i had to take a pic like yes all the beliefs that shifting is based on have existed in one form or another for centuriessss like i know 🤭

[playingthedeckabove]

wtf is shifting awareness???? and how do i do it????‧₊˚♪𝄞࿐₊˚⊹

"sodapop help!! i understand that shifting is by definition when you shift your awareness to another reality, but i don't understand what that means?? how do you shift awareness??"

i'm about to rock your world (aka this post did semi-okay on tiktok and i just realized i haven't already posted it here).

when you shift your awareness, you're detaching from one ego (in this case your cr) and attaching to another (your dr!!! yayyy yayyyy yayyyyy that's where we wanna be!!). this whole process sounds harder than it is, which is why shifting can feel so daunting. so i'm going to make you shift your awareness right now, and then you can see how easy it is. please don't be afraid i can hold your hand if you want

close your eyes (after you read this obviously -_-) and focus your attention solely on your hands. what they're touching, if they have any jewelry on them, if they're cold/warm, if they hurt at all, etc. just focus only on your hands.

now, turn your attention only to your legs. pay attention to nothing but your legs. can you feel the clothes touching your legs? the chair you're sitting on? are they cold? do they hurt? what position are they in right now?

see how you stopped being aware of how your hands felt? and how when you were only paying attention to your hands, you weren't aware of the rest of your body? that's exactly what you're doing, but you're shifting your mindset to your dr self's mindset instead of your cr self's in order to trigger the shift.

"i couldn't do it, though. i was still aware of the rest of my body when i tried. i must be hopeless." ok. well guess what. now that i'm saying something, you're aware of your breathing. and now you're also aware of your blinking. and eventually, you're going to get distracted, and you're going to stop breathing and blinking manually. you'll be unaware again. (this is probably so annoying though so i'm sorry.. it was for the sake of the point)

this is why my method is simply:

lay down and get comfortable. no starfish position, this isn't an episode of spongebob

daydream for a bit. this causes me to naturally stop paying attention to my surroundings (this is the detachment from one ego)

think as my dr self. my plans, my friends, my boyfriend (heh... yea), my circumstances. kind of like how you lay down in bed and suddenly remember the most embarrassing moments of your life, but in a way that doesn't suck (this is the mindset shift that triggers the physical shift. attachment to another ego)

hold the understanding that i won't feel or notice the shift (because i'm already assuming the role of my dr self, so nothing is going to feel different), and therefore assume that i'm already there

BUT ! REMEMBER ! THIS ! the practice you just did is no different from shifting to your dr. it's the exact same process. don't complicate it !! this reality doesn't hold any more weight than any other, and no reality is harder to shift to than any other. we find comfort in familiarity, but familiarity isn't an anchor. you can't stay tied to one reality when awareness is infinite. try to take a neutral approach to every reality. understand that they're all equal

[shifteruncensored]

you’re allowed to skip the struggle arc.

some of you spend so much of your time thinking you owe the universe some sort of hardship before you get what you want. that you must suffer so that shifting feels “earned.” i hate to be the one to break it to you but you’ve seen too many movies. you’ve romanticized your own hardship as some sort of aesthetic prerequisite.

you don’t need to suffer. you don’t need to heal every single wound. you don’t need to “perfect” your mind or overcome 10,000 “blockages” over a blood moon. you can skip straight to the part where it's already yours. bcs well….it is!

the ache of longing isn’t some sort of spiritual currency. trauma isn’t some sort of golden ticket.

the multiverse doesn’t need your character development or your tears as validation. it doesn’t need a slow burn. every version of you already exists!!! yes. really. the one who’s thriving. the one who’s living your dream. the one who’s shifted.

you do not need to “earn” shifting through suffering or surviving. it's already yours. no montage or struggle arc or dramatic rain soaked breakdown required (amazing i know!!).

your dr isn’t a prize. genuinely. it’s an place you tune into. like changing the radio to a different station. no fade out. just the next song already playing.

you’re not too late or losing time. you’re don’t need to pay dues in blood to be where you want. the multiverse is endless and impartial. it gives you the remote and says “pick the channel. no fine print.”

choose to become aware of the scene already playing.