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hello everyone. i shift to just a few realities but the one you'll find details of here is my home reality. i love hearing people's thoughts on shifting, non-dualism, law of assumption, etc. so don't be a stranger.

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huariqueje

Blue Moon - Paul Fenrey , 2026

American , b. 1976 -

Oil on canvas , 36 x 48 in.

lotuzies

HOW I MANIFEST ✷

no constant affirming, acknowledging & reacting to the 3d, no methods, no living in the end — just choosing my truth.

lihuapearl

this is exactly what I've been trying to say hell yeah

multiversalmar

the best advice i can give someone who is struggling to choose/make their own shifting method is this: you can work with your strengths, you don’t have to fight against them.

the first time i fully shifted all of my senses to another reality was when i leaned into the way i process the world. for context, i am an artist and i have crazy ADHD, which means 2 things. firstly, i think about visuals in terms of values, form, and color more than the average person. secondly, i often plan out my day in terms of looping a list over and over again in my head until i’ve accounted for all the tasks i need to do. these methods of thinking are something i do everyday very naturally.

i decided i would lean into this, as my DR self has similar patterns of processing and planning to my CR self. aka, we (i? idfk) both are artists and have ADHD. i disconnected from my body for a while, then concentrated on the way the morning light would be hitting my living room’s bright yellow couch while running back my list of tasks to do for the day in my head: “i’m going to finish my tea, get dressed, then head to the art store… wait no. i’m going to finish my tea, put my cup away, get dressed, go to the art store AND then the foreign student office… wait no. i’m going to finish my tea, put my cup away, get dressed, go explore that bakery down the street…” et cetera

this really mundane observation and particular train of thought shifted me all the way into my DR body! before, i had only gotten 2 out of 5 senses at a time. again, i’ll emphasize that the first time i ever fully shifted was when i played to my strengths instead of fighting myself and trying to affirm a bajillion times.

you don’t need to visualize if you can’t visualize. you don’t need to affirm if it bores you. you don’t need to imagine touching objects if you’re no good at that. you don’t need to force yourself. if you’re good at music, imagine picking out the notes for a song your DR self is listening to or playing an instrument. if you are a worrywart about the people you love, be a worrywart about your DR loves. if you like ragebating people, plan how you’re going to ragebait your DR friends and family lol.

shifting doesn’t need to be this painful thing where you reprogram the way you think about your identity and the universe and whatever else. it can happen as easily as one person going over their list for the day. i know because i did it and so can you.

anyways, happy shifting 💫

swordbymyside

lamignonette

suestrellalunar

Hi Sue, I love your posts, but honestly, sometimes I don't understand how you manage to get your dream to change so quickly. I want to change many aspects of my appearance and my life—I want them to change drastically—yet the dream remains exactly the same as it was two years ago. I don't see the dream shifting or feeling any different; everything stays exactly the same—my face and my life in general — and things just keep getting worse. Every night, I think about the life I want to experience; I see it as being so close yet so far away. Sometimes I feel such desperation and anger at not being able to experience that life right now, I also feel that if I don't have that desired face or that desired life, I won't be able to be happy; sometimes I fall into despair and anxiety. Is there something specific you do to make your dream change so quickly? Or is my desire perhaps incompatible with me? Or am I simply too foolish to make my dream change fast? I just want things to appear quickly in my experience. Do you have any advice? Thanks 💓😞

nothing is incompatible with you because nothing exists outside of you.

the only thing making your desire seem distant is knowing yourself as someone who is waiting for experience to become something other than it appears to be.

you say your dream hasn't changed in two years, but awareness isn't measuring time or appearances.

you already are what you've been searching for. that doesn't mean you stop enjoying your desire. experience simply reflects what awareness is conscious of. happiness has never depended on appearances changing first.

there is nothing wrong with you, and there isn't a faster or slower awareness. there is only awareness knowing itself as someone waiting for a future that never actually arrives. what you are has never been waiting.

trapnestmf

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ 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.

brarchives

mahany pery by mar+vin for elle brasil

applbaerry

you cannot think your way into a shift.

all the theories, the information, the physics and the metaphysics and all—that’s so fun, yes, and so wonderful, but you can’t think your way into a shift.

there is nothing in the world that will teach you to shift. no amount of knowledge of physics, philosophy, or spirituality will teach you. it’s not in neville’s book, not in any religious book, not even in the shifting community itself.

there’s no step by step, full proof method. there’s nothing to learn from the outside.

so give up that search. accept it. accept that this is you. it’s always been about you and within you.

adonischildsupportcase

slipng

huariqueje

The Aloe, Cimiez - Berthe Morisot , 1895.

French , 1841-1895

Oil on canvas , 34 22/25 x 27 1/2 in. 88.6 × 69.9 cm.

shaysplanet

how to shift awake - shay

shifting awake is all about patience and clear intention. it’s about knowing where you want to be and aligning with it fully. the moment you set your intention, you are already shifting. your only job is to stay in that knowing.

visualize & commit

see your DR. feel it. place yourself there in your mind and stick to that visualization as if you’re already there. shifting awake isn’t about waiting for the shift to happen—it’s about accepting that it already has.

step into your method immediately

whatever method you use, go into it with the mindset that you are already in your DR and are simply choosing when to become fully aware of it. don’t treat it like a waiting game. there is no transition time. no delay. the faster you accept that you are there, the faster your senses will catch up.

stop waiting for cues from your physical body

if you keep checking in with your body, you’re anchoring yourself to your CR and resisting the shift. focus on your DR and nothing else. your body will adjust on its own—your only job is to remain locked into where you know you are.

patience is key

rushing the process suggests doubt. it implies you don’t fully trust that your intention alone is enough. patience isn’t about “waiting”—it’s about confidence. confidence that shifting is happening right now, and all you have to do is let it unfold.

shifting awake is simple: set your intention, accept that you are already there, and trust in that fully. the more you embody this mindset, the smoother the shift becomes. for other tips check my masterlist <3

shaysplanet

updating this with a recent reading i did with my team!

so this is how my team said i should awake shift:

5 of cups -> no more believing i missed my chance during past awake attempts. all they were was confirmations of my ability.

the tower -> my old beliefs of awake shifting being difficult are crashing down.

7 of cups -> don't allow all the inner voices to distract or delude me. it snaps me out of it. no more scattering when i begin shifting unexpectedly.

the moon -> i should live in the intuitive haziness of the experience and not try to make visuals super crisp or specific. that's what turns me into the observer instead of the experiencer.

2 of cups -> awake shifting should be treated like a relationship, not a task. its an exchange of emotion and connection. soft attention, not excess focus.

5 of wands -> stop going to war with myself. no more arguing down. just creates tension. i don't need to analyze, or steer, or be overly crazy. i just need to let it be.

my only job is to stay emotionally neutral and warm. breathe slowly. and relax. and i don't even need to think i'm shifting. i just need to deepen into the experience. (i gave this advice to my friends in my discord so that’s why it’s written like this)