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Eyesight Is Overrated When You Immerse Yourself In Your DR

Every time someone says they cannot visualize being in their DR, guess what the problem boils down to? “I can’t see clearly”, “It’s too blurry”, “The images won’t stay still.” Yeah, no shit buttercup. It’s because most people treat visualizing and immersing themselves in their DR like it’s a movie they are supposed to watch, not like an experience they are supposed to feel. We’re too obsessed with seeing. Maybe because we heavily rely on seeing as proof for most things. Sad newsflash: your eyes are one of the easiest senses to fool. Ever heard of optical illusions? Hallucinations? Dreams? You can literally see things that aren’t real all the time. Just because you saw something doesn’t mean it means anything. Now touch? Touch is vastly different from seeing, your skin rarely lies. It’s your biggest organ, and it’s built for direct interaction with the physical world. You can’t accidentally touch what isn’t there. Ever tried finding the bathroom at 3am in pitch black darkness? You can’t see shit, but you sure as hell can feel your way around. You touch the wall, the doorknob, the light switch. That's how you navigate the moment your vision fails. Touching something grounds you, it’s immediate and undeniable. If you are struggling with visualizing, stop stressing over the picture perfect, IMAX quality visuals. We are not here to direct a James Cameron movie. We are here, trying to convince ourselves that we are somewhere else, right? Your brain doesn’t care how pretty something looks, it cares about how real something feels. If you go ahead and imagine touching and really feeling the sheets in your DR bed, running your fingers over a countertop, opening a door and feeling the handle under your hand, suddenly it’s no longer just a daydream. It’s an experience, grounded in a reliable sensory input. When something feels real, your brain doesn’t need to second guess everything, it just starts rolling with it. TL;DR: no, you don’t need to see clearly, you need to stop obsessing over visuals and instead start engaging with other sensations. Take texture, temperature, pressure instead. The weight of your clothes, the ground beneath your feet, your hand holding something solid. It will give your immersion weight and will make it more than just a fleeting daydream.

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Stop Waiting, Seriously

The classic waiting state. This weird little limbo where you tell yourself you are just being patient, when in reality, you’re just sitting there, doing jack shit, hoping the universe will eventually send you a sign wrapped in flashing lights, so you can’t miss it. Hate to say it, but that sign is probably not coming. I’m trying not to be a dick, but if you peel back some glittery affirmations and glance underneath, a lot of people aren’t trying to align their energies or are trusting in divine timing. They are just… stuck. Procrastinating in a fancier outfit, being stuck in mental quicksand but calling it spiritual growth because it sounds nicer. Look, you’re not waiting for divine timing. You’re just waiting for something, anything really, to push you forward so you don’t have to do it yourself. A motivational quote, a dream, a gut feeling, a shift in the wind, whatever sounds better than standing up and making a move. Before you come at me, I know shifting can happen without “doing” anything in the usual sense. But if you’ve been stuck in the same place for months (shit, years in some cases) and nothing's changed, maybe, just maybe, it’s time for a different approach. You’re not stalling because it’s some wise decision, you’re stalling because taking action can be terrifying. Doing something means you can be wrong, and that will be on you alone. Saying “maybe later” feels safer than saying “fuck it, let’s go”, doesn’t it? You’re not lazy, you’re just scared, that’s okay. But don’t sit there calling your inaction some sacred rite. It’s fear, insecurity, call it what it is. No one is gonna come rescue you. There won’t be a glowing sign, cosmic cheerleaders and a fairy godmother with a timeline ready. The “perfect moment” is bullshit and doesn’t exist. There is only now, and people act like that moment personally offended them. Waiting feels comfortable, familiar, safe. Like you’re doing something by actually not doing anything. Most of the time it’s just avoidance dressed in a fancy hat, fear cosplaying as intuition. You don’t need another sign, you don’t need to be perfectly aligned, and you don’t need to be 100% sure about everything. But you should be doing something, you should move. Start something, screw it up, adjust, rinse and repeat. Clarity doesn’t come from waiting, it comes from trying, from failing, from doing. Making decisions can be scary, yes, you probably will waste some time and you will probably realize you were wrong once or twice. Welcome to being alive I guess. But sitting in fear like it’s your safe little bubble? That’s where your dreams will probably die a little. The same place where the version of you that could have been shrivels up because you couldn’t get up and try to open the door. Just get up, pick a path and walk it, even if you fall flat on your face every ten steps. Nothing will change while idling in a waiting room you don’t even like, you’ll just forget why you started to show up in the first place.

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Not me over here giving my YouTube account a major side-eye because it's suddenly throwing a bunch of shifting videos at me. Despite the account, linked email and even the stupid browser never even having touched the words "shifting realities". Not sure if the universe is dropping not so subtle hints at this point or if shifting is coming back into trend (please don't). Never thought I would get shifting jumpscared while scrolling through Ateez and Jujutsu Kaisen content lol

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A Small Take On Letting Go Another ramble about letting go, I know we theoretically already have enough of those. But hey, one more won’t kill you. Depending on who you ask “how to let go”, you will get a bunch of different answers. Some LoA people will tell you “Just release your desire, you already have it” (I can be elbow deep in ice cream and still want more tbf), some shifters will tell you “just let go of this reality!”, before we finally meet the take of “Just forget about what you want entirely!”. The last take is probably a bit hard to do for shifters. Being one blink away from our dream lives and we are supposed to forget about it? Good one. Maybe this is a wild take, but before we jump onto “letting go”, we should probably figure out what we are holding onto in the first place. Otherwise, it’s like trying to paint a dog when you’ve never seen one. That masterpiece will probably end up looking like a deranged potato with legs. And yes, shocker, this is very likely another of those “figure it out yourself” things. No one can pry whatever security blanket you are holding from your death grip, only you can. Maybe you are holding onto this dumpster fire of a reality because it’s still a comfort zone. Familiarity feels safe after all. Or maybe you can’t give up a shred of control and just be for the moment. Who knows? Not me, I'm only here to yap. But recently (like 4am this morning), my surviving braincell sparked to life (stunning display of cognitive function, really): Letting go isn’t about your desires. It’s not about wanting your DR too much or manifesting wrong. It’s about letting go of the resistance between you and what you want. Shocking, right? If you think about it, shifters who “gave up” and shifted right after didn’t stop wanting their DR, they just stopped fighting the universe to get it. And the moment they let go of their resistance, the universe caved.

I’ll be over here in my corner sulking for a bit, because this took me way too long to figure out.

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Ignoring Your 3D

At this point I have a real vendetta against the phrase “ignore your 3D”. Not because the concept itself is trash, but because people keep twisting that into straight up unhealthy bullshit. I keep seeing posts like “Should I still study? Go to work? Hang out with friends? Because that isn’t ignoring the 3D, right?”. Like… hello? Yes. Do that shit. Please. For the love of everything go studying. See your friends. Pay your bills.

“Ignore the 3D” was never supposed to mean “rot in bed and let your entire life implode because ~DR vibes~”. You still have a meatsuit here, you are still aware of this reality (for now). And while that still is the case, maybe don’t turn into a sentient houseplant and instead take care of the bare minimum. Letting your life burn down because you think it will help you shift faster is, imo, a stupid idea. And honestly? That avoidance is what antis latch onto when they scream “shifting is unhealthy!”. Congrats, you just handed them ammo on a silver tray. Personally, I think saying “be indifferent to your 3D” makes a lot more sense than the word “ignore”. Because ignoring sounds like pretending none of your responsibilities here exist, which they still do, sadly. And that’s what leads people to think they are supposed to drop everything. Indifference sounds more like “Yes, I see the chaos of my CR life, I take care of it, but I don’t get emotionally bonded with it like it’s a sad rescue dog.”

And yes, I know somebody wants to pop up with “But I wouldn’t be doing that in my DR! They say I should act like I’m already in my DR!”. Cool. In my DR I wouldn’t be on hold for an hour with the embassy either because I need to renew my passport and that shit is complicated if you moved abroad. I still do it because it’s important for this reality. You catch my logic here? I wouldn’t do this in my DR, but I need to do this in my CR, so I show up anyway. That’s not hindering my progress, that’s just being functional. Bottom line of my rant: as long as you are still aware of this reality (even if every other fiber of your being is in your DR), you will have shit to deal with. And if you are already having trouble detaching from your CR while semi-relaxed, do you think the stress of an imploding life would help you with that? Wouldn't you be panicking too much to focus on being in your DR?

Keep affirming, scripting, visualizing, whatever shit gets you closer to your DR. But also eat vegetables, pay your rent, take care of your life here, because it may even help you shift faster. Less stress = more brain space to focus on shifting. You can be mentally in your DR and still show up for your CR. Spiritual multitasking or whatever you want to call it.

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The Glorification Of Struggle

“Is enduring part of the etiquette?”

The sacred art of struggling. The universally beloved tale: one brave soul simply must suffer deeply, cry dramatically (preferable during a rainy moment), be emotionally crushed, and then, after enough cinematic trauma, they’re finally deemed worthy of getting what they want. The more pain, the more it counts, right? The meat and potatoes of the hero’s journey. You’ve probably seen the movies. Read a book or two with that trope. We’ve been practically marinating in this narrative since birth. Struggle? Glorified. Sacrifice? Romanticized. Pain? Your ticket to the self worth club. Because if you aren’t sobbing into your pillow at 3am after the 12th failed attempt at shifting to a mildly improved life, are you even trying in the first place? We’ve been trained to believe that suffering = significance. That hardship makes things real. That if something doesn’t cost you blood, sweat, tears and one emotional breakdown, it probably isn’t valuable or worth it. So obviously, if we come to something as “big” as shifting, the ultimate act of rewriting your life to whatever you want it to be, we expect it to be a soul wrecking final boss battle. And then someone comes along and says: “Shifting is easy.” The collective gasp occurs. The pearl clutching, the little eye twitch. What do you mean, easy? Where is the suffering? The angst? The endless nights of crying while ambient piano music plays in the background? What do you mean I do not have to sacrifice my sanity first?

It doesn’t feel right to see shifting as easy. Not because the notion of shifting being easy is wrong, but because it clashes with our pain based programming. So what do you think we do? We sabotage shifting. Subtly. Subconsciously. But we do it spectacularly.

We start overcomplicating. Put 15 more steps in our shifting routine. Rewrite our script 27 times despite barely anything changing. Searching for “the real way”, “the one way” of shifting as if that shit is hidden behind a paywall and a dark night of the soul. Because if it’s too simple, it can’t be real or right, surely?

We don’t trust ease. It feels fake. Unfair. As if we are cheating in some way. Let’s be honest, a lot of shifters deep down don’t feel like they deserve to shift unless they struggled through some soul crushing journey beforehand. And that thinking? That’s a trap.

We don’t actually need to suffer to shift. But we insist on it. We expect it. So we create struggles where there actually doesn’t need to be any, just so we can feel like we’re worthy of the reward. Because we’ve been taught: if it’s hard, it must be meaningful. If it’s easy, something’s wrong. It’s like we don’t know how to want things and simply have them. We need the montage. We crave emotional bruises. We want our own phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes moment, even if we lit the fire that burnt us ourselves. But shifting doesn’t care about your emotional performance, it doesn’t hand out trophies for “Most Dramatic Attempt”. It’s not waiting for you to hit rock bottom to say “Okay, you suffered enough, to your DR you go”. You don’t need to burn out, break down or be worthy enough. You don’t have to earn ease. You can just… go. You can shift just because you want to. Because it feels good and because you’re allowed to. And despite that, here we are. Writing post after post doubting that shifting can be easy, making it harder than it needs to be. Doubting ourselves every time it feels too light, too good, too possible. Next time you doubt the “shifting is easy” narrative, ask yourself if you really think it’s impossible to be easy, or if you are just so used to struggling that you don’t know how it feels to simply let go and be at ease.

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It’s Perfectly Fine To Permashift

Oh no, someone dares to want to permashift, how scandalous. Call the shifting police before they escape. Yes, I am one of those people. The ones who have the nerve to admit this reality isn’t giving… well, anything worthwhile to stay for. My end goal? Shift and slowly forget about this dumpster fire of a reality until all that is left is the knowledge of shifting and a mild allergic reaction to the vibes of this reality. Now, because I dared to mention this once or twice in different corners of the community, I have the Universe’s unsolicited advice squad invade my inbox from time to time with the same message: “You are stuck because you want to escape! You should be grateful for this reality (and plan to come back)!” Absolutely. Let me just quickly kiss my trauma and thank it for the questionable character development. I’m not stuck. Just procrastinating like a pro, that’s a difference. But no, no, I am energetically stuck because I have the audacity to not fall in love with this reality. How spiritually reckless of me. And of course they rarely say “accept this reality while you are here”. Would be too easy. It’s almost always “love this reality, be thankful to be born into this reality, marry and raise a family with it. You are stuck as long as you use shifting as an escape. Everyone who hasn't shifted yet uses shifting as an escape and that is the reason they haven't shifted!!”. Sounds more like emotional blackmail than enlightenment. Let’s drop my melodramatic rant for a moment: It’s fine to want out. This reality? Kind of sucks to be honest. Not always, but just enough that it shouldn’t be a crime to want to be somewhere better. To want something better. It’s also not a moral failing. You’re not in shifting jail for not writing a daily gratitude journal entry about your asshole of a boss or the skyrocketing cost of living. Yeah, I know people say shifting is “easier” when you are calm, grateful, vibrating with love and light. Sure. Maybe, idk. You make the rules about how easy this shit is. But easier doesn’t mean required, no? There is no divine rulebook that says: “You must love your dumpster fire before you are allowed to leave.”

Enough people used shifting to escape, saw enough shifting success stories mentioning it to make it clear the Universe didn’t give them a slap on the wrist and yelled “NO! You are not grateful enough, back to the pit!”. Want something more personal? The first time I shifted I was also desperate to get away and I did it, not even knowing about shifting back then. But now that I do know what shifting is, suddenly I need to be emotionally healed, spiritually aligned and write love letters to my current reality to be able to leave again? Yeah, no. Thanks. Bite me. Escapism isn’t immediately toxic. Lying in bed 24/7, avoiding everyone and everything while decomposing? That is avoidance and yes, maybe you should reach out to someone. But planning to permashift while still taking care of yourself and your bills/school? That isn’t bad, that is strategy. That is the smart thing to do, it’s ambition.

You’re not stuck because you want to escape. You are stuck because you assume you are and keep repeating it to yourself or let others convince you that you are stuck. Repeat “I can’t shift, I will never shift” often enough and congrats, you build a brick wall in front of yourself. It’s like having the car running, but standing on the brakes and crying over why it’s not moving and how it doesn’t work. Buttercup, the car isn’t broken, it’s just you preventing it from moving.

TL;DR: It’s okay to want to permashift. You don’t need to be grateful for your current reality or romance your trauma to be able to leave. Wanting out doesn’t block you from shifting, unless you assume it will.

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Your Shifts Are Valid, Even The "Mini" Ones

Let's start with this, before I change my mind about being motivational for once: Your. Shifts. Are. Valid. Even if you only stayed for 30 seconds before you yeeted yourself back into your CR as if you saw taxes approaching at a rapid pace. Even if you couldn't make out the thread count of your DR sheets or recall what your carpet tasted like. Still counts. Still real. No refund needed. Before someone jumps in ready to fight: no, this isn't about people who say "mini shifts don't count for me personally, but I respect them for others". That's none of my business, go and do your thing ^-^ This is about the people who feel the need to barge uninvited into posts celebrating a mini shift and drop gems like: -> "It only counts if you stayed longer than a month" -> "You're not a real shifter if you only mini shifted" If, even for just a moment, you find yourself in your DR or another reality, saw your DR bedroom, smelled it, heard it, all of that, congrats buttercup, you shifted. You did it. You touched another reality. Just because you got startled, distracted or kicked yourself back by your own surprise doesn't mean it's invalid. Feels like shit, but it happens. The mechanics on how to do it? Still worked. The duration? Irrelevant The validation? Yours alone. Look at it this way: If a kid hops on a bike without training wheels for the first time, wobbles forward three meters, before crashing into the next hedge available, would you lean over them and tell them to their dirt covered little face: "Well, that didn't count because it was under 5 meters". Probably not, right? Unless you want to make kids cry. So why are we holding ourselves and others to those high arbitrary standards when it comes to shifting? Because some people are insecure? Because gatekeeping makes some people feel important? Because projecting their own failures onto others is easier than doing the inner work themselves? Maybe. Possible. Not really my problem. What ruffles my feathers is watching people share their excitment about a mini shift, all wide-eyed and buzzing with happiness, only to be told by some twat that it isn't valid because "it was under a month, so it doesn't count." And most of the time it comes from people who haven't even shifted themselves. From people who need others to fail too to feel better. Shifting isn't a sport, we have no leaderboard. No ones is handing out trophies for "who stayed the longest". This isn't a speedrun and sure as shit there is no reason to be a twat online over what people consider mini shifts. Stop comparing yourself to others, stop downplaying what you have accomplished and stop letting people tell you what counts as a shift and what not. Those five seconds are a lot more than what those people have managed. So celebrate it! Brag about it, be happy, you licked the multiverse and it looked awkwardly back. That is not nothing, that is everything.

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Focus? Put It Where It Belongs During Shifting Attempts

Let me with start with a little footnote about the post that inspired this post: A while ago, I scribbled something about “Expecting To Wake Up In Your CR” and this post is about what makes a lot of people expect to wake up here. And yes, I did read the comments, all of them. Did I reply? No. If you ask yourself why: because the thought of that much social interaction makes me shrivel up like a raisin in the sun. Bite me xD But really, I appreciate the comments… from a safe distance. Anyway, onto the good stuff presumably.

After indulging in a bit of shameless lurking in the community, skipping through comment sections and falling down the rabbit hole of part of the community on reddit starting to say shifting is just lucid dreaming after all, I tripped over a revelation like I trip over my cat late at night. Not really a new revelation, but it gets ignored with an impressive consistency: a whole lot of shifters redirect their focus back onto their CR while trying to shift. Brilliant strategy, isn’t it? It’s like trying to go on vacation while you duct taped your leg to your kitchen table. “But I want to go to my DR!”. Yeah, I’m sure about that, but you also grip your CR like an emotional support blanket reeking of trauma and disappointment. To put it into simple terms: Maybe your focus should be on your DR, not your CR, while attempting to shift. Not on what you are doing tomorrow in your CR. Not if your boss hates you. Not on the wet laundry you forgot in the washing machine (it’s molding, by the way).

Now, before someone decides to throw a tantrum in my inbox: I am not saying to ignore your CR 24/7. That’s unhealthy and mildly melodramatic. You should still try to function. Pay your bills, drink water, feed yourself something that didn’t come from the suspicious looking vending machine down the street. Maybe even water your houseplants (they already gave up on that probably).

But during a shifting attempt? Lock in. Full focus, full sensory override, tunnel vision. Pretend like your DR is the only reality that exists, because for those few minutes you are trying, it kinda is. The problem isn’t the method per se, not that you can’t visualize for shit or that you forgot to script the most unimportant detail about your DR. It’s oftentimes that your thoughts tap dance back to your CR every 0.3 seconds. Enough.

Most methods make you embody your DR self since 2018, right? So would your DR self worry about the bills in this reality or about Karen from HR? Probably not. Stop pulling yourself back to the reality you are trying to leave. When you try to shift, be it for 10 minutes or 45 minutes, your DR deserves your undivided attention. Smell the air, hear the sounds, imagine waking up in your DR and having it be so painfully normal that your CR feels like a dream.

Because you? You are not your job, not your dentist appointment, not the expired sushi in the back of your fridge you said you would throw out two days ago. You are consciousness, awareness, able to shift realities… and you let google calendar dictate on which reality you focus on? A bit disappointing. But you can do better.

TL;DR:

If you attempt to shift, focus on your DR like you mean it. You don’t owe your CR circumstances a single thought in those minutes. Act like your DR is the only reality that exists. If CR thoughts creep in, just swat them away, they don’t matter. You’re not anchored to this reality, unless you choose to be.

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Fuck Doubts. Fuck a "Doubt-Free Mindset". Just Don't Let Them Win.

Another rant from me? Yes. I am very proudly procrastinating a Scaramouche drawing and instead you get this semi delightful word vomit from me. You're very welcome (≧◡≦) ♡

The concept of a "doubt-free mind" in shifting haunted me back around 2020, and now (to my absolute dismay), I see it popping up again, poking at my eyeballs. No, I'm not talking about the "being doubt-free helps" stuff, I mean the "you must be doubt-free to shift" garbage. Anyone who has wrestled their doubts into submission or never had them in the first place? I applaud you and throw confetti your way, congrats, seriously. I dream to achieve your mental stability in my next lifetime. But to be real, most of the community isn't really built that way. I see people spiraling because somewhen, somewhere, someone spoon-fed them the idea that "doubt=failure". And the moment you have doubts, your progress will be gone like a corrupted save file. And now add the pseudo enlightened posts that ramble about "how you need a clear and completely doubt free mind, or you will never shift" nonsense, and we've got a recipe for tears, panic and unhappiness. Fuck that noise. If you happened to spent more than five minutes interacting with society in your life, congrats, you probably have doubts. Welcome to being a sentient human being, doubts come free with your lifelong oxygen subscription. We live in a world where people lie about literally anything: shifting, manifesting, lucid dreaming, their birth charts, shade of carpets, height, whatever really. It's normal to doubt and quirk up an eyebrow sometimes. Doubts are built in bullshit detectors that sometimes go off for no fucking reason. But they also keep you from handing over 500$ to some Instagram coach who claims to shift you in 3-7 business days, that's at least a win. The real issue is people clinging to their doubts and making them their entire reality instead of moving on or accepting them for what they are: there, but not supposed to dictate your reality. No, some people seem to build entire shrines to their doubts, whispering "Yes, I am unworthy, yes I will never shift, thank you, almighty fear of failure." like a weird prayer. No. Get up, take a breath and go. No need to be a blindly devoted believer, but for the love of being mildly functional, stop letting doubts run your life. Think of them as flies; persistent, annoying, respawning at the worst possible time. You wouldn't let them unpack their bags in your home and raid the fridge, right? Didn't think so either. What wrecks people isn't doubt, it's their own death grip on them. "I am doubting, I will never shift" Cool, you've just decided how this shit will end, are you happy now? Maybe just be open to entertaining the idea that you are capable of doing something despite doubts, and without immediately sabotaging yourself. Maybe it will help?

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Have you shifted ?

Yeah, luckily. More than once, but still struggling with the "getting to my actual DR" shit tho <.<

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I really needs to entre void tonight is there any way to entre void guarantedly tonight 🥰🥰

Before I say anything (hopefully) useful, I will give a small disclaimer: I'm not a void expert. Never really got around to trying it myself, despite knowing about it for a while by now. So take what I will say with a good amount of salt. But (!), I did spend a good amount of time researching manifesting and shifting and by extension also reading about the void state, so maybe I can toss some info your way. No promises that it will work, sorry. I will rip off the band-aid immediately: in shifting, manifesting and by extension the void state, there is not really a guarantee. No golden ticket, no button to press. Otherwise everyone would be hopping into the void and living their best lives. You will probably have to figure out what works for your (subconscious) mind, trial and error until it clicks. I don't want to be completely useless and just send you on the way with an answer that boils down to "sorry, but no", so I would recommend one method that seems to work for enough people to be relevant: The Single Focus Method (has a big brother called the Double Focus Method, were you just pick two things to focus on) - Get comfy, being distraction free is a bonus. - Pick one thing to focus on. A sound, an affirmation, your breathing, anything. - If random thoughts show up (they probably will), let them pass, same goes for any symptoms or random noises. Keep your focus on the one thing you chose earlier. - The moment everything else fades away and the only thing left is your awareness and the focus, you should have reached the void (or at least be standing in the doorway). If that doesn't work at all for you, I can recommend scouting the manifestation and shifting communities for the "I Am/God State". I've seen people use the names interchangeably and they seem to describe the same thing in the end, so close enough. Anyway, I wish you best of luck and am rooting for you (≧◡≦) ♡

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How To Assume

(stop being an overly anxious potato over manifesting)

Sometimes I see shifters asking “Oh, what should I do? Nothing is working :(“ and they get hit with the good ol “just assume” stamp and send on their way. And then, barely 10 steps later, they turn around and whisper “... the fuck do I even assume?”. Before I chew your ear off: assuming isn’t hard. Well, not really, but people tend to make it hard. We as humans just love acting like we need to turn ourselves into a pretzel every time we want something “big”. We actually assume every day - when we decide we suck, when we tell ourselves we’ll never shift anyway, when we confidently declare we are stuck in our 3D and shifting is just too good to be true and all those people in the reddit community saying it’s just astral projecting or deep lucid dreaming are right (what is even going on over there atm?). Guess what your 3D is doing with those assumptions? It grabs them, says “bet!” and starts running like it’s a race. Congrats ^-^ But hey, the good news: if you can assume all of that shit, you can also assume that you have shifted. Yeay! In the spirit of keeping it simple, I turned the way I see assuming into a neat little list. Enjoy, or not: 1. Just Decide That’s it. Thanks for coming to my TED talk, exit is to the right. Okay, it sounds suspiciously simple and I know some brains will twitch a bit right now with “That can’t be it”. But it is. You sit down, breathe and say “I have shifted”. No begging, no pleading, no howling at the moon. You just decide, and that is where a lot of people crumble already by pleading for it to happen instead of deciding it has happened. You don’t need an approval stamp, you are the CEO of your own reality, not the intern grabbing coffee. Act like it. Deciding isn’t hoping or praying, it’s simply knowing. No matter if shit catches up immediately, tomorrow or next week. Doesn’t matter, let go of the need for it to happen right now. 2. Stop checking You said you shifted and now you are still checking your reality every 2 seconds like a teenager waiting for a message from their crush. Stop it. You’re rereading your script, watching shifting TikTok like the answer to all your problems will jump at you, poking your subconscious like “are we there yet?”. That’s not assuming, that is panic dressed up as productivity (or something like that). You are basically saying “I don’t actually believe this is done and decided”. Cut it out. Just go live your life. Play some games, touch grass with two hands and one face (beware of bees), breathe some fresh air. Your desire won’t implode because you stopped choking it out and stopped micromanaging everything. Obsessing doesn’t equal manifesting. Just let it cook. 3. You commit or you quit Assuming means you have to kinda commit to it. You’re not almost there, or halfway shifted. You are there. You have shifted, no more ifs and whens and buts and any other kind of spiraling. Take five minutes out of your day, relax into that knowing (or deciding). Feel your DR bed, hear your DR friends be loud as fuck for no reason, smell the DR air. Let your imagination drown out this reality like unwanted background noise. Similar to the fake arguments you rehearsed in the shower. You never needed help with those, did ya? 4. Yell at your doubts Maybe do this one internally, unless you are really feeling bold today. Every time your doubts creep in and whisper “What if it is not real?”, you turn around, embrace your inner main character energy and yell back “Shut the fuck up Brenda (sorry to all the Brendas out there), get back into the backseat. You’re not driving, I am.” Your doubts don’t get a say in what you want. They are not invited. You think your DR self is out there wondering if they are real or not? No, they are living the life you are telling yourself is unreachable.

5. Feeling ready is overrated, just do it Stop waiting to feel ready and questioning if your script is perfect or not. Your brain will rarely send you the green light you think you need to go ahead. You will feel silly, you will feel delusional. And you might feel like a clown. Embrace it, be the clown. Insist on what you decided until your 3D gets nervous and bends over in existential fear. You don’t wait to feel certain, you decide you are certain. And then go and act like it’s done.

TL;DR (how dare you, but fine T-T) Assuming you have shifted is like assuming the sun will rise tomorrow. You don’t argue with your friend about it. You don’t beg the sun to rise again. You just know and walk with the confidence that it’s happened, and with shifting you do so because you said so. That’s it. Stop overthinking. Assume and now go, I need to do some drawing stuff.

[calebslittlecrow]

Can You Finally Start Trusting Yourself?

Before I start wasting time by babbling, I'm gonna rip off a band aid real quick: Nobody is gonna shift for you. Not your favorite shiftfluencer (is that even a word?) that you treat like an emotional support blogger. Not the person posting about visiting 45 different DRs before breakfast today. Not the universe, not the cat, and not the method-du-jour you snagged off Pinterest that has you dance around your room while speaking backwards. It's on you and only you. Your mind, your subconscious, your choice to actually commit instead of just dreaming about committing to shifting and your DR. You want to shift, manifest, actually change shit, do anything else but rehearse the same 5 scenarios from your DR in your head? Then maybe, just as a suggestion, the next time you mutter your affirmations, say them like you mean it. Put some weight behind them, instead of just whispering them as sad little wishes into the void, hoping something will pity you enough to throw shit back. To be blunt: a lot of affirmations feel like nothing, because there isn't an ounce of conviction behind them. You say them with the energy of a soggy toast in the rain and nothing changes. You don't believe yourself, you don't trust the words you are saying. Very likely you picked them up from somewhere else and now you repeat them like a parrot with separation anxiety. That's not claiming anything and not owning your own power. That's just hoping something will happen if you say it often enough. And your subconscious knows it. It's watching you whisper "I am powerful, I've shifted" into your pillow, knowing you don't trust that anything will actually happen. It watches you spiral and open Tumblr to play the daily game of "who has shifted today while I didn't?". It sees you and it knows. Affirmations are only as powerful as the conviction behind them. Without at least a baseline of trust, your affirmations are empty words, basically. They need some backbone. Before you come at me, I am not saying you need unwavering belief 1000% percent of the time. That is unrealistic, especially if you haven't shifted yet... and maybe even if you have. But what maybe should be there? A grain of trust. A tiny bit of confidence that your words aren't just used to fill the silence. Trust that you are saying "I have shifted" not because someone told you to do so, but because you decided that you have shifted. Trust that your words, intention and decisions mean something. That your words can do something, get stuff into motion. That kind of trust gives affirmations power and turns them from just words to what they are supposed to be. Say them and then buckle up, because there is no going back anymore.

[calebslittlecrow]

Manifested A New Monitor In Under 24 Hours

Apparently success stories are motivational or shit, so here is one for y'all. Not really my thing to share success stories normally, but this one is so dumb and fast maybe it helps someone. Take it or leave it basically ┐( ˘ ､ ˘ )┌ Anyway, context: I do digital art. Like a lot, a metric fuckton of drawing anime men. And I have been using the same monitor since the beginning of my art journey. I love that crusty old bastard, we have been through a lot. But like most good things lately it has been going downhill. Not in a "look how quirky" - kind of way. More like the "I may implode mid-project and flash seizure lights at you" - kind of way. And the power button stopped working, so it won't even turn off. Do I have other monitors? Yes. Are they decent for digital art? Hahaha... no. Yeah, I could use one of them in case my monitor suddenly flatlines while I'm trying to merge some layers or play Genshin or Dead By Daylight or whatever. But honestly? I rather wrestle my old monitor out of the afterlife than deal with whatever piss-yellow color settings filter those monitors have going on. But I wasn't actively looking for a new monitor either, because a decent one costs more than my will to live. Not ready for that kind of financial trauma. Didn't thought about manifesting one either, my brain kinda forgot this was an option. What happened? I saw an absolute unit of a monitor at my friends desk. Colors so juicy they made my eyes water and my heart lurch. Size big enough to show me my shrimp like posture while drawing in full HD reflection. I thought "Damn this thing is nice. I will get one like that one day. Mine". That was it. No drama, no longing gazes at the monitor, no dropping hints at my friend that I want the monitor. No hints that my old one was being cranky and slowly turning into a microwave. Just looked at that spicy monitor and internally decided one like that would be mine. Fast forward not even 24 hours later and my friend suddenly turns to me and asks: "Hey, you want that monitor? I never use it anyway". That exact monitor I locked eyes with the day before. Zero effort, zero mental crisis. We swapped, one of my backup monitors for that gorgeous piece of display heaven (that thing has touchscreen too T-T). "But Mochi, why are you telling us this boring story???" Because sometimes shit just works like that. No need to strangle or micromanage every detail of your manifestations. I wanted it, I probably mentally claimed it and went on with chugging a liter of hot chocolate with milk despite being lactose intolerant. No pressure, no mental crisis, no "what if I never get a monitor that nice?", no "I need it now or I'll explode." Same applies to shifting more or less. Maybe we should sometimes back off and trust the process, and maybe the 3D will get its ass up and actually do shit. And yeah, I struggle with that in regards to shifting too. No shame in admitting that. I want my DR so bad and now and I question everything I do twice, I basically build a brick wall in front of myself. But shit like those small manifestations make us learn, right? Right ^-^

[calebslittlecrow]

The Sudden Fear Of Shifting

Okay, I'm probably not the only one who was practically licking the floor of their DR , only for my brain to suddenly flip a switch saying: "Wait a damn minute. This is weird. Abort! Freak out! Send help!". And of course I jolt upright in my bed in the middle of the night mid method, heart racing and cats scattering as if I summoned a demon in the middle of the bedroom. This shit if so frustrating. I want this, I want shifting and my DR and my slightly-stupid-but-still-trying boyfriend! I spent hours scripting, listening to subliminals and getting hyped as fuck, only for my own brain to body-check me back into my CR. After sulking for a while and thinking about it, I realized I'm not afraid of being in my DR, despite it being a bit chaotic and unknown. I'm scared of that stupid in-between. It's the thought of the transition. The small leap from what what is known and safe to something that maybe is still a bit uncharted for me. The destination isn't scary, the fucking launch to get there is. Don't even know when that shit sneaked in. There is different kinds of unknown. Like the "moved to a new city unknown": it is still familiar, you lived or have been in cities before, the general vibe is still there. But shifting? That is something completely new for most of us, at least the "big" jump to our DR. New memories, people, surroundings, maybe a very different looking you. And we can read a hundred shifting stories, we cannot tell how shifting will feel for ourselves, that moment of crossing. Not until we experience it. Floating? Dropping? Vibrating like a washing machine on the spin cycle? Just waking up there? Bam, suddenly there? We can't be sure and a lot of times that "not sure" is the scary thing. And sometimes when that uncertainty gets a bit too loud, we recoil and grab the first thing that feels safe: this CR. Even if it sucks real bad. Up until this point your DR has lived in the safe box of your imagination. Real for you, yes, but you could mold it however you wanted, break and rebuild it. The moment it starts to get real, viscerally real, your brain notices that you are about to lose some of that control and god, it really doesn't like that feeling sometimes.

But I scraped some tips together that can potentially help ^- ^: 1. Make You Room Familiar Some reddit shifter (don't remember the name, sorry T-T), once said their fear disappeared the moment they made themselves actually familiar with their DR bedroom (the place they wanted to wake up in). Get visual. Go to Pinterest, search shit like "Hogwarts dorm room aesthetic" or "cottage bedroom", "bedroom with plants" or something like that, whatever fits your DR vibe. Pick a few images and study them for a while. Where is the bed? Where are the windows? How is the light falling into the room? Is the carpet soft and fluffy? Become so familiar with that room that you can point your brain at it every time you start to feel nervous. "Look, we know where we will wake up. The windows are there, the bedsheets look and feel like that. It's okay and familiar, chill". Scripting your morning routine can also help from what I've heard, plan it out and find an anchor in knowing what you are about to do after waking up in your DR.

2. Stop Choking Out Your Desires I know we are all saying we are not trying to micromanage shifting (or our manifestations), but a lot of us still have our desires in a stupid chokehold. You don't need to be in control of every tiny step and symptom. Imagine shifting as making a vase out of clay. If your grip is too tight and rough, the vase will look.... wonky. Maybe you won't even get something vase shaped. But if you guide it gently and with light hands, letting the clay take form, it will turn out much nicer. Let your subconscious do it's thing, have some trust. 3. Grounding Before Detaching Kay, that sounds stupid, but hear me out for a moment. Before shifting, take a minute or two. Just take deep breaths, touch something solid like your bedsheets, your hand, your leg. Ground yourself for a moment in the knowledge that you are safe here, no matter what. You can always freely come back to safety. If your brain feels grounded in safety, it's easier to stop the panic from suddenly slamming in. 4. Reframe Your Fear Affirm that the weird fluttering in your chest isn't fear, it's excitement. Tell yourself that this is okay, safe and not worth freaking out over. Similar to Christmas back when you were a kid and saw the presents (probably). The more you affirm, the easier it should get. We got this. After all, can't let some stupid fear keep us away from our dream lives, right? ^-^

[calebslittlecrow]

Expecting To Wake Up In Your CR

Okay, granted, not everyone has this problem - but a lot of people carry around this little assumption and expectation to wake up in their current reality again. No matter what they do. You've got your script ready. Your method is comfy and your chosen subliminal slaps. You feel ready and everything is in place. But deep down? Deep down you prepare yourself for your alarm in the morning. Prepare yourself for the same room, the same body, the same boring reality trot. It's like saying to the universe "Surprise me!", but also slipping in a quiet note saying "Please don't. Just copy yesterday". It's not new knowledge that your subconscious is running the show behind the scenes. But what we sometimes forget is that our subconscious picks its believes from us... from our habits, patterns, the things we repeat over and over again, even the ones we are not fully aware of. And since most of us are raised in a world that values logic, linear thinking, the "you only live once" mentality, it's no surprise some of us struggle with seeing any other reality as "just as real". Not your fault, it's just conditioning doing its work. Shifting goes basically against everything you have been taught to expect, so it can feel hard to rewire that believe on the go. You are a bit like a Roomba - just doing your little routines, bumping into some unexpected furniture on your usual way, programmed by years and years of subconscious patterns and habits. Cute, but kinda confused a lot. Doesn't mean you are broken, just shows you are human. What you can do is trying to catch that thought, the expectation of waking up here, before it starts to settle in again. Don't just say "I hope I shift". Hope is passive. Try something like: "I believe it's possible to shift" "I expect to shift" "My CR isn't the default. My DR can be the default too." You subconscious learns best from repetition, dominant believes and a sense of familiarity. So start feeding it those things, instead of doubt disguised as fickle believe. Once you start treating your DR as absolutely inevitable, it becomes harder for your brain to argue with that over time. You're not failing, just learning. And every single time you turn those pesky little thoughts in more productive ones, you are rewiring your believes. That's not small, that is huge! That is taking your power back from just letting things happen. You are basically standing in the doorway to your DR, you just need to find your way to step into it.