Shifting is half mindset, half being in an altered state
A conclusion I came to is that: the advice Iâd give people whoâve tried everything but still havenât shifted is to drop everything and focus entirely on inducing mind-awake, body-asleep and an altered state. I thought âif thatâs what I think, then what the heck is shifting actually comprised of?â Other than two raccoons in a trench coat.
So yeah, I think shifting is half your mindset, half being in an altered state. But âhalfâ is extremely flexible. For some people, mindset (Iâm talking law of assumption, using affirmations, knowing itâs done, acting as if, all that stuff) can be 90%, maybe even 99%, while the altered state is just the tiniest sliver, like 1%. For others, maybe itâs 70% mindset and 30% altered state. And then for someone else, it might be 90% altered state and only 10% mindset. It can be 80/20, 60/40, 50/50. The ratio changes depending on the person.
I believe this so firmly because one manifests the other. For example: The intention you hold (to shift) manifests you getting into an altered state and then shifting from there. On the flip side, getting into an altered state can completely change your worldview, shift your pov, and change your mindset (think, someone having a sleep paralysis episode where they almost shift, and from then on they realize how malleable their awareness is from that state, so they use it to their benefit).Â
âDoes that mean people who blink and suddenly find themselves in their DR used an altered state?âÂ
I think yes, but not because they reached hypnagogia or the void without noticing (though that does happen), but because the instant you become aware of another reality, your state has altered, it isnât fixed to one reality anymore.
So if you used law of assumption to shift, assumed you were already in your DR, blinked and you were there instantly,,, that blink was the altered state. Thatâs why for some people the ratio looks like 1% altered state, 99% mindset, but the altered state is still present; it can just show up as an almost-instant switch because the mindset did the heavy lifting. The point is, they go hand in hand.
âSo wtf do I doâ Welll wtf have you been doing? Letâs see
Mindset-heavy shifting looks like: law of assumption (believing itâs already done), affirmations and mantras, acting as if youâre already in your DR, trying to feel emotions from your DR, visualizing or scripting and then âliving from itâ, and mental diets.
Altered state-heavy shifting looks like: trying to enter the void, inducing sleep paralysis, working with hypnagogia (images, sounds, sensations), watching for symptoms (tingles, floating, vibrations, etc.), lucid dreaming, wbtb, breathwork, or MABA.
My theory right now is that someone whoâs struggling to shift might be honing in on the half that doesnât serve them. Think about it. Some people thrive with the law of assumption, âacting as if,â rampaging affirmations, living in the mindset of being a master shifter. Thatâs what works for them, and then they shift. But then thereâs the other group, where people shift through sleep paralysis, the void, hypnagogia, wbtb, and so on. So thereâs three paths to takeÂ
If youâve been trying with mindset, you drop all of that completely. You stop fussing over whether your mindset is âperfectâ or not, stop worrying about trying to maintain constant positivity, assumptions, the identity of being a master shifter, and acting as if.
Your mindset literally doesnât matter here. You could spiral, be depressed, feel like crap, acknowledge your circumstances, whatever. It has nothing to do with your ability to shift. Instead, you focus only on inducing altered states. Of course this could mean the void state, lucid dreaming, meditation, hypnagogia, whatever makes sense to you. BUT the most simple thing to start with thatâs the foundation of all of these, is mind awake, body asleep (MABA).
But MABA is notttt meditating for hours while staying still. It can be, but in my experience, the trick is to not try to force what will happen. Your only job for MABA is: keep the mind engaged, and let the body relax all the way. Iâm going to link my wbtb hack, that eyelid method, and ways to not fall asleep, because those are all âhackâ MABA.
But thereâs so many little ways to do this such as playing a song you love while letting yourself stay awake (because you wonât notice your body fall asleep). Or sleeping with light in the room (at any degree). Or even using a physical anchor, like falling asleep with a clothespin pinching you. I could do a whole list, but the point is: start experimenting with what makes your body fall asleep while your mind hangs on to awareness, and just forget everything about your mindset, affirmations, etc.Â
Say you were mindset-heavy, but dropped the mindset grind and simplified the process by focusing on MABA. Once you started getting experiences from those altered states, like symptoms, little wins, shifts â it rewired your belief. You saw results and realized this shit is real, and your mindset changed naturally. Now youâre that person who both knows they can shift and can induce the altered state to shift when they want.
Now letâs say youâve been doing the opposite. Youâve been trying to induce the void, working with hypnagogia, grinding at altered states night after night, and nothing ever happens. For you, itâs time to abandon altered states completely. Forget the void, forget lucid dreams, forget all of it. Shift your focus 100% to mindset.Â
NOTT the obsessive, micromanaging kind where youâre terrified of the 3D or counting every negative thought. I mean how it alll falls back on how the intention manifests the HOW, and not the other way around.Â
In practice, that means youâll end up using your mindset to generate the altered state. A lot of the altered states people chase rely on relaxation and not forcing an outcome. So when you lean entirely into the leaned-back âthis is mine, Iâm done trying tonight, fuck itâ â and stop micromanaging the method (no frantic meditation, no wrestling to keep your mind awake while your body falls asleep), you often get better results. Youâve probably noticed that when you donât try, or barely try, is when it actually usually happens â and thatâs the point! Thatâs why doing something completely different takes the pressure off and allows whatever the fuck you want to arrive more easily.
Say you were altered-state heavy, so you flipped it. You stopped forcing hypnagogia, void, WBTB, whatever youâd been chasing. By focusing on your intention, and not forcing anything, the altered state just showed up on its own. Now youâre someone who has the mindset and the ability to fall into that state without trying so damn hard.
Then we have the in-between people, the ones doing both. Youâre affirming, living as if, repeating âIâm already in my DR,â and at the same time trying to induce altered states, the void, hypnagogia, whatever. Wellllll, youâre actually doing one or the other ;-; and Iâll tell you why.Â
Because you have a fallback that youâre going to do tonight no matter what. Youâll either try a mindset-heavy attempt (âIâm already in my DR, I can feel it, Iâm thereâ), or youâll try an altered-state-heavy attempt (inducing the void, MABA, etc.). The trick to know what youâre doing is: if youâre affirming and telling yourself that youâre in your DR while trying to induce an altered state, then youâre not really doing an altered state attempt. Youâre using mindset to carry you into one. **If your whole attempt would collapse without affirmations or acting as if, tying to feel your DR, then youâre still mindset-first.Â
But if your whole attempt relies on NEEDING the symptoms, NEEDING to feel hypnagogia coming, then youâre secretly relying on the altered state. Once you realize what youâre actually doing, go back and choose path 1 or 2.
The point is to get rid of whatever part of this is making you miserable, and choosing the path of least resistance.
INSUM / TL;DR: If youâre doing mindset-heavy stuff (law of assumption, affirmations, acting as if, etc.), then drop it and focus entirely on altered states. Start with mind-awake/body-asleep since itâs the easiest and you can hack it however you like.
If youâre doing altered state-heavy stuff (the void, hypnagogia, symptoms, lucid dreaming, etc.), then drop that and focus entirely on mindset. And mindset doesnât have to mean obsessive affirming or acting as ifâit can literally just be acknowledging your intention, knowing itâs yours, and letting whatever happens, happen.
If you think youâre doing both, youâre actually leaning on one or the other. To find out which, check what you do at night when you ignore all advice. If your fallback is a method built on affirmations, feelings, or pretending youâre already in your DR, thatâs mindset-heavy. If your fallback is expectant of symptoms, hypnagogia, etc,, thatâs altered state-heavy.
I feel like I need to throw a big disclaimer: if this doesnât resonate with you, if you donât get it, please just ignore it. You donât have to follow it, and itâs not some universal law you need to care about. I just post for fun, block me if you must.