Cassie

I hate (love, actually) to break it to you, but you actually have! Just hear me out.

We are constantly being told that shifting is "the act of moving your awareness from a reality to another", which is true.

However there has always been some confusion/ misinformation (in most popular shifting spaces) about what qualifies as a different reality, and consequently, about what qualifies as a reality shift.

What I've noticed throughout the years that I've been observing and engaging with shifting spaces online, is that most shifters only consider something "a shift" when you become aware of a different reality in a way that breaks the illusion of continuity (let's call this category 1).

Here are some examples of breached continuity:

- if you fall asleep in your cr and wake up in you desired reality -> that's a shift.

- if you fall asleep with a red t-shirt on, and wake up with a yellow t-shirt on -> you shifted to a "parallel" reality.

But whenever the change doesn't impact continuity (considered as normal) they don't think of it as a shift (let's call this case category 2).

For example:

-Falling asleep with the tv on, and waking up with the tv off --> not considered a shift because it is "common sense" that the tv goes on stand by after a while.

- Or, falling asleep in the car as a kid and waking up in your bed--> not considered a shift because "obviously " your parents carried u to ur bed, right?

Right...?

WRONG!!!

Both categories fall under the umbrella term "shifting", because in both cases your subconscious beliefs "triggered" a change of awareness (a shift).

And for the very same reason, any slight changes, or occurrences that you experience in life can be referred to as shifts.

Long story short the mechanism behind shifting to your desired reality is the same mechanism behind you waking up to your phone having its battery on 100% after charging it overnight (for example).

So yes, you have definitely shifted before.

a) using other people online as face claims

b) being against race, gender & age changing

We have infinite amount of lives, and unlimited amount of people that we already are, we’re just shifting our awareness to the reality where we are that race or we are that age, etc. Because shifting is not making up a story, it’s choosing the reality you’re shifting to ‼️ Shifting is inevitable, and you can’t help who you are in this reality, so why could you help who you are in another reality? I think a lot of it is shifters that don’t really understand it or see it how it really is, and also anti-shifting propaganda.

Because “race changing” in shifting is different to like race changing in general, you know? You’re a different race in another reality, and you’re just shifting and becoming aware of that self that’s a different race. But it’s not the same as trying to change your race in this reality or just any reality where you already have a set race.

And using a person’s face in this reality as your face claim in another reality is the same as like using a song made another artist in this reality, and using it as a song made by you in your reality in say a fame dr! It’s still the same, and that’s just your face in another reality. It’s not “weird”, it’s the same thing as ‘that’s their face in this reality, but your face in that reality’. You know?

a) using other people online as face claims

b) being against race, gender & age changing

We have infinite amount of lives, and unlimited amount of people that we already are, we’re just shifting our awareness to the reality where we are that race or we are that age, etc. Because shifting is not making up a story, it’s choosing the reality you’re shifting to ‼️ Shifting is inevitable, and you can’t help who you are in this reality, so why could you help who you are in another reality? I think a lot of it is shifters that don’t really understand it or see it how it really is, and also anti-shifting propaganda.

Because “race changing” in shifting is different to like race changing in general, you know? You’re a different race in another reality, and you’re just shifting and becoming aware of that self that’s a different race. But it’s not the same as trying to change your race in this reality or just any reality where you already have a set race.

And using a person’s face in this reality as your face claim in another reality is the same as like using a song made another artist in this reality, and using it as a song made by you in your reality in say a fame dr! It’s still the same, and that’s just your face in another reality. It’s not “weird”, it’s the same thing as ‘that’s their face in this reality, but your face in that reality’. You know?

⠀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.