hi i hope youre doing well
i have a question about shifting and im really not sure what to do about it. i would appreciate any answer at all :)
what should i do if shifting is sort of an escape? ive been told to focus on this reality but i have a hard time doing that because everything i do here is just a means to an end, because frankly, i dont want to live in a reality like this. basically everything i do here, i just do so that i can shift. on one hand ive been told (and i agree) that its a bad mindset to have, but i just cant look at this world and find any reason to want to stay here for longer than i have to. i fear that my desperation to shift is holding me back, but i do not see myself being able to accept staying in this reality any longer.
again, i appreciate any answer or advice at all <3
hi anon!!! you're so lovely, and i'm so so sorry this reply took me a month!! but hopefully it could still be helpful <333
seeing shifting as an escape isn't necessarily the problem. the root of it is thinking there's an escape at all.
you cannot escape reality because it's who you are. you cannot escape yourself.
when i say "yourself", i'm not talking about you with your name and life and experiences, etc. i'm talking about your true identity, which is always always unchanging, as source, god, that undefinable something.
when you say "everything here is just a means to an end" and you "just can't look at this world and find any reason to want to stay here" i'm going to ask you to think about that feeling you say is yours and think about those thoughts instead of just accepting them as true. because trust me, i've been there, but that feeling is not truth.
shifting is just an expression of you, it's ultimately just an experience like this one. and it happens within you, just like this "reality" and experience. you might be struggling to shift because you don't see yourself as the whole, complete, center from which experiences arise, and instead are viewing yourself as something lost and broken, needing to exist somewhere else in order to be whole and happy.
from my own experience, trying and trying while feeling this way does nothing except keep you feeling this way while nothing seems to change. i'd say, instead of accepting the feeling of "i need to get out of here" as your truth, try to slow down, zoom out, notice what you actually are. you're not one little person trying to escape reality. you're completely blank right now in this moment, the container in which everything appears. so you're not burdened by a past of "shifting is escape and i don't know what to do" or "i'm stuck somewhere i don't want to be", etc. because those are not and never have been what you actually are.
you don't need to escape, and you never can, because you are everything. what you want is actually to step into MORE of yourself, because that is what shifting is. it's you playing with the limitlessness and nothingness of what you actually are. it's not escape, but just existing. so instead of focusing so much on "i need to get out of here", think about "i get to experience something else", from a place of abundance, not lack.
because truthfully, there is nothing wrong with where you are now. when you see yourself or your life or things happening around you that feel imperfect, also see how none of that is really anything. no identity or experience can define you because who you are is beyond definition and beyond any single appearance.
i love you so much and i hope this could help!!
Priscilla ୨ৎ










