Everything I Know About Shifting

Methods

Methods are divided into two big categories. On one side you have the sleep methods and on the other the awake methods. As you might have guessed, sleep methods end with you falling asleep, whether awake methods involve you shifting while being awake. Fair warning, some people are less comfortable doing awake methods because you actually feel your surroundings change, which can eventually freak you out. It just takes time to get used to them that's all.

Know that there are a bunch of method out there, and that I haven't tried all of them. But I'll explain those I have tried.

As a beginner, I was told the only way or rather the most effective way to shift was the "raven method" and while this method might have worked for some, it didn't prove that useful to most.

The "raven method" starts with laying down in your bed in a starfish position. Then you have to start counting to one hundred and when you're done you should visualize, fall asleep and wake up in your "desired reality". For me, this was a fairly uncomfortable position, I could not for the life of me, fall asleep like that. To be fair, in order to do the method, you have to be rather tired, but it just didn't do the trick for me.

After trying the Raven method, I decided to try a few other ones such as the Alice in Wonderland method and the Elevator method, but the one that I liked most was the Julia Method, which I will explain a little later. The first two methods mentioned here require visualization, now feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but as far as I know, visualizing means imagining a scene but making it feel real. So basically, using your five senses to "feel" the place you want to wake up in. Now, I am not particularly fond of visualization since I am a logical person and cannot picture something that simply isn't there yet. For this reason, I could not stick with these methods. I will however take the time to explain them in case you feel drawn to any of them.

The Alice in Wonderland one is pretty simple. You picture yourself running after a rabbit. This rabbit then goes through a rabbit hole and you somehow manage to get though it as well. Only now you are falling and falling and end up in front of a door. You find a key and eventually the rabbit asks you if you are ready. If you are, or if the rabbit is even there, you open the door and BOOM, you're in your DR.

Then, there's the Elevator method. For this one you have to visualize yourself in an elevator that keeps going up, (or down) and as the elevator moves, you see different floors. You can imagine a different DR on each floor for example. When the elevator stops, the doors open and you are there.

I almost forgot about this one, but I also tried the Train method a few times. You visualize you're on a train to the place you want to shift to. This method works especially well if you want to shift to Hogwarts.

Now for the Julia method. I have used this method countless times and I am still very fond of it; however, I am not so sure as to how effective it actually was for me. The Julia method starts with saying affirmations starting with "I AM" or even just saying that, until you feel some symptoms. After that, you start counting to one hundred and say things about your DR self in between numbers. If this is too complicated you can just say five things about yourself every 10 counts or something. Either way, you should always feel free to adapt any method to how you see fit. Right, when you're done with this, you continue with affirmations or can start visualizing. This method was actually an awake method to start with, but turning it into a sleep method works just as well. The only difference between the two is that for the latter you have to fall asleep instead of staying awake, no big deal there.

After the Julia method, I think I just tried the Intention method and to be honest it is the EASIEST method out there. All you have to do is set the intention to shift, go to sleep and shift. Setting an intention just means believing, with no doubt in mind that you're shifting that night. It's just like saying that you are going to eat that day and then do just that. A way to help with the intention method is to train your brain to know that after you say you intend to do something, that happens. Let's say you want to read a book. Just say "I intend to read a book", then read your book. Do this for a few days and your mind should get accustomed to it. If this method does not work for you, have no worries there are plenty of other ways to do it.

A year after I started my journey, the methods I use the most are the Affirmation method and the Awake back to sleep method because they're somewhat simple and I'm getting really lazy. As you may have guessed, for the Affirmation method you have to say affirmations until you fall asleep and for the Awake back to sleep method you are supposed to go to sleep, then set an alarm for around four hours after you sleep, wake up and do something to jog you up a bit (I've heard people say you should do this for 30 minutes, but just do what you want honestly). When you decide to go back to sleep, fall asleep thinking of your DR or visualize it or put on a subliminal that reminds you of your DR, whatever you like.

As I have mentioned before, you can adapt methods to your preferences, you can add a subliminal or say affirmations instead of counting for example. If you want, you can also create your own method. Here is a list of the things you can incorporate in it if you want. These are just suggestions, but I cannot stress this enough: do what you like and what makes you feel comfortable.

Getting your body to fall asleep: counting, affirming, repeating one word, or one sentence, focusing on your breath, concentrating on the darkness behind your eyelids

Connecting to your desired reality: thinking about your DR, visualizing, using your emotions

Jog things up

Feel free to try any method that appeals to you. Don't do a method you don't like simply because it helped some people. With that being said, if you try a method, use it a couple of times to see if you resonate with it, don't drop it immediately if you didn't see results.

The Void State

The Void State is a deep meditative state in which you feel both nothing and everything. Meditate until you get to this state, then visualize or say affirmations about your DR. You can also affirm while you meditate saying things such as "I AM", "I AM PURE CONSCIOUSNESS", etc, up to the point where you get to the Void State and affirm about your DR.