Rotten’s Practical Guide to Shifting Realities

You'll find that this guide is not entirely written by me, it’s more of a compilation of my research, my tries, my failures and ultimately what led me to success. Most of the texts you’re gonna find here are written by expert researchers of consciousness that shared their discoveries many decades ago, and since the basis is the same (phasing), I adapted it to shifting realities.

We'll emphasize the importance of patience, practice, and self-discovery, guiding you through the process of refining your ability to shift realities at will.

Remember, shifting realities is a personal journey, and each individual's experience is unique. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. If you're like me and found this a bit tricky at first, don't worry! I did a lot of research and tried many things. This is a repeatable and proven path that anyone can replicate with enough practice. I’m not trying to invalidate anyone. This is my approach.

It's important to know that some people might make it seem super easy, they might naturally have a natural aptitude for it, hold fewer limiting beliefs, or possess a greater trust in their subconscious. But others, like me who grew up super skeptical, need a bit more guidance to get started. This is a guide for people who aren’t naturals. For most of us, it's a journey that takes time and practice. And that's okay!

Let's be real – this isn't a magic spell. It's not like turning on a light switch. It's more like learning a cool dance or a new game. You won't shift overnight, and that's okay! Every step is important, and with practice, you'll get better.

The heart of this guide is the "sweet spot" technique. Think of it as the golden ticket to this adventure. It's the key that unlocks the door to shifting realities. While everything in this guide is helpful, the sweet spot it's what helps you start the process of shifting realities (and it’s also useful for other things!).

But remember, this isn't a magic spell that works instantly. Shifting realities is a skill, and like any skill - be it playing an instrument, or baking cookies - practice makes perfect. It might not happen on your first try, or even the second. But with patience and dedication, in a few months, maybe less, you'll find yourself exploring new realities.

So, remember, this is a journey, not a race. Take your time, read and practice everything as you go reading, especially the "sweet spot." It's like learning to ride a bike – you might wobble at first, but soon you'll be riding smoothly. With practice, patience, and the right approach, shifting realities will become a skill you can use anytime you want.

The best part? Once you've got it, you can do it again and again! Everyone can become an explorer of new realities.  As you delve ahead, keep an open mind, embrace curiosity, and approach your practice with a sense of wonder.

Ready to start your journey? Let's dive in! 🌌🚀

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

 Marcel Proust

FOCUS 10 - MIND AWAKE, BODY ASLEEP - STATE AKIN TO SLEEP

The Sweet Spot

The core aspect described in both Neville's State Akin To Sleep (SATS), Monroe's Focus 10, and "mind awake, body asleep," (MABA) is an altered state of consciousness. You can call it "The Sweet Spot" since it's the easier and more achievable state you can reach to start your shift.

In this state, the body achieves a deep level of relaxation, bordering on a sense of numbness or near sleep, while the mind remains consciously alert and awake.

This state is often marked by a detachment from physical sensations, a numbness, giving rise to a sensation of floating in a dreamlike realm, but not totally disconnected from your body. You can move if you want, but you don't want it. It's comfortable.

At Focus 10, you are right on the brink between human physical consciousness and non-physical consciousness.

Not exact numbers, but let's say you are 75% in the non-physical (inside your consciousness) and 25% in the physical. You still feel your environment, the sounds, everything, but you don't really know in what position you put your hands or feet since you don't feel it. At least that is how I realized. But don’t try to relax your body, or try to feel if it’s asleep or not, that will bring you back to the physical.

When at F10, I have full waking consciousness so I am fully aware that "back there" somewhere is a physical body but my attention is taken up elsewhere. It's like if you were sitting reading and had become engrossed in a book. There is a part of you that is aware you are sitting in a room, reading. But because you are mentally focused on the book, awareness of your surroundings is heavily dulled. Of course, I realize saying this very much begs the question of where, exactly, should your focus of attention be switched to. This is where the tapes come in handy.

This state it's widely recognized as an ideal condition for a variety of practices such as meditation, visualization, manifestation, lucid dreaming, astral projection, entering the void state, and what we want to do: shifting.

Even though the Law of Assumption, Astral projection, Shifting, and other practices use different words and are used in different situations, the main idea that connects them is that they both involve really relaxing your body and keeping your mind awake.

We can use the terms interchangeably, but for the purpose of this post, we will focus on Monroe's Focus 10 (no pun intended) since this label is well-defined, proven, achievable by practice, and it has guided tapes to learn how to reach this state. It teaches you, step by step, exactly how to bring your body to a state where you are on the verge of being able to shift. If you can follow this correctly, all you need from then on is a little mental "push" and your intended reality will come into view.

You have to learn how to recognize it once you're there. You achieve this by consistently entering that state.

Link to the gateway tapes

Using the Gateway Tapes to Achieve Focus 10: A Step-by-Step Guide

First just focus on listening to the tapes, don't attempt to shift. You're learning to walk, don't try to fly.

1. Orientation:

Begin by listening to the introductory session of the Gateway Tapes, known as the Orientation. The link goes directly to the folder "Wave I - Discovery", but in case these links get broken, remember the name. It's the first folder, the first tape. "Orientation". Adjust the volume until you can barely hear the guiding voice.

This session will provide you with a foundational understanding of the principles and techniques you'll be using throughout the program. And will guide you to focus 3, a relaxed state.

2. Introduction to Focus 10:

After familiarizing yourself with the Orientation, move on to “Introduction to Focus 10”. This is the initial altered state of consciousness where your body is deeply relaxed, and your mind is awake and alert.

The guided instructions will assist you in achieving this state, which is often characterized by a sense of detachment from physical sensations and a dreamlike awareness. I recommend doing this while you’re fully relaxed, and not before sleeping. Otherwise you’ll risk falling asleep.

If you have trouble relaxing or your body is tensing up you can try listening to "Orientation" and "Introduction to Focus 10" back to back, but don't proceed to the next one until you can reach Focus 10 easily and recognize the state because "Advanced Focus 10" doesn't have guided instructions.

3. Repetition and Practice:

The key to mastering Focus 10 lies in repetition and practice. Listen to "Intro to the Focus 10" multiple times IN DIFFERENT SESSIONS. Allow yourself to become comfortable with the instructions and the sensations associated with reaching this state. With each session, you'll likely notice an improvement in your ability to enter Focus 10. Also, if you’re neurodivergent, don’t be disappointed. I’m ADHD/AUTISTIC and this also helps me calm my racing thoughts. Don’t desist, with practice it will become easier and easier.

4. Using other Binaural Beats or Ambient Sounds:

As you become more proficient in entering Focus 10 with the help of the Gateway Tapes, you can begin experimenting with using binaural beats or other ambient sounds. These auditory aids can help induce and deepen your altered state of consciousness. However, continue using the Gateway Tapes during this phase to ensure consistency and stability in your practice.

5. Advanced Focus 10:

Once you've reached a point where you can consistently enter Focus 10 with the aid of the Gateway Tapes, you can gradually transition to advanced practice. This involves attempting to reach Focus 10 without relying on the tapes. You can use “Advanced Focus 10”, binaural beats or other sounds to support your practice. The goal is to develop your ability to achieve Focus 10 independently.

6. Gradual Progression:

As you progress, you might notice that you can reach Focus 10 more easily and quickly. This indicates that you're becoming more attuned to this altered state of consciousness. Continue practicing both with and without the tapes, gradually reducing your reliance on external aids.

This will be of fundamental help when practicing the methods I will explain ahead. By cultivating a strong foundation in Focus 10, you'll be better equipped to navigate and explore these states with greater awareness and control.

Remember, patience and consistency are key.

This sweet spot is required for most exercises and methods that will follow. Take it as a launch platform.

If you don't practice this until you can achieve Focus 10 easily, most methods likely won't work as expected and will hinder your progress. I'm not saying this to be rude.

At first it is hard to maintain. The tendency is to drift off on some other, more earth-bound thought(s). But this goes away with practice.

The technique does not require you to first create the meditative "empty mind" state (though if a person could already do that it would be a bonus). The idea is, you flood your mind with other, more beneficial thoughts, i.e. those more likely related to shifting realities, as opposed to wondering what you're going to have for breakfast.

If you follow this, it will be proven useful for the exercises that follow, and for whatever awake method you try in the future.

 I apologize for repeating it too much. But if you take something out of this guide, it’s how to reach this state. It’s very important since it’s the launchpad to shifting realities.

Also this state has made it possible for people to contact guides with a much higher degree of reliability and you can even practice "channeling" information or contact deceased people while at the Focus 10 state, again, with excellent results.

Is it totally necessary to learn to enter focus 10 using the tapes?

It’s not. But as I say, it’s structured and guided. And the key is to understand how to enter, and more importantly, to recognize. You can try for years thinking you were in the right state, and in the end you weren't. And that’s what this is about, to simplify that and save you years of mistakes. If you know how to enter this state, use it a few times to learn you’re entering the right state, and use your regular method.

What I would do is work on getting to the stage where there is a definite difference in feeling when you return to normal physical consciousness. What I mean is, I progressively feel my physical body less and less; such that by the time I settle into my bed at a relaxed state, I've normally lost touch with it more or less completely.

From then on, the going through the motions of the journey should be the focus of your attention. The feeling is just the same as if your attention was absorbed by watching a favorite movie. Only difference you’re in the realms of your non-physicality/consciousness.

But what I do know is that, for a beginner, the myriad of different "techniques" out there must be so darned confusing. For most of these people it must surely be a case of wondering, "Where the heck do I begin?"

Again, that is why I like Wave 1 (cd 1, orientation + intro to focus 10) so much; as it give a total novice a very simple and structured plan to work to, and it is recorded in a very effective format: it's one thing reading about something in a book, but it comes across on a guided audio so much more effectively.

That's what the tapes give you. It's a specific count from normal physical consciousness through to Focus 10 (mind awake, body asleep).

People fall asleep from habit. As your physical body goes to sleep, it's like there is some signal that says, "Physical is going to sleep... now initiate Mind cut-off."

Somehow you have to break that habit. It isn't hard to do (unless you think of it that way.) It's just a tricky mental balancing act you need to get into the habit of doing. Which can take time to get your head around. In other words, you need to go through a phase where you are working on swapping habits.

I used to do the "relax your body, etc" stuff. But found it was far more efficient to first relax what was going on in my head and my body would, in the main, automatically relax.

That is why I am so eager to recommend the Gateway Wave 1 because it basically shows you right away "exactly" how to do it. Whereas it took me years of trial and error.

How to eliminate limiting beliefs

Text by Bruce Moen.

The method I give here assumes you are willing to consider the possibility some part of you holds a belief which is currently limiting your ability to perceive and experience.

It assumes you desire to change or eliminate such a belief. The most basic assumption of this method is that some aspect of yourself is holding the belief for you. At some point in the past you decided, consciously or unconsciously,the belief was useful to you.

You asked some aspect of yourself to hold that belief and cause it to be applied at any time that aspect felt appropriate. It wouldn't necessarily be required to make itself or the belief known consciously, just apply the effect of the belief at appropriate times.

I had shifted before using this technique. However, after practicing this exercise, I transitioned from thinking 'If I'm lucky, I can shift' to confidently knowing I can shift if I allow myself to.

This exercise is a fundamental part of the series and serves as a prerequisite for the successful application of everything that follows.

Early on, my difficulty in shifting freely stemmed from my disbelief in something I couldn't see or feel. This skepticism acted as a barrier, preventing me from embracing the full potential of the shifting experience. It's a perfect example of a belief that needed to be completely eradicated, not just adjusted.

Me:

I want to communicate with that aspect of myself which is blocking my ability to shift realities.

Limiting Self:

What do you want?

Me:

I want to shift realities effortlessly.

Limiting Self:

So, what do you want me to do about it?

Me:

First, tell me why you're blocking my ability to shift?

Limiting Self:

I hold and apply the belief that if I can't see it or hear it, I can't shift to it.

Me:

And that's why I can't shift realities?

At this point, I've identified the conflicting, old belief.

Limiting Self:

Yep! It's a different reality! Can't see it with my eyes, can't hear it with my ears, so it can't be there.

Me:

How does that belief block my ability to shift?

Limiting Self:

It's like a formula in mathematics. If eyes can't see it and ears can't hear it, then we cannot make it there.

Me:

We can’t make it not there?

Limiting Self:

Of course, that's my function! I make sure whatever is there can't be perceived to fulfill the belief I hold for you. It's just as real as two plus two equals four. Eyes can't see it plus ears can't hear it equals blocking its perception.

Me:

Simple as that?

Limiting Self:

Yep, just as simple as that!

Now I've identified how the conflicting belief functions to block my ability to shift realities.

Me:

I want to change that belief.

Limiting Self:

Can't just change it, this one is hardwired in.

Me:

What do you mean?

Limiting Self:

This is a very old, core belief. It's been around so long it's connected to too many other beliefs in the system to change only it. All other beliefs based on or connected to such core beliefs will have to be changed also. It could take eons to find all those connections and undo them if we do it carefully and in small steps.

Me:

But I want to change this belief now, what do I do?

Limiting Self:

Eliminate the core belief that feeds and holds all the connected beliefs in the system together. Cut the stem of a plant off at the root and all the leaves die too. See what I mean?

Me:

Yes, and I still want to eliminate it.

Limiting Self:

Could have unpredictable, far-reaching effects. This one's deep core. It supports so many others that when they die, the whole system may crash. This could cause an identity crisis! You could feel very disoriented for a while, it might even feel like dying! The aspect of our identity holding this belief will die, geez, that's me! I don't want to do this, I don't want to die!

This is an acknowledgment that who and what I believe myself to be, my identity, includes the beliefs I hold.

Me:

I want to eliminate it and replace it with a new function you can hold for me.

Limiting Self:

You don't want that belief anymore? You don't need me to hold and apply that belief for you anymore?

Me:

That's correct. Before this point in my life, I thought I needed that belief to be operative. I'd like to express my gratitude to you for fulfilling your function so well all these years. You've been performing a valuable service. Thank you for doing that for me, but your function is no longer necessary. I release you from your duty to fulfill that function starting right now.

Limiting Self:

Okay. Glad to have been of service.

Me:

I'd like to institute a completely new function.

Limiting Self:

Okay. What would you like?

Me:

From now on, a new function will be operating. That function is: Whenever I desire to shift realities, my awareness will be brought clearly into those realities, utilizing whatever abilities are available for perception. Again, I've stated my intent for a new belief, what it is to be, and how it is to operate.

Limiting Self:

Can I have an example so I'm sure I know what you mean?

Me:

If I intend to shift to a different reality, my awareness will be clearly brought into that reality. If I intend to experience any specific reality or interact with any beings from other realities, my awareness will be clearly brought into their presence.

Limiting Self:

So if you intend to shift to anything in another reality, my function is to bring your awareness into it as clearly as possible using whatever abilities are available?

Me:

Yes, and if developing a new perceptual ability would facilitate matters, that's part of your new function also.

Limiting Self:

Very well, I'll hold the belief that it is possible and perform that function.

Me:

Thank you. I'd like to express my gratitude to you for agreeing to perform this new function.

Each time I encountered a limit to that perception ability the process above can be used to eliminate it. That process made the new function progressively stronger. Sometimes the belief I eliminated erased more connected beliefs than I realized it would.

To outline this process for eliminating an old, outdated belief and remove its blocking effect:

1. Recognize you're being blocked. Realize you're blocked from doing what you intend to do.
2. Get into the sweet spot/MABA/FOCUS 10
3. Ask to communicate with the aspect of yourself responsible for holding the belief causing the block.
4. Engage that aspect of yourself in conversation, dialogue with it.
5. Understand what the belief is and how it operates to block you.
6. Express gratitude to the aspect of yourself that has carried out the blocking function up to this point.
7. Release that aspect of yourself from continuing to hold that belief and carry out the blocking function.
8. Carefully frame the wording and intent of the new function if you desire to replace the old one. Sometimes a new function is not necessary. If it is, it might be necessary to give the intent of the new function considerable thought. Think through the implications of your choices. Use positive wording for the new function. “I don't want my perception blocked” is not a positive wording of the same desire.

Use present tense wording for the new function. Whenever I want to perceive it is brought into my awareness, in present tense wording. This is my preference, do what feels easier.

9. Still in MABA/FOCUS 10, express your new, carefully worded function and your desire for it to take effect.
10. Express your gratitude for this new function being carried out.
11. You only need to do this once, then expect your desire to be fulfilled.

From experience I know both of these processes work. You can use them to change or eliminate old, outdated beliefs and their effects.

It might feel a little strange to talk to yourself as I'm suggesting. That may be another limiting belief to investigate. As You continue to use these processes, from my experience, examples of progress and growth in your experience will happen.

About methods

I strongly believe that beginners often experiment with too many so-called "shifting methods."

They attempt various techniques, hoping for results, and when none materialize, they become discouraged.

The key realization that often eludes them is that the technique itself isn't the direct cause of the shift.

Unfortunately, many of these methods are “marketed” this way.

It's comparable to being told, "Take this pill to cure your headache," and indeed, the headache vanishes.

Similarly, "Use this XXX Shifting Realities method for instant results!" You invest in the method, follow its steps meticulously, yet nothing unfolds.

You try another approach, then another, and another... with little success. Few individuals possess the perseverance to persist, unravel the intricacies, understand the process, and uncover the truth. Once you achieve this, you recognize that much of the methods out tere lack substance. They’re explained like you have to perform a magic ritual and the shift happens because of the method. And for the people that are not natural or lucky enough, it fails.

However, after encountering several setbacks, skepticism naturally creeps in about the entire concept. Yet, if I can achieve it, anyone can. I’m not natural at this. The very challenges people discuss on the subreddits or shiftok I encountered at first, too.

I decided to invest my time researching phasing methods. Proven methods based on astral projectors (Like Frank Kepple, Robert Monroe, or Thomas Campbell) that without knowing about alternate realities while astral projecting, they shifted realities, but told the experience with other terms because it was many decades ago.

Throughout the shifting realities process, I remain completely conscious and attuned to my surroundings. At no point do I slip into what could be described as a "trance."

The state I experience aligns with the description on the First wave of the gateway tapes: mind awake, body asleep (Focus 10). Furthermore, sensations like a "racing heart" and "flushes" don't register—I perceive no physical sensations whatsoever nor any sense of engaging with "energy."

Gradually, I'm realizing that the sensation of a "racing heart" likely stems from activating what mystics term Chakras. I once inadvertently triggered this and indeed felt vibrating sensations around my heart area, coupled with other “symptoms” or a pounding heart.

This could very well be what some people are experiencing when the shift or astral project. Yet, this sensation doesn't equate to shifting realities. It’s just a “signpost”. Nothing more. It’s not the goal. If you focus too much on it or on whatever “symptom”, you’re missing the chance to shift.

Shifting realities is analogous to driving—a practice where you have choices within set rules. Like all drivers using the same side of the road. You can select your destination or vehicle, yet you can't ponder, "Today, shall I drive on the left or right?"

Phasing (and shifting) functions as a reflex when your mind and body attain a particular state. This state remains uniform for everyone. While diverse means can lead to this state, like when we talk about sleep methods or awake methods, they must ultimately guide you to that pre-phasing, or pre-shifting state, triggering the innate phasing reflex that I believe everyone possesses.

You cannot force yourself to have the experience. It's something you mentally allow yourself to become open to. Phasing/Shifting is not about finding the right method/technique, but has more to do with developing the right kind of mental understanding. Techniques can be very useful but, ultimately, I believe their effectiveness stems from them acting as a kind of mental primer that serves to kick-start the natural process.

"Wherever your attention goes, your consciousness will follow." So at the stage of beginning to lose physical

body consciousness and becoming more conscious of my thoughts, when the void presents itself my "intent" is to enter it. If your intent is to do anything else then that is what your consciousness will try to achieve.

You are in the driver's seat. At this point where you are still half aware of the physical body, intent will and attention to "going" in any direction you choose is open to you. I personally enter a portal, a swirling tunnel, or clouds.

By this time I have lost all consciousness of my body, and all that is "me" is "there".

Note: The term “phasing” was originally coined from an idea presented by the author Robert Monroe who spent much of his physical lifetime researching OBE phenomena. It also includes Shifting Realities. Both Robert Monroe and Frank Kepple have talked about visiting other physical realities and living other lives. This was many decades ago so the concept was not called shifting realities. I’ll use phasing/shifting realities for better understanding.

"No method" Method: The art of letting go

The illusion of method

Original text by /u/slumber_0 (now u/MarkGurriaran) link to original text here 

(note by me: Here he talks about “Astral projection” and “Out of body experiences (OBE)” but you can apply it to shifting realities (or lucid dreaming, or going into the void state for that matter) since intention works the same.  I will tie it to shifting and Monroe's focus 10 at the end, but please, read everything.)

I want to share an epiphany I had a few months ago regarding astral projection which changed my approach to it completely. Once I understood what I am about to explain, the number of OBEs I had completely skyrocketed, to the point I can astral project on demand. I later found I could apply the same rule to lucid dreaming, and I started to enjoy countless conscious dreams.

So this is the story of how I got to the "core aspect" of astral projection, the key to inducing it effortlessly on demand. I will start by explaining the conditions whereby I came to this "truth" or "top method", and then I will develop it a bit more to ensure that it's understandable. I hope you guys enjoy the post and benefit from it. That being said, let's start!

I have been having OBEs for a few years now. A few years in which I tried many astral projection techniques, and while some of them seemed to work better than others, I always had one single desire that obsessed me to the core: I wanted to understand what was the root technique, i.e. that background cause, shared by all fruitful OBE strategies, that actually separated consciousness from the body. You know, the skeleton of all techniques.

It was the deepest of my fixations, and I was compelled to find out the answer to that, I knew there was a core method, it was undeniable: if many different techniques lead to the same results, then there was for sure some hidden and shared dynamic that, if emulated over and over again, it would always produce Out of body experiences.

But it was really hard at first to understand what this hidden method was, because I was conditioned by my own results. What do I mean by this? Well, if only one technique worked for me, then it would be easy to assume "Oh, that's the true and only method". But I had successful results with a wide variety of techniques, so different from each other: from tactile visualization, up to affirmations and pure desire, the ear ringing technique (using the ear buzzing sound to project), the WBTB, and many others. The challenge was in finding the single thing that united such different techniques. It seemed almost impossible!

You see, at first, I thought imagination was a core aspect, but I rapidly discarded that, because many techniques dispensed with imagination. So then, imagination wasn't necessary. I kept discarding things just like that, trying to reach the substratum.

I eventually thought it was pure intention, pure desire. This made sense to some extent because all techniques required you to think actively about projection, whether you do this by imagining your project, stating it via affirmations, or whatever.

It seemed like I succeeded in stripping away everything unnecessary. But then I had a spontaneous projection, which messed it all up. Not that it was the first spontaneous OBE in my life. In fact, I had a few of those during my career as an astral traveler. I was just ignoring them. Pretending that they were not there. Right when I thought astral projection had to do with a burning desire or intention, I realized that some OBEs dispensed with intention completely.

I was so obsessed with finding the key to astral projection in those OBEs I induced myself, that I was screening out those that happened involuntarily. I don't know why, but I guess it made more sense to find the how-to in the techniques rather than in...and then my mind went silent. I reached something important: a point of no return.

I realized something embarrassing: I had the answer in front of my eyes, but I kept pretending there was a hidden solution. But via spontaneous projections, the message was clear: it is not that those "spontaneous" projections weren't induced by me. NONE of my projections were induced by me! It's almost as if my unconscious was trying to tell me, via spontaneous projections, something like; "hey! It's me who does it, not you".

At that point I understood the following: there is no method. We can't induce out-of-body experiences, or lucid awareness in a dream. We don't really know how it is that the projection of consciousness occurs, or how lucidity pops up.

We just get to experience it under certain conditions. All we do, really, is asking for projections to occur, while meeting the most optimal conditions for them to occur. That's the reason why spontaneous projections are kinda uncomfortable for many and we try to screen them out because they are trying to tell us about the illusion of method, and we as humans need to cling to a certain "how to", believing we are responsible for phenomena to occur.

But we aren't. It is "something else" (the unconscious, the higher self, or whatever you want to call it) who kicks you out of your body, or triggers lucidity while dreaming. And when it occurs naturally, we try to understand how we did it, instead of realizing it isn't something we did, thus opening ourselves to that same gift.

When I understood that, I began to do the following (the "no-method" method), and it ALWAYS works: I just lie down in the morning (to ensure that I don't fall asleep), close my eyes and simply ask this "unconscious" or whatever it is, to induce an OBE for me.

And then I evoke this feeling of TRUST. I trust him, I trust that it will do the rest for me, because I understand that every time my consciousness escapes my body, it is this kind of higher consciousness or being who does it, not me.

And this feeling of trust is the way to get rid of responsibility; in giving away this need for control and responsibility for the experience to occur, you also get rid of anxiety, fear, and other emotions that boycott the outcome. So then, I just allow myself to d

rift with that feeling of peace, KNOWING that it will happen and I don't have to worry about it.

Every time I do this, I get an amazing out-of-body experience.

I just ask "the universe" to induce an OBE, and allow it to do its job.

This same "method" (now you see why I refer to it as the illusion of method: you really don't do a thing) also applies to lucid dreaming: I just allow my higher self or unconscious mind or whatever to trigger lucid awareness for me, and go to sleep happily, knowing that it will happen.

To sum up, the answer is not in the techniques. All techniques are rituals we create to convince ourselves that we are the architects of the out-of-body experience, but we aren't. By acknowledging the one who DOES induce these kinds of experiences, we get ourselves out of its way, we allow it to do its job and our emotions and feeling of responsibility no longer boycott the results.

It is quite weird, even ironic to some extent, but it is also a relief in some way. You realize that you were never doing it wrong, because you can't do it. None of us have the supernatural power to separate consciousnesses from our bodies, it's absurd. That being said, allow yourself to experience the OBE state, trusting your inner mind, knowing it will do this for you.

You can just set the intent to project and trust the subconscious to do it whenever it finds it more suitable/whenever the chance arises, i.e., you are delegating to the subconscious even the "when" of the AP. In that case, yes, it's not necessary to worry about being in the right state.

It's as easy as setting intent, feeling it done (don't pretend it - feel it's done already) then let go and go to bed. As soon as you stop trying you open yourself to the result.

Exempt yourself from this responsibility and enjoy!

How to  build Trust

I suggest the "wake up without an alarm clock" method as a preliminary exercise to cultivate trust, and then "transfer" the same idea or approach to shifting realities. Waking up through trust tends to yield quick results, so you can subsequently utilize that "micro-empowerment" experience as a driving force to apply it to shifting realities.

Essentially, it's the same underlying principle, so take your time to foster trust. Consider it in this manner: having faith in our own brain contradicts our conditioning. We rely on alarms to wake us up because we lack trust in our own ability to do so.

We resort to calendars and reminders for events (even though our nervous system can remind us whenever we wish - I no longer use a calendar) because we lack faith in our brain's capacity to remember things. This pattern extends to using techniques for shifting realities because we don't inherently trust in our brain's potential to bring about the desired experience.

This contradicts our ingrained mindset, so don't feel rushed: trust is a process of reconnecting with your own brain, a process of recognizing its capabilities and opting to collaborate with it instead of sidelining it. Begin with small tasks like waking up without an alarm, and then progress to shifting realities. :)

Higher Self

by Robert Bruce from the book “Astral Dynamics”

Now, let's talk about the higher self, or as Frank Kepple calls it, the Wider Self. (You can read about him here.)

Your higher self holds all the keys relating to OBE and psychic abilities. Working with this dynamic force is wise, rather than against it. Aligning with your higher self solves many OBE-related problems and greatly improves results. This also eases many of the natural fears associated with OBE.

Your higher self is your divine aspect. This has been called many things over the ages and they all fit: the inner daemon, the monad, the guardian angel, etc. Its actions are often attributed to the divine, or to the actions of spirit beings. It is the great observer within you. Call this aspect whatever you like, it is Source, and Source does not care what name you use.

It can help to conceptualize this by considering your higher self as directly connected with Source through a gradient of consciousness—from you to Source. Imagine a simple gradient here: there is your awake conscious mind at the base level, then your unconscious mind, then your higher self, and finally, Source.

Source is the universe. You are an integral part of the universe. There is no actual separation between you and the rest of the universe—only perceived and believed separateness. This is what Eckhart Tolle means when he says, “You are the NOW.” He is saying, “You are Source.” The following exercise demonstrates the nondual nature of Source.

Take your index finger and point to Source. Next, point to where Source is not.

You’ll find that you cannot point to anything for either of these. This is because Source is obviously everywhere and everything. This includes you. You are Source.

You and Source are indivisible.

This analogy will help: Consider the fingertip of your right index finger. Imagine that this is you and the rest of your body is the universe and everyone else. You cannot separate your fingertips from your body. You cannot honestly state that “this fingertip is a separate and discrete being.” This is a part of you and hence an integral part of the whole of your body.

Your fingertip does not realize it is a part of your body, but it still is a part of the whole. In this sense, you are Source and your fingertip is you. Imagine that this fingertip is conscious and believes it is separate from you. You smile and look at it from a higher perspective.

You know the truth because you are aware of your wholeness and oneness. You know that your fingertip is definitely a part of the whole that is you. This is the truth of nondual existence.

You perceive and believe yourself as being separate from everything and everyone else, because this is convenient. But on a deeper level, you are a part of everything and everything is a part of you.

This is logical and obvious if you look at the evidence. If you will be still and think on this for a moment, you will feel the truth of this in your heart. It may not be comfortable or convenient, but it is the truth.

Now, an interesting thing happens here, when the nondual is realized. Right now your mind and ego are busy finding a separate place for you in this nondual analogy. We humans have the habit of separating ourselves from Source. This is natural and helps us stay grounded here in physical reality. We like our gods to be just above the clouds, so we can do what we like down here on Earth. We crave individuality and the sense of sovereignty and control this offers. It also gives us a sense of long-term individual spiritual survival and progression.

This separateness is robustly supported by ego. Our inner need for separateness and uniqueness flows from the ego. Ego is terrified of the nondual because realizing the nondual dissolves ego.

The more you embrace your nondual nature, the more connected you become to everything. The more you realize this, the more the Source realizes you. This belief causes your higher spiritual aspects to draw closer to you and to work more strongly in your life.

You do not need to implore or beg for anything. Keep commands and affirmations simple, clear, and specific. However, it helps to improve the connection if you acknowledge your higher self with expressions of gratitude, love, and respect. Think and meditate on these things and build a rapport and closer working relationship with your higher self.

The above also applies to the manifestation process. Keep focused on your goals in every way and you will manifest them faster than if you are distracted. The manifestation process is much slower in the physical world, but the principles are the same.

Working with your higher self, using intention and energy, affirmations and commands, love and gratitude, makes an amazing difference in all aspects of OBE (shifting technically is an out-of-body experience, at least this current reality body).

You are your higher self, your higher self is you.

Command something, and it will happen.

The Higher Self: Your Guide to the Unseen

Your higher self, often depicted as a divine aspect or oversoul, is the part of you connected to a greater consciousness, the universe itself, the source, god, the creator, whatever you want to call it.

Think of it as your cosmic GPS, ready to guide you through the unseen territories of existence. This higher self knows the way to different realities, and it's more than willing to help—if you're open to trusting it.

Letting Go and Trusting

The idea is simple: let go of the idea that you need to actively force a shift. Instead, trust your higher self to guide you.

This might sound counterintuitive, but it's like handing over the steering wheel to a reliable driver. After all, your higher self is intimately connected to the source's flow.

Trust the Process: Letting Go and Embracing Source

Now, how does this tie into shifting realities? Here's the simple breakdown:

1. Preparation: Get into a fully rested state. Lie down comfortably, close your eyes, and take a few deep breaths. You're ready for this journey.
2. Focus 10: Use Monroe's Focus 10 technique. Ease into a state of deep relaxation where your body is asleep, but your mind is alert. In this state is easier to communicate with your higher self. I named mine so that communication feels easier. You can try it, too, but it's not a requirement.
3. Intention and Trust: State your intention to shift realities. But here's the twist – instead of forcing it, let go. Trust your higher self to guide the process.
4. Release Responsibility: Acknowledge that you're not solely responsible for the shift. Your higher self, connected to Source, plays a significant role. Rather than dwelling on how to make it happen, focus on the feeling of trust. Feel the assurance that your higher self is at work. It's like knowing you're on a train to your destination and you can simply relax in your seat.
5. Relaxed Expectation: Relax into the process, knowing that the journey is unfolding naturally. Now, let go of any anxiety or doubt. Drift with the feeling of peace that comes from trusting your higher self. Your intention is set, and you're in good hands. Let your mind drift, don't worry about anything, just flow with whatever happens. Trust. You already invited the shifting. Allow the experience to happen.
6. Allow the Shift: As you drift in this state of trust, allow yourself to naturally transition into the shifted reality. Your higher self, intimately connected to the source, knows the perfect moment. Remember, you're not pushing for the shift; you're letting it happen.

It might sound counterintuitive, but the secret is in letting go of the idea of a 'method'. Remember, the connection with the Source and higher self is natural. By requesting a shift and then trusting wholly in the higher self to facilitate it, you’re effectively opening the doors to new realities.

By placing your trust in your higher self and the source's flow, you're aligning with a force that knows no limits. It's like surfing the waves of existence with consciousness as your board.

So, give it a try. Next time you're fully rested, dive into Monroe's Focus 10, connect with your higher self, and trust the process. Allow the shift to unfold, knowing that the journey itself is as incredible as the destination. After all, in a reality shaped by trust, the possibilities are endless.

Remember, it's not about 'how to' but about 'letting it be'.

Silly Little Finger Bending exercise

This is the technique described by Bruce Moen on Astral Pulse:

Placing intent acts like an autopilot. By correctly placing intent to explore any area of consciousness, one's focus of attention is automatically shifted there. Once you're there, all that's left to do to explore that area of consciousness is to take a look around, so to speak.

Placing intent is a process of first clearly and precisely stating your desired outcome, like creating an affirmation. Then, either before, during, or after stating the affirmation, you cause yourself to re-experience the feeling of placing intent.

I use a Silly Little Finger Bending exercise to help people learn to recognize that feeling. It's too lengthy to explain here in detail, but suffice it to say that if you focus your attention on any sensation that occurs the instant before a finger bends, you can experience the feeling of placing intent.

For me, properly placing intent means remembering to the point of re-experiencing that feeling as the affirmation is stated.

Many will recognize the quality of the placing intent feeling as the one they experience if they're stopped at a traffic light, first in line, knowing that very soon after the light turns green, the first horn will honk behind them. When the light turns green, the instant before any part of your body moves, a sensation like "GO" is experienced. That one is very close to the feeling of placing intent.

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This is the technique described in the book "Afterlife Knowledge":

The Silly Little Finger Bending Exercise: Description

There are two fundamental methods for performing the Silly Little Finger Bending Exercise – the open-air technique and the contact pressure technique. The diagrams below depict the hand and finger positions for these two methods: the open-air technique and the contact pressure technique.

The contact technique shortens the time between initiating the finger bend and recognizing its completion, as the change in contact pressure signals the finger's movement.

I recommend using the index finger on your non-dominant hand for this exercise. For instance, if you're right-handed, bend the index finger on your left hand, and vice versa. Both fingers will work, but using your non-dominant hand tends to make the sensation of placing intent more noticeable.

Learning to properly place intent is a subtle yet potent tool. We'll employ it in future exercises and delve deeper into its applications as you progress. Regularly repeating this exercise is advisable.

The Silly Little Finger Bending Exercise

You can do this exercise while sitting or lying down.

• When you're prepared to start, please close your eyes.
• Breathe naturally as you concentrate on the sensation of being relaxed.
• Position your non-dominant hand in a comfortable resting pose – you can place it in your lap, cradle it in your other hand, or adopt any relaxed position. Completely relaxing your arm, hand, and fingers makes it easier to identify the sensation of placing intent.
• Direct your focus to your index finger, and perceive any sensations such as air moving across its skin, muscle tension, coolness, or warmth. Familiarize yourself with how it feels in its current state.
• While still concentrating on your index finger, gently bend it.
• Experience the sensation of bending your finger and then returning it to its original position. Repeat this process at least three times to acquaint yourself with the sensation of normal finger bending.
• Once more, focus your attention on your index finger.
• Mentally prepare to bend it.
• When ready, initiate the Silly Little Finger Bending Exercise. Keep your focus on the sensation that arises just an instant before your finger bends, and repeat this procedure. I'll remain silent while you engage in this.
• When you're ready, please open your eyes and take a few moments to fully transition back from the exercise.
• Then promptly proceed to document your experience.

Tips and Hints: Read Only after Completing the above Exercises

It took me more than a few attempts at this exercise before I sensed the feeling I was seeking. Numerous sensations occur when you bend your finger, some physical and some nonphysical. I mistakenly believed I had encountered the sensation of placing intent several times before I genuinely grasped it.

If I were to describe the sensation of placing intent, some words I'd use include: anticipation, apprehension, expectancy, a feeling of imminent occurrence, a sense of absolute certainty that it's about to happen.

Other instances of feeling the sensation of placing intent are quite common. One such instance occurs in your car. You're at the front of the line, halted at a red traffic light, with a string of cars behind you eager to move the moment the light turns green. You can almost sense the eagerness of the drivers behind you, and you know that if you don't accelerate the moment the light shifts, you'll hear car horns blaring.

As you wait, a hint of anxiety and perhaps a touch of nervousness builds up, all in anticipation of the light turning green. When the light does change, there's a sensation that sweeps through you just an instant before any muscle movement. Before your foot transitions from the brake pedal, before your foot moves towards the gas pedal. The sensation you encounter an instant before a muscle moves is the one you're in search of. It's the feeling that signals "GO" before your foot presses down on the gas pedal.

Some individuals describe it as if a nonphysical finger bends just moments before the physical finger does. It's as though they're on the verge of bending their finger, and then right before the physical movement, they perceive a prelude of the nonphysical finger bending first.

Certain people even report receiving a visual impression of the nonphysical finger bending.

For some, the sensation of placing intent becomes apparent upon their first attempt at the exercise. Others grasp it after a few tries. Then there are individuals like myself. I diligently engaged in this exercise daily for weeks before finally encountering that sensation.

If you're in a similar situation, make a plan to perform this exercise daily within your regular routine. Aim to do the Silly Little Finger Bending Exercise at least three or four times each day. Choose a discreet location where you won't attract undue attention or inquiries about your actions. Engaging in this exercise during a meeting with your boss at work, for example, might not be the best idea.

Actually, the restroom is a fairly suitable place for practice: it's quiet, solitary, you're seated, in a relaxed state, and the exercise only requires a brief span of time.

Above all, persist in your efforts. Recognizing and identifying this sensation is a pivotal tool for exploring the afterlife. Consider placing intent as an additional realm of consciousness into which you can train your focus to shift; you might even dub it "Placing Intent Consciousness."

Once you've recognized the sensation of being within that realm of consciousness, returning is simply a matter of recalling the sensation to the extent of reexperiencing it.

How to Utilize Placing Intent

Placing intent can be harnessed in various situations. For instance, you can employ it when affirming, or when you’re trying to shift realities. Even scoring a prime parking spot near the grocery store's entrance or aiding the fulfillment of any desire becomes feasible with this technique.

To employ it effectively, envision placing intent as a distinct realm of consciousness that you access by recollecting and reexperiencing its characteristic sensation. Once within this state, seemingly miraculous occurrences can unfold if you articulate your desire. Should you combine placing intent with an affirmation, the procedure typically unfolds as follows:

• Carefully craft your affirmation with precise, succinct, positive, present-tense language.
• Commit the finalized affirmation to memory by writing it down and familiarizing yourself with it.
• Situate yourself comfortably in a quiet space and close your eyes.
• Reignite the sensation of placing intent to the extent that you relive the experience—whether before, during, or after voicing your affirmation.
• Mentally repeat your affirmation once.
• Release all contemplations regarding the affirmation.
• Pay attention to any additional sensations that arise during this affirmation repetition.

Here's a secret: if capturing the placing intent sensation proves challenging, the mere recollection of performing the Silly Little Finger Bending Exercise can serve as a means of placing intent.

While ideally, you'd maintain the placing intent sensation throughout your entire affirmation, I've found this not to be imperative. Even encountering this sensation for a fraction of a second before, during, or after expressing your affirmation proves amply effective.

Through consistent practice, as you continually focus on re-experiencing the placing intent sensation, you can gradually extend the duration of your immersion within the realm of placing intent consciousness.

Don’t worry about it, just keep practicing and notice what happens.

Use your experiences as a way to learn how things work. One can learn a great deal either by doing things correctly orby making mistakes. Experiences that demonstrate fulfillment of your placed intent, with or without doubt included, are the best way I’ve found to deal with doubt.

Affirmations and placing intent can be used to define the targets of your curiosity and take your awareness to sources of information to satisfy that curiosity.

Placing Intent in Future Exercises

Do it regularly like you would do reality checks for lucid dreaming.

1. Remember performing the Finger Bending Exercise.
2. Remember the feeling of placing intent to the point of re-experiencing it and allow your focus of attention to shift to that area of consciousness.

Another Intent exercise

t. Though the importance of "intent" is stressed over and over, perhaps giving an example will help. You can relax your body and say the conditions are right (quiet, phone unplugged, no one expected at the door.)

Now imagine your consciousness as an oval cloud (or whatever shape) in front of you and about three feet away. Imagine yourself exploring your surroundings.

Send this cloud containing your consciousness 15 ft. to your right, what do you "see" in your imagination?

Now send it 15 ft. to your left again imagine what you see, picturing in your mind as you send your consciousness there.

This is a short exercise, but it trains your subconscious self to experience what your intent is. Communicating with the subconscious mind is our ticket to success.

For shifting realities, you can write "I want to go to such and such a destination", this directs my subconscious mind to achieve this. (Don’t write DR, specify the reality you want to go to.)

Then read this out loud, and then put it aside before beginning the shifting session. This is why Focus 10/SATS is so important. When in “body asleep mind awake”, we are able to communicate with our subconscious and direct it to achieve our "intent".

Not losing that focus of mind, but remaining intent on our objective is vital.

Intent and Shifting

“On what exactly do I focus my intention?”

Wherever you direct your intent is where your awareness will follow. Imagination is a very important spiritual tool, as this is often necessary to direct our awareness (and subconscious) to achieve our intent.

If you can imagine a destination, you can achieve it, no "roadmaps" are necessary.

If your intent is to create your ownplace (waiting room), that is what you will achieve. It will be as real to you as where you are in physicality.

If your intent is to shift to another reality then, with the description given, your subconscious should take you there for all knowledge of planes, subplanes, universes, and dimensions lie within us and are accessible by simply stating "intent"or picturing in our minds our destination. This is often why a picture of a given destination will help.

This is where being used to reach the MABA/FOCUS 10 state really helps when using any phasing or shifting method.

Intent is achieved at that point in combination with visualization (mental rundown), and/or mentally stating a destination by name.

Another useful way for people that can’t visualize, is the “Noticing” exercise that I’ll later explain.

Once you're in MABA (Focus 10), pretending is enough to phase/shift

Talking to your guides

This part is written by Frank Kepple:

Understand that you do not have to completely clear your mind so it is devoid of all thoughts. If you did that you would not be able to do anything... because it is the thought-energy that enables you to project.

That's why your mental focus is all important. In other words, you have to channel the right kind of thoughts in the right direction.

Because, again, thought is a primary energy. What completely scuppers the process is all the emotional baggage and/or other such mental kak that people generally carry around in their heads.

So focus and intent are extremely important, together with expectation.

Focus your mind with a specific intent and expect a result. If the expected result doesn't come about right away, simply imagine that it has. Then take a step back and try again.

This is a little technique I picked up fairly recently where you practice talking to guides:

First go to Focus 10 and simply start having a conversation with a guide. Don't even think about the Physical not one iota. Don't even question whether or not you are at Focus 10. Have no doubts whatsoever of your intention.

At first, I would ask simple questions and imagine the replies. Then, after about the 4th or 5th attempt, I got a reply back from a question that stopped me dead. I thought, er, hang on a minute, I didn't imagine that response.

Then I clearly heard a female voice saying, "No, that is correct, it was me... hello!"

I tell you, it was freaky when it first happened but the process quickly becomes second nature.

After that, you can ask them to guide you to your waiting room, to your intended reality or just talk about things and get information.

Imagination is enough once you're in focus 10, you need to let the experience happen after setting the intention. It doesn't matter if at first it's pretending that you're there having a conversation, but it turns into reality given enough time and enough "delusion". And by "pretending" or not caring if it's pretending or not,  and it's just to experience it in your imagination, you're lowering the resistance and letting the intention come through.

Pretending is a way of opening up the power of your imagination

Imagination is a nonphysical means of communication. I use the word pretend because it doesn't matter if you believe your conversation is really happening or not. Only that you pretend it is.

My first big mistake was the belief that because a thing is only perceived within one’s imagination it is, by definition, not real. I believed that imagination and fantasy are two different words for the same thing. That belief is probably responsible for the vast majority of failures to perceive, communicate, interact, and explore beyond this physical reality.

My second mistake was to believe that if I allowed myself to pretend any portion of an exploration experience, the entire experience was a fantasy. I have since come to understand that pretending can be the beginning of the process of shifting one’s focus of attention from one reality to another.

An experience that begins with pretending—with active fantasizing—can progress to an experience that is real if the conditions are right. Pretending also helps deal with the perceptual blockages of beliefs by opening one of those windows of opportunity.

If I know I am actively pretending an experience, my beliefs are less threatened and less likely to interfere. If my experience shifts from fantasy to real, the window of opportunity can remain open long enough for me to have an experience that is verifiably real. Pretending can serve to hold the window of opportunity open.

It’s okay to pretend and, when you hear me say that, I really mean it.

Imagination, used this way, reminds me of using an old-time hand pump to bring water up from a well. You can pump the handle up and down all day long and never get any water from the well. But if you pour just a little water in the pump to prime it, pretty soon you could keep pumping the handle and fill a swimming pool.

I can’t stress enough how important a concept this was for me to grasp. By learning to pretend at the beginning of the exercise I engaged the creative power of imagination. Imagination opened up the entire nonphysical world to my perception.

Pretending to shift to your waiting room

This is a shifting method to a waiting room adapted from "GUIDELINES FOR AFTERLIFE CONTACT" from Bruce Moen’s book "Voyages into the Unknown".

1. Find a quiet and comfortable space where you can relax without any interruptions.
2. Enter a state of "mind awake, body asleep" (Focus 10/MABA) before attempting the shift.
3. Imagine the reality you wish to shift into— In this case, a waiting room.
4. Imagine yourself in this waiting room, surrounded by a peaceful and serene atmosphere. Picture the details of the room, such as the color of the walls, the comfortable seating, engage in some activity you'll do there, and craft a scene. It doesn't matter if you can't fully visualize; just engage with the scene in the first-person POV in your imagination. Similar to a Mental Rundown, but in your waiting room.
5. Bring to mind a person you are familiar with, someone who can serve as a guide or facilitator in this reality. It could be a comfort character, or a deceased loved one, or a spiritual guide, whatever you feel comfortable with and feel easier at the moment. Let's call this person Sarah.
6. Invite Sarah to join you in this waiting room.
7. Engage in a mental conversation with Sarah, expressing your desire to shift into this waiting room where you can be completely alone. Request her assistance in manifesting this reality for you, guiding you to the perfect circumstances that align with your intentions.
8. Introduce the idea of this waiting room to yourself, acknowledging that Sarah is here to support and accompany you during this shifting process.
9. Imagine a conversation between Sarah and yourself, where both of you acknowledge each other's presence in this waiting room. Feel the sense of calm and solitude as you interact in this tranquil space. Don't worry if you feel you're pretending. Pretending is fine.
10. If you find yourself saying, I can’t see, hear, or perceive a single thing in any way, PRETEND THAT YOU ARE!
11. Witness as Sarah gently exits the waiting room, allowing you to fully embrace the solitude and be alone in this reality. Feel the peacefulness and serenity that comes with being in this space on your own.
12. Express gratitude to Sarah for her guidance and assistance in helping you shift to this waiting room where you can enjoy complete solitude.
13. Keep doing this while totally focusing on your imagination, loop a scene or inspect the waiting room in your imagination, don't worry about if you're pretending or it's real. Just enjoy the moment in your imagination without paying attention to if you're getting there or not. Fully trust that with enough time you'll be there for real.
14. If you didn't shift, take a few moments to reflect on any impressions, sensations, or insights that arose during the experience. Remember those feelings because the next time you can recall those feelings to propel the experience further.
15. You can change Sarah for a guide, or even to a personification of your higher self, or another version of yourself, whatever you feel comfortable with at the moment. You can even try with different people to feel what is more aligned with you.

Mental Rundown exercise

This text is originally written by Frank Kepple which I modified a little to make sense for shifting too.

What is the purpose of creating a mental rundown?

The rundown acts as a kind of mental primer which gets you in the mood and increases your anticipation and expectation levels (very important). The rundown is not what causes you to Shift.

Phasing/shifting realities is a natural process that comes about under certain conditions which I expand on later in this essay. It also gives you practice in focusing their attention away from the physical body into the expanse of their consciousness. In other words, what you are basically doing is imagining you are Phasing/shifting realities until you shift for real.

What shall I try, and for how long, and how often?

The mental-rundown exercise should be performed preferably at least once each day for better results, but not before going to sleep. It doesn't really matter what kind of mental rundown you use. Simply do whatever feels right for you. You can imagine a scene from your intended reality, being after you wake up there, or doing something else. It has to be somewhat engaging.

You don’t actually need to enter FOCUS 10/MABA either when formulating it (but yes when you’re shifting for real!).

You can formulate a mental rundown to some relaxing music, or create something using binaural beats, or use whatever suits you.

All I would advise is for you to create a scene in the first person of around 30 to 45 minutes duration which you are basically happy with then stick with it.

In other words, don’t make it too short, or too long, and no chopping and changing.

Okay, I’ve formulated a mental rundown so what's next?

Once you have learnt your mental rundown you are ready to use it as a mental primer. First, you go through it without any pressure.

Then simply go into Focus 10/MABA and try Phasing/shifting realities for real.

In cases where you perhaps haven’t got all that much time to spare, what I would suggest is you create a short version of your rundown. Say, around half the duration.

Then, every other time, listen to the short version after which you try for real. Once you get more competent then perhaps switch to the short version each morning. Or maybe try a regime of rundown one day and try it for real with no rundown the next. Again, it truly is a case of whatever suits each individual.

What do you mean by “Phasing/shifting for real?”

When you come to Phase/shifting for real, you switch from perceiving mental imagery you are imagining as part of your rundown, i.e. where you are visualizing you are Phasing/shifting realities, to perceiving images that are being created as part of the normal shifting process.

Note by me: I have aphantasia btw. If you have low to no visualization skills, you can still use tactile imagination, even if at first you don’t feel it. Like, going around the room touching everything even if you don’t see it.

I’ve done it before using movement, like for example a car on a bumpy road, or a train.

You can also use sound, like rain, or again, a train! Trains combine sounds and movement.

Given enough time to kickstart the process you will feel it and the real scene of your intended reality will follow.

In other words, you are not imagining anything, you are doing it! The first time it could be freaky how real it is, don’t be scared. If you keep going, you’ll be “engulfed” by the scene and you’ll be there in your intended reality.

(There’s another method easier for people with aphantasia, don’t worry. I will explain it in the next part.)

After going through my rundown I try it for real and nothing happens, why?

Chances are, your physical body is distracting you by capturing your attention. Make sure before doing it with the intention to shift you're in FOCUS 10/MABA. That’s why it’s important to be familiar with this state.

One of the benefits of formulating a mental-rundown to some kind of sound or binaural beat is it takes your mind off both the physical body and the physical environment. Plus, you know exactly what imagery to perceive as it is you who is imagining it.

Main things you should avoid when trying for-real if possible

Thinking about day-to-day Physical-realm matters.

Any kind of thinking about anything to do with the Physical-realm tends to put a big spoke in the works. In other words, you can’t really hope to kick-start the Phasing/shifting process if one part of you is thinking of your dental appointment the next day; or whether you’ll get that pay-raise you requested; or your birthday next week, etc.

To deal with this, what you should do, right at the start of your practice, is imagine a large box and place all your Physical-realm concerns in that box. Then lock it securely and walk away.

This method is suggested by Monroe’s gateway tapes. It may sound a bit weird but it works!

Any kind of internally verbalized thought (even if it is to do with shifting!)

What I mean here is you need to switch your inner-thinking so it is working exclusively in a visual way. This of course it’s easier the more you’re able to visualize. What we are engaged in here is an act of switching focus… not… quieting the mind!

Then you quietly and passively observe what happens next.

When I say “passively,” I mean avoid reacting in any way to anything you may perceive.

The above I realize are a tad tricky to do. The good news is it all comes good with practice. At first, what will probably happen is you might perceive some kind of vague, fleeting image. At which point your inner voice will chirp-up saying, “What was that?” or it might make some other comment. Perhaps it may comment in recognition that you are making progress.

Problem is, as it does so, it tends to send you a step back each time. Unfortunately, you can get caught in a self-defeating loop: where you take one step forward, your inner voice recognizes you just took a step forward and comments to that effect, and the act of doing so takes you one step back to where you were before.

Or you might perceive something and react to it. You might get startled, or fearful, or suchlike. What used to happen to me all the time (which was most frustrating) is I’d perceive some image in my mind and, the moment I did so, my physical eyes would try and snatch a glance at whatever it was. This, of course, zapped me right back to the physical each time.

But if you find that giving yourself a running commentary helps you focus, then do it for as long as it helps. I mean, if you find that standing on your head helps you engage your senses more within your rundown, then stand on your head. It really doesn’t matter. What I am doing is giving you the basics, and the hands on, nitty-gritty application is down to you. Because people do tend to be different in that.

What I can say to you, absolutely without question, is the key to not being distracted, is to engage your senses within your rundown scenario. I cannot stress this too highly.

Hopefully, what will soon happen is you will begin to perceive what may seem like fairly weird, totally abstract mental imagery.

Say you perceive some fleeting kind of something or other. Chances are you’ll wonder if what you think you may have perceived is what you should be starting to perceive.

I was SO busy concentrating on my rundown and going along with the flow of it, that suddenly I would “discover” myself being in first-person perspective within my rundown. And I’d think, “Hey it worked!”

Of course, next instant the state would break and I would find myself back in the physical, kicking myself wishing I just hadn’t done that.

The other problem that can come about, at first, is you'll be going through your rundown and suddenly you'll feel you might be in a kind of half-and-half situation. Not exactly in this CR, but not exactly first-person within your rundown either.

So again you check whether the state you are in is really a different state, by comparing against how the  CR physical state actually feels, and that too breaks the state. At which point you realize you were transitioning to a different reality, but by then it's too late, and you have to start again.

The key is to simply roll along with this mental imagery. This is the beginning of Phasing/shifting. You don’t need any particular “technique” or "final push" in order to shift. You just need to keep going.

Don't open your physical eyes (these CR eyes) no matter what. Once the process gets underway, everything happens more or less automatically.

If you can just passively observe the process, you will end up in your intended reality in no time.

Summary

Create a Mental Rundown: Formulate a mental scenario in which you transition from your current reality to the desired one. This scenario should be engaging, immersive, and last around 30 minutes or whatever feels comfortable within your abilities.

Practice Regularly at first: Perform the mental rundown exercise at least once a day without the intent to shift, avoiding just before sleep. You can use calming music, sounds or binaural beats as background.

When ready to shift, transition to Focus 10/MABA: Enter a state of "mind awake, body asleep" (Focus 10/MABA) before attempting the shift. This helps prevent distractions from the physical body and serves as a launching pad to your shift.

Transition from Imagination to Reality: The goal is to transition from perceiving imagined mental imagery to perceiving images created by the shifting process itself.

Persistence is Key: Over time, you will start perceiving abstract mental imagery associated with the shift. Roll along with imagery without reacting. Stay engaged with the process without analyzing or reacting.

Trust the Process: As you practice, the shift will become more automatic. The goal is to reach a state where the transition to the desired reality occurs naturally.

Noticing Exercise

All this is written by Frank Kepple, and adapted by me. This is my main method for shifting realities. I mainly use it for blind/random shifts, but as described by Frank, it was mostly used to reach the void state, or what he described as “3D blackness”.

Don't worry about not being good at visualizing, or having aphantasia like me. You don't need it with the Noticing method.

First, the entire point of the noticing exercise is to “become fixated within”. That’s really the end goal, as THAT is where the non-physical lies within us, and the door to other realities. It’s nothing exterior that you “go to”.

The Noticing exercise is for complete beginners. It gets people used to simply looking within themselves. Phasing is all WITHIN you.

You need a little practice first just learning how to look within yourself. So that’s when I recommend the Noticing exercise.

The first thing I do is stretch out my eyes… This helps to relax them and allows them to stay closed easier.  I’ll do this by closing them tight for a few seconds, then release.  Do that a few times.  Then rotate your eyes around in whatever direction you wish.  But try to stretch them as far out in each direction as you can.

Now after my eyes are stretched out nicely (they should feel a lot more relaxed at this point), I close my eyes and fixate on a single point directly in front of me.

I do this while breathing deeply in and out. You can also use a breathing pattern, or count numbers. I always do this before entering Focus 10. Do what feels easier to you.

What you are trying to do is break that connection between looking and your physical eyes. If you feel for it, you will realize that initially, you are looking from a point right behind your eyes. Somehow you have to let the eyes totally relax and then you sneak that point away from them and look in a totally different direction in your mind while the eyes just remain relaxed.

Now, throughout this relaxation phase, I’ll really slowly change that point I’m fixated on upwards in small increments.  This has two effects… first it locks the eyelids shut and secondly, for some reason it assists the action of phasing (perhaps it’s just me, but try it anyway).  

Try to coincide your finished relaxed state with your eyes reaching as comfortably high as they’ll go. At this point, hopefully, you should be in Focus 10. If not, you can use the gateway tapes with the guided instructions to assist you. Always do what feels easier at the moment.

I want to point out here that your body WILL NOT be asleep at this point… and really, it never will.  You’ll simply be disassociating your focus from everything physical.  I can put it this way… at this point, your focus will be roughly only 20% in the physical and 80% within the non-physical at this time.

You need to get into the basic habit of looking within you. Simply that. Put aside all thoughts of "leaving your body" or whatever and simply look within your mind and start noticing what goes on in there. Try to choose a time when your physical body is fairly relaxed but not too tired if possible. That will help.

From here, we’ll start Frank's “Noticing” exercise.

Noticing what?

Well, nothing at first, there’s not much to see really but blackness. But then, after a short while, I may see that perhaps one part of the blackness is not quite so black. Perhaps there was just a brief flash of something, then maybe a sensation of a movement somewhere else.

 Maybe I just heard someone call my name. Hmm, that’s interesting, I might think, I wonder where that came from. But I don’t get too curious, I just keep noticing.

At first, people close their eyes and all they see is blackness. Unfortunately, this can put people off thinking they are never going to do it. When I close my eyes all I see is blackness at first.

But if people learn to actually notice what is taking place they may see that one area of black is not quite so black as the rest. Then they may kind of sense something. Then there might be a little fleeting something or other that just passed by. Perhaps a swirl of color, maybe you just heard a sound, or think you heard a sound but it’s confusing because you didn’t hear it with your ears.

Perhaps you just heard your name. Then maybe there was a flash, or was there? Now there’s that sound again.  At which point people tend to get overwhelmed thinking, “Hey, I’m doing it! I’m doing it!” Then they get zapped right out of the state, all excited realizing that it’s working for them.

(Note: everybody senses different things, and your experience may not align with the described one, don’t give too much importance to the differences. Your experience is unique and is yours, keep going.)

Many people ask me, “What do I see?” Well, at first all I see is blackness. But as my eyes and face start to relax I see a light in my mind. It is in an upwards direction, almost straight up but cranked back a bit.

It’s not a pinpoint light like a torch, it is more like an area of light, like a light-gray/white cloudy area. I focus my attention on this cloudy area and after about 10 or 15 minutes it’s like the cloud descends on me and I’m surrounded by this gray/white cloud. Sometimes I see tunnels. Sometimes I see flashes of disconnected images that I can’t fully perceive.

At this point I’m almost at the stage where I have made the switch. Once I make the switch, I start seeing movement inside the clouds, like tunnels, or portals. The movements are like scenes, where my sight is like a camera floating in third person and I can’t control the movement.

Sometimes, with the right intent and curiosity, I can direct the “camera”, as I call it. The scene doesn’t take my full vision, but is “inside” the cloud, and also overlapping with the blackness I see. There may appear more than one cloud with different scenes, but when I start focusing on one, this starts to get closer to me.

If you keep going, more fully formed scenes start forming in what I describe as “clouds” or “tunnels”. Not every person might feel the same. If you keep going, the scene starts to become more and more real. In my experience you can control it with intent, it’s tricky to do it sometimes.

And while going further one of two things happens: You stop in some kind of  “Astral screen” and you see the scene of your Intended reality (or a random reality if you didn’t place any specific intent) in which you can step in and shift to, or you’re completely engulfed by the scene and you make the shift seamlessly.

The key to progress is to focus your mental attention not on the images but beyond the images. There are no definite boundaries between these states. What I mean is there is a transition, but it is never a black and white transition.

You get layers between the transitions. They kind of overlap. You see the scenes, the images, and also the blackness. It’s weird to explain. You’ll experience it. Monroe would call it a differential phasing, where he was receiving 2 inputs at once for a short while before he fully made the transition. Frank Kepple called them boundary-layer effects. The random imagery you are seeing are boundary-layer effects. The “place” you want to be is “beyond” that boundary layer. If you concentrate upon the boundary layer then at the boundary layer you will remain. :)

If you can stay calm, i.e. not get fearful or excited then you should get a major sensation of a transition. Now, depending on your momentum at this point, you will either plop out into the void state (Monroe’s focus 21) or you skip it altogether and you find yourself in another reality or in front of the “Astral screen” I mentioned earlier.

Once you get used to just allowing things to continue, the whole shifting process (from initial feeling of the floaty state that is MABA, to finding yourself within another reality) only takes a couple of minutes, even seconds sometimes.

What if I fall asleep every time I try to do it?

If you find yourself falling asleep, you’re either too tired, or you are concentrating too much on these fleeting images, so it’s causing you to lose your mental focus.

Normally, as we fall asleep our mental focus dissipates and we go off to dreamland. When you’re in focus 10, you’re simulating the same process, but your mind remains awake. But it’s easy to fall asleep since the conditions for sleeping are being met. I feel that by paying attention to these images, you are helping yourself fall asleep more than anything.

The images are too fleeting in nature to make sense of usually. I once tried but gave up as they are just too nonsensical and I was spending study-time on a phenomenon that wasn’t bringing me any benefits.

I think you have 2 choices of approach…

1. You can try to hold your mental focus by attempting to think through, or think beyond the random imagery. Try to pitch your focus somewhere in the distance “behind” the imagery. I say this because the imagery tends to be right in your face, as it were. All manner of this and that in the foreground. So try to think through it all and pitch your focus of attention into the background of the image scene and try to keep your focus concentrated there as your physical body falls asleep. If you can hold this, it wouldn’t surprise me if you were to suddenly find yourself in the void state or shift directly.

2. You can simply ignore the imagery and create a basic scene for yourself and concentrate on that. Riding a train, or in a car. Walking is not too engaging. Try different things. You don’t need to SEE it as in visualization. Once you’re in this state, if you imagine it, and try to stimulate your tactile or sound imagination, it gets to a point it starts to get real and kickstarts the shifting process.

I have trouble understanding where to look

To explain this, let’s do an exercise as an example. This will help you know where to look.

Take a piece of paper; this piece of paper is going to represent the “blackness behind your eyes”.

Draw a single dot in the middle of that page then hold that page up to your face and stare at the dot (it’s okay to allow the dot to become unfocused).

The dot represents your fixated gaze (depending on how closely you’re holding the paper to your face, you could see two dots) within the blackness (or in this case, the whiteness of the paper)… now, consciously take in the rest of what you can see of the paper, but don’t actually look around, use your peripheral vision.

Try to see any irregularities in the paper… there might be a speck of something somewhere, or a small crease somewhere else that you didn’t notice before, and you might be noticing that the paper isn’t uniformly white, and you begin to focus in on these newfound items of interest.

Notice these irregularities and retain that air of curiosity regarding them. Become consciously curious about each and every aspect that you notice in the paper… the more you do this, the more you begin to forget about the physical world around you and the more your consciousness shifts within what you’re gazing at.

This is the act of becoming fixated within.

So now that you’ve just done that with a piece of paper and with your eyes open… close your eyes, visualize that dot in front of you… and do it again, this time staring at the blackness behind your eyes instead of a white piece of paper.

Try to avoid verbalizing or commenting about the things you’re seeing and noticing… try to keep that “air of curiosity” about it all.

As always, do what feels easier, if you don’t get zapped back while commenting on what you perceive and it helps you, feel free to do it.

To reach the place where you start to really get visuals, for me, takes anywhere between 20 or 30 minutes. If I don’t get it after 30 minutes, then I know that my heart just isn’t in it for that session and I go do something else.

 But, give yourself whatever time you feel is necessary. It can take a while. Just remain relaxed and calm. Take it as a skill. It’s practice. Even if you didn’t reach the place you aimed, it still helps. Keep doing.

It helps to do it without the intention to shift, and just to notice.

Once you do attain a solid Focus 10 and can hold it for a good period of time without losing it, the shift or reaching the void state will more than likely happen naturally. You simply have to drive your consciousness within just a bit more… The big point here though is that it’s nothing you can force.

You have to ALLOW yourself to do this shift. (You can also go to the void state if you don’t set your intention to shift)

To put it in another way, I think what you might try is forgetting all ideas of getting out of your body and think more of mentally stepping into the imagery you are seeing.

When you see imagery (dots, colors swirling, clouds, anything really)  what Frank calls the "stray energy" stage and the fleeting glimpses of various scenes are of the astral and other realities.

Next time you are at that stage, have an intent to go somewhere in particular. Keep it simple like, imagine sitting by a lake, or just looking out over the ocean. Just something basic.

"Intent" is what makes you travel. I think what you are doing is (mentally) standing on the brink, uncertain of what to do, and it is the release of that uncertainty which is causing the flitting from one scene to another.

My idea is, if you can gather a definite intent, that should cause a fixed scene to appear. Then you should feel a kind of attraction that makes it easy for you to mentally step into that scene. Then you are there, basically.

A Twist on the Noticing Exercise

(by Xanth of unlimitedboundaries.ca)

I’m not sure if this is a twist so much as a realization of the nature of the exercise, but instead of “passively observing” I tried “actively creating” in that blackness.  I began to look at the blackness and the swirls of changes that I usually see, and tried to find patterns in it.  

I don’t actively create either, I just kind of allow things to ‘form’ until I recognize something (ie: a wolf howling), then I try to focus upon whatever it is. The object will either get stronger or it will just fade away, at which point I start the process again of allowing something to form.

Now, the trick here isn’t to see a pattern and think to yourself, “Oh, I see a circle!” or anything like that, you still want to remain passively observing, yet focused upon the image you’re seeing and try to strengthen it if you can (don’t try too hard, remember to stay relatively passive).  Bring your full attention towards it.

You might even see more than one pattern at a time!  Try to bring them together if you can by using your Intent. Then to deepen the state, try interacting with whatever you’ve created. Try making it move.

If it’s a person, move an arm by using your Intent. If it’s a ball, try rolling it around the blackness.  Your goal here is the same as the Noticing exercise: the total removal of your conscious awareness from this physical reality and place it ENTIRELY within the blackness (viewing the blackness).

So a quick recap… The usual Noticing Exercise would have you staring into the blackness behind your closed eyes and trying to “notice” any changes in that field of vision.  Then you would focus on those changes, and try to see more changes, and then focus into THOSE changes… etc.

 This Noticing Exercise with a Twist is different because instead of focusing in on “changes”, you’re going to focus in on recognizable patterns that you’re seeing.  

These patterns might initially start off as slight “changes”, but then just use your Intent to try to “see” more.  You can even try to mentally give a command and see what happens.  🙂

Another explanation of Noticing: Tunnels + intention

This post is from 2002 on Astral Pulse. The same “method” explained by another person. Again, this was mainly used for astral projection, but I adapted it for shifting realities. This “tunnels” is also my experience with Noticing.

Here's what I do. First,  I write a definite "intent" on a piece of paper. This is where I want to go or what I wish to accomplish. I feel that this notifies my subconscious. I then get barefoot with both feet flat on the floor, feet close together. I place my hands palms down in my lap, usually one on each thigh. I may or may not listen to the gateway tapes. (Note: this person already has experience reaching focus 10)

I relax and concentrate on the darkness behind my eyes and keep my breathing at a slow steady pace. I feel as though I am waiting… Expecting to soon see the colors that begin to swirl into the darkness behind my eyes.

At the same time, I "feel" my third eye and crown chakra become active, or opening. This stage usually begins after about 20 minutes when the natural chemical reactions to the darkness begin (much like going to sleep).

Once the colors begin to swirl, (violet, dark blue, white, and gold) it is not long before a tunnel forms. I then begin to move my consciousness into and through this tunnel to arrive at my intended purpose or destination.

Often, if I have requested a guide, this is when I will meet my guide.

1) How does this "tunnel" manifest?

At the first appearance of the colors, it is as if they are spiked and jagged clouds which move into my visual field from the right and the left side towards the center. These swirl together as other colors come in from the side, this is quite beautiful and entertaining to watch.

This movement speeds up until I get the "feeling" that I am moving forward into the center, As this progresses the black void is to the outside of my visual field and I am traveling very swiftly with these clouds to the end of this tunnel, often there will be swerves and slight curves in my progress (this travel is very fast, as I move "through" cloud formations in front of me.

As I progress with this swift forward movement the clouds begin to thin, and often a "starscape" will appear which is my arrival point.

The first time I ever did this I could not make myself go "forward", no matter what I tried, and had to return to my body. The next attempt I did succeed.

I think the "written intent" was what made this successful, as I had no goal in mind the first attempt. I learned by trial and error.

2) Can you sense the presence of your physical body, or does it sort of blend into the background?

When I use "this method" to travel, I am unaware of my physical body entirely by the time I reach the "starscape".

Often though, if I proclaim a written intent (before starting the method), my exit will be at that destination.

Until that time I gradually lose awareness of the physical.

Summary

Transition to Focus 10/MABA: Before initiating the exercise, enter a "mind awake, body asleep" state, commonly referred to as Focus 10/MABA. This phase helps to keep the distractions from the physical body at bay and sets the stage for your shift.

Practice the Noticing Exercise: The exercise is designed for beginners to practice looking within themselves. It helps you notice subtle changes within the blackness you see when you close your eyes. This simple act of noticing initiates the process of shifting realities.

Observing Changes and Sensations: Initially, you may see flashes or hear sounds. These shifts indicate you're on the right track. Let go of excitement and just keep noticing. 

From Blackness to Visuals: The key is to look beyond the images, focusing on what's beyond them. There's a transition zone between images and blackness that you want to transcend. The objective is to transition from just seeing the initial blackness to detecting subtle shifts, changes, or movements that might indicate the beginning of a shift in reality.

Stay Steady and Persistent: As you advance, you'll start spotting abstract visuals or sensations linked with the shifting process. The key is to immerse yourself in them without overanalyzing or getting overly excited.

Harness Intent and Patterns: Use your intent to focus on these patterns without verbalizing or overthinking. Merge patterns together using your intent, and deepen the experience by interacting with them, making them move or change.

Utilize the Tunneling Approach:  If what you see resembles a tunnel or clouds, use it. Let the movement and colors guide you through this process. towards your intended reality. Let the movement guide you through this process. While you progress through the tunnel, the clouds thin and a 3D scene will appear.

Let it Happen Naturally: With continued practice and trust, the process of shifting through the Noticing Exercise will become more intuitive. The ultimate aim is to seamlessly transition to your intended reality or into the void state. Trust the process, and if necessary, repeat attempts with a clear written intent for success.

Be Flexible when choosing a time to Practice

Done right it shouldn't take you more than about 45 minutes. Individuals vary, of course, but I think, at the start, trying for a continuous period of more than 45 minutes would start to become self-defeating. Half an hour every day is far better than a marathon 3.5 hour session one day a week.

What you need to do is practice as often as you can. At least once a day is best for, say, half to one hour. People find early-mornings can be quite productive.

Don’t get desperate to shift. If you reached Focus 10/MABA and maintained that state, and recognized it, it’s already a win. If you shifted, it’s a better prize. But getting into the right state is a build up to do it consistently in the future. Don’t forget that. Celebrating small wins is important because it motivates you to continue working toward your larger goal.

Some people suggest that this kind of thing is best done at the same time every day, as your body learns to anticipate it and so forth. But in doing that you just end up curve-fitting yourself into a mental box. There's no sense in only being able to do it under some particularly exacting conditions. You want to create a degree of flexibility for yourself.

Generally you will find it easier if the physical is relaxed to start with, but don’t force it. The relaxed and slightly dreamy state that comes about after coming awake from a number of hours of sleep is a good state to try in.  

In the afternoon, it generally takes me 30 minutes to get into the sweet spot. Sometimes it can take up to an hour. But if I'm relaxed and in just the right mental frame of mind I can get into focus 10/MABA in just a few minutes.

A trap that befalls beginners is, they go about their normal day right up until the point where they lay in bed then they start to practice their techniques. Which I feel this is a big mistake.

The time for practice is during the day: and it is from such practice that you develop the Intent.

At least that’s for me.

I find I am more aware of my physical body during the daytime and less tired. And when I’m tired my mind drifts easily with CR-thoughts. But I'm hoping, with practice, that will change. Ultimately I'm trying to reach the stage where surroundings/time of day/etc. make no difference.

Falling asleep can be a problem if you do this at night before normal sleep time. That's one reason why I practice in the afternoon, and now at additional times during the day.

Please always bear in mind: YOU CANNOT "MAKE" THE SHIFT HAPPEN!!!

Successful shifting is all about creating the right circumstances where you simply let it happen. Understand that conscious/awake shifting is a gentle and graceful process.

How to Design your own method

This text was written by Xanth and originally for Astral projection. Again, I adapted it to shifting because it’s all “phasing”, but since I’m putting everything in one place, I assumed it would be good to put it here.

How can you design your own, more effective Shifting Realities method? I’ll explain and hopefully walk you through the process.

When you understand that every single shifting reality method out there is simply a variation on a theme, you can then begin to understand how to fashion your own method OR find one that has already been written which will work best for you.

What you need to find is your “Focus”. This is the thing that you’ll be focusing your attention on to the exclusion of everything else. You’re basically going to make this one thing the point of your focus so that everything else around you, everything physical drops away. This is when the phasing-reflex occurs. The thing that kickstarts the process.

First, let’s talk about a couple methods and I’ll explain what their “Focus” is and why they work.

I’ll start with the “Staircase Method”. As you’re lying down, you imagine a grand, spiraling staircase descending or ascending before you. The aim of this technique is to visualize yourself taking deliberate, paced steps on each stair, feeling each footstep and the texture beneath. As you navigate, you should sense a gradual transition or drift between your current reality and the one you wish to shift to.

So what’s really happening with this method? Is the act of ascending or descending the imaginary staircase actually “bridging you to a different reality” (as others would suggest)? Metaphorically speaking, yes. In tangible terms, not quite.

The act of immersing yourself in this visualization, of the sensation of each step and the ambiance of the staircase, is the FOCUS of this method. Essentially, this vivid visualization becomes the anchor of your concentration, which, when engaged into the exclusion of all other external stimuli, activates the Shifting Realities reflex.

Ok, the next one we’ll look at the Noticing Exercise.

In the Noticing Exercise, you lie down, close your eyes and then just look out into the blackness caused by closing your eyes. At that point, you’re to draw your attention towards any “changes” you see happening in that blackness. Allow your attention to draw towards anything, however minute it may seem. When you begin to see changes occur, move your attention towards it more and more, investigate it as deeply as you can.

So what’s really going on with this exercise? The act of bringing your awareness towards the changes going on within the blackness is the FOCUS for this. When you do this exercise and you focus on those changes to the exclusion of everything physical around you, you will trigger the Shifting Realities reflex.

Give me any Shifting Reality method/techniques/exercise and I’ll let you know what the Focus of that technique is. The only exception is that this focus stuff only relates to methods/techniques/exercises where the goal is a Shifting Realities from a fully conscious, awakened state.

If you can find a good Focus that will work for you, then it’ll keep your awareness engaged. The Focus can, literally, be anything you want. It can even be something on or about your physical body. Some people would say that’s an issue because it would keep your focus on your physical body.

It’s not an issue as long as you can use that Focus in an effort to push everything else physical away from your awareness.

The goal is to remove your awareness from this physical reality. 

Or another way to put it is that you’re looking to make it so that your five physical reality senses are no longer “processing” input from your environment.

So what should your Focus be? As I said, it can be anything you want as long as it’s engaging and it can hold your attention for extended periods of time. We’ve already discussed how the Staircase Method and the Noticing Exercise work and what their Focus is.

Try to pick something that’s of interest to you. For myself, I had success using the movement of a car, or a motorbike. It’s engaging and the movement and sounds would hold my attention even if I can’t visualize or fully sense the movement.

What I would find is that as I was doing this, I’d find myself in a car actually in it. In one of my shifts I literally shifted to a reality where I was riding shotgun in a pickup truck on a bumpy old town road.

You could use something Visual. I’ve seen people use a candle flame. You stare into a real, mentally vivid candle until the point when you close your eyes you can see an afterimage of the flame. Then you focus on that afterimage.

You could also use something making sound. If you have a fan going, you can focus on the sound of the fan makes. You can even do an open-eyed Focus where you focus on something across the room, say a teddy bear on a shelf.

As you focus on it to the exclusion of all else going on, allow your eyes to fall shut. Eventually, if you’re focused enough on it, you’ll trigger the Shifting Realities reflex.

You can use full visualizations like I suggested in the Mental Rundown exercise. If you can engage all of your senses within a scene you create, then that too is a great Focus with which to trigger the Shifting Realities reflex.

Do you enjoy riding a bike? Do a visualization where you ride a bike. This kind of visualization works best when you use a memory of something you’ve already done or watched (like a scene from a TV show’s world you’re shifting to).

This allows your Focus to be created very strongly, because you don’t have to guess what something feels like.

A more basic example of this is visualizing yourself in an elevator going up and down. If you use a Mental Rundown like this as your Focus, then try to make sure there’s some sort of incorporation of “movement” in it. I find that helps greatly in triggering the Shifting Realities Reflex.

Once you're in SATS/MABA (Focus 10), pretending is enough to phase/shift

Talking to a guide

This part is written by Frank Kepple:

Understand that you do not have to completely clear your mind so it is devoid of all thoughts. If you did that you would not be able to do anything... because it is the thought-energy that enables you to project.

That's why your mental focus is all important. In other words, you have to channel the right kind of thoughts in the right direction.

Because, again, thought is a primary energy. What completely scuppers the process is all the emotional baggage and/or other such mental kak that people generally carry around in their heads.

So focus and intent are extremely important, together with expectation.

Focus your mind with a specific intent and expect a result. If the expected result doesn't come about right away, simply imagine that it has. Then take a step back and try again.

This is a little technique I picked up fairly recently where you practice talking to guides:

First go to Focus 10 (SATS) and simply start having a conversation with a guide. Don't even think about the Physical not one iota. Don't even question whether or not you are at Focus 10. Have no doubts whatsoever of your intention.

At first, I would ask simple questions and imagine the replies. Then, after about the 4th or 5th attempt, I got a reply back from a question that stopped me dead. I thought, er, hang on a minute, I didn't imagine that response.

Then I clearly heard a female voice saying, "No, that is correct, it was me... hello!"

I tell you, it was freaky when it first happened but the process quickly becomes second nature.

Imagination is enough once you're in focus 10, you need to let the experience happen after setting the intention. It doesn't matter if at first it's pretending that you're there having a conversation, but it turns into reality given enough time and enough "delusion". And by "pretending" or not caring if it's pretending or not,  and it's just to experience it in your imagination, you're lowering the resistance and letting the intention come through.

Pretending is a way of opening up the power of your imagination.

(Also written by Frank Kepple, this is important, believe me)

Imagination is a nonphysical means of communication. I use the word pretend because it doesn't matter if you believe your conversation is really happening or not. Only that you pretend it is.

My first big mistake was the belief that because a thing is only perceived within one’s imagination it is, by definition, not real. I believed that imagination and fantasy are two different words for the same thing. That belief is probably responsible for the vast majority of failures to perceive, communicate, interact, and explore beyond this physical reality.

My second mistake was to believe that if I allowed myself to pretend any portion of an exploration experience, the entire experience was a fantasy. I have since come to understand that pretending can be the beginning of the process of shifting one’s focus of attention from one reality to another.

An experience that begins with pretending—with active fantasizing—can progress to an experience that is real if the conditions are right. Pretending also helps deal with the perceptual blockages of beliefs by opening one of those windows of opportunity.

If I know I am actively pretending an experience, my beliefs are less threatened and less likely to interfere. If my experience shifts from fantasy to real, the window of opportunity can remain open long enough for me to have an experience that is verifiably real. Pretending can serve to hold the window of opportunity open.

It’s okay to pretend and, when you hear me say that, I really mean it. Imagination, used this way, reminds me of using an old-time hand pump to bring water up from a well. You can pump the handle up and down all day long and never get any water from the well. But if you pour just a little water in the pump to prime it, pretty soon you could keep pumping the handle and fill a swimming pool.

I can’t stress enough how important a concept this was for me to grasp. By learning to pretend at the beginning of the exercise I engaged the creative power of imagination. Imagination opened up the entire nonphysical world to my perception.

The time for practice occurs during the day. Constantly holding an image in mind at a particular place in the head where the “Astral screen” effect emerges in the 3D blackness helps. Throughout waking hours, the image might not be as vivid as it typically is because you’re not in the sweet spot during physical waking hours. but you can still hold the impression of it CONSTANTLY in mind. (This is not a requirement, tho)

As such, when it comes to shift, you do so with the specific intention of phasing to the screen. Then, as you do the noticing exercise, the screen comes fully into view easier.

Which is why Imagination is a very powerful tool. I also suspect that a lot of people don't realize that their higher imagination-release-memory functions are not contained within the physical body at all. For those who are new to shifting realities, it's advised to frequently practice imagining the process during the day. This consistent effort aims to create a lasting or at least a persistent sense of connection throughout waking hours.

Pretending to shift to your waiting room

This is a shifting method to a waiting room adapted from "GUIDELINES FOR AFTERLIFE CONTACT" from Bruce Moen’s book "Voyages into the Unknown".

1. Find a quiet and comfortable space where you can relax without any interruptions.
2. Enter a state of "mind awake, body asleep" (Focus 10/MABA) before attempting the shift.
3. Imagine the reality you wish to shift into— In this case, a waiting room.
4. Imagine yourself in this waiting room, surrounded by a peaceful and serene atmosphere. Picture the details of the room, such as the color of the walls, the comfortable seating, engage in some activity you'll do there, and craft a scene. It doesn't matter if you can't fully visualize; just engage with the scene in the first-person POV in your imagination. Just pretend you see it. Similar to a Mental Rundown, but in your waiting room.
5. Bring to mind a person you are familiar with, someone who can serve as a guide or facilitator in this reality. It could be a comfort character, or a deceased loved one, or a spiritual guide, whatever you feel comfortable with and feel easier at the moment. Let's call this person Sarah.
6. Invite Sarah to join you in this waiting room.
7. Engage in a mental conversation with Sarah, expressing your desire to shift into this waiting room where you can be completely alone. Request her assistance in manifesting this reality for you, guiding you to the perfect circumstances that align with your intentions.
8. Introduce the idea of this waiting room to yourself, acknowledging that Sarah is here to support and accompany you during this shifting process.
9. Imagine a conversation between Sarah and yourself, where both of you acknowledge each other's presence in this waiting room. Feel the sense of calm and solitude as you interact in this tranquil space. Don't worry if you feel you're pretending. Pretending is fine.
10. If you find yourself saying, I can’t see, hear, or perceive a single thing in any way, PRETEND THAT YOU ARE!
11. Witness as Sarah gently exits the waiting room, allowing you to fully embrace the solitude and be alone in this reality. Feel the peacefulness and serenity that comes with being in this space on your own.
12. Express gratitude to Sarah for her guidance and assistance in helping you shift to this waiting room where you can enjoy complete solitude.
13. Keep doing this while totally focusing on your imagination, loop a scene or inspect the waiting room in your imagination, don't worry about if you're pretending or it's real. Just enjoy the moment in your imagination without paying attention to if you're getting there or not. Fully trust that with enough time you'll be there for real.
14. If you didn't shift, take a few moments to reflect on any impressions, sensations, or insights that arose during the experience. Remember those feelings because the next time you can recall those feelings to propel the experience further.
15. You can change Sarah for a guide, or even to a personification of your higher self, or another version of yourself, whatever you feel comfortable with at the moment. You can even try with different people to feel what is more aligned with you.

Foreword

This is the end. I wanted to share something important with you. This guide it's not something for folks who aren't ready to put in the effort. Sometimes people say they're not into meditation, can't focus, or are too lazy to put in the work, and that's okay. But if that's where you're at, this might not be the right path for you.

Let's talk real talk for a moment. If you're okay with half-hearted attempts for the next three years, then don’t do what this guide says. I know that sounds a bit rude, but it's true. And let's be honest, who wants to keep going in a direction that doesn't lead anywhere?

Now, here's the thing. This guide isn't for those who want a quick fix or a magical ritual. This is for people who want it so bad that they're willing to work for it. It's for those who want to learn what really works and are ready to put in the effort to make it happen.

Sure, there are other methods out there, and they might even work for some. But do you want to spend more years trying out different things, or would you rather focus on something that's proven to work? Something that, with time and practice, will become second nature?

The choice is yours, always. Don't let anyone, not even me, sway you. I'm not here to gain anything, and honestly, I don't care if you follow my advice or not. But think about this: why are there many more success stories in astral projection forums compared to the shifting community? It's because people in the shifting community are often following methods without fully understanding what they’re doing.

I genuinely believe that if you follow the path I'm suggesting, you can shift realities.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't force it to drink. Similarly, I can guide you, but it's up to you to take the steps.

So, if you're ready to make a change, to put in the effort, and to embrace a proven path, then dive in. Take those steps, no matter how small they may seem at first. Even a little progress is better than standing still or going the wrong way.

Good luck on your journey, wherever it takes you.

I wish you success,

RottenBrain.