u/Electrical-Ad502

I user mentioned something in a post I made a few days about how I gambled on my confidence after having opened my eyes, sure I shifted only to discover I haven't. I am sure this is something others have encountered and dealt with and it can make someone's shifting journey all the more difficult (in my opinion). To have such strong belief that you are there, which I do think is a massive part of being able to shift, then to open your eyes and see that that is not the case, I would like to know more about what it means or what is missing when you have the reassurance in yourself, but your consciousness/awareness/whatever you want to call it, it still locked in your CR

I found this increbible void state meditation on youtube. It wasn't meant for shifting specifically but I personally like that fact, and I think others could benefit from it so I'll attach the link here! While the meditation video is not meant for shifters explicitly, I do believe that the medication can be interpreted in such a way to allow you to get there.

Now, as for my experience, I was not able to shift with it unfortunately. But I probably got the closest I ever have to shifting with it. Today, I randomly got really hyped to try and shift so after I arrived home, I found this void state meditation I never tried before, but on my airpods and gave it a listen.

There is a chance I may have gone wrong at some point because while the point of the video is to help you reach the void state, I went back and forth in trying to enter my DR and reach the void state depending on the point in the meditation. But at some point, while my eyes were closed, I felt them kind of flutter, like they were moving all over the place suddenly and the light in the back of my eyelids were moving all over the place and I wasn't doing anything to make that happen. I opened my eyes suddenly, fully convinced (or maybe not, it was very spur of the moment) I was in my DR, but alas, I was not.

Any idea where I might have gone wrong?

Feeling intense symptoms, and ultimately not being in your DR is definitely something that has plaugued shifters and I'm hoping people can benefit from finding out more about what this means and how to conquer it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z2lLvDAQts&t=2s

One of the most common saying's I've heard in the shifting community is that shifting is easy. However, I do have a feeling that if that was the case, so many of us wouldn't be struggling to do it. I think there needs to be a bit of a rephrasing in that shifting in it of itself it not hard but getting there, to that point of being able to shift is the hard part. I believe wholeheartedly that every person is capable of being able to shift, but I think instead of framing shifting as something easy, it should be framed as something that needs to be worked on. An achievable goal of sorts. I am very much open to debate here and I've love some insight on this. I've been turning this idea/theory over in my head for a while now. There is definitely a lot of mental-work (for lack of better words) that goes into shifting, and achieving that headspace is possible, but perhaps not easy.

I also think the 'shifting is so easy' mentality as probably done quite a lot of harm within the shifting community as well...