{"id":507,"date":"2022-12-30T20:14:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T00:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/how-to-shift-into-a-new-reality-faster-steve-pavlina\/"},"modified":"2022-12-30T20:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T00:14:58","slug":"how-to-shift-into-a-new-reality-faster-steve-pavlina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/how-to-shift-into-a-new-reality-faster-steve-pavlina\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Shift Into a New Reality Faster \u2013 Steve Pavlina"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night I had a vivid dream where Rachelle and I were students in a spirituality seminar. The theme was about embodying your higher self. We were the only two people who showed up for it, waiting for the instructor to arrive. I realized that I showed up in my pajamas, and I thought to myself, Well that makes sense because my higher self surely likes pajamas.<\/em> I don\u2019t recall any part of the dream where I deliberately dressed that way, and my clothing morphed into a different outfit later in the dream, but that\u2019s the nature of dreams. In a dream the flow of events can be very fluid and flexible.<\/p>\n

Physical reality can behave like that as well sometimes, especially because physicality is a bit of an illusion. I was listening to an audiobook last night that said that if we could remove all of the empty space from our human bodies (inside our atoms and molecules), then all of humanity could be compressed down to the size of one sugar cube. Our nature is more energy-based than truly physical, and energy is very flexible.<\/p>\n

So why does it seem like we\u2019re so solid, and why does our waking reality apparently change so slowly, relative to how quickly we can make changes in our thoughts or dreams? One answer is that the energy patterns support that sense of solidity, like energetic ice crystals. Stable patterns create a seemingly stable physical reality.<\/p>\n

Be Water, My Friend<\/h2>\n

If we want to change those energy patterns, one way to do that is to shift their frequency first. Make the patterns less solid and more fluid. So instead of solid ice, transform those patterns be more like water instead. Remember Bruce Lee\u2019s advice: \u201cBe water, my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ok, sure. But how?<\/p>\n

One simple way to do this is to literally eat more water, as in raw, water-rich fruits and vegetables. Through many years of experimentation with raw foods, I\u2019ve noticed that it\u2019s way easier to shift my experience of reality when I eat raw versus cooked foods. Sometimes the change can be very dramatic.<\/p>\n

If I want to stabilize my reality and lock it down, eating more cooked and processed foods is a reliable way to do that. Life changes more slowly when I eat that way.<\/p>\n

If I want to have a more fluid experience and make sweeping changes or open myself to fresh possibilities, I know it\u2019s wise to start by lightening up my diet and eating more raw foods, if not entirely raw. I\u2019ve written previously about how it\u2019s easier to manifest intentions when eating raw, like those intentions somehow become a lot more powerful. The energy patterns of raw foods are very different from those of cooked foods, so perhaps that has something to do with it. I just know that when I want to amp up my manifesting game, raw foods make a huge and obvious difference.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it\u2019s nice to stabilize reality and lock it down into a more icy mode, so I can slow down the rate of change. I don\u2019t always like the shifts of being in water-mode for too long, which can feel like being tossed around in the currents.<\/p>\n

This month I\u2019m doing a 30-day challenge of drinking a quart of fresh juice each day, and I got a new juicer a week ago to make that easier. I know from experience that this can be good for my physical energy and detox, but this time I also want to test how it affects my ability to manifest different kinds of intentions and to make bigger shifts in my reality. I\u2019m not having juice exclusively like I did for 30 days back in 2008, but I do want to see if having juice each day makes a difference. I expect that it will. I\u2019ve been doing this for about a week already, and I perceive some interesting shifts happening. It feels like life is taking on a more fluid quality and that it\u2019s not as solid as it was before. Shifts are happening in areas that were previously more fixed and solid.<\/p>\n

You might be wondering: Can I just drink more water to get the same effects?<\/em> In my experience, no. Drinking more water doesn\u2019t seem to make much difference. Even when water fasting for 40 days straight, I don\u2019t think it amped up the flow of my life nearly as much as eating raw foods, and water fasting didn\u2019t feel particularly spiritual to me. Maybe there are some extra benefits in the energy signatures of plants that we aren\u2019t getting with water alone.<\/p>\n

The Simulation Perspective<\/h2>\n

Another way to make reality more fluid is to practice the subjective perspective. Remember that we could be living in a simulation. This perspective reminds me that more is possible because the Simulator can always create changes.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also crucial to release the grip on the objective perspective if we want more fluidity and flow in life. Thinking of reality as physical and objective is a great way to slow life down to a crawl and to lose the ability to participate in directing the flow as powerfully. When I slide into that mindset, it feels like I have to self-power all the changes I want to make, and that\u2019s just exhausting after a while. It\u2019s 100x easier to create changes with reality\u2019s cooperation.<\/p>\n

If you want more help with this perspective, the Submersion course<\/a> is a 60-day deep dive into the subjective mode of relating to reality, and there\u2019s also a free three-part intro to subjective reality<\/a> to get you started.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m leaning towards going through Submersion myself this Fall, so I can do a concentrated deep dive into practicing the exercises every day. If other people are interested, perhaps we could make this a more social experience \u2013 do the exercises together and share our results. We could even do some group intention experiments along the way, much like we did with the fun and transformational Million Dollar Experiment<\/a>. We never included a social layer with Submersion like we did with more recent courses like Amplify<\/a> and Guild<\/a>. I think I\u2019m up for hosting a social version of the course if there\u2019s enough interest \u2013 just let me know via my contact form<\/a> if this appeals to you. Maybe we could have weekly calls as we go through the course together.<\/p>\n

Release Ice People; Embrace Water People<\/h2>\n

That leads into yet another way to make life\u2019s energy more fluid, which is to connect with other people who want to experience more flow and flexibility \u2013 and to invest less time and energy in people and experiences that are very fixed and solid.<\/p>\n

So less time with ice people. More time with water people. It\u2019s up to you whether you want to be around gassy people. \ud83d\udca8<\/p>\n

Other people\u2019s energy patterns can and do affect us. If you connect with scarcity-minded people often (online or offline), that is going to nudge your own energy patterns to shift towards scarcity as well.<\/p>\n

One improvement I noticed when I dropped social media years ago was that I felt a lot freer, and life seemed to become more fluid and flexible. I think that\u2019s because the people I\u2019d interact with most often on social media were the biggest social media addicts, and that wasn\u2019t a great influence. So consider that if you\u2019re very active on social media, you might be encouraging addictive patterns in yourself by engaging so often with social media addicts.<\/p>\n

Moreover, consider if you truly resonate with the overall energy pattens of the various services you use. While I enjoyed the ride of being active on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for a while, the experience eventually felt too circular and repetitive, and I\u2019m so glad that I deleted those accounts to let my own energy become more fluid once again. It was good to remind myself that more is possible, and I\u2019m happier for it.<\/p>\n

Setting Spiritual Intentions<\/h2>\n

Lastly, we can also shift energy patterns by setting different kinds of intentions. Instead of setting such objective and mundane intentions or goals, focus on more spiritual or energy-based intentions. Point your thoughts towards fresh possibilities.<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t require any belief. You can pick up and use spiritual frames as easily as putting on a pair of sunglasses. Then release those frames when you\u2019re done. Holding fixed beliefs, even if you think they\u2019re spiritual, just makes you icier, and it takes you away from being more fluid. So don\u2019t try to believe anything. Just explore, test, and play.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t really know how this reality works, but we can still explore what\u2019s possible. Perhaps our biggest risk in life is leaving so much potential untapped because we didn\u2019t explore enough.<\/p>\n

Here are some spiritual intentions you can try for yourself. See what effect they have.<\/p>\n