Quantum Shifts: The Truth Behind Neurodivergent Reality Hacking

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Ready to uncover the truth about quantum shifts for neurodivergent thinkers? We dive into the fascinating world of reality hacking, where change is often more chaotic than you might imagine. In this episode, I share my personal journey through the unpredictable waters of manifestation, revealing how reality shifts can come with their fair share of messiness and challenges. 

Join me as we explore the power of these shifts, recognizing that the transition from one reality to another is rarely straightforward. It takes courage to embrace the discomfort and embrace the unknown while you navigate through layers of self-doubt and fear. I illustrate this journey with my own experience, sharing the pivotal moment that led me to a new life filled with connection and purpose.

Gain valuable insights into how to start your own quantum shifting journey. I offer actionable steps to help you kickstart this process, all while reminding you that it's okay to feel resistant or uncertain. You are in the middle of a powerful transformation, and it's those small, aligned actions that can lead to significant shifts.

Join the conversation and discover how to manifest differently—embracing not only the good but also the messy, chaotic, and beautiful path to creating the life you desire. Don't forget to stay connected and share your own experiences!

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Episode Transcript

Carissa Andrews (00:08):
Welcome to Manifest Differently, the
podcast for neurodivergentthinkers and anyone looking to
approach manifestation in a waythat truly works for them.
I'm your host, carissa Andrews,here to explore the science,
energy and strategies that willhelp you create the life you
love.
Let's dive in and ManifestDifferently.

(00:35):
Welcome back to ManifestDifferently, the podcast where
we explore manifestation in away that actually works for
neurodivergent minds.
I'm your host, carissa Andrews,and today we're talking about
something that gets wayoverhyped in the manifestation
world quantum leaps.
Now, if you've ever heardpeople talk about instant
reality shifts, like the oneswhere they were broke and the

(00:55):
next day they were rolling incash, or they just thought about
their dream job and itmagically appeared you might
wonder why doesn't it work likethat for me?
And it magically appeared.
You might wonder why doesn't itwork like that for me?
The truth is, reality shiftsaren't always pretty.
In fact, they're usually messyas hell.
And today I'm pulling back thecurtain on my very first
experience with reality hackingwhat I did, how it felt and how

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you can start shifting yourreality without waiting for the
perfect moment.
And now, when I talk about this, I just want you to know like
sometimes reality shifts can besmall, but I want to give you a
really big example.
Right, but first, before we getstarted, before we dive in, we
got to do our quick nervoussystem reset right, because,
let's be real, if your nervoussystem is stuck in high beta,
you know the overthinking stressmode manifestation is going to

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feel impossible.
So find a comfortable spot andclose your eyes unless you're
driving, of course and then justfocus on your breath.
I want you to take a deepbreath in through your nose,
hold it and exhale slowlythrough your mouth, letting your
exhale be just a little bitlonger than that.

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Inhale One more time, inhale,hold and exhale All right.
Now that we've got our energygrounded, let's talk about
reality hacking and why quantumleaps aren't exactly what you

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think they are.
So let's rewind to the momentwhen I had my first real big
quantum shift and spoiler alertit didn't look like a magical,
effortless upgrade either.
It looked like absolute chaos.
So at the time, I was in amarriage that wasn't aligned.
I was deeply, deeply unhappy,but I felt stuck.
I had built my entire lifearound that relationship from

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the time I was 16 years old andI had two small kids to think
about at that point and I wasterrified of what people would
think if I left.
But then something happened.
I felt deeply drawn to go toSedona, arizona, and when I was
there, I felt this huge shift inme, this I'm ready to let this
go if that is meant to be mypath right.

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And then I met someone, someonewho completely changed
everything.
Colin lived in England and I wasin Minnesota.
We were thousands of milesapart, both living lives, deeply
rooted in separate realities.
He had two boys in the UK andhad a relationship of his own.
And yet, despite all logic,despite all the fears screaming

(03:34):
at both of us to stay safe, ourhearts were telling us something
different.
And it was weird because wedidn't anticipate any of it.
We didn't anticipate anythingAt the time, we were just of it.
We didn't anticipate anythingAt the time.
We were just talking books, wewere just talking about writing,
and it was so fun.
But at a certain point I knew, Iknew deep down, that there was

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something here and I had to takea leap.
But the idea of actually doingit, yeah, it felt impossible
until one day I had to make adecision.
The pressure of staying thesame was so hard, so strong, and
the pressure to change, toshift, was equal and opposite.

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And so I said yes to my heart,yes to the unknown, yes to the
reality that I hadn't yetstepped into.
And the moment I made thatdecision, everything around me
obviously started shifting.
And let me tell you, it wasn'teasy.
The moment I made the choice, myold reality started to fight

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back right.
People judged, some didn'tunderstand, some who are very
deeply close to me my ownparents didn't understand.
Colin's parents didn'tunderstand.
Some who are very deeply closeto me my own parents didn't
understand, colin's parentsdidn't understand.
My friends didn't understand.
Some of them did.
Some of them were verysupportive, but others, they
just couldn't stick around withthat paradigm.
So of course, doubt crept inright.

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Was I making a mistake?
Was this actually real?
Was I crazy?
There were hard, messy, painfulmoments, especially when my
parents didn't understand.
And for almost two years wewere completely separated, like
we had no contact with myparents.
But I kept going.
And here's the crazy thing OnceI fully committed to that new

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reality, things rearranged inways I could not have predicted.
Now, if you want to hear thefull story of that particular
manifestation, how it allunfolded and the wild
synchronicities along the way, Iactually shared it back in
episode two.
So definitely check out thatparticular episode.
But the reason I'm telling youthis today is because this is

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what a quantum shift actuallylooks like.
It's not an effortless glow upwhere you just think positive
and the universe hands youeverything on a silver platter.
It's messy, it's uncertain,it's terrifying, but it's also
the most powerful thing you'llever do.
Here's what no one tells youabout shifting timelines.

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Your old reality resists thechange.
Your subconscious is wired forsafety and familiarity.
So when you start shifting, itfreaks the fuck out just a
little bit right.
Doubts, fears and weirdroadblocks will start to show up
.
That means you start to feeldeeply uncomfortable.
So identity shifts they'revisceral.

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Your nervous system literallyhas to recalibrate, and if you
feel anxious or unsure or evenphysically exhausted during this
process, that's pretty damnnormal.
Okay, synchronicities alsostart cropping up.
So once the shift stabilizes,once your nervous system is
stabilizing it, once your mindhas stabilized it, you'll notice

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little signs chance encounters,random opportunities or doors
opening where they werepreviously locked.
Okay, and it never quite lookshow you expect it to look.
The path from A to B is rarelylinear.
The universe instead movesthrough quantum entanglement,
not logic.
So the sooner you embrace thedetours, the faster your shifts

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solidify.
So if you're in that in-betweenspace where things feel
uncertain, I want you to take abreath.
You're not stuck, you'remid-shift.
Or, like I talk about with myauthor crew, you're in
mid-manifestation.
Right, You're in the process ofbecoming the thing that you
want.
And now, not everybody has to gothrough these huge quantum
shifts, right?

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You don't have to completelyuproot your entire life and
change into something new, butyou can, and sometimes you want
to, sometimes you want it to bea huge, big transformational
event.
You know, if you're going frombeing completely broke and
wanting to be a millionaire, youcan make that shift, but you
have to make it feel safe inyour body.
I wish that was something thatI had learned a lot sooner was

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that your nervous system isprobably the biggest blocker
quote, unquote, because I'm nota big fan of the word block but
if your nervous system doesn'tfeel safe in taking those big
quantum leaps, you're not goingto do it.
And it's it's kind of, it'sinsidious in a way, because it's
not always about, like you know, the thing happening to you,

(08:17):
like the quantum shift happeningto you.
Although it can, it's, in myexperience, a quantum shift
feels more like you've decidedthis is it, you're done here,
you're no longer playing thisgame anymore and you're going to
do something big, come hell orhigh water.
And so once you've made thatdecision, there's like an
energetic power to it that comesalmost from the solar plexus.

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Like you're just done.
Like this is it.
I'm making a decision and noone is going to change my mind,
right?
And once you do that, you're'rejust done.
Like this is it.
I'm making a decision and noone is going to change my mind,
right?
And once you do that, you're,you know, triggering law of
attraction, law of assumption.
You're doing an awful lot ofthings within the universal
energetic fields and it's sointeresting because you're the
powerhouse, right, you're theone making this decision.

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But sometimes we allow it to beslower.
Sometimes we allow it to bethis progression where we've
decided we want a millionairedestiny, where we're going to be
rich, we're going to do thesethings and we want certain
elements of what we're doing tobe the way to do it.
But I'll give you the examplelike my author career, or my

(09:22):
author revolution career, I wantmy teaching, my showing up here
wanting to help you to learnhow to embrace and empower
yourself to create your reality.
I want that to be my ultimatedream life, right, my job, where
I am literally transforming theworld through my teachings.
That's what I want.

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But sometimes, when our systemsthat we currently have are not
in alignment with that ultimatetruth.
Stuff has to fall apart.
Stuff that is not in alignmenthas to fall away.
People you are working with endup no longer working with you.
The way that you are showing uponline has to shift.
The way that you are offeringyou know your books or your
offers to people, that has toshift.
The way you do your podcast hasto shift.

(10:04):
The way that you are offeringyou know your books or your
offers to people, that has toshift.
The way you do your podcast hasto shift.
Like I went from being in theAuthor Revolution podcast to now
having this one and that onebecause I needed to show up
differently, I'm being called todo something differently bigger
step into a bigger arena, right.
And so when you're in thatmid-manifestation point, it's

(10:27):
uncertain.
It's called the void for areason, right.
You're kind of in this soup,this stew of all the things
you're trying to call in, andit's clearing its path and it's
clearing its way.
Okay.
So let's make this actionable.
If you want to start hackingyour reality today as a
neurodivergent manifester, ifyou want to start hacking your

(10:48):
reality today as aneurodivergent manifester,
here's your challenge Number one.
I want you to decide.
Pick one thing.
It can be small, it can be hugeif you want, but just pick
something that represents yournext level self.
What does that look like foryou?
And then I want you to do itnow.
Take one, one aligned action.
You don't have to do all thethings, don't wait.
Just do one small, alignedaction that gets you there.

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Okay, and then trust the shift.
Expect resistance, because ithappens, but don't mistake it
for failure.
Realize that your nervoussystem is recalibrating.
Notice it, notice it's shifting, notice its resistance and then
tell yourself that's okay,you're in mid-manifestation,

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it's going to get on board.
When I look back at thismanifestation of Colin, we've
been married for 13 years.
Last Friday, february 21st, wasour 13-year anniversary, and so
everything now is so completelydifferent.
Like my parents love him, myfriends love him.
We have built a new lifetogether.
We have had all of our kidsunder our roof, like literally.

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His two sons came and livedwith us from the UK.
They're now old enough to be ontheir own my two kids.
At the time, they went fromgoing back and forth to and from
their dad's house to livingfull time with us.
Our son together is 10 yearsold and we have this life where
it's like we know, lookingaround, it was deeply personal,

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deeply fated, deeply our destinyto be together, even if we
created it ourselves.
It was meant to be right.
So this isn't about waiting fora sign.
It's about becoming the personwho already has the thing that
you want, because the universewill absolutely catch up, even
if it looks like a completecluster in the middle of it,

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even if everything looks likeit's falling apart.
It's just your old reality,your old paradigms letting go,
and I want you to realize thatthat is a part of the process.
Not enough people talk abouthow everything falls apart
before it falls in place.
So I hope that it makes sense,I hope it uplifts you, and I

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think that was a pretty juicyone, if I do say so myself.
So if today's episode resonatedwith you, I want you to take a
screenshot, share it with yourstories and tag me.
I'd love to hear about thequantum shifts that you're
calling in and if you want to godeeper into reality hacking,
make sure to check outmanifestdifferentlycom.
Or if you're an author who'slooking at manifesting more, I'm

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going to be opening up myMillionaire Author Manifestation
course, starting March 1st, youcan head over to
authorrevolutionorg.
Forward slash M-A-M.
That's Millionaire AuthorManifestation.
For those of you who arewondering what M-A-M stands for,
that's capitals.
Authorrevolutionorg.
Forward slash M-A-M.
Or get on my list, because I'min the process of putting

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together a really awesomemasterclass called Wildly
Wealthy and Creatively Free.
That will give you all sorts ofreally good insights into why
we want to manifest more asauthors.
Now remember, quantum shiftsaren't about perfection here,
they're about movement, they'reabout growth.
So take one step today andwatch what unfolds.

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Okay, it's gonna be prettyawesome, even if it feels crazy,
even if it feels like chaos.
You're going to love it.
Until next time, my friend,have a wonderful week and keep
manifesting differently.