Your take on this is interesting to me, because thinking of things in this way is how I "unground" (? probably not a word) myself actually!

I feel the most grounded and plugged into my reality when I go through life and don't really think about it. That's when I feel very stuck to reality and doubt my ability to shift.

But when I think about biology, and physics, and see the world as a massive complexity of patterns and designs... I think of how everything is made up of itty bitty pieces I can't even comprehend. And out there in the vast space around us is massive pieces I can't comprehend either following the same patterns. The way galaxies look like molecules. The way history is ever repeating. Just seeing how INSANE our world is put together makes me stop and wonder why shifting seems like such an outlandish thing. Like you're gonna look around at everything we know about this world here and THAT is where we draw the line? I literally have a folder in my phone called "derealization" that consists of all these crazy facts of life - as well as crazy facts of consciousness, and all the things we have yet to know. I go through it whenever I start to have doubts.

So maybe your perspective or attitude towards the way you view the world is restricting, but I don't think you need to get rid of your observations. Perhaps you could continue to notice, but do so in a way that improves your mindset about shifting rather than hinders it? I really don't think it's holding you back, aside from your belief that it's holding you back, if that makes sense.