Present Path Tarot
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Reframe Future Thoughts
Tarot is a tool for shifting your state of being around the future.
Sometimes it quells the inner doubt with a dose of certainty.
Sometimes it twists your view into a fresh angle, like the Hanged Man offers.
Today I want to offer some playful ways to explore realigning with new possibilities.
This is a system I have designed that has helped me shift in challenging moments where I am presuming an unpleasant future outcome.
While these start in an order, you can focus on the one that is most relevant at the time.
1. Awareness Pause: When you catch yourself in a future funk that scares you, a bad-case scenario, PAUSE. Do not judge yourself. Observe that your mind is attempting to protect you. Thank your brain for it’s problem solving intent.
2. Mirror Smash: Imagine that the last image or thought of the future funk is cast on a giant movie screen mirror. Take a big imaginary hammer and shatter it. Remind yourself that this is an illusion brought by fear.
2. Present Moment Reset: Sense your emotional state. Notice your posture and breathing. Adjust to sit up and take a deep breath. Relax the muscles on your face and let that wash down through your body.
3. Pendulum Swing: From however heavy or scary that future was, imagine the exact opposite. It might start with a feeling. What level of lightness and joy would you need to counter match that level of anxiety? Try to imagine a future equally fabulously opposite to the level of awful you found yourself in.
4. Past Positives: Reflect on a time when you had bad expectations that turned out less dramatic than you feared. Remember that the worst cast scenario is often not the outcome.
5. Deepen Your Self-Trust: Consider what skills you used to pull you through past events. Remind yourself that you are even more adept now, having been through that before. Develop this self-certainty further with an intuition coaching session.
6. Access the Resources around you: Do you have a friend who helps you think of things from a more positive and grounded place? Reach out to them to get their point of view. You can also sign up for a personal tarot reading with me to see how the cards can support your best future.
7. More the Merrier: Bring in a friend for a Tarot Together session to welcome safe loved ones into your life story. Throw a party to shake off the stress. If you live in Portland, have a talented professional reader perform for your friends. Portlandia Fortune Tellers provides top notch divination artists to add magic into any gathering.
8. Find wisdom in fabulous strangers of history and today: We enjoy an incredible resource of guides from the past and present who we can access online today. Some of them have been through very tough times and have insights from it. Listen to talks by Pema Chödrön, James Baldwin, Ram Dass, Maya Angelou, or others. Scroll down for a lovely message from Brené Brown.
And please let me know your favorite guides to listen to are with an email message. I would love to learn who you seek wisdom from.
You Contain Multitudes,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
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