Monkey mind...

[u/tomer-palmman]

When pulling the cards its like a war:

"Pull one from the end"

"No, not the end, you need to feel it"

"Take the lighter edged one"

"Take the one hiding beneath its neighbor"

"Reverse it"

"No! You already shuffled and it would ruin the reading and once you uncover the card, it is a done deal!"

"Would you choose already?!"

"You're choosing too fast so its not accurate enough."

I made a dictionary by pulling 3 cards for certain common concepts like relationship, basement, car, cheating, alcohol, book...

Hoping to get somewhat of an objective representation for each concept.

I noticed the influence of my view point /current belief system /current association for that concept materializing in my spread.

I want to be able to get a much cleaner answer, like the chariot and 8 of W and 6 of W to repreaent a car.

I don't want to think about a car crush and then see that in the cards, that is how I lose the added value of the cards.

Instead of divination I get manic-monkey mind manifestaion.

So some people use the jumping cards to avoid all this..

But this monkey runs and jumps fast and already is waiting for me in the interpretation stage

When I did readings to clients via reddit, I mannaged to be very accurate (some of the times), I believe the reason being the anonymity and due to the fact I gave them for free so felt less pressure/fear from having mistakes.

My request from you would be recomendations for books/exercises/meditations I can practice in order to tame this lion(monkey) without a fight.

And anything you may wish to share!

Thanks a lot!

[u/Ok_Equipment_9939]

You might want to check out Lon Milo DuQuette. He has his head on straight when it comes to anything involving the "meat brain" and the "monkey-mind."

[u/Chianpet]

Hi there!!

Fighting monkey brain is so hard when learning this whole huge universe haha.
So I used to have suuuuuuch a long way of pulling cards and I’ve done something which makes it way more effective for me now and also eliminates some of that chitter chatter.

So first, I do a preliminary shuffle where I mix the cards up and focus on starting to open the door to spirit for messages to come through. Then I split the deck into smaller decks—the amount and sizes always vary and don’t follow anything specific, I just like start throwing them down in different ways and then I choose whichever “feel right” to me. Now the funny thing is that no matter what I do, I’m almost ALWAYS drawn to the decks on the “right side” of where I’m throwing down at and it just like became a pattern to me over time despite that I’m always changing the pattern and placement, etc. sometimes I even feel drawn to split a stack between two other stacks or something and just follow that feeling.

So then once I have “thinned the deck” that’s when I really start to focus on whatever the focuses are but MOSTLY what I focus on is “help me connect to the messages that this person can digest and use”, not exactly in those words lol but that like energy of thought mixed among many different words haha.

And then I just shuffle until it feels right! But creating this dynamic really helped me stop overthinking about the pulling of cards. Hope this helps 💖