Navigating Discontent: Unearthing Insights from the Four of Cups & Harnessing the Energy of Music & Affirmations for Transformation
“If we're not managing our mind and our emotions and taking care of ourselves on a deep therapeutic level, we get into a funk and it becomes the soundtrack to our life”
This Is Soul Therapy, Episode 8
Show Notes:
Ever feel stuck in a rut, swamped by apathy, or trapped by disillusionment? Here's a promise - by the end of this episode, you'll have a new perspective on these feelings, inspired by the powerful lessons that the Four of Cups tarot card offers! Join me on a thoughtful journey where we decode the symbolism and messages of the card, and explore strategies to crawl out of the sad trombone pit of a life rut.
Imagine converting obstacles into launch pads for growth. Sounds challenging, right? But it's entirely achievable with the right mindset. This episode helps you find a silver lining in every challenging situation and adjust your expectations to embrace the lessons that come with it. Besides, you'll learn the magic of affirmations and the power of music as mood transformers. Get ready to create playlists that work as your personal vibe boosters and keep you in control of your life.
The tail end of this episode carries another exciting surprise. We are hosting a monthly review contest with some amazing prizes up for grabs. Leave a review or rating for a chance to win! Harness the power of music, affirmations, and a shift in perspective to beat the blues. Tune in for an episode bursting with wisdom from the Four of Cups, and leave feeling unburdened, enlightened, and perhaps, even a little lucky!
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(Host) Jenn Hulley:
Mind, body, spirit. This is Soul Therapy, and I'm your host, Jen Hully. This week we're taking a deep dive into the Four of Cups and we're asking what lessons we can learn from it. We're going to talk about moments in life that have us sitting in apathy, disillusionment and just kind of like that mop, mop, sad trombone state, and we're going to challenge and support ourselves to drag ourselves out of that hole and get back into the light.
Before we dive into the imagery and the lessons and the guidance of the Four of Cups, I wanted to let you know that I have three different tarot offers available right now on my website. One is a Do it Yourself Guide to help you develop an intuitive daily tarot practice. It is a printable PDF that has information about how to use tarot therapeutically, as well as templates for journaling, and it comes with two guided meditation audios that are designed to tap you into an intuitive and reflective state of mind and then guides you through the actual reading. So it's great for people that want to learn how to do this on their own but also want support. That guide is available in my shop now, and I also have two different types of tarot readings that you can book. One is called a rapid fire tarot session, where you submit a form to me with some questions and just some preliminary information about what you want the reading to focus on and I will send you a 20 minute audio reading using a combination of tarot and oracle cards. And then, of course, we have the therapeutic tarot sessions, which are 90 minutes.
They are a deep dive into your life when you're at like a crossroads or you have questions or decisions to be made, and we do a really big reading. It's an intuitive spread again for you, using different tarot and oracle card combinations to shed light on what's going on in your life and to illuminate some themes and things that you need to look at, as well as look at obstacles in your way, and the purpose of it is to identify pathways forward. It's supported with a therapeutic coaching session. We do some soul therapy session in there, where we look at what you need to move forward and you get personalized resources, a program of support. You basically walk away from the reading feeling empowered, but also like you have a toolbox ready to support you. It's for people that want more than just the tarot reading guidance. They want the hand to hold them and guide them as they work on it and move through whatever it is that you're coming up with in your life. All of those things are on my website. You can go to jenniferhollycom or you can just go to the show notes and click on the link that takes you to the product that you're most interested in.
All right, so let's dive into the four of cups now. Now you may be thinking like, why the four of cups? Why do we want to talk about this card?
And we want to talk about this card because it's a card that every time I pull it, I'm like oh no, like I'm like, no, it's this card that really represents apathy, a state of, you know, detachment, indifference. I like to describe it as the sad trombone card, like that. Because it's a card that doesn't mean your life is pathetic not at all, in fact, like far from the truth but it means that you are just sitting in this sort of victim mentality or space where you're just like I literally can't give any more fucks. You know what I mean. But it's not just about not giving a fuck from a powerful space, it's not giving a fuck from, like, a space of exhaustion and a space of just being like nothing is ever going to get better. So it kind of combines this idea of learned helplessness, which we'll talk a little bit about later, as well as apathy, a lack of personal power and also just kind of like woe is me, life is terrible, what's the fucking point, right? So that's what I mean. When I pull this card, I'm like, oh God, here we go.
Because this card usually pops up when I'm in that state. And when you're in that state, you do not want someone saying to you like, why are you in this state, right? When you're wallowing, you're like, leave me alone and let me wallow. You want to wallow? Good Cards will not let you do that. The cards will bring this to your face and, like, bitch, slap you with it if you need a bitch slapping. So we're going to talk about this today. We're going to talk about again, like I said, the messages behind the card, what we can learn from it, how we can pull ourselves out of it. I want to talk about what learned helplessness is. I also want to talk about something called a rampage of appreciation and yes, it is as unhinged as it sounds. So buckle up, because this is going to be a fun one. But before we dive into it, I want to read to you from a couple of my books. I've got how to Read Tarot, a practical guide. Literally doesn't have an author on there, which is super weird, so I don't know who wrote this book. I've never seen that before. And then I have one called Tarot Connect with yourself, develop your intuition and live mindfully, by Tina Gong, and I believe she is the author of the website biddy tarotcom, and biddy tarot was a great resource that I used in the beginning of my journey over two years ago when I started dabbling with tarot. So let's talk about the four of cups.
Okay, whether you have like a traditional deck or a more modern deck, like I work with, the imagery is typically the same over well, at least like try to evoke the same feelings in you. On the traditional deck, there's this dude sitting in front of a tree and he's like crossed his arms and he's just sort of staring at these three cups that are in front of him. But he's got his arms fold and he's like looking at these cups and he's like, whatever, these are my cups. I don't like him, like he doesn't look pleased and behind him there's like a cloud and coming out of the cloud. Is this like mystery hand holding a cup but he doesn't see the cup because he's like, arms crossed, looking at his own cup, right. The ones in front of him In my deck I have the Muse deck by Chris Ann Mine shows a woman who looks really sad. She's kind of like slumped over and just looks like whoa is me, like I think she's leaning on her chin, like her chin's leaning on her arm, her hand I mean, but she's looking like very forlorn and sad at these cups. But she's missing that. She's actually sitting in the fourth cup right. So the common theme in this is that the person in the card is really focusing all their interest on three of the four cups and is like really unaware that this fourth cup even exists. So let me read you from this book first before we get going. This is from how to Read Tarot. The fourth cups represents a state of apathy and withdrawal. However, this may be necessary. Rest from the hectic excitement represented by the three. They're talking about the three of cups. It's a time to get away by yourself, drift and dream for a while before getting back to your daily grind. So the approach of this one is talking about necessary withdrawal from your emotions and pulling back and detaching as being, you know, slightly positive or necessary.
And that's like the high functioning of the four of cups. I will say, right, we have high functioning and then we have like lower functioning, not so functioning, I'll say, of every card. Right, in the book by Tina Gong it says that the main themes of this card are apathy, detachment, contemplation, indifference and a lack of interest. And her book, like her reading, is much longer. There's pages or sorry paragraphs in there to read, but she talks definitely sorry. She talks specifically about the character in the card being like unmotivated and indifferent to see the opportunities that are in front of them. So things feel dull, uninspiring and disconnected and you may be choosing instead to contemplate and maybe hopefully come out of these moments wiser, with a deeper appreciation for the opportunities that are granted to you. So there's like heaviness and lightness or neutrality in this card right, like we've got this card of this person sitting there being like I'm so withdrawn, I'm not engaging in life or interacting with them Like any sort of like energy or love, and I'm not noticing something that's in front of me. So that's like when I say like the higher functioning is the potential of this card, meaning that, yes, when you detach from things and you sort of just sit, you may come up with some wisdom or you may, you know, experience some deep rest. But typically what I see, especially for myself and other people when I pulled this card, is that it's coming up because we've slid into the lower end of this card, which means we're wallowing and we're just sitting there and we're obsessing over the three cups in front of us and ignoring the fourth one that we're not aware of. And that's where I like to call it the sad trombone card.
So it's kind of that like you feel very like mom. Mom, everything sucks, my cups are broken, I'm missing my cups, I spilt my cups or whatever, and we're ignoring the fact that, hey, the universe has your back. The universe is actually trying to like reach out with a fourth cup, but you're like you're turned the wrong way, you're not seeing it. Or the universe is actually providing you with a giant cup and you're frigging sitting in it, but you can't see it because you're too much into this state of wallowing. And why I want to talk about this card is because this card tends to come up, like I said, when you're in that state, it's not one of the like more difficult cards, right, like in the whole tarot deck there's cards that are more painful, like the three of swords, which is all about heartbreak. The 10 of swords is like really hard pain, being stabbed in the back, being deceived or whatever. But the four of cups is more of that like sneaky, silent, invasive thing that comes into your life that you don't really notice. I'll say it's like the carbon monoxide of your energy. You know what I mean. Like they always say, like carbon monoxide is the silent killer. You don't realize that it's there. But when it's lingering and it gets too high of you know a volume, it's quite dangerous and toxic and actually can like suck you down. And I think that when we get stuck in a rut of our life where we're just going through the motions and we're not happy about how things are going, we're not happy about how things are going, it's often because we're stuck in this state of being. So what do we have to learn? Like, what messages does the four of cups have for us? Initially, it is awareness about what's going on in our life. If we pull this card, or if I pulled this card for somebody the conversation might initially look at. Where in your life do you feel this sort of quiet discontent where it's not going the way you want it to go? You're not feeling jazzed up and excited by it, but you're also not really feeling motivated to change it?
Like where in your life are you just like it is what it is and I'm just going to leave it, but I'm not going to be happy about it, right? I would be like where is that showing up for you in your life as a starting point of conversation? And this can happen in so many ways. It pops up a lot Like. It pops up in work, it pops up in love, it pops up in, like, the day to day drudgery. I call it the grind, the grind of just existing where we don't really see the opportunities and the things that are available to us in terms of how we can, like shake up our life, because we're just going through the motions of the day to day and remember the cups cards are all about emotions and feelings, right? So these are indicative of a time where you're really like deep in your feelings about things and we're losing focus, like when you go too far into your feelings and too far into your emotions. Sometimes we lose the plot a little bit right. We get really deep into that hole and we lose focus on what is happening right now. We can tend to ruminate on things that have happened in the past without letting go of them. We can ruminate on something that really we should have shut the book on a long time ago, and this really prevents us from enjoying the present. Something that came to me this week when I was walking and doing my Joe Dispenza Meditation was this like image of when things go wrong. We spend so much time looking at the ground and looking at our feet, like the image I saw was like if you were carrying something and you dropped it and it hit the ground and smashed into a million pieces. We go like head down, looking at the pieces that are all around our feet and being like how am I going to pick it up? When's it going to come back together? How's it going to get glued together? When is it going to be fixed? When's it going to be back in my hand?
And what we actually need to be doing is looking up and over so like up and over the horizon, for something new that's coming in. Now I understand why I'm saying this. I'm like now I understand why I had this like download this week and why I feel like I want to talk about this, this card, specifically, because that imagery is essentially the four of cups. It's us looking at our feet to being like, oh my God, it's such a mess I dropped. Everything is broken. Oh my God, this person's left me, or this job has fallen away, or this client has canceled their contract or whatever the thing that you feel has been lost or broken. We immediately direct all our attention and energy, heart, space, headspace, all of it to the stuff that's left on the ground. But the answer and the respite or respite is not the word I'm looking for, the renewal or the release isn't going to come from what's on the ground. We have to look beyond and that's the imagery of, like the cup coming out of the, out of the cloud, or the cup that the woman is sitting in.
It's saying, like your answer isn't at your feet, your answer is up, over and out. And I feel like when we're walking we can do this too, like even if you go for a walk. Notice how often you're like just looking at the ground and looking at your feet and if we're trying to work on a problem or we're trying to get some guidance or just work through something in our head, try changing where you actually look your eyes. It sounds weird, but like if you direct your eyes to the horizon, as high and as far as you can see, being safe obviously, like don't be looking like in the distance and crossing a busy street, but every now and then direct your eyes over and out and what that does is it widens your awareness so that you can see from a greater landscape, metaphorically, what's possibly coming in on the periphery. So I think that's the first step is like identifying what is the thing that's at our feet that feels like broken and unraveling or has fallen apart and we're really hyper fixated on that event and that thing being fixed and that thing coming back and that thing being revived. And how is that? Metaphorically? Like pulling our head and our viewpoint down to the ground when really we need to be looking in other directions, and the cumulative effect of this can be substantial. Right, if you go through a lot of these experiences and we all do it's not saying like you've had bad luck or you're a bad person If you're going through a phase where, like, the universe is just like bam, bam, bam bam, going through like massive destruction, things you know, unraveling, falling apart, leaving your life.
We all go through those phases. I feel like that's like energetic housekeeping or house cleaning. When they're like clear the land, we're putting something new in. A lot of stuff needs to go, and when that happens, if we do not put energy and time into taking care of ourselves and really managing our mind and managing our feelings, it can put us into this state of learned helplessness. And learned helplessness is this concept from psychology. It's kind of like a terrible study, so I'll explain it really quickly. Like terrible because it was back in the day when, like, animal testing was was not as poo pooed as it is right now. I mean, obviously it should be poo pooed. I feel like it was the 70s or 60s, I can't remember. But this dude, like had these dogs in a room and it was like there was like a line that they could cross and they, if they jumped over the line like so the floor was like would give them electric shocks, basically. And some dogs learned that if they like jumped over the line, the shops, the shocks would stop and some of them learned like it didn't make a difference, right, if they moved, they still got shocked. And so what happened was they found that and I'm missing a piece of this study there's something that I'm not saying, but whatever, the whole point was that the dogs that went through an experience that taught them no matter what you do, you're still going to get shocked. They just like lay down on the ground and they were like whatever shock me, I don't care, I'm taking it right. And the ones that learned that they had a little bit of control over their destiny, they behaved differently. Again, not a not a pleasant study like to talk about, because it's like shocking dogs, but it gives you a good image in your head of this. You know what can happen when we are repeatedly subjected to challenging moments.
If we're not managing our mind and our emotions and taking care of ourselves on like a deep therapeutic level, we can start to get into a state where, like, we're in a funk and our funk is our funk and it becomes the soundtrack to our life. So when this card comes up, the first thing you want to do is look at the areas in your life that feel kind of boring, lacking energy, same day, different shit, like that kind of vibe. And the other side to that is to ask yourself well, what is it that you would be hoping to see on the horizon? What is it that you would want to see approaching your life, whether it's people, places, things you know and look at? Well, why are you possibly not seeing them? What's blocking Not that you're at fault, but what is blocking you from being able to see those things at this point in your life? Now, this is where you know we get in the rampage of appreciation story, which again, like I said, sounds unhinged. And it is unhinged, it's chaotic. It's a term that I believe it's Esther Hicks used and I remember like learning about her and hearing it in a book and I was like rampage of appreciation, like I just burst out laughing. I was like, okay, that sounds ridiculous. But her idea of a rampage of appreciation is to like just go like balls to the wall with positivity and being like that's so beautiful, this is so great, I am so glad I have so much time in my day Look how bright the sun is. Like you just go bananas with noticing all the good things and the amazing things that are happening.
And this is like a really important practice, because when we get into a state of mind or we get into a habit of like seeing the shit that's happening and focusing on the shit that's happening, it becomes a really well-worn pathway in our brain and it becomes a pattern and it becomes a habit that runs subconsciously. So it's hard to pull ourselves out of that funk. So her whole thing is like just blow the circuits in your mind by doing the opposite, and I think it's valuable. I think there's some value in just challenging yourself. You don't have to do it all day because you might go crazy, but to be like, okay, for the next five minutes I'm gonna verbalize every fucking thing that happens. That's amazing, every fucking thing. And if that sounds like a little over the top or a little like not realistic, there's another way that you can approach this and it's something that I've been using because, like full disclosure, I've been sitting in the four of cups state for a while and, like I said, I dip in and out of it. I think we all do. And it's a slippery slope when you start to get into this like, oh, this is so terrible, this is never happening, like it's really hard to get out of it, especially when there's like shitty things going on or things that are just annoying. Like it doesn't have to be terrible things, it can be the minutia of the day grating on you over and over and over again. That is enough to drain your battery.
So something I've been doing recently has been called or I'm calling it the best thing about this shitty thing is because I'm trying to reframe certain thoughts that pop into my head that lead me down a path of more negative thinking. I don't necessarily want to go on a rampage of appreciation, because that seems a little intense and a little over the top for me, but I am working on catching myself when I have a thought or I'm frustrated or annoyed with something and being like, okay, what is the best thing about this shitty thing that's going on? An example is that I painted all the doors on my upstairs floor, like my upper floor in my home. I painted them a couple of months ago, took forever, because it doesn't matter why I took forever, it just took forever. It took forever and I don't have a lot of time in my day. I'm a single bomb. I'm an entrepreneur. I've got stuff going on in my life. I've got my own personal healing. I'm working on getting the energy up, and the time to paint these doors was it was challenging, but I did it and I painted them and I was like, yes, they're finished. And then, like a month later, they all started to peel and I mean like peel, like big chunks coming off. And that was when I realized like that the doors were originally painted in an oil-based paint and trying to put latex paint over it, just it didn't cure and it's just over time it started to lift. And I avoided it for a really long time because I was like I'm gonna have to strip all these doors, I'm gonna have to repaint them.
And the thought of like doing that was like so overwhelming because I was just in a state of like being so exhausted where it's like I don't really have the capacity to deal with this. So I just kept leaving it and then it was getting uglier and uglier and I was getting more annoyed by it. So then I was just like, fuck this, I'm going to Home Depot, I'm getting what I need, I'm gonna just deal with it and do it. And it's a lot of work, I'm not lying Like I'm having to scrape off so much paint and there's five doors and there's trim Like there's a lot of spots that I need to work on. And as I'm working and scraping and sanding, there's shit everywhere Like there's fucking flaky paint everywhere and it's like just driving my sensory overload into overdrive because it's stuck to everything and then it's stuck to the cracks and then there's mess and then like none of these things are my favorite things to deal with.
And I'm sitting here scraping and scraping and scraping the paint and knowing this is gonna take forever and I'm like, okay, this is a shitty thing and this is annoying. But what is the best thing about this shitty thing? And I realized that the best thing about this shitty annoying thing was that I was going to be able to repaint the doors in a color that I actually liked. Because I realized that after doing all that work of painting the doors that took like a month, I think I didn't love the color I looked and I was like, oh, it doesn't really. It didn't work with the space and it didn't turn out the way that I wanted it to be. But because it took so much time, I like refused to redo it. I was like I can't, I'm not doing it again, but I didn't like it. But I was sitting in this like half in, half out, kind of satisfied, but really not satisfied. I was kind of being the four of cups about the doors, initially being like ugh, I don't really like them, they look like crap. But not seeing that there was this opportunity to be like you could just repaint them. And because I wasn't seeing that opportunity to like just repaint the doors, the universe was like, okay, let's make this obvious. Now we're gonna start falling off.
And it forced me to have to deal with it because it just got to that point where it was like so uncomfortable and just not tolerable to have it in my home like that. But it gave me the opportunity to sit back and be like, okay, what color do I actually want it to be? And I was able to go back to Home Depot and get new paint samples and get little testers you know the little tester pots and paint the different doors and pick something and I'm seeing the color that it's gonna be as I've been working on it this week, and I'm like, oh my God, I actually like it. And so this like shitty, annoying thing of having to deal with probably a month of painting my doors again, but probably like I don't know how long it's gonna take me to clean them. A long time it's gonna be a hassle and it's going to be annoying, but it's going to provide me with this opportunity to end up with a space that I actually wanna be in.
And it sort of led me to realize like, oh, I actually wanna change the hardware on the doors, I wanna get these handles and I wanna do this, and it's gonna lead me down a path that's like difficult and uncomfortable and challenging and I'm gonna have to figure out a way to make it work, but the end result is gonna be something that is more satisfying to me. And so I've been keeping up with this habit with like anything that irritates me. As soon as it like brushes up and it's like, oh, it's something's grinding my gears or like getting me flustered, I stop and I'm like the best thing about this annoying thing is, you know, my dog's hovering at my feet and he's like I'm stepping on him. I'm in the kitchen and he's just like glued to my leg. I'd take a step. He's like scurry, scurry, scurry, scurry. I keep stepping on him and I'm tripping and I'm like, ah, like I'm like Walter, like I'm ready to lose my mind and I'm like the best thing about this annoying thing is that I have a dog that is really attached to me and wants to be with me and loves me and wants my attention. I had a dog previously who did love me and wanted to be around me, but he was very like. He would just sort of like raise his eyebrow and look at you as you walked in the room and I always thought like, oh, it'd be nice to have a dog that actually, like, acknowledged your existence. So I remind myself, I'm like this is having a dog that acknowledges your existence.
I'm finding like paper scraps and marker scribbles and all sorts of craft shrapnel around the house and it's annoying because I'm having to pick it up. I'm like, oh my God, I opened this. There's glitter somewhere. Oh my God, what is this doing there? Why is there washi tape on this? And I'm like the best thing about this annoying thing is I have a kid who is really creative and is able to work on his own and sit down and do a craft without needing my guidance or support, and it's giving me like 30 minutes a day to myself.
That's the best thing about this and I think that process, when we get into the habit of it, is really helpful and beneficial and not it's not about denying what you're going through at all, because it's acknowledging like this is a shitty thing or this is an annoying thing or this is an uncomfortable thing, but it's asking you to look for, like, the teeny speck of light in that dark tunnel. Again, it's not about toxic positivity. It's not about being like, oh, it's not happening and whatever, I'm just grateful for my life experiences, like uh-uh. No, it's acknowledging what you're going through and it's asking yourself to not ignore your discomfort and not be apathetic and detached from your discomfort. It's asking you to acknowledge your discomfort, to see it and then to extend a hand to that version of you that's in there and just slowly guide it out. It's not about forcing yourself into you know, a state or an emotion that doesn't feel comfortable right now, like I am. So not for that thought that you can just thank yourself into feeling better. You can't. You can't go from being like super strung out and super stressed out to just being like I'm gonna say positive affirmations all day and I'm gonna feel fine, it's not gonna work like that, but you can baby step your way out of it, right? It goes back to that.
Um, I think we talked about the emotional guidance scale again with Esther Hicks creation, where she talks about we don't wanna shoot for the stars, we don't wanna try to go from like rage to bliss, we wanna go to just the next step that's available to us, because that's easy and that's doable. And I think part of that is stopping and being like okay, this is crap, this is annoying, but what's like the best thing about it? The absolute best thing. And sometimes it's so hard to find the best thing in a scenario, especially if what you're going through is like incredibly traumatic or difficult or really complicated. But I think when we're able to identify that one little thing, it can just give our brain a tiny sliver to focus on. It's like that image again of looking over and out in the distance. It can be like a little tiny bird that you see is like starting to fly in your direction. So I think it's important that we do that and to just sort of piggyback on the affirmations thing.
I think affirmations are super important. I just don't think they're the be all and end all. I don't think sitting there going like I am happy, I am secure, I don't think that's gonna really work for everybody. In fact, I'd be shocked if doing just that worked for anyone, to be honest. But I do believe that programming or reprogramming your subconscious mind and your immediate thought patterns and habits that run in our brain without our awareness is so, so, so important. And I do engage in like an affirmation practice every day, but I do it a little bit differently. I use music because, again, like, I don't think sitting there, being like saying things to myself, work as well when you're trying to like change your mood or change your feeling about something. So something I've started doing recently is making playlists about different themes or different emotional states that I wanna access and putting songs in there that either say the affirmation that I want to sort of embody or implant into my head directly. Like there's a group called Beautiful Chorus. They have all these amazing affirmation tracks about success and abundance and confidence and safety and they were some of the first ones that I would listen to because they're very direct and they're very specific and you can find the one that suits your need.
But I also like to use like popular music. I feel like an old person saying that popular music, but I like to use modern day music that tells that story or is like an instant vibe transformer of what it is that I want to embody. So if I find myself in a four of cups state where I kind of think like what was me? Everything's crap. I feel powerless, I am forgetting what an awesome badass I am and like all the good things that are in my life, I've been listening to the Megan Trainor song Me Too, which is like if I were you, I'd want to be Me Too, and it talks about like why I'm powerful, why I'm amazing, why this is great, all the things that are going on in my life. And there's something about music that if it's, you know, written a certain way, or if it's at a certain beat or I don't know what it is, but it can just transform your state. Like we all know that you can put a song on and be moved completely. You can go from a funk to being like up and dancing. My son is a really good example of this. He has been moved spiritually by the song. It's a long way to the top by ACDC since he was like a year and a half old. I have all these videos of him dancing in my kitchen and he just givers, like he givers, gives her, like he is transformed into something else and he is so amped up because of this music. So rampages of appreciation. For sure, getting into a practice the best thing about this shit thing is and making musical playlist with affirmations and like vibe transformers that you want to embody are so, so, so transformative and effective for moving us out of that state of being really disconnected from ourselves and what's going on and being in a state where we feel alive and like we have some power over what's going on, because we do.
We always have some power in terms of what we choose to focus on and what we choose to release from our brain space and our energetic space. We may not be able to direct or control the chaos that's around us, but we can work with our own internal experience of it as much as possible. So, if you're pulling the four of cups in your tarot reading, practice a lot. Ask yourself where in my life do I feel like this? Where do I feel like I'm lacking energy, excitement or high vibration about what's going on? Ask yourself how would you like to feel in those areas of your life? Ask yourself, what might that fourth cup look like that you're not seeing, or that you hope you're not seeing, but it's coming? And then ask yourself, how can you start to see what you want to see out in the distance? Where in your life can you start practicing noticing the good or noticing what's working, noticing how the universe has your back? And then go for a little browse on Spotify and make yourself a playlist. I promise you they change all the time, but I'll have like my morning playlist, depending on whatever it is that I'm working through in my life, and put it on loop when I get up and I'm getting ready and it just it sets your brain up for the rest of the day. It interrupts that pattern that's running in your brain because you know, I said, the more we think certain thoughts or the more we focus on certain things, the more we reinforce that brain pattern thought pattern, feeling pattern and music is a way to sort of like shake you out of that and put you into another state. So why not start your day with it? Okay, so that's it for this week, but before you go, I want you to hang out here, as I have a contest announcement that is coming, so don't hit stop yet.
Hang in for another 30 seconds or so. I wanna thank everybody that has tuned into this podcast and for everyone that's been reaching out to me via DMs on Instagram and TikTok. I always love to hear your feedback, and I want to let you know that I'm going to be running a contest this month In fact, I'm gonna run it every month where I give away one free rapid fire tarot session. That's one of those 20 minute voice note sessions, and the only way you can gain access to this contest is by leaving a rating and review for the podcast on your favorite platform. What you need to do, though, is you need to take a screenshot when you're doing the review and the rating. Take a screenshot on your phone before you hit submit on it, so that you've got proof that you filled it out and you email it to me. You just email it to me at contact at jenniferhullycom, and every month, I'm going to pull a winner, and you know what. You can leave as many reviews as you want, so every time you leave a different review and a different rating and you send me the screenshot. You go back into the pool and we draw every single month and we just keep drawing until we pull your name. All right, that's it for this week. Have a great week. I will talk to you all soon. These are all things I've been working on. I just crazy. I feel like I recognizes this position as cool andibi popular in Africa. They're super cool people. I got to get some buddies to chat with me about which platforms make the most out of the issues.
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