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A metaphorical card does not provide a ready-made answer or predict the future. It creates a pause in which image, text, and personal experience can help a person look at a situation more carefully. The four MriyaRun decks form a route from inner permission to choice, an image of a desired future, and a concrete action.
The decks can be used independently, in pairs, in groups, or in work with a psychologist. They are educational and reflective tools. They do not diagnose and do not replace psychotherapy, medical advice, or crisis support.
Four decks, four ways to ask a question
I Have the Right: 100 supportive messages about needs, emotions, boundaries, and the right to be oneself
I Have the Right: when the inner message says “I am not allowed”
This deck explores fundamental permissions: to exist, feel, want, have needs, think independently, say no, ask for help, separate, and remain connected. It can be useful when a question carries guilt, shame, inhibition, habitual self-reduction, or fear of taking up space.
A card does not demand immediate belief. A person can try the message on, notice agreement or resistance, and ask: which old rule is arguing with this permission?
I Am Living My Happy Life: moving from inner permission to everyday choice
I Am Living My Happy Life: when permission becomes action
The second resource deck moves attention into daily life: visibility, rest, relationships, money, creativity, personal pace, and decisions. It shifts the question from “Do I have the right?” to “How can this permission take form in my life?”.
The next step does not need to be dramatic. It may be asking for help, naming a need, declining an unnecessary obligation, taking a pause, or beginning something that has long been postponed.
Dreams, Part 1: surreal imagery and sayings for open association
Dreams, Part 1: tension between image and phrase
Each image is paired with a saying on the reverse. The two may agree, conflict, create humor, or spark an unexpected association. That tension can widen perspective and reveal something that did not fit the usual explanation.
Dreams, Part 2: imagery for choice, life scripts, desire, and uncertainty
Dreams, Part 2: life stories and the next step
The second part continues the work with images, traditional sayings, and personal meaning. It is suited to questions of choice, life scripts, uncertainty, and the search for a next step. The two Dreams decks can be used separately or together.
How to formulate a question
Instead of asking a card to reveal the future, use questions that return authorship to the person:
- What is happening to me in this situation?
- What do I need right now?
- What part of the situation am I not noticing yet?
- What makes movement difficult?
- What next step is available to me?
Three simple ways to work with the decks
One card for one question
Choose a card openly or at random. Name the first association, notice emotional and bodily responses, then complete in writing: “For my situation, this may mean…”.
Two cards: permission and embodiment
Draw one card from I Have the Right and one from I Am Living My Happy Life. The first points to a permission that needs attention. The second helps identify a behavior or small action through which it may enter daily life.
Three cards: situation, obstacle, step
Define the positions before drawing: “What is happening now?”, “What makes movement difficult?”, and “What step is available?”. Explore each card separately before looking at the shared story.
Safe practice: who authors the interpretation
A card has no single correct meaning. Interpretation belongs to the person who drew it. A partner or facilitator may ask open questions and reflect what was heard, while avoiding diagnoses and ready-made explanations about another person.
- A participant may decline a question, replace a card, pause, or end the practice.
- Strong resistance, doubt, or irritation can also be explored.
- Group work requires consent, confidentiality, and respect for boundaries.
- During an acute crisis, suicidal thoughts, a psychotic state, or severe disorientation, card work should stop and appropriate professional help should be arranged.
How to close the practice
Summarize what became clearer, which feeling remains, and what needs further attention. Choose one idea, inner permission, or manageable action. Then return attention to the present: feel the support beneath your feet, look around, exhale slowly, and drink some water.
A metaphorical card cannot live a life on someone’s behalf. Its value is in helping a person pause, hear their own response, and turn an automatic reaction into a more conscious choice.