---
title: "Intentional Adjustment Spread — The 4th Tarot"
url: https://4thtarot.com/spreads/stop-start-continue
description: "Conscious choices about your practices and patterns."
lang: en
---

All spreads (https://4thtarot.com/spreads)

3 cards

practice

# Intentional Adjustment

Nirodha-Ārambha-Pravṛtti — Cessation-Beginning-Continuation

Conscious choices about your practices and patterns.

## Positions

1. 1
   ### Stop
   Question: What pattern must I intentionally cease?
   A mechanical habit, negative emotion, or wrong work of centers that requires conscious non-doing.
2. 2
   ### Start
   Question: What new practice is called for?
   A new exercise, conscious effort, or way of working that serves awakening.
3. 3
   ### Continue
   Question: What effort must I maintain?
   The practice or quality that must be sustained. What not to abandon in enthusiasm for the new.

Jungian

Dissolution-Coagulation-Integration

Fourth Way

Conscious labor

Sanskrit

Vairāgya-Abhyāsa-Dhāraṇā

## Related Concepts

### Conscious Labor

Fourth

Working at any task with full attention and presence—deliberately injecting consciousness into normally mechanical activity, creating internal unity.
https://4thtarot.com/glossary/conscious-labor

### Integration

Jungian

The psychological process of bringing unconscious contents — the Shadow, the Anima or Animus, repressed capacities, disowned qualities — into conscious awareness and incorporating them into a more complete sense of self.
https://4thtarot.com/glossary/integration

### Conscious Faith

Fourth

Faith arising from consciousness brings freedom; from feeling brings weakness; from body brings stupidity.
https://4thtarot.com/glossary/conscious-faith

### Conscious Love

Fourth

Love arising from consciousness evokes the same in response; from feeling evokes the opposite; from body depends on type and polarity.
https://4thtarot.com/glossary/conscious-love

### Conscious Hope

Fourth

Hope arising from consciousness is strength; from feeling is slavery; from body is disease.
https://4thtarot.com/glossary/conscious-hope

### Real I

Fourth

The unified, authentic self developed through long work—a state of continuous consciousness and will where all centers are balanced under permanent individual direction.
https://4thtarot.com/glossary/real-i

## Other Spreads to Sit With

### Alignment & Intention

1 card

Intention/resolve
https://4thtarot.com/spreads/alignment-intention

### Conscious Shock

1 card

Disturbance/agitation
https://4thtarot.com/spreads/conscious-shock

### Situation-Action-Outcome

3 cards

State-Action-Result
https://4thtarot.com/spreads/situation-action-outcome

### Daily Manifestation

3 cards

Desire creation
https://4thtarot.com/spreads/daily-manifestation

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