“Life is a rhythm of movement and stillness, noise and silence.
All Sorts is a moment of quiet openness.
No agenda, no preplanning.
Simply sort and receive.”
— Charles R. Cupp
Poet/photographer, Kenai, Alaska
Feeling stressed, Overwhelmed? Jittery? Want to take your mind off of … whatever?
Pick up a deck of All Sorts Calming Cards and just … sort it out.
All Sorts is not a game. It’s a deck of cards designed to be a stress reducer, a pleasant distraction, and a gentle pep talk.
The 52 standard-size All Sorts cards feature a variety of elements – phrases, designs, colors – any or all of which can be sorted into groups or into a certain order.
As you sort, let the cards talk to you and lift your spirits. Let yourself get lost in the reverie of the simple activity of sorting. The cards can help you forget the problems of the day or your financial situation or your job or your relationships or where you left your keys. Just sort. Think about the cards and nothing else. Serenity is in the cards.
“There is something innately soothing about sorting,” says Stephen C. Lott, Psy.D., child psychologist. “It is a way of bringing order to chaos. Finding patterns or meaning in things help us feel we have a sense of mastery. A young child can find delight and spend hours arranging their small toys in different ways, such as by color, or shape or size, or any other number of variables that may only make sense to the child. It can be calming but also foster positive self worth.”
“I have sorted in several different ways, but I keep returning to the words that mean the most to me,” says Alice Crann Good, author of the Betsy the Bookworm children’s book series.
Scotty Cross, co-host of the Fun With Horror podcast, says, “I shuffle them up good (shuffling the cards is calming in itself). Then I shuffle them by the shapes on the cards, which gives me four decks. When I’m done, I look at the four sayings that are upright, and those are my four sayings of the day! It’s nice to study them and try to figure out how they might apply to me personally.”
“All Sorts is no simple divination deck, card game or set of advice cards. No, the uniqueness is that it takes the natural unavoidable uncertainty, randomness and even chaos of life and turns it into a joy-filled way to care for our souls and hearts through the adventure of discovering gentle affirmations that you can sort by color, pattern, typeface or favorites, and in so doing find harmony in your own, unique, never-to-be-repeated way.”
— Michael Brant DeMaria
Psychologist, bestselling author
and four-time Grammy-nominated musician
“All Sorts is a good way to cool off your brain and chill.”
— James Phoenix
College student
GET SOME ALL SORTS CARDS TODAY!
