What if prayer could become a practical way of meeting life’s difficult moments?
Chiaroscuro by Author Mamta Kukreja is a 44-card contemplative prayer deck with a companion guidebook designed to help people approach grief, fear, uncertainty, relationships, emotional overwhelm and life’s transitions with greater awareness, faith and presence.
Based on Kukreja’s practice of Applied Prayer, the deck encourages readers to move away from repeatedly focusing on problems and instead consciously frame their prayers around clarity, strength, healing, hope and constructive possibilities.
Inspired by the Renaissance concept of chiaroscuro—the interplay of light and shadow—the deck embraces the idea that darkness and adversity can also become opportunities for awareness, growth and transformation.
We are all praying, all the time. Most of us have simply never been taught how.
Every thought, intention and inner conversation can influence the way we experience our lives. Yet while modern life places enormous emphasis on intellectual and emotional intelligence, spiritual awareness often receives far less attention.
Chiaroscuro was created from a desire to bring that spiritual dimension into everyday life.
The 44-card contemplative prayer deck, accompanied by a guidebook, introduces Author Mamta Kukreja’s approach to Applied Prayer—a practice that encourages people to engage with prayer consciously and intentionally when navigating real-life challenges.
The deck addresses experiences such as grief, anxiety, fear, uncertainty, strained relationships, emotional overwhelm, forgiveness, health concerns, parenting and moments when life feels stuck or directionless.
Rather than encouraging people to repeatedly dwell on the problem, Applied Prayer invites them to shift their attention toward the qualities and possibilities they wish to cultivate: clarity instead of confusion, courage instead of fear, faith instead of worry, and empowerment instead of helplessness.
The concept of Chiaroscuro comes from the interplay of light and darkness. The deck uses this contrast as a metaphor for human experience: we often discover the value of light through our encounters with shadow.
Each card offers a prayer to contemplate, creating an opportunity to pause, reflect and reconnect with one’s inner awareness.
At its heart, Chiaroscuro is an invitation to make spirituality simpler, more personal and more integrated into everyday life.
AUTHOR INTERVIEW
1. What inspired you to create Chiaroscuro, and what gap did you see in the way people approach prayer, emotional healing, and personal well-being today?
First, we need to understand that every thought that we create, every second of our being—consciously, unconsciously, knowingly, unknowingly—is a prayer. We are on Earth. We spend so much time on our IQ, maybe a little bit on our EQ too, but hardly any time on our SQ, our spiritual quotient. We do not know the spiritual laws, yet we are here, thrown into this school called Earth, trying to survive it and find a way around it.
This deck has come with the intention of first making you understand the spiritual laws working on the planet called Earth, applying those laws in your favour, and knowing how to become a co-creator with the universe rather than a victim of the universe. That is how Chiaroscuro came into being, and this is the need of the hour.
2. What is “Applied Prayer,” and how does your approach help people use prayer as a practical tool for emotional resilience, mindfulness, and navigating life’s challenges?
During COVID, when most people were plugging into the collective consciousness of fear, obsessing over the news and magnifying anxiety, my WhatsApp healing community, Rainbow Wings—people who had received healing or attended my workshops—came together. Instead of focusing on fear, I encouraged everyone to send prayer and healing energy to people we knew who were going through COVID.
That is why I called them Applied Prayers—because these prayers were applied to real people and real-life situations. Instead of plugging into fear, we plugged into prayer, faith, and positive energy. It came from a space of empowerment rather than victimhood.
People had been asking for prayers from the beginning, initially for cleansing, shielding, and protection. But as time went on, the collection grew as people began asking for prayers for health, emotional and mental well-being, anxiety, parenting, legal matters, and wherever else they felt stuck.
I was told these prayers worked like magic. They are all prayers that I channelled, especially when somebody asked for them. Even other healers, mentors, and spiritual workers began asking for them and reaffirmed the power of the prayers and the way the words were formed to bring the highest solutions and outcomes.
Eventually, I realised that while I knew a few hundred people who needed this space, the truth is—everybody does. That is how Chiaroscuro unfolded: as a collection of Applied Prayers for real challenges people are navigating.
3. In your experience working with people through grief, anxiety, uncertainty, illness, and major life transitions, what are some of the most common emotional patterns that prevent people from experiencing inner peace and resilience?
The most common pattern is lack of awareness. There is zero awareness. Emotions are often suppressed from childhood because of our own limiting beliefs or borrowed beliefs from our immediate environment, where we are not encouraged to share or express what we feel. We may feel shamed or guilty about our emotions, and they get suppressed.
Anything that gets suppressed eventually manifests in some form—as emotional, mental, or physical sickness, or as blocks in relationships, finances, and life. So, for me, the core issue with most people is this lack of awareness.
When I work with someone, the first step is always to help them become aware of what they are holding. Only after awareness comes the next step: releasing it through powerful tools in a sacred space. Releasing emotions that may have built up over years, sometimes even lifetimes.
Then comes replacing them with more empowering beliefs, bringing those beliefs into your life, and finally, integrating them and making them an everyday practice.
4. How can contemplative prayer and mindful reflection help individuals manage fear, stress, grief, difficult relationships, and emotional overwhelm in their everyday lives?
These prayers are like positive commands to the universe. When you intuitively pick a prayer, it does not just tell you what you need to do—it shows you how to ask for it, not by focusing on the problem, but by affirming the solution.
For example, if your mind is cluttered, the prayer helps you unclutter it so you can hear your own intuition, which is often blocked by inner chatter. Everything we need to know is already within us. We are a spark of the Divine Self. It is about opening ourselves to our highest qualities—not becoming a 2.0 version of ourselves, but returning to the OG, the original version of who we are.
Similarly, if you feel stuck in a toxic relationship, the prayer may help you experience that same relationship from an empowered space rather than immediately telling you to step out.
These are Applied Prayers. They help transform fear, worry, negativity, and toxicity into the empowered qualities that already exist within you, helping you navigate your challenges successfully and victoriously—because you deserve it.
5. Chiaroscuro combines a 44-card prayer deck with a companion guidebook. What makes this approach different from traditional prayer books, affirmation cards, or other spiritual wellness practices available today?
Chiaroscuro is a toolbook in itself. Years of taking sessions with me versus having Chiaroscuro—the wisdom is all in there: the spiritual laws, how to protect your energy, how to invoke higher help, and how to ask.
We are all bound by the law of free will: ask and you shall receive. But how do you ask to receive the right thing? Most of the time, we are asking, but we are simply replaying our worries. Chiaroscuro guides you through it to the core.
There is a belief that you don’t choose your guru; your guru chooses you. And I am still unfolding into the awareness that perhaps Chiaroscuro is only teaching those whom these Masters, higher beings of light, guardian angels, and the Divine Light are ready to support—because there is an openness and willingness within them.
Every time you ask for that help, it reaches you. And perhaps Chiaroscuro is one such help—an answer to your silent prayers.
6. The concept of Chiaroscuro is based on finding light within darkness. How can people transform difficult experiences into opportunities for healing, self-awareness, hope, and personal growth?
Not only is the concept of Chiaroscuro about finding light in darkness—that is the concept of life itself. Life on Earth is experienced through adversity. We can never truly appreciate something until we experience its contrast. If you have always lived in light, you may never know its value. But once you have experienced darkness, you understand the value of light.
This is how human beings learn—through contrast and adversity.
What if I told you that all the tools you apply through meditation, chanting, reading scriptures, and spiritual practices have been condensed into powerful, active words—words that help you manifest and command the universe, make this happen?
Chiaroscuro is the transformation of worries into solutions, problems into the highest outcomes, fear into faith and clarity, fear into courage, and victimhood into empowerment.
Everything in life is this play of contrast. And that is exactly what Chiaroscuro has unfolded for you—through words of prayer, connecting you to that 99.9% invisible support available to mankind, while we live in the 0.01% reality that we can see, touch, and feel.
7. As the creator of the Soul Reset Method and a practitioner working across spiritual and holistic wellness disciplines, what message would you like to share with people seeking greater emotional balance, inner healing, and a deeper connection with themselves?
My message would be: spirituality is not complex. It is actually about simplifying yourself and becoming simple. We human beings have made ourselves very complicated.
Connecting with the Divine within is about returning to your innocent, simple, joyful, authentic self. So, just be. Spirituality is authenticity.
It is not about wearing a halo over your head. Your transformation journey is not about punishing yourself or becoming a saint. No. It is about taking you back to your original blueprint—to your authenticity.
And what is authenticity? It is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in alignment. When you start operating from that space, automatically, 99.9% of our conflicts begin to dissolve- we return to our true divine essence, which is love. We return to our true nature—where, eventually, all judgment comes to an end.
ABOUT CHIAROSCURO
44 Applied Prayers for Life’s Real Moments
We are all praying, all the time. Most of us have simply never been taught how.
Most of us pray backwards. We rehearse the loss before it arrives. We give fear a voice long before we give hope one.
Chiaroscuro offers another way.
This 44-card contemplative prayer deck with a companion guidebook introduces Applied Prayer—a practice of consciously bringing prayer into the situations we encounter in everyday life.
Each card is designed to meet readers where they are: when grief lingers, fear takes hold, relationships become difficult, forgiveness feels distant, uncertainty takes over or hope seems difficult to access.
Draw a card. Read the prayer. Sit with what follows.
Inspired by the Renaissance concept of light and shadow, Chiaroscuro does not suggest that life can exist without darkness.
Instead, it invites readers to explore the possibility of discovering light, awareness, faith and strength within it.
What if we stopped praying from fear—and learned to pray from possibility?
In Chiaroscuro, spiritual practitioner and Soul Reset Method creator Author Mamta Kukreja introduces a 44-card contemplative prayer deck built around her approach to Applied Prayer.
Inspired by the interplay of light and shadow, Chiaroscuro invites readers to meet fear, grief, uncertainty, difficult relationships and emotional overwhelm with greater awareness, faith and inner strength.
Draw a card. Read the prayer. Sit with what follows.
Find Your Light Within the Darkness
Life will always contain moments of uncertainty, fear, grief and change.
What can change is the way we meet them.
Chiaroscuro offers 44 contemplative prayers to help you pause, reflect and reconnect with faith, clarity, courage and inner awareness.
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Draw a card. Say the prayer. Find your light.
