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Do You See and Hear and Walk in a Sacred Manner?

August 1, 2018 By Cara Lumen

Do You See and Hear and Walk in a Sacred Manner?
An Inner-World Exploration

Picture yourself walking along the edge of a body of water.  If you move your feet slowly, the water will have some ripples, but the life that is teeming below will not be disturbed. 

If you jump into the water and splash around, waves will go out and the inhabitants of the water will be affected. 

But whatever move you make, consciously or unconsciously, you are affecting the whole. The whole planet.  Everyone on it.  You affect everything by simply being.  That’s a huge responsibility. 

We are one interconnected cosmic ocean.  What we do and think and say ripples out into waves that support the collective environment or damage it.  

We must learn to see and hear and walk in a sacred manner because what we send out comes right back to us. 

How do you walk in the world?  Do you send out gentle waves, or do you splash around?

We affect the world by simply being

Every breath we take affects the world.  Every thought we think sends waves out into the world.  Changing the world, changing our experience of how we live our life, begins with each choice we make. 

We are One. We are sacred space. We affect each other.

Picture yourself as part of a cosmic ocean.  What you put into it affects every part of the ocean. Over there. Over here.  And whatever is happening over there affects you over here. One ocean, many waves.  Many currents. All sacred. All part of the whole.

We have to see each other as sacred 

My life is sacred.  Your life is sacred.  Do we know that? Do we live as if we understand that? What does it feel like to live a sacred life?  What does it look like?  How do we express ourselves as sacred space in our lives?

What does sacred mean to you?

I see sacred as something close to my heart.  Not set apart to worship or admire, but something vital and dear that resonates with my heart, with my soul.  I see sacred in nature – a waterfall, a cloud, the Moon.  Sacred could be the look of discovery on a child’s face or the knowing smile of an artist who has just expressed herself well.

For me, the sacred is all of nature, and all of humanity.  That means I respect it. I care for it. I honor it. 

What feels sacred to you?

It takes mindful practice to remember that everything is sacred. Stop reading and look around you.  Feel and listen to the space you are in. Feel its sacredness. What does it feel like?  How does being in sacredness make you feel? When something is sacred, how do you treat it?

How do you care for the sacred?

“Reverence” is too confining a word, but I would approach something I perceived as sacred with my antennae out, with all sensors tingling so I would not miss a moment.  There might be deep appreciation for its beauty or its power.  There might be a deep inhaling of its scent, or a gentle touch of its texture. 

It’s easy to not notice how awesome life is.  

My cat is sacred.  He is life.  He is love.  He is companionship.  He is play.  He accepts and needs my care. I’m not sure what a cat’s version of love is but to me it’s snuggling next to me in our big chair or sleeping at my feet while I sit at my desk and write.  He joins me in my morning spiritual practice.  He has become an integral part of my life experience. 

Do you have a sacred pet?  How does that relationship nurture you?

There is an intertwined relationship with things that feel sacred to you

Since everything is sacred, we are in an intertwined relationship with everything – we just have to be aware of it. 

Intertwined. That means my tug on my strand over here affects your strand over there. I have control over two things – what I put out and what I take in. How I put it out and how I take it in. 

Mindfulness is the cornerstone of honoring our interconnectedness

Begin at this very moment to think of yourself as sacred.  You have the responsibility of acting with the loving care of the sacred. You have the opportunity to reach the hearts of others through your sacredness. When you know that, when you live by that, you will affect others in a sacred manner.

How do you hear the sacred?

Put your fingers in your ears and listen.  That is the sound of you! That is a sacred sound.

You hear the sacred when you listen to what is not said with more attention than the words that are said.  You listen for the love beneath the words, or the worry, or…whatever is not said.  You listen to the energy of the exchange.  

Remember when you heard someone sing a song with great passion?  Pouring their soul into their performance?  You stopped and listened and felt.  Most of all you felt their passion and love and offering of self in your heart.  One sacred heart speaking to another.

Feel the core energy

As you move to learn to see and hear in a sacred manner, use your feelings.  Let them become an antenna, a barometer, a guide.  Let your intuition and your knowingness help you find the true nature beneath what you see and hear. 

How do you reframe what you see?

I may have to look past the surface to see the light.  We are all light.  We are all one. And yet that angry person over there doesn’t feel very sacred, doesn’t look like light.  I have to look past what is manifesting and how I’m feeling about it to know and understand the soul within, the soul who has come to earth to learn and grow and may be having a hard time.  

It’s not necessarily my job to help or not help another, but it is my job to see the other person as pure light. That allows them to see and know themselves as pure light. And that will comfort them and inspire them and help them feel connected.

How do you reframe what you hear?

We are all pure love.  That’s not always easy to understand, accept or share with others. But if we hear that angry person’s words as one of a “light being” in pain, or a “light being” in need, or a “light being” trying his or her best, it shifts how we hear what we hear.  

Everything we do affects the global community

Our mere existence affects the global community.  Each breath, each action, each thought moves out into this cosmic ocean, this interconnected web of life and affects each part of it. We affect our world both consciously and unconsciously. That’s a huge responsibility – to be certain that your life is positive for the well-being of the collective, that your thoughts, your actions are offered with an awareness that you are sacred space that is affecting other sacred spaces.  

How does that change how you live your life?

Look for light and love

If we walked around looking for the light and love in everyone we saw, life would be an entirely new experience.  Here we are, in our assorted body suits, bumping around on earth, some doing it more easily than others.  But we are all light and we are also all love.  

Can you see everything as light?

Can you hear everything as love?

I, for one, am still working on it. But it is very much worth the effort. 

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider: 

Where Do You Find Your Inner Circle of Light Beings?

What is the Difference between Spirituality and Religion?

How to Weave the Sacred into the Ordinary

What Does Spiritual Friendship Look Like?

Make Work Your Offering

Filed Under: Our Luminous Legacy, Spiritual Expansion, Transformational Community Tagged With: Spiritual Expansion, transformational thinking, world peace

The Transcendent Rainbow Weavers

The Role of the Transcendent Rainbow Weavers

Cara Lumen, Guide

The discovery of our role as Transcendent Rainbow Weavers is a work in progress.  It is one of discovery and a process of figuring out how to apply what we discover.  

The idea of the Rainbow Weavers came to me in a shamanic journey in mid-2019 and in January 2020 I knew it needed to be shared.  Because it is a work in progress I begin by simply listing links to the posts I am writing as I work to discover and bring to us the philosophy and actions and responsibility of being Transcendent Rainbow Weavers

Purpose of the Transcendent Rainbow Weavers 

You ARE Vibration and Why it Matters 

Know The Power of Our One Light

How Modern Mysticism Will Save the World

One Powerful Way to Change Our FutURE

Light and Darkness Cannot Exist Together

Characteristics of Rainbow Weavers

When I See Myself As Light

How to Weave the Sacred into the Ordinary

Know The Power of Our One Light 

Do You Practice Self-Transcendence?

What Does Spiritual Friendship Look Like? 

Are You Sacred Space?

Where Do You Find Your Inner Circle of Light Beings?

Do You See and Hear and Walk in a Sacred Manner? 

Expand Your Spiritual Heart

Life Messages from a Potter 

The Work of the Rainbow Weaver

How to Interpret the Messages from Within 

 The Concept of One and the You as Observer

How to Become a Rainbow Weaver

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe

Join the Circle of Light Beings

How I Found Connection – The Visionary Harp 

Another Part of You – The Unseen World 

How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness 

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work 

Are You a Transformative Leader? 

Your Journey as a Transcendent Rainbow Weaver

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness?

Believe In The Power Of Your Own Ripple 

The Power of Being in Intentional Space 

The Transformative Sphere 

How to Deflect/Contain Negative Energy 

Ways to Deepen Your Journey

How to Open Space for Change

How to Transform Energy Before You Release it

Leave Openness Open

The Harmonies of Silence

Begin Here

I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

Thank you for being a part of this journey.

A NEW BEGINNING

We have to rethink it all – our values, our gifts, and how we are to serve in the new world that is evolving.  It is truly a new beginning. 

Our first step is to lighten our load and prepare to move forward on this new adventure: 

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

Where are we headed?  What is unfolding? A New Consciousness is unfolding. 

New Consciousness – New State of Being  

Them we need to make certain our beliefs are still aligned with where we are today so we move forward in the direction we decide to take. 

The Vibration behind Your Beliefs

Our inner work is what will carry us forward. What will you establish as a spiritual practice?

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

We are guided by our inner voice, our inner knowing.  I have learned that the more you listen the more you hear!

The Space of Inner Knowing

I explore the unseen world through the shamanic meditative process of journeying. As you begin to work in the Unseen World you want to set up a Transformative Shield and connect with the Gaia Gateway and your should star:

How to Create a transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Gaia Gateway and the Soul Star 

The Unseen World communicates with metaphors,  images we must each learn to interpret for yourself. 

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

We are on this adventure together.  What is ahead is unfolding so we are to stay flexible and open to change. And we have work to do.  As Transformative Leaders, we help others raise their vibration.  

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

When you join the Deeper Song Community you become a part of a Circle of Light Beings who are working to hold our lights high to encourage others to raise their own lights in unity. I help those who are seeking to sing a deeper song to expand their relationship with the Unseen world.

Come Sing a Deeper Song
Join the Deeper Song Community

To explore more deeply I suggest these posts and podcasts: 

The Turn in the Road

There is a narrowing of my path up ahead, it will make our steps clearer and more profound.  

It is probable that we will each have a different experience, but I will share with you what I discover and encrust you to make and interpret your own Adventure. 

My work focus on three areas; Spiritual Expansion in order to Sing a Deeper Song

Raising our personal vibration so we can, in turn, raise the vibration of our planet and, 

Exploring the Portals to the Unseen World

Begin Your Exploration Here:

Here are some posts and podcasts and books to help you lay your foundation and start on your upwardly mobile journey today: 

THE FOUNDATION
Create an eclectic and evolving spiritual practice. 

We lay the foundation for our journey together with a thoughtful spiritual practice.  In my case, it involves shamanic journeying, sound healing, vibrational healing, strong intentional work and writing to figure things out. Weave this into each section.  Each of these modalities takes me deeper into the place where we are all one and it helps me raise my vibration so I co-mingle with others of a raised or higher vibration.  My work will do the same for you. 

I want to Sing a Deeper Song (Book) Kindle Edition

Make Use of Emptiness

Why You May Want To Have an Altar 

The Pillar of Light Process

Nurture the Garden Of Self l

Do You See and Hear and Walk in a Sacred Manner? 

Expand Your Spiritual Heart

What are the Foundations Stones Upon Which Your Build Your Life?

Life Messages from a Potter

22-Create Your Own Spiritual Journey PODCAST

 Shape Your Journey, Clarify Your Calling: A Deeper Song Process (Book)  Kindle Edition

I Row My Boat Alone

MANIFESTING  CHANGE
Exploring methods and means to raise our personal vibration and turn to help others do the same. 

Standing on an ever-increasing foundation of self-awareness we begin to make choices, to change, to evolve, to expand.  Each of us on our own path yet still not he pat of light together.

The Art of Wholing: Creative Consciousness for Change  (BOOK) Kindle Edition

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed 

You ARE Vibration and Why it Matters

How I Found Connection – The Visionary Harp 

How to Weave the Sacred into the Ordinary

Why We Need To Raise Our Vibration

The Light Vibration of One 

Call on Your Sacred Space Within

Walk the Sacred Path Within Surely and Steadily and Leave a Trail  

Raise Your Sails

45-How to Become a Mindful Presence (Podcast)

28-How To Walk Beside Someone in Service (Podcast)

07- How to Find and Express Your Distinctive Voice (Podcast) 

Mudra That Made a Difference (VIDEO)

THE ADVENTURE
Explore the Unseen World 

Shamanic journeying is my primary method of exploration but as I allow myself to open more deeply, I channel messages into my writing and hear auditory suggestions to follow.  You too, will expand your experience when you explore the unseen world. 

Come Sing A Deeper Song

The Power of Exploring the Unknown

How to Explore Your Invisible Self

J-1 – Foundation For The Journey Within – Create Your Sacred Garden  PODCAST

Another Part of You-The Unseen World

How to Interpret the Messages from Within

When I See Myself As Light

YOUR NEXT STEP

We would love to have you join the Deeper Song Community.  We are explorers and seekers who want to sing our own deeper song and share that son in harmony with others  

When you join the Deeper Song Community and receive a weekly newsletter with insights and Deeper Song Processes to keep you moving forward, a thought-provoking, mid-week inner-world exploration, and membership in the Deeper Song Explorers, a private Facebook Group.  

https://www.deepersong.com 

Do You Keep Sacred Time?  

July 3, 2019 By Cara Lumen

Do You Keep Sacred Time?
An Inner-Word Exploration 

In the course of your day, do you take frequent mindful pauses in which you consciously acknowledge the sacredness of the moment?

If we are doing it right, every moment is sacred, but let’s take small steps to increase our awareness. 

Learn to be more aware of the moment

In order to cultivate awareness of the sacred in your life, practice becoming more aware of the meaningfulness of 

something you do frequently. 

Choose an ordinary and frequent action as a reminder to pause and connect with the unseen world around you.  Walk into a room and pause to feel its energy. Sit down at your desk and mindfully pause before you begin your work offering.  Become conscious of how your body moves and functions and offer it gratitude for its service. Use an often-repeated action as a reminder for you to move into mindful awareness. Pause to breathe, still yourself, and experience the energy around you. Let that mindful action serve as a pulse point, a moment to check in with your inner world and become more aware. Create frequent moments of sacred connection, of being mindful of your surroundings and how you feel both within and without.

Several times during my day, I pause to look out the window at nature.  In seconds, my body stills, my breath evens, and I am transported into a serene inner state.  

How will you prompt yourself to remember to be still and aware and feel the sacredness of the moment? 

Turn your work into a sacred offering

How can you remind yourself that your work is sacred?  That everything you do is filled with the energy of your intention?

My writing is sacred to me.  The act of going within, of listening and bringing forward insights and deciding what to share is creative. It’s a time in which I touch my soul, call upon my gifts, deepen my own understanding, and do something I truly love. I bless the work as I begin and offer it gratitude for its emergence when I finish. And when I post it, I send it with my blessing and the intent to encourage change. 

Your exchanges with others are sacred

Interactions with others are always sacred. You are experiencing the vibration of another person and you are sharing your vibration with them.  You resonate with each other and both of you are changed.  

What could be more sacred than a shared vibration?! 

What kind of sacred moments do you create in your day?

If you pause and observe, you’ll find that many sacred moments already exist.  It may be in the pleasure of freshness you feel after your morning shower.  It may be the softness of your cat’s coat as he snuggles next to you.  It may be the sound of rain rapping noisily against the window while you are warmly tucked inside.  A sacred moment may come in a look, a smile, a comment, a thoughtful gesture or a random thought.  When you look for sacred moments, you’ll find them everywhere.

Purposefully create sacred times  

I recently took a damp cloth to wipe a narrow bookcase that holds some of my crystals and it turned into a sacred experience. I was present, I took time to resonate with each rock and shell. We exchanged energy and there was a deep pleasure in wiping their surfaces.  I was cleaning and the experience became sacred. 

The act of feeding yourself is a sacred time. Thoughtfully choosing what your body asks for, preparing it with mindfulness and love, offering gratitude to the farmer who grew the food, the trucker who brought it to market and the shopkeepers who made it available.  

There is a history of service to everything when we pause to appreciate it. 

Sit silently in nature and listen. Watch the sunset, or the moon rise, or the stars twinkle.  Listen to the wind blow, the birds sing, the crickets chirp.  All are sacred moments.  

Everything is sacred when you pay attention

Every moment is sacred when you pause to become aware of the sacredness.  Begin with gratitude.  Notice what you are grateful for and how the mere act of appreciation brings you into a greater awareness of how everything is sacred. 

Walk mindfully.  Notice how one foot touches the floor and your weight shifts. Then notice the other foot. Make walking sacred. 

Create small acts of ceremony

Ceremony creates sacred moments and even very small acts can be turned into a ceremony. 

Greeting someone with hands in prayer position and saying Namaste (Nah-mah-stay – “the Light With me Honors the Light within you’) is a simple acknowledgment of the sacred light within you both.  Ashe (ah-shay) means “The creative in me honors the creative in you”.

I bless my computer each day so the words I write will touch hearts in the way I have intended and people will be uplifted and encouraged to soar higher. 

I take a shamanic journey every day to ask for insights and clarity of purpose.  

There are small ceremonies I have created for my body temple in the form of conscious, supportive, stretching and Qi Gong movement throughout my day.  

When you sit down at your desk to work, set an intention to bless every word you speak, every interaction you have, every idea that you send out.

When you drive home from work, offer gratitude for the day and send a blessing ahead to the night to come.

Your ceremonies can be simple or elaborate.  Some evenings I light a candle, look out the darkened window and play my Indian flute.  Sometimes I just shut off my computer and thank it for its partnership and support that day. Those small ceremonies can grow into contemplation and gratitude, or can simply be a signal to close out my day.  

What kind of ceremony of sacredness do you want to create? 

Consciousness makes it sacred

You can turn every moment into a sacred experience.  It’s a matter of awareness and conscious focus.  Practice that.  Learn that.  Do that. 

Deeper Song Affirmation
I am aware of the sacredness of each moment. 

Deep Song Process

  • Begin by examining your spiritual practice.  How can you make it not longer or more elaborate, but more meaningful?
  • Identify a way you can honor the work you do as sacred. Put that into practice.
  • Identify how you will learn to see your body as sacred and let that manifest in the care you give it. 
  • Love yourself.  Honor and appreciate and offer gratitude to your body suit, your spiritual incarnation in this lifetime and the journey you’re on. 
  • Close your day with conscious gratitude.  It can be a brief moment or it can be the inner musing of a reflective journal.  Close your day with awareness.  

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness

How Do You Make Your Actions Lasting and Meaningful? 

Create a Releasing Ceremony For Yourself

When I See Myself As Light

Do You See and Hear and Walk in a Sacred Manner?

Broaden and Deepen
Your Personal Journey
 

I help spiritual adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and learn to share our discoveries with others.   We are guides and way showers with our light held high.

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Filed Under: Self Awareness, Self Transformation, Spiritual Expansion Tagged With: Mindfulness, Spiritual Expansion, transformational thinking

Believe In The Power Of Your Own Ripple

June 5, 2019 By Cara Lumen

Believe In The Power Of Your Own Ripple
An Inner-World Exploration

As a rather old woman, I have made a lot of waves.  Now I’m making ripples, but they still count.  They’re still effective.  I just have to believe in the power of my own ripple.

As do you.

What ripple are you sending out?

Everything you do sends out a ripple. So it’s a good idea to be both aware and selective of our thoughts and actions.  I write a lot of stuff.  Not all of it goes out.  I give myself time to get some distance on each draft of my articles.  That’s when some ideas, even if fully developed, never get shared.  I look at them as part of the overall energy I’ve created and some of them are not a good addition to the ripple I want to send out.

When I idea calls to you – answer

When I got the idea for the 7-7 Vibrational Healing Drumming Day I wanted to share that and I hoped it would be passed along. So I posted it in the four online classes I was in and reached out and added friends from those groups to my Facebook page.  I wanted that idea to make a splash, not just a ripple.  But however it turns out, a steady and far-reaching ripple will be good too. 

Everything you do sends out a wave

A moment of grouchiness – sends out a ripple.  A moment of carelessness – sends out a ripple  A moment of kindness – sends out a ripple. Laugher sends out a series of ripples.   

What kind of ripples are you sending out and how can you raise the number of positive ripples you’re launching?

Be aware of the splash you make

When you begin to think of everything you do as sending out a ripple, having an effect on others, it can be a sobering thought.  Is this the kind of energy I want to send out into the world?  Be aware of your own vibration.

How can you change your response so that it will impact the ripple coming at you?  Do you absorb the ripple?  Do you reject the ripple?  Can you change the energy of the ripple?

All change happens within you.  It begins with being aware that everything you do creates a ripple that affects someone somewhere in the world.  

Create your ripples with concessions awareness

I put a blessing on every post I send out.  It’s a conscious blessing that’ll reach those it’s meant to reach, touch their hearts and change them.  That’s a lot for one ripple to accomplish.  

Perhaps, before beginning a task, identify the kind of ripple you want it to send out.  Then see how you can make it kinder, more supportive, more impactful. 

Monitor your thoughts so the negative responses and reactions never get sent out as a ripple.  Dissolve them. Melt them.  Wash the negative away so that the ripple you offer is supportive and full of love. 

You’ve seen the destruction that high waves can make.  They reshape and flatten and corrode.  We’re just talking ripples here, gentle pebbles dropped in a still pool that sends out a gentle wave that eventually reaches the outermost edges.  The outmost edges. Your ripple can go on for a long, long time. 

Your ripple affects the ripple of others

Just about the time I being to feel ineffective, I remember that my ripple will change someone who will then, in turn, change someone else.  One ripple goes on, and on and on.  

That makes me want to be even more careful of what ripples I send out.  I am affecting the lives of people I don’t even know and they will be changed by my ripple.  I want to make certain the ripples I send out are supportive and loving and positive and meaningful. 

We have to trust our ripple.  We have to trust that what we are passionate about is our calling, our gift, our place of illumined service. 

Trust your ripple.  Understand what it is, how you affect others and do the best job of rippling you know how to do. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I am aware of the far-reaching effect of my choices and actions.
I create positive ripples. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Give thought to the impact you have on the world.  How far-reaching is it? How effective?
  • Are you sending out the ripples you want that are gently effective or are you creating your own tsunami?  Give some thought to how you would like to adjust that. 
  • Choose an action you can take that’ll allow you to see its ripple effect.  Send it out and notice what happens.
  • Create a ripple that you simply must make and that you know you will not see where it goes and who it will affect. Check the energy behind your ripple, see that it is positive and well-intentioned. Then send it out. You may or may not know who and how it affects others.  
  • Monitor your ripples. Send them with thoughtful awareness.

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

How Do You Make Your Actions Lasting and Meaningful? 

Do You See and Hear and Walk in a Sacred Manner? 

Raise Your Vibration with Serenity

Energy Cannot Be Removed-Only Re-purposed

When I See Myself As Light

The 7 -7 Vibrational Healing Drumming Day  

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World.
I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration
so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet.  

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Filed Under: Positive Change, Self Transformation, Spiritual Expansion Tagged With: personal growth, self-awareness, transformational thinking

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