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The Intentional OM Hum 

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The Intentional OM Hum
An Inner-world Exploration

OM or AUM is a mantra (word of power) that is said to represent the seed sound of the universe and to represent all other sounds. When you combine the mantra OM with the extended vibration of a hum, you can learn to direct that vibration and let it linger and float off like a gentle wave to resonate and heal whatever it touches. 

There are three sounds to the universal seed mantra OM.  A – U – M.  The word is linked to the sound of breath and is a subtle and high potency universal vibration which can be heard internally in the subtle planes as a deep sound. 

Symbolically, OM represents the entire creation manifested in the three planes – the earth, the mid-region, and the heavens.

The Om hum

Combining the sound of OM with breath and intention is a powerful way to raise your own vibration.

Sit or lie down in a quiet place.  Begin to take long slow, mindful breaths.  On the exhale, vocalize A-U-M and let the sound of a hum flow out with a focused intention. Think of yourself as breathing out and sending forth a Divine Quality, the Universal Self, Space. Notice how this resonates throughout your body.

Since everything is vibration, the addition of a prolonged hum keeps the vibration moving outward.  Ah – U – Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.  

Work in cycles of seven.  Take a breath, and on the exhale tone the sound OM (A-U-M.)  At the M, let the sound turn into an audible hum and use your mind to direct that healing vibration wherever you wish it to go.  

Intention is the navigator

Our intention is like focusing a lens.  Our intention is the director of everything we do.  You can begin with an intention to vibrate the healing Om hum through your whole body and when you get to the hum, allow that resonance to build and reverberate throughout your body.  

If your intention is to heal another person or place, or animal or even the world, simply set the intention and feel the A-U-M gathering together your spiritual essence and radiating it out toward your intention.  

Let the hum fade off into the universe. 

Notice change

If you would like to see some recognizable, tangible evidence that this Intentional Om Hum made a difference, write down the situation and the date you begin to send it energy and periodically journal about the changes. Place Intentional OM- Hum into your daily spiritual practice.

Deeper Song Affirmation 

I add an Intentional Om Hum to my spiritual practice. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Set an intention to manifest change. In the beginning, make it something you will be able to notice.
  • Add an Intentional Om Hum to your daily spiritual practice. 
  • Observe.  Journal.  Notice change.
  • Repeat

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Pillar of Light Process 

Why We Need to Raise Our Vibration  

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed 

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work 

Another Part of You-The Unseen World

How to Interpret the Messages from Within 

When I See Myself As Light 

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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Don’t Force the Petals to Open

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Don’t Force the Petals to Open

Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

I should be writing this in the spring but because it’s the end of year, I was imagining 2022.  And in my journey, I got “do not force the petals to open.”  I need to ease up and let the buds of change open in their own time. 

I have to be certain that making plans does not close me in or keep me from finding unexpected and unusual options.  I have to stay fluid.  And the main reason I do is that no one knows what the Unfolding Divine Feminine is going to look like.  We’ve never had it before. So unlike past years, I cannot set specific goals because that would lock me into a closed path.  

In the journey I took to find guidance for 2022, I got my Happy Hiker Guide who is a new guide for me. He wears a jaunty hiking hat with a feather and plays a flute to encourage me on the winding, uphill path.  He cautioned me not to lock myself in, to just stay open to possibilities, and I would have what I need to examine and evaluate every choice. 

I don’t exactly have a plan other than to ease up on making action plans.  When an idea comes up, I will explore it from several angles.  I also want to watch what I change and how I change it because that will alter my choices and my potential.  Do I need to expand something? Do I want to explore something new? Probably both. That means I have to be willing to let go and/or change rather fluidly as new ideas and awareness ripen. 

I like the idea of letting an action or an idea ripen.  Give it time to nurture itself in each stage.  A caterpillar changes who she is by dissolving herself and becoming an entirely new being. I’m not planning to go that far, but I do think it would be a good idea to leave some no-longer-needed things beside the path and move on. I just have to be aware of what I need to leave behind. Fear, apprehension, uncertainty, there is no room for those, we have too much exploring to do.  What we do need is a strong sense of what is important for the collective well-being so our choices support our inclusive values and keep us moving toward a higher level of participation and expectation. 

Because the world is changing so rapidly and dramatically, we get to question every choice and many of our conclusions and that will take some practice.  A new possibility shows up and we have to squelch any negative thought and instead, turn the idea over in our mind to see how it fits into the unfolding world and if we have a role in it.  Then we can choose.  

Over-arching broad goals help us prioritize, but long-range plans won’t work because the world is unfolding and rearranging its potential. We have to stay flexible and open to change. You can’t push the petals to open. You have to let them unfold in their own perfect time.

Most of all, keep an eye out for the unusual and unfolding potentials that are going to come tumbling in.  Go exploring, give it a try, and see where it takes you. Stay nimble and fluid.  The world is going to give us a fascinating ride. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I eagerly explore the new ideas that come from the Divine Feminine.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Question how you see the role of the Divine Feminine.  She has just begun to reveal her potential and the form she will take. What idea do you need to release?
  • Explore what calls to you and examine its potential. 
  • No need to choose yet, just explore and examine and consider its possibilities in your life.

===INNER WORK===

Review Your Year

This is a helpful reflective exercise.  Answer the following questions:

2021 Review

What went well this year?

What didn’t go so well this year?

What did I learn?

What I will do differently?

What will I do more of?

As new opportunities unfold ask:

Where is this leading?

Is there a role in this for me?

Do I want that role?

Do I want to explore more or let it move on?

We are going to be flooded with new ways to do things and it is an opportunity to get to know ourselves as we are now and to make some choices about where we want to go next.  Go exploring and be selective. The Divine Feminine is going to take us for an exciting and adventurous ride.

Develop a Habit of Inner Listening

I’m helping a friend explore and discover and establish her next path. My major advice is to listen. Listen to your inner nudges. Pay attention to the unexpected opportunities the universe provides. I do a lot of my exploring by writing. It doesn’t make any difference what I write, it’s that I write and in so doing open up a clear path for my inner voice to speak to me. It always helps me sort things out. It helps me explore a new possibility. You might dictate your thoughts into a document you keep on your computer. Just dictate it and give it a title. And a date. I’m big on using a table of contents to keep track of that kind of journaling in order to have an overview of my thoughts. When you get in the habit of simply dictating an idea, you’ll be surprised at what you reveal. Start listening to your inner voice and see where it leads you. 

Expect the Best. Do Not Settle for Second Best

We get what we expect. We get what we believe we deserve. We get what we believe is possible. Do not settle for second best. 

This is not just about optimism, this is about expectation. I believe in wholeness, high vibration, cosmic consciousness, and oneness. As we live our human lives in this huge collection of humankind, we must raise our expectations and our beliefs and take the highest road possible. Expect the best, do not settle for second best. You deserve it.

===SELF-HEALING===

Vibrational Work

I am creating positive changes in my 89-year-old body and it is very comforting to experience the power of vibrational work in the bitfields.  

I do Qigong each day. But I also do acupressure.  I have set up a table near a chair where I have put all sorts of acupressure tools and my tuning forks. I sit there several times a day and work with my body.   You don’t have to know the meridians, just find the sore places in your body and massage them. It’s not at all strenuous.  And it is producing results. I also do intentional humming to send vibrations to my body. This is an easy self-care habit to acquire.

===OUTER  WORK===

Broaden Your Support System

Having the physical help I need has made a huge difference in the quality of my life experience.  It’s not easy to ask for help but when you experience the relief of hard-to-do physical aspects of your life being taken from you, the relief is huge.  I have added two physical pain support people to my team – a physical therapist and a fabulous woman who loves to clean.  They have changed my world.  I have a core group of friends that I talk with regularly on Zoom that are a lifeline to intellectual curiosity and spiritual expansion and supportive friendship.  What or who do you need in your life that would support a forward motion? Where would you find it? And will you ask for the help? Keep broadening your support system. 

When You are Aligned You Can Move Freely

I have no idea what’s actually going on in my body, but I woke up one day this week and my left hip was aligned clear up to my waist. And I could walk better, I could stand straighter. I have no idea what was released. I just know that the alignment changed and the result was dramatic. What is out of alignment in your life and what would one small shift do to bring everything back into a stronger connection?

Discovering Your Next

I used to be able to coach people into a new place of service but a lot of what I know how to do is perhaps no longer useful.  That said, your place of service is about following your heart and exploring and expanding your gifts into new places of expression and service.  For me personally, it has always been about what I can learn next. 

I have a friend who is 68, retired from her profession but wants and needs to create income.  Some of the things I know to do to create a new career path are still valid – if a target audience is too far into the need to simply survive, they cannot move from that into a higher consciousness level of exploration (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs). But I think we teach what we want to learn.  What do we know, what do we want to learn, how do we put that together to move ourselves and others forward? 

In our conversation, we discovered a deeply  personal and relevant aspect of my friend’s past that could be the starting point for evolving her next plan of service.  My suggestion is to simply begin going in that direction to see what unfolds and how it feels.  In her case I suggested she get one document on her computer and start writing and exploring any relevant ideas that show up. And let that intuitive writing open the door to new possibilities. 

First, you have to identify the problem that you want to help others solve.  It may be something you want to learn too. We learn by teaching. We help others learn by sharing our process of exploration, discovery, and change. 

The form is secondary.  She wants to teach, she wants to write, there are technical steps like websites and list building to take. But first, you have to know who you want to serve and how you want to serve them. 

What do people need?  What has changed dramatically that you can help them with?  What is the problem you will help solve?

My main message is to explore deep within yourself to find what new direction is ready to emerge that will take you where you need/want to be next. Then turn and bring others with you. 

Go exploring to discover your “next.” Then make it happen.

Mark the Trail

I was working on my thoughts for the coming year and I got “I am to go exploring and mark the trail.”  What does that mean?  What does that look like?  The exploring part I get – I stay open to what calls me to learn and understand next.  Part of the trail I leave is what I write or podcast about, but the majority of what I am to do is experiment and share what I learn.  It will probably not be my personal path because my role is explorer and path-finder and way-shower.  I am to stay free and loose and full of curiosity and report what I discover – the possibilities, the changes, the new insights.  I am to explore and share what I find.  I can do that.

Use Your Curiosity As A Compass

Our curiosity is a gift. It is a guide. It is a planner of adventures. It opens new portals and shows us the path. Do you listen to your curiosity? Do you nurture your curiosity? Do you take time to explore what your curiosity suggests might be a new adventure? Pay attention to your curiosity and take time to follow its nudges. It will show you the way. 

The Flexible Plan

A plan is only as good as the results it produces – if it gets you where you need to go. Sometimes there are detours that add unexpected richness to the experience. Be open to those. Take a few steps, stop and examine the new vista, then make new choices based on the new view you have just acquired.  That means every step forward requires you to stop and look around to see what has changed, and choose which direction to go next.  Life is one big stepping stone after another.  

Do take the next step. Do take another step.  Do explore the ideas that pop up.  Your insight, your decisions, your choices are the springboard to your version of “next”. Choose away.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Are You Open to Possibilities?

As I use intention and focused vibration for self-healing, I have to keep looking at the subtle changes that show me a path to new possibilities.  They can be subtle and I may have to look closely for them but change is constant when I look for it.

When inviting change into your life, we have to be alert to subtle nudges and gradual changes.  Trust  your spiritual practice.  Trust your self-healing practice and stay open to the possibilities they suggest. 

Do You Allow Yourself to Receive?

Self-sufficiency is a good thing – unless you carry it too far. Do you allow yourself to receive? Are you aware of what is being offered? Do you accept it with graciousness? Sometimes the gifts are very small and you have to look closely in order to notice them. Sometimes the gifts are downright life-changing. 

Notice what is being offered to you by those around you. Notice what is being suggested to you by the energy of the universe. Allow yourself to receive. You deserve it. You are worthy. Allow yourself to receive.

===BROADEN YOUR HORIZON – EXPAND YOUR VIEW===

Where Are You Looking?

I have to raise my gaze.  I am looking down, at my body and my work to strengthen it.  That seems immediate.  But it is not what I want to focus on. Raise your gaze. 

As I sit here watching all manner of new opportunities and challenges make themselves known, allowing themselves to be considered, they point the way to a whole new path for moving forward. 

We have to question and explore and consider everything that shows up to see how it resonates with our personal path and the path of the Divine Feminine as she moves in to redesign the world. 

Maybe you begin to make a list of new things that are possible that were not in existence last year.  There is new science, there are new ideas, there are new social causes.  I feel like I am skimming along on the surface of a roaring ocean trying to find the landing place of my next place of service.  

Use your imagination to explore.  Use your curiosity to figure out new places of service. Where are you looking and are you looking broad and far enough? Raise your sights. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

How Do We Help Bring In The Unfolding Divine Feminine?

The Divine Feminine is unfolding and seeks expression.  I am to help her find ways to express herself and establish her authority.   My daughter is a top-ranking female manager in her company and her group is the only one in the whole organization that is working well.  The groups led by men are not.  She says she’s in meetings a lot which means there is collaboration and discussions and a group director.  That’s the way of the Divine Feminine. 

Another woman friend is completing a cycle of major leadership and the male person in charge of finding her replacement, instead of looking within the organization for a person to promote, is looking outside.  A very masculine approach.  

Can you begin to see the differences between masculine and feminine leadership in your workplace? What’s working?  How can you help bring in the Divine Feminine? How is your new role evolving?  Stay fluid.  Keep flexible.  She is making herself known. 

Your Mind is Your Guide. Your Curiosity is the Compass

I got this message in a journey – “Your mind is your guide, your curiosity is your compass”. I cannot look very far into 2022 because the change is so deep and is just beginning to make herself known. Our job is to stay centered in our values and flexible in how we express then. And we even get to question our values. Are they based on inclusive concepts? I bet a lot of them or not. How do we build our place in this unfolding New World of the Divine Feminine? I think our job is to listen to look, to explore, perhaps even try out a few new roles. But most of all we must listen to our inner voice and what it tells us. Let your mind be your guide and curiosity be your compass.

Leave Space to Take a Wrong Turn

The wonderful thing about taking a wrong turn is the amazing new places you get to discover. That actually means there is no such thing as a wrong turn. Because wherever you are, there is opportunity. Don’t fill your life so full that you can’t take an unexpected turn and just go exploring. Each day should be an adventure not a march down a given path. There should be pauses to look around and check out the scenery. There should be pauses to feel and experience and absorb the energy of the moment. And make adjustments according to what you discover. Leave room in your life to go exploring. To try on a new experience for size, to see how it feels, to see if it will take you where you want to go. See what adventure it takes you on. Go exploring and leave space to take a “wrong” turn. You never know what magic you may discover. 

======THE UNFOLDING DIVINE FEMININE=== ===

I Wrote Republican Liz Cheney 

I’ve been a Democrat all my life but only recently realized that I’m actually a Progressive Democrat. So it was with interest that I found myself wanting to acknowledge Republican Liz Cheney for her work on the Investigating Committee for January 6. 

I had to post my note on her Facebook page because I’m not from her state but I thanked her for standing tall in her beliefs and for being such an outstanding example of leadership in the emerging Divine Feminine. I know she will remain a leader of the thoughtful, inclusive Republicans who will split off and redefine themselves.  It is a changing time, isn’t it? We get to rethink everything. 

Who do you see being true to themselves and helping the Divine Feminine emerge?  Perhaps you could acknowledge them.

===INTENTION BLESSING===

There is a new path we are walking.  It is the High Path.  The High Road.  It keeps us walking above the fray. 

May we hear and heed the call of the Divine Feminine. 

May we expand our hearts and our expectations.

May we walk the Path of Light with a sure foot. 

May we keep our gaze on the summit.

May we take this journey with a full heart. 

I entwine my light with yours and we move forward to guide the way.

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===

Spiritual Practice

The Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

Self Healing

A Transformative Clearing Process

Expanding Awareness

The Role of the Element of Earth in Our New Consciousness

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

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===CARA’S CORNER===

My Unfolding Role in 2022

I’ve been journeying a lot to receive guidance from my spiritual guides so that I step into 2022 headed in the direction that is most powerful and effective for me. 

Now that I see the Circle of Light Beings in all our glorious diversity, I am to focus on how we are to be contributing members to the Unfolding Divine Feminine. I know we are to play our individual harps and our individual songs but there is also an overarching composition that creates powerful change.  We will explore what that looks like and develop a new symphony of powerful, guiding, life-changing harmony.

The second message I got is that I am to establish a spiritual practice that is self-healing and informative to a rapidly unfolding world. I’m working on the vibrational self-healing part but there is much more to be revealed. 

The guiding message was “Your mind is your guide. Your curiosity is the compass.”

Here we go adventuring….!

“She is planted in her own integrity, and there she stands, gnarled and knotted, perfectly at ease with herself, her roots deep in truth, her branches held up to let the light in.”  – Stephen Mitchell Second Book of Tao

I am that tree. Standing with my roots deep into the life I have chosen for myself with my gnarled branches offering shade and comfort while some are reaching the sky for inspiration and future growth. What is your tree of life like?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

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I have been here a long time. My roots are deep, my branches are spread, I have made my home, my place on earth.

I have been here a long time. My roots are deep, my branches are spread, I have made my home, my place on earth. My “next” is up to me – my choices, my expectations. 

I have been here a long time. My roots are deep, my branches are spread, I have made my home, my place on earth. My “next” is up to me – my choices, my expectations. I lift my branches and joyously reach into the Unfolding Unknown.

-Cara Lumen, December 2021

We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take.  Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara

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What You Can Imagine You Can Create

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What You Can Imagine You Can Create

Living Your Deeper Song

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

As I try to find my role and my path in this world that is changing so rapidly one of the answers that I am drawn to is found in the book “The Quest of Rose: The Cosmic Keys of Our Future Becoming (Future Humans Trilogy) Book 1 by Anneloes Smithsman and Jean Houson.

Now I have not finished it by any means but I am already blown away by this concept: 

One of the core ideas is that when we understand that was ARE Cosmic Consciousness a whole new world of possibilities opens up – instantaneously.  We immediately drop our human limitations and go soaring into the expansive realms of possibility.

How do we do that?  Is creating a new future as easy as moving into our imaginal powers and making stuff up? And if so, what do I want to make up?

For me, the vast diversity in humanity is daunting.  Each individual has a different need, a different take on how to do something, a different belief system.  It makes sense to use our imaginal powers to manifest the life we live and the world we live in.  If we can imagine it, it can exist.  

I get to shift my focus.  Insisted of noticing what is not working, I get to look for and focus on what is working.  

Now, I observe and am excited by the oppoturnities that keep opening up.  When are aware, when we make choices for the highest good, we have a way to save the planet, to live in peace.  But we have to make those our highest priority.  W cannot put our own needs first.  We must find within us the qualities and form of expression that radiant out the most wholeness, the most tranquility, and we get to reside there.  Others feel that and notice those same serene qualities in their lives and begin to cultivate them more. And the world grows calmer as more and more of us center and focus and calm our oath thoughts, beliefs, and expectations. 

But we have to look for those quitter expectations, we have to want to live in deer serenity.  We have to want to peacefully coexist.  When we recognize what we want, we can take steps to move ourselves toward it. 

If you shut your eyes and picture yourself in a serene place in nature, your whole body responds – your breath calms,  your shoulders relax, your heart rate slows.  All because you shifted your focus onto an image of serene existence.  

We get to do that more often – shift our inner gaze.  Look for those tranquil rhythms within and reside in therm.  

Begin with an open mind.  Monitor your thoughts and particularly monitor your expectations.  Develop a sprite practice that involves slow breaths,  going within, and floating off into your imagination where you look for and find and exist in tranquility – with others and alone. Once you experience it you can begin to bring it into your human expression – let a conscious breath center you, take a long gaze out the window at nature, and tune into that slower tempo.  All of these steps change your rhythm and your expectations.

Use your imagination to explore the way you would like the world to be.  Then stand bak and watch it manifest.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I focus my attention on a positive expectation for our planet and my life expression. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Begin by centering yourself  with long slow  breaths.
  • Go to your Still Pint and allow yourself to merge with cosmic awareness.
  • Go where your guides take you. 

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===INNER WORK===

The Power of Encouragement

You don’t know encouragement has been missing in your life until you get it. I have been receiving physical therapy for several weeks now and I realize how powerful the encouragement that I received from my physical therapist is in motivating me to do the work. She doesn’t ask me to do too much. She does encourage me to keep doing what she has taught me. And it is making a huge difference in my willingness to do the exercises that she has assigned me.

So how do I give that to myself? How do I encourage myself? 

First of all, notice where you’re lagging behind and where you need encouragement. Then create your own little cheerleading section – yeah you did this – yeah you did that. Acknowledge the steps you do take and also identify what feels like a stumbling block, and take time to look for a way to walk around it or climb over it or find another path. We are on a continuous journey. Some parts of the path are easier than others. We have to find a way to encourage ourselves to keep going.

Singing while you do a task might help. Putting on music in order to exercise might help. Having a specific purpose like getting the mail that makes you walk down the hall might help. How do you encourage yourself? Who is encouraging you? And who are you encouraging to move forward in their life?

Change Your Narrative, Change Your Life 

Our words have power. They manifest what we say what we see and what we experience. When we change our narrative we change our lives. So as I wrestle with my body I see that I have just made a terrible choice of words. I’m not wrestling with my body I need to think in terms of encouraging it and caring for it. See how much damage my own words almost did? So instead of looking for what is not working, I get to look at what is working. I’m going to have to change my focus a lot. I may even have to go beyond listening to anything human and go to a centered spot by being in  nature. Become more aware of simple cycles – he beginning and middle and end of the ongoing and ever-present cycles. 

What are you telling yourself? What affirmations are you giving yourself? What hurts? What is adjusting? What is working smoothly? Do I focus on what a long way it feels to walk down the hall or do I focus on how good that step was and how good it feels to strengthen my body? What is the narrative you are giving yourself?  Pay attention,  Negative affirmations can be very sneaky. Monitor your thought and speak only in positive terms.

Change your narrative, change your life.  I am safe. I am cared for, the Universe loves me.  Communicate  unity, belonging, and wholeness. 

===OUTER  WORRK===

How Do You Handle Discouragement?

It seems like it’s too much to do. It seems like you don’t have enough skills, energy, talent, time to make it happen. And you sit there in discouragement. What do you do? How do you move yourself out of those moments of down-heartedness? Like feeling that you can’t make it happen? Feeling like you don’t have the skills? Feeling like you’re trying to making this happen all by yourself? Those are discouraging thoughts and feelings. And they happen to all of us. What do you do when you get discouraged?

As I write that I remember Snow White’s seven dwarfs and their song “Whistle While You Work.” I think that may be the answer – to simply be in the moment and do the best you can. Be grateful that you the opportunity was sent to you. And then acknowledge what you’ve accomplished. Not what is still left to do – but what you have already done. Perhaps with your new viewpoint, you divide the steps up into smaller pieces so they don’t feel so daunting. You may have to have some help. You may need to learn some new skills. What preparation steps do you need to take to make yourself more capable of doing this job you set for yourself? Do that. 

Take smaller steps and let the path unfold before you. 

The Length of your Reach

Michelle, my physical therapist, gives me pieces of paper with the exercises drawn on them.  There are three on a page and are not arranged in the order I am given to do them.  I told her I would like to see these exercises on individual cards on a key ring that I could add to and easily use.  I would put them in batches of chair exercise and bed exercises and…  She liked the idea, told her supervisors and they are going to look into doing it.  

Now, here’s the lesson.  I had a need.  I shared an idea.  The idea resonated.  It will get implemented and it will affect physical therapy patients from this office for years to come.  Who knows, it may spread even more.  

All because I had a need and I share a solution. 

What solutions are you sharing and how far-reaching will they go?

Establish a Daily Self-Scanning Practice

When we scan and soothe our energy field our body responds.  You can do this sitting or lying down. Place yourself in silliness and with your focused awarenss move slowly through your body.   Moving in and through the muscles and veins and experiencing light energy moving into every corner and crevice to cleanse and rebalance and restore.  Notice the places the energy is low and breadth energy into it.  Notice the place where energy is stuck or highly concentrated and breathe out while releasing all that stuck-ness. Take deep, slow breaths that fill your body and re-balance it.  Take another breath that moves along your aura and soothe that and balance it. Your aura extends many feet from your body.  Soothe the energy to the edges.   

Be present within and feel yourself radiate out tranquility as your body regains its balance on all levels.  Breathe balance into your body and notice what changes. Breathe centered stillness into your body as  you make conscious choices through your day. 

Try Something Different

Brian Clark thinks It’s Time for a New Adventure. The phrase that caught my eye was “try something different.”  He’s going to South America to the Rain Forest.  What do I, here in my space, in my circumstances, at my age and abilities try out?  What kind of adventure can I create for myself?  

The first thing that comes to mind is – my mind.  I am deep into the latest Jean Houston Book and have another book waiting to take me on a great adventure.  So my mind seems to be a major path to adventure.  

Try something new.  I have been invited to  attend an advanced shamanic ceremony/graduation of a close friend on Zoom. I have meaningful friends I connect with regularly who inspire me with their creative activity.  Where can I go adventuring?  What can I try that’s new?

I have a Qigong class I want to finish.  I want to do some sketching of elements from my journeys.  I am writing some very fascinating podcasts. My mind seems to be my doorway to adventure.  Wonder where it will take me…

Keep looking for change. Keep exploring new pathways. What adventure will you go on next? Where will you go?  Try something different and see what shifts for you. 

Create Change by Changing the Size of the Problem

This was a huge realization for me – to change the size of the problem rather than expand on the size of the solution. It’s fairly simple. Now that I use a walker it is tricky for me to take out my trash which I put in my good-size four-wheel laundry cart and push while walking with a cane. So the problem is a large bag of trash and me on a walker. Not a good match. How do I push-pull any thing and still use the walker? My first thought was to change the frequency I took trash out as in relying on my homemaker every other week and perhaps enlisting my son-in-law the opposite weeks for once a week trash run. But I really would like to do it more often than that and I was at standstill until I got the idea that I can use my walker if I take smaller loads. I changed the problem! I made the problem smaller and found a solution that fit!

That means more frequent trips which are good for my walking but it eliminates the problem of enlisting others to solve my problem.

What problem are you facing that feels too big that if you did it in smaller chunks or more frequently it would change the execution and the result? Create change by changing the size of the problem.

Adjust Your Foundation

When I sat at my desk chair it isn’t long before my hips hurt and I had to stand up.  It is a bit tricky to keep working while standing up, looking through bifocals at a tall 21-inch monitor, and having the keyboard still down at a sitting position.  

I have a solar keyboard so I figured out how to raise that but it suddenly dawned on me to change my foundation – change the size and shape of the pillows I was sitting on.  (I sit on lots of pillows to get the height I need to get out of the chair.)  It is working.  My hips are less cranky. So the lesson is that if the structure is having a problem, begin by changing the foundation. What foundation needs changing in your life?  You’d be surprised what a difference a small adjustment will make.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Combinations for Your Spiritual Practice

I was listening to an introduction to a class on herbalism and David Crow said the ancient formulas put herbs together so they enhance each other’s powers.  

I wondered how I might apply that idea to my spiritual practice. 

For instance, I know that playing a drumming track while I play my flute expands my playing. There is a freeing element to it. It creates more space in the music because of the give and take. I know that singing the songs I made up while drumming deepen my awareness of my connection to nature.  I also know I want silence as I meditate and that wrapping a warm shawl around my shoulders enhances and deepens my experience.   There are a few Qigong breathing exercises I know that change the tension I feel at various points in my day.  I am listening to more and more classical music rather than news or stories.  Those small choices  change my experience of my day.  

I know if I hum to myself as I use my walker to walk correctly down the hall it lifts my spirits and my body and turns it into an adventure rather than a task. If I could walk better I might dance down the hall!

I use my breath to use The Intentional OM Humto parts of my body.  I also use the Intentional Hum to balance circumstances.  

Give some focused thought to the rhythm of your day, what energy shift you need and when and how you will manifest that. 

What elements can you put together in your day that will strengthen an experience?

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST ==

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Spiritual Practice

Create a Releasing Ceremony For Yourself

The Two Vital Sides of Your Spiritual Practice

Self Healing

The Backpack Journey

Journey to a Chamber of the Seven Sacred Rays

Expanding Awareness

Listen For Your Future

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective

Listen to my
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify / Google

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===DISICOVERIES ===

Here’s a very powerful description of the shamanic practice of dismemberment of thought forms by Sandra Ingerman Transmutation News – November 2021   

===MY DEEPER SONG  ADVENTURES ===

Restorative Sleep

My cat, Sebastian, commandeers my magnetic Kenko Naturest® Custom Pillow the minute I abandon it. Instead of sleeping hidden in the closet he now luxuriates against my magnetic pillow. He knows it is healing.  We are both super silky – his coat, my skin and hair and I think it’s from sleeping under the magnetic KenkoTherm Cocoon.  I have also been sleeping all night with my Kenko Power Sleep Mask.  It may help with my dry macular degeneration.   Oh yes, I’ve been drinking from the PiMag Waterfall® for 20 years. Don’t you love it when you find a healing format that works for you! 

===OUR EVOLVING FUURE===

The Job Of Future Generations

It was my grandson’s birthday recently and one of the things I am aware of is that his generation has their work cut out for them. They have to change their beliefs. They have to explore and learn to apply new technology. They have climate change to halt. This is a time of huge deep consequential change. And his generation and those around him are in charge of making it happen for themselves and for their children.

When we explore change, we have to let go of the familiar and truly go exploring to discover what is now possible. I subscribe to Good News Network and every day there is reporting of a new way to do something or the discovery of an animal that was thought to be extinct or a way to support an idea that had not existed before. It keeps us aware of the positive evolution that is so prevalent today when we look for it.

If you are raising children make certain you teach them flexibility and questioning and the love of change, the adventure of changing, the need to change. We are always outgrowing where we are. Most of what we know is outdated, no longer useful, so what do we teach our children? Concern for the highest good for all,  the inclusion of and respect for nature. What are you teaching those around you and what are you learning for yourself?

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Our Choice 

It wasn’t exactly a dream, but I woke up with a scenario moving through my mind of the angry people that I know of in the US. And where that might lead us. Certainly a divided word – one world of thoughtful, caring, inclusive, people and another of  angry, bitter, defensive, mean-spirited people – that’s a very large division. Of course, there are gradations. But we have a choice.

I was upset a few years ago when a major shamanic teacher said that there was a new path being formed to a higher level of being and even though many of us would use that higher road not everyone would and that we had to be OK with it. And I felt sad that people would be left behind. But now I see people are actively making choices. Sometimes it is an angry choice. For me, it seems to be a misguided choice. An unrealistic choice, the choice based on misinformation. But I pick up my walking stick and continue on my upward sloping path. Always seeking higher ground. Always trying to help those who travel with me along the path. I can only travel one pair. Everyone makes their own choice and crates their own future.  Mine is the high road. 

===CARA’S CORNER===

I have never shared a complete journey before but this was very powerful.  I now dictate as I journey so I get great detail. 

COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS  JOYRNEY

I go to my Still Point in the center of m being and allow myself to step within it.  I dissolve, merge with, become a part of this large sphere of Cosmic Consciousness. I am floating.  And when I move my arms I fly  a little bit.  When I turn my head, I go that direction. I am flying in Cosmic Consciousness. 

There is a stillness here. But there is also a humming vibration. The vibration of aliveness. The vibration of action. I am alert. And I am tingling all over. How am I to use this awareness of the cosmic consciousness in the planetary world now? I hear a whistle. A male walker is coming down the pathway whistling his tune. “You go adventuring,” he says. “You go exploring. You want to set a really high intention,” he says. What am I to help unfold? What awareness am I to share? What am I to explore and experience and bring back to share? “This is a whole new adventure, this move into cosmic consciousness. Let go of your human concepts of things like the web of life, let us give you the experiences to formulate new ways of being – new ways of communicating. New understanding of steps that can be taken. New choices.” I go deeper. I take a breath and feel my body begin to not so much dissolve as merge with the energy around it. I become a floating light of sorts. Or at least a floating glow. And I realize that my awareness has changed. I am no longer looking from my humanness. I am looking from my wholeness. An imbalance over there gets a cuddle, gets to be held and hugged and sheltered. I do the same with an eruption over there. I move in with focused intention and surround the irruption with serenity. Until it calms down.

There is a hum in my heart. A lullaby of sorts – the song of wholeness. A song of resolution. A song of assurance that all is well – all will be well.

I don’t know how, but my human body has become space. I feel it merge with and become part of the greater consciousness, the cosmic consciousness. There is an underlying hum of cosmic energy and yet there is this pinpoint of awareness of my current presence on earth. How will you work with us? I ask. The guide smiles, he tips his hat, turns and walks up the road whistling. He pulls out his flute and plays as he walks. H is the Pied Piper. Nature follows him, people follow him, he is simply being himself and it attracts others. How do I change myself to be that piper? How do I clear myself of my own misgivings in order to hold a belief in wholeness and happiness and infinite well-being? I know that it is possible because the adventurer has gone before me. I know that I am called to go adventuring because I am already on the path. Right now my message is to keep whistling and keep walking and others will hear you and find you and see you and follow you and gradually strengthen their own form of awareness and being present and understand their role of being in the universe. It is unfolding. 

The guide was an example of what I am to be – hat is unfolding for me. “Explore more uses for imagination and your intuition and your inner knowing to interpret and share these universal messages how we as humans are to move into this new unfolding evolution.” 

My journey experience with Stone Woman comes to mind. She lives in a cave behind the waterfall in my Sacred Garden. And one day when I went to meet her she was sitting behind a desk with her arms crossed and her hands on her shoulders. She didn’t move. Didn’t say anything. But I knew it was a greeting. In a later journey, I understood it meant “my heart crosses the earth to your heart and we build a bridge” I invite you to help me build the bridge. To become a path opener. A way-shower. And explorer. Step into the void and ask what you need to know now. Then listen. You will be shown what to do.

The Indigo Library is there with the words of wisdom. Sampson Eagle is there show me the overview. The blue bell tower is there, carrying my words of wisdom into the countryside, my Individual Harp is there, and the Circle Light Beings. I’ve already been given much help much guidance. The word “self-healing” shows up. Balance the energy field. I sit and feel the energy beginning to spiral clockwise and I get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and I move into the space in the cosmos and there is a point of light that I’m headed towards. Yes, I moved your space. My body heals in the cells and strengthens and releases what it no longer needs. My Still Point. I have been going within to begin which is fine but I am to allow myself to experience the Still Point in the cosmos. Go there. Listen from there. Feel from there. Experience from your soul, learn from there. Sit in the middle of the cosmos and learn. 

I hear the adventurer whistling in the distance then I begin to create my own path among the stars and the planets in the universe that is in the void.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

My Inner Gides

My inner guides are always present, always supportive, and always wise.  I just have to listen. 

My inner guides are always present, always supportive, and always wise.  I just have to listen. They point.  They teach. They open new doors. 

My inner guides are always present, always supportive, and always wise.  I just have to listen. They point.  They teach. They open new doors. The journey is totally up to me. My choice.  My journey.  My outcome.

  • Cara Lumen November 2021

We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take.  Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help spiritual explorers find powerful and creative ways to connect with and explore their own cosmic consciousness.

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Stay Balanced

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Stay Balanced

Living Your Deeper Song

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the rapid and dramatic events playing out all over the planet.  There can be a feeling of helplessness at the sheer hugeness of the destruction and dramatic change that is happening on so many levels.  It is a far-reaching and necessary change that is taking place in order to lead us to a new level of understanding and inclusiveness and interconnectedness.  A new level of being. It is a huge step and it is a bumpy ride.

There is a trust factor we must develop here.  As we stay focused on increasing our awareness of everything as one all-inclusive energy, we must monitor our beliefs and keep going in the direction of this unexpected and  unpredictable unfolding, trusting the Universe to both guide us and guard us. 

It helps to remember that we don’t need to completely understand what is happening right now, nor do we need to be able to predict the future. Our job is to deepen our own vibrational awareness of the whole universe being one interconnected energy. We immerse ourselves in the vibration of oneness by monitoring our thoughts and expectations, expanding our inner inclusive awareness with meditation, journaling, and reading words that inspire us, that help us move us to that place of All-ness that is already within us, just waiting for us to choose to  reside in it. Move your being into Centered Oneness. All is well in our world. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I move within to find the wholeness and unity of our Cosmic Oneness. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Sit in meditation and experience yourself as absorbed in the vast Oneness, the wholeness of All-That-Is. 
  • As you sit in wholeness ask how you are to express that wholeness in  your life here on the planet. 
  • Listen and respond as you are called.

Our Global Deeper Song Community

Our Deeper Song Community extends throughout the planet  Welcome new Deeper Song Explorers. I’d love to hear of your experiences –  caralumen@gmail.com or let’s discuss on the Deeper Song Explorers!

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===

The Two Vital Sides of Your Spiritual Practice

A Deeper Song Insight

I stopped cold when I heard this.  I had never before thought of my spiritual life in this manner and it helped me make some important new choices for my spiritual development. 

There are two aspects to our spiritual practice, one is to deepen your own embodiment of our connection with spirit and the other is to deepen our connection with source.  Those are two different focuses in our spiritual development. We want to be certain we are addressing both aspects.  Let’s figure out how together.

In this episode we explore
The Two Vital Sides of Your Spiritual Practice
(12 minutes)
(Listen Here)

Listen to
Reflections of a Deeper
Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify /Google

and the
Deeper Song Website

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective  

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe

Are You a Transformative Leader?

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

Trust Your Inner answers.

Journey to a Chamber of the Seven Sacred Rays

===INNER WORK===

We Never Know What Lives We Touch

John came to fix my refrigerator.  He fixes everything around here.  When he was finished he told me that when he sweeps the halls on Thursday and I am playing my flutes, he stops, leans up against the wall, and just listens.  

I had no idea.  

I showed him my flutes and when he emails me I will send him links to where I got them.  

His comment prompted me to deepen my own experience by getting out the drumming tracks I have that both stimulate and inspire my flute playing.  I had a lovely session and vowed to use the drumming tracks more often. 

We both gained from that share.  You just never know how we touch the lives of another and how their life will touch you back.

Identify Your Path

Because I am in the process of change, I write things down so I can clarify my thoughts and notice my progress.  I am using  the Fall Equinox to begin to chronicle this next period of personal observation. Because it is a time of harvest I can see what I have grown this year and it is an opportunity for me to be very still and listen to the inner change that is happening within me. I’m getting insights about where I’m headed, but the path has yet to be  revealed.  

Create a place on your desktop to capture your illuminating thoughts as you journey through your day and review them on a regular basis in order to to deepen  your understanding of the unfolding message the universe keeps offering. 

Here’s my current understanding of my unfolding path: “Your task is to develop your intuition and spiritual awareness. Successful navigation of this leads to a new sense of oneness with the universe.”

I’m up for that!

Define Your Role

A close friend is evolving as she changes into the new role she will take in her retirement.  As we look for words to describe what she is going to do I realized that how we are willing to define ourselves is important. How we see ourselves can be uplifting or it can hold us back, tie us down.  For instance, it took me a while to accept that I was indeed a “spiritual explorer”.  The table “metaphysical philosopher” took some growing into.

Try on a descriptive name and see how it feels. Explore and see how the phrase feels and fits. Sometimes we have to grow into a title we want or choose. 

How do you define your work, your place of service, and does it need to change to allow for more room for expansion?

===OUTER  WORK===

Enrichment

I’ve been watching a lot of Animal Planet lately and much of the conversation is about how to add enrichment to the lives of the animals. That often means mental stimulation or a new addition to their habitat that encourages physical development or natural instincts. So I begin to look at the word enrichment for me. “The act of imposing or enhancing the quality or value of something.” I wondered what I actively chose to do that enriches my life. 

Enrichment can be about learning something.  It can be about adding to something that is already established.  I have added more TM meditation time and it is enriching my spiritual practice. I work at adding forms of movement to enrich and empower my body to move more easily.  I’m listening to more classical music to affect my mood. 

I want to establish a time for more enriching study.  I am working on adding focused strengthening movement in my day – like a regular Qi Gong practice.  I have room for a lot of new and stimulating choices. I take time to go exploring and see what resonates. 

What areas of your life need enrichment?  What are you going to do to deepen your experience and expansion?

Are You Spending Your Time Wisely?

I’m not.  I waste time  I spend time doing things that don’t really move me forward. I need to change that. 

Begin with your priorities.  I now have a physical therapist coming weekly for a few months to help me stand up straighter so I know that I want to consciously change my schedule to take advantage of that support and the exercises she gives me to perform.

I want to adjust my day to include a more focused meditation period that does not end up as napping in a chair. I want to establish a learning period each day in which I read the books I have chosen to deepen my awareness and insights. I always have time to write because I love to do that.  I am driven to create and record and edit my podcasts on a timely basis as part of my self-expression.  I just have to make room for and find the prompts for new things – physical movement and meditation.  Talk about contrast… 

What do you want to make room for? Look over your days to see how you need to adjust your schedule and identify some marker/prompts to help you fit in all that you want to do. 

===DEEPEN  YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Send Healing Vibration to Your Body

It’s probably because my body is rather rickety at this point in time, but I am using more sound healing and directing it to specific places on and in my body. We always put an intention with a humming sound like the intention of balancing, of clearing out, or strengthening. Use an intentional hum to send focused energy to both known and unknown parts of your body. Sound goes everywhere. When I hum to my hips I know that it’s going to get bones and cells and muscles and  ligaments – whatever needs healing. How are you working to self heal your body?

===MY DEEPER SONG  ADVENTURES ===

This is an extremely important listen for those of us who are healers and those of us who wish to heal ourselves.  The Biofield: The Missing Link Between Healing and Consciousness with Shamini Jain.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

The Way It Was

“The world that is dying also contains within it the future seeds of a new world.” – Jean Houston.

Things will not ever be the way they were and that is a good thing.  That means we are learning and exploring and evolving.  This is a time of dramatic evolution and we must welcome it and explore the many unfolding opportunities. 

Be like a wet dog shaking her whole body to get the water off.  Shake out your life.  Shake off the doubts and stagnation of your life  and enjoy a clean start. 

Everything is changing and we must change with it.  We have beliefs and choices within these revolving circumstances that we must question – like letting go of methods and ideas that are harmful or obsolete or have flat out been proven to be incorrect. Welcome each day with a fresh look and  a lot of questions.  Is this how I want to feel?  Is that what I believe? What have I learned today that I want to build on, to absorb into my life? Let go of the way it was and start building the way it is going to be. 

===CARA’S CORNER===

Weakened from Disuse

The physical therapist said that the upper part of my legs were stiff from lack of use. That made a lot of sense. I sit a lot. What else have I let move into disuse in my life as I age? I’m not walking as much. I don’t go anyplace because I no longer have a car. Covid sort of stopped the social activities. I have some work to do in order to create a viable day that is balanced and contains all the elements I need. The physical activity. The interaction. The spiritual activity. The creative choices.

What areas of your life have become weakened by lack of use and how are you rectifying that?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Forgotten Corner

It lay in the corner alone and forgotten.  

It lay in the corner alone and forgotten. When I finally noticed it, I knew I wanted to bring it back into my life. 

It lay in the corner alone and forgotten. When I finally noticed it, I knew I wanted to bring it back into my life. I turned, scooped it up, and gave it a great welcoming hug. 

All is again well in my world.

Cara Lumen September 2021

We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take.  Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help spiritual explorers find powerful and creative ways to connect with and explore their own cosmic consciousness.

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Cycles Bring New Growth

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Cycles Bring New Growth

A Deeper Song Awareness

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

Cycles are not just circles, they are also spirals. So every time you return to what feels like the same place you were in the last time you were around that circle, you are actually in a higher place in that cycle. You have learned more, you’ve explored more, and circumstances have changed. So even though you feel like you are in the same place in the cycle, you are not. And we must learn to discern the subtle changes that are inviting us to move forward.

Deng Ming-Dao says, “The idea of a cycle means every point is important. Priorities must be maintained in relation to the center and movement is essential.”

The center.  The reason for the cycle. Where are we in relation to the center?  We may be closer to it.  We may as far away from the center as the cycle goes. That will affect our viewpoint and our choices, 

I might have a cycle of health that has many cycles within it – rest, food, gentle movement, rapid movement.  I must pay attention to my relationship to the center. 

My spiritual cycle has facets.  Flutes, tuning forks, meditation, writing to understand, shamanic journeys.  All are separate cycles within the cycle of spiritual expansion.  I must keep my eye on the center which holds the core purpose of all that activity.

Cycle brings more wisdom, more experience, and deepened understanding. When we return to what feels like the same starting place in the cycle, we are actually at a higher level. Just as when I go to bed at night.  The steps are the same but I am in a different place than I was the night before and the night before that.  The sleep that lies ahead of me builds on the previous cycles and brings with it a whole new level of possibilities. 

Cycles can be large and small and they can be intertwined.  Like the cycles of a season, or the cycles of a year, or the cycles of a day. 

It is important to understand that as you move through these constant cycles, you will return to what feels like a familiar spot. However, you are also in a higher, more advanced place in the cycle. You have learned new things through your experiences. Your awareness and your needs and your purposes may have changed. Since we are constantly moving in spirals, there is constant change to be aware of and to consider as we make our new choices. 

There are cycles of healing. Cycles of creativity. Cycles of understanding. Cycles of change. Cycles of growth. Cycles constantly offer us a new view.  

As you move to a new place in your cycle, go within to feel what has changed and what new choices and awareness have appeared that will help you bring forth the desired result.

Each place in the cycle holds a new set of tools and awareness with which to make your next choice. Give thought to what you have learned and what you have accomplished and make a new choice based on your continually deepening awareness.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I build on my cycles of growth and understanding and make aligned choices that move me forward.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Choose one cycle you know you are in.  It can be a work cycle or a play cycle or a learning cycle. Notice where you are.  Perhaps make a few notes. 
  • Choose a period of time – a day, a week, a month, and periodically return to the notes you took and see what has changed,  how you have changed, what you have learned, and how you now do things differently. There are constant lessons in the moment of cycles.

Our Global Deeper Song Community

Our Deeper Song Community extends throughout the planet  Welcome new Deeper Song Explorers. I’d love to hear of your experiences – caralumen@gmail.com or let’s discuss on the Deeper Song Explorers!

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===

Listen for Your Future

A Deeper Song Adventure

I feel it forming.  I am aware of change taking place but it is not yet clear.  It is a feeling, a knowing actually. And so I wait.  Patiently.  Observing, considering, evaluating, imagining.  Letting it make itself known to me.

This is a time of evolution and my role is to observe and consider before I act.  

Change cannot be hurried.  Change gradually makes itself known as it organically unfolds. One must be patient and observant and let change show itself in its own rhythm. 

In this episode we explore how to 

Listen for Your future

(17 Minutes

(Listen Here) 

Listen to
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify /Google

and the 

Deeper Song Website

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

The Backpack Journey

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness

Trust Your Inner answers.

===INNER WORK===

Leadership, Introspection and Intuition 

One of the first animal spirits I saw as I first began to journey was a brown bear. Her face looking out of the bushes at me and that’s the closest she came. She didn’t show up again for a long time.  A few years later in my wildlife calendar, there was a picture of a brown bear whose challenging gaze said to me-  “Get to it!” I saved that picture. Bear has not shown up for me as a major guide until recently, in an odd way. Over time I seem to have collected three small stone beers. I gathered them together and looked up what bear meant as a spirit guide. The major qualities are introspection, leadership, and intuition. What an awesome trio of qualities to have in you own life.

The largest of my three small stone bears is citrine and I call her “Leadership” because she is capable of leading the way.  I lead by example.  I lead by learning and sharing what I learn.  

The middle-sized jade bear I call “Introspection”. How else do you know where to go? Thoughtful contemplation brings clarity.

The smallest amber bear I call “Intuition”. We need to learn to trust our inner urges, our unexpected knowing. 

These three bears sit on my desk to remind me of some of the roles I take. 

What a wonderful way to look at your own life expression – a leader who uses introspection to explore the possibilities and accesses intuition to guide the way.

===OUTER WORK===

Does Struggle Help You Clarify?

Astro Butterfly said: “If at times you feel at odds with society, keep in mind that any struggle, any conflict is an opportunity to understand yourself, and your place in the world better.”

We get to constantly reexamine our beliefs and our choices. We get to modify them.  We get to make new choices depending on where we have grown, what path we have taken and where we find ourselves. What is calling you? What does it mean you are to do next?

The Power of Pruning

In the weeks since the Weeping Birch outside my window was trimmed so severely, I’ve been noticing what has changed because of the pruning. And I wanted to explore how to apply pruning to my life.

Pruning actually makes the plant stronger. So those branches that were trimmed off are now standing taller because they’re not so weighted down. It has to be better for them to stand taller. The grass growing below the tree has more sunlight now so it can grow more easily. That’s a good thing. Pruning actually opens up space for stronger growth.

I have a wonderful full view of the sky now and the clouds and the sunset. There is more light coming into my home and I can see more clearly. What has become overgrown in your life? What is choking off new growth? What will you prune? And when you prune, what will you discover?

Rethink and Re-choose Your Priorities  

There are obvious times, like a major change in your life, in which you have to rethink your options and your priorities. Like starting a new job. Or the last child going off to school. Or you take a new job. These are dramatic changes. And they offer a perfect opportunity to rethink and reprioritize and re-choose. My friend whose son has recently moved out gets to rethink what she wants to eat and when. She gets to evolve the kind of schedule she wants to keep now that she is on her own. She has space and time to decide what she wants to do and when she wants to do it. She gets to find her own rhythm. She can even rearrange her home to best suit her needs. This new repositioning of circumstances becomes a time for inner listening. For deciding what really calls to you at this moment in time. What will pull you forward? What will support your next steps? And even sitting there, deciding where you want to go next and what you want this next phase of your life to look like. Each day is a choice. Each day unfolds in its own rhythm with its own gifts and unexpected offerings. Be present in your day. Be present with your thoughts. Be present with your feelings. Listen to the inner guidance of the universe. Notice the unexpected opportunities that show up. Live your day with awareness and conscious choices.

Rethink and re-choose your priorities often and keep the flow going. 

Dependability and Structure

I drew the Oracle card “dependability” and didn’t know what to do with it. It actually raised the question “does structure block you in?” Yes, a structure is a foundation to build on, yes structure holds everything together. But the structure can also stop you from expanding. I don’t exactly know what to do with that awareness. As I thought about it I decided I want my structure to be flexible. Did you know that skyscrapers are built so they can move in the wind? The whole building is built so it can move a little bit. So how can I have flexibility in my structure and have that structure be dependable? 

The image of water comes up. Water makes change one grain of sand at a time or it can also overflow the banks and make huge changes for many miles. Water is dependable only in that it moves in cycles, but its form and frequency, and intensity are subject to change. I don’t have an answer here. I’m just wondering how structure limits our flexibility.

Does the structure you have built for your life box you in? 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Intentional Humming for Healing 

It is very healing to sit and direct your intentional vibration by way of a hum focused on parts of your body.  It seems to require different pitches but you can definitely direct a vibrational hum to different areas.  Try it.  Close your eyes. Choose a place in your body to send an intentional healing vibration and began to hum.  Change the pitch until you feel that healing wholing vibration resonate where you want it. 

===DISCOVERIES ===

Unity 

I drew the Oracle card “Unity” and didn’t know what to do with it. I see my role as helping others recognize themselves as cosmic consciousness and move into that vibration as an expression of their life. They make a conscious choice to take a different path, a higher path.  And that leaves people behind who cannot, will not, or do not want to experience that cosmic inclusiveness.  That choice separates us. That does not unify us. And therein is my problem. 

Here’s what I figured out. Those of us who can are to wrap the world in a deepening cloud of purifying vibration, lifting the hearts of those who can see it and inviting those who see and feel that vibration to raise their own awareness into a deeper connection with all of nature, all of the world.  So we each work on our own consciousness, others see it and recognize it in themselves and make a choice to join us. We are Circle of Light Beings and we play our individual harps to bring awareness to the world of what is possible. We come from this place of natural wholeness and organic universality. 

===MY DEEPER SONG  ADVENTURES ===

Tuning Forks for Sound Healing

Dr. John Beaulieu, ND, PhD was the first to use tuning forks for sound healing and reading higher states of consciousness. He says all you need to start is a C and G fork to work on your vibrational level and the 128 weighted turning fork to place directly on your body. I have the rubber disk to tap them on. He recommended one minute in the morning and one minute in the afternoon. If you wondered where to begin with tuning forks for sound healing, this is it. Here are the links: 

Biosonic Body Tuners – “C256 & G384”$59.95

Tuner – “Otto 128” (Weighted) (in green bag)$59.95

Tuning Fork Activator – “7 Pointed Star”$14.95

Sound Healing with Values Visualization$21.95

The Site:  biosonics.com

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

The Diverging Paths

This is a time of dramatic choices. This is a period of examining your core beliefs to make certain they are inclusive. Then standing up for them. We are on a path that asks us to leave things behind. Including people.  Including ideas that no longer serve, or have been replaced by new methods and ways to do things. 

Those of us who are aware that we have a powerful choice to make, do so with thoughtful awareness and contemplation. 

Step on your new path. Follow it. Go adventuring down some side roads until you find the path that works for you. Look for the new people that are going in the same direction you are. And leave the others behind. Our paths are separating. Take the high road.

=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

Consistency

“Consistency” is the oracle card I drew for us to consider.  It means steadiness, evenness, equilibrium.  How is your life balanced? How are you managing all the change?  How are you establishing a pattern of consistency in your life? 

Re-examine and rethink your spiritual practice. Try new things.  Put others aside that no longer resonate. 

Look at how you spend your time.  Are your choices moving you consistently in the direction you want to go

Consistency means fluid movement.  How are you doing?   

Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER===

Knowing When You Need Help

There are some things that are getting harder for me to do and it is time to get help.  That’s hard for a self-sufficient, independent woman to do.  But the reality check says I have to either get stronger or get help.  I will do both.  

What is changing in your life that you need to adjust to or accommodate?  Make creative changes and choices as you move in a slightly new direction. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Barrier or Opportunity

It could be a barrier or an opportunity. My choice. 

It could be a barrier or an opportunity. My choice was to see it as both – a barrier to move around and an opportunity to find a new path. 

It could be a barrier or an opportunity. My choice was to see it as both a barrier to move around and an opportunity to find a new path. And it led me on a fine adventure….!

– Cara Lumen, August, 2021

We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take.  Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara

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