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

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REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG
An Inner World Exploration

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

Within the inner world of your invisible self is a personal place of power and healing. It is a sanctuary for guidance, introspection, and spiritual deepening.  It is available to everyone.

Your Sacred Garden in your personal sanctuary. It is a place of self-healing. It is the starting place for meditation, for shamanic journeys.

It this episode, Cara Lumen, spiritual explorer and founder of the Deeper Song Community, leads you on a guided meditation to create this inner sanctuary for your own spiritual practice.

Using the ancient introspective method of shamanic mediations called “journeying”, Cara guides you to the inner realms where you create your personal place of refuge. Everything you find in your Sacred Garden is an aspect of you, a symbolic, metaphoric message from your inner self.

Whether you want to mediate for self-healing, a deeper understanding of your soul purpose, the well-being of our world, or insights and wisdom for your daily life, you begin your meditative journey in the sanctuary of your Sacred Garden.

In this episode. Cara will guide you in building a transpersonal bridge between the inner and outer world and help you uncover the treasures of your inner self.

In this episode: 

1. Discover the purpose of Your Sacred Garden. What is it, why you want to use it, how to create it.

2, Journey to your invisible worlds to create this sacred inner retreat.

3. Learn how to immediately add the Sacred Garden to your own spiritual practice.

Resources: 

Drumming Recording: For your personal practice, this drumming tape by Shamanist Sandra Ingerman will help you move gently into a receptive state for your journey. Your journey can be as long or as short as it turns out to be.

In this episode Cara use a Tibetan Hand Bell / Meditation & Prayer Bells / Dorje / Vajra – Medium.  There is a variety of these available.

Further Study: If you want to learn more about shamanism I suggest you begin with the book Awakening to the SpiritWorld, the Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation by Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman, both of whom I have studied with.

You can also take courses from both Sandy and Hank at The Shift Network.

THE JOURNEY TO THE INNER WORLD SERIES

The first three podcasts should be listened to in order.  They lay the foundation.

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

NEXT: J-2 Connecting with your Power Animal

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Reflections of a Deeper Song 

Nurture the Garden Of Self

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Nurture the Garden Of Self
An Inner-world Exploration

Our strength comes from within.  Our ideas come from within.  Our entire life expression comes from within. Within you, accessible by your imagination, there’s a Garden of Self and we are each responsible for planning, cultivating, and harvesting our own crops.  

Intention plants the seed

Starting your Garden of Self is as simple as setting an intention.  

Today I plant the seed of Serenity in my Garden of Self and I will water it with patience, nurture it with silence, and harvest it throughout my day. 

Well, wow!  Let’s do more of that.

Today I plant the seed of Wisdom in my Garden of Self.  I nurture it with contemplation and mindfully harvest it throughout my day, picking one succulent berry at a time and savoring it.

More?

In my Garden of Self, I planted an acorn called “Cara” and it immediately grew into a giant oak complete with a bird’s nest, a rainbow parrot, a squirrel and a bunch of acorns that are future Cara trees.  

It’s a mature tree, as I am mature, but it has a lot of life and a great deal still to offer. Insights, wisdom, hope.

What will you plant in your Garden of Self?

The Fountain of Love

In your Garden of Self create a water source.  In the Sacred Garden where I begin each shamanic journey, I have three separate water sources:  a reflecting pond, a bubbling brook, and a waterfall.  So I was surprised to find a different water source in my Garden of Self, which is down the road from my Sacred Garden.  But a fountain showed up, a happy, bumbling, spray-sharing laughing fountain. It is from this Fountain of Love and Joy that I am to nurture the crops I plant.  

Build the support you need

You may need to provide a trellis for some of your crops.  A support system that encourages growth and the space to expand or elevate above the ground.  What in your life needs support?

You may need to prune a plant in your Garden of Self in order to encourage the growth of one strong central plant.  Don’t be afraid to prune and let go. It will make the core stronger. 

My Cara tree has obviously been around for a while. Do I need to prune it?  Support a branch here or there?  Drop a few more acorns of wisdom?

Cultivate, encourage and support whatever you grow in your Garden of Self. 

Share your harvest

In the Garden of Self, you plant the things you need in order to elevate the vibration of your Body Suit.  

At some point, you are going to share your harvest.  Perhaps you will share a little.  Perhaps you will share a lot.  Who will you share it with?  How will you take it to market?  Who needs what you have to offer?

I’m dropping acorns of wisdom like a wild woman. Sometimes the wind helps me and carries them farther afield.  Sometimes they just drop to the ground and take root.  Sometimes they go to feed a bit of nature like a squirrel.  I just keep dropping seeds of Insight and Wisdom and let them fall wherever they may. What seeds are your sharing from the plant that is you?

Allow the cycles to unfold 

Gardens go through cycles.  Their needs change.  Sometimes they take.  Sometimes they give. It’s all part of the process of nature’s cycles.  Know where you are in the cycle and what you need to do/provide next. 

You may need rest in order to restore. You may be harvesting the best crop you ever produced.  You may be simply looking over the seed catalog to see what you want to plant.  Each stage is perfect.  Immerse yourself in it. 

Plant some experimental crops

You won’t know whether you like the crop until you harvest it and put it to use.  You don’t have to grow a lot of an experimental crop, but do plant enough so you can understand its needs, its demands, its preferences and how the final harvest nurtures you.  Even planting one seed and following it through its process can provide the information you need to make a decision on whether or not to plant more. 

Keep the Garden of Self nurtured

What does our Garden of Self need right now?  Where are you in the cycle? Not all crops will be in the same stages of readiness.  Give them what they need.  And remember one cycle leads to the next. So while one field is allowed to lie dormant in order to restore and replenish, another will provide multiple harvests.  Be aware of the difference and honor the process and the cycles.  

Intention provides direction and growth

Each day, pause to consider the intention you have for your Garden of Self.  That pause to balance and gain awareness will help you set an intention that will carry you forward in the most positive and productive manner.  Set an intention and let it unfold. Then follow the path that opens up. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I tend my Garden of Self with conscious intention every day.

Deeper Song Process

  • In a state of meditation, journey to find your Garden of Self and begin to explore.
  • See what crops need to be planted.  What do you want to grow and encourage in your garden of Self?
  • Plant some staples, but perhaps start a few experiments crops.  
  • Tend your Garden of Self every day.
  • Harvest when ready and share what you have grown.
  • Look over the seed catalogs and plant some experimental crops….!

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

Unleash the power of your Sacred Garden

What Seeds Do You Allow to Grow in Your Garden? 

What Seeds Do You Plant for the Future?

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

The Power of a Releasing Ceremony

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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The Secret Garden

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As we begin to expand our inner work, this exploration of our Invisible Self, the Great Mystery, we want to create a launch pad, a Secret Garden from which we begin our exploration. It is part of our inner world, our Invisible Self.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher, explorer, map-maker and founder of the Deeper Song Transformational Community help us sing a deeper song.  In this episode she explains how to create and use a secret garden of your imagination as a safe space for contemplation and exploration.

Everything in the universe is within you.  Ask all of yourself.  – Rumi

(7:35) In this episode we consider: 

1 – The Purpose of the Secret Garden

2 – The meaning of the elements in the Secret Garden

3- The Sacred Garden and healing

For Deeper Insights Consider:

Deepening Our Connection

How to Find Your Spirit Guides

Power Journaling

Your Body Suit and Invisible Self

Important Links & Mentions From This Episode

“Awakening to the Spirit World, The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation” Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wasserman

Members of the Deeper Song Transformational Community are Light Holders, Hope Shiners and Gatherers to our heart. Will you join  us?

Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self

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An Exploration of the Unseen World

When I first read that 95% of the world was unseen I was excited but I knew I had a great deal of work to do and I didn’t exactly know where to begin.  So I went exploring. 

My job, as I see it, is to ask the right questions, and then interpret the answers I get in a manner that we both can understand.  Then I figure out how to apply that information to my human expression and share that will you. I will help you Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is 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. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore

Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self

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Important Links & Mentions From This Episode:

Begin your
Exploration of the Unseen World
with  these two foundational steps:

How to Create a transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Gaia Gateway and the Soul Star 

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Space of Inner Knowing

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

The Unseen World Needs Us

Dance With the Harmonies Within

How to Direct Energy Outside fo Time and Space

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Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self

An Exploration of the Unseen World

When I first read that 95% of the world was unseen I was excited but I knew I had a great deal of work to do and I didn’t exactly know where to begin.  

If just 5% of the universe is known to us, the other 95% can only be explored through our Invisible Self. What a great adventure!

I’ve done a lot of exploring with and through my Invisible Self and I continue to find new ways to connect with and understand and get messages from the Unseen World. I use the meditative practdice of shamanic journeying and I go on amazing adventures.  I have learned over the years to move out of the way for automatic writing as I sit at my computer and let my fingers do the talking.  I trust those messages. I share those messages. I learn from those messages. 

My job is to interpret the ideas and insight and metaphors I receive and bring back their messages to share with you. Now I want to help you Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self so  you too can go adventuring!

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.  

Reflections of a Deeper Song helps us:

  • Expand our relationship with our inner world and learn to interpret its powerful guidance.
  • Raise the frequency of our vibration so we can be of greater service to the planet
  • Expand our role as Transcendent Leaders in the New Consciousness.

Thank you for being a part of this journey.

In this episode of Reflections o a Deeper Song we help you e  Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self.

The more I explore the Unseen World, the less alone I feel and the more empowered I become.  We have a LOT of help in the Unseen world, we just have to connect wit it, to learn to listen  to its message and interpret the nudges and hunches, the sudden knowing and the metaphorical messages it gives to us. 

The exploration of the Unseen World is an ongoing process.  As I continue to explore I find new ways to explore and discover  new realms to investigate.  

My job, as I see it, is to ask the right questions, and then interpret the answers I get in a manner that we both can understand.  Then I figure out how to apply that information to my human expression and share that will you. 

But we need to begin by understanding the difference between our body and our invisible self and how to listen to both.

First we are going to explore 

  • how our body communicates with the Unseen World. 
  • Then we will help you identify your Invisible Self – what it is and how to intentionally communicate with it.
  • And finally,  we will discuss how the  Invisible Self can guide us and guard us. 

So how doe s our body communicate with the Unseen World?

I see our physical expression  ia necessary but restrictive aspect of ourselves.  It is the tool for communication that we use with others in a physical expression, but when we move within, we can hear and experience much, much more.  We can begin to communicate with the Unseen World

We are very familiar with our body. It lives within the restriction of time and space. It is guided by emotion and our busy but limited mind. It goes through a cycle of aging. It’s how we identify ourselves. Yet, it’s only a small part of who we are: only 5%! We want to explore more than that!

The Invisible Self is the all-encompassing energy that’s in and through and of everything. We first begin to know it through our imagination   intuition and our dreams. We can learn to consciously go exploring through our meditation, our  visioning and journeying. All are forms of inner awareness that lead us to the Invisible World.

Both our body and the Invisible Self are part of our whole but they use different ways to communicate.

One of the ways the Invisible Self communicates is through our emotions and thoughts 

We rely on our mind and feelings for most of our awareness and understanding. Our mind and feelings are how we interpret the signs and signals from the Unseen World. And remember, this communication is limited because it is all our body is capable of doing.

Our intuition and hunches are the first way we experience our Invisible Self speaking to us from Unseen World. 

Fist we acknowledge that there is an unseen world. Then we work to free ourselves from the limitations of our mind and emotions.  Then we can learn to explore our Invisible Self.

So what is our Invisible Self and how can we intentionally deepen our relationship to it?

We are more familiar with our body than with our invisible self.  

So what is this Invisible Self?  Where is it?  How do we access it?  Wha does it do?

Since 95% of the world is unseen we, here in the confines of our body, get glimpses of the Unseen World but then we limit ourselves by  interpreting what we experience from the limitations of our human body. We just have to learn to communicate with  our Invisible self, our presence in the Unseen World and we have to ask the right questions in order to get the answers we seek. 

The Invisible Self is eager to expand our relationships with it.  It has much to show us and tell us.  

Think of a time when you acted on intuition alone – you simply had a strong sense of “knowing” what the right choice was in that moment. That was the Unseen World nudging you.

My new wise saying is “The more you listen the more you will hear.”  We need to practice listening and we need to learn to interpret the sometimes subtle messages we receive.

Any time you find a way to tune into your inner voice, your inner knowing, it will speak to you. You could do this through mediation, dreaming, journaling, visioning, sound, automatic writing – any way you find to free yourself up from the confines of your limited human body so that you can hear and begin to interpret the Voice Within. 

I’m a writer and I’ve been listening to my inner voice for a good portion of my life but a few years ago some really outstanding phrases begin to show up as I typed.  They were so stunningly eloquent I just knew they were not from me. They seemed to come from nowhere and they surprised me.  I imagined a trio of bearded Shakespeare-type men sitting with quills pens over my right shoulder giving me these awesome phrases.  

Gradually I realized it was only me, me and my inner voice. I had made room fo my inner voice to speak though my body by listing and writing down what it was saying.  My Inner voice  is very wise.  And comes up with some great writing! I welcome its messages. And the more I listen the more I hear and the better I am at interpreting it. 

It might be considered a form of automatic writing, when you get your human self out of the way and start writing whatever shows up.  I se it as listing to my Inner Voice.

Because I am used to capturing my ideas by typing, even when I do Shamanic Journeying, I type in what I see.  It is in metaphoric form and also provides actual messages of wisdom that I receive. I really, really like to journey.

Shamanic journeying is the earliest form of meditation. It is a doorway to the Unseen World and it communicates by offering images that are metaphors only you are to interpret.  If you find a metaphor you do not understand, simply ask for clarity. 

Since we’r going into the Unseen World, the first thing you do is set up your Transformative Shield. How to do that it in a previous podcast that is lined to in the show notes. 

Then we go to our Sacred Garden in which everything there is an aspect of ourselves. We begin by asking a question of the Helping Spirts and Guides that await us. Make it an open ended question, not a yes/no question.  How would I…?  Why is…. in my life now? May I have clarification on…

Move into contemplative silence to receive the answer. It might come as a symbol or internal words or even a simple certainly.

Sit in stillness and ask a question you’d like guidance on. Allow yourself to move into a state of stillness and receptivity. Quiet your mind and see if you “daydream”. You may see images or experience a strong sense of knowing, or hear voices, or see forms.

Those images are guides and helping spirits and messengers in metaphorical form. 

Your job is to observe and interpret

Trust what shows up. It may be in the form of am animal or an element of nature. It may be a talking rock or a talking butterfly, or a knowing look from an animal.  Go with what shows up. 

Everything that shows up  is there to guide you and guard you and teach you.  These are all helping spirits just for you. You guidance may be a voice in your head. It’s you talking to you, so listen. It is your Invisible Self speaking to you.  

I love to journey.  I am often very surprised at what shows up and I am definitely reassured by what continues to appear. 

In my daily human body-confined life, I often get a loud voice in my head identifying an idea that resonates deeply. The minute I do, I immediately turn to my Invisible Self, my inner voice, my Inner World, and begin exploring – usually through writing – typing actually. I write to figure out what I hear, how I might interpret that and apply it to my life. And maybe how you might apply it to your life, too.

Sometimes I explore the unseen world by holding a crystal,  experiencing its energy and in a meditative state, I simply flow where it takes me. I experience the  feelings and sensations that show up and notice how my Invisible Self interprets the signs and signals that appear in these meditative states. 

Your Invisible Self will speak to you on many levels.  When I open myself up to choose a crystal, I get strong “crystal voices” saying, “Today it’s me.”  And when I choose it and sit with the crystal in my restiving hand, m left hand, I am inundated with powerful feeling and awareness of its power and its message. It may manifest as a sensation in my body or a thought or as simple knowing. The crystal is speaking to me.

Learn to listen to the Inner Voice that is the Gateway to the Unseen World and trust what you hear.

So we have explored how our body communicates with the Unseen World

We have identified your Invisible Self – what it is and how to intentionally communicate with it.

Now let’s explore the many ways our Invisible Self can guide us and guard  us.

We now understand the difference between our body’s communication through emotions and thoughts and the more subtle inner knowing messages of the Voice Within. We know that metaphorical images is one of the ways our Inner Voice communicates from the Unseen World  And we have explored using Shamanic journeying to move more deeply into the Unseen World.  How do we interpret what we find? 

The Invisible Self moves within the Great Mystery, the All That Is, The Vibration of Wholeness.

Our human mind is limited by what it sees and feels and hears. It is limited in its ability to interpret because, well, it is interpreting though our body using only our emotions and our thoughts and our beliefs.

Our Invisible Self lives in the Unseen World where there is no limitation – where all things are possible, where everything is connected, where we’re all one. We are to learn to know the difference. We are grateful for the miracle that is our human body and at the some time understand its restrictions and limitations. 

When we go to the Inner World, the Unseen world we tap into our subconscious and we begin to experience our inner world as being more representative of what is possible.

Trusting your inner voice will change your experience or being limited to the confines of a body. It is your portal to the Unseen World.

Introspection is the beginning of hearing your Inner Voice. 

Listen to your Inner Voice and learnt to  interpret how it speaks to you. Insights, hunches, words, images.  Learn to pay attention and interpret the subtle messages.  

Become conscious of how you feel, what you want, where your passion lies, and follow that awareness. 

Learn to hear and trust your inner voice – your hunches, your intuition, simply knowing the next move. Experiment with the guidance you receive in order to understand and accept the power of its messages from the Unseen World.

Let your inner voice guide you to choices that are aligned with your Invisible Self, your Soul’s Purpose. Listen to your Invisible Self with you whole body and pay attention to the many ways you are guided.

The Unseen World reveals itself only as far as we are ready to listen and to understand. 

Whatever your experience it is exactly right for you in this moment. 

Only through a gradual unfolding can the true depth of the insight be revealed. Allowing your life to unfold is an open invitation for your Invisible Self to send you subtle messages – the unexpected opportunity, the great idea that suddenly pops into your head. The unexpected encounter on the street. 

This is the Unseen World guiding you. 

Even barriers that show up are a way your Invisible Self tells you it’s not time for that step or it lets you know that particular action is not a good choice for you.

When we focus on planning and setting objectives, we use only our limited bodies. AMake more more time for inner work. Learn to leave space for your Invisible Self to guide you with hunches and inner voice phrases. 

So we know the difference between the limitations of our body and the broad reach of our inner voice. 

We know that our inner voice comes form the Invisible world.

And we know that when we listening to our inner voice it will guide us and guard us.

What action do we need to take to bring that inner wisdom, that inner guidance into our limited body experience?

We have to be willing to listen and we have to be willing to change.

Think about it. If our body understands only 5% of what is possible, what happens when we let the 95% that is our Invisible Self have more of a say in what we do?

Begin to consciously communicate with your Invisible Self

For instance, you might have a Power Journal. Record your journeys, your feelings and the lessons learned from an experience or circumstance.

By all means establish a time to Journey/meditate. Move into a meditative state with an intention or a question and learn to interpret the guidance that shows up.

Become aware of the subtle nudges. Look for the unexpected circumstance, the sudden direction-changing thoughts and the voice in your head that offers guidance.  They are all messages from your Invisible Self.

There’s much to explore in the Unseen World. I meditate with rocks and crystals and receive their message. I love to take my Spirit Guides on healing journeys in a mediative state. I am overjoyed with how ideas pop into my head, which I immediately explore. And I’m amazed at the sudden knowing that shows up, the certainty that this is the right step or direction. I accept that powerful guidance from my Invisible Self. The more I listen the more I hear.  Keep listening. …

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Begin to notice and listen to your inner voice 
  • Take one of the actions it suggests and notice what you learn. It may be yes do this or not don’t do this.  
  • Listen to the inner voice that speaks to you in your mind, your dreams or in simply knowing. 
  • Learn to interpret them. They will open doors for you.

The more you listen,  the more you will hear.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I explore different ways to hear my Inner voice and learn to listen to the messages of the Unseen World. 

  • I hope I brought you some new awareness, deeper ways to connect and insights and encouragement for your next steps. 
  • Pause to be with what we have explored.  See what portals have opened up for you.  Where you will go exploring next.  This is a Journey of Discovery and we walk this part of the path together. 
  • Ashe, The creative in me honors the creative in you. 
  • To join me on further explorations I invite you to subscribe to this Reflections of a Deeper song podcast.
  • I also encourage you to join the Deeper Song community at www.deepersong.com to receive weekly posts and the Deeper Song newsletter.
  • Until next time, this is Cara Lumen inviting you to Come Sing a Deeper Song.

How to Cultivate Deep Listening

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How to Cultivate Deep Listening

An Exploration of the Unseen World

You have access to great wisdom when you cultivate deep listening.  It begins with your intuition, your hunches, your nudges, and moves into the deep listening of your inner voice and your imagination.  

It’s a journey of learning to trust.  It’s a skill of learning to interpret.  And it is the open portal to the Unseen World. 

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is 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. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore

How to Cultivate Deep Listening

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Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

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How to Cultivate Deep Listening

An Exploration of the Unseen World

You have access to great wisdom when you cultivate deep listening.  It begins with your intuition, your hunches, your nudges, and moves into the deep listening of your inner voice and your imagination.  

It’s a journey of learning to trust.  It’s the skill of learning to interpret.  And it is the open portal to the Unseen World. 

95% of the world is Unseen, and even using hunches and visioning and inner voice listening, we’re going to miss a lot of the guidance being offered to us.

We just need to begin and once we cultivate the capacity for Deep Listening, the unseenWorld will find other ways to communicate with us, to offer us its gifts.  

But we begin with cultivation Deep Listening. 

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.

In this episode of Reflections of a Deeper Song, we discuss How to Cultivate Deep Listening

A number of years ago I became aware that sometimes when I wrung. some really great ideas seem to be coming in from someplace other them me. I pictured a trio of Shakespeare type men with feather pens over my right shoulder telling me what to write.  Ultimately I came to understand that it was only be listening to my inner voice and I was just writing some really good stuff. 

Give yourself credit for the guidance of your inner voice.  I’s you talking to you.  

It is important to cultivate the ability to listen deeply because the more we listen the more we hear. We just have to practice more 

There seem to be three levels to developing a Deep Listening practice. 

– First we have to learn to recognize the Hunches and Urges that seem almost accidental in nature. But they are not. 

– Then we begin to do more  Intentional Listening. Nut just trusting your intuition but actively calling on it for guidance.

– Ultiantely we begin to Cultivate a Deep Listening Practice and we come to rely on our inner guidance and wisdom  That’s the really fun part. 

The first step in developing a practice of Deep Listing is to learn to hear your inner voice. 

Think of a time when you had a hunch, followed it and it turned out to be right.  Were you surprised?  Were you pleased? Were you a bit amped?

Intuition is one way you Inner Voice speaks to you. 

Think of a hunch you had that turned out to be true.  That’s your Inner voice giving your nudge. Notice how many times your intuition or hunches are right and begin to trust them and follow them.

Years ago, I began getting flashes of ideas that I began to immediately write into fleshed-out articles. It would be a phrase on television, a phrase I read. I just suddenly knew I was to expand on that and share it with others.  So I did.  

Those flashes of inner knowing that I am to expand on a specific topic continue today and I pay attention. 

Flashes of Insight are a form of your inner voice speaking to you. 

As a writer, I listen to my inner voice and write down what it says. I am at the point that I literally feel myself get out of the way and let the words flow through my typing fingers. 

I consciously get my human mind out of the way and let her rip.  No human mind in there, only trust and deep listening to my inner voice. 

The unexpected flow of phrases and ideas grew until I knew I was generating them from a place of deep awareness –   far beyond the limitations of my human self.

Unexpected Inner Nudges are part of Deep Listening

How, then, do you cultivate Intentional Inner Listening? How do you purposefully talk to Your Inner Voice?

You begin to cultivate a habit of Intentional Inner Listening

You can begin with journaling.  When you write things down, your mind believes that information is safe and it moves on to access another layer, a deeper layer. So journaling is like peeling layers off to get to the core.

When I learned shamanic journeying,  a whole new world of intentional inner listening opened up. It is a form of meditation in which you set an intuition for your journey, go to your Sacred Garden within and wait to be given your answers in the form of metaphors – figures, natural objects. Whatever shows up is a metaphor that only you can interpret.  It’s rather imaginative with talking animals and shape-shifting rocks and helping spirits in many shapes.  

You begin with an intention and see what shows up.   

Once I learned that 94% of our experience is in the Unseen World I began to use shamanic journeying to intentionally go to the unseen world.  It is not a rapid process but I am persistent in my quest. I find myself sitting outside portals waiting for an invitation to enter, That may go on for several journeys before I am invited in.  

In order to receive guidance from the Unseen World, you wan tot develop a  practice of Deep Listening.

When I mediate, my body gradually disappears until I experience myself as pinpoint of consciousness in my third eye  I am no longer limited by the physical realm, I am in the unseen world and all things are possible  

Listen an you will receive answers.

Begin.  Perhaps you journal your thoughts because writing things down allows you access to a deeper layer.  Perhaps you draw with an intentional question to be answered and see what shows up.  Definitely meditate – use a mantra to quiet your mind.  Learn to do shamanic journeying if your like but as part of your spiritual practice is to give yourself space and time to explore the inner unseen world.  Listen deeply. There are messages just for you. 

I love my Inner voice.  I can be watching television and one phrase comes leaping across the room to me and I quickly write it down and later explore  it though writing for my newsletter or my podcast. 

I have Leonard to go even deeper in my shamanic meditative journeys. 

I continue to be amazed at the clarity and wisdom and insight that is offered through my inner voice.

There are more things I am going to do to cultivate a practice of Deep Listening. I play my native flutes every day and have begun to use them to talk to nature, the weeping birch outside my window, and her swaying branches. I use an intentional hum to move vibration throughout my body and listen. When I exercise, I notice what muscles need and compliment hem on the good work they are doing and how much stronger they are dieting. 

I journey every day and end up in amazing places in the unseen world. 

I am working to cultivate easier access to a Point of Deep Stillness

I listen to my inner voice as I begin to wake up.  I try to remember my dreams  

The Unseen world has many ways to speak to us.  We just have to learn to listen.  Speed time each day listening deeply.

  • I hope I brought you some new awareness, deeper ways to connect and insights and encouragement for your next steps. 
  • Pause to be with what we have explored.  See what portals have opened up for you.  Where you will go exploring next.  This is a Journey of Discovery and we walk this part of the path together. 
  • Ashe, The creative in me honors the creative in you. 
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  • Until next time, this is Cara Lumen inviting you to Come Sing a Deeper Song.