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You Are Never Separate

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You Are Never Separate

Release all concepts of self

Our lives bounce like raindrops on the surface of life.  Leaving our mark, making our ripple, we gradually disappear as we merge into the greater body of our existence.  Integral.  Vital.  Part of a whole.  Never truly separate. 

Do you feel that?  Do you feel your place in the universe?  Do you feel your importance? Your value? Your necessity? 

We each are an integral part of a much greater whole.  A vital part.  It’s the whole that creates the planet. It’s the whole that creates the universe.  

We are each needed to make that happen.  

Stop seeing yourself as separate.  Experience yourself as an integral element in the Emptiness That Holds Everything – for that’s what you are.

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What Is Your Role As A Transformational Leader?

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What Is Your Role As A Transformational Leader?

Living Our Deeper Song

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

My mission statement is “I help Transformational Leaders deepen our relationship with the Unseen World and expand our role in the New Consciousness.” I reaffirm that every day. And then one day I realized I didn’t know what the New Consciousness looks like or feels like or even exactly how to get there. It’s a lofty idea and it’s sort of floating out there and it needs some physical plane support in order to implement.

For me, the New Consciousness is about focusing on the well-being of the whole – the whole planet, the whole of humanity, the whole universe. It is about identifying myself more as a strand of light in the Web of Life than as an individual human on the planet. So the first step is to keep my sights and thoughts and focus on what it means to be a strand in the Web of Life. Am I doing a good job? How can I make my strand stronger? When will I do that? 

Imagination creates our reality so if I turn my focus on visualizing peaceful cohabitation on the planet, that would make a difference. If I see the climate of the planet as being balanced, what would that look like? Can I put aside the visions of what is happening to create a vision of what could be when and if everything is balanced again in nature. 

My work is pretty much on the inner plane. If I were younger that participation might take some form of activism, perhaps writing articles to motivate and educate and inspire others to take positive action. Oh, I’m doing that now. What is your role in the New Consciousness?

Deeper Song Affirmation 

I give contemplative thought to my role in the New Consciousness and expand my expectations for myself.

Deeper Dong Process

  • Look closely at your life and notice where and how you are already participating in the unfolding of the New Consciousness. 
  • Identify and explore possible new places and roles for you to expand your impact. 
  • Get to work.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Is It Time To Shed Your Old Skin?

A snake sheds its skin two to four times per year in order to grow. Young snakes that are actively growing may shed their skin every two weeks. Older snakes might only shed their skin twice each year.

It made me stop to think about what layers it is time for me to shed either because I’m at a turning point or they are no longer useful. 

I can begin with habits I no longer find useful. I’m trying to develop new ones that help strengthen my body as it shifts and changes. I’ve actually tried on several new skins in the form of Qigong and Tai Chi. We can shed one skin to make more room for us to grow a new one.

I am already beginning to grow a new skin in my newsletter as I search to define our expanding role in the universe.

On a personal level I am bursting through my skin of spirituality in order to take it to a new level of exploration, experimentation and insights. 

It’s rather interesting to think of being able to simply shed an old pattern and grow a new one that fits you better and gives you room to grow. 

What patterns do you need to shed in your life and what will you grow in the open space that it provides? 

 Are You Dreaming Big Enough Dreams?

Is it time to go exploring, to open new doors and wander down new paths and try on what calls to us? 

I don’t think I have any dreams going on right now, particularly ones that show me how to have more impact at this late stage in my life. I could change that. I will change that because we should have big dreams at every stage of our life.

My main big dream is about being a Light Bearer. What does that look like? What does that mean I do at this point in time to save the planet and to save humanity? You know, small stuff.

I was not aware I’m having impact in my long-term care facility. I recently recorded a video that was shown to open a fundraiser and I made the videographer cry when I recorded it.

It feels meaningful to have a goal – not the plan – a purpose. It makes me feel relevant and it focuses my actions and my thoughts. 

A big dream may take a little longer to manifest but it adds depth to the meaning of your life. Are you dreaming big enough dreams?

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

True Movement Comes From Within Yourself 

Nudges are unexpected gifts from the universe but the manifestation comes from within yourself. You have to listen. You have to observe. And you have to act. 

The listening part of getting nudges from the universe is interesting. When you sit quietly and go within, you can have a lively conversation with your Higher Self, a discussion, if you will, about the potential of certain choices. It’s good to talk things over with your Inner Self. 

And I think it’s fun when the Universe bops me on the head with an idea or a circumstance that opens doors for me to create new experiences and adventures. I had no idea moving into long-term care would be so rewarding.

And then there are the internal nudges that suggest you look in a new direction or explore a different path. We must stay open to the potential that change offers.

But true movement only comes from within yourself. When you make a decision. When you take an action. When you release a belief or expectation.  Trust your inner guidance and have a good ride. 

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Move On

Don’t stay in places where you don’t want to be. Find your place.

– Chris Brogan

It’s important to know when to quit. It’s important to know when to move on. Every time we break the ties with the stagnant position we are clinging to, we soar. New ideas dance in our heads, new opportunities appear on our doorstep, because we have decided to move forward. To make change. To be changed. 

What are you settling on? What are you settling for? 

Change can be very dramatic and it can also be very slow. Change can sneak up on you until one day you look up and you are no longer in a place you want to be. You are no longer using the skills you love to use, you are no longer working with the people that inspire and motivate you. What do you do in those circumstances?  

Do you have the courage to cut yourself free? Can you identify new venues where you can fully express your gifts and talents?

One of the major roles in our life is to fulfill our potential. Are you encouraging situations that use your creativity and imagination and your spiritual expression? If not, do you have the courage to move on?

Check Your Boundaries

Boundaries are not set in order to be restrictive, boundaries can be seen as guidelines for where to draw the line – for both expansion and containment. When is too much? When do you need to let go of that is no longer satisfy or rewarding? And what are the guidelines that need to be removed or expanded?

I want to expand the boundaries of my curiosity. I want to expand the boundaries of my physical body. I want to expand the boundaries of the number of people whose lives I touch. 

Sometimes we don’t even know we have unconsciously set boundaries or limitations for some aspects of our life. Look closely to identify the areas where you are stopping yourself from expanding. 

I Hit The Jackpot!

I’ve been looking for how I want to add more movement into my life and I decided upon Qigong. I have taken a lot of classes on The Shift Network and I still have access to those classes so I really hit the jackpot. I am able to start over with my Qigong practice and take it to a deeper level. 

I have taken lots and lots of classes on the Shift Network and could probably spend the next 10 years of my life reviewing those classes and strengthening what I learned as I re-establish and anchor the practices in my life. 

I have to make some adjustments because I can’t stand up straight right now but Qigong is about moving energy and opening meridians and strengthening organs. 

What classes or books are there for you to review and re-establish in your life? Repeat some of them and bring those that resonate now more deeply into your life.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Self-Healing Spiritual Practice and Deepening Awareness of Our Cosmic Oneness

Nature And Spiritual Expansion

I built my wall of flowers to separate my shared space in this long-term care facility. It is two white open bookcases each with five shelves that I have filled with green plants in white pots.  It is very serene and soothing.  I built it as an energy of protection. But in editing a previous newsletter, my friend and proof-reader Noralee changed a word and the sentence said, “My entire wall of flowers has gradually filled up with lovely plants that are deepening my connection with nature and symbolizing my ever-deepening and expanding spirituality.” And my energy changed. My personal reason for creating the wall changed. 

I don’t know where you keep plants around you but they are nature that you can keep close at hand.  As I watch these plants grow new leaves or sprout new roots or turn towards the sun, I get to think of and examine my spiritual growth. Am I nurturing it properly? As I watch for new leaves to appear, I think about what new leaves and roots I can grow in my own life.

What can I add to my spiritual practice that would deepen and expand and enrich it? I think it will be in the form of my three-line poems that I learned to do a long time ago. Write a line. Begin the next verse with that same line and add a line. Take those three lines to the third stanza and add another line – like:

My Wall Of Flowers

My wall of flowers is my protection but it is also a reminder of my spiritual growth.

My wall of flowers is my protection but it is also a reminder of my spiritual growth. Each new leaf, each new root reminds me to keep expanding and growing and expressing my inner self.

My wall of flowers is my protection but it is also a reminder of my spiritual growth. Each new leaf, each new root reminds me to keep expanding and growing and expressing my inner self. I nurture my spiritual being as a part of nature. 

– Cara Lumen, August 2023

===TRANSFORMATIONAL VISIONING===

Exist In A State Of Pure Potential

“Potential” means having the capacity to develop something in the future. It is shaped by our belief system of what is possible, the creativity of our imagination, and our deepest desires. 

On one hand, it means that all things are possible. On the other hand, it also means we have to believe it is possible. 

I don’t believe I will be able to walk around the block again, but I can imagine walking the halls and maybe even outside.

I’m going to opt to live in the world of possibilities. I love it when the universe surprises me with its gifts and opportunities. I’m going to practice imagining myself walking well and seeing well. I will use my resources and inner strength to do the work on the physical plane and my spiritual strength to make changes happen. What do you believe is possible for yourself? For the world? See the potential in your imagination and place yourself there.  Exist in a state of pure potential and watch what unfolds. 

===RELEVANT AGING ===

Become An Advocate

Where do people who have no family get help when they get old? More and more people are choosing to not have children so that potential support is not open to them. 

My sister chose to stay in Phoenix after her divorce and when she got dementia, she asked a friend to be her advocate. 

We have social workers here at Evergreen who act as advocates for those with no families.

What are you going to do when you get really old and needs an advocate?

===HOW TO BE A STRONG CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE CIRCLE OF LIGHT BEARERS===

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Get Rid Of What No Longer Serves You 

In order to move on, we periodically have to examine and release beliefs and habits and expectations that no longer serve us. It’s sort of like a spring houseclean where you re-think and re-choose to make room for what is evolving in your life. 

Examine your inner life, and the choices you make to fill your time, and prioritize and make room for those activities that expand your awareness and your spirituality. Get rid of what no longer serves you. 

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

How Do You Encourage Communication With Your Highest Self?

Sometimes it’s an unexpected circumstance. Sometimes it’s a sudden realization. And sometimes it is simply knowing. How does your Higher Self speak to you and how do you encourage those exchanges?

Many of my nudges come in as phrases or concepts that I turn around and write about in order to figure them out for myself. Then I share them with you. Sometimes it takes a major bop on my head from the physical universe for me to get the message. And sometimes it’s something someone says that resonates and prompts new possibilities for me to consider. Much of my writing could be thought of as reflective journaling as I seek to understand and apply new concepts to my life. 

I don’t specifically sit down with the intention of having a communication with my Higher Self, I exist more in a state of constant readiness to recognize and expand upon phrases and principles and insights that resonate and call to me. How do you encourage communication with your Highest Self?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Raise Your Gaze

As I become more aware of my role as a Light Bearer, I am looking for ways to express that in the world around me. Since I don’t know the specifics of that role, it’s hard to figure out specific actions.  But I keep looking. I keep listening. I keep feeling. And I know that the path and my role in it will make itself known. 

For me, I think the work is energetic and expanding, perhaps writing to give others ideas for action. It’s the over-arching goal that is still evolving for me. 

What is your role as a Light Bearer in this massive global change that is taking place? Expand your role and let’s change the world. 

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===REFLECTIONS===

When I left Kansas City for New York City in 1977, my neighbor brought me a copy of this famed poem which has always been present in my travels and sits on my altar today. It is my life:

The Road Not Taken

BY ROBERT FROST

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

===CARA’S CORNER===

 How Others Change You

I was on a Zoom call with a group of friends and was talking about how kind everyone is in this long-term care facility. And they told me that I had changed a lot since moving here and I too seem more kind. I never thought about how being in a different environment can change you in a big way. I had allowed myself to become very isolated in the past few years.

Leaving a stressful job ultimately allows room for you to find your rhythm, to make major changes, to rebalance physically and mentally and emotionally. Starting a relationship or ending one may allow room for major changes and how you respond to the world around you.

Major change happened for me because the Universe nudged me and prodded and guided me to this new place so I would have this experience. My friends say I changed a lot since I moved here. I do know that my heart is more open, I have expanded the places I serve and I feel more useful and valued.

Identify the times that you feel empowered. It may be a time that you are receiving support from someone. It may be a time that you were giving support to someone, or both. Notice the change that happens on the inside and the nourishment that comes with it. 

Notice what you were doing and if you were doing it with anyone else. Do more of that.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

My Heart Is Touched 

I have been touched by kindness and gradually I radiate kindness in return.

I have been touched by kindness and gradually I radiate kindness in return. My heart opens. My life opens. My expectations change.

I have been touched by kindness and gradually I radiate kindness in return. My heart opens. My life opens. My expectations change. Being touched by the light of others has expanded the reach of my light. I am glowing with love.

– Cara Lumen, August 2023

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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and expand our role in the New Consciousness

Cara Lumen, explorer, spiritual philosopher, teacher, guide, leads us on a journey of self-awareness, spiritual expansion and impactful service. She helps us believe in our value, trust in our gifts, express our passion in a unique manner and build something meaningful around our wisdom and expertise. She helps us sing a deeper song.

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What Will You Place On Your Altar of Infinite Potential?

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What Will You Place On Your Altar of Infinite Potential?

Living Our Deeper Song

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

The idea of an Altar of Infinite Potential greatly expanded my thinking.  What kind of ideas and conscious desires will I place on such an altar? How do I work with it? Where will I place it? And how will an Altar of Infinite Potential change my life? 

I begin with the inner work that I want to do. I have begun to do Qigong again because my body needs it and it’s a very centered spiritual practice.

I’m going to increase my work on the physical plane by expanding my intention and my expectation for my edema to heal. I intend for my body to stand up straight and walk easily. I intend for my eyesight to improve. I’m going to expand my work with sound healing by exploring, experimenting and adding to what I know to do now. Restoring my health will go on my Altar of Infinite Potential.

I choose to touch more lives with my writing and my personal interaction. That has been happening organically since I moved to Evergreen Long Term Care.

I choose to develop and expand my spiritual practice to focus on raising the vibration of the planet and expanding my own spiritual exploration to communicate more deeply with the Unseen World. 

Will I make an actual Altar of Infinite Potential? As I look around, I see that I have gradually and organically turned the entire end of my small room into an Altar of Infinite Potential. 

My desk and computer sit right by three very tall windows overlooking the garden that is maintained by volunteer master gardeners. I have created a wall of flowers to nurture and support me in this part of my journey. 

As I organically change this small corner of my room, I can feel the energy change. It is calming and centering and protective. 

On a small table by the wall with the flowers, I have placed a large statue of Quan Yin in royal pose. In front of her I have a brass candle stick holder in the shape of the phoenix, an immortal symbol associated with cycles of regeneration. Rather than a candle I placed on it a miniature planet earth and Quan Yin is now watching over the world. 

My entire wall of flowers has gradually filled up with lovely plants that are deepening my connection with nature and symbolizing my ever-deepening and expanding spirituality. The energy in this small portion of my room has changed noticeably with the addition of the plants and intentions. This whole space is an Altar of Infinite Potential and I am aware of its energy and blessings that help make my own intentions a reality. This noticeable change in energy has already begun to change my life. What will you put on your Altar of Infinite Potential? 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I allow my imagination to soar as I create my Altar of Infinite Potential 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Your Altar of Infinite Potential can be a physical space, a list on a piece of paper, or an image in your imagination.
  • Nothing is impossible on this Altar Of Infinite Potential. Let your imagination soar and dream really big dreams.
  • Once you have placed the items on your Altar of Infinite Potential perhaps arrange them and bring to the forefront one or two that you want to work on right now to manifest, to bring to life. 
  • Create a ceremony of high expectations for the potential that you have chosen. Perhaps journal the signs and circumstances that show up to let you know that you are on the path that you have chosen. 
  • Allow time for things to unfold and keep adding to your Altar of Infinite Potential. 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Never Stop Dreaming

Our imagination makes things happen, our dreams make things happen, our expectations make things happen. Never stop dreaming and imagining and expecting. 

A friend of mine recently lost her husband and what she will get to do now is to reimagine her life based on standing alone in the world and following her own desires. Not only is this a time for grieving, it is the time for repurposing her life. 

Another friend is moving and this is a time for giving thought to what she wants her new space to feel like and look like.

Another friend is about to retire and is busy exploring and creating her next place of service and source of income. It is important to be aware of when it is time to change your room or your whole space and even your work so that you can make this next portion of your life exactly what you need it to be. 

My friend Chris Brogan rattled my cage a number of years ago when I was my late 70’s.  He asked me what I wanted to do for the next 30 years!  I started thinking and doing. At 90 I am still exploring and listening and growing. 

How do you want to make a difference in the world? How do you want to spend the next 30 years? What do you want to learn? Who do you want to serve? What do you want to accomplish? 

Take some contemplative time to identify the things that make your spirits soar. Was it when you were helping someone? Was it when you were learning something? Was it when you were creating something? Identify what you love to do and figure out how to do more of it. Never stop dreaming. 

How Do You Figure Things Out?

I keep getting a zillion new ideas for topics for this newsletter simply by writing to figure things out. Something I read suggests a new approach, or a new concept, or a new option and I take time to write down what that looks like and feels like and see if is for me to do.

How do you figure things out? Do you simply jump in and start doing it? Do you contemplate before you act? Do you try a portion of it to see how it feels? When offered a new approach or a new idea, how do you explore? How do you choose the parts and pieces that fit your life and begin to work with them? 

Most of my efforts to figure things out end up in this newsletter. It is how I explore the options and see what resonates for me and decide what future action to take. I may not take any action after I have given it more thought and explore the possibilities and that’s a good thing.

How do you figure things out?

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Space Cleaning

Two of my friends need space clearing. One because she is moving into a new space and the other because her husband died and she has to reclaim the space as her own. Anytime the energy of a space changes it is very powerful to create your own space clearing ceremony. 

First you want to clear the space of any residual energy. You can do that by clearing with sage or incense or even a flower essence. You can do it by creating a ceremony of intention.

First ask the space to release its past. Talk to the walls and make a gesture of releasing past energy. It could be by smudging, it could be by holding an intention in your palm and blowing it into the corners. Help the space release its past. Notice what you feel, the insights that come into your imagination and do whatever your inner voice tells you to do that releases any negative energy of the past. Notice the energy around the windows and the energy in the corners and ceiling and doorways. Keep working until the energy of your space changes and feels clear to you.

If you are moving to a new property begin by clearing the land to see what kind of messages from the past speak to you. You may feel the need to ask the ancients for permission to move there. You may need to release stuck energy from past events that took place on the land. 

My friend who is moving into an empty space can clear the space before she moves in. The other friend is gradually changing the energy of her home so her main objective is to create one cleared room at a time so she can rest and restore and heal as she begins to clear the other rooms and make the energy totally her own. 

You might decide to use Bach Flower Essences in the space.  As you replace or rearrange furnishings and notice how the flow of the energy changes and continue to clear and rearrange until the energy feels supportive of your new direction that is unfolding. Keep making changes in the space that nurture you. If it is a space that you will be inviting other people into like an office, consider adding a Blessing Bowl to the arrangement that holds your intentions for a positive exchange.

Intention is a major part of clearing a space. Create a ceremony that allows you to release past energy so there is a fresh new welcoming space for you to move into. Bring your positive energy in with consciousness and care.

Recognize Your Gifts

I’ve had occasion recently to look back over some of the small books I wrote 30 years ago and I realize they are very good and I have been a good writer for very long time. Sometimes it is reassuring to go back and notice what you accomplished earlier in life and acknowledge yourself for it and possibly build upon it now.

Writing has been a part of my life since I began contributing to my high school paper. It has taken many forms – poetry, plays, books, commercials, newsletters.

I have always been a fluid communicator – from conversation to public speaking to television spokesperson.

Some gifts are more evident than others. I’m a good organizer. I am a good logical thinker.  I am curious and impulsive.

Take some time to recognize and examine your gifts and look for new ways to express them in your life. Who knows what new doors will open.

===OUTER WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

How To Transform Negative Beliefs

Negative beliefs creep into our consciousness and we barely notice them. They come in one at a time until we are sitting in a pool of negativity and self-doubt. 

If you want to change your thinking, what do you do? Do you focus on the things that don’t work or do you focus on the things that do work? 

We have a choice here – look for the good – or look for the bad. Whatever you look for, you see more of.  To change your experience, raise your gaze. 

What do you expect? Do you expect the good, the positive, an optimistic outcome? What you look for is what you get. 

Monitor your thoughts and make certain you are focusing on the positive because that is then what you will get.

The Choice To Change

I want to make some changes but I have yet to decide exactly which ones and how to do them. I like the idea that people are dropping out of their complete immersion on the internet in order to pursue deeper, more personal, interactive experiences with others. How do I do that? 

I will begin by expanding and deepening my conversations with others. This primarily means the caring and caregiving staff around me. I have friends I talk with on Zoom on a regular basis and that is very nurturing for me. 

I am not very mobile so I can no longer get in my car and go someplace for a new experience. That’s probably why I rely so heavily on the Internet for those adventures. How do I change my experiential environment in those areas? 

I may hunt for some podcasts that talk with people who are exploring new ways of living on the planet. I have no idea how to find those but when I do, I’ll share them with you. That would be a good place for me to start. I will search for people who are exploring and thinking about how to live differently and more consciously on our planet. Here I go adventuring! 

What Skills Have You Not Been Using? 

As I sat here looking at the Chinese brush painting I did years ago that now hangs above my computer desk, I realized I have not been using my artistic ability in the form of drawing for quite some time. I have some oil paintings I did in a class a long time ago hanging on my wall. I have a notebook full of sketches from my shamanic journeys but I do not have art in my life right now other than in the form of writing.  

Since I’ve been here at Evergreen, I have used many of the communication skills that I have not used for a really long time like giving talks and making a video. It feels good to stretch those muscles again. What skills do you have that you have not been using and how will you put them back into play?

I Am Not A Robot

I went to sign on to a Zoom recording and they gave me that picture test that proves you’re not a robot. But I can no longer see well enough to pass the I’m not a robot test. That means I have to get help with one more thing and that is discouraging. Fortunately, I do have Care Partners to help but it’s a bit discouraging and it’s probably only the beginning of the adjustments I will have to make because of my dry macular degeneration. Do you have a physical challenge that you need to overcome? How creative are you in doing that? 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Self-Healing Spiritual Practice and Deepening Awareness of Our Cosmic Oneness

Immerse Yourself In Nature

I am going to go outside more. We have a lovely garden maintained by volunteer master gardeners and a waterfall and a koi fish pond. The spreading trees offer nurturing shade.

So far I’ve only gone out there with a Care Partner who stays with me. I now have a portable call button and I’m going to go outside and sit by myself in nature and have a meaningful conversation with a tree..… 

How will you spend more time in the shelter of nature?

Set An Intention For Each Room

As two of my friends are making major moves, I remembered that 30 years ago I wrote a book called Bless This House that was a description of what I did for my first house blessing as a practitioner in the Center for Spiritual Living. 

One of the steps is to set an intention for each room of the house and I realized that although I’ve had my holistic recharging station going in my room since I moved in and a dream catcher on the entry door and dream catchers and crystals and stained glass on the window at the opposite end of the room, I have not formally set an intention for this room.  

Now that I have constructed my flowers wall and made my work corner particularly safe and nurturing, I realize that I should expand my expectations and intentions for the entire space. 

I have a roommate and I keep putting up and energetically reinforcing my Transformative Shield.

For instance, the qualities of the space I sleep in could be
“healing, restoration and insights.” For my computer area it could be “insights, wisdom and expanded role”.

In facing my wall of flowers my intention could be “centered growth and any awareness of my room in the web of life”. 

I don’t have a separate space for meditation. In my case it’s about sitting in my chair by the window and simply turning in a different direction – but that simple act of facing a different direction can change my intention and my experience.

Be aware of the intention you set for each room and reminder yourself of those intentions each time you enter the space. It will help you keep the energy clear, focused and positive.

====RELEVANT AGING ====

The Phases of Our Journey

Our lives are a series of phases and what we do with each one of them weaves the fabric of our life. Our childhood becomes how we see our world.  Our adolescence is how we respond or react to our surroundings, our young adulthood is full of decisions, choices that direct our path. Our middle years are the reaping of our talents.  Our senior years give us time to see how else we can contribute to future generation.

The Senior Viewpoint

I am someone who has put off the idea of aging so it has been slow to overtake me.  Suddenly the reality check says it’s here.  So what am I going to do about it? What am I going to do with this particular phase of my journey? What is it that I want to do now?  A friend recently mentioned that if she could earn more for speaking, she’d speak twice a month and spend the rest of the time writing.  I now have more time to write. 

What am I to do with this phase of my life?

Each phase of your life is a great opportunity to rethink what you want to do and how you want to do it. It is a time to examine what you have achieved and what you still want to accomplish.  

===DEEPER SONG DISCOVERIES===

Resources to Explore

Speak From Your Heart

I was asked to participate in a video promotion for Evergreen Long-Term Care Facility. When Shauna asked me to do it, I knew immediately what I would say. As I shared it with her, she wiped tears from her eyes.

Speak from your heart and touch lives.

===HOW TO BE A STRONG CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE CIRCLE OF LIGHT BEARERS===

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

An Individual Harp

I have not written about being an Individual Harp in the Circle of Light Beings for quite a while, but I have a small harp on my altar that I have placed in a circle of seated meditating figures. It reminds me that I must sing my song clearly and at the same time harmonize with the work of others. 

There are times when we are the solo instrument and times we are part of the orchestra. Both places of service are important, valuable, and rewarding. 

My individual song continues to change and I get better at being an individual harp. Periodically I might find someone with whom to play a duet or form a small group in order to create something new and vital. 

What kind of music are you playing on your individual harp? 

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Be Choosy

Are you good at saying no? How do you set boundaries for yourself that allow you to structure your day and your time and your thoughts and your work in a manner that supports you and advances your goals? Are you one of these people who allows yourself to get pulled hither and yon as people express their needs to you?

Our first responsibility is to ourselves. We must care for our bodies and our imagination, our spiritual life and our souls.

Disengage. Stay balanced in how you spend your time and energy and resources. If you find yourself needing to change, do what is necessary to bring yourself back into alignment – not too much of one thing or another so that you create a balanced life and express all the facets of who you are. 

Life is about choices. Are you aware of your needs? How discriminating in your choices? How choosy do you need to be? 

Cutting Cords

They are like tentacles reaching out to keep us from progressing and it is hard to get them to let go. 

What emotion or physical ties do you need to release in order to move forward? 

Perhaps it’s hard to let go of a grown son or daughter who is struggling and yet it is their path to walk. Let go. 

Or your job has become less and less satisfying but you seem unable to let go and move forward.

Or a relationship has moved into negativity so gradually that you have learned to tolerate it. You need to cut the cord and free yourself to fulfill your own calling.

Look for the gifts and talents that have been lying dormant that need nurturing. Look for the dreams that have been put aside.

What cords do you need to cut out to fulfill your destiny. Snip.  Snip.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Generations Of The Future

We sat in the sun with a cool breeze moving the tall reeds in the garden, a black dragonfly was exploring nearby and a tree waved its dark wine leaves in the summer air. We talked and I touched a life. The Care Partner who accompanied me on my trip to the orthopedic shoe provider wants to be a nurse working with children. We were waiting for the van that takes me back-and-forth in my wheelchair and we talked – or at least I talked and she asked questions. I shared some of the facets of my holistic background and in retrospect I know that I opened some doors for her.  And I realized part of my current role is to expand the awareness of some of these kind people working into the health care field. I told her about sound healing and intention and reiki and shamanism and expanded her awareness of the holistic forms that helping others can take. I do not know which, if any of those ideas will call to her but she was interested and I opened a few doors for her to look through.  It took about 40 minutes for the transport van to arrive and I realized the Universe had arranged our time together.  

Begin to notice the lives you affect in small ways by your example, your actions, or the ideas you express. We are both educators and guides for future generations. Do your job well. 

How To Have Your Mac Read Text To You

I’m on a Mac and this new tool is going to be a life-changing technique I need to know how to use as my eyes change. If you have a Mac you might want to subscribe to the Mac-Most feed. 

“You can easily have your Mac read selected text out loud. You can select the voice and speed. With some more work you can add a keyboard shortcut or have it export the audio into a file to use later.” 

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===CARA’S CORNER===

The Importance Of A Good Connection

I could not get online. I could not get my email. I could not talk with my friends on Zoom. I could not take a class. I could not listen to music. I could not shop online.  I could not share this newsletter. Three different staff members tried to troubleshoot the cause of the disconnect but could not fix it. It was not until a friend hooked me up with a different internet provider that everything worked again. 

And I begin to think about the importance of connection. I want to creating a reliable connection – with people, with ideas, with the world.

Increasing our level of connection may not be as easy as changing internet providers but I wondered exactly how we would set out to do that. 

“Be more present” comes to mind. “Be open to change, be flexible, be aware of what is possible.”

How well do I listen in a conversation? It was a huge shock for me recently when I was told that I was not a good listener. Since then I have been working on keeping my mouth closed and my mind open. 

How do I deepen my experience of the universe? How do I deepen my experience of the inner world? I will take more shamanic journeys. I may practice doing some automatic writing. I’m already good at capturing the thoughts I have into writing. I will expand and deepen that skill. 

I’m going to start listening more deeply, to become more aware of the signs and signals offered at the time by their posture, their words and the tone of their voice.  I will become more observant of the signs and signals that are coming in as well as the signs and signals my responses are putting out. 

I will take time to listen and explore and build a relationship because I understand the importance of a good connection.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Connection

I have to stay steady, and silent, connected and open within in order to make the connection. 

I have to stay steady, and silent, connected and open within in order to make the connection. I must open my mind and my heart to receive.

I have to stay steady, and silent, connected and open within in order to make the connection. I must open my mind and my heart and my senses to receive. Then I will know how to feel and respond and connect. 

– Cara Lumen, August 2023

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 Transformational Leaders
deepen our relationship with the Unseen World
and expand our role in the New Consciousness

Cara Lumen, explorer, spiritual philosopher, teacher, guide, leads us on a journey of self-awareness, spiritual expansion and impactful service. She helps us believe in our value, trust in our gifts, express our passion in a unique manner and build something meaningful around our wisdom and expertise. She helps us sing a deeper song.

Live in the nowhere that you came from, 

even though you have an address here – Rumi

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 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

Why was I not born in a refugee camp? Why was I not born with a physical challenge? Why was I born into the life I am living? I have had a very interesting and challenging and growth-filled life and I am very happy it’s the life I got to lead. 

Michael Newton is a hypnotherapist who led his clients into past life regression to reveal their past lives. According to books, we choose to come into the life we live and the opportunities and challenges we face. 

I have enjoyed my life but I have left some wounds behind me. It was not my intention to cause pain, it simply happened as I passionately explored and enthusiastically walked the path that called me.

At 90 I am especially aware of a limited number of years left. I’m on a new path and I still have interesting and challenging work to do. Why were you born into the life you have? And are you fulfilling your potential? 

Deeper Song Affirmation 

I’ll continue to look at my life for the insights and opportunities that I am to build on today.

Deeper Song Process

  • Forgive yourself for the pain you have caused during your lifetime – to yourself and others.
  • Begin from where are you now to walk the world with a more loving footprint.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

The Healing Power of Intentional Silence

Silence heals. Silence opens the door to your inner voice. Silence gives you time to think. How often do you purposefully place silence into your life? 

Mindfully sit in silence before beginning a task to center yourself and release any outside distractions. Before you speak, sit in silence to give yourself time to go deep within to communicate with your inner voice and inner guidance. Pause in the middle of a conversation in order to let the full meaning of your shared experience sink in. 

You might pause to watch for and consider the effect your words and actions are having on another person. Pause to reflect before you speak in order to deepen your awareness before you speak. 

Intentional silence gives you the space to absorb, consider, and consciously choose. Move into intentional silence often throughout your day. Listen to your wisdom within. 

The Release In Writing It Down

Writing things down is a very powerful way to clarify your thinking and release your worries. Writing down your thoughts on a particular problem or situation releases them and makes space for you to look at the thoughts and concerns and beliefs that are underneath that first layer. As you continue to write, you go deeper and deeper and gain more understanding about the situation and your response to it. Writing is very self-healing and restorative to identify and release your worries and fears. It helps you go deeper. It opens you up to a new perspective. It helps you find new answers and consciously choose your responses. Next time you have a problem or a worry, write it down and keep looking beneath the layers until you gain a new insight and heal yourself. 

 ===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Our Imagination Creates Our Reality

I’m not certain that I’ve ever spent huge amounts of time imagining my future. I’m more of a spontaneous, in-the-moment, responder/reactor and I make my choices instantaneously. Very often it’s been huge life-changing move-across-the-country choices.  And it has always been the right thing to do. I don’t seem to plan, I seem to respond in the moment. I’m not saying that is a particularly strong way to do it, it’s just how I seem to have done it in my lifetime. 

If I were to apply my imagination to the next part of my life, considering I’m 90 years old, it would contain things like regaining my strength, walking without a walker, a reversal of my dry macular degeneration, a general healing/strengthening of my body, new philosophical adventures and wisdom and I don’t know what else. My pattern is to let my life unfold before me and make choices in the moment. 

But I can and should use my imagination to help me manifest those changes. Our thoughts create our reality. Keep your imagination active.

Imagine Your Future Into Being

“Thoughts do not recede into the past. Rather they advance into the future to confront us, so we see that which we had planted, either wisely or unwisely.”
– Neville Goddard

What are you finding in the unseen realms that will manifest in your human life expression? Do you expect the best for yourself? Are you asking enough of yourself? How do you want to make a difference in our world? 

I have set some intentions for myself. I want to keep contributing from the resources of my mind and my life experiences. I want to keep learning. I want to keep making a difference. Exactly how that will manifest is up to both me and the Universe, but I keep my focus on learning and sharing what I learn and that’s pretty much lighting my way. 

What are you envisioning for your future? It’s your choice. It’s your vision. Make it a good one. 

Heal Your Past

I would not change any of the choices in my past but this week I had help seeing one of my major choices as positive in the long run. It made me cry as I forgave myself for the unintentional pain I caused. Looking back, I knew that I would not have changed my choices but I wish I had been more thoughtful in how I addressed the needs of those who were affected by my change in venue.

Each of my rather dramatic choices propelled me further on the path of healing philosopher that I have taken.  They were necessary because each major move opened incredibly exciting new doors of opportunity that deepened my awareness and expanded my place of service.

Look for whatever you did that you thought was not particularly positive and don’t just look at the doors that shut, look at the doors that opened for you and those around you because of that choice. 

My actions closed some doors but they opened opportunities and experiences and choices that would not have been available to those around me if I had not left to go adventuring. 

What actions have you taken in your life that you could pause to reframe and find the positive aspects instead of focusing on the negative? Find the good that ensued and heal your past.

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Stay Flexible And Open To Change

We live in a world that is rapidly changing. New opportunities create the need to stay flexible and open to change and willing to cultivate our gifts in order to accommodate these changes. 

We may need to cultivate a new skill set. For example, many primary skills are being replaced by AI. Jobs continue to be replaced by machines. 

Sit down and make a list of all the things you love to do. Check five particularly interesting ones and see if any new career paths emerge. Get creative. Look for a need in the field that is not being filled that you may be able to or want to fill. Fill a niche that is not crowded. Create a new niche by starting your own online business. Let your imagination soar and figure out a new place of service for your talents and gifts.  

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Self-Healing Spiritual Practice and Deepening Awareness of Our Cosmic Oneness

Deepen Your Connection With Nature

How much time do you spend being mindfully present in nature? When was the last time you sat outside and watched the full moon move across the sky? When was the last time you walked in the rain and enjoyed the natural refreshing of the planet?  When was the last time you took a nap in the shade of a tree?

Being in nature is not about going someplace to be in nature, it’s more about stepping out into nature and simply being present.

In my long-term care facility, we have a garden cared for a by volunteer master gardeners.  It has a wonderful variety of plants and even vegetables growing in abundance. It has wonderful shade trees. There is a koi pond with a small waterfall and ducks come every year to raise their babies. It’s not particularly big but it is teeming with nature’s gifts. 

When I do my daily spiritual practice, I turn to look out the window and play my drums to the sun and the clouds and the trees and the flowers and the birds at the feeder outside my window. I bring nature into my spiritual practice. 

I brought nature into my space by placing some open bookshelves near my desk in which I now have 15 different plants. I talk to them and they nurture me back.

Recently I discovered that the full moon crosses my three tall windows and I can watch its progress and deepen my connection with the Universe.

Be fully present when you are in nature. Listen to the sounds. Listen to the silence. Quiet your mind and be a part of nature that you are. 

===DEEPER SONG DISCOVERIES===

Resources to Explore

Our Thoughts Create Our Reality

We have work to do in order to change the world. Now that I understand how powerful our thoughts are, I realize that I have been focusing in the wrong direction. 

I have been focusing on the threat, not the solution.

We need to focus on what we want in place, not on the threat.

There are people in the US who want there to be a dictatorship. There are many places in the world where people are fighting against dictatorship.

As Light Bearers we have to visualize a democratic world in which we are all equal in Love and Light. Our thoughts create our reality, we have to get busy.

Find images and metaphors that expand your own experiences and expectations. Focus on what you want.

Raise your gaze and expand your vision.

===HOW TO BE A STRONG CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE CIRCLE OF LIGHT BEARERS===

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

The Size Of Your Ripple

Some people make a ripple, others make a wave. I am pretty much a ripple person but it is a consistent ripple. When I was reading Sandra Ingerman’s Transformational Newsletter, I became aware of how many people she affects through her books and in her classes. She is definitely someone who makes waves. 

I see myself as a ripple. A steady ripple to be sure, sometimes an impactful ripple, but a constant ripple that touches lives. 

Are you aware of your own ripple, the energy you consistently share in the world and how that changes lives around you? Honor your place of service and keep doing the best job you can in your part of the Web of Light. 

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Keep Exploring

Getting on the mailing list for the Shift Network is a very powerful way to keep learning. They offer outstanding online classes and I have taken many. But before each class they offer a free introduction that gives you a great deal of information about what the class will contain and it’s always a learning experience. I’m going to listen to the intro to a seminar on African shamanism.

They also have weeklong Summits on different healing topics in which they feature 25 or 30 teachers. I always learn something and often find people that I would like to study with. It’s a really good mailing list to be on. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement For Our Unfolding Role in the Future

The Past, Present and Future Are All Connected

There is a field of quantum energy that connects all things.

“There may be no such thing as sequential time. It exists as a vast continuum of fluctuating change. We are, in a sense, our time and space. By creating time in space, we create our own separateness and indeed our own time. According to this view, we are constantly being influenced in our present actions and decisions by our future selves.”

“Instantaneous cause and effect occur not only through Space but also back and possibly forward in time. Information travels back in time. How do we access that?” 

I don’t know because I’m still reading The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World by Lynne McTaggart which is where these excerpts are from.

With that kind of interconnection, we should be able to go back into the past and heal our present and our future.

How’s that for seed planting an idea for which I have no answer – yet. 

It did prompt me to look back over some of my choices and how my life unfolded because of them and looked at them for an overview – where I am now and what I am because of the choices I made in my life path.

Our choices are in the past. They influence your life experience today. And they will influence your life experiences in the future. It makes me want to be more conscious of the thoughts and choices I encourage in my life today. I’m not sure exactly how to do that – thoughtful contemplation will enter into it – but I will find a way.

More to come.

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Focus

There was a full moon again this week and she passed across my large windows and makes me turn my attention to the Web of Light and our intertwined connection to the past, the future, and the present. It’s all one big in-the-moment energy.

As I seek to expand my vision and my participation as a Light Bearer, I threw open my imagination and invited the moon to take me places I have never before considered. I’m getting some urges on the physical plane with a book on intention I am reading where it talks about the past, the present and the future all being connected and influenced by each moment in time. All of it is connected. All of it is ever-present. That concept changes my thinking a lot. I do know that Joe Dispenza had us take a journey to our Future Self and I was doing jumping jacks which I can’t do at this moment in time. I’ll have to take that journey again.

But I keep raising my sights to contain an overview of the planet and humanity as a whole, partially because I am disturbed by the negative energy of those who want to dominate others, not just in the US but in other parts of the world. The painting of the Peaceable Kingdom comes to mind where all the animals and humans exist in peace. 

What if we could each open our heart to embrace everyone we met? What would that look like? Feel like? Can you even imagine it?

We select our life experiences not only by what we believe is possible but how we choose to interact and where and with whom we choose to interact. 

I am no longer in the everyday world but I’m surrounded by people whose major goal in life is to help others. It’s only through my choice to listen to the news that I am aware of the negative actions of many people. I don’t want to dwell on that but I’m not going to ignore it. I will raise my sights and focus on a vision of everyone raising their light for the highest good of all. What are you focusing on? 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

I Raise My Gaze 

I raise my gaze. I let my imagination soar and create an image of a peaceable planet. 

I raise my gaze. I let my imagination soar and create an image of a peaceable planet – everyone and everything working together to care for our earth home and for the well-being of each other.

I raise my gaze. I let my imagination soar and create an image of a peaceable planet – everyone and everything working together to care for our earth home and for the well-being of each other. I see everything as energy – interconnected, intertwined energy. We are all one.

– Cara Lumen, August  2023

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 Transformational Leaders
deepen our relationship with the Unseen World
and expand our role in the New Consciousness

Cara Lumen, explorer, spiritual philosopher, teacher, guide, leads us on a journey of self-awareness, spiritual expansion and impactful service. She helps us believe in our value, trust in our gifts, express our passion in a unique manner and build something meaningful around our wisdom and expertise.
She helps us sing a deeper song.

Live in the nowhere that you came from, 

even though you have an address here – Rumi

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Are You Flunking Compassion?

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Are You Flunking Compassion?

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 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

I am truly lacking the ability to extend comparison to those I disagree with and it was a shock to realize that I was doing exactly what I was accusing them of doing. I am watching a specific group of people in the US spew hatred for any of their fellow humans who differ from their beliefs and their race. For this group of active haters that pretty much includes the whole world – anyone and everyone who does not think and look like and believe like they do. 

To my deep consternation, I realized that I was judging them for not loving thy neighbor as thyself which is a pretty fundamental concept for these conservative Christians. To my dismay, I realized that I was holding them separate – that I was judging them – not with hatred, but with strong criticism, disbelief and a fair degree of anger. I have my own work to do. 

What we sow, so shall we reap. I’m watching that segment of our country spew hatred. Hatred against other races. Opposition against the rights of those who are different. It is active, violent hatred and it’s making me so concerned and judgmental that although I don’t hate them, I don’t understand them and am very critical of them. And that’s not good for me or my spiritual growth.

Where is compassion? Where is unconditional love? Where is inclusiveness?  Not just in them, but also in me.

I am having a very hard time feeling compassion for those who are so filled with hatred of others. I don’t even know where to begin to hold them in my heart when I’m being judgmental and critical and angry. None of what I feel affects them. It only affects me. 

Christianity is not the oldest religion. Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world. The great majority of religious followers fall under twelve classical religions–Baha’i, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism. We live in a diversified world of multiple religions. 

There’s no point in trying to understand this religious-based hatred because I can’t. If in fact my approach to life is to try to see us all as One Light, at this point in time I seem to have a great deal of personal work to do.

I only know how to work energetically. To try to be the most positive, kindest, compassionate person I can be. And I’m already flunking because I cannot hold much compassion for that group of people who are trying to put out the Light of others. I don’t understand their “why”. 

Our planet is filled with one group trying to suppress another. All of them are men suppressing women as they seek and seize more power.

I Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection around myself that helps me modify my own negative thoughts and protects me from the negative thoughts in the world. But that’s not inclusion, that’s not embracing everyone in my own heart. I seem to be flunking compassion for those I disagree with. And I don’t know what to do about it because I’m a little scared and I’m very much in disbelief about the prevalence of so many negative ideas around the rights of others to be fully who they are.       

To be the Light Worker I want to be, I have to find a way to open my heart and be compassionate for those I see as threatening our entire democracy. I don’t know how to do that. And I don’t know if I can do that.  I’m in disbelief and I don’t even want to try to embrace them in light. But that’s exactly what they are doing. Oh, the hard lessons we have to learn.   

How do we open our hearts to embrace those who are spewing hatred? I don’t have an answer for that. Only one huge gigantic question mark.          

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I work to extend my compassion to those with whom I totally disagree.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • This is such a huge challenge for me I don’t even know where to begin. I can’t start with compassion for those who are spewing hatred because I don’t have it in me – yet. My tendency is to visualize a unified world in which we each recognize ourselves as Light Beings and we each strive to express that light in what we say and think and do.
  • I know that people are beginning to congregate in smaller community groups so they can experience mutual support. I can visualize those heartfelt groups as palpitating hearts of love and inclusion on our planet. I can visualize myself as a member of one of those groups. I can feel myself expressing compassion for those who are also kind and loving. But there it stops. I cannot bring myself yet to hold in my heart those who spew hated.
  • All I know to do is try to keep loving myself and as many others as I can. It looks like we all may need to work on this one.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Trust The Universe To Develop The Plan

The universe has capabilities we cannot even imagine. We have to learn to trust and draw from the depth of creative possibilities within the Universal Mind.

We need to learn to listen. We need to ask the right questions and we need to learn to interpret the answers we get. 

For instance, consider the environment. The universe has giving us ideas like wind power and solar power and yet there is still active work as caretaker humans that we must continue to do. 

We continue to be given new tools like 3-D printing which is being used to build homes for the homeless and Artificial Intelligence that we must learn to use with care. 

We can go to outer space. New experiences and insights and possibilities await us there. It is the opening of a new door that we must explore and learn from and adapt to. 

Our role is to be observant, to explore new opportunities and figure out how to apply them for the highest good. 

Our job is to pay attention. To explore. To consider. To adapt. To bring into being. 

Be inquisitive. Be flexible. Be intuitive and trust the universe to bring us the insights we need for our next steps. 

Is It Time To Change Directions?

Look at your life right now and see if you are where you want to be or if you are headed in the direction you want to go. Take a couple of weeks to look at the various aspects of your life and notice which ones are nurturing and which ones are not. 

Are you so immersed in your job that you don’t have time for personal growth, for self-nourishment? What needs to change and how are you changing it? 

I changed direction because I moved into a new living situation and a new place of service open up. 

If you’re going to retire, you have another thirty years of living to do. How do you want to make your life active and productive and interesting? Sometimes you have to explore a multitude of opportunities and sometimes all you can do is hold steady, explore your options and make yourself ready for another challenge. 

There are many reasons to consider a change in directions. Find what stimulates and motivates you, get creative and move forward. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Give Yourself A Healing Hug

When was the last time you were hugged? I can’t remember. I have begun to give myself hugs. I cross my arms in an embrace and say, “I love you, you’re doing well. I like the direction you’re going.” I let it seep in until I feel the love and acknowledgement. 

I am not a hugger, and it is also not appropriate under some circumstances. What better thing to learn and practice than to hug yourself? And then do it on a regular basis. 

Where will you place a gentle hug of yourself and a soft “I love you” into your day? 

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

How Do You Handle Change?

Do you welcome change as a new opportunity or are you overwhelmed because it asks you to do things differently? 

Change can open up new opportunities. It can be fun, it can be challenging, it can be informative and it can be scary but in the long run change is inevitable whether it be large or small. 

Stay flexible. Change is on ongoing. Ask yourself to expand your expectations. 

Look for the overarching theme of the proffered change to see what alternate path it is suggesting so you can make course corrections if you choose. 

What do you need to learn about what this proffered change offers? How do you have to change to absorb and accommodate it? What do you need to learn and how do you need to change your thinking in order to make this change? Is this change for you now, or later or at all? Gather insights from those around who have made a similar change. How did they handle it? What did they gain from it?  

Change is not about making a hard decision, it is about a persistent exploration that leads to a gradual deepening awareness and new insights of how to continue living your life. Change is an integral part of life.  How do you handle change? 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Self-Healing Spiritual Practice and Deepening Awareness of Our Cosmic Oneness

How To Bring Healing To Your Challenges And Conflicts

The first thing we have to remember is that we are all One Energy. Because we are One Energy, we actually do not have challenges and conflicts, we only perceive that we do. So how do we change that? 

I have pretty good luck feeling my connection to nature, or my pets, or someone that I love. But the bumpy times, the rough relationships, the challenges, make me feel broken up into pieces rather than one complete whole energy.  

I have to practice feeling loved. I have to learn to recognize and encourage and expand my experience of love. 

Embracing your conflict or fear and transform it. I might picture a conflict I face as a small animal that needs comforting – which in a sense it is. It needs encouraging in order to grow into its true potential and make the difference it is meant to make

I’m not sure how much active love I send my own way. I know the things I like about myself. I guess I can start right there. I need to look at my heart. When we stop to look, when we pause to consider, challenges and conflicts offer lessons and insights and deepening awareness.

=== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

When You See The Situation And The People Involved As Sacred, Everything Changes

Is this discord in our world because we need to get a lesson and what lesson is that?

What is the lesson I need to learn from the many conflicts of the world? What is the lesson I need to learn from planetary temperatures we’ve never seen before? What are the lessons I need to learn from my own personal challenges? And am I, in fact, learning them? 

When we see the situation and the people involved as sacred and the whole scenario changes.

=== INSIGHTS FROM THE UNSEEN WORLD===

Guidance to Consider

Spend Time In A Higher Vibration Where Duality Does Not Exist  

Duality is when we see ourselves as separate. Our planet sure is full of feelings of separateness. As a woman I see myself as different from a man. As a 90-year-old I see myself as different from pretty much any other age. My education separates me. My spiritual path separates me. My belief system separates me.  The color of my hair separates me. My height separates me. We are full of excuses and beliefs to feel separate. 

How do we access this spirit of oneness that removes all feelings of being separate? 

The place in which we are all One Energy is Source, The Universe – whatever you want to call the over-arching, all-encompassing, unified and equalizing energy. 

For me, that is where I am again contemplating, experiencing, feeling myself as one with Source energy along with everyone and everything else in our universe. It’s a very large inclusive list and I have to use my imagination to see and feel the depth and breadth and expansiveness of being part of the web of life and an integral part of Source. 

I have to use my imagination. I have to practice experiencing myself in the heart of Source in how I express myself in my life and my choices and my existence. 

We must learn to walk the world as Source expressing inclusivity, oneness and feeling our hearts beat as One.

How do you spend time in a higher vibration where duality does not exist?   

===DEEPER SONG DISCOVERIES===

Resources to Explore

A Fascinating Read

I am totally excited about reading The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World by Lynne McTaggart. I love how she writes and I love what she’s going to teach me. 

===HOW TO BE A STRONG CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE CIRCLE OF LIGHT BEARERS===

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

The Spiritual Practice Of Offering Gratitude

To my daily spiritual practice, I have begun to establish a time to offer gratitude. I reflect back on the insights I have received, the choices I had the opportunity to make, the interactions I had with others and the unexpected gifts I have received. It is a lovely way to end my day. 

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

We Are One Planet Among Many

If you ever looked at your astrological chart you know there are some very influential planets affecting our lives. When you look at theHubble telescope you see how truly small our planet Earth is in the overall scheme of the universe. 

It makes me feel small and yet when I think of us as all one energy, it expands my mind, raises my expectations and the range of new possibilities soars.

It also expands my concept of my work in the world – multiple stars and planets and who knows what beyond. 

The full moon this month traveled brightly across my windows and I got to watch her progress and be with her energy. The July full moon is the closest the moon comes to our planet each year and I visualize it sending positive energy to every part of our world as it makes its cycle. Incorporating this vision of millions of stars and planets and their potential for other life forms is a fascinating way to expand my participation on the planet.

Did you ever watch any of the episodes on Ancient Aliens that explore the Great Pyramid or other ancient buildings for which there seem to be no known technology at the time they were built? You know that it is considered probable that space entities provided the technology for such amazing feats as the supersize stacking of geometrically precise stones on the Great Pyramid and precisely curved drawings in solid stone. A terra-cotta army of more than 8,000 life-size soldiers guarded the burial site of China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di.

Here are 7 Ancient Sites Some People Think Were Built by Aliens

We are one planet among many. How does that expand your thinking? And your expectations?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for Our Unfolding Role in the Future

The Over-Arching View

Whenever I get bogged down in the details of a specific aspect of our world, I pause to raise my gaze and focus on the over-arching energy. Our planet is in distress because of how we humans in every part of the world are not caring for it. That should be a priority for education and action and new ideas for healing it. Every person on the planet should have the well-being of the planet as a priority. Otherwise, we have nothing. But that’s not our primary focus.

The problem seems to be years in the making. The answers seem daunting. And yet who else is going to make the necessary changes unless it is each one of us and our own individual keep-a-light-foot-on-the-planet lives. And there are still so many that are unaware of the problem and the threat to our existence. 

It takes both small individual steps and large group efforts to help the planet. What are you doing and how are you doing it? 

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Honor Your Time And Unsubscribe

There is nothing like a good house cleaning at any time of your life. In my case I’m cleaning out my email subscriptions. 

I have begun an active campaign to unsubscribe from feeds I no longer read. The first day I unsubscribed from five things I never read and I liked how that felt. For several day I continued to examine what I received to make certain it was what I wanted to continue to have access to. 

Next time you go through your email, give serious thought to whether you want to continue subscribing to that particular feed and do a little housecleaning. It will make your life easier.

What other areas of your life do you need to take time to declutter?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Making Room 

To keep my space sacred, I must declutter. 

To keep my space sacred, I must declutter. I must throw out what is no longer relevant or useful.

To keep my space sacred, I must declutter. I must throw out what is no longer relevant or useful. I take a deep cleansing breath in my newly-opened space.

– Cara Lumen, July 2023

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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Cara Lumen, explorer, spiritual philosopher, teacher, guide, leads us on a journey of self-awareness, spiritual expansion and impactful service. She helps us believe in our value, trust in our gifts, express our passion in a unique manner and build something meaningful around our wisdom and expertise. She helps us sing a deeper song.

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