Cara Lumen

There Is No “Other Guy” 

Living Our Deeper Song

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

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

I was getting it all wrong. I was taking sides and I was choosing the side of the emerging Divine Feminine. Until I realized it’s all part of one, just as the yin-yang symbol shows us how the feminine and masculine co-create the whole. I have to remember that even in this unbalanced world today the feminine and masculine create a whole. So instead of getting angry with old white men in politics and those who are searching for power, I need to find a way to heal my own vision so that it is inclusive of masculine energy. I am critical of and even angry with the unbalanced suppression that is taking place in the US. It is part of a whole that is rebalancing the feminine and masculine. There are no sides to take. There is only one energy and it embraces us all. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I hold a vision of oneness and see the masculine and feminine finding equality and balance.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• What is your role in helping to create balance between the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine?
• How can you help create positive change?  

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

 We Are Expressions Of The Energy Of Wholeness

When I step into my inner stillness and ask for guidance, I receive clarity. Out of all the things that I love to do, teaching is very, very high on my list of what brings me happiness. Teaching lets me continue to explore so that I continue learning, and I immediately have others with which to share my excitement of discovery. 

The deeper our intention, the more quickly is the manifestation. What is your intention today?

Get Answers From Spirit

This is an exercise I created many years ago and still use it often in the course of moving forward. I call it:

How To Relax, Let It Unfold Abd Still Get Answers From Spirit
What I Do	How I Feel	Affirmations

Use this format any time you wish to delve more deeply into your beliefs and feelings. In the first column write an action or choice you have made or are considering: “I want to leave this job.” In the second “How I Feel” column you might write, “I am afraid and yet I am certain this is the right step.” In the third column look for the positive aspects and make an affirmation: “I am One with the Universal Energy and am always cared for. I make a choice for the highest good of all.”

After you have completed your list, copy your affirmations to a separate sheet that you will work with on a daily basis.

This format can be used to obtain inner wisdom and guidance on actions you are taking or actions you are considering. Identify your feelings and design your affirmation to give you the confidence and reassurance you need to move forward. 

Use this format to find your feelings about a choice you are considering. Remember too that although a choice is a good one for you, the timing may not yet be appropriate. Keep asking for answers from Spirit.

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Are You Doing Your Self-Healing Work?

I am still reading David Gibson’s book on sound healing and I realize there is a great deal of self-healing we can do with our minds. I have edema in both legs and the wound doctor said the valves that should close to keep the blood rising up the leg are not working so I have made up a song about valves snapping shut in my legs and I picture them moving the blood up as it should do. Actually I picture the Seven Dwarfs from Snow White marching along singing “Hi Ho, Hi Ho, We snap valves shut as we go…” You know – whatever works for you…

After years of gradually bending over more and more until I can no longer stand up straight, I am practicing and picturing and imagining and doing the physical work to help me learn to stand up straight again. 

How do you need to use your imagination to self-heal? And will you do the work?

You Might Want To Keep A Thanksgiving Journal

Can you list 25 things a day for which you are thankful?

Judge Thomas Troward in The Spirit of Opulence says: “We should focus on giving rather than receiving. We should cultivate the feeling that we possess all sorts of riches which we can bestow upon others and which we can bestow liberally because by this very action we open the way for still greater supplies to flow in.” 

“You may give from many planes besides money, like the spiritual and intellectual planes. Begin with that and the Universal Law of Attraction will kick in and embrace all planes.”

You are prosperous to the degree that you are experiencing peace, health, and plenty in your world. This is the true definition of prosperity.

• Believe you deserve it.
• Believe it is possible
• Believe it can happen
• Allow it to happen

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Celebrate Your Wins

When we take time to celebrate our wins, we become aware of our progress and our success. Take time to look back over your day and perhaps write down the gifts you received, the discoveries you uncovered and the progress you made. 

I might look back at my physical movement practice, I might expand the new segment I wrote for my newsletter, I might write down something I learned, the people I interacted with, the problems I solved and the insights I received.

How will you take time to celebrate your wins?

A Surprise Rock

It was an activity for the senior residents and a great excuse to be outside. We were given small clay pots to decorate and plant with seeds and we were given a rock to paint. I have great respect for rocks and had no intentions of painting this smooth grey rock. I picked it up in my left hand (the receiving hand) and was blown away by the energy that it sent to my heart chakra. It was unexpected from such an ordinary smooth grey rock that fits in the palm of my hand. It now sits on my computer desk and I pick it up often for continued expansion of my heart chakra.

Look for the unexpected and joyfully receive its gifts.

Welcome Change

Change can be challenging; change can be a gift.  Change will open new paths and opportunities to explore. Change is good. Welcome it.  

I have an opportunity to retrain my body to stand up straight and learn to walk better.  My dry macular degeneration will give an opportunity to get creative in how I do my work.  This new living environment has opened up a lot of new interactions and awareness for me. 

How is change showing up for you? And how are you embracing it?

Photo From My Talk on Sound Healing 

Here is a photo of me giving my talk on Sound Healing to residents.  I changed a few lives.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

The Greater Our Expectation, The Greater The Results We Draw To Us

What you believe you deserve and what you believe is possible determines what you get. Expect the best.  Do not settle for second best. 

Are you expecting enough of yourself and for yourself? 

With the help of physical therapy, I am raising my expectations to walk longer and stand taller. 

All I need to do is do the work to get there. I use a wheelchair to go outside and they will give me a buzzer to wear so I can call someone to get me when I’m ready to come back in. That will mean some lovely alone time in nature to meditate and be in the present. I would like that. 

As I write this, I realize I have some expectations to raise – like walking outside with just my walker.

How do you need to raise your expectations? The greater our expectation, the greater the results we draw to us.

=== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” 

— Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC)

“’Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.

Who looks outside, dreams;

Who looks inside, awakens.”

— Carl Jung

===DEEPER SONG DISCOVERIES===

Resources to Explore

No One Can Walk A Road For Us

“No one can walk a road for us.  Everything we do in life forms a road…. We must each walk ourselves. 

“We make our own road one day at a time. As we grow older, it becomes critical to fulfill what we find important.  The more we understand our goals, the more we can progressively gauge how close we are to them.  That gives us a very powerful understanding. The road each of us walks is our own personal Tao. All the principles we use in following universal Tao are also applicable to our personal one.  Just as there is only one great Tao, so too is there only one Tao for us – our Tao.  To be true to that, to be sure of that, is never to be separated from the essence of wisdom.”  

– Dang, Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao.

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Walk The Path of Right Action 

Sometimes the choices are tough but we know we have to make them and that they are the right thing to do. 

I’m going to suggest that all of us look closely to make certain that we are aligned with our core values.  It begins with loving others as you do yourself.  If you don’t love yourself, you are sort of up a creek with no paddle. You might want to start there. 

Not everyone has the same values, but we each walk the values we have chosen, whether they be positive or negative. The choice to change is always there. If you are not certain, go exploring and find other ways to achieve what you want with no harm to others. Thoughtful people need to find their voices and right action.  

Are you thoughtfully participating in the governing of your country? As Light Workers we are to look within our hearts. We know we are all one energy and we must embrace the light beings whose light seems to have dimmed and help them raise their sights and join us on an inclusive path. How do you walk the path of right action? 

Take This Journey With A Full Heart 

We have each been given many beautiful gifts. Sometimes we need to look closely to notice and acknowledge them and other times they are a huge part of our life and everyone sees that in us.

Whatever you do, however you do it, wherever it leads you, travel with a full heart and expectations about yourself and others. You will never be disappointed.  

Take your journey with passion and watch the ripples you set loose touch the lives of others. 

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

The Role We Play

We lead by example. We lead by doing what we do and thinking what we think and seeing what we say. It all has impact and you must be aware of that impact and be sure it is how we want it to be.

I’ve been a bridge probably more times than I even recognize. I go cheerfully and enthusiastically down a path and sometimes it inspires others to follow their own path of light. 

We each impact others throughout our day. Sometimes it is a large impact and sometimes it is a gentle nudge. Be aware of the role model you are and make certain it is where you want to lead others. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Intention And Healing The Planet

The key to healing the planet is in our intention.

We can work with overpopulation, climate change, environmental emissions, or we can just hold High Watch for the world – hold high intentions for the whole planet and everyone on it. 

You can sing a song to the planet, you can create a ceremony for the planet, you can be an activist for the planet, you can send energy to the planet.  Our high vibration intentions for the whole Universe are helping.

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

Explore and Interpret the Guidance and Messages of the Divine Feminine

The Divine Feminine Is Taking A Beating

As women move more strongly into our feminine power, we are currently taking active hits of repression from the old white men here in the US who are scared to death of the rise of the feminine – they are trying to take away our rights and suppress us.

It won’t work, of course, we will rise up stronger and louder and more powerfully and take our place as New World leaders. But we have to do the work. We have to run for school boards and local governments and political office and do the grass roots work and reach out and educate women about the power of the voices we actually have. We must and will outsmart the white men who want to take away our rights. How will you step forward? Run for public office? Talk to voters to make sure they are registered and will vote? We have work to do to secure our place in the world. Let’s get to it. 

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

The Role of the Element of Space in Our New Consciousness

Listen to my
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify / Googleand the
Deeper Song Website

==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Past issues of this newsletter are found at Insights Of A Deeper Song. Past Podcasts are found at Deeper Song Podcasts

===CARA’S CORNER===

Change

I have only been on a low sodium diet for a couple of weeks now but the changes are very dramatic for what I can and cannot or will no longer eat. The regular food here is now way too salty for me. The main goal in this population is to keep people from malnutrition so they cook to the palate of the majority of residents.

But my palate has changed dramatically in a very short period of time. Do you need to cut back on your salt intake? My sense is that you probably do. 

The last time I was in the hospital for the edema in my legs, a doctor sat down beside my bed in the admitting area and said if I would lower my sodium intake I could cure my legs. My mouth fell open. Could it really be that easy? I began my low sodium cardiac diet and it only took me four days for my pallet change. 

Americans eat on average about 3,400 mg of sodium per day. However, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends adults limit sodium intake to less than 2,300 mg per day—that’s equal to about 1 teaspoon of table salt! For children under age 14, recommended limits are even lower.

I have always liked air popped popcorn with Braggs nutritional yeast on it which has a cheesy flavor. No salt at all. I am experimenting with Mrs Dash flavors.

I ask for steamed vegetables with no seasoning so I can add my own.

Go exploring and get creative and lower your salt intake for greater health and longer life.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Embracing Change

My body called for major change in order to heal and rebalance.

My body called for major change in order to heal and rebalance. I honored its wishes and made the change.

My body called for major change in order to heal and rebalance. I honored its wishes and made the change. It is healing now. I am glad I listened.

– Cara Lumen, May, 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

Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they
Join the Deeper Song Community

Past Issues of this newsletter are being curated on my site on a page called Insights.

Our Global Deeper Song Community

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The Power Of Your Presence

Living Our Deeper Song

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

As a Spiritual Practitioner in the Center For Spiritual Living, I used to periodically be assigned to hold High Watch for a service. I was simply mindfully present while holding a high vibration for the whole congregation. 

Do not underestimate the power of your presence.

You can be in a big room full of people and energetically change and raise the vibration. You can be in a conversation and expand your energy to soften and refocus the emotions that are arising. 

You can elevate and redirect your own thoughts to create a different experience for everyone.

Do not underestimate the power of your presence.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I actively participate in the world around me through my conscious presence. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Practice using your presence to change the vibration in a conversation.
• Practice using your presence to change the vibration in a room.
• Practice using your presence to change the vibration in a situation.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Step Into The Stillness

In stillness there is clarity.

In stillness there is inner peace.

In stillness there is compassion and love.

When we move into the stillness within, we see the path more clearly, we hear the answers we seek, and we know the steps to take. The way is made clear for us.

Everything is made up of source energy. When we drop our own agenda, our own needs, our own perceptions, we move into a space of non-attachment and deepening inner peace.

When do you take time to do that? When do you take time to step into the stillness?

I have a meditative practice that includes drumming and singing and talking to my crystals but that is not stepping into the stillness.  When I simply turn and look out my window at the clouds and trees and nature, I gradually begin to immerse myself in stillness. After a while I can lose myself and merge into the Great Oneness. 

We are part of an infinite web and each of us is an important strand in that web, unique and invaluable.

How do you step into the stillness?

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

I Am Not A Fan Of Meds

I am taking a lot of medications and do not like how they make me feel. But I have no access to alternate medicine other than what I figure out for myself, which I am working on – reiki, shamanic journeying and affirmations and sound healing. But the side effects of these drugs are hard to overcome. I get to keep working with my holistic intentions.  How do you keep your health care aligned with your beliefs?

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

How Do You Regain Your Balance?

Free time is a valuable resource. Assuming you do not need to sleep to re-balance, how do you structure your free time? 

Do you really have a time in your day in which you are free to choose what you want to do next? It may range from a long walk in nature to a focused meditation.  It could be about organizing some aspect of your life so your choices become clearer, or it may be about exploring something new.

Look closely to determine where you are off kilter and what is pulling you there and make some new choices that help regain your balance.

Make Sure Your Message Is Clear

I was semi-interested in an on-line sound healing event but the messaging and instructions were not as clear as I needed. I took action but it was a bit challenging. The Shift Network does their summits extremely well. 

How clearly do you express yourself? Your intentions, your ideas, your beliefs?

Sometimes we are so far into a topic that our vocabulary is too advanced for the people we are talking to and we do not realize it.  Sometimes a single well-constructed sentence to orient people is enough.

Know your listeners, develop a few sentences of orientation and make sure your message is clear.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

The Power Of Chanting

I have not done a lot of chanting in my spiritual practice but now that I am diving into sound healing, I will begin to work with it more. Chanting lets you raise the level of your own vibration to a higher spiritual state. It is a form of vocal meditation that unites the mind, body, emotions, and breath through vocal sounding. 

What you chant is less important than your willingness to focus fully on the act of chanting itself. Chanting lets you raise the level of your own vibration to a higher spiritual state.

To begin, sit comfortably with a straight back and take a series of long, deep breaths to open and flex your lungs. Then, take another breath, and with resonant tones, direct your breath outward in the form of sound. Simple syllables like ‘oh,’ ‘ee,’ or ‘mm’ are easy to remember. Experiment to find which sounds resonate with you the most. Experiment with both pitch and vowel sounds. It may vary depending on the focus of your chanting/meditation.  

Chanting can liberate and ground you simultaneously because it allows your soul to soar freely while compelling you to focus on the here and now.

The chanting that will resonate most deeply and beneficially for you is the chanting you do for yourself. As you begin to explore chanting, see how you want to use it in your spiritual practice. You can chant as an invocation or to set intention. You can chant in gratitude. By using your breath and your voice with chanting, you raise the level of your own vibration to a higher spiritual state.

There are many different chants. They can be composed of names, words, sounds, syllables, or even sections of text. What you chant is less important than your willingness to focus fully on the act of chanting itself.

You can chant as an invocation or to set intention. Chanting lets you raise the level of your own vibration to a higher spiritual state. How and will you add chanting to your life?

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Are You Living An Inspiring Life?

How do other people see you? Ae you filled with enthusiasm and joy?  Do people find being in your presence uplifting? Or do they come away pulled down by your expression of life?

Think about the people you love to be around and figure out why they are so uplifting by their mere presence.

Qualities like enthusiasm and caring come to mind. I like being around people with sharp minds and a lot of curiosity. They challenge me and open new doors for me to explore.

Give some thought to how your presence affects others and see if or how you want to change your participation with others and how you show up in the world.

Are You Called To A Cause?

When I first thought about this, I was thinking of being called to activism – like save the planet or save the animals – a cause that is so meaningful to you that you are called to take action.

I have come across a new role for me that may be the most important of my entire life. I am to serve as a bridge between my holistic knowledge and the western medicine presence of the staff here in long term care. I have never been this impactful before and I am reaching through several generations.

What new cause is calling you?

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

Spiritual Practice

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

Listen to my
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify / Googleand the
Deeper Song Website

==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Past issue of this newsletter and found at Insights Of A Deeper Song. Past Podcasts are found at Deeper Song Podcasts

===CARA’S CORNER===

The Impact You Have

Chris Brogan, in a recent newsletter, asked what final words we wanted to hear when we prepare to die and for me it is “You have made a difference.” 

I know I have. I know I am a dispenser of knowledge about alternate healing in this western medicine long term care facility. They are asking about it and I am sharing. It is as if I am a bridge.

I was asked to give a talk to residents and I taught them a bit about sound healing. I have been asked to speak to the staff leadership team and will teach them how to change the energy in a room or in a conversation.

Recently I told the head of nursing here about my work with sound heading and that it was in hospitals and it turns out he teaches nursing!

I am currently talking about sound healing to everyone who crosses my path. Who knows how far-reaching and impactful those interchanges will be. What is the impact you have? Use it wisely.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

I Am A Bridge

I am a bridge – a bridge to new insights, deeper explorations and expanded understanding.

I am a bridge – a bridge to new insights, deeper explorations and expanded understanding. I go where my curiosity takes me, always exploring and questioning and learning.

I am a bridge – a bridge to new insights, deeper explorations and expanded understanding. I go where my curiosity takes me, always exploring and questioning and learning. Then I turn and show others the way.

– Cara Lumen, May 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

Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they
Join the Deeper Song Community

Past Issues of this newsletter are being curated on my site on a page called Insights.

Our Global Deeper Song Community

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

Subscribe to this weekly Deeper Song Newsletter at www.deepersong.com

My Books

This Is A Powerful Time for Transformation

Living Our Deeper Song

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

Major changes need to be made within ourselves and in our inner and our worlds in order to move forward to create the new world that we are being called upon to help manifest. It’s a bit scary, this unknown path, but there is stalwart determination building up as thoughtful, aware people work to change their thinking and their beliefs and their expectations and turn that into positive action.

Change is constant and we must constantly adapt. We cannot wait for some future time or situation in order to self-actualize. Life is a constantly changing cycle of new opportunity and new challenges. And more importantly, new choices.

The list is fairly large. Artificial Intelligence is both an opportunity and a moral challenge. Science opens new doors every day. What new opportunities and insights have our voyages in space given us?  The environment is demanding our conscious help in its healing. Change is constant and we must learn to adapt and creatively change with it.

Are you up to the task? How are you changing your thinking and your choices to help create a better world?

I think we need to return to that core concept that we get what we believe we deserve and what we believe is possible. 

Each day something that was seemingly impossible becomes possible and new fields of opportunity open up. That means we must keep changing our gaze and continuously look for new opportunities and pathways. Some paths will remain open but they will change. I’m thinking of the medical field which continues to evolve but at the core is still about healing. 

It’s challenging enough to prepare a new field of interest and action, but adventurous people may change fields in mid-life.

In high school in the 40’s, I learned to type on a big manual typewriter. It was in the 80’s in New York City that I first heard of a computer.  Today things are moving so fast that I am falling behind.

How do you keep up let alone catch up?    

You pay attention to what is unfolding and continuously explore new ways to do things to see if it fits your vision and your gifts. You have to stay flexible and explore and evaluate and choose or reject depending on what resonates and the path you choose to follow. We have to stay mobile, flexible and inquisitive. 

Are you open to change? Are you exploring more deeply those new possibilities that catch your attention? It’s easy to do some research online to find out what the jobs are and what new skill requirements are needed.  This is no longer a day and age in which you can settle into a career and follow that path for your entire life. Even professions like medicine and law have to keep updating themselves. Life seems to be an ongoing learning cycle and we have to do our part to keep up with the changes and opening opportunities that continue to present themselves. 

My core skills are writing and an inquisitive mind. I have applied my writing to commercials for radio and TV, I have written plays and books and poetry and on-line courses. I have used my organizational skills to organize a Picture Lady program for the Kansas City School District, as a stage manager for plays, and to organize my material as an online teacher. One or two skills can take you in a lot of directions. You just have to go exploring and get creative about how you apply those gifts.  

Go exploring. Be inquisitive. Try things out. What new adventure awaits you? This is a time of transformation. Enjoy the change!

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am open to change. I go exploring to find new places in which to offer my gifts and talents in skills. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Make a list of your gifts and your skills and rate them according to what gives you the most satisfaction.
• Take the top two and brainstorm, and define how many ways you can use those gifts or skills.
• Do some research to identify what new opportunities are developing in the fields that you are interested in exploring.
• Pick one and go deeper into its possibilities. 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

How To Create A Powerful Affirmation

We are in a world of flowing substance, a shape-shifting energy and what makes the shapes shift is our thought. Because everything is one energy, the thoughts we think work within the sphere of oneness.

An affirmation is a mold we create in our imagination of what we desire. We get to choose wisely and with awareness.  An affirmation can be hampered and its effect limited by what we believe we deserve and what we believe possible.  So when creating your affirmation make sure to check for any limiting beliefs. 

I’m not going to make an affirmation that I’m going to skip down the halls at 90, but I can make an affirmation that I walk upright with only a cane. That’s possible. Once I master the cane, I will think about skipping…

An affirmation is a desire stated in present-tense terms as if it is already manifest in our lives.

1. 1.Make them personal: I am, I know, I let.

2. 2.Keep the words positive. 

3. 3.Write them in the present tense, in the here-and-now. Right now, Today, in this moment. Never use the past or future tense. 

4. 4.Make the vocabulary personal to YOU. Use words that touch you at the feeling level. 

5. 5.Be specific but do not state what or how it is to manifest. Leave that up to an exciting Universal Surprise!

Create a statement in the present tense that suggests the positive outcome has already occurred. This is your affirmation.

I see clearly within and without.

I am easily and naturally balanced.

I experience love from many sources. I let that love nurture me.

I am clear about my role in the unfolding universe and my participation has lasting and positive impact.

Use affirmations and your imagination to create a mold of what you desire.

An affirmation is a statement made in the present tense as if it has already happened. Get to work co-creating your life the way you want it!

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Focus On A Higher Perspective Of Who You Are

How do you view yourself?  As a human struggling along or as a Light Being of Vibrant Energy and Infinite Possibilities participating meaningfully in the world? 

We get what we focus on.  We get what we expect.  We have a choice.  What are you focusing on?

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Do You Continue To Explore?

I love to explore. I love to learn. I stay open to nudges from the universe to explore new ideas or expand my thinking and my focus. 

I leave time to think. I take time to dive deeper into directions and concepts that interest me.  

When and how do you continue exploring?

Do You Need To Change Your Diet?

I was in the hospital again – for four days and as I was being examined for admission, a doctor sat down and said I could cure my edema with a low sodium diet.

I was stunned and also grateful for a seemingly easy fix. Except I’m the only vegetarian here. I was on a cardio diet at the hospital and really liked the vegetable soup with a tomato soup base. But that’s all I came home with.  

I have both the dietitian and the chef working with me to see what I like. I’m really controlling my sodium intake.

If I can restore my health with a low sodium diet, I’m in. Is your diet keeping you in great heath? What changes are you willing to make? 

I do know about Mrs. Dash and found three flavors I like but this is going to be a major change. Check out your salt intake and see what changes you are willing to make.

How Do You Spread Cheer?

The Med-Aide harmonized with the resident and they both had a lovely time singing.  That particular person is from the agency and her cheerful willing-to-help presence cheers us all up.

Are you aware of how your mere presence affects others?

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

A Meditation To Create Positive Change

We have so much choice in our lives.  We have the ability to change our lives simply by changing our thinking – our belief in what is possible – our choice in what we attract into our lives.  If things are not going well, we have only to look within and change our thinking and our expectations. Change is really that simple.

Begin with an intention stated in the present tense as if it has already happened. I am.” “I have.”

In a place of solitude: 

1. 1. Describe to yourself the unformed energy and its qualities to yourself.

2. 2. Sit quietly until you feel you have lost yourself in this energy and that you as a person no longer exist, that you are immersed in the universal energy field of love and wholeness.

3. 3. Absorb your intention into this formless energy. With passion feel your intention taking shape with you at its center. Notice what it looks like.  Experience how you feel with that intention completed. Notice what changes occur. Allow it to seep into every cell. 

4. 4. Accept with gratitude the completion of your intention into your soul. Know with certainty that it is manifest.

5. 5. Cherishing the feeling in your center, move back into gradual awareness of your physical presence.

Look for the subtle signs offered by the universe and respond according to your heart.  Create a meditation to create positive change in all areas of your life.

=== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

Change How You See The World And See The World Change

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

—Marcel Proust

How do you need to change your view of the word?  Of your life?  Of your potential? Are you expecting enough of yourself? Of others? How can you raise your gaze? Focus on a new horizon? 

Where you look and what you look for determines what you see.

===DEEPER SONG DISCOVERIES===

Resources to Explore

Sound Healing

I am deep diving into sound healing. I have been invited to speak to the residents during a week-long festival and because so many people are not very capable physically, I’m going to teach them to hum to their bodies to help them balance and feel more empowered.  My resource is David Gibson and his remarkable book Empower Your Life With Sound Healing, The Complete Guide to Sound Healing.

I will teach them to hum to their organs and injuries but I’m going to deep-dive into the topic.

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

I Entwine My Light With Yours As We Move Forward To Show The Way

We have some work to do here.  We have a world to save. A humanity to balance, an environment to rescue.  As Light Leaders we have work to do.

We need to watch our expectations – we need to check on what we believe is possible and we have to hold the vision. Can you imagine a world of peaceful co-existence? Gentleness and kindness and thoughtfulness for everyone around you? Can you envision a world in which we as the inhabitants monitor our actions toward the planet so it does not just survive but thrives under our stewardship. I have to work at keeping an inclusive, positive, powerful vision.

What do I do? I monitor my own beliefs in what is possible. I monitor my own thoughts. I carefully choose my own actions and responses. 

I look for and identify other Light Leaders and entwine my light with yours to encourage and support and co-create together. 

Are you looking for and identifying other light leaders? Is there more to your interaction than just supporting each other? What actions do you take together?

I know there are many active Light Leaders reading this newsletter and I hope my words offer insights and support to guide you in your own journey of exploration. I entwine my light with yours as we move forward together to guide the way.

Who do you now turn and help to light the way?

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Use Your Imagination To Open New Doors

When we believe it will happen, it will. If we go with the belief that everything is one infinite, all-encompassing energy, then nothing is impossible. This one invisible, infinite energy contains all possibilities and it folds and unfolds into our life experience. Anything and everything can and does manifest when we focus on and intend it.

Where is your lack of imagination holding you back?

When I look at my own life I have to begin with my physical body – how it is changing, how it is trying to self-heal, and I monitor what I think can happen – how I can envision, expect, and imagine those re-strengthening changes happening.

Look to see if your imagination is keeping you tied down and raise your sights to see and expect the changes you want.

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Don’t Neglect Your Gifts

When we pause to think about it, I bet we can all come up with a gift we have been neglecting.  Something we used to do all the time that brought us great satisfaction and pleasure.

I’ve done my share of knitting over the years. I worked in oils for a while.  I can no longer garden but do have some house plants to nurture me. I love doing my podcast but can no longer see to edit them. Life does open and close doors but we get to pry them open again.

I can still pick up my drawing pencils and draw the elements of a shamanic journey.  I love writing my poems in the newsletter. I make up songs for my spiritual practice.  I play my drums each day and my native flutes. And of course, there is the newsletter which satisfies my soul. There are many ways to continue to express your gifts throughout your life. Keep your gifts alive and active.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

My Neglected Gifts

My gifts lay spread before me in a multi-colored array of textures and colors. They have been developed and honed all my life.

My gifts lay spread before me in a multi-colored array of textures and colors. They have been developed and honed all my life. Some are more worn with use than others because they have been beloved companions over the years.  

My gifts lay spread before me in a multi-colored array of textures and colors. They have been developed and honed all my life. Some are more worn with use than others because they have been beloved companions over the years. I pick up one of my least-used gifts and bring it forward for this stage of my life.  I creatively use it to open new doors.

– Cara Lumen, May 2023

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

Namaste,

Adjust Your Sails

Living Our Deeper Song

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

It only takes a small adjustment in the angle of a sail to allow a sailboat to change course and end up at an entirely new destination. Life is like that. A small course correction will take you on a new adventure.  Do you need to adjust your sails?

It’s a simple as changing your focus. A shift of your attention. A raising of your gaze.

I’m going to shift in several places. Physically I have to strengthen my body. I have a plan for that.

Spiritually I want to expand my experience. I want to re-read several core books and see where they lead me now that I am at a deeper level.

I want to deepen my place of service, figuring out how to help Transformational Leaders deepen our relationship with the Unseen World and expand our role in the New Consciousness. That is a whole body of work that has yet to reveal itself.

Some of these course corrections will be small. Others will take me on grand new adventures.

All you need to do to have a new adventure is to adjust your sails.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I give serious thought to where I am headed and make some course corrections. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Pause and look at where you are headed and see if that is where you still want to go.
• What signs and signals have shown up that may suggest new options to consider?
• Examine other options and possibilities.
• Adjust your sails.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Pay Attention To The Nudges

Ideas, dreams, urges, unexpected insights, seemingly random encounters, unforeseen opportunities – these are all signs from the Universe supporting your life adventure.

Nothing happens without a purpose. We must stay open to new encounters, inner nudges and unexpected thoughts which are signs that the Universe is opening new paths for us to explore.

Think of the times in your life that an unexpected opportunity or encounter totally changed your idea of what direction you are to go in.

Shortly after moving to Santa Rosa, California, I met someone who invited me to the Church of Religious Science (now the Center for Spiritual Living) which I had briefly heard of right before I left New York City. I went to church and sat there saying, “I believe that!” “I believe that!” I had found my spiritual home and five years later I was a licensed spiritual practitioner all because of an encounter at a particular time in my life.  

Nothing happens without a purpose. Whether it seems to move you forward or turn you aside, know that it is the universe speaking to you, opening the door for you, suggesting a new path for you. 

The Universe is always looking out for us. Pay attention to the nudges.

Encourage Serenity

Peaceful, tranquil, serene – all states that encourage contemplation and inner stillness. How do we cultivate that? How do we achieve that? 

First we must create moments of contemplation in which we purposefully move into stillness.  We quiet our mind, use our breath to release tension and move into a receptive state of feeling and listening to our voice within.

You can take these centering moments anytime, anywhere and you can also set aside a time for meditation and contemplation each day.

How do you encourage serenity? How will you experience it more often?

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself
Seeker of Silences

Seek silence.  Empty your mind and move into the sacred emptiness and make room for your inner voice to guide you.  In the silence, contemplate your path, your current companions and your destiny. Perhaps you journal, perhaps you draw your vision, perhaps you simply contemplate the possibilities.

What insights do you find when you seek the silences within?

Don’t Give Up

I’m nearing the end of a 10-week Tai Chi class with Deng, Ming-Dao on The Shift Network.  He moves with grace and balance and strength and he has been doing Tai Chi for decades.  I want to attain that balance and strength.

Now bear in mind that I use a walker so I do strange adaptations of the moves and some of it I can’t do at all. But I want this in my life so I have some work to do. I have access to the video of the class forever. It is totally up to me to do the work even if what I can do is a poor imaging of the full move.  But the trying will be strengthening and balancing. 

What goal seems far away to you and how will you begin to achieve your version of it? Don’t give up.

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

The Art of Non-Attachment

Non-attachment is more than just letting go, it is about releasing any concern about the results.

We guide our children as they grow up and then we need to release them to follow their own paths.

When we take a turn in our own path, we may leave accomplishments and relationships behind. There is no going back to change or undo – there is only forward.

How good are you at the art of non-attachment?

How To Take Advantage of New Opportunities

Do you recognize a new opportunity when you see one? What action do you take? Do you examine it, explore it, considerate it, or just let it pass you by? 

Don’t get so stuck on your path that you no longer take time to explore the side roads and small trails of adventure presented to you by your inner voice, or unexpected circumstances, or a phrase that catches your attention. Create and adjust but keep exploring the new paths and ideas that continue to show up. Don’t be afraid of new insights and opportunities that you can explore that may take you in a new direction. 

New paths offer new possibilities. Go exploring and see what new adventures unfold.

===DEEPER SONG DISCOVERIES===

Insights and Resources to Explore

Develop A Different Perspective

Even a slight shift can offer a different perspective and make a huge difference in the outcome. 

If I want to develop a different perspective for my spiritual practice I will go exploring. I may expand what appeals to me. I have not read Rumi and Tagore and Lao Tzu for a while. I have added songs to above and below to my drumming that are still emerging. I am increasing my Transcendental Meditation time, and I have gotten my Woodstock chimes back and will create ceremony around them. I could experiment with the time of day I place my meditation practice so I have more time to lengthen it. I’m exploring sound healing more and will make room for that.  All of these explorations will expand and deepen different areas and lead me to a different perspective of my spiritual practice.  Some of these are major changes, some are minor but all will change your perspective, deepen your insights and widen and deepen your path. How will you develop a new perspective for your spiritual practice?

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Seek The Circumstances You Want 

We always have choice.  We can change our relationships, our professions, our way of living, our health, simply by re-choosing.

It begins by knowing what you want. Very often that is tied up in what you believe you deserve and what you believe is possible. Figure out how to seek the circumstances you want.

The Wisdom of 17-Year-Olds

I keep coming across 17-year-olds who already know they want to be doctors or surgeons or nurses or Certified Nursing Assistants and they are already showing up here at Evergreen as juniors in high school.

When I was in high school, girls were just supposed to get married and raise children.  No college.  No careers.  Looking back my writing and organizational skills showed up in high school but a career was not something I thought about. 

These young people come to me to ask about my web site and I also tell them about The Shift Network to learn about holistic healing. They are strong young women and it is an honor to know them. 

Who is showing up in your life to expand your view and deepen your experience?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

The Emerging Generations

My experience with different generations is expanding.  I am surrounded by people who have chosen their career path as healers. I do not have interactions with people who are still searching. The 17-year-olds are trying to ignore the news even though they will be able to vote soon.  I know that will change because there are a lot of changes that must be made.

If you have young people in your life, help them feel empowered by the ability to cast a thoughtful vote. 

I also know 65-yer-olds who are moving into a second careers based on a new interest that is calling them into a new role.  It is not about quitting. It is about becoming self-empowered and designing their desired path for the next thirty years.

Except for the health career field, I don’t know any members of the working generations but I know there is new technology that is changing the workplace and they must stay flexible and agile.

Flexible and agile. We must all cultivate that. We must stay open to chance. We must stay open to new ideas. We must be willing to stay open to new ways of both doing and being. How flexible are you? Do you continuously welcome change?

How are you supporting the emerging generations?

=== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

Be Like Water

“Water never complains, but always pushes back. Always.

Drop a boulder in front of a stream and the water will simply flow around it, taking whatever opening the landscape will give or—when nothing is offered—patiently building up its resources until it rises to a height where a new gap is found.

Flow like water. Never complain, but always push back.” – James Clear

I love this image – always flexible, taking uncharted routes, with patience and determination.

How can you be more like water?

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Expanding Awareness

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective 

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The Mushroom Suit Helps Expand Our Relationship With Death.

I have not yet made up my mind. Medical students say they learn a great deal when they get to work on a cadaver. And a friend recently suggested I send my brain to research which I had not thought about and had no idea how to do. There is a 24-hour deadline for donating your body so if it is something you want to do, set it up early. They cremate your remains and I do know that the high heat of cremation is extremely hard on the environment.

But then I read about the Mushroom Suit. The Mushroom Suit realigns people’s relationships with death.

For those looking for an eco-friendly, unconventional burial, the mushroom suit is one answer. 

The Infinity Burial Suit is a handmade burial garment made with a bio mix of mushrooms and other microorganisms that aid in decomposition, help to neutralize toxins and provide nutrients to surrounding plant life.

After the burial, the mushroom and microorganisms begin to germinate. As they grow, they release enzymes that decompose the body and help break down and neutralize toxins such as lead, mercury, pesticides, and BPA. This process helps to provide nutrients to the soil while avoiding contamination to plant life, making it an environmentally sustainable disposition option.

Learn more here. 

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===CARA’S CORNER===

 I Got My Woodstock Wind Chimes Back!

Year ago I bought some Woodstock Windchimes. Sometime I had a good place to hang them, sometimes I did not.  I got them back from my daughter and hung them in my small space by my altar. I am excited to have them active again.

What do you want to bring back into your spiritual practice?  

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Song They Sing To Me

The chimes sing to me. They deepen my meditation and clarify my visions.

The chimes sing to me. They deepen my meditation and clarify my visions. I let them take me deeper into my new role.

The chimes sing to me. They deepen my meditation and clarify my visions. I let them take me deeper into my new role. Here I go exploring – again. 

– Cara Lumen, April, 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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What If You Got To Start Over?

Living Our Deeper Song

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

I first thought about this when I read about tornados leveling homes to the ground in the US. What would I do if I was left with nothing and had to start over?

I would look at it as an opportunity to rethink and re-choose and restart. Where would I begin?

If I could live anywhere, where would it be? If I had the world to choose from, where would I go?

How would I earn my living? Perhaps I would choose to live very simply and contemplate the land like Thoreau did in Walden Pond. Would you go to another country? Another climate? Another state? I made major cross country moves three times but I worked as a temp and could always get work as I continued to build my online business which you can do from anywhere.

Get out your imagination and start your new life with a blank slate and make it just as you would like it to be.

What if you decided to follow your heart? Where would you go and who and what would you bring with you?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am open to change. I go exploring.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Imagine that you were going to start over.  Nothing is established. Nothing is set in stone. What would you create? What would you do differently?

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

The Role We Have Agreed To 

Michael Newton, Ph.D. is considered to be a pioneer in uncovering the mysteries about life after death through the use of spiritual hypnotic regression. He holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology, and is a certified Master Hypnotherapist.

Over many years, he developed his own intensive age regression techniques in order to effectively take hypnosis subjects beyond their past life memories to a more meaningful soul experience between lives. We all want to have our life have meaning but his work suggests we deliberately choose our life. even the most difficult ones.

We get to choose our next incarnation and even where we will go (as in other universes…) As you examine your beliefs about death, do some exploring to see what others have experienced in their life between lives and make up your own mind.

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Do You Believe In Self-Healing?

“Each person carries his own doctor inside him. Give him time to do his work.” – Albert Schweitzer

When you believe in self-healing, you have to figure out how you access and focus it.

Obvious steps are exercise and nutrition and emotional balance. Emotion balance can be tricky to identify and it can sneak up on you. I did not know I was depressed until I moved and got un-depressed.

I continue with physical steps like Qigong and Tai Chi and have researched and added posture strengthening exercises to my daily body practice.

I can check my belief system to see what I think is possible for me at 90 and look to active people older than I am for inspiration. 

What else can I do to access and support my inner doctor?

What I believe I deserve and what I believe is possible will have a profound impact.  I can check that out. 

I see some evidence that my body is self-healing. I’m getting a lot of help with medications on the inside but I have major physical strengthening work to do.

Do you believe in self-healing? And how do you access and cultivate it?

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

How Long Do You Stay On Your Path?

New paths continue to beckon as we move through life but make certain you have explored the path you are on enough to feel satisfied with what you have learned and to identify what you need next in your life. 

You can go partway down a path to see if it resonates but feel free to return and explore other paths before you choose which one is important to explore next.

 Use Images To Solidify Your Vision

I visualized the Peace Pole and wrote down my vision. Then I did some line drawings to make the design. But the idea I want to share is that I went online and found images that made the concept even stronger.  So here’s my idea – when you have an idea, see if online images help solidify it.  

You could make a Vision Board with online images. Use online images to shape and solidify your vision.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

How Well Do You Meditate?

I want to meditate more often and more deeply. I have my mantra from learning Transcendental Meditation in the 60’s. I had my husband and children take it. We were interviewed separately and given different mantras according to the indications of the interview. I have used my mantra for fifty years. I did some online research on TM and what I found out was fascinating:

“Transcendental Meditation is not new, but is a part of the Vedic tradition of India, stretching back several thousand years. It is the heart of the Yoga system, and an important part of Ayurveda (‘the ‘Science of Life’), the world’s most ancient system of natural healthcare and personal development.

It may not always have had the same name, but the same basic technique has appeared many times in the past. At times when it disappeared from popular awareness, it was always preserved by the monks of the Shankaracharya tradition as Raja Yoga, the ‘royal path to unity’, which described the vast mental resources that lie virtually untapped below the surface of our conscious mind.

Through misunderstanding of the origins of Transcendental Meditation original teachings however, the process prescribed to release this potential and thereby solve life’s problems, ‘Ashtanga Yoga,’ of which TM is described as the ‘heart’, has been interpreted as eight steps of control and correct behaviour, which would eventually lead to the ability to experience a settled mind or ‘samadhi‘. Because of this confusion of cause and effect, it didn’t work for all but a few who were prepared to give up normal activity. Meditation was for a long time relegated to the fringes of everyday life, and for active people became substituted by visualization and other relaxation techniques.”

Then I found this:

Transcendental Meditation Mantras

TM is practiced by silently and effortlessly thinking a mantra or sound, which has been passed on during personal instruction by a fully-trained teacher following careful guidelines laid down by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It is strongly recommended that you do not try to learn TM from any other source, even if they claim to be using Transcendental Meditation mantras, for reasons which will become apparent below.

How do Transcendental Meditation mantras work?

The mantra does not act as a focus for the mind as in other forms of meditation, but as a ‘vehicle’ upon which the attention gently and innocently rests. This allows the mind to settle into increasingly subtle levels of thinking, and finally the mantra itself is transcended and we settle into silence.
There are two qualities of the Transcendental Meditation mantra which are important for this process to occur:

It is a meaningless sound. Using a word with meaning would keep the mind on the surface, thinking about the word, and not allow it to transcend (go beyond) that level.

Its vibration has a resonance with its source in the primordial hum (Om) close to the silent, blissful level of the mind which gives it a tendency to fade in that direction. This attracts and charms the mind, which itself is always searching for greater happiness, so the mind settles with the mantra towards silence.

Where do Transcendental Meditation mantras come from?

The mantras used in Transcendental Meditation come from the ancient Vedic tradition of India. They are Sanskrit sounds, the language which is the closest possible human imitation of the natural vibrations produced by the dynamism of the unified field; the field identified by objective modern science as the silent source of all creation, and by yogis in their meditation as the Self – the field of Pure Consciousness. Some mantras have healing power for specific parts of the body, but the Transcendental Meditation mantras are for transcending, which has an enormous healing effect for the whole body and mind and much more.

How do you choose the Transcendental Meditation mantra?

There are thousands of Transcendental Meditation mantras, from which a small number with known effects are used. We choose one that is suitable for you from a selection passed on by Maharishi according to a simple procedure that ensures it is correct.

Can I get my mantra from my friend, or some other source?

It is important to receive the mantra from a fully trained Transcendental Meditation teacher because they have been given a selection of mantras which have been passed down through a long line of teachers over thousands of years. The effects are therefore well known both historically and currently to be always positive and life-enhancing.

The mantras and procedures for passing them on are received by the teacher after months of intensive training, and the student is asked not to share the mantra or the way it is taught with anyone. This is for the benefit of the one already meditating (see next question), and to preserve the purity of the teaching ensuring that every person receives full and correct instruction. This is very important.

There are 4 vital aspects of the teaching that ensure that it will work for you:

1. Receiving a correct mantra.
2. Knowing how to use it properly.
3. Being able to correctly interpret the experiences that come as a result.
4. Having the support and guidance of a fully trained teacher free for the rest of your life.

Any one of these aspects missing could result in incorrect practice, lack of progress, and giving up on meditation completely, so missing a priceless opportunity to significantly enhance your life.

Why not the primordial humOm?

As explained above, not just any sound will do. Different mantras have different effects. The mantras used in TM are a group of ‘householder’ mantras designed to enable people to experience deep, restful meditation which brings integration between inner silence and outer activity – deep rest along with energy and dynamism. Om has a strong environmental effect which is OK if chanted in a group, but if used as a personal, internal mantra, it is suited only for those wanting to withdraw from active life.

Isn’t it better to chant the mantra?

Chanting the mantra will keep the body (mouth, throat etc.) active, and therefore not allow it to sink into the state of natural, deep rest that TM is famous for. Chanting also controls the mind and prevents it from settling into silence, as it naturally wants to do. And modern science has shown us that these quieter, deeper levels of life are more powerful – the nuclear level is far more powerful than the atomic level. Similarly, mantras are more powerful when they are thought rather than chanted, but the biggest power is discovered when the mantra is transcended as in the process of Transcendental Meditation.

These particular Transcendental Meditation mantras have been passed on in this specific way to millions of people all around the world since Maharishi’s revival of this ancient knowledge in 1958.  The success of the technique has been verified by the benefits indicated by testimonials and a vast body of scientific research in universities around the world.”

• The Meditation Trust

I include all this because some of it I did not know. I have been suggesting people use OM for a mantra and I will stop doing that. I have not valued my Transcendental Meditation mantra as much as I could and I did not understand its origins. But I do know that it has been a powerful element in my spiritual practice and I’m going to mindfully expand my personal meditation practice using my TM mantra. 

=== DEEPER SONG  PHILOSOPHIES ===

Our Chosen Path

“Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

How do you find a new path? You listen to your inner voice and go exploring. It may be a whisper or a compelling calling.  Heed it and begin your new adventure. 

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Your Moral Code Is Yours Alone

You cannot legislate your version of morality beliefs onto other people. There is a group of Republicans in the US who are trying to do just that. 

I am very grateful for the gifts of other cultures and belief systems. Taoism, Buddhism, Ayurvedic, Yoga, Tai Chi, Qigong, and Shamanism have broadened and deepened many facets of my life. I am enriched by their presence, their teachings and their diversity. I have learned music and food and spiritual practices from people of other cultures.

Our major moral code should be “Do not harm’” which could translate into “Let other believe what they choose. Do not try to impose your viewpoint on others.” 

There is so much to be learned from other cultures that we should take every opportunity to learn and expand our range of potential possibilities by learning from them. Adopt and adapt what calls to you. Don’t stay static – go exploring…!  

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Justify Our Being

I ran across the phrase “Justify our being” in Michael Newton’s book Journey Of Souls. (Case Studies of Life Between Lives). He was showing that we understand why we have returned to earth – what lessons we are to learn, what gifts we are to give.

Sometimes we come in with notable challenges that make us more aware. A major and dramatic choice I made in my 40’s greatly broadened the number of lives I have touched along the line.

Sometimes we make those major choices and sometimes we don’t. 

I have a new purpose now. It is multi-faceted and unfolding. And I am listening intently to its whisper.

What did you come into this life to do and are you doing it?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Learn To Read The Energy

Years ago in New York City I found the website of a young man who was a Buddhist and powerful, positive energy poured off the screen. I just sat there and soaked it in. It was my first experience of energy traveling so pointedly across the internet. It was the 80’s and computers were new.

Another energy experience in New York City was when a client said she had found me in the New York City phonebook from the energy of my name listed in that very large book!

Learn to interpret the energy around you and base your choices on what you feel rather than what your mind suggests. 

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===REFLECTIONS===

Be a sheet of paper with nothing on it.

Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,

where something might be planned, 

a seed possibly, from the Absolute.

-Rumi

How lovely to be empty and open and ready to receive, to receive ideas, to receive guidance, to receive comfort and insights and encouragement.

How do you stay open?

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Taking Charge

I have stepped up to the plate to walk again. Enough of this wheelchair stuff. I have access to physical therapy but there is work I must do myself. I have gone online to learn exercises I can and will do and have add three specific conscious movement times to my day.

Self-motivation is an interesting aspect to encourage and develop. 

I have some ideas and I found some great ideas online but I have to execute them on a regular basis. I have to do them consistently and I have to push myself each time to do a little more. It’s all up to me.

I will give my body an opportunity to adjust to each level and at the same time try not to go too easy or too hard on myself. The objective is to walk further more easily. 

How do you challenge yourself? How do you make goals and meet them? What do you need to strengthen next?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Achieve A Challenging Goal 

My goal is simple and straightforward. I know how to achieve it.

My goal is simple and straightforward. I know how to achieve it. I am determined to succeed. 

My goal is simple and straightforward. I know how to achieve it. I am determined to succeed. I stay focused on the daily steps and take one day at a time.

– Cara Lumen, April 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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