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Cara Lumen

Immerse Yourself in the Oneness of the Void

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Immerse Yourself in the of the Void

Living Our Deeper Song


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

When we immerse ourselves into the oneness that is the Void (Rumi calls it the “Nowhere that you came from”) we experience ourselves as whole, perfect and complete. There is no striving. There is no separation. There is only oneness. We enter the void through our inner world. We sit or stand quietly and go within and keep going until our body disappears and we are void.  

In that void is everything. It is wholeness. It is serenity. It is the highest vibration that exists. We don’t connect with it, we are it. When we allow ourselves to move into the silence within, we have the experience of being everything. All that is. All that will be. We are part of a void that includes everything. Wholeness. Unconditional Love. Serenity. Wisdom. It’s all there. In the All-That-Is. In that silence within. 

How do you get there? How do you experience it? By moving within. Closing your mind to the external and moving into the void. The void of wholeness. The void of All-that-is. The Nowhere That We Came From. As we immerse ourselves in the experience of the void, our body responds with healing. Balancing. Restoring. And all we are doing is residing in an awareness of being one with the void. Allow the void to restore balance to your physical body, to expand your spiritual experience. Give yourself over to the void. Trust it. And let go. Let go of anything and everything that no longer serves you and is no longer relevant.

In the void of wholeness, the void of oneness, the void of All That Is, know that you are whole, perfect and complete. Experience that in your life. As you stay in that void, feel your entire being respond and realign and replenish and restore. Then, when you are ready, gradually come back to your experience as a human being and trust the expanded awareness flowing through your life, the void of wholeness. Trust it. And let it bring you into balance.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I make it a practice to move into the void every day and experience the wholeness and unconditional love and inclusiveness that is there.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Perhaps you want to record a guided meditation for yourself that takes you into the void. That lets you return to the vibration of wholeness, the experience of wholeness. Or just do it in meditation.
  • Notice what shifts and self-correct if appropriate. 

===INNER WORK===

How Do You Nurture Your Inner Self?

We mostly know how to take care of our bodies with good diet and exercise, but how do you consciously nurture your inner self? Do you have a meditation practice? If not, maybe you want to establish one. Do you walk in nature? Or at least sit and contemplate as you look out the window at nature every day? Perhaps watch the sunset or the sunrise?

Do you meditate? Do you listen to music? Do you write poetry or make up songs? Do you spend time with a dear friend? Do you hug your pet? Those are ways to nurture your inner self. Perhaps go exploring today to find a new way, a new experience you can create that will deepen your awareness of your inner self and its messages and guidance.

The Healing Power of Solitude

I live alone so solitude is a major part of my life but what I want to talk about here is actually choosing a specific time to be still within. To be alone with your thoughts. To be alone with your feelings. To be alone with your body. To be alone with nature. To let yourself immerse yourself in the ebb and flow of the ongoing cycles of life. To become part of the flow. And be nurtured by the love, be nurtured by the compassion, be nurtured by the peace that resonates in the silence. You can turn it into gratitude for the day or a blessing for the day but find a time in your spiritual practice to be aware of the sound of silence as you sit in solitude and listen to your Inner Self.

Send Love Ahead to Your Day

Vibration is not restricted by time and space so you can send the vibration of love ahead to your day and simply step into it as you move along the way. Isn’t that a nice idea? To send love ahead. Send love ahead to a meeting. Sounds love ahead to a conversation. Send love ahead to something you’re going to work on. And when you get there, love will be waiting for you. Lots of love. Give it a try. And watch the miracles happen.

Surrender Box

I get a lot of good ideas from Daily Om and this is one of them. It is the idea of a Surrender Box. 

There’s a great deal in our life that we need to leave up to the organic flow of the universe. So instead of trying to wrestle something to the ground or manhandle it into place, we let the Universe take care of it. We put it in a Surrender Box and let the universe handle it. Instead of worrying or feeling defeated, we just let go. Perhaps we say something like “please resolve this for the highest good for all” or “I release this to its natural unfolding.”  Then we turn it over to the all-compassing, compassionate universe.  

Have a real box. Write down on paper what you want to release and put it in the box knowing that it will all work out the way it’s supposed to. Let the universe and its all-encompassing all-knowing wisdom provide the next step whether it’s to let it go or to take action. The Surrender Box allows you to let go of any worry and concern and turn it over to the unfolding of the universe which is going to make it happen anyway. You just get to step out of the picture and stop worrying. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Feeling Empowered by Qigong for Self-Healing

I just finished Heal Yourself & Others With the Power of Qigong, with Master Chunyi Lin. on the Shift New and it has completely shifted my belief system and expectations about being able to self-heal. That Qi (energy) knows what to do. You just have to point it in the right direction and trust. You do that with your mind (Yi).

I’ve taken four or five other Qigong classes but I was doing that only as a meditative exercise choice. It wasn’t until I took this class that I realized that everything is changing including my body because I am actively directing Qi with my mind and trusting the Qi to know what to do. I just have to point it in the general direction. That’s huge.

I don’t know what’s going on in my body, I only know what is manifesting and that change and rebalancing continues to happen.  I have an idea of a possible cause of this realignment from a past life. So I sit here and direct Qi energy to the parts of my body that are being grouchy and the Qi energy is restoring balance to my body.

Here’s a link to the class. They have scholarships that are half price. This is his website. springforestqigong.com.  He sends out self-healing topics weekly. A self-healing class is taught there too. I really like what I’m learning in Spring Forest Qigong and what it’s helping me to do to heal myself. 
Grandmaster Chuny Lin, chunyilin.com

Positive Pause

Establish a time every day that you pause to realign. The form could be a nap. But the form could also be a few minutes of deep breathing while looking out the window at nature. Or meditation using a mantra. The point is to find at least one if not more times in your day that you really stop and recenter yourself into that Still Point into an awareness of you as pure vibration. Into a consciousness of releasing the frenetic energy and bringing in peace and calm. And love. And compassion. A pause. Possibly several times a day. It will rebalance you, it will recharge you. And it will keep you going in the right direction

Relief from Lower Back Pain

Qigong Pressure Point to Relieve Lower Back Pain with Master Chuny Lin.  Easy to do. Share it with those who need it.

===OUTER  WORK===

The Power of a Small Change

If I stand here and I turn to my left one step, and then start walking, I will end up in entirely new destinations. One step. One step can change my entire outcome, take me to an entirely different place. What is that one step? How do I recognize it?

Some of it is about experimenting. If I do this differently today how does it feel? What difference does it make in how I feel at the end of the day? Does it lead me to a different outcome? What small shift will you make today that may lead you in an entirely new direction? Go exploring and find new adventures.

Do The Work

In the second Qigong class with David Penn, he taught us some Qigong moves that I can’t even come close to doing. Not because they were hard. Simply because they required me to stand up straight – which I can’t do at this moment in time. But what they motivated me to do was to do my version of it. To try. For instance, he was teaching a standing squat. Well, I can hang on to things and stand up and move more or less, into kind of squat. So it inspired me to do what I can do. And build on that. I’m going to review the class because it is very rich in ideas. But the core shift is to just start doing the work. The best you can. On a consistent basis. And expect your body to respond and get stronger and better and more aligned. What do you need to begin to do even if it seems like you’re pretty far away from being able to achieve it? 

Cultivate Curiosity

Curiosity can take you on great adventures. It takes you into unknown corners and down unexpected panels. Curiosity cultivates new experiences and deeper wisdom. Learn to listen to your inner voice. Learn to notice the nudges in the universe that open new doors of opportunity and learning. Listen to the nudges of curiosity and go explore. Have a great adventure. Find a way to both stretch beyond your usual world and hold a space that is deeply, personally embodied. 

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

The Far Reach of Embodiment

Can you think of someone who has a quality that is so richly embodied that it resonates from something she/he does? It makes you recognize the quality and it encourages a desire within you to embrace that quality in your own life. That’s the far reaches of embodiment.

I am drawing two of my friends into a circle of three because we are all healers. We have mildly different approaches but we are at the core drawn to and interested inour role as healers. One friend I have known for 20 years, the other for six. And now we are three friends walking a similar path.

Who is in your life that is setting an example of qualities and experiences you would like to increase in your life? The wonderful young woman who comes to clean my home calls herself my Gal Friday. And her willingness and creativity and joy in doing the numerous things that keep a home going is inspiring. She loves to clean. Do you have something you love to do that people will notice your joy in doing it?

When we are joyous and enthusiastic about what we are doing that joy radiates out and inspires and motivates others. We are the embodiment of our beliefs. How are you doing with that?

I am a good friend to people that I want to interact with but I’m not so good with people that I’m not particularly drawn to. So I’m not sure how I’m seen in this senior center, but that’s OK. I have connected with friends online who are walking a path similar to mine.

How are you perceived? And is there anything about that you would like to change? Do that.

Self-Responsibility

I don’t know what my living accommodations are as I get older. This is independent living. Which means I have to stay independent. But now I have help with cleaning and taking trash out and picking stuff up off the floor. What do you do when you age and become less self-sufficient and have no family? When you are on your own and are not capable of being on your own? What are your choices? What are your resources?

Yes, I get more and more creative about how to get dressed, how to care for myself, how to feed myself. I’m aware of the type of help that I need. I have Shelly who comes to clean every other week and do my laundry, and this week I hired her to come for 20 minutes on her way home on the opposite week to take out trash and change my sheets and pick up things off the floor that I can’t reach anymore. It was a relief to make that commitment to hire that extra time. Look around for an older person that you might do some small deed for. It will be greatly appreciated.

Support – Giving and Getting

We each have a support system. It may be a big one or a little one. But there is someone we can call upon. And there are others that can call upon us. Support is about both giving it and receiving it. 
I need support in caring for my home as I age. I hope I give support in my newsletter as I explore life and figure out ways to do it thoughtfully. It’s an exchange but it’s not an exchange with the same people. The wonderful person who comes to clean my home does not read my newsletter but she says I am her favorite hippie… So this flow of giving and receiving support is not necessarily an exact exchange. It is a pattern of moving energy in our lives. How is the balance of your giving and getting? Are you getting enough help? Are you giving enough? Do both. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Leadership

How does one lead in this volatile environment of strong and opposing viewpoints? It’s probably not going to be through reasoning. Somehow the communication of inclusion has to come through the heart. It is up to each of us to make room for the individuality of another and respect their choices and not impose ours on them. It’s a live and let live approach. I can show you by example what compassion looks and feels like. I can show you by example what respect for other cultures and beliefs looks like. But words won’t do it. We lead by doing. We lead by example. And those who are aware look at us and say, “Oh, I want to do it that way. I like what that feels like to be receiving that energy inclusion. I like how that affects my awareness.” 

What kind of example are you being in the world today and who are you sharing that example with? And what changes is it making? Lead by example. 

Filter the News – A Choice

I watch way too much news. It is depressing. And as I sit here in my 89-year-old body I don’t know how to help. Perhaps I can’t. It is not mine to do.

But I do have control over how I nurture my body and my soul – by what I think and focus on and consider is true. This is a period of massive self-destruction. There’s so much wrong about thinking that I don’t even know where to begin. What I do know to do is to focus on what is working. The people who are doing good things. The people who are having positive and creative ideas. Change may be as simple as shifting my focus. Not to ignore what’s going on, not to not prepare for it or look for solutions for it, but to hold a vision of a higher energy, a higher belief system. And inclusive, interconnected, loving way of being. What do you look for as you move through life?  How do you expect to change and contribute?  Where are you focused? What do you expect and what are you getting? Look for the positive that exists and support that. It will change the world. 

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===
Expanding Awareness
How to DeepenYour Cosmic Consciousness
Listen to my 
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify / Googleand the 
Deeper Song Website

==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.  – Betty Friedan

Here is A Qigong experience of the Void with Master Gadu Doushin.

===CARA’S CORNER===

Next

I have a comforting belief system about dying. It comes from two books where a psychologist hypnotized and interviewed people about their life between lives. Michael Newton did pass life regression with people specifically asking about what their life was between lives. He wrote Journey of Soul and and Destiny of the Souls.

The time between lives is a time of checking in, regrouping, rethinking, replanning and re-choosing. Even re-choosing whether we want to come in for another lifetime. For me that is very comforting. 

At 89, living in a senior center where people literally move on a lot, I am acquiring a philosophy of death and “next” that works for me. We all have to do the same. My vaccinated son-in-law at 75 got Covid. I can’t tell him my philosophy or the joy of a potential “next” because he’s very conservative and not receptive.  Nor would it be any comfort to my daughter who is 12 years younger when there comes a time for him to move on. I’m such a stand alone person, even as I find I have to ask for more help on the physical plane than I used to. I’m not afraid of being dead. I’m not too excited about the process of becoming dead in case it is uncomfortable. So I want my mind to continue to identify and reformulate and share philosophical ideas that help me and others with the concept of death. 

What do you do that gives value to your life right now and are you doing enough of it? Embrace the gifts of each day, each moment, each awareness. And let the rest unfold.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===
Next

My “next” comes from “now”.  How I see it. How I expect it to be. How I use it. 

My “next” comes from “now”.  How I see it. How I expect it to be. How I use it. What is the foundation I am standing on? What is the belief system that moves me forward? Will they serve me well?  Are they what I want?

My “next” comes from “now”.  How I see it. How I expect it to be. How I use it. What is the foundation I am standing on? What is the belief system that moves me forward? Will they serve me well?  Are they what I want? Shifts I now make will make a huge difference in my “next”. I choose thoughtfully.

Cara Lumen, May 2022

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 adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

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Living in Cycles

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Living in Cycles

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

We live in cycles both large and small. From the cycle of birth to death to the cycle of morning to night, our lives are guided and governed by cycles. When you become aware of where you are in a cycle, it strengthens your ability to utilize the power of that particular point in the cycle. For instance, if it’s a rest cycle it’s a good idea to rest. If it’s a height-of-a-day-get-it-done cycle – get busy. You know how hard it is to stay awake when it’s time to go to bed to sleep. You know how hard it is to eat when you’re not hungry. Those are natural cycles guiding you and your body and your life into a pattern of wholeness. When you learn to follow the cycles of the universe and be guided by them, life moves smoothly forward.

Learn from the cycles of nature. There’s a time to plant, there’s a time to harvest, there is the time for withdrawal and regeneration. There are big cycles and little cycles that repeat that same pattern. Know where you are in the cycle and honor it. If your body says rest, then rest. If your body says let’s get it done, then get to work. The more you pay attention to the natural cycles, the more you will be able to put their natural power behind what you do. Be aware. Be observant and utilize the flow of the cycles to get things done.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION
I am aware of the cycles of my day, of the moments and of my life.
DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • An easy place to begin noticing cycles is with your sleep cycle. Are you honoring it or are you forcing yourself to move beyond it?
  • Notice your eating cycle. Are you hungry or is this just something to do at this moment?
  • Examine your spiritual cycle and make it stronger.
  • The more aware you become, the easier it is to utilize the stage and phase of each cycle to be more productive.

===INNER WORK===
Know Your Value

Because we go around just doing our thing, we don’t often realize what impact we have. We don’t realize how our words and actions serve as examples to others of things that they might want to exemplify or explore. Our very existence has value, not only in how we live our lives, but in the example we give to others about the possibility of their lives.

Sometimes I need tangible proof like the number of people on my mailing list or the number of followers on Facebook but I shouldn’t have to do that. I should simply know that my energy, my choices, my deeds have an impact in the world. It goes places I have no idea that it goes. And touches lives and changes thinking and makes a difference. Trust the length and depth and breadth of your mere existence and live a conscious, thoughtful, inclusive life. You have great value. Know that.

===SELF-HEALING===
You Have the Power to Change

Whatever the level – spiritual, physical emotional, mental – you have the power to change. You have the power to change your belief of what is possible. You have the power to change your belief in what you deserve. As I work with Qigong my Yi (mind) moves the Qi (energy) and interesting things are happening. That makes me know that I have the power to change even on the most subtle levels.

First you have to want to change. Then you have to be willing to change. And that probably means letting go of something – a habit, a belief, an expectation. Then you simply make room for the universe to bring in what you need at this point in time. It may not be what you expect. It may not be what you exactly want. But if you say, “Universe, give me what I need right now”, it will. You just need to recognize it and put it to work. You have the power to change everything in your life. Keep what you want and change the rest.

===OUTER WORK===
Things You Can’t Control

There is a helplessness that steps in as we watch the environment in trouble and humans being cruel to other humans. Do we just sit here and watch? Or do we do something? Even when I do something it seems small in comparison with what is needed. So what do I do when things seem to be happening that I can’t control?

We move back to a broader knowledge that we are engaged in an ongoing relationship with a universe that responds to our thoughts and actions. 

So I do as much as I can on the physical plane both with intention and actual steps. Then I have to trust the universe. I have to let go, keep the strong intentions going, and let the universe unfold. That doesn’t mean things will turn out the way we want them to. It means they will simply turn out the way the universe means for them to – for the highest good for all.

Will you let go of the things that you can’t control and trust the universe to manifest what we need as a collective?

What are Your Priorities?

We make choices at every turn in our life. Some of the choices are wise and some not so wise. What are your priorities when you make a choice? Is it related to your work? Is it related to your relationships? Is it related to your health? Is it related to your spiritual practice? Just notice. Notice if one area is crowding out another. Notice if one area needs more attention than you’ve been giving it. 

I want to increase my physical movement and my spiritual practice. Expanding my Qigong practice is a way to do both. You could combine exercise with walking in nature. If you really want to, you can combine exercise with cleaning your house! Just notice how much time you’re spending on any particular area of your life and see if that’s the balance you really want to cultivate. What do you need to do more of? What do you need to do less of? What are your priorities for moving forward? 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===
Rethink Your Altar

It’s a good idea to periodically rethink the sacred things you keep around you. That may mean your desk, it may near your altar. But sometimes what we have around us loses meaning simply because they are just there.

I have two awesome new clay art pieces made by my friend Dr. Martha Lacy – a clay altar bowl that I designed and she executed for me and a rattle of her design but my decorative choices. They came this week. And I needed to totally rethink my altar or make a new one. I moved a bamboo table to be the altar in my meditation corner.

I took everything off and started over. There’s new meaning. There’s a new color scheme. And of course I’m making up songs to go with my altar bowl and my rattle.

Rethink your meditation space and your meditation practice on a regular basis. Seasonally is a possible reminder time. Make sure the focus is what you want for this point in your life. Make sure that the tools you are using are the ones that resonate the most with you. Take everything off your altar and put back only what calls to you for this particular moment, this phase of your life. See what a change that makes in your meditation practice. 

An altar alters your perception. 

===HOW TO BE A STRONG CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE DIVERSE CIRCLE OF LIGHT BEINGS===
Live and Let Live

There is a conceit in thinking that it should be your way or the highway. That does not allow for diversity. It does not allow for different spiritual paths. It does not allow for different belief systems. And it certainly does not allow for individual choices based on who you are and what you believe and need.

As I watch Republicans trying to have it their way or nothing, there is no desire to build community. There’s only a desire to build rulers. I don’t think you can look at a single spiritual practice in the entire world that teaches that. All the spiritual practices I have studied asks us to be thoughtful and considerate and inclusive of those around us – which means we help them. We honor their belief systems. We honor their needs. And nowhere is it written that any of us know the exact path for ourselves let alone for anyone else. Make certain you are not trying to enforce your beliefs on others. That’s not the way our world should work. We should have space for each of us to follow our own insights and inclinations. At the core is do no harm. 

Years ago George Walker Bush gave a speech in which he said that he believes that marriage should be only between a Christian man and a woman. I didn’t even get to the man and woman part because I was so stuck on the feeling of being persecuted if I were not Christian, which I’m not. I am a metaphysician. Which is a whole lot more inclusive of diversified beliefs than Christianity. Based on how I felt at his words I actually wrote a post with the title “What If You Feel Persecuted?” and it was republished in a gay magazine. But that was the first time I have felt prejudice to be followed by persecution.  I value my spiritual life deeply as I’m sure you do yours. I don’t talk about it with anyone in my senior community here in the Midwest because there are not many people here who have a clue what metaphysicians believe or think about or consider. I am sure that someone could easily tell me I was wrong because my belief systems, including vegetarianism, may be a little off the center part. 

Are you making space in your life and your belief system for the beliefs and needs of everyone? Are you content to live in your part of the world, in your corner if you will, and live the best you know how and leave others to do the same? 

Spiritual choices are personal. They evolve as we grow. They change as we explore. Look closely at your level of intolerance and judgment toward those who do not share your beliefs. And for everyone’s sake expand your inclusiveness.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===
The Extent Of Your Reach

My fully vaccinated and boosted daughter has Covid. She’s not terribly sick but she caught it at a conference in Florida which means that someone someplace decided not to get vaccinated and didn’t care what happened and how far-reaching that choice was. Now my son-in-law who went with her is in the hospital. I’m ticked. 

I watch people trying to have it their way without any regard for their impact on others. There is an unbelievable conceit that they are right. It’s very self-focused.

Everyone has free choice. Well, everyone should have free choice. But our choice includes weighing the repercussions. The way to change your mind is through logic and reason and education and also admitting you might be wrong, that your choice is not everyone’s choice. Think of the far-reaching impact of your choice. 

What makes a person think their way is the right way for everyone? Because it’s not. The whole point of being an individual is to be an individual. 

As long as I’m spouting off here, I realize that the way to make change is by reasonable conversations and expanded and inclusive education. So the people who want to put other people in jail for their choices of what they want to do with their body could try another tack. They could have a conversation, they could listen to the other person and try to put themselves in that person’s position. We don’t get to choose for other people. We don’t get to choose what they think or what they do. But we can have a conversation and exchange each other’s viewpoint and try to understand it. 

Then chose for yourself. Not others. 

===INTENTION BLESSING===

May we hear and heed the call of the Divine Feminine. 
May we expand our hearts and our expectations.
May we walk the Path of Light with a sure foot. 
May we keep our gaze on the summit.
May we take this journey with a full heart. 
I entwine my light with yours and we move forward to guide the way.

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===
Spiritual Practice
The Deepest Sound is Silence
Expanding Awareness

How Cycles Sneak Up On You 
Listen to my 
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify / Googleand the 
Deeper Song Website

===CARA’S CORNER===
A Shift In Focus

Even a slight shift in focus will take you in an entirely new direction. Stop where you are and look around you in a 360° circle. What are you neglecting? What do you want more of? Or could use less of? I have to move my body more. “Use it or lose it” as the saying goes. So I have to get creative. Do more standing Qigong. Walk in the halls more. I don’t go outside much but maybe I will or can or should. Even throwing in a few Qigong moves every time I stand up to move to a different position would be adding to the overall practice of more physical movement. You don’t have to rearrange your whole schedule, but you probably should make some adjustments in time spent doing the different aspects of your life. What will you add to your life and how and when will you add it?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===
Change is Needed

Change is needed, it’s up to me. 

Change is needed, it’s up to me. What do I choose? How do I choose it? When do I choose it? 

Change is needed, it’s up to me. What do I choose? How do I choose it? When do I choose it? What do I need right now in my life? I choose that.

Cara Lumen May,2022

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 adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

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!

The Gift of Letting Go

By

The Gift of Letting Go

Living Our Deeper Song

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

I’ve done some dumb things in my life. It’s not pleasant to look back and wish I hadn’t done them. But what I have learned to accept is that I did the best I could at that particular time. Based on what I knew, based on what I was feeling, I made a choice. Many of my choices were made out of an immediate perceived need or a lack of awareness of a broader motivation or outcome. But that’s just part of maturing and growing up. Your awareness deepens.  Your choices become more aligned.

I never did anything mean on purpose, but I may have done some unthinking things that were hard for people to be around. 

The fact is it’s over. It was part of your learning process, it was part of your life choice. It’s in the past. So first of all, forgive yourself for the blunders and missteps you made along the line regardless of the reason. And then forgive and release any feelings regarding other people’s choices and actions. They too were acting out of the moment in their particular level of awareness or need.

Live in the present and do the best you can. Don’t beat yourself up for what you don’t manage to do. Feel free to acknowledge yourself for what you do that works. Just keep releasing and moving forward. There is a gift in letting go. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I forgive myself for the unaware and unthinking things I did in my lifetime and I move forward with clear and focused intention and awareness.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Notice when a memory shows up that holds something that you wish you hadn’t done. How did it actually turn out for all affected? Take a moment to understand that you did the best you could based on who you were at the time. See if there is a lesson, an awareness, and what not to do in the future. But in general, forgive yourself and move on.

===INNER WORK===

An Affirmation of Wholeness

Create an affirmation of wholeness that you say every day. Even if it is not manifesting on the physical plane. I like “I am whole, perfect, and complete.” Another one I like because of my eyes is “I see clearly within and without.” Those are positive affirmations that send a message of intention to the universe. So as I bend over my walker perhaps I say, “I stand tall and in deep service in the world.” Perhaps in moments of aloneness and perhaps loneliness, I say “I feel the love and support of others on this path of wholeness.” 

Can you add affirmations about how you want it to be and add it to your spiritual practice? Create affirmations of wholeness and watch them manifest.

===SELF-HEALING===

Sing a Cathartic Song

One of the qigong suggestions for clearing your lung meridian is to just sing a cathartic song. I had to giggle. What came to mind was “I feel the Earth Move” by Carole King from a long time ago. If you were going to sing a cathartic song, what would it be? Would you dance with it, would you clap your hands? Look around for a song that will release tension and concern and worry and start singing it.

Meridian Points   – Kidneys

The bottom of the palm of your hands has access to the kidney meridian. When you clap the bottom of your palms together, you are activating your reproduction organs, your intestines and your kidney function. It’s a pretty easy step to take. See the exercise here.

Yi and Qi 

Yi is your mind and it directs the energy which is Chi. It’s very powerful combination. As I study more self-healing Qigong, I realize how empowered I am and how much work I can to do to help myself heal.

I am using my imagination, my Yi, my mind to move energy all over my body. I free it up. I clean it out. I let it go. I rearrange the energy in my body and let the Qi restore wholeness. Most of all I seem to be clearing pathways for the flow of the energy up my spine and in the stuck places in my hips and my Lower Tan Tien. Using your imagination to clear out unwanted stuck energy can replace it with wholeness.                              

This Stuff Works!!!

As unbelievable as it seems to me, this Qigong self-healing is working on my body. It is making amazing changes, unusual changes, unexpected changes and I am simply doing the focused work, using my mind Yi to focus the energy QI. 

There are some actions like breathing out the released energy in the form of smoke. Or cutting out what’s not wanted by using scissors fingers. There’s some hand movements that move the Qi. And it’s working. 

I was explaining this to my very conservative son-in-law the other day and realized he was sitting there with his arms folded across his chest in a very defensive manner. It was unconscious of course, but this self-healing with only energy was way too far out for him. And yet it’s working. 

If you want to go exploring, I suggest you subscribe to Grandmaster Chuny Lin’s website. You will get a weekly Qiigong self-healing practice. Give it a try and see what you think. I’m seeing progress. Grandmaster Chuny Lin, springforestqigong.com, chunyilin.com

Trust the Process, Do The Work

The words the Indigo Healer gave me in my journey were “trust the process, do the work.” I have found a self-healing method that resonates with me and seems to be effective. I get to trust the process and do the work. Where do you need to place your faith? What path do you need to follow right now at this particular point in time? Do you have your eyes on the right path? Look for guidance. Examine it. Then trust the process and do the work.

===OUTER  WORK===

How Do You Manifest a Dream?

Do you have a dream? Something you would like to do or achieve or experience? How do you manifest that dream?

Do you need to do a reality check to get some idea of what is necessary to get you to that goal? If it’s a destination, you need to plan – you have to find out how to get there and what the weather requirements are and where to stay and how much it is going to cost and all those details. Then you can know if that dream is realistic and achievable.

But what if you were looking at a dream that is simply unfolding. And all you get are glimpses and glimmers? For instance, I’ve been writing a certain form of poetry in this newsletter for several months now. And I have been collecting them. Do I want to do a book? I know how to put a book on Amazon. But is that what I want to do? Right now?  At all?

I have a goal of walking without my walker and I’m doing many things to help manifest that one. What I get to do in that physical plane journey is to notice what works and what doesn’t work. Experimentation is part of achieving a dream. 

Are you dreaming big enough? Are you stretching your imagination to see the potential and possibility that opens before you? I don’t want to blame it on my age but I’m not as into big projects as I used to be. Smaller more achievable projects seem to be more satisfying for now. Honor your inner guiding nudges.

Do you even dream? Do you have a vision of a future experience that you’re going for? Sometimes those dreams are meant to be surprises – an unexpected new friend, an opportunity that you had not anticipated.

I think of dreams as a shape-shifting cloud, always in changing and re-arranging itself. That means I have to stay flexible and aware and I particularly have to notice my response so that I keep myself moving in a direction that works for me.

I don’t have a dream journal but I have a vision board. I have a goal of self-healing that keeps me open to new ways to do that. Adventuring is like being a tumbleweed rolling across the prairie, skipping and bouncing and rushing and slowing down and getting stuck behind a rock, then jumping free to go tumbling again. Are you dreaming? How big are you dreaming? And how are you achieving your dreams?

Know What is Too Much

Know the limitations of your interests, your attention span and your path. I was tempted by a Qigong offering until I realized that I’m full up, it has too much detail for me right now, and it felt overwhelming. So I didn’t do it. It was too much. 

When you start to take on a new commitment, a new task, stop and evaluate it for a reality check of how it fits into your life and your time. Take on only what you can complete with joy and satisfaction. Know when it is too much and draw the line.

The Fog Creeps In

Carl Sandburg wrote:

The fog comes in

on little cat feet. 

It sits looking 

over harbor and city 

on silent haunches 

and then moves on.

What situation or thoughts or events have you allowed to creep into your life? How long do they stay? Why are they there? When did they move on? Make sure the fog in your life moves on.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Own What You Learn

If I don’t apply what I learn, it doesn’t do me any good. So if I don’t practice the Qigong moves I am learning, I won’t know their benefit. If I don’t make the changes that I decide I want to make, I won’t experience the results. Are you doing the work? Are you exploring and applying and making the changes that take you in the direction you want to go? I love to explore but I also need to turn and choose what I want to apply and where I want to apply it and then do that. Are you owning what you learn? Are you actively applying it to your life?

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

What is Your Cause?

I don’t have a specific cause. I care about the environment a lot. I care about equal rights a lot. I care about human rights a whole lot. And all I’m doing is sitting here in my apartment sharing a lot through this newsletter. At 89 I’m not supposed to go out and attend a rally or have people sign petitions. But I can hold High Watch. I can send positive thoughts and wholing energy to those doing the work. I can keep my consciousness raised to embrace those inclusive ideals that are important to me. Don’t let the inability to actively physically participate keep you from doing the work. Use your intention, your consciousness, and hold High Watch for the world.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Inclusiveness and Exploration

Why do people try to make other people think the way they do? How do you learn anything if you don’t embrace diversity? As I watch this trend to need to be right, particularly from males, I don’t want to bother to figure out why. I could use words like insecurity, but that doesn’t do me any good in being around it and coping with it and hopefully even changing it. Women by nature are inclusive and compassionate. But I think it’s important that we look at our own beliefs and actions to make certain that we are inclusive and have made conscious changes to include the beauty and uniqueness and lessons found in another cultures. I don’t have any friends from other cultures. But I study eastern philosophies and embrace what they teach – Taoism in particular.

Are you making an effort to learn from people from other cultures, and the backgrounds of their belief systems? You don’t have to embrace it, but it’s helpful to understand its origins and applications and current meanings. That helps make you compassionate and inclusive. Both good trades to cultivate. Go exploring and expand your inclusiveness.

The Scenario of Opinion

As I write this, there are protesters outside the US Department of Justice where the Supreme Court has leaked a document saying they will overturn a fundamental right to freedom of choice over their bodies that women have had in this country for nearly 50 years. 

What gives us the right to tell other people what to do?

I’m a vegetarian. What if I wanted to make a law that no one could eat meat because that’s how I feel – that animals should not be killed.  As it stands, I have my choice, others have theirs, and I just don’t go to their house for dinner. 

At the core is our freedom as women (notice this does not affect men) to choose based on what we need, what we think, and what we ultimately decide for ourselves. It is a fundamental freedom of choice created by men that threatens and affects only women. 

I wondered how the emergence of the Divine Feminine would unfold. It’s a lot of anger and hatred at and demeaning of women by the masculine. 

I don’t know how it’s gonna play out. I just know that the Divine Feminine continues to emerge, continues to be a formidable focus for the energy we are all experiencing. The feminine is inclusive. She encourages individualism.  Those are good traits to encourage and embrace.

When you discover that you have a strong opinion that is totally different from someone else’s, as hard as it may be to do, try to put yourself in their shoes or try to understand where their thinking comes from. And know that they have feeling that are just as strong as yours. You don’t have to change your mind. It just means you broaden your understanding and manage your own life, not theirs.

I write this to myself because I’m super mad primarily at white men in the United States trying to tell women what they can and cannot do. That mindset was around when I was a young woman and I have loved every minute of defying that and learning to stand on my own two feet and standing in my own power. We cannot lose that freedom to be the women we are meant to be. I don’t mean to offend anyone, I’m just trying to put myself in the shoes of someone who feel so strongly about something that they feel they have to tell someone else how to live their life.  The feminine warrior is rising up in me and as I have done all my life, I object to being told what I can and cannot do. There has to be a shift in group consciousness.  Not sure how it will play out. Women have equal eights!  Go Divine Feminine!

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

Expanding Awareness

How to Deepen Your Cosmic Consciousness

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Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
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and the 

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

This is a particularly powerful message from Sandra Ingerman.

===CARA’S CORNER===

Loneliness

Every time I hit a personal snag, I realize it is mine to fix. No one can do it for me. I’m the one that has to recognize it and fix it.

As I write this it is a Saturday and as far as I can tell I won’t have any one-to-one interaction with anyone until Thursday when my son-in-law comes to help me do some things in my apartment. That’s five days in which I have to fix it. To change it. To find a way to not be lonely. What am I going to do?

I have three friends I talk with on a regular basis. One weekly, one every three weeks, and one monthly. Our interests are so specific and focused, the calls are very stimulating as well as rewarding in the form of friendship.

I am so far into my personal direction there’s no one in this senior center that has a clue what I’m doing.

I’m taking some classes, in fact, my two Qigong classes overlap for two weeks and that feels like a lot. 

What do you do when you feel lonely? How do you fix that?

The first thing I’m gonna do is look at my own choices to see where I have decided not to participate that might in fact be nurturing for me. What is available to you right now? And does anything resonate?

Is there an idea nudging you that would take you in an interesting direction? I am so full of learning right now that I do not want to undertake another project or even a finish reading the two books I have going.

I like being alone. I like being able to respond to my own rhythm. But what do I do when I feel lonely? I’m thinking about it. What do you do? How do you keep from being lonely?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Alone or Lonely?

I like being alone but I don’t like being lonely. And I’m the one that has to fix that.

I like being alone but I don’t like being lonely. And I’m the one that has to fix that. I must find the focus. I must find the activity. I am the one who must reach out.

I like being alone but I don’t like being lonely. And I’m the one that has to fix that. I must find the focus. I must find the activity. I am the one who must reach out. I sit and look out my window and do nothing. Tag. I’m it.

Cara Lumen, May 2022

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 adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

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Follow the Guidance of the Universe

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Follow the Guidance of the Universe

Living Our Deeper Song

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

The wise universe gives us nudges all day long. We just don’t always pay attention. Notice what you have been doing and pay attention to what is working and what is not. Did something unexpected show up?  Or is your path unfolding in the direction you want to go?  What surprises have you received that make you want to explore in a new direction? All those unfolding nudges from the Universe will certainly influence the form your day takes.

When a major change is unfolding, I get a feeling and that’s pretty much all I get to work with. So my job is to pay attention to the continual nudges I get from the universe and interpret them. It might be an idea. It might be an opportunity. It might be something someone says. It often is a complete thought that pops into my head with an urgency to be explored. I need to pay attention because that is the universe talking to me, giving me the signs of what is next.

Go exploring when an idea appeals to you. Check it out a little further and figure out whether it’s a really good thing to do or just a maybe thing to do. Notice what is yours to do and what someone else has to do. Make your choice accordingly. 

Some signs are subtle and some pop you in the head. Pay attention to both – and everything in between.

When an idea calls to you, explore it a little bit to see whether it’s an actual door opening to a new adventure or just a small insight you need to help you on your current path. Carry with you an overall picture of where you are choosing to go. And then follow the nudges both large and small that take you there.

Notice the signs. Make your choice. And change directions as you are called to do. Follow the ever-present guidance of the universe.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I pay attention to the insights and nudges and openings the universe provides me and I explore until I know where the idea fits into my life.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Perhaps use your meditation time as a moment in your day in which you explore and notice both large and small nudges the universe has provided you.
  • Take time to consider how they feel and what they look like and where they might take you. Use your imagination and go exploring to see what calls to you.
  • Learn to interpret the signs and signals and nudges from the universe.

===INNER WORK===

Write A Song For Your Meditation Practice

When I first began to journey I always drummed to the directions. Then I used drumming as a catalyst for writing a small song to each of the directions. I simply let them evolve. I sang what showed up and I sang what I remembered and gradually ended up with a series of songs that open and close my drumming meditation and also honor the directions. What kind of songs will you compose and what will you compose them for?

===OUTER  WORK===

Filter Your Choices

I love to learn so I am tempted by many more classes than I possibly could and should take. How do you filter your choices when you are an enthusiastic learner?

Sometimes it is as easy as being full up. I could not take another class if I wanted to because I’m already taking whatever number seems to fill me up. 

Attending Summit Sessions is a good way to get to know the topic and some of the teachers. I have attended many Shamanic Summits and Qigong Summits and whatever ones call to me and allow me to explore the topic. They are free on the Shift Network and Sounds True and other platforms and it’s a good way to explore a topic that peaks your curiosity.

Learn to know if you are full up but most of all learn to know if a particular course or a teacher or a book will take you in the direction you have chosen to go. I read an entire book on astrology because my friend likes astrology. I am not a detail person and it was so out of my league it was unbelievable. So I know not to go exploring in that direction except if someone wants to interpret it for me. But I’m not gonna be the one interpreting it.

On the other hand, I’m into self-healing. So I’m on my sixth Qigong class. Taking a class is not the same as doing the work. So when you go exploring, do the work and apply it and explore it enough to know if it is a direction you want to go.

I attended a Sound Healing Summit enough to understand it a bit and add a small bit to my daily self-healing practice but I also know that it is not something I am going to pursue. It’s important to keep learning. The world changes so rapidly, it can be a bit hard for us to keep up.

What do you need to learn right now that will enrich your life experience on any level – physical, emotional, spiritual? Who is the teacher you want to learn fromright now and where do you find his or her courses? The Shift Network and Sounds True are two places that I know that offer really good classes. You might get on their lists. There are a lot of free offerings by many people, free talks, free meditations, free experiences. When a topic interests you, take time to go exploring and see how and if and when it will fit into your life. Then do that.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

More Things Than Surfaces

I have a new altar bowl and rattle coming that a friend made for me out of clay and I have to do some thoughtful and major rearranging because I definitely have more things than surfaces. 

One of the ideas I had a long time ago was to have seasonal boxes of things that I put out.  Sort of like putting up holiday decorations except changing the surfaces to honor the seasons or whatever purpose you thought to change them for so you get to use everything fully at some point during the year. So I have this very full altar space and I have two major pieces coming to go on it and I have to rethink things. What do you do when you have more things than surfaces? 

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

Reading Out

I have wonderful friends. They are online and we talk regularly on Zoom and it is very fulfilling. One of my friends mentioned her interest in perhaps starting a small shamanic journey group like one the two of us had experienced before. And I realize how that would enrich my life. I would join in a minute. And I would meet people that she knows and has relationships with. It’s a possibility. Who would you gather together and for what purpose?

As we refine our interest, we have to look further afield for people who are at our level on a topic we actively pursue or people who want to learn new things that we want to learn. We may have to go searching for them. Who would you gather together for a monthly call to exchange ideas?  To support each other? I have a small group like that and we take turns leading a segment as well as have the opportunity to have in-depth conversations with like-minded people. This is not an accountability group, it is a group of friends going in the same direction. Who would you invite into your group and will you do it?

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

Expanding Awareness
The Role of the Element of Fire in Our New Consciousness
The Role of the Element of Air in Our New Consciousness
The Role of the Element  Water in Our New Consciousness
The Role of the Element of Earth in Our New Consciousness
The Role of the Element of Space in Our New Consciousness
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Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
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===CARA’S CORNER===

The Power of Aligned Energy

All four of us were healers on the Zoom call. We each shared and then one member began to lead us in a healing. It was very powerful. 

What I came to understand was that the experience was magnified by the presence of each of us as focused experienced healers. We were each contributing to the overall energy of the experience. 

I have individual relationships with each of these women but it was interesting to have our collective energy focused in one direction and feel the power of that collective alignment. The increased power we experienced was because we were fully engaged and we were all experienced focused and active healers.

Next time you’re with someone you are close to, notice what changes with the combined energy. What it amplifies. What it magnifies. All because the two of you are focused in the same direction, on one particular topic. It’s like brainstorming an idea where the creativity flows and the ideas get bigger and more imaginative and more expensive.

Who do you have in your life who helps you expand the reach of your energy and intention? Spend more time with them. Find others walking a path similar to yours and join together to make it a deeper experience for each of you.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Power Of Intention 

We were four powerful healers focused on self-healing.

We were four powerful healers focused on self-healing. As we worked, the energy expanded. It deepened and grew more powerful.

We were four powerful healers focused on self-healing. As we worked, the energy expanded. It deepened and grew more powerful. I will find others with whom to combine my energy and see what changes we can make together. 

Cara Lumen, April 2022

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 adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

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Listen to the Silence

By

Listen to the Silence

Living Our Deeper Song

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

Stop reading a moment and listen to the silence. There is a sound to silence. There is a presence in silence. There are lessons and messages in silence. Take a deep breath, center yourself and listen.

It’s not your voice that speaks in the silence. It is the energy of the unseen world. Standing in an ancient redwood forest that silence holds eons of experiences and thoughts and expectations. Looking out over the ocean makes one think about what lies beyond, what adventures might be waiting. And whether you’re going to stay on shore or go exploring.

In the silence is a presence. It is in the presence of All-that-is. It is the presence of Oneness. It is the presence of a collective energy. In that silence there are insights, deepening understanding, expanded awareness, and serenity.

In silence there are answers to questions. There are ideas that beg to be explored. In that silence decisions are made. Silence is a very powerful place to be.

Meditation instructs you to empty your mind. That’s a good thing to do. Simply sit and be with the presence of the silence that surrounds you. Sit there with no expectation. Keep your thoughts still and let the stillness seep into your very core to bring you tranquility, inner peace and wisdom.

How do you take time to cultivate silence in your life? Do more of it. 

Listen to the sound of silence. It is the universe speaking to you. Heed what it is saying.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I empty my mind completely before meditation. I make room for my inner voice to offer its wisdom. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Use a centering prayer to empty your mind and move into your Still Point before you meditate.
  • Allow there to be words or allow there to be nothing. Simply be present with the feelings and emotions and knowingness that steps forth.
  • Explore the silence and heed its messages.

===INNER WORK===

Cultivate Your Intuition

All you have to do is pay attention to those small nudges and notice how right on they are. That’s how you cultivate your intuition. By paying attention and understanding that it is offering you subtle insights into what is.

I use my intuition to talk to my crystals. I definitely use my intuition when I journey to ask a question for guidance. I’m given all sorts of metaphors that are totally up to me to interpret. And I interpret then with my intuition and my imagination. Pay attention to your intuition and learn to trust it. It contains powerful guidance for you.

Cultivate Inner Peace

Teach yourself to quickly and completely center yourself into that place of inner wholeness, inner peace. You can do that with a deep conscious breath. I can use my transcendental meditation mantra to put me there in seconds.  Perhaps take a moment to look out at nature and connect with a tree or a cloud. Throughout your day change your rhythm and bring it from outer concern to inner peace.

Waiting 

I’m waiting. I’m waiting for it to be time. I have a zoom call scheduled. I have groceries being delivered. I haven’t had my cup of tea yet. So I’m waiting. Sort of suspended in time doing nothing, going nowhere, simply waiting. I need to turn that into a moment of introspection, contemplation, gratitude. How much time do you waste simply waiting? And how will you learn to enrich that?

===SELF-HEALING==

The Power of Limiting Beliefs

In my Qigong class Master Lin says there are six causes of all illness, emotions, diet, injury, changes of weather and season, wrong medication and living environment. My doctor friend Dr. Martha Lacy suggested another – limiting beliefs. For me that is huge and I have no idea how to address it with all this body stuff that’s going on for me. I usually attributed what’s manifesting now in my body to a past life injury that has been released and is manifesting change now in my hip area. I have no trouble believing that. But on the other hand, I have dry macular degeneration for which Western medicine says there’s no cure. And I believe them. It is a limiting belief. How can I cure a past life injury and not be able to heal a present one? I have no idea and I wish I did.

In my current Qigong class, we were taught to replace the Chi energy that is causing the stalemate. You clear it out with a big breath that gathers it up in your lower Tan Tien (behind the navel) and lets it go like smoke. And then you put in fresh Qi. I will do more of that with my eyes but I know deep down that my limiting belief is that I can’t change it. So on one hand I sort of see what life is gonna be like as my eyes cloud up and what am I gonna do about it and on the other hand, I am trying to envision myself walking outside again and clearly seeing everything as my body heals. I don’t have an answer, I just pose the problem.

Where do limiting beliefs come from? They come from our parents having taught us their own beliefs. They come from experience, they come from some other authority figures saying this is so. 

How do I become the creator of a positive belief? I can do affirmations, but I have to believe them to make them work. I go back to that very important concept, “We get what we believe we deserve and what we believe is possible.” I deserve to have clear eyesight so I can continue my work. How do I change the what-is-possible part? I can use affirmations like “I see clearly within and without.” I do that. I can offer gratitude to my eyes as they do their work. I will begin to do more specific healing work around them. Perhaps envisioning going in and imagining reversing the dry macular degeneration which is a clouding of the back of the eye that makes you lose sight in the center of your vision. I will do visioning of the clearing of that back part of my eyes. I will acknowledge my eyes for what they can still see. And I will see what I learn in my self-healing qigong class.

A Good Move to Know

I learned this qigong move in one of Daisy Lee’s Qigong classes. To encourage your large intestine to do its work, use your cupped hands on your abdomen and move them in a patting motion that moves around and down your left side (descending colon). To slow your intestines down, go the other way. It’s a handy qigong move to know. 

My Unexpected Self-Healing Experience

I was playing Spider Solitaire on my laptop as I often do when I noticed that I was moving my legs in sort of a dancing motion and nothing hurt, which has not been my recent experience. I was aware of a sense of being whole which I have not felt for quite a while. I looked in my body again and realized that the anticipation of pain was gone and that I had been sitting in that chair for quite a while without my hips hurting. When I got up it did not hurt like it usually does and I found that there had been a major adjustment in my body and it was in my shoulders. They were freer at the base of my neck and it was affecting my hips in an amazingly positive way. I walked more easily. 

So two things happened – it was spontaneous, it just happened organically and I knew that I was better. I have been focusing on the hips as the cause of this walking difficulty but it was the base of my neck and those upper shoulders that felt lighter and freer and more flexible. So perhaps I wasn’t even looking in the right place for the cause of all this. This was spontaneous, it was unexpected. All I have done differently today was one Qigong movement from Robert Penn that I will now repeat forever, in case that was the releasing factor. I will see what unfolds. Year for self-healing…!

I have signed up for Robert’s seven-week online course and I’m recommending it highly to add to the self-healing quality of your life. Here is Robert Peng’s Live Long Qigong . Here is Robert’s web site. Here is the move that caused the shift .

Yi Directs Chi in Self-Healing

I’m not going to continue to give you a blow-by-blow account as my body self-heals, however I woke from a nap knowing that a muscle on the outer part of my left thigh had made an adjustment. When I got up to move around, I found it was indeed true and I was able to put weight on my left leg in the correct manner that I have not been able to do for a very long time. It had finally realigned!

It happened right after that I took my fourth Self-Healing Qiong class form Master Chin. We talked about the Yi, which is our intention, and how to use it to direct Qi energy. So as I took the class I also stood up and with my Yin intentions, sent more energy in that left leg and it stood firm holding my weight for the first time in a very long time.

You use your Yi, your intention, to send the Qi energy into the area that needs to be re-balanced. And yes, we have to let the Qi do its thing. 


===OUTER WORK===

The Power of Persistence

Persistence is a good thing. That slow but steady one-foot-at-a time process then gets you where you’re supposed to go. Or want to go. But even as we continually walk in a particular direction, we need to pause to look around to see if it is in fact taking us in the direction we want and need to go right now. Don’t do something just because you said you would. If it’s not unfolding as you expected or taking you where you want to go, change directions. There is no need to continue on and complete a no longer resonating path. Choose the path that is guiding you in the right direction. 

That means we have to pause and consider and evaluate often. Where has this present path taken you? Is that where you want to go? Is there an easier way to get there? Have you learned enough to make your decisions to continue or not? Is this path the easiest way to get where you want to go? 

You also have to know when it’s time to let go of a particular path. This path is not working for me, this step is too hard, time consuming, uninteresting. This choice is not working for me. Sometimes it’s because our goals have changed. Sometimes it’s that we’ve learned as much as we need to know from a particular path. There are many reasons to stop going in a specific direction. That does not mean you have given up. It simply means you have learned what you need to learn from that particular path and can make new decisions based on those discoveries. This is not about not completing a job that you set out to do exactly. Unless what you set out to do is no longer relevant. Or you found a shortcut or better solution. See how you’re doing. 

If I were trying to play the violin and I practiced and practiced and still was not very good at it, I would have to evaluate why I want to play the violin. If I just wanted music in my life perhaps there’s another instrument I should undertake. Explore. Persistence is good but only if you’re going in the right direction. Pay attention to the road signs as you move along. 

I would learn to pay attention to the nudges and urges to guide me in what I choose to do. Today I feel like… or not. Rest and finding your own rhythm would be a good place to start. 

Then you get to go exploring. What do you like to do with this open time? Who do you spend time with? If you are in a relationship that dynamic is going to change because you’re going to have more time together or at least bump into each other more often. This moving into a new phase is a time of evolution. 

Whatever you establish at the beginning is going to change overtime. So don’t lock yourself in. You may find lots of naps are important when you first retire as your body rebalances. Then you find yourself bored out of your mind and get some stimulation going. Take your time and be prepared to change what you choose. Stay open to the new invitations offered by the universe as it begins to help you design your new place of service.


===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Re-think Your Meditation Space

The problem was simple. I wanted to open the window for some fresh air and can longer reach it over my walker. And suddenly I was rearranging my entire meditation corner. What space do you need to reconfigure because its usage has changed or you have changed? 

I had a big chest in front of the window that was meant to be a place for my cat Sebastian to get on and look out the window. He doesn’t do that much, at least not enough to tie up that whole space for his occasional desire to look out the window. So the removal of one fairly large object helped me recreate my entire meditation corner. I turned my chair to face even more fully toward the window to look out into nature. I moved a small altar that I really love that had been displaced from my bedroom into the centerpiece and I kept my flutes and drums nearby so I can reach them from my meditation chair. It has greatly deepened my appreciation and enjoyment of and work in my meditation corner. 

What has changed in your life that asks you to rearrange your space? I can’t reach certain things so I need to put them up on something. I definitely have more things than surfaces. I have added items to my meditation practice. I would add more if I could put them within reach of sitting in a chair. I can do that. 

Question the arrangement of the space you use all the time. It could be where you spend the most time. See if how it is arranged is still serving the way you want to use it or if some changes, either minor or major, will make it a more usable and nurturing space. 

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

Appreciate Your Own Value

We take ourselves for granted. We often don’t appreciate how much we actually contribute to ourselves and to others and to the world around us. Perhaps you’d like to pause to notice how much you do contribute. 

I have a small circle of friends who are exceedingly important to me and I often don’t stop to think about how important I may be to them. Why are we friends? What do we give each other? It is an important exchange. 

I put out this newsletter because I need to figure things out and I get excited aboutwhat I learn. I don’t necessarily get feedback on what I write. But I do know that I contribute to the lives of others. 

It’s not exactly about your self-worth or your value, it is about how you perceive your place in the world, your contributions to the world, your role in the unfolding of the world. Can you pause a minute and give yourself some adjectives? I am wise. I am thoughtful. I expressed myself in a way that changes the lives of others. I’m an explorer. I’m creative. I love to learn new things and pass them along. None of those are necessarily things anyone will tell me about myself. What do you need to tell yourself about your own value? Do that.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===
Create a Vision Board

I have not made a Vision Board for a lot of years. A good friend of mine decided to do one for the major planetary conjunction we had recently. It turns out she made hers out of clay. I turned to the group I am in and suggested we each do at least three drawings or find images for a vision board. So we will do that and share them at our next online meeting. I can think of two for my vision board. The picture of me in nature standing tall without my walker is the first one. The second one may be about my work in the world which includes my blue bell tower which plays the songs that I sing, and a tall transmitter tower on top of a mountain to share my ideas and discoveries with the world. 

As I write this, I figured out my favorite drawing. It’s going to be a spider who weaves her web from within and builds on what she finds around her. Spiders cannot hear so she responds to vibration. That’s an important way for me to live my life – from within, building on what I find around me.

There’s another image that comes to mind that may be incorporated in the third drawing. It’s me on an upward trail. I am followed by my white donkey who carries a backpack full of transformational butterflies. I carry my walking stick which is actually Charlie the snake who is meant to hug me. I found him in a journey to the the lower world. And Samson the eagle who has the overview and shows me the way. That’s my journey. I am to keep walking uphill. I might add other light bearers on the path behind me but I haven’t drawn this yet so we’ll see. Perhaps you’ll join me in drawing three images for your vision board to see what it unfolds for you and where it leads you. 

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===CARA’S CORNER===
When the Time is Right 

For five years now I’ve watched my friend move along her path and be ready to take this next step. We’ve had many discussions, a lot of exploring, some resistance, and gradually increasing self confidence in not only her ability but what she wants to offer. And the words for her new website are flowing and the decisions are being made and steps are being taken because it is time. 

Don’t be impatient with yourself, give yourself time, but also when the time is right, step forward and take action. You will know. It’s rather like a dam breaking, or a volcano erupting because it all flows out and into place so effortlessly. When you are ready the idea will take shape. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

When I am Ready

When I am ready the answers will appear.

When I am ready the answers will appear. When I am ready the doors will open.

When I am ready the answers will appear. When I am ready the doors will open. When I am ready I will step through.

Cara Lumen, April 2022

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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