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We Are Weavers of Light

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We Are Weavers of Light

Living Our Deeper Song

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

As I watch this world evolve and change I keep looking for my role. Our role. We are Weavers of Light. It is our job to continue deepening and expanding our spiritual awareness so that all we do, everything we say, everything we think, is focused on traveling on and continuing to take the high road – this path of light that we are weaving as we go. We build it through our intention. We construct it through our choices. We reinforce it through our words and thoughts and deeds. Weaving is about intertwining different colors and textures of threads to make a pattern and to add strength to the overall offering. We are to find creative, inclusive, innovative ways to intertwine our lives with each other. To keep us on the higher path. The path of light. The path of wholeness. To raise each other up. To walk hand-in-hand. To lead the way. We are Weavers of a Light Path. We have work to do.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am constantly aware of my role as a Weaver of Light.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Be aware of your responsibility as a Weaver of the Light Path. 
  • Monitor your thoughts.  Monitor your choices. Always choose the high road, the Path of Light.  Hold your light high and help others along the journey.

===INNER WORK===

Your Relevance   

If you feel relevant you feel useful. You feel valued.  What makes you feel relevant? Having people respond to my newsletter or podcasts makes me feel relevant.  It helps me know I am touching hearts and changing lives. I have friends in various parts of the world and when we talk on Zoom we are each aware of our reliance on the other for encouragement and insights and self-reflection. What makes you feel relevant and how is that changing for you?

It is an amazing experience when you find yourself  feeling both useful and relevant.  Your feelings of relevance may come from being a parent or a worker or a partner in a relationship. But as our world is changing so are our roles and therefore it is possible that we are not feeling as relevant as we used to. How has your role changed? How has your contribution changed? How do you think your value has changed? Where are you needed now?  New doors are opening up.  Go exploring. Look around. What new path is calling to you that will make you feel more relevant? Explore and define your new role. 

The Power of Stillness

Your mind can be a busy little bee, so busy that it keeps you from being centered and still.  Quiet your body, quiet your mind.  Yoga, Tai Chi, Qigong, Breathwork, Meditation are all powerful practices that still your mind and focus your energy.  What do you do to manifest stillness?

===SELF-HEALING===

Ritual and Expectation

I am not a fan of ritual.  Just let me cut to the core and do the work.  Until I read this: “Indigenous ritual set up a process to ready the body-mind to receive the healing.” 

Ready the mind.  What do you expect from your physical workout?  What do you expect when you put your body in bed? Do we need to create a Ritual of Readiness? 

I’m doing a variety of things to help my body self-heal.  There is an expectation when I go to a partial chair for meditation.  The mere act of sitting in that chair gets me ready to meditate. I usually do a few Qigong moves to signal my entry into this inner space. 

Where can you add a ritual of expectation into your spiritual practice?

Balance the Flowing Current of Energy in Your Body

I am reading the book Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health by Shamini Jain and in the description of yoga she talks about how the asanas – physical postures – help foster and balance the constantly flowing current of energy in our bodies.   It allows the mind to obtain greater stillness. They “help foster and balance flowing current of energy in our bodies.” That’s what healing is about – balancing the flow of energy in our body.  We do that by the choices we make, the actions we take, the thoughts we think, and the people beside whom we walk the path.  All of our choices affect the flow of energy in and around and through our bodies.  It would make sense to start paying a great deal of attention to our choices.  

In New York City, I learned yoga and even took a teacher’s training. Just as I left I was introduced to Bikram Yoga (Hot  Yoga) and if I had not been raising my granddaughter by myself at that time, I would have gone to take a teacher’s training in that form. My body has lost the habit of doing yoga and it would take a lot of work to even come vaguely close regaining that.  But I have studied Tai Chi and now do Qigong.  I also meditate. It’s just a matter of finding the method that draws you to balance the flowing current of energy in your body. Keep exploring but also keep doing it…

Singing and the Vagus Nerve

The vagus nerve is the longest and most complex of your cranial nerves, and it affects every organ in your body. Recently a healer friend said she took time to stimulate her vagus nerve every day.  She sent some links for me to explore which I share below.  

You can reach your Vagus nerve behind your ears and simply massage that.  Let your palms rest on your neck so you are giving energy to a long length of vagus nerve.  

Singing and toning affect the vagus nerve so I made up the Vagus Hum:  Place your middle fingers behind your ears and reset your palms on your throat. Begin to hum at a pitch that focuses the hum between your ears.  The pitch will make the whole throat vibrate.  Now gradually lower the pitch and feel the vibration move down your throat and neck to the base of your neck. Notice how that feels.

Your have just done a Vagus Hum!!  It’s a great way to slow down, center yourself and replenish your whole body. 

Massage, tone, read the links below and begin stimulating your vagus nerve every day. Here are the links courtesy of Christina Gerber 

5 Easy Ways to Stimulate the Vagus Nerve

6 Ways to Reset Your Vagus Nerve for Detox

===OUTER WORK===

Learn from Experience and Experimentation

My shamanic journeys have been very clear – I am on an upward golden road that keeps climbing and I am in a period of exploration and experimentation. I’m talking to my body more – both listening to its responses and experimenting with  alternative choices.  My body is teaching me what it wants and need.  I do not know where we are headed but this is a time of preparation – getting ready for what is unfolding. 

Experimentation is an interesting personal growth concept.  We need to keep looking.  We need to dig deeper.  We need to experiment and find our own best practices and put them to use.  I listen to all the ideas that come my way and I go exploring to see if/how they will enhance my journey. As my body responds or my life changes, I observe and evaluate what seems aligned with my path and that guides me to make more informed choices.  

For instance, I found a new chair  in which to do seated exercise, I expanded my diet with food salad choices from the deli.  I read, I explore, I experiment and I pay attention to the results.  

What I learn from my experimentation guides my next path of exploration.  Be creative.  Be reflective.  Stay in alignment. Listen. Explore. Evaluate. Choose. Build on that new point of view. See where it takes you and repeat. 

Self Healing, Expectation, and Observation

We get want we expect. We get what we believe we deserve. We get what we expect is possible.  Do you believe you can self-heal? I do. I have no specific success stories to share, but I know every choice I made affects the unfolding of my life, whether it was conscious or unconscious. 

So what am I expecting from my 89-year-old body?  I expect to be actively in action until it’s time to leave the planet.  That means my brain and my ability to share what I figure out has to stay flexible and in good working order.  I will hold it to that expectation. 

My choice seems to be to explore, organize my next steps around what I find, make the change and move on.  I apply what I learn but then I go learn something else and apply that to make even more changes.  I do a lot of exploring and experimenting.  No long-term studies here.  Well, that’s not true, my  exploration of Spirit is very long term – pretty much lifelong.

Expectation is a cornerstone for the results you build on.  I need to expect my choices to change the outcome, to alter the experience. I need to observe and adjust and keep experimenting to find the right balance.  Pay attention to the expectations you hold for the results of your action and keep adjusting both the actions and your expectation until you get it right. Self-healing can be enhanced by expectation and observation followed by adjustments based on  what you learn.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

A New Realm of Inquiry and Discovery

The vision I keep getting in my shamanic journeys is of being on a road that is gradually elevated. It is a golden road and I have two guides with me.  It is rising above earth, the path is rising above the chaos. It is a golden path leading toward I don’t know what. But it is a new realm of inquiry and discovery which means I get to explore, ask new questions, reach new conclusions, try out new concepts.  I will discover new things to try. I will experiment. I will be observant. I will listen. I will learn. And I will discover. Pretty good for entering a new realm of inquiry and discovery.  Yeah for more adventures. 

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

The Search for “Next”

I am aware of the ongoing cycles of my life. Periodically I find myself sitting in a state of “not knowing”, waiting for the next cycle to unfold, to make itself known, and all I can really do is sit here and wait. And be observant. 

One of the things you can do while waiting is to notice what is no longer working for you. What is taking too much time, not getting the results you wanted, that is now boring? Then, while you’re waiting for your “next” to unfold, look at what is giving you a really good time. I love doing that. Make a list of the things that are exciting for you and rewarding for you. Do more of those.

One day, in a glimmer of knowing, you will see your new path. And you will step on it with joy and conviction and confidence and march right along. While you’re waiting for that path to show up, see what you need to let go, and see what is calling your heart. You are being shown the new path. You just have to pay attention.

===INTENTION BLESSING===

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 an open heart. 

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

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

An Experimental Garden for 2022

As the year draws to a close, it is a good time to give some thought to our “next”  – what we would like the coming year to be like. What we would like to accomplish. What we would like to learn. It’s great to stay open to unexpected surprises but it’s also a very powerful step to pause to evaluate where you are, what worked, what didn’t work, and what’s calling to you. I particularly like taking time to find out what’s calling to me. So it’s kind of fun to think in terms of planting an experimental garden. Plant a little of this and a little of that and see what you like. So if you were putting in an experimental garden to decide what crops you want to develop next year, what would you put in it? 

I’m going to put in a whole row of different types of physical movement so that I can experiment with the ones that best meet the needs of my body. I’m going to plant another row that helps me deepen my Transcendental Meditation practice  – as in doing it more often and for longer periods of time. That is simply an existing crop I want to expand. I’m going to  plant another row of new friends. People that I may already know, that I deepen my relationship with. People that I don’t know that have yet to come into my life. I want to stay open to expansion. I want to expand my learning.  So I will plan another row of concepts I want to explore in the form of books or courses that call to me. That’s a pretty good experimental garden. So in this garden, I will plant varieties of each of these ideas and go exploring to see how they nurture me and how they excite me and how and what they teach me. And when I figure that out I will plant more rows of that same concept with perhaps a larger number of varieties. For instance, I could see how many varieties of  “mindfulness” I can plant. What experimental crops do you want to plant in your “Garden of Next” to see how it would fit into your calling for the coming year? 

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

Spiritual Practice

A Transformative Clearing Process

Self Healing

How to Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

Expanding Awareness

New Consciousness – New State of Being  

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS===

Give yourself a gift this season: 

Music

Kalimba Thumb Piano This is a can’t-play-it-wrong musical instrument for any age. I love it. My grandchildren love it.  My cat Sebastian loves it (He only listens…) A lovely meditation tool. 

Self Care

Gua Sha Facial Tool Keep it handy for instant stress relief. Natural Jade Stone Guasha Board for SPA Acupuncture Therapy Trigger Point Treatment.

Favorite Reads

Stephen Mitchell, Tao Te Ching 

Stephen Mitchell, The Second Book of Tao

Love his translations.

==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATIONS ===

I am blown away by this messages in Sandra Ingerman’s latest newsletter.  “There is a learning curve of how to tend to oneself and others during this time of dismemberment and simultaneous rememberment.” I hadn’t though about the simultaneous part.  I encourage you to take the time to read this newsletter. There is also a Winter Solstice Ceremony recovered that I plan to participate in on December 21st.  I hope you consider subscribing to this powerful monthly newsletter. She is a thoughtful leader. December Transmutation News.

===REFLECTIONS===

The Lone Leaf

A lone leaf drops to the ground. It floats gently into to the end of its cycle.  It is complete. 

A new cycle begins.  A cycle of gradual organic change in which she will be dissolved and move into a new life, a new form, a new place of service. 

Endings mean new beginnings.  It is the cycle of life. 

– Cara Lumen, December 2021

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Persistence and New Possibilities

“Persistence and New Possibilities” were on the oracle card I drew and I really resonated with that combination.  As I take these small persistent steps to strengthen my body, new possibilities being to appear.  It’s exciting because my potential has expanded. It’s as simple as one more stretch, one more step, one more choice to move toward wholeness and the path widens, doors  open and the journey gets easier.  All because of persistence that opened up new possibilities.  What new opportunities are showing up for you?  Be persistent in  your exploration. 

===CARA’S CORNER===

I Have the Resources

As I move excitedly through the pages of Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health by Shamini Jain, I realize how well prepared I am to manifest my own healing.  I have the tools (reiki, meditation, qigong, yoga, breath-work, mindfulness) I just have to design my personal program.  How exciting!  I practice various techniques, observe the experience and the results, and design my own self-cultivation program. My sense is that this self-designed path will both widen and deepen as I explore. The point is to keep exploring and to evaluate my experiences and results so I have a basis for further choices.  I can just do it, or I do it, write down what I did, and record my responses/results.  Somewhere in between is more likely where I will land.  I do what to keep track of what I do so when I get a super positive result I will know why and I can repeat what I did.  

I am totally drawn to the seven steps of Yoga as described in this book and since I am reading it to learn to facilitate my own healing, I will practice and notice and choose what resonates most with me at this point in my evolution.  The point is to pay attention to the results and figure out how to get more of the outcome you want. I can do that. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Building on the Results

I take a step and pause to look around.  Where am I?  Is this where I want to be?

I take a step and pause to look around.  Where am I?  Is this where I want to be? I shift my gaze. I look at the possibilities that surround me. 

I take a step and pause to look around.  Where am I?  Is this where I want to be? I shift my gaze. I look at the possibilities that surround me. I change my rhythm. I follow my inner voice and step forward into a new adventure.

– Cara Lumen, December 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

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

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Self-Healing and Measurable Results – a Winning Combination

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Self-Healing and Measurable Results – a Winning Combination. 

Living Our Deeper Song

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

I had a fascinating experience a few weeks ago, a Narrative Coaching session with Mathilde Taburet in France. She coaches in both French and English. I choose to speak with my body, particularly my hips which are realigning and straightening but are hurting in the process. It was a fascinating session and I basically shut my eyes and talked out loud to my body as Mathilde asked me questions. The next day I woke up and knew there had been an important shift!  Yeah for self-healing. 

Then I wanted to figure out how to work with what I have uncovered in this exploratory inner work adventure. What was the core message and what are my action steps? 

Establish a relationship with the problem

For me, establishing and deepening the partnership with my body is the cornerstone  – listening and giving her what she wants.  How do you create a relationship with a problem?  What kind of questions do you ask? What kind of beliefs do you examine and change? I became aware that addressing belief systems about the inevitable deterioration of the body as we age was a big one to work on. 

I became more aware that I wanted to use intentional vibrational and sound healing more actively in my own self-healing.

Beliefs to Change

Belief, for me, is the cornerstone of all change.  Some belief has brought  you to this place, this juncture.  What is it?  For me, it was a belief about the aging process – the belief in gradual and persistent deterioration. There is no fear of death for me, just apprehension of the discomfort of the deterioration process.  That is not a belief that serves me.

Believe in your ability to change

I also need to have a firm belief that I can self-heal! That may take working with a variety of self-healing techniques or it may be as simple as affirmations that I repeat over and over to change my thinking and thus my life. 

New Choices to make

I had some optional choices come up, more Qigong, more hall-walking, more interaction with nature, more flute-playing and vibrational sound healing, new bitfield work, more intentional healing. I’m having a good time with the new resistance stretches my physical therapist gave me. It feels like a major positive change to add more conscious movement to my self-healing process .

What steps/changes/disciplines do I need to apply in order to make consistent choices that give me the results I seek?  

Frequency and consistency – My cornerstones 

Here’s where you make a plan – specific steps that you take. You observe the changes and then tweak your choices until you get the results you seek.  I just found the perfect place for the resistance training. I interwove it with a little Transcendental Meditation and have a lovely session. I have a selection of affirmations to sprinkle throughout my day. I have a group of posture-correcting movements to do regularly as I move into different rooms.  What can I change that will bring a different result? Going outside even a little would be good. How do I change my beliefs about what is possible? My expectations?  What new choices do I make?

I’m going to do more releasing through journey work. Also more vibrational healing and meditation.  Create a plan, follow it, notice the results and make changes. Keep flexible and encourage change. Create, adjust and create some more.

Beliefs to deepen

This body rearranging is reversible. It will take consistent, aware focus and actions to manifest this change. I can do this. 

Monitor the results of your choices and changes 

What is working?  What is not? The new place I have added the stretch band exercises is perfect – a bit of nature, plus a time for mediation and it is a welcome change in my routine I have added several times in my day.  Experiment, try different combinations and monitor your results. Then make more changes.

Bottom Line: I have work to do to support the strengthening of my body. 

I have work to do to keep my spirits up around my LightPath and the fascinating journey it is inviting me on. 

Keywords: Awareness and Consistent Creative Change.

What is a problem facing you? How do you define it, address it, and create the change you desire?  Get creative.  Get busy!

Self-healing and measuring results are a winning combination!

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I get creative about how I address the problem of ….

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Choose a problem to address in which the changes will be noticeable.  
  • Create your lists of Beliefs to Change,  Choices to Make, and Awareness to Deepen. 
  • Experiment, observe and create change.

Thank You for Your Birthday Wishes

I sit here in my apartment in the suburbs of Kansas City and don’t see very many people. And then I have the audacity to announce my birthday in my newsletter and send it not only to my subscribers, but post it on on Facebook and Twitter and suddenly I am beautifully aware of a planet full of friends. Your response is an extremely awesome and humbling experience. Thank you for taking time to acknowledge me. Thank you for taking time to read what I write and what I record. Thank you for walking this path with me. We are indeed a Circle of Light Beings and our collective light grows stronger. Feel our connection. Feel our collective support of each other in this journey we are taking together. Blessings and gratitude. Namaste – the light within me honors the light within you.

===INNER WORK===

Get Your Answers By Doing Your Inner Work

It’s not enough to be told how to do it, the only way you own something is by doing it – experiencing it for yourself. As I search to increase my use of vibrational healing I have to work on myself.  I have to experiment, practice, experience, explore, discover, and find my own path to the core message.  I have to practice it and experience it and get my own results in order to truly own the wisdom and experience. Then I have something to share and teach.  Find you answers though your own exploration and experimentation. 

Perspective and Self – Empowerment  

The SpiritSong oracle card I drew was “Perspective and Self-Empowerment” and I saw that as a very powerful combination to consider.  Empowering yourself to take action or find a solution is as simple as changing your perspective.  My challenge is my body, so from the perspective of my body it needs strengthening. That need triggers new choices.  Having that need, that focus, empowers my choices.  Rather easy, actually, shift your perspective and find new solutions.

SpiritSong Tarot

===OUTER  WORK===

Habit versus Conscious Choice

I gradually fell into the habit of walking with my head forward.  An instructor in an exercise class noticed it 4-5 years ago.  I let that unconscious habit dictate my posture until I was walking bent over.  Now I have begun to consciously change that. When I walk through a doorway in my home I pause to stand up straight and tall and hold that position for the count of 20.  It turns out that a lot of standing up straight is simply choosing to do so – being aware that one is not standing up straight and then mindfully making the change.  

Changing a habit is a matter of consciousness.  Awareness that you are doing something from habit.  And making a choice that you no longer want to mindlessly do that habit.  Awareness + Choice = Change.  What do you need/want to change?

Weigh the Choices

I’m sort of a just-do-it girl, I get an idea and I do it without a whole lot of thought. That works if you know yourself pretty well and it could get you in a tad of trouble if you were not aligned with your purpose and calling. We need to be aware of the general direction we are going at all times so that when a new choice or opportunity comes up it is easy to identify where it fits into the overall flow and helps us make an aligned decision.

I’m very much an intuition person but I am also very self-aware and know what and where a choice will lead me. Be aware of the consequences of your choices and actions and choose wisely.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Look for the Big Signs

I was seeking a personal answer to a personal problem and I found an answer that was all-encompassing and changed the course of my life. Are you asking questions that are big enough and broad enough to take you on a new journey? To lead you where you are to go next? To open up new doors and show you a new pathway? Don’t look for small answers. Look for the big signs that say “come this way”. And follow that. 

===INTENTION BLESSING===

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

May we keep our gaze on the Summit of Light.

May we take this journey with an open heart. 

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

===DISCOVERIES ===

Energy Healers, Read This Book!

I learned Reiki  in the 80’s – First Degree  on September 19, 1983 in New York City from Dr. Barbara Ray who had learned it from Hawayo Takata who of course learned it from Mikao Usui. I took Second Degree a week later September 25, 1983. I took Third Degree April 29, 1984 and became a Reiki Teacher on February 10, 1985. I was given 4th Degree March 20, 1986.  Reiki has been a part of my life for nearly 40 years, nearly half my life.  So I was fascinated to hear the interview on Sounds True with Dr. Shamini Jain and her experiences with biofields and energy healing, including reiki. 

This is new research of the use of bitfields in healing which has been used in ancient practices like yoga and Qigong that understand and utilize the energy meridians in our body.  This book will deepen your awareness and use of bitfield energy. Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health Her website is The Consciousness and Healing Initiative  You might want to get on her mailing list. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Is it Fear of Change or Fear of Being Irrelevant?

I’ve been thinking about the way people are so adamant about their positions.  Two thoughts came up – fear of change and fear of being irrelevant.  Both would give one pause to consider their options.  

Technology is moving so rapidly that even when we try to keep up we get behind.  It is creating new jobs and eliminating familiar ones.  How do we even learn the new jobs? Are there enough people who know the new technology to teach us?  And what if we’re not technically inclined?  There are a great many reasons to feel unsure.  Yes, every single one of us is going to become outdated and in some way irrelevant if we keep doing things the familiar, comfortable way.  That means I have to question all my choices  and a fair number of my beliefs particularly around what is possible!  It takes some bravery to question, to erase conclusions you have drawn, and begin a new path.  Fear of needing to change and not being able to change is in the minds of a lot of people whenever they are conscious of it or not.  And what if in all this change you become irrelevant – what if your skills are no longer useful?  They are printing houses for heaven’s sake, what does a carpenter do? Gas stations are becoming irrelevant as solar technology emerges.

What is underling the unease you feel about your future and the worlds’ future? The point is – what are you going to do about it?  How are you going to change?  How are you going to adapt?  Or are you?  What is being invented/created now that suits you and your interests and your skills?  How do you learn to do that?  Where are the new jobs to do that?  

This is a time for examining and exploring and trying on new options and opportunities.  Look around at the new doors that are opening and step through one!

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

Spiritual Practice

Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

Self Healing

Do You Hold the Beat or Play the Melody?

The Space of Inner Knowing

Expanding Awareness

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Our circle of influence is much larger than we imagine.  Our thoughts, our actions, our beliefs are like a radio tower sending off signals into the world.  What messages are you sending? Are you holding out frequencies of hope, of exploration, of high expectations?  Check your broadcast frequency and see if you need to raise it.

===CARA’S CORNER===

A Winning Combination

I drew two cards from my new SpiritSong tarot deck: Empowerment and Ambition was one,  Mentality and Focus the other.  I can’t think of a better combination for moving forward.  It puts the results squarely in my lap.  My ambition, my desire is empowering and chooses the direction – the desire drives my choices and my  willingness to do the work.  It gets results.  When I add ambition I take off and when I add mentality I find the path.  It creates big results. To ambition add focus, keep making choices in alignment with your goal and off you go – flying high! Your choices.  Your results.

Heres’s my takeaway. Everything is up to me.  What shows up in my life.  How I feel about it.  What I do about it.  I am sitting here creating my life from what I believe I deserve and what I believe is possible.  How am I living my unfolding?

I look at my body as healing and adjusting toward greater alignment even though it is grouchy while doing it.  I trust I will be shown where to go and what to explore on my changing path.  I am getting more insights on what is changing in the world and what some of our choices might be.  My journeys are showing me a higher path and I am taking it. The moment of change is now, in this second, with the beliefs we embrace, the choices we make, and the expectations we hold.  What are you dreaming up for yourself?  

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Creating My Life

What do I want?  What do I want my life to look like?  To feel like?

What do I want?  What do I want my life to look like?  To feel like? I have choices to make in the here and now that will direct the outcome.

What do I want?  What do I want my life to look like?  To feel like? I have choices to make in the here and now that will direct the outcome. It’s totally up to me. I choose thoughtfully.

– Cara Lumen November 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

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

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!

Why You Are Here

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Why You Are Here

Living Your Deeper Song

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

November 19, 1932 – the day I was born.  It was during the depression and there were not a lot of people having babies then.  I was a young girl when I listened on the console radio at my grandfather’s house to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I was in high school when vets came back to go to the local college on the GI Bill. I remember the first television shows. When I graduated from the University of Kansas in 1954 I remember wondering if this was all I got to learn to prepare myself for life.  I learned Transcendental Meditation in the 60’s because the Beatles did. And had my four children take it too.

We are brought into a certain time frame in history for a specific purpose and we build our lives on that – either knowingly or unknowingly. I was in New York City during the ’80’s and did a lot of Reiki with AIDS patients.  I also developed the metaphysical foundation that I continue to stand firmly upon. There was a friend who pointed out that we were rocks and others depended on us.  And we depended on other rocks. And the day I went to the Center for Spiritual Living in Santa Rosa, California, I knew I had come home.  Five years later I was a licensed practitioner.  My decisions have been sudden but done in absolute certainty.  I suddenly knew I would move from Kansas City to NYC.  I suddenly knew I would move to California. I suddenly knew it was time for move back to Kansas City.  No debate.  Just immediate, compete, definite knowing. Followed by giant steps. I trust my inner voice.  

I still have work to do.  My path is built on my lifetime of spiritual exploring.  I am to continue to explore and open up new pathways for myself and for others to follow and perhaps choose.  

Each year marks a strong forward movement.  Each year brings in new awareness, new adventure, new knowing.  I have given up planning very far ahead. I work to stay in the present moment – always exploring and considering and experimenting – looking for my next steps and the discoveries and insights I am to learn for my own journey and turn and share with others.  

Live your day mindfully – fully, with deep awareness of what is being offered you …… and take in as much tranquility as you can hold. 

Happy 89th Birthday to me!

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I immerse myself in the fullness and tranquility of life and step forward into my deepest path of service. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Pause where you are and consider – where you are, what opportunities are unfolding, how the world is changing.  What is your role?
  • Do that. 

===INNER WORK===

Draw Your Vision

Drawing is a fabulous way to try an idea on for size. It doesn’t have to be a good drawing, it just has to be an image that suggests to you the form and shape and depth and width of your vision. Give it a try. Draw your vision into life.

Step Back Into Your Own Power

In the chaos and disruption of today’s world, it is easy to feel lost or even hopeless. But it is right now, in this moment, that we are each to step into our own strength. Our inner strength of spirituality, our inner strength of higher purpose. We must step outside the disruption of our humanness and rise above this chaos. We are to gather together above the fray. We are to join together with a higher vision for the whole planet,  for the whole universe, for All-That-Is. We are to hold that vision, that higher vision, and see it and feel it and experience it and immerse ourselves in it until it becomes a reality. Think beyond yourself. Sink into the cosmos. Step into the cosmic awareness and be whole.

===OUTER  WORK===

Know Your Work Style

I’m a loner.  I prefer to work alone.  I prefer to do it my way.  It’s important to know your preferred working style. 

As I watch the US congress rework and compromise and stall, I know for sure I’d rather be the CEO and simply make the decisions and stand by the results.  No compromise for me – I want flexibility and innovation and exploration, based on my own knowledge and interpretation. 

I have also known I would rather work with advanced explorers than beginners.  There are always choices.  Know your work preferences and build upon them. 

Get Rid of What No Longer Serves You

Periodically we need to do a reality check – what are we actually using and what is no longer part of our path. 

My daughter and her husband helped me get some possessions recently – things I would never use again.  I kidded and told her there would soon just be me and all my crystals living here. 

Letting go is interesting.  It can be challenging and it can be freeing.  It involves a choice.  A recognition that something is no longer useful and a willingness to let go of it. 

Look around at your life and your possessions and see what needs to move on – and out. 

Know What Calls To You

I was reading the wrong book.  I think it has things in it I need to know but it was deep and takes persistence and focus to read. I was having a hard time staying with it.

I had a second book, Dr. Jains’ book on biofields, and the minute I read the intro I knew I had to shift directions.  

This is what I want to know now.  This is what I need to learn next.  My energy lifted, my focus shifted and I was off like a rocket ship. 

Change your gaze and see what calls to you.  Then take off on the adventure. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Laughter

I don’t have occasion to laugh-out-loud much. Can you remember the last time you really had a big belly laugh and you couldn’t even stop laughing? I’ve begun to look for a smile, even an inside smile. A moment that makes me pause and look and appreciate and absorb the gift of whatever it is that is making me smile. It’s not often laughter, but it is an uplifting of spirit. See what you can find today to make you smile.

===DISCOVERIES ===

Good News

CNN has a new positive news email that really lifts your spirits.  The Good Stuff

And there is also is The Good News Network 

What news are you allowing to shape your day?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Are You Moving on?

I was listening to the news – particularly about people who don’t want to change.  They don’t want to change their thinking.  They don’t want to change their beliefs. They don’t want to explore.  They don’t want to let go.  They don’t want to question. They don’t want to experiment.  They mostly do not want to be wrong. And of course, as we expand and learn and experiment, we do grow and change and replace ideas and actions.  

Growth is good.  Exploration is fabulous.  Be like the breeze going through the trees and let exploration create movement in your life. 

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

Spiritual Practice

Simply Being  – The Art of Wu Wei

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

Self Healing

The Backpack Journey

Heart Lessons from a Soul Star

Expanding Awareness

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Transmute the Past into New Sources of Energy

One of my major gifts is enthusiasm.  It takes me exploring. It inspires me to share what I discover.  Curiosity and enthusiasm are major drivers for me. As I move forward on my own journey I am to translate my lessons and achievements of the past into new sources of energy and inspiration for the future.  I build on what I know.  I stand on the heights I have achieved so far and look further afield.  My path is changing. I am climbing higher.  I am seeing further.  I am being called to higher service.  I will build on what I have learned, what I have achieved, how I have developed, and what I am called to do. Come. Let’s go adventuring!

===CARA’S CORNER===

Follow the Path that Goes Deeper

This is the time of the year when we begin to reflect on what we have done and how we are doing. How did the choices we made work out? What didn’t work out so well? Not only do we reflect, but we have an opportunity to make new conscious choices. Is there an overarching theme we should look at as we make our choices for the coming year? 

In a recent journey, I got the message ”follow the path that goes deeper.” Deeper into a connection and awareness of our integration with Cosmic Consciousness. Experience a deeper spiritual presence in my daily life, one of continuous gratitude and appreciation and awareness. Make conscious choices that deepen in my inner connection with All -That-Is. A deepening awareness that enhances  my interactions on the physical plane. How do I take my path deeper? At the same time, I want to go higher. Rise above the chaos of the planet. Move off into the ethereal awareness that is available to all of us. Dig deeper to rise higher, perhaps that’s how it works out. As I deepen my relationship with my inner voice, my inner self, I learn to interpret it in more ways, from more angles. And as I deepen my relationship with my physical plane, I enrich and expand my choice of focus and action. We are to dig deep and climb high. I can do that.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

 Directions from Within

I settle into my Still Point and listen.  

I settle into my Still Point and listen to the soul of me, my essence, my being-ness.   

I settle into my Still Point and listen to the soul of me, my essence, my being-ness.  I move forward from that centered place. I dig deeper and I climb higher. All is well in my world. 

– Cara Lumen, November 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

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

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Understand Your Role

By

Understand Your Role

Living Your Deeper Song

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

I’m a start-up gal.  I love to explore and identify ideas and use them in unusual ways.  I’m not always much of a completer but I’m definitely an originator.  It is important to know your calling and honor it as your special gift. 

Some of this I came to understand by studying the enneagram.  There are boss types and creative types and worker bee types.  Some people thrive on being in service to others.  It’s important to know your own preferences and honor them. 

If I insist on being strongly creative, then I probably need to find someone else to do the technical work of editing my podcasts.  If I love to strategize, I may best be in service by stepping in at various stages along the path of a project to help organize some ideas and structure them for action, a getting-projects-unstuck sort of person.

Know your role.  Know your gifts and let those guide your path.  

You may fill different roles in different situations.  I usually instinctively and organically step in to organize – whatever it is.  I also always want to write publicity or explanations or guidebooks.  I use my writing to focus thoughts    – including my own.

Look back over your life and notice the most rewarding, fulfilling experiences you have had.  What was your role?  How rewarding was it?  How would you adapt what you are doing today to make it more rewarding? 

Sometimes we get in a rut in playing our favorite roles.  Part of it comes from people calling on us to do what we are good at.  Other times we are so good at performing a function that it simply is usually our job to do. 

Go exploring.  Move outside of your comfort zone.  I’m not a particularly good artist, but I have taken art classes and I have a good time making line drawings of some of my journeys.  I have studied music and sung in many choral groups – now my musical expression is through native flutes and drums for my own enjoyment. Your gifts will evolve over the years.  Your talent will be applied to a variety of formats.  Go exploring.  

Notice what has evolved as a new opportunity for you.  Podcasts are a natural for someone like me who has two degrees in theater and was television talent. I have been a professional copywriter and a Content Development Coach. Now I get to write what I want to in my own newsletter.  

Your gifts will evolve. Where you apply them will unfold.  Go exploring.  Learn to use your gifts in new ways and see where it leads you. It’s not enough to simply understand your role, it is important to choose your role to fit where you are in your life path today. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I look at my path of the past and my path of today and bring forward the best in myself.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Look for new ways to apply the gifts you have been given.  
  • What new roles are opening up into unexpected ways that the unfolding world is calling to you?

===INNER WORK===

How to Overcome Fear

I am writing about how to overcome fear to figure it out because I don’t have an answer.  My legs hurt a LOT when I get up from a chair.  I think it is because my structure is shifting, but it hurts and now I experience fear and apprehension before I stand up which simply makes it a worse experience. 

What do you do when you anticipate pain?  How can you change that fear? Anticipation can be numbing. 

Do you go into circumstances expecting the worst?  Do you picture all sorts of devastating scenarios before you move into a situation?  It’s really hard to keep a positive thought when your past experience has been painful.   

I send Reiki to my hips before I stand.  I center and take a calming breath before I stand – so I can stop the anticipation of pain that I expect at the move I am planning to make.  I need to focus on what I do that feels aligned. But boy, negative anticipation can really stop you cold. 

I don’t have an answer. As the pain stopped happening the fear went away. If you continually experience something negative you come to expect it. You anticipate it.  You fear it.  You tense up and make the experience even more extreme than it actually is.  

The next day I was able to stand up with less pain and the fear and apprehension begin to dissolve. How do you stop anticipating the worst?

I don’t have an answer for this.  Only the problem.  And the negative anticipation makes the experience worse.

 
What are you anticipating in your life that needs to be shifted? How will you do that?

Solitude

The centered awareness of being in your Still Point. Your complete immersion in the heartbeat of nature.  Losing your sense of self in the expression of music.  A quiet mind that makes room for deeper awareness. How do you find solitude?  How do you create stillness? 

Solitude is replenishing. It is restorative. It is revealing. You can be in solitude alone and you can feel alone in a crowd. Create moments of contemplative thought throughout each day.  Take a releasing breath.  Gaze out into nature. Allow for the deep absorption of the energy around you.  Be aware.  Take time to be alone. Find your Still Point and reside there.

===OUTER  WORK===

Forgive  Yourself

Looking back over my long life, there are some less than stellar choices that I made along the line. But I also know I made them in the moment from what I knew and understood and felt and experienced. So yes, they were somewhat unaware choices. Perhaps unaware of the long-term effect. Perhaps unaware of the immediate effect. I simply was not aware. And what’s true of you is true of others. People who hurt you or added negativity to your life were probably doing it out of simply being unaware of certain circumstances at the time. Everyone needs forgiveness for the past. Just let go and leave behind your less-than-stellar choices and actions so you can move forward. Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Let go. And move on.

When You Are ready the Answer Will Appear

I’m reading a book that is rich and deep and is exactly what I need to learn right now. Don’t you love it with the right information shows up in a form you are eager to accept?  And I have another book I will read next that will be equally expanding.  

So what do you do with new information?  In my process of absorbing an idea I write about it – here and in podcasts. That’s one way I figure things out.  Then I find creative ways to apply the concepts and experiment with them and adjust my actions as I get results. 

How do you explore a new idea?  Where do you find your transformative ideas?  Keep looking. Keep exploring and experimenting.

Goals and Your Progress

I have completed three months of physical therapy and next week I meet with my therapist to outline what I want to accomplish in the next three months.  This is interesting because setting these goals depends on how my body responds.  It is not like setting a goal I know I can accomplish. I’m not going to aim for walking to the end of the parking lot driveway.  I will aim for quality – standing tall, everything working smoothly and in coordination, and providing the foundation upon which to build up stamina.  

There, I found it – my goal is to strengthen my foundation – the strength and stamina, and flexibility that I can build upon.  

As you begin to consider goals for the coming year, how strong is the foundation you are building to stand on?  And what beliefs do you need to change in order to know that what you imagine is possible?

Lift your gaze.  And your expectation of what is possible.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Recognize the Positive

Our thoughts can be positive or they can pull us down with their negativity. As you move through your day, notice the direction of your thoughts. Notice how much encouragement you give yourself. Notice how much discouragement you give yourself. And make some changes.  Look at what you have created and focus on those manifestations that truly represent the progress you choose to make. Pat yourself on the back for that. Release the less than stellar choices as experiments that you learned from.  Learn from your mistakes and move on. 

Self-Sufficiency Training

I journeyed to find out what I need to actively do to help my body, to restore its stamina and flexibility. The message was, “This is a form of self-sufficiency training. How much are you willing to do to strengthen your body and help it restore to some semblance of stronger usefulness?”

Do the work.  We have to do the work.  We can’t just sit and hope, we have to take action steps.  We need to be conscious of our choices. We need to structure our personal progress so we explore, develop and mindfully choose what we need to know and accomplish next.  Create your personal well-being program, your own self-sufficiency training.  What does that look like for you?

===DISCOVERIES ===

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime astrological event happening in 2022…The United States of America’s Pluto Return.

This means that Pluto is returning to the exact point it was when the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th, 1776…

And it only happens once every 225 years! There is a seminar here on November 12: Astrology Hub

===MY DEEPER SONG  ADVENTURES ===

Listen to the wind. It talks.

Listen to the silence. It speaks.

Listen to your heart. It knows.
– Native American Proverb

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Shine Your Light in the Corners

Those of us who are called are to not only raise our sights but also focus on shining our light of Consciousness Awareness in all the corners.  How do we do that?  

My version begins with looking for and identifying those who are working in light, who are walking the planet in an ever-deepening place of service. When you identify them, step up and walk beside them for a while. We support each other, we encourage each other, we learn for each other, we inspire and motivate each other. We teach each other. And perhaps we even protect each other. 

Be responsible for your own path.  Make conscious choices.  Takes conscious steps.  Lift your gaze.  

Keep walking upward on your path.  Keep listening to the encouragement you receive and notice where it comes from. 

In this continuing flow of  change, we must keep choosing – we must keep choosing light, we must keep choosing awareness we must keep choosing Cosmic Consciousness. We must choose it each day, consciously, with curiosity and determination as we search for the lessons and guidance to move us into a positive, inclusive, cosmic future. 

Shine a light in the corner of your life and take heart with what you find.  The corners are full of unexpected gifts to help you move purposefully along your path.

Do You Follow Your Insights?

It sometimes takes time to trust that inner voice,  your intuition, those hunches that seem to show up out of nowhere. But they are you talking to you. They are your inner voice, your inner wisdom, your inner guidance offering you nudges here in the human world. Pay attention. At least consider them. Perhaps explore them a bit to see how they unfold. Let your hunches direct you as those insights take you adventuring. You’ll be surprised where you end up.

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

Spiritual Practice

Journey to a Chamber of the Seven Sacred Rays

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Self Healing

The Backpack Journey

Simply Being  – The Art of Wu Wei

Expanding Awareness

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Your Soul’s Purpose

I turn 89 this month which means I have a lot of life to look back over to see what my soul’s purpose has been and still is. Some of the themes are evident, the curiosity, the creativity, the writing, with the common thread of spiritual searching. My path has held consistent themes. 

Finding your purpose is not always easy. You must embrace life wholeheartedly, explore many different pathways, and allow yourself to grow. Your purpose is as unique as you are and will evolve as you move through life.

Purpose is what excites  you.  It is what fills you with satisfaction. It’s what drives you. Can you identify your soul’s purpose? 

Jump Time

What appears to be chaos is actually opportunity. It is jump time. Time for us to take giant steps, leaps of faith, and trust that we will discard what is no longer needed and encourage what is beneficial for this next unfolding. So the old habits, the outdated thought patterns, the no-longer useful beliefs are dying and they are not happy about it. But they are no longer needed. They are to be rapidly replaced with a sense of world community that makes us care for each other, support each other, walk strongly beside each other. No wonder some people are really grouchy at this change. It goes against the grain. It makes their perspective outdated and wrong and not useful.

This is a giant jump we are taking. There’s new technology. New urgency. And those of us who are moving forward must let go of what is no longer working, what no longer serves us, what no longer serves others. It’s it is if we’re about to step out of a warm shower and choose a fresh wardrobe for the day. How do we want to craft our life? How do we want to shape our exchanges with others? All of life comes from our inner world. It comes from our beliefs and intentions and expectations. So we can actually sit quietly and make stuff up. We can visualize people living in harmony. In collaboration. And peace. We can learn to feel the experience of inclusion. And look for it and bring more of it into our day. We are jumping into the future with every choice we make. Make sure they are conscious choices.

Who are you becoming?

===CARA’S CORNER===

I Am Moving into the Cosmos to Do My Work

Here’s another of my shamanic journeys: 

Question: I have turned onto a new path.  What guidance can you give me? 

Journey: I am walking beside the male hiker guide that I met in my last journey. He whistles and walks jaunty down the path. I walk without my walker beside him. I don’t walk jauntily but I am waking strongly. 

Are you going to show me my path? I ask. He grins and takes a larger step. I follow. Suddenly we are in a circle from which emerges nine paths. There is no straightforward path, there is a choice to be made. And that choice will make all the difference. I want to go to the cosmos they say. Seven of the paths turn into one of the seven sacred rays. I do not want to choose a path of an individual ray I say. I want a higher path. The golden path. A higher path. My guide and I rise three feet off the ground. Angel With The Golden Wings comes down and takes my hand and off we go. We fly even past the Void into the Cosmic Consciousness. There is a humming there. Because those who are there are busy. They are imagining and creating scenarios in the air and they are helping others. I get to work. Suddenly I am in a long golden robe and I’m in the Circle of Light Beings. We have our Individual Harps playing a  song that is very intertwined. “This is one place I serve,” I say. Angel With The Golden Wings nods in agreement. “You need to get to the book on the biofields,” says my guide, my Male Hiker. That will give you some tools to begin to do deeper work. It’s OK to have this imaginal concept but the biofield is the way the work is done. Keep studying. 

“I am worried about my body and my capabilities to keep going because I’m having a really good time.” You have work to do and you’ll be able to do it. You are prepared for the work. You will do the work. You can do the work. You want to do the work. It is important work. Yes, you can share more journeys with the Deeper Song Community. Perhaps do a journey specifically for the group. Your body is entering a new phase of participation. Be patient with it be supportive of it, do some work with it so it can get strong again.

“I’ve just gotten out of my chair and it hurt my body a lot. Can you please help my body so I can do this better?” You have some choices to make and one of them is to care for your body better. Do that first. Keep your mind open. You have work to do and you will be shown what to do and how to do it and when to do it. Rise above your humanness. The Flying Indigo Rug is good, the Cat is good, the new direction is good. Let it unfold.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Trust

My inner voice speaks to me. Sometimes I understand, sometimes I don’t. 

My inner voice speaks to me. Sometimes I understand, sometimes I don’t. But I always trust – trust its wisdom, trust its guidance. 

My inner voice speaks to me. Sometimes I understand, sometimes I don’t. But I always trust – trust its wisdom, trust its guidance. And I keep exploring.

Cara Lumen, November 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

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

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.

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What You Can Imagine You Can Create

By

What You Can Imagine You Can Create

Living Your Deeper Song

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

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

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

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

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!

===INNER WORK===

The Power of Encouragement

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

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

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

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

Change Your Narrative, Change Your Life 

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

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

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

===OUTER  WORRK===

How Do You Handle Discouragement?

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

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

Take smaller steps and let the path unfold before you. 

The Length of your Reach

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

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

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

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

Establish a Daily Self-Scanning Practice

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

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

Try Something Different

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

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

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

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

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

Create Change by Changing the Size of the Problem

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

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

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

Adjust Your Foundation

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

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

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Combinations for Your Spiritual Practice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST ==

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Spiritual Practice

Create a Releasing Ceremony For Yourself

The Two Vital Sides of Your Spiritual Practice

Self Healing

The Backpack Journey

Journey to a Chamber of the Seven Sacred Rays

Expanding Awareness

Listen For Your Future

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective

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===DISICOVERIES ===

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

===MY DEEPER SONG  ADVENTURES ===

Restorative Sleep

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

===OUR EVOLVING FUURE===

The Job Of Future Generations

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

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

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

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Our Choice 

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

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

===CARA’S CORNER===

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

COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS  JOYRNEY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

My Inner Gides

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

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

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

  • Cara Lumen November 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

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