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Raise Your Consciousness

Creating Conscious Connection

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

What is our role? How do we help? We each have our own expression of self from which to participate in elevating the changes that are going on in the world. It’s not just about intention. We each have a role. 

What do we do with our intention, with our insights, with our understanding, with our focus, with our deeds? How do we serve in the world to raise the collective consciousness?

We can change by changing our focus, by changing our beliefs, and we can change by making choices that continue to align with what we see as our higher purpose. We will serve at different levels. Some people will do the hands-on work. Others will do the introspective, intentional work. I’m one of the latter. I haven’t exactly decided what to do with my role. I can do visualization work, I can journey to the future and ask for guidance, I can send positive energy to all of those who are working to become more aware of their own higher vibration. I can write about it. I can talk about it. I have no idea whose life I might change or how I might change it. I keep listening to my inner voice, my cosmic guidance and move forward from there. My role evolves with  insights from my own introspection.

Introspection is a good place to begin to raise your consciousness. What do you believe is possible? What do you see as your role? What new roles are opening up that you are to consider and perhaps explore? Know your most effective place of service. Know what you can and cannot do and know what you are and are not to do. Listen to your inner voice. 

A long time ago I understood that my role was to work with people who were already flying high and whatever I added to their awareness helped them fly higher and reach more people. That’s who I serve. Who do you serve?

Don’t let the evolving drama pull you off course. This is a time of perpetual change. But it is not a time of giving up. It is the time of repositioning. It is the time of exploring totally new possibilities. And it is the time for making new, conscious, aware choices that elevate the world around us, the world we live in and a time to make choices that elevate our own life experience.

A great deal of movement comes when we examine what we believe is possible. That’s interesting because there are so many unexpected and innovative discoveries and inventions that are opening up pathways we never knew existed because we were not aware of their existence until now. So much more is possible today than it was yesterday. 

So we explore. We try on new choices to see how they feel. We take exploratory forays down the various new pathways that show up and we see what resonates and what is possible. I think we have to stay in exploration mode for quite a while because the change is going to continue to be rapid and dramatic. So don’t picture yourself tucking into your corner of the world quite yet. Picture yourself in a test kitchen tasting all the dishes that are being prepared. To see how you like them. To see what extra flavoring or seasoning should be added. And what should be served on the main menu.

Notice the level of excitement you feel as a new opportunity shows up. It may suddenly feel so in line with all you’ve done in your life that you know this is the right path for now. Or it may feel like you are to explore a bit and take parts and pieces from that path with you on your journey. For certain, this is a time of exploration and choice. What choices are you making to raise your consciousness? 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I explore the many possibilities that are unfolding around me.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Pay attention to your inner voice and how it responds to all the new possibilities that are currently showing up.  It may be a momentary excitement or it may be deep joy at having found a new path to explore. 
• Explore the idea. Explore the possibility, the potential, and see where or if you would like it in your life.
• Then do that.

Our Global Deeper Song Community

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

The Field of Opportunity

An Exploration of the Unseen World

It was like standing in a garden so filled with organic goodness that I was hard pressed to choose.  This was the Field of Opportunity and I had come here seeking my future.  

Where was I being called? What did I want to do? Had I explored all the opportunities that were being offered? Was I ready for my next step?

My inner voice said, “Be present in the moment and it will be revealed.”

So I stood in my Field of Opportunity and looked at all the possibilities that surrounded me.

In this episode we explore

The Field of Opportunity

(12 minutes)

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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

The Ongoing Emergence of our Future

Life Lessons from a Spider

Trust Your Inner answers.

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

===INNER WORK===

Redefine Your Place and Depth of Service

Identify a few words that explain how you see your role in the world.  One of my phrases is “Spiritual Philosopher.” But over time, I have come to know it is not only who I want to be but who I am.  

Define yourself beyond your role of parent or spouse or good worker or…  

I consider myself an Explorer of the Unseen World.  I know what my role looks like on the physical plane – that I write newsletters and record podcasts.  But what we are looking for is an over-arching description that raises your sights and your expectations of who you are and who you are becoming. I might consider myself a way-shower, guide, an adventurer, a light being.  You get the idea.  How do you label yourself and is it a broad enough label?  Choose a role that demands that you grow into it.

Do You Go With the Flow?

I have never surfed but as I watch people who do, they skillfully go with the flow. They have to adjust their weight and their position of the board and the direction they are going in order to catch a wave in a certain way so it will carry them forward toward shore. It’s a lesson we need to learn as we move through our lives. We have to become aware of the ebb and flow of the various cycles of our life that are both ongoing and intertwined. So we each have to become aware of where we are on each cycle and what cycle is predominant and is offering urgent choices for the present. There’s a constant sense of being aware of the unfolding situation and a constant awareness of choices to be made in order to get the best “ride” in life. Listen to your inner voice. Be observant of the results of your actions. And constantly reconsider your options. That will help you go with the flow and have a great life journey.

===OUTER WORK===

Does Your Work Make Your Heart Sing?

Your life work is made up of the things you choose to do 

that allow you to express your intelligence, passion, and creativity in accordance with your values, and experience the profound joy of simply being yourself. Unlike traditional work, which may demand more of you than you are willing to give, life’s work demands nothing but your intention and passion for that work.

To identify your life work, you must consider your interests in the present and the passions that moved you in the past. Or there may be a passion you have yet to unfold. If you don’t know where to begin, as your search for purpose, take stock of your strengths, passions, beliefs, and values in your daily meditation. 

 Ask the universe to clarify your life’s work by providing signs. Then be sure to pay attention.  

Since life’s journey is one of evolution, you may need to redefine your direction on multiple occasions throughout your lifetime.  Do what makes your heart sing. Be open.  Be flexible. Be aware. And most of all, be open to change. 

An Absence of Striving

What would it feel like to give up all striving and simply be? Feel that stillness. No striving. Simply being present. I hear more when I quiet my mind. I feel more when I quiet my breath. I go within to my Still Point and listen and experience and simply be. 

There is no staving, no efforting, no concerns.  I exist in simple being-ness.

I will go to my Still Point more often during my days and deepen my sense of tranquility.

Know When You are Full Up

It was tempting. The leader of the class is someone I respect and want to learn from. But I am full up. Full up of learning. Full up at one more step to take. Full of the things I’ve given myself to do. We do this to ourselves. We fill our life, our space, our time and our thoughts all by ourselves. So periodically we need to clean house to stop and sit on the front porch, rock in the swing and listen to the birds singing and the wind blowing. Are you full up? What do you need to let go of? Do that today.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Keep Your Spiritual Practice Fluid

It is very easy to get caught up in routine – even the routine of a spiritual practice.  How can you keep your spiritual practice vital and relevant?

Know when to stop doing something.  I love my Oracle Cards but it is also time to not do them so often.  I have a variety of spiritual practices I can add or modify or adapt. The trick is to make it a choice that is relevant in the moment of the choosing. 

Pay attention to your inner voice, your inner nudges, and act upon them.  I like to play my native flutes to nature but I can be more spontaneous and do it more often – immersing myself in how it feels in the moment. Notice what calls to you to do it differently.  And immerse yourself in the moment.  

Let your spiritual practice be one improvisation after another.  What do you feel like doing?  Do that, how did it feel?  Do more.  Do something else. Explore the new and expand the comfortable.

Change the location.  I found a different location to do my Qigong and it changed how I feel about doing it.  Go out in nature for your spiritual practice. Change chairs.  I have one chair facing toward the window that I sit in each day to greet the day or play the sun down, or watch the storm, or simply be with the day. You may find different times to do to different aspects of your spiritual practice.  Let your body tell you.  Let your inner voice tell you.  Experiment for a while and let your flexible and creative new spiritual practice unfold. 

===MY DEEPER SONG ADVENTURES ===

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===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Stay Open

German Company Makes Concrete to Charge Electric Vehicles From Roads With 95% Efficiency and Low Cost 

Think what that will eliminate – no gas stations, no gas production, no fossil fuel consumption or pollution.  And that’s just one major change from one idea.  We can print 3-D houses in two weeks.  Artificial Intelligence takes over mundane jobs and makes complex jobs easy.  

We have to stay flexible.  We have to stay open to change.  We get to rethink everything we do.  What an opportunity and challenge.  Stay flexible and open to change and new and unexpected opportunities!

What Does It Take to Change Your Mind? 

I watch the world rearrange itself on a dramatic scale. I watch new decisions being made and wonder at the reasoning behind many of them. I watch new discoveries unfold that will change our world. And I begin to think about what it will take to change my mind about anything.

Changing your perspective, changing your mind begins with your focus. What is important to you at this point in your life? As the opportunities unfold, so do the insights. And our position changes.

We have to consider our options. If a person is against taking the Covid virus vaccinations, what does it take for them to change their mind? They have to look closely at the source of their core beliefs. And that’s not always easy to do. Our beliefs can be very sneaky and creep up on us without even knowing that they are anchoring themselves in our lives. We establish our beliefs based on what our parents taught us and what we learn as we respond or react to our life journey.  Our experience contributes to our beliefs. 

What does it take to change your mind? I think we should be in a state of constant questioning. Because the world is changing rapidly. Opportunities are unfolding we never even dreamed of. We need to keep exploring and considering and trying things on for size. We need to be aware of the myriad of inventions and discoveries that make some of our choices obsolete and open ourselves to paths we never dreamed of before. 

Dido you get up every day and ask what direction you are supposed to go in that day? Each day is an opportunity to look closely at what has evolved overnight. What changes have come about in your experience, your thinking, the opportunities that have presented themselves, and how that changes or should change your beliefs and your responses. Stay fluid. Keep observant. And stay open to change.

===CARA’S CORNER===

Be Willing to Change

My recent big lesson is to be willing to change.  That involves a reality check, it involves exploring new options, and it definitely asks you to make new decisions.

Take a reality check.  I have spent a lot of money on my health and now have to ease up on other spending.  My body is shifting for the better but it offers me both new challenges and new choices. I have to actively explore new actions that are now open to me that will support and advance this new strength and flexibility.  Shift your gaze.  Change your options. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Shift

Shift your gaze. 

Shift. Your gaze lands on new perspectives, new possibilities. 

Shift. Your gaze lands on new perspectives, new possibilities. One step forward changes the entire landscape and offers a new view. Explore.

Cara Lumen, September 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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Cycles Bring New Growth

A Deeper Song Awareness

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

Cycles are not just circles, they are also spirals. So every time you return to what feels like the same place you were in the last time you were around that circle, you are actually in a higher place in that cycle. You have learned more, you’ve explored more, and circumstances have changed. So even though you feel like you are in the same place in the cycle, you are not. And we must learn to discern the subtle changes that are inviting us to move forward.

Deng Ming-Dao says, “The idea of a cycle means every point is important. Priorities must be maintained in relation to the center and movement is essential.”

The center.  The reason for the cycle. Where are we in relation to the center?  We may be closer to it.  We may as far away from the center as the cycle goes. That will affect our viewpoint and our choices, 

I might have a cycle of health that has many cycles within it – rest, food, gentle movement, rapid movement.  I must pay attention to my relationship to the center. 

My spiritual cycle has facets.  Flutes, tuning forks, meditation, writing to understand, shamanic journeys.  All are separate cycles within the cycle of spiritual expansion.  I must keep my eye on the center which holds the core purpose of all that activity.

Cycle brings more wisdom, more experience, and deepened understanding. When we return to what feels like the same starting place in the cycle, we are actually at a higher level. Just as when I go to bed at night.  The steps are the same but I am in a different place than I was the night before and the night before that.  The sleep that lies ahead of me builds on the previous cycles and brings with it a whole new level of possibilities. 

Cycles can be large and small and they can be intertwined.  Like the cycles of a season, or the cycles of a year, or the cycles of a day. 

It is important to understand that as you move through these constant cycles, you will return to what feels like a familiar spot. However, you are also in a higher, more advanced place in the cycle. You have learned new things through your experiences. Your awareness and your needs and your purposes may have changed. Since we are constantly moving in spirals, there is constant change to be aware of and to consider as we make our new choices. 

There are cycles of healing. Cycles of creativity. Cycles of understanding. Cycles of change. Cycles of growth. Cycles constantly offer us a new view.  

As you move to a new place in your cycle, go within to feel what has changed and what new choices and awareness have appeared that will help you bring forth the desired result.

Each place in the cycle holds a new set of tools and awareness with which to make your next choice. Give thought to what you have learned and what you have accomplished and make a new choice based on your continually deepening awareness.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I build on my cycles of growth and understanding and make aligned choices that move me forward.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

• Choose one cycle you know you are in.  It can be a work cycle or a play cycle or a learning cycle. Notice where you are.  Perhaps make a few notes. 
• Choose a period of time – a day, a week, a month, and periodically return to the notes you took and see what has changed,  how you have changed, what you have learned, and how you now do things differently. There are constant lessons in the moment of cycles.

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!

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

Listen for Your Future

A Deeper Song Adventure

I feel it forming.  I am aware of change taking place but it is not yet clear.  It is a feeling, a knowing actually. And so I wait.  Patiently.  Observing, considering, evaluating, imagining.  Letting it make itself known to me.

This is a time of evolution and my role is to observe and consider before I act.  

Change cannot be hurried.  Change gradually makes itself known as it organically unfolds. One must be patient and observant and let change show itself in its own rhythm. 

In this episode we explore how to 

Listen for Your future

(17 Minutes

(Listen Here) 

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

The Backpack Journey

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness

Trust Your Inner answers.

===INNER WORK===

Leadership, Introspection and Intuition 

One of the first animal spirits I saw as I first began to journey was a brown bear. Her face looking out of the bushes at me and that’s the closest she came. She didn’t show up again for a long time.  A few years later in my wildlife calendar, there was a picture of a brown bear whose challenging gaze said to me-  “Get to it!” I saved that picture. Bear has not shown up for me as a major guide until recently, in an odd way. Over time I seem to have collected three small stone beers. I gathered them together and looked up what bear meant as a spirit guide. The major qualities are introspection, leadership, and intuition. What an awesome trio of qualities to have in you own life.

The largest of my three small stone bears is citrine and I call her “Leadership” because she is capable of leading the way.  I lead by example.  I lead by learning and sharing what I learn.  

The middle-sized jade bear I call “Introspection”. How else do you know where to go? Thoughtful contemplation brings clarity.

The smallest amber bear I call “Intuition”. We need to learn to trust our inner urges, our unexpected knowing. 

These three bears sit on my desk to remind me of some of the roles I take. 

What a wonderful way to look at your own life expression – a leader who uses introspection to explore the possibilities and accesses intuition to guide the way.

===OUTER WORK===

Does Struggle Help You Clarify?

Astro Butterfly said: “If at times you feel at odds with society, keep in mind that any struggle, any conflict is an opportunity to understand yourself, and your place in the world better.”

We get to constantly reexamine our beliefs and our choices. We get to modify them.  We get to make new choices depending on where we have grown, what path we have taken and where we find ourselves. What is calling you? What does it mean you are to do next?

The Power of Pruning

In the weeks since the Weeping Birch outside my window was trimmed so severely, I’ve been noticing what has changed because of the pruning. And I wanted to explore how to apply pruning to my life.

Pruning actually makes the plant stronger. So those branches that were trimmed off are now standing taller because they’re not so weighted down. It has to be better for them to stand taller. The grass growing below the tree has more sunlight now so it can grow more easily. That’s a good thing. Pruning actually opens up space for stronger growth.

I have a wonderful full view of the sky now and the clouds and the sunset. There is more light coming into my home and I can see more clearly. What has become overgrown in your life? What is choking off new growth? What will you prune? And when you prune, what will you discover?

Rethink and Re-choose Your Priorities  

There are obvious times, like a major change in your life, in which you have to rethink your options and your priorities. Like starting a new job. Or the last child going off to school. Or you take a new job. These are dramatic changes. And they offer a perfect opportunity to rethink and reprioritize and re-choose. My friend whose son has recently moved out gets to rethink what she wants to eat and when. She gets to evolve the kind of schedule she wants to keep now that she is on her own. She has space and time to decide what she wants to do and when she wants to do it. She gets to find her own rhythm. She can even rearrange her home to best suit her needs. This new repositioning of circumstances becomes a time for inner listening. For deciding what really calls to you at this moment in time. What will pull you forward? What will support your next steps? And even sitting there, deciding where you want to go next and what you want this next phase of your life to look like. Each day is a choice. Each day unfolds in its own rhythm with its own gifts and unexpected offerings. Be present in your day. Be present with your thoughts. Be present with your feelings. Listen to the inner guidance of the universe. Notice the unexpected opportunities that show up. Live your day with awareness and conscious choices.

Rethink and re-choose your priorities often and keep the flow going. 

Dependability and Structure

I drew the Oracle card “dependability” and didn’t know what to do with it. It actually raised the question “does structure block you in?” Yes, a structure is a foundation to build on, yes structure holds everything together. But the structure can also stop you from expanding. I don’t exactly know what to do with that awareness. As I thought about it I decided I want my structure to be flexible. Did you know that skyscrapers are built so they can move in the wind? The whole building is built so it can move a little bit. So how can I have flexibility in my structure and have that structure be dependable? 

The image of water comes up. Water makes change one grain of sand at a time or it can also overflow the banks and make huge changes for many miles. Water is dependable only in that it moves in cycles, but its form and frequency, and intensity are subject to change. I don’t have an answer here. I’m just wondering how structure limits our flexibility.

Does the structure you have built for your life box you in? 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Intentional Humming for Healing 

It is very healing to sit and direct your intentional vibration by way of a hum focused on parts of your body.  It seems to require different pitches but you can definitely direct a vibrational hum to different areas.  Try it.  Close your eyes. Choose a place in your body to send an intentional healing vibration and began to hum.  Change the pitch until you feel that healing wholing vibration resonate where you want it. 

===DISCOVERIES ===

Unity 

I drew the Oracle card “Unity” and didn’t know what to do with it. I see my role as helping others recognize themselves as cosmic consciousness and move into that vibration as an expression of their life. They make a conscious choice to take a different path, a higher path.  And that leaves people behind who cannot, will not, or do not want to experience that cosmic inclusiveness.  That choice separates us. That does not unify us. And therein is my problem. 

Here’s what I figured out. Those of us who can are to wrap the world in a deepening cloud of purifying vibration, lifting the hearts of those who can see it and inviting those who see and feel that vibration to raise their own awareness into a deeper connection with all of nature, all of the world.  So we each work on our own consciousness, others see it and recognize it in themselves and make a choice to join us. We are Circle of Light Beings and we play our individual harps to bring awareness to the world of what is possible. We come from this place of natural wholeness and organic universality. 

===MY DEEPER SONG  ADVENTURES ===

Tuning Forks for Sound Healing

Dr. John Beaulieu, ND, PhD was the first to use tuning forks for sound healing and reading higher states of consciousness. He says all you need to start is a C and G fork to work on your vibrational level and the 128 weighted turning fork to place directly on your body. I have the rubber disk to tap them on. He recommended one minute in the morning and one minute in the afternoon. If you wondered where to begin with tuning forks for sound healing, this is it. Here are the links: 

Biosonic Body Tuners – “C256 & G384”$59.95

Tuner – “Otto 128” (Weighted) (in green bag)$59.95

Tuning Fork Activator – “7 Pointed Star”$14.95

Sound Healing with Values Visualization$21.95

The Site:  biosonics.com

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

The Diverging Paths

This is a time of dramatic choices. This is a period of examining your core beliefs to make certain they are inclusive. Then standing up for them. We are on a path that asks us to leave things behind. Including people.  Including ideas that no longer serve, or have been replaced by new methods and ways to do things. 

Those of us who are aware that we have a powerful choice to make, do so with thoughtful awareness and contemplation. 

Step on your new path. Follow it. Go adventuring down some side roads until you find the path that works for you. Look for the new people that are going in the same direction you are. And leave the others behind. Our paths are separating. Take the high road.

=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

Consistency

“Consistency” is the oracle card I drew for us to consider.  It means steadiness, evenness, equilibrium.  How is your life balanced? How are you managing all the change?  How are you establishing a pattern of consistency in your life? 

Re-examine and rethink your spiritual practice. Try new things.  Put others aside that no longer resonate. 

Look at how you spend your time.  Are your choices moving you consistently in the direction you want to go

Consistency means fluid movement.  How are you doing?   

Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER===

Knowing When You Need Help

There are some things that are getting harder for me to do and it is time to get help.  That’s hard for a self-sufficient, independent woman to do.  But the reality check says I have to either get stronger or get help.  I will do both.  

What is changing in your life that you need to adjust to or accommodate?  Make creative changes and choices as you move in a slightly new direction. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Barrier or Opportunity

It could be a barrier or an opportunity. My choice. 

It could be a barrier or an opportunity. My choice was to see it as both – a barrier to move around and an opportunity to find a new path. 

It could be a barrier or an opportunity. My choice was to see it as both a barrier to move around and an opportunity to find a new path. And it led me on a fine adventure….!

– Cara Lumen, August, 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
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