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What Will You Place On Your Altar of Infinite Potential?

August 19, 2023 By Cara Lumen

What Will You Place On Your Altar of Infinite Potential?

Living Our Deeper Song

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

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

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

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

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Never Stop Dreaming

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How Do You Figure Things Out?

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

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

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

How do you figure things out?

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Space Cleaning

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recognize Your Gifts

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

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

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

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

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

===OUTER WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

How To Transform Negative Beliefs

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

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

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

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

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

The Choice To Change

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

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

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

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

What Skills Have You Not Been Using?

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

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

I Am Not A Robot

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

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Immerse Yourself In Nature

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

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

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

Set An Intention For Each Room

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

====RELEVANT AGING ====

The Phases of Our Journey

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

The Senior Viewpoint

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

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

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

===DEEPER SONG DISCOVERIES===

Resources to Explore

Speak From Your Heart

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

Speak from your heart and touch lives.

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

An Individual Harp

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

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

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

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

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations

Be Choosy

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

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

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

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

Cutting Cords

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Generations Of The Future

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

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

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

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===CARA’S CORNER===

The Importance Of A Good Connection

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Connection

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

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

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

– Cara Lumen, August 2023

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

Namaste,

Cara

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The Body Suit Premise

August 12, 2023 By Cara Lumen

The Body Suit Premise

Living Our Deeper Song

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

As we deepen our experience of Tao, the formless, infinite Source Energy, All There Is, we begin to see our life experience from a different vantage point.

At some point we decided to put on a body suit, to take the all-encompassing energy that is our essence, and squeeze it into a human form.

Why do we do that? Because there are certain things that the Universal Mind chooses to do that needs us in our body suits in order to do them. That is the form that has been chosen for universal work. In fact, every form that exists is part of the grand plan. Each one is indispensable.

So here we are in our body suits. We have a beginning birth, we have a middle life and we seem to have an end, a death. But that only takes place within the confines of our body suits. In our essence, we are still the everlasting, all-encompassing energy of Source. Time and space is a human concept. Infinity is what we are.

It is easy to forget that. We start to think of ourselves as only a body suit and think that we can only do as much as the body suit can do. We can see only so far, we can hear only so much, we can understand only up to a point. Those are the human limitations we place on ourselves when we view ourselves as only body suits. That is until we learn to look further.

How many times has your intuition guided you with inner words whispered through your thoughts that turn out to be significant? How many times have you moved beyond the confines of words into the realm of feelings in which love and gratitude are exchanged without words or gestures? How many times has an idea appeared out of the blue that sent you on a path of fulfillment when you pursued that idea?

When our body gets unbalanced, when our job gives us dissatisfaction, when our relationships are painful, we can be certain that all of that occurs because we are more focused on our body suit than on our Inner Essence. We have forgotten who we truly are. To change our situation, we must realign ourselves with our innate wholeness.

The ego is the product of the body suit. We think, “I can, I will, I want, I am” and we limit that sense of “I” to our body suits. “Limit” is the operative word. We do not dream big dreams because we can’t, from our human perspective, see how to make it happen. We don’t even try to do some things because we cannot see the possibility of achieving them.

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

Dropping the ego from our human perspective is a major step toward inner peace. When we drop our own agenda, our own needs, our own perceptions, we move into a space of non-attachment and know that because everything is made up of Source Energy, everything is perfect just as it is.

The grand plan is not revealed to us. It is enough to know that we are part of an infinite web and that each of us is an important strand in that web, unique and invaluable. We must remember that no one else has the exact same set of skills, talents, thoughts, love, understanding or compassion that we do and therefore, we must stand steady in our lives and fulfill our divine assignment.

Before you act, before you speak, as you think, open your awareness to your inner essence, that place of love and connection. Then you can speak. Then you can act. Then you can think and everything you do will be an expression of the one compassionate source.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am more that my body suit I am the Essence of All-That-Is.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

Become aware of your limiting beliefs as you consider yourself only a body suit.
Evolve your spiritual practice into ways that help you become more aware of your existence as Divine Essence
What does it look like? What does it feel like? How does that change how you see yourself? How does that change what you do?

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Monitor Your Inner Thoughts

We have to be our own cheering section. We have to manage our thought to be certain that we are encouraging our best selves. Are you paying attention to your self chatter? Is it “Great job” or “That was a dumb thing to do.” That response may be so ingrained that you don’t even notice it.

Begin to acknowledge yourself for the positive things that you do and say and thank. Try to notice the nudges and unexpected opportunities as you move through your life but also take time at the end of your day to look back and notice your positive self-affirmations as well as your not-so-positive ones and see how you can make changes that focus on the positive.

Try especially to catch yourself in the midst of negative affirmations that you give yourself during your day and try to change them in that moment. Even something as small as changing “That was a dumb thing to do” to “What are some different choices I could have made” will help you change your thinking and your actions. Start monitoring your inner thoughts and notice how your life changes.

Design Your Life Through Intention

We are to use intention just as an artist uses her paintbrush, to design what we would like the Universal to help us create.

That’s an interesting idea, isn’t it? A blank slate upon which you can design your own life.

When we set an intention, we begin to provide a personally designed outline that creates guidelines for the Universal Principle to work in new ways that transcend anything in our past experience.

Prepare your canvas by setting your intention, and hand the brush to the Universe. You can re-design your life through intention.

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

What Seeds Are You Planting?

We reap what we sow. Look closely at what you are planting in your life and the crops you are planning to harvest.

I continue to plant the seeds of mental expansion as I write. I continue to explore and use this newsletter as a way to figure out how to apply these concepts in my own life.

I have been recently influenced by books on sound healing and intention that I have read and I have no clue about what I want to explore next. I just trust the Universe to present it to me when the time is right.

Be on the lookout for new seeds to plant, fields to plow, and mountains to climb. Create the life you love by the crops you cultivate today.

The Face In The Mirror

I got three great items at the Bingo Bucks “garage sale”. Two awesome metal butterflies to go on my wall of flowers and a hand mirror. Now I haven’t looked at my face in the mirror for a really long time. As I sat there looking at my reflection, I saw that my cheeks are no longer round and there are bags under my eyes and deep lines on my face. And then I thought about my facial expression. What face do I show to others when I am talking with them? Is it a frown of concentration? An open expression of interest? A look of distraction? All of that is unconsciously done, but it would be nice to be able to manage our facial expressions in case we are unintentionally and unconsciously sending the wrong signals.

Begin to notice the expression on your face the next time you are deep in conversation with someone. Cultivate an expression of sincere interest and attention.

Notice if your mind is wandering so that the expression you show others is one of interest and attention. All of that will show in our face and can be seen and understood by those with whom we speak.

Become more aware of the face you show to the world.

We Need Time To Lie Fallow

Farmers know their fields need rest. They rotate their crops and leave a different field open each season in order to restore its fertility. How do you do that in your life? How do we pick an area to lie fellow in a season?

Being still gives us time to heal and clear and release and re-examine our thoughts and expectations. How do we do that as a person?

There are some things I could never stop doing, like writing. But I don’t draw every day. I don’t even meditate every day. But I do learn every day.

I do seem to take a nap every day. I think that’s a bit like lying fallow.

A farmer leaves the field unplanted to restore its fertility.

I have a pretty good balance between my spiritual life, my creative life and my physical life but I cannot identify a field to lie fallow.

I do change the density of the books I read. I immerse myself in a project but do it in phases. I retreat and allow my thoughts to marinate. I explore different concepts. I pause to let my project lie fallow and provide myself with a fresh look after a time.

Pause in your project. Give yourself time to allow your imagination go exploring. Take a break. Build in fallow moments in your work to restore its fertility.

===OUTER WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Pick Your Path

We are constantly offered tempting new paths to take. It is good to keep exploring, but we also need to keep our eye on our overarching goal and periodically let an area of our life lie fallow.

I love to learn, but not everything I learn will support me on the path I have chosen. Therefore, I need to be selective. I need to pick and choose what I will explore and what I will pass by and make certain that they are supportive of my journey on my major path.

I recently studied sound healing and will only use the parts of it that apply to my own self-healing since it’s not a profession I’m going to go into. But I will use it on myself.

I am working with the power of intention and I’m rather excited about the potential for helping manifest wholeness on our planet. I know that’s my objective and I will select the information I need to support that major goal.

It’s a good idea to pause on a regular basis to look around at where you are and make certain it is where you want to be. If it’s not what you want, you need to go exploring.

Use your imagination to create a clear picture of where you want to go and what you want to achieve so that as new doors of opportunity open you can select the ones that take you where you want to go.

Of course you can at least open the door and peek through to see if it is something you want to explore, but keep an eye on your overarching calling and don’t be pulled off course.

The Art of Cooperation

Cooperation is about give and take. It is about leading and following. And sometimes it takes a bit of both patience and practice.

Let’s say that you’re working on a team project and you have a great idea on how to do it. So does another person on your team. It is important to immerse yourself in the other person’s idea and then pick what moves the whole project forward. That means you may have to give up some of your pet ideas. It’s not that they wouldn’t work but perhaps not as well. By working specifically with another person and combining your ideas, you will probably create a better outcome. We all have to learn to let go and expand our options and the possibilities of what we can create together.

You have to learn to listen and consider and even expand the exploration of that other idea by adding your own insight to it. Then hopefully, after everything is considered, you pick some version of one of the eclectic versions you created up together and move forward.

Compromise, expanding each other’s ideas, giving up your pet approach and being focused on getting that job done in the best possible way – those are all elements of the art of cooperation.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Pause To Reflect

There are many times during our day that we could pause to reflect. There are lessons to be absorbed, insights to be explored and sometimes new choices to make. That’s a lot of results that can take place when we pause to reflect.

As you are traveling home from work look back over what you accomplished, what you learned, and release that as you make your transition to home. Before you enter your home, pause to move your thoughts forward to how you will spend your evening. Make a clear transition from work to home.

We should pause before we speak, especially if there is some emotion involved. We can pause before we eat to reflect upon the sources of the food and offer gratitude to those who grew it. Reflect in gratitude on the positive parts of your day and release those that were less than positive and give gratitude for a safe bed to sleep in.

I pause to reflect on my health. I pause to reflect on the condition of the world. I pause to decide what to write about. Pause to reflect to keep the doors of curiosity and insight open.

=== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

The Freedom And Responsibility of Self-Determination

We are responsible for the shape of our lives. We are free to walk down whatever pathway we choose. We are free to express ourselves and we are responsible for how others perceive us. We have a great deal of freedom and power in designing and living our life. In fact, we are truly responsible for every choice we make, every response we have and every action we take. We have the freedom to determine everything we do. That affects the quality of our life. Sometimes our lives are a bit rocky. If things are going wrong, look within and see what is out of balance, or misguided, or a poor choice. Make the changes and change your life. You have the freedom to change. It’s up to you to make it. Keep creating the life you want.

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Are You Aware Of The Nudges And Opportunities That Appear In Your Life?

It feels like a happy accident but it’s actually a nudge from the Universe. You read something that resonates, you have a conversation that sparks an idea, an idea seems to suddenly appear that answers a need you barely knew you had. Those are all nudges from the Universe and we need to listen.

I have made three major cross-country moves in my life and each one was such a clear choice to make that I never questioned it. I knew in an instant that I was going to move to New York. I knew in an instant that I was going to become a Reiki teacher. I knew in an instant that I was to move to California. I knew in an instant that I would become a spiritual practitioner in the Center for Spiritual Living. I knew in an instant that it was time to move back to the Kanas City area.

Sometimes I simply know that my role is changing but that’s all I know. That’s when you have to trust how it unfolds. You have to stay flexible and open to change.

Become more aware of the nudges and opportunities that appear in your life and learn to trust them.

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations

Explore The Universe From Many Angles

Chris Brogan said that from an early age he wanted to “see the universe from many angles”. I love that concept.

Lately I have immersed myself in books on practical things like sound healing and intention and have now switched back to philosophical books, which are my favorites.

I started rereading Deng, Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao and I have an unexpected and growing list of article titles for my newsletter – concepts I want to figure out how to apply more consciously to my life and share with you. I want to reread the Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell’s translation) and Rumi (Coleman Barks Translation) and get back to exploring and applying philosophical concepts from my present view of life which I can only hope has grown wiser with age.

I write to figure things out. I read a phrase and start thinking about how I would bring that into my life, how I would express it and live it. My curiosity takes me on great adventures and continues to broaden my view and raise my expectations. Turning to share what I learn clarifies it for me and hopefully seed plants the idea in the hearts of others.

How do you explore the universe from many different angles?

Honor Your Calling and Path

Don’t move off your path just because you’re capable of journeying in a new direction.

If you are interested in a variety of things, the temptation to explore can be rather demanding.

One never retires. We will continue to be called to serve and contribute and learn regardless of how old we are.

Keep walking. Keep exploring. Honor your calling and your path.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Where Does Violence Come From?

Why does one person in the US decide he should kill a gay man dancing in the street with his friends? Why does a man shoot a noisy child? When did violence become ordinary? Donald Trump is using social media to threaten future jurors in his upcoming trial. They have not even been chosen yet.

I’m not talking about dictatorships in the world – As of 2020, there are 52 nations with a dictator or authoritarian regime ruling the country: Three in Latin America and South America, 27 in Asia and the Middle East, and 22 in Africa.

I’m talking about our neighbors. The guy next door with a different opinion who also owns a gun.

What do we do? How do we change the hate-filled energy?

I wrap myself in a transformative shield that not only protect me from the outside but helps to transform my fears and doubts and negative thoughts on the inside. I hope you’re going to do the same to protect yourself from the angry people.

Is it a fear of change? Is it a fear of being wrong? Is it a matter of feeling inferior, less than? It’s probably all of those things.

If I were doing it right, and if I had it in me, I would send love and compassion to those people with violence in their heart.

No one likes to feel they are wrong. How do you examine your thoughts and beliefs and actions to see if you are expansive enough and inclusive enough and thoughtful enough in your choices? What do you need to change about yourself in order to change the experience you are having in the world?

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

Explore and Interpret the Guidance and Messages of the Divine Feminine

A Woman Of Freedom And Self-Determination

“A woman of freedom and self-determination” is a phrase in a review of the Barbie movie which is setting box office records. I want to be certain I am that – “a woman of freedom and self-determination”.

I’m a little locked in on the physical plane as far as freedom goes but I sure am flying on the mental plane.

Both men and women should look closely at how indoctrinated they are in the perceived roles of men and women based on a patriarchal society. The women must be brave and adventurous and the men must give us room to fly.

We women must expect more of ourselves. We must raise our gaze and expand our vision. Look at your goals and expectations and see if they are high enough and then raise them even more. Begin to question the roles women play in parenthood – stay-at-home dads are certainly a blessing too. In particular, women must expect more of themselves. We must notice the women who are expressing themselves at high levels of participation. We must help our young girls expect more of themselves. And we must help our young boys not feel threatened by strong, powerful, capable women. We have some work to do.

Begin with yourself. What do you expect of yourself if you are a woman and what do you expect of a woman if you are a man? Can you expand those expectations? Can you raise your vision to include more possibilities? And can you do it without feeling diminished yourself?

Let’s make more room in our world for more women of freedom and self-determination.

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Check Your Foundation

I kept getting kicked off the Internet. I couldn’t get access to my email. I couldn’t get on Zoom to talk to my friends. I couldn’t get on the Internet at all and since my entire life is pretty much centered on online communication, I was not a happy camper because I don’t have control over the internet provider here in long-term care. A friend gave me access to a different provider and that has made all the difference. Not only do I always get online but there’s no messages on Zoom that say “Internet connection is unstable”.

That led me to think about my foundation. What am I building my life on and how is that working for deepening my connections in life.

How connected am I to my inner voice? How aware am I of the nudges of the universe that constantly show up in my day? Do I listen? Do I consider them? How strong and steady is your connection to the Universe?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

I Listen

I listen. I listen with an open heart. I listen with an open mind. I stay still and I listen.

I listen. I listen with an open heart. I listen with an open mind. I stay still and I listen. Sometimes the signs are subtle. Sometimes a door flings open to present an entirely new view.

I listen. I listen with an open heart. I listen with an open mind. I stay still and I listen. Sometimes the signs are subtle. Sometimes a door flings open to present an entirely new view. I explore, I consider, I examine and take my next steps with clarity.

– Cara Lumen, August2023

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

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Why Were You Born Into The Life You Are Living?

August 5, 2023 By Cara Lumen

Why Were You Born Into The Life You Are Living?

Living Our Deeper Song

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

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

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

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

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

Deeper Song Affirmation

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

Deeper Song Process

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

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

The Healing Power of Intentional Silence

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

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

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

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

The Release In Writing It Down

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

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Our Imagination Creates Our Reality

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

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

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

Imagine Your Future Into Being

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

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

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

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

Heal Your Past

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

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

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

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

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

===OUTER WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Stay Flexible And Open To Change

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

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

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

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Deepen Your Connection With Nature

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===DEEPER SONG DISCOVERIES===

Resources to Explore

Our Thoughts Create Our Reality

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

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

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

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

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

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

Raise your gaze and expand your vision.

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

The Size Of Your Ripple

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

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

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

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations

Keep Exploring

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

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

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement For Our Unfolding Role in the Future

The Past, Present and Future Are All Connected

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More to come.

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When I See Myself as Light

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Focus

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

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

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

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

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

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

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

I Raise My Gaze

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

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

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

– Cara Lumen, August 2023

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song

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

Live in the nowhere that you came from,

even though you have an address here – Rumi

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How Do We Expand Our Role In The New Consciousness?

July 22, 2023 By Cara Lumen

How Do We Expand Our Role In The New Consciousness?

Living Our Deeper Song

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

At the time of the recent full moon, I could see it move across my big windows. As I watched its steady journey, I pictured it blessing the planet and her inhabitants. I pictured her role in the universe and her place among many planets and stars and I felt minuscule in comparison.

I saw mankind struggling with wars and prejudices and survival and wondered at its role in the bigger picture, the overarching theme of Universal Energy. Rather than feel small, it made me feel more responsible for making certain that my individual strand in the Web of Light that is our universe is strong and steady. I do that through my intentions and my actions. I try to dwell on the well-being of the entire planet every day and join my heart with other Light Bearers who are holding High Watch for the healing and well-being of our planet and our universe. It helps me not be afraid. It helps me not be caught up in the mundane. It helps me hold a bigger brighter vision for our universe. I am a strand of light and I shine as brightly as I know how. That’s how we expand our role in the new consciousness – working each day to strengthen and expand our individual strand in the web of life.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I find creative ways to strengthen my role as an individual strand in the web of life.

Deeper Song Process

Picture yourself with arms outstretched grasping the hands of others to join our strands in the Web of Life.
Send energy to those who are struggling.
Strengthen your individual strand through meditation and study and opening your heart.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Willingness

I need a lot of physical help and I have a lot of people helping me. Some of them are more willing than others to go out of their way to make sure it happens. And some are reluctant to be proactive and figure out what they don’t know how to do. Where do you fall on the spectrum?

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Do The Work

Use it or lose it. My suite-mate refuses physical therapy and now has to be lifted in and out of bed and her wheelchair by two people and a machine. In fact, of the 18 people on this particular wing more than half have to be lifted in and out of beds and chairs. It’s a choice we make. Use it or lose it.

If some of the physical activities you are undertaking become hard, modify them but keep moving. I can no longer do many yoga poses but I still can do some Qigong and Tai Chi.

Find small places to slip in additional physical activity. For instance, they weigh me every day because they’re watching water retention. The pattern is for me to get in my wheelchair and be wheeled down to a big scan, weighed while sitting in my chair and wheeled back to my room. However, I’ve decided to begin to walk partway there with the Med-Aid following behind with my wheelchair for when I get tired. That small adjustment in my regular pattern will help strengthen my body.

Maybe you park your car further away from the entrance to the grocery store. Maybe you add an extra block to the walk you take your dog on every day. Perhaps you add some stretching or Qigong or even simple yoga poses to your morning meditation.

Start with five minutes and establish the movement pattern you want to use to strengthen your body. Then up it to 10 minutes and simply create and adjust until your find the balance you can maintain every day that will help you keep your body strong and flexible. Do the work. Your body needs you. It depends on you. Do the work.

===OUTER WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Acknowledge Your Progress

I want to establish a way to see how I’m doing and if I’m going in the direction I want to go and design some framework for what I need to do next. This is a work in progress but here is how I’m going to begin.

The categories I will focus on are Spiritual Expansion, Creativity, Physical Well-being and Increasing my Impact In The World.

Spiritual Expansion

I have begun to experience myself as a strong strand in the Web of Life. I experiment with what that looks like and feels like. I am using intention and my imagination to cultivate a healing energy in my physical space so that whoever comes in is touched by it. I am using my intention and my imagination to heal my own body. I’m using my intention and my imagination to heal and restore balance to the planet. My spiritual practice is fluid, consistent and ever expanding.

Creativity

My creativity is founded on my personal learning process. It happens to take the form of this newsletter which gives me an opportunity to examine and explore new ideas and how to apply them. I see this as my major form of learning and applying concepts and changing my own belief systems.

Physical Well-being

I’m working with intention and sound healing to help my body heal as well as trying to actively do physical plane work to help it get strong again.

Impact In The World

I am concerned about the well-being of humanity but mostly I want to focus on how to raise my own vibration and help others to feel our oneness with Source. I continue to expand my awareness of each of us as vital strands in the web of life and we must each learn to keep our strand strong. I’m not sure how to do that but that’s my focus.

Set Your Goals

Because of my categories my goals have to be broad and extensive and flexible.

Spiritual Expansion

I don’t know whether to go backwards or forwards in my search for spiritual expansion. There are some philosophers I would like to re-read and probably anchor some of those resonate concepts more firmly in my life. On the other hand, my search is for new ways to experience my/our oneness. I may have to let that one unfold and trust the universe to guide me to those next steps.

Creativity

I want to continue to deepen my exploration and share what I discover. And how I apply what I learn. This newsletter gives me opportunities to explore new ideas and how to apply them. I will find creative ways to stay creative.

Physical Well-being

This one is easy because there are specific concrete things I can do and specific concrete results that I can see when I do them.

The major adjustment in my physical experience is going to be around my eyesight and what adjustments I have to make because of my dry macular degeneration. I’m just staying flexible and hopeful.

Impact In The World

This is an interesting goal for a 90-year-old in long-term care but I have my mind, my imagination, my determination, and my willingness. I am applying sound healing and intention and I meditate eac day and seek guidance for how to expand my role in the world. I am a work in progress.

Check Your Progress

My first thought was to make a list of what I want to do and then three months down the line see how I’m doing. I seem not to be able to make a very concrete list of objectives in these categories.

That will work on the physical well-being objectives but the creativity category is like one big unfolding experiment so I need to stay flexible and creative.

I don’t have a new creative project in mind but I’m always open to respond when new ideas and opportunities show up.

Spiritual Exploration is a fluid path of insights and discovery. Like creating, I really have to explore and see where it takes me, what new doors and what path I choose to take.

Impact In The World

This is a whole area of fluid exploration… I will try out new concepts and new ways of being and notice how they impact the world for the better.

Check Your Progress

On one hand this idea is a bust because my original thought was to make a list and check it in three months to see how you’re doing. But now I am going to write a philosophical objective. Spiritual Expansion is a little harder to measure as far as progress is concerned, as is how I can impact the world.

Spiritual Expansion As An Objective

I want to focus on our oneness and our path as humanity as a whole. I want to move my consciousness into a higher level of oneness and express that in my life. You know, something easy…

I’m going to stay flexible and curious in all four of these areas and listen to my inner guidance and see where it takes me. How do you set objectives and measure progress in those areas of your life?

Creativity Progress

I might make a list of what I’m doing currently with a date beside it so I can check back in three months to see what has changed. But this is an area of constant change and exploration so who knows where I’ll end up.

Physical Well-Being Progress

What I’m interested in here is what techniques work. I am experimenting with both intention and sound healing and I should probably journal my experiences and discoveries as I go.

Impact In The World

I may not be able to measure this or even see the results of the work I do but it is an ongoing work in progress and I will use my imagination and my determination to contribute to the well-being of our universe.

I hope this helps you begin your “Explore Next” list and how you choose to monitor and apply what you learn and experience. Every three months or so I’m gonna do a check-in and look at where I was and write down where I am and get some ideas for where I want to go. Then of course, I simply let my life unfold and go where it takes me.

How will you set some goals and track your progress so you can make new goals?

Do You Expect Enough?

“If you are short of something, the shortage is in your own consciousness.”

– Eileen Caddy, Opening Doors Within

If your closets are full, your garage is full, your cabinets are full, your house is full, your arms are full, and your life is full, how can you have room for anything else to come into your life?

There is no room. No place for expansion, no room for greater flow. That is why we so often hear the recommendation that to get supply going in your life, clean out your closets, give stuff away, get the flow moving. Make room for bigger and better flow. It’s more than your closets, it’s your awareness. It’s opening up your consciousness.

There is no supply outside of your being. If you want to enjoy the abundance of supply, you must create a flow of giving and receiving.

Two things will happen when you begin to clear out your life:

1. You will activate the Law of Giving and Receiving, and
2. You will create a vacuum for Spirit to fill with the abundance of your choosing.

Take out a pen and paper and create a list like this:

I RELEASE

I ACCEPT

What are some things you can write in your left-hand column that says “I Release?” Begin to make a list.

Under the right-hand column titled “I Accept” write some of the things that could come in to take the place of these things you have released.

My list begins with:

I release:

All sense of helplessness
Notion that my choices are limited
Worry about my eyesight

In its place I put:

I accept:

My increasingly satisfying contribution in the world
Expansion and deepening of my relationships
An expansion of my role as a Light Bearer
Increasingly deepening spiritual practice

Are you expecting enough of yourself?

What Gifts Do You Want To Expand And Repurpose?

First identify a gift that you enjoy and then begin to look for ways to expand how you use it and see if you need to repurpose its focus.

For me, writing is at the core. It holds my creativity, my method of exploration and my sense of contributing to the world. And because of my eyesight I really do have to start getting creative about how I share my writing.

Perhaps you are an outstanding organizer. Perhaps you are a natural leader, a natural nurturer. And perhaps there are gifts you recognized earlier in life that it’s now time to explore and expand and utilize.

Re-visit the dreams you had earlier in life about what you would like to do and see which ones still resonate. Look back over your life and remember the rewarding things you used to do and give some thought to how you could bring that experience into your present life.

The form of this newsletter works very well for my needs and my desire to write and I even get to write my version of a poem each week.

My gift of organization is being called upon as a therapist here is forms a new group with the purpose of connecting like-minded residents and expanding our awareness. I gave her a list of things that I wanted to get out of such a group:

A feeling of still being relevdvmt
A sense of still contributing and making a difference
Personal growth
Mental Stimulation
Personal support around aging
Learning
Hang out with other intelligent people.

Give thought to the form you want your gift to take. I like my short, focused commentaries. I don’t like to go in depth on one subject. That’s good for me to know. I keep looking for fresh insight rather than expanding on one or two.

I love to learn and I have many ways I keep doing that. I love to think philosophically and am always doing that. I don’t like long-term projects so I keep mine short so I can complete and move on.

All of these are simply elements of what I love to do and how I love to do it.

Look closely at your gifts. See how your interests change. And expand and repurpose those that call to you.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

How Do You Cultivate Your Soul’s Growth?

I do not even know where to begin to figure this out. What makes your soul grow? Is it your experiences? Is it your thought process? Is it some magical insight that simply appears?

Experiences expand your soul. Insights expand your soul’s awareness. Interactions with others are always full of lessons and a deepening awareness.

Your mind goes exploring to define ideas and concepts that motivate and inspire and challenge you. Your heart, when you listen, will lead you down new paths of compassion and inclusion.

List three ideas that can open your heart to new paths and start exploring. Throw open the doors to a deeper soul experience.

===DEEPER SONG DISCOVERIES===

Resources to Explore

The Acacia Tree

We were talking about communicating to plants and this story was told to me by the Nurse Manager here who is from Kenya.

Giraffes in Kenya love to eat the leaves of the Acacia tree. But when the giraffes start to overeat and threaten the well-being of the entire group of trees, one tree and one tree only sends out an odor that makes the giraffes leave!

So how does the tree decide when it’s time to do that and how to do that and know that it is the only tree to do that? I have no idea. But the lesson is the power of one tree (person) to rescue an entire grove (humanity).

Do not underestimate the far-reaching effects of your individual participation in the world.

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Set Aside Time To Go Exploring

How do you grow? How do you spend your options? Do you go exploring? Do you find new things that interest you and check them out? Do you talk to people with new ideas and see which ones you like? Do you go exploring?

I have done a modest deep dive into Sound Healing to see how I want to bring it into my life. I have begun to actively design and put a sound healing practice into place.

I would like to add visualization of new possibilities to my spiritual practice. I have begun to talk to the few plants that I have around me and we are beginning to engage in a conversation. I have a strong need for some self-healing on the edema on my legs and I will create and establish a combination of sound and visualization and affirmations to facilitate their healing.

I keep on the lookout for what I am to explore next. Whether it is to deep dive into something that I have already considered or move on to find and explore something new, I will let my intuition guide me as well as the vision I hold for what I want to unfold next. Set aside time to go exploring and see where it leads you.

How Far Reaching Is Your Impact?

I am deeply touched by what I was able to share this week in an unexpected circumstance. There are a lot of people in training to become certified nursing assistant (CNAs) and part of their class is to interview a resident. I have experience and enjoyed several of those interviews but one I gave this week touched my heart deeply. The young woman is from Iran, a country torn apart as males subjugate women who are refusing to have their lives lessened in anyway. She spoke of the relief she felt upon leaving that country and she also spoke of the trauma her five-year-old daughter was having from having lived in that experience.

And then my important share dawned on me. I told her about sound healing and how it helps with trauma. I told her about David Gibson’s book and suggested she look up his practitioner list and see who’s around here and go have a sound healing session. I may have helped to change the course of a child’s life and perhaps even her mother’s. All because I stay curious and go exploring and share what I discover. Talk about one strand in the Web of Life affecting another strand. I did that in an unexpected way.

David Gibson has a list of Sound Healers in his Sound Healing Centre site and I strongly recommend his remarkable book Empower Your Life With Sound Healing, The Complete Guide to Sound Healing.

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations

Actualize Your Gifts

Are you cultivating all of your gifts? Or are there a few subtle ones that could use your attention? It’s pretty easy to put the obvious gifts to work, I’m a good writer, I’m a good organizer, I’m a good talker. I use those skills and gifts all the time. But what more subtle gifts could I begin to cultivate? I’m curious. I love to learn new things. Until I moved to Evergreen long-term care, I thought I was pretty much a loner. I’m having more interaction here than I have had in years.

I’m not a particularly good artist but I have a good time doing pencil drawings of my shamanic journeys for my own pleasure. I could do more of that.

I went to the Resident Council meetings to see how I can participate and perhaps be an advocate for other residents. I’m interacting with 18- to 20-year-olds more than I have since I was raising that age group and I’m learning from them as well as sharing some of my thoughts and awareness.

Curiosity is a major primary gift that I continually cultivate. It takes me on adventures and opens the door to new pathways which I sometimes explore and sometimes don’t. But it always expands my awareness.

Look back at some of the things you enjoy doing in your life and see what needs to be brought to the forefront and encouraged to be part of your path. How will you put your gifts to work in your life?

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Explore New Concepts

The discussion was about what it looks like to be a Light Bearer. I was with a group of on-line friends I call the Rainbow Weavers. I needed their help exploring what being a Light Bearer looks like and how we express that role in life.

My core realization was that I am now focused primarily on feeling and experiencing myself as a strand of light in the web of life. I am to hold my strand in place with strength and determination and flexibility and joy. Holding my place in the Web of Light helps others hold steady in their place in the Web of Light.

This focus on being part of an overall web keeps me above the conflict and eruptions from humanity today and helps me stay focused on the well-being of the whole. It adds a whole new meaning to the concept of holding High Watch for the Universe. I can do that.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Song of A Light Bearer 7/21/34

I am a strong strand in the Web of Life and my steadiness and perseverance and stability contribute to the entire web.

I am a strong strand in the Web of Life and my steadiness and perseverance and stability contribute to the entire web. I keep my light bright. I keep my light strong. I am aware of my surroundings and support other strands in the web around me.

– Cara Lumen, July 2023

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

Namaste,

Cara

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Are You Flunking Compassion?

July 8, 2023 By Cara Lumen

Are You Flunking Compassion?

Living Our Deeper Song

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

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

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

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

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Trust The Universe To Develop The Plan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is It Time To Change Directions?

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

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

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

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

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

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Give Yourself A Healing Hug

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

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

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

===OUTER WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

How Do You Handle Change?

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

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

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

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

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

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

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

How To Bring Healing To Your Challenges And Conflicts

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

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

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

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

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

=== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

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

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

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

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

=== INSIGHTS FROM THE UNSEEN WORLD===

Guidance to Consider

Spend Time In A Higher Vibration Where Duality Does Not Exist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===DEEPER SONG DISCOVERIES===

Resources to Explore

A Fascinating Read

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

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

The Spiritual Practice Of Offering Gratitude

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

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations

We Are One Planet Among Many

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for Our Unfolding Role in the Future

The Over-Arching View

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

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

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

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Honor Your Time And Unsubscribe

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

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

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

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

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Making Room

To keep my space sacred, I must declutter.

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

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

– Cara Lumen, July 2023

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song

I help Transformational Leadersdeepen our relationship with the Unseen Worldand expand our role in the New Consciousness

Live in the nowhere that you came from,

even though you have an address here – Rumi

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Come Sing a Deeper Song

What Will You Place On Your Altar of Infinite Potential?

Living Our Deeper Song

The Body Suit Premise

Living Our Deeper Song

Why Were You Born Into The Life You Are Living?

Living Our Deeper Song

How Do We Expand Our Role In The New Consciousness?

Living Our Deeper Song

Are You Flunking Compassion?

Living Our Deeper Song

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