Come Sing a Deeper Song

How Do You Stand Steady In The Midst Of Change?

Living Our Deeper Song

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

Living in today’s world is a little like surfing, you have to keep your balance. That means constant re-evaluation, shifting and thoughtful timing.   

Re-evaluate 

Are you happy with the way your life is now? Is your work stimulating and rewarding and satisfying? Are your relationships nurturing? Is there something you have always wanted to do that you keep putting off? What is missing?

 Shift

What do you need to rearrange in order to go in the direction you have identified? What do you need to do less of? How do you rearrange your time to focus your attention in this new direction? 

Thoughtful Timing

Do you make a sudden move or a subtle move? Are you just going exploring or are you ready to make a major change? When will you make it? 

Experiment and Explore

It’s OK to dip your toes in the water first. It’s OK to stay close to the shore until you feel confident. As you gain knowledge and confidence you can explore further afield.

How are your life surfing skills? Are you ready for the big waves? Are you ready to stand steady in the midst of change?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I keep exploring and training for the life I choose to live.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Examine your life closely and identify the areas that need to change.
• Go exploring for new fields to cultivate and new paths to explore.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Journey and Journal

I have begun a new journey of discovery to the Unseen World. I am using shamanic journeying and will share what I find, including new views and action steps for us to consider.  Do you have a new area you want to explore and how will you do that?

Reorganize Your System

I’m a good organizer but my system was scattered. I paused to reorganize. I rearranged my system of organizing my newsletter so I only have three places to look – the upcoming newsletter, a document of potential lead articles and a third document where I write what will go in the other categories. I can then work on one newsletter at a time and I have an easy way to add new ideas for future newsletters.

Pause to reorganize your system to make it simpler.  It will help save you time in the long run. Time spent rethinking how you access what you need is time well spent in actually saving time. 

Core Energy

The 17-year-old Med-Aide-in-training had brought me outside on a beautiful day. We sat at the edge of the koi pond and talked. There are mallard ducks that come back every year to breed in our enclosed courtyard and as we sat there talking, they came and got into the pond. They were five feet from where we sat. We watched them bathe and interact with each other. The female was a bit bossy. Then they sat on the edge of the pond in contentment. The 17-year-old and I continued talking as we watched and it did not disturb the two ducks. Then three people came over to the pond.  They didn’t stay long but the ducks got up and waddled away. It was then I realized how honored we had been.  The young med-aide and I were emitting an energy that made the ducks feel safe enough to come live their lives in close proximity.  It was a deep honor.

How does your energy affect others? Are you a calm, centered person to be around? Notice how your mere presence affects an interaction. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Inner Work And Our Work

It’s pretty easy to identify the outer work that needs to be done but the inner work is more subtle.

I’m getting a lot of help on the outsides – blood thinner, antibiotics – and I am building back my daily qigong practice.  When I get my shoe lifts, I will walk more.

There are several things I want to do on my spiritual level. Songs to above and below are being added to the songs I sing to the directions. I spend more time with one crystal each day. I’m exploring how my big skin drum would like to participate more, I play my kalimba longer, and I am doing more Unseen World work in the form of journeys.

How do you need and want to expand your inner and outer world to deepen your spiritual awareness and strengthen your body?

Accept The Boundaries Of Your Gifts

Make peace with the boundaries of your gifts. I see the overview in seconds and I don’t remember detail. I have honed that gift over the years and accepted that I don’t deal in detail.

Are some of you gifts strong and others not so well developed?  How do you work with and around those? 

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Follow Your Inner Calling

Sometimes our choices may seem odd to others but we must stay true to our inner calling.  Each life expression is unique and some seem more unique than others.

As I begin this new phase of my life, I am making unique choices.  I am raising my gaze and changing my direction and expanding and raising my purpose on earth.

It is not about the destination, it is about the journey and the lives I can touch along the way.

What is calling you? Where is it leading? Follow your inner calling and forge your new path.

How Have Your Past Choices Impacted Today?

There is one major dramatic choice I made fifty years ago that has made all the difference in my life adventure. I cannot imagine my life any other way because of that one major profound and dramatic choice. Other lives were deeply affected because of my choice but what I have learned and the number of lives I have impacted was meant to be. Trust your path. Trust your instincts Trust your journey.  It was meant to be.

You Can’t Turn The Unturnable

You can’t turn the unturnable. You can’t educate the uneducable. Those statements on a recent news show helped me reposition some of my concerns. I have only had conversations with two people whose beliefs were totally opposite from mine. What I saw was a person who read and followed only those sources that agreed with the ideas he held.  He was being drawn further and further down a non-inclusive path. I had never heard of any of those publications – they were special interest groups. It was not the main media. I don’t understand their reasoning or premise but I have now given myself permission not to try.

What brick wall are you up against? Recognize it and change directions.

Know Your Role

As I finished re-reading Michael Harner’s book The Way Of The Shaman, I realized that I was not ever going to be someone who works to heal others, although I did that as a Reiki Master Teacher in the 80s. I am going to use the shamanic work that I have learned primarily to journey and discover and share. It is good to know the boundaries of your work. 

I will use some of these techniques on myself for self-healing. But mine is no longer the role of healing others on the physical plane. Perhaps what I write and share is healing to others just as it is to me. 

Know the boundaries of the work you are to undertake and be content. My role is to explore and discover and share. What is your over-arching role?

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Accountability

We create our life by what we focus on and what we expect. Are you setting your goals and expectations high enough? Give that some thought.  

You are the only one who can shape your destiny. As your life unfolds, you chose your path and experience through your choices. When you want to change, you change your thinking, your expectations and your choices.

How would you like to shape your “next”?

===INSIGHTS FROM THE UNSEEN WORLD===

Guidance to Consider

What Am I To Share About The Unseen World?

I have begun to journey to the Unseen World to explore and to share what I find. I did not start in my Sacred Garden as I usually do, I started in the Chamber of the Seven Rays sitting between the Indigo and Violet rays and my guide was Gwen, my dragon protector. A blue butterfly wrapped me in golden threads for protection and sealed it with a butterfly kiss…. my new and unexpected Spirit Guide. I am to explore the Unseen World and share what I find. Here we go adventuring…

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Define Your Role

My role is changing as I follow this calling to explore the Unseen World. Elements in my shamanic journey work have changed for this adventure and I have a deeper core of journeying insights to stand upon.

Periodically pause to examine your role, check in with your inner guidance, and see how you are to alter your direction.

=== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

The Master sees things as they are, without trying to control them.  She lets them go their own way, and resides at the center of the circle. – Tao Te Ching

What a powerful lesson about letting go – letting life flow around you while you stay steady at your core, focused on the messages and guidance from within.

==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

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===INTENTION BLESSING===

May we hear and heed the call of the Divine Feminine. 

May we expand our hearts and our expectations.

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

May we keep our gaze on the summit.

May we take this journey with a full heart. 

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

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

How We Are to Create a New Consciousness

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===CARA’S CORNER===

The Crossroads

I stand at another crossroad. Actually it’s the crossroads of three paths that I created for myself. Three directions from which to choose. I will ultimately explore all three but for now I want to go down one path to explore it more deeply. 

My mission statement is: “I help Transformational Leaders deepen our relationship with the Unseen World and expand our role in the New Consciousness.”

• I will help Transformational Leaders as I explore the other two but I do not want to take time to work on the self-discovery stage.
• “Deepen our relationship with the Unseen World” is a personal, introspective focus. I can do a lot of interesting work with the Unseen World and I will learn a lot.
• “Expand our role in the New Consciousness” is very important right now and I’m no longer interacting out in the world except with this newsletter and the individual lives I touch here. Perhaps that is ending for now. I think that will be a secondary focus. I have to figure out my own role for myself.

I think the reason I want to explore the Unseen World has to do with the seriousness of my recent hospital stay. I have begun to re-re-read Michael Newton’s books on Life Between Lives. His books are Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives (Llewellyn, 1994), Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives (Llewellyn, May 2000), and Life Between Lives:Hypnotherapy for Spiritual Regression (Llewellyn, 2004).

I kept writing down Michael Harner and I considered that an Inner Voice nudge. I just finished re-reading his book The Way of The Shaman. He preceded my two teachers Hank Wassermann and Sandra Ingerman. Joe Dispenza is a source for exploring the Unseen World but I’m pretty sure I am to do my own journeywork and report back. I will listen to my Inner Voice.

Does my process of exploration and discovery help you figure out where you go next and how you begin?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Choice

Three paths open before me. I must choose one for now.

Three paths open before me. I must choose one for now. One leads high, one leads lower, one leads down the middle. 

Three paths open before me. I must choose one for now. One leads high, one leads lower, one leads down the middle.  I choose the higher road that feels more mysterious and begin my new journey. 

• Cara Lumen, April 2023

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help Transformational Leaders

deepen our relationship with the Unseen World 

and expand our role in the New Consciousness

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Do Not Resuscitate

Living Our Deeper Song

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

Before the nurse put the “Do Not Resuscitate” bracelet on my arm she confirmed that I wanted it. I did. I also did not realize how much in danger I was. They found a blood clot in my left leg and fortunately for me modern medicine has ways to begin to work with that. It wasn’t until I got home that I realized I had been closer to leaving the planet than ever before in my life. I began to re-affirm my choices.

I want to be able to live a full productive life until it’s time to go and then I want to go. I like the books of Michal Newton on Life Between Lives.  He is a psychiatrist who did past life regression on his patients to find out about their life between lives.  I very much like what he found and if that is what is there, it will be a fascinating adventure.

What I do know is that I do not want to end up like many of the people here – subsisting in dementia or with bodies so disabled they have to be fed. I want to stay interested and interesting until I leave.

I had not given such detailed thought to the process of dying until I returned home and cut the DNR bracelet off my arm and realized what it meant to me and how important it was on this particular trip to the hospital. 

My mind is super important to me. My curiosity keeps me interested and interesting. It’s core to who I am. I need to continue to be active, alert, a major contributing factor to the quality of my life and to the life of others. 

What is your philosophy of death?  Is it time you gave that some thought?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I explore my beliefs about what happens when I leave this planet.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• There are many ideas about what happens when we die.  Go exploring until you find one that resonates with you.
• Make some decisions about how you want the end of your life to be. How will you know when it’s time to let go and move on? 
• What are your beliefs about our “next”? 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Expect The Best 

“Expect the best.  Do not settle for second best.” – Eileen Cady, Opening Doors Within: 365 Daily Meditations from Findhorn

I first read that 20 years ago and it remains a valid objective for me today.

What do you expect?  Will it be easy or difficult? What do you expect you deserve? What do you expect is possible? That is what you get.  When you change your thinking and expectations, you change your life. Do you have some work to do?

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Clear Your Home, Clear Your Life Experience

Sometimes healing yourself begins with clearing your space. Begin with someplace you spend a lot of time in. 

When I prepared to move to this smaller space, I marked off the size of the space I would have in the new place, and put in it only what I really, really wanted to take. I focused on what I wanted to keep, not what needed to go.

Perhaps begin with your meditation space and re-create it mindfully and selectively. Notice how the energy changes as each addition impacts the deepness of your meditation. 

Repeat this thoughtful selective process. Clear your home, clear your life.

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

What Gift Are You Neglecting?

There is a gift you have been given that you have put by the wayside. Do you know what it is?  Do you want to use it again?

My daughter played the flute in the Youth Symphony but did not pursue it as an adult. I know a young man who played viola in high school and a young woman who played the bass.  It obviously gave them pleasure and yet they have put that by the wayside.  I like to sing and was second alto in the girls quartet in high school and have sung in choral groups along the line.  My piano playing improved when I learned to read the guitar chord and fill in the melody. Now I play my Indian flutes and native drums and sing to the Four Directions each day. Music has stayed in my life even though how I express it has changed.

Reading is a constant – philosophical or educational topics – learning is an ongoing motivator – I love to learn. I write to figure things out.

Look back over your life to see what gift or interests have been left by the wayside and see what you would like to bring forward.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

What is Your Deeper Purpose?

I have made some dramatic choices in my life and without each one of them I would not be who I am today – nor would I have touched as many lives as I have and still do. I have no regrets and I know I did cause some pain to others with some of my choices. 

Trust your choices.  Trust your path to guide you to what you need to do. Forgive yourself for any pain you caused and keep going.

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Transforming Friendships

A strong, supportive friendship transforms both of you.  Mutual interests, complimentary strengths, and inter-active support combine to make a greater whole than we are individually.

Cherish those friendships when they develop.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for Our Unfolding Role in the Future

 Break Free From The Past And Start Anew

What if you got to start over? What would you do differently?

There are some choices I made out of naïvety that I wish I hadn’t made but I was not aware of the impact of my choices at the time.  I graduated from high school in 1954 and girls were expected to get married and raise a family. Fortunately, my mother felt differently and I got to graduate from college. In m 40’s, as a mother of four, I went bak to school and got my Masters Degree. Interesting how we are supported by the dreams of others along the way.

I have been heeding and listening to my inner voice for a good portion of my life and it has led me on some meaningful adventures. 

Periodically we have to break free from the past and start anew. It’s good when that is a conscious choice. I’m in a new starting place right now where I am being called upon to take what I know to a new level. It’s an exciting adventure.

When I moved into long term care, I gradually left behind my creeping depression and some of my physical struggles. With the physical help I am getting I can get back to walking my path. In what areas of your life do you want to break free from the past and start anew?

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

Explore and Interpret the Guidance and Messages of the Divine Feminine

Something Unexpected Is Happening To Me

I have been asked to speak at a staff meeting here. I’m going to talk about how to change our energy and the energy in the room.

I was asked to give feedback on a company brochure and I had a helpful insight that I offered.

I spoke so enthusiastically about the staff that the marketing person said I should do a video.

I am just being enthusiastic me.

Are you being true to your own process? What is showing up?

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

Life Lessons from a Lump of Clay

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Finding A New Path

I’m taking a turn in my path. I have no new destination in mind, only the learning process of the journey. I had my new mission statement: “I help Transformational Leaders deepen our relationship with the Unseen World and expand our role in the New Consciousness.”  What I have not defined is how to do that.

Begin by observing the nudges

I was a practitioner in The Center for Spiritual Living and we did Affirmative Prayer.  I have not used that format for years. Recently I got to close out an online meeting with a group I founded three years ago. I have no idea what I said, but it deeply touched the participants in the meeting. So what does that nudge mean? We recorded the call so I can listen to what I said.  But I truly remember nothing and feel it was channeled in a way I have never experienced before. Or I can just trust the obvious nudge and build on the concept – do some form of affirmative prayer each day – a series of positive affirmations like “All is whole, perfect and complete” that ends in “And so it is.” What I do know is that the eperienenre was a major nudge from the universe.

Nudges are guideposts to see if you want to explore a concept or direction more deeply in order to recognize the myriad of possibilities that surround you. Learn to explore your nudges and see what new paths beckon to you.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Meandering Path of Exploration 

The path turns and twists – meandering toward a destination only I can discover.

The path turns and twists – meandering toward a destination only I can discover. I listen. I feel. I chose. I wander partway down to see how it resonates.

The path turns and twists – meandering toward a destination only I can discover. I listen. I feel. I chose. I wander partway down to see how it resonates. Soon I return to seek a different path that calls more deeply.

– Cara Lumen, April 2023

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help Transformational Leaders

deepen our relationship with the Unseen World 

and expand our role in the New Consciousness

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

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

Our Global Deeper Song Community

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

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

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Lean Into The Edges Of Your Growth

Living Our Deeper Song

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

Lean into the edges of your growth and trust what awaits you on the other side. 

Are you asking enough of yourself? Are you exploring new paths? How are you leaning into the edges of your new growth? 

I love the image of pushing forward and separating leaves to find a new facet within myself that I get to develop and share. What adventures await my discovery?  

My major shift at 90 is to consider the possibility that I may have another 12-13 years on earth so I’m going to give more thought to what that can look like and what I want to accomplish.

How do I push the edges of my growth?  

I expect to take more time to explore new concepts to see how I might work with them. This concept is an example. How do I lean into the edges of my new growth? 

I’m thinking here…

I have to change my expectations of what is possible for me, for the world, for you.

I use my imagination. I’ve been using the phrase “Light Worker” for a number of years. I’m trusting that we learn to recognize the spiritual facets in ourselves and use our ability to turn and recognize similar qualities in others. We come together to join in a singular journey, to raise our own vibration, and hold our light higher so others recognize it in themselves and expand their work within.

We must continue to recognize and connect with other light workers and spiritual leaders in the world to expand our sphere of influence and become more creative. We have serious work to do.

Our Light Worker role will be individually defined and we must be on the alert for new doors that open and new roles to step into.

I could never have predicted that my new place of service would be with young professionals who are on the staff here. It is possible that sharing my view of aging and my expectations of our potential will resonate with someone else and they will lift their gaze. 

How do you see yourself leaning into the edges of your growth?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I look for and explore possible new roles for me as a light worker.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• The world is changing so rapidly. Do some exploring and find out what new place of service is beckoning to you.
• Explore and choose a new path to explore and embrace.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Take Time In Your Spiritual Practice

I was moving through the motions. I was not thoughtful or connected. I was repeating a pattern and had misplaced its meaning.

Is your spiritual practice like that? What do you change in order to have a more meaningful inner experience?

I like the steps I take, I just have to make certain I am fully present when I do them and take time to experience them on a deeper level.

First of all, I’m going to slow down and take my time to fully experience the process. I may rearrange the order or spend more time on a particular facet. I want to make certain I meditate each day. I might change the order or spend more time on one particular facet. I could change my intention and focus for that particular session. I want to slow down enough to feel it, to experience it, to be moved by it. 

My rhythm changes each day. If I wake up with an idea I want to explore, that seems to have to take priority until I capture it. 

I like to do my ceremonial work first thing but there is no reason why I can’t spread it out during the day. I can no longer see the sun set but I used to play my flutes while I watched the sky change.

When I was in New York City in the 80’s, I temped at Estée Lauder for a while, and one of the many female Vice Presidents (a rarity at the time) simply stopped what she was doing at 4 o’clock each day to put her feet up and have a glass of Perrier. She was not to be disturbed. How wise to take a deliberate and complete pause each day to center yourself. 

When I took Transcendental Meditation in the 70’s it was suggested that meditating when you first get home helps make a smoother transition. Perhaps sit in your car and meditate to change your energy before you move into personal time.

I would like to establish a closing ceremony for my day that will help me turn off my mind. I will go within for a period of re-centering, reflecting and replenishing.

How will you rearrange the time and content of your spiritual practice?

Add Sacred Singing To Your Spiritual Practice

As a young girl I sang in the church choir. I sang second alto in the girls’ quartet in high school. I took singing lessons at the local college where I got to sing in the chorus of the opera Carmen. I sang in many choral groups throughout the years so I found it very interesting that I have not added more singing to my current spiritual practice. I do sing and drum to the directions as part of my opening my day ceremony but I want to make this new form of singing spontaneous.  I have no idea what that will be, I just very much like the intention. 

It may be as simple as using my skin drum with its lovely resonance to set the tone.  Or I might use my long rain stick and see what that sound prompts in my singing. When I sing to the directions, I sing songs I make up but I want this to be intuitive singing that is free-flowing and creatively in the moment. Perhaps I won’t use words, just tones.  That would be freeing. I’ll just improvise and see what shows up. 

How will you add sacred singing to your spiritual practice?

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

How Do You Replenish Yourself?

Sometimes replenishing yourself is as easy as meditating or taking a nap. Other times it is much more involved. How do you actively replenish and nurture yourself physically, emotionally and spiritually?

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Become An Objective Evaluator

Your first job may not be the best path for you but because you are in it, you keep on going. Right?  

Are you open to change? What will that look like?

Periodically pause in your life and see if you really love what you are doing. Does it bring you satisfaction? Pride? New challenges? New opportunities? Is it meeting your financial needs? Do you have time to nurture your soul? What new interests have you developed that might call you in a new direction? Are you open to change?

One strong step in choosing a new path to explore is to find an objection evaluator – someone who knows you and can give you objective feedback about your strengths and weaknesses.  Ask some of the people you respect and who know you to offer you feedback about how others see you.

Years ago, I kept an acknowledgement book in which I wrote down things that people said about me that surprised me because I had not been aware of that perception of me before. It helped me know myself better and sometimes it served as a morale booster.

Look back over the things you have done and examine what signs you have been given. I started writing for my high school paper as a sophomore and my senior year I was chosen to be Managing Editor because of my organizational skills. Those two skills have been called on constantly in my life. 

I also know I am too assertive for some people and often move too fast so one of my leadership lessons has been to set a pace that brings everyone forward together.

Are you ready to move forward? Do you want to explore a new path? Find one or two objective observers to help you recognize the gifts that you have to offer. 

What Makes You Feel Useful?

We often think of ourselves as being useful when we help someone do something. That may be physical, emotional mental or spiritual. This has been important to me because I’m currently the one getting all the help, so what am I giving back in my old age?

It’s important to feel useful but keep an eye out for the subtle ways you have impact. A staff member recently said to me, “I always learn something when I come in here.” We give to others in many ways we may not recognize.  

We have two steps to take here.  First perhaps make a list of how you help others.  That will probably contain the obvious steps you take to help. 

Now make a list of how you help others in more subtle ways.  Look at the things you take for granted – preparing a meal, cleaning the energy in a room by your cheery presence. Spend some time win this list so that you can begin to identify the subtler ways you help others.  It may be as simple as a cheery greeting to the school crossing guard as you walk your child to school.  (Do people still do that?) Our very presence may lift someone’s spirits.

Be conscious of your interactions and the most subtle impact they have.

The Past Got Me To Today

Every choice we make has lasting impact. I would not be the person I am today with the specific gifts I have to offer if I had not made the choices I did along the way.  Many of them were rather dramatic choices and they created powerful change and impact in my life. 

I would not be where I am today if I had not listened to and acted upon my inner voice.  I trusted my inner voice after my first major decision and for all three major cross-country decisions I made thereafter.

There are consequences to my journey that brought me to where I am today but I wouldn’t change a thing. My choices along my path got me to where I am today. I am grateful for the journey.

Changing Times

2023 is a year of a big shift, new opportunities and unfolding paths.  The planets are aligned for new beginnings. What will you turn and do next?

I have identified a new direction and have begun to explore it. I have turned my back on what I have been doing and have turned to embrace my new path.  I hope it asks me to go on new adventures and develop new skills and gain new knowledge. All of that is quite exciting.

Of course, as I change my direction, I get to leave behind beliefs that no longer serve me. Those very specifically include what I believe I deserve and what I believe is possible.  

Changing direction also means leaving behind attitudes and beliefs and expectations and perhaps even friends that you have outgrown.

Since this is a time of a new beginning spurred on by the alignment of the planets, where will you turn to explore next?

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Peace Pole

I may be given a Peace Pole and even if it doesn’t happen, it has been meaningful for me to design it. I wrote:

“I have several requests about the purpose of the Peace Pole if your friend is willing to make me one. I want it to be focused on healing the environment.  Gaia, Mother Earth. I like the color blue a lot. Elements that might be included are butterflies (for transformation) and the giraffe has been a power animal for me (overview) and I’m very drawn to bears. I have three small ones on my desk that I call “Intuition, Insight, and Imagination’. The spider is also symbolic for me because she builds her web from within and builds on what she finds around her. She also can’t see and so does everything by vibration. 

I’m also aware of the potential and possibilities of space and I’m a little bit into the power of the planets in astrology. (I’m a Scorpio).

I actually picture a peaceful gradation from earth greens to sky blues. And I love the shape-shifting clouds of the mid-west. 

As for size, if it were three feet tall, I would put it on the floor by the barrel chair on the side by the door so people would see it as they come in and ask about it. If there are words, they should be “We Are One.” It can also be table-size and I will put it on my dresser by the Himalayan salt lamp – 18” tops.”

I’m excited about this. It supports my goals: “I help Transformational Leaders deepen our relationship with the Unseen World and expand our role in the New Consciousness.”

I hope my friend’s friend makes it for me but even describing it has brought both my vision and my goal into greater focus.

What would you put on your peace pole?

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

A New Paradigm Of Living

A paradigm is a pattern, a model or our life. It is time we rethink the one we are in.  It is time to encourage a new paradigm of living, leading and creating.

Right now, we are struggling to find a balance between the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine. The Divine Masculine is not happy with the change and the Divine Feminine is coming into her own.  We must learn to encompass the inclusive, loving, creative feminine along with the courage and strength of the masculine. Each of us contain feminine and masculine strengths. We just need to learn to cultivate both aspects in a positive and productive manner.

How do we do that? By becoming more aware of our own actions and choices. Take time to examine and contemplate why you are going in the direction you are going.  Take time to explore new places of service to see if they are aligning with your new awareness and calling.

It is time to step into an entirely new paradigm of living, leading and creating. What will that look like for you?

What Is A Transformational Leader And Are You One?

Transform means to make a thorough change. We must change our thinking, our actions and our expectations.  Part of what we, as Transformational Leaders, must do is expand what we envision as possible.

How do we do that? Can you envision the ice cap no longer melting? Can you envision a world population that enthusiastically embraces a mindful and active consciousness of walking softly on the planet?

We get what we focus on.  Monitor your thoughts and intentions and begin to visualize the human population as aware, thoughtful and actively caring for the planet.

“I help Transformational Leaders deepen our relationship with the Unseen World and expand our role in the New Consciousness” – Cara Lumen

How Do We Deepen Our Relationship With The Unseen World?

We are little specks in the web of life. The Unseen World is vast and everywhere and in all things. And it is “unseen”. So how do we explore it? How do we access it?  How do we use it?

We use our gifts of intuition and trust the nudges and insights we receive.  We learn to interpret and translate them into our life choices. How do you listen to the unseen world?  

I get intuitive nudges. The more I pay attention to the nudges, the clearer they become.

I take a Shamanic journey and interpret the metaphors that show up. I trust. I recently closed a meeting with an Affirmative Prayer that the participants said was powerful and gave them goose bumps and I remember nothing except saying I had not done an Affirmative Prayer for a long time. My mind was not involved, the Unseen Words took over and spoke through me. Trust the lessons and insights when that happens.

That part of the meeting was recorded. I will listen to see what I said.

“I help Transformational Leaders deepen our relationship with the Unseen World and expand our role in the New Consciousness.” – Cara Lumen

How Do We Expand Our Role in The New Consciousness?

First of all, I think our roles are changing and are in the process of being defined. When we listen to our intuition and our nudges, they will help us gradually develop a new role for ourselves. Part of our inner work will be to vision to clarify our new role. When we free ourselves from what we know and expect, there is room for expanded insights to appear.

“I help Transformational Leaders deepen our relationship with the Unseen World and expand our role in the New Consciousness.”  Cara Lumen

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Lift Your Gaze

It has been interesting to raise my gaze from my own life and consciousness and experiences to focus on a greater vision and goal. It makes me feel more useful and more valuable as I go exploring to find my new place of service.

Lifting my gaze and raising my focus makes me feel like more of an adventurer, an explorer, a discoverer and trail blazer.  I like that.

What happens when you raise your gaze? What do you see?

Live Above The Fray

It is really empowering to rise about the chaos of American politics and focus on the well-being of our planet. Of course I will keep an eye on politics because I will vote but only for freedom and democracy. 

I’m not saying I’m giving up, but I am shifting my gaze.  I don’t see my role as an activist. I see my role as a person with a strong imagination holding High Watch for this point in time.

How do you see your role and how will you fulfill it? How will you rise above the fray?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

What Is One Thing I Can Do That Will Help Heal The World?  

Follow the light. Be aware of it in every act and every thing.

That means I have to shift my gaze and keep focused on the movement of energy around me. I must be aware of subtle shifts within the world around me.

What do I look for? 

Let’s begin with our intuition. We must learn to listen to our inner voice. My inner voice speaks in both murmurs I have to interpret as well as full blown sentences. I always pay attention.

I have begun to establish a specific practice of sending energy to the people on the planet to open their hearts and make their choices for the highest good for all. 

I will focus on the energy of oneness.  People, animals, plants, sun, moon, rain, stars…we are to learn to feel our all-encompassing oneness and bring it to the forefront of our thoughts and actions.

Every thought, every choice, every action must be for the greater good, the highest good, the cosmic good. Our choices need to elevate our group consciousness. 

I have to walk around this planet not just as an individual person, but as a Light Worker, a Light Leader, a Facilitator of Transformation.  A Light Bearer. An Adventurer. A Way-Shower. 

How do you see the role you are stepping into as a Light Leader within our world?

Caring for Gaia

The most important step we can take to care for Gaia – Mother Earth – is to raise our consciousness and monitor our personal footprint. 

I no longer go to a grocery store but I have carried cloth bags since the 80’s. If I were living on my own, I would get solar panels for my apartment window.

How do you continue to soften your footprints on the planet?

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

Expanding Awareness

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===CARA’S CORNER===

What Do You Want To Bring Into Your Life?

My good friend and Astrologer, Martha Lacy, told me that Aries has come into play and it is the time of new beginnings. I paused to give some thought to what I want to bring into my life.

Stop reading a moment and write down three things. Mine are wholeness, transcendental awareness and deeper service.

Now, I have no specific plans on how to do that – yet – but the seeds are planted and the journey has begun.

I do have a new focus: “I help Transformational Leaders deepen our relationship with the Unseen World and expand our role in the New Consciousness.”  As yet I have no specifics in mind but that mission statement is raising my sights and my expectations and will ultimately change my direction.

When you change your goals, you are asking for change. Some of it may be uncomfortable, some exciting and some a tad unnerving but change is a good thing – it means we are growing and are deepening our life experience. What is your new vision for change?                           

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

I Raise My Sights 

I begin a new journey. An adventure. A new path. 

I begin a new journey. An adventure. A new path. I do not know my destination. I only know that I am called.

I begin a new journey. An adventure. A new path.

I do not know my destination. I only know that I am called. I lift my gaze and take the path less traveled.

– Cara Lumen, April 2023

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help Transformational Leaders

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and expand our role in the New Consciousness

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How Do You Nurture Yourself?

Living Our Deeper Song

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 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

What does the concept of nurturing mean to you? How do you nurture yourself? How do you nurture others?

Nurturing is more than just providing the essentials, it is about caring for yourself at the deepest levels. Not just your physical care, it includes your mental, emotional and spiritual care. Are you aware of how or if you are nurturing yourself in all those areas? What would you like to change? What would you like to do better? 

I like to think of nurturing as cultivation, making sure the right conditions for physical growth are there but also tending to self-awareness, inner growth and spiritual growth. Those are all things we need to do for ourselves.

My most active nurturer is my mind. It takes me exploring and adventuring and it helps me bring new patterns of awareness into my life.  To remain nurturing I must take self-responsibility. I must choose the right foods to eat. I must give my body enough movement to help it keep strong and get stronger. I must establish and maintain a spiritual practice in ways that support me in expanding my awareness as well as my place of service.

List five things you do to nurture yourself. Mine includes using my curiosity and my mind to figure out ideas that call to me and share that with others. I am also being enriched by the people around me who are professional caregivers with a great heart. I nurture myself through my spiritual practice and my body strengthening practices. I am enriched by the love I feel for my mind. I love who I am right now and I love the direction I’m going. 

I see that I am nurturing others when I express an interest in who they are, how they reached where they are, and what they are going through.  As I write this, I realize that the reason I’m not drawn to older people is because in most cases there is no drive or ambition. I have a 10-year plan and I am 90. Who knows, maybe it’s a 13-year plan but I do have a flexible, inquisitive plan. The point is that I have a plan and I have a direction I want to go in. I know some of the steps to get me there and I’m always open to change. 

To nurture means to encourage growth or develop. How do you nurture yourself?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am open to change, I eagerly explore the new paths I am shown.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Identify several ways you actively nurture yourself and write them down in the order of their effectiveness for you at this point in time.
• Identify one area that is under nurtured and then list two things you can do to nurture it. Do that. 
• Repeat as desired.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

An Altar Is How You View It

I have several spaces in my small space that can be viewed as altars. An altar can be a simple, personal expression of what you want to focus on.

On my desk is a small wooden tray that is an altar. I have an arrangement of bear figurines and pinecones and feathers and a bell. It just takes a small portion of my desk. I have several eagles which to me is about having overview. I call the three small bear figurines Insight, Intuition and Imagination. 

On the dresser that also holds the TV I have a Himalayan salt lamp that my on-line friends and I turned into a charging station for anyone who comes in here to give them centering and peace and serenity. Across the top of the dresser is a piece of fabric I chose a long time ago as an altar cloth. 

I have another table that has my Quan Yin statue in royal pose along with some plants. She is my reminder of my strong abilities and the power of the Divine Feminine.

All you have to do is set an intention for a space to hold the energy of support, insight, forward motion and gratitude. 

Altars can be made of anything. I could look at the wicker basket that holds my gardening equipment as an altar. It has a specific purpose to nurture plants. 

The idea of an altar is ancient. It is used to help manifest transformation. It is a place of gratitude and a place to focus our intentions. 

You may want to periodically rearrange the altars that you create around you. As you continue to explore, your understanding expands and your intentions may change. Then you may want to re-choose what you put on your altar as well as your intention. Choose pieces that mean forward movement to you.

Used an altar to focus your attention, remind you of an intention, or offer gratitude. 

It can be a tray I use for my meals that I can treat as an altar of gratitude and thanksgiving for the nourisher it provides. I could have an altar beside my bed to watch over me in the night and help me release what no longer serves me. 

There can be many reasons to have an altar in several places.  Look at the surfaces around you and arrange the objects on it with intention and purpose. You have created an altar.

Let Go Of What You Have Outgrown

This time of year is filled with the promise of possibility and new growth. You are invited to reconnect with your own power to create the life you desire. Now is the time to let go of what you’ve outgrown, take thoughtful action toward your dreams, cultivate confidence, strengthen your physical body, and step into greater leadership within your own life.

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Pull Out The Weeds

When we garden, we keep making space for the plants to grow. That means we have to not only pull out invasive plants but we sometimes have to trim or remove some of the flourishing plants in order to make room for another plant to grow. 

The same is true in life. Is it possible that you have too many things growing in your garden? What do you need to pull out? What do you need to prune? How are you going to do that?

Sea Vegetables

I am adding sea vegetables to my diet to deepen my nutrition and help heal my body. I sprinkle a little in the miso soup I eat most days. I have begun to experiment with other ways to eat them. I can sprinkle them on salads or potatoes or – I continue to experiment.  I have Dulse (alchaline), Nori (eyes), Spirulina (Immune system), Wakame (blood purifier), and Nutritional Yeast (which tastes like cheese and is great on popcorn and lots more). I have also added in capsule form Irish Moss (edema) and Aloe Vera (boosts immune system). If you are interested in these, do the online research for what you seek to heal.

I’m working diligently to heal myself from the inside even as the medical staff works to heal me on the outside.  

What change in your eating habits will bring you greater health? 

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Pick And Choose

Are you clear about your priorities? When it comes time to choose between two things, what are the criteria you use to make that choice? 

Sometimes we just have to sit down and examine our lives and figure out our priorities. What criteria do you base it on?

Self-care has to come first. It can be easy to put that behind making a living or relationships. But you are the only one who can do that so you better do a good job of it.

Providing for yourself is near the top of the list which includes how you earn your money. If you are not fully satisfied in your work perhaps you need to look for another role to play in the work world.

Relationships are certainly a key element in our lives, whether it is an intimate family relationship or a few valued friendships. Those interactions deeply influence how we feel about ourselves and those we love. You want your relationships to be supportive and encouraging – both ways. Don’t hang out with anyone who pulls you down. 

Take time to thoughtfully investigate these areas of your life and make any corrections that will move you forward. Then pick and choose what excites and motivates you.

Periodically Restructure Your Life

It’s very easy to fall into a pattern that we do not take time to examine or question. Our choices are built on habit, convenience or simply a reaction.  When we take time to examine our unconscious choices, we may very well make new ones. I’m going to begin with what I want to add and let other things go to make room for it.

Things I will add: 

• Time to play my bigger skin drum – I like the richness of its tone.
• Stand and move throughout my day. 
• Do the Qigong forms of self-healing I have learned at least twice a day.
• Set aside reading time each day for the books that are calling me.
• Design a ceremony of well-being for the environment and add it to my spiritual practice.
• Listen to more music.

Things I will do less of:

• watch news
• sit

Periodically restructure your life. Examine how you spend your time and make certain it reaps the greatest rewards.

10 Ideas A Day

I got this idea from Chris Brogan who has been my online friend for years.  In his weekly newsletter he mentioned that in his daily morning ritual, he writes down 10 ideas a day. I haven’t tried this but I think it’s a great idea.  I’m writing this in the morning and my ideas are:

1. Write more about our unfolding role in the world.
2. Write to help young generations face and deal with the dramatic changes that are unfolding.
3. Begin to talk to the young people here about their thinking.
4. Read the Qigong Self-Healing book I have.
5. Stand up more often during the day and move my body.

Those last two are more like a “To Do” list that an “Idea List” 

When I get an idea it’s usually about something to write about and I immediately turn and write about it so I have a first draft. But then I have the luxury of being able to pause to do that at any point in my day.  I just read Chris’s newsletter, and turned and wrote this to figure it out for myself and to share it with you.

You get the idea – it’s your list. What ideas will you put on it each day? 

I don’t act on each of the ideas but writing an idea down can lead to another idea. The act of writing opens doors to new ideas to consider and explore.  It is a great opportunity for a free flow of ideas.

Chris did not say good ideas, he just said ideas.  When you let your imagination go, it may take you down some strange paths but you never know when you will hit the jackpot. I’m going to give it a try.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

The Power of Journaling

I have begun to journal again and I’m very much enjoying it. I take time at the end of each day to reflect back over the experiences I’ve had, the insights that have been revealed and any new awareness that has presented itself. It is a time for reflection and anchoring of awareness. I don’t necessarily expect to ever re-read it, it is the process of taking time to reflect by recording it that is important. Sometimes it helps me change directions and other times it helps to anchor me in place. Will you make journaling part of your spiritual enrichment? 

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Life Is Not About Luck

Whatever shows up in our life is because we attracted it to us by our thoughts, our choices, 

our actions and where we focus our attention. What are you looking for? What do you expect to happen? What do you think is possible? You can shift the outcome by shifting your attention.

I have to be careful about this because my body is coming up with more physical things for me to fix and I have to make certain that I’m focused on the concepts of wellness and wholeness rather than the opposite.  We get what we believe we deserve and what we believe is possible. And I get to look at both aspects of that. What is manifesting in your life and how do you need to shift your gaze?

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Healing The Collective

I have never been an activist in a group but if you have and do, this may be a very good time to get active again. One way is to protest and another way is to educate and advocate.

I had only been in touch with one person whose thinking was totally opposite from mine and there was no point in our exchanging ideas because he was listening to and reading only the ideas he agreed with and supported this belief system – just as I am I suppose. Neither of us were interested in changing our minds. Unless you have a curious mind and you’re willing to explore other viewpoints I’m not sure how to encourage a change in thinking.

Make certain you are exploring several versions of the core cause of a situation and identify new solutions and deepen a new reservoir of possibilities 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Enjoy Life’s Journey, But Leave No Tracks

Are you walking softly on the planet? Are you conscious of your impact in every aspect of your life? I doubt we are, but it would be good if we were.

We know about walking softly on the planet but what about the effect we have on the lives of others? Some we know, some we don’t. We should become more conscious of our impact on others by our thoughts, our words and our actions. Enjoy life’s journey, but leave no tracks.

=== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

New View – New Path 

20 years ago in Michael Port’s first Book Yourself Solid Coaching Certification, I learned to write a who-and-do-what statement.  My latest one will send me soaring into unexplored territory and take us on great adventures:

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

Now all I have to do is to figure out how to do that…! 

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your calling. – Aristotle

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===CARA’S CORNER===

How Am I To Lead?

It is time for me to deepen and expand my role. It is time for me to turn my gaze and address our role as light worker leaders on the planet. What does that mean? What does that look like? 

It’s time to examine where you are and where you want to go.  How do you plan to make a difference next?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

How Do I Make A Difference?

I want to deepen my impact. I want to broaden my reach. I want to make a difference.

I want to deepen my impact. I want to broaden my reach. I want to make a difference. Where do I turn? What do I do?

I want to deepen my impact. I want to broaden my reach. I want to make a difference. Where do I turn? What do I do? The answer lies within. I begin there.

– Cara Lumen, March 203

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

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Free Yourself Of Limitations

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 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

I didn’t like it. It was weaving in concepts and visualizations that are not taught in the original form of Tai Chi and Qigong and yoga.  We are supposed to stick with the original format, right?

Well, after going through the imaginative interpretation that was being given these traditional moves, I realized I had been given the freedom to explore, to experiment and to discover Qigong and Tai Chi are martial arts that are meant to give you the balance and strength and advantage to protect yourself and win a fight. These two teachers that I listened to on the Shift Network Qigong Summit were simply adding imaginative interpretations to the moves. It was much like once having developed the skills of an instrument, you give yourself permission to improvise from your heart and soul.

This may not sit well for those of you who spent years developing your yoga practice or meditation practice or martial arts practice based on centuries old traditions.  

I haven’t exactly made peace with it either. But I am giving myself permission to explore. To use my imagination to deepen and enrich my physical plane practice.

I have gone online to find moves for the kidney meridian. The instructions were to reach down and pull up the energy of the Earth into your body. I love that. I love that image. I find that putting an inner imaginative feeling beneath a specific move enriches it. 

I just heard a metaphor in the Qigong Summit that really resonated with me – being aware of the female and male energy in the move and the image of being in the flow of the waxing and waning of the Yin-Yang symbol as you make the moves. It is a very fluid metaphor for me. 

For instance, Yang energy manifested in the movements that expand, extend, open out, rise up, lengthen, elongate and out, and the Yin energy manifested in the movements of contraction, relaxation, close in, and sink down. I like applying those metaphors as I move. It helps me address the move internally and adds to the experience. It’s just a very strong image for me that will influence the subtleties aspect of the moves I make – beginning from within with an internal feeling. Just having those images beneath the moves adds a fascinating dimension to my experience. 

I’m not sure I am explaining this well. I am both learning the correct form and adding the dimension of my imagination to power it from the inside out.

Is there an area of your life that you are following the instructions so exactly that you have not given yourself the freedom to experiment, explore, and improvise?  Perhaps it’s time to go exploring and free yourself of limitations.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I examine my life for places of rigidity and turn my imagination free to loosen it up.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Look at an area of your life you would like to free up and expand. Let’s begin with a physical expression. The image of the tennis serve comes up because it is a multi-faceted move that needs a fluid execution.  What I place in my imagination beneath it will help direct its flow.
• Experiment with different images and see how it affects the physical plane expression. 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Fluid Structures

How does one build a structure that is fluid? If it’s fluid how does it ever get completed? How sturdy is a fluid structure? Or is it simply meant to be a framework for adventure.

I like that idea of my life being a framework for adventure. That means that every day I get to look at my life for a fresh perspective. 

Is this still how our choice are made? What new nudges have you gotten from the universe? Where do you want to go exploring next? Or do you need to finish the path you are on before moving in a new direction? 

Move within to a centered stillness to await the voice of your inner guidance. 

The Spring Equinox is Monday, March 20, 2023 4:24 PM

I suggest we each create some sort of an honoring, refocusing ceremony for ourselves. The obvious metaphor is what are you going to plant? It may be a new crop or it maybe more of what you’ve got growing now but look at this as a time to pause and make some conscious choices about how you want your life to unfold over the coming year. Then plant the seeds to make that happen.

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Experiment

The occupational therapist said that my edema was associated with my heart and my lungs. I found awesome Qigong exercises for both. And boy, were they effective. There was much coughing on my part with the lung exercises and a literal shortness of breath on the heart moves.  Remember these are simple moves in which you move the Chi energy and I am getting huge physical results.

If you have a physical problem go online and see what meridian it is on, then type in Qigong for that meridian and see what shows up for you.  Experiment and find something that works for you and you’re willing to do.

Talk To Your Body And Listen Well

My body is going through healing process that is a little on the dramatic side. What I get to do is listen really well and get very creative about how I answer what I hear. 

Do you listen to your body’s needs when it asks for something you’re not supplying. Or something it needs less of than what you are asking of it. 

When you get involved in life, it’s hard to answer your body’s call for a nap in the middle of the day. Getting in an evening 20-minute meditation would help me. I need to get more creative and I need to get more open to different approaches to meet the physical implementation that is being requested. Sometimes it’s as simple as a pause for some deep breaths or a moment to stop whatever forward motion you’re doing mentally. 

How well do you listen to your body’s need and how creative are you in answering it?

The Power of a Jacuzzi

I’ve been in hot tubs a handful of times in my life but I now have access to a Jacuzzi here in Evergreen and it is now my new favorite thing to do. As I read about what it does for you, I see it will help my arthritis, it’s going to help this situation I have with my legs, and it is an incredibly nurturing experience. 

I was offered one my first week here, but it turned out the tub was broken and I hadn’t thought to ask about it since. I was offered one, took it and is now my new favorite thing. What new step can you take to add a special treat your life? Do that. 

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Where Is Your Passion Leading You?

And more importantly is your passion changing?

I can identify a great passion for learning and turning to share what I learned but the focus of that inquiry continues to change. That requires me to be flexible and inquisitive.  I wish I could say that I pay attention to the needs of others but I don’t. My passion is so strong that I simply follow where it takes me and explore what I find and then turn and share what I learned. 

Be aware of what passionately shows up that you need to explore. See if that direction holds merit for you. Explore a little. Try out some possible paths. See what others are doing and adapt what calls to you. Most of all, let your passion guide you into a new adventure often. 

Stop Over-Thinking

I spent several hours trying to solve a problem that actually did not exist anywhere but in my mind. I found lots of different solutions even though none of them would be necessary. But I should have not put any time and effort into overthinking the situation.

I’m not sure how you extricate yourself from that kind of rabbit hole. My plan got pretty detailed and it turns out it wasn’t necessary at all.  I have no idea what happened to “Go with the flow.”

Do you let your mind get carried away? Keep you awake? Do you picture worst case scenarios and try to figure out ways to get out of them? I think we have to learn to be more trusting that the universe will not give us more than we can handle. Trust the universe to give you the lessons that you need and the opportunities that will open new pathways for growth.

Sometimes the lesson is about how much you do not want to take that particular path. That was the reason for the lesson – for you to know that choice was not appropriate to you. 

Learn to have more conversations with your inner voice. It is actually very wise. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Sing And Drum

I’m going to add something new to my spiritual practice. It came from listening to a presenter on a Shift Network Qigong summit who sang and drummed. I don’t know what language he used and it doesn’t make any difference because he set an intention and the experience was very profound – just by singing and later adding the drum. 

I like the idea of singing tones rather than words that I can drape in my intention. But I am going to use my voice along with my drum and see what kind of experience I can create. I think I’ll start by using vowel sounds rather than words and simply set an intention for the experience and see what happens. I have been using my drum and singing songs that I composed to the directions but I think I will let it slowly evolve and see what shows up. I will go exploring and see where it takes me as an introspective experience.  What unusual feature will you add to your spiritual practice?  

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Make Space For New Growth

In gardening we make room for new growth by pruning. We cut back what has gotten too unruly in order to encourage the less vigorous plants to reach their potential.

What does that mean in your life?  It means it is very easy to let one facet of our life take up too much room. It sort of creeps up and crowds out some of our favorite things because we’re giving too much time and energy to one facet of our life.

Has that happened to you? Can you identify a part of your life that needs to be scaled back – pruned if you will. And how will you do that? 

Your job is probably the biggest offender and may be hardest to prune. I spend a huge amount of time at my computer because I really like to think and learn and write. But I need to make time for more physical movement. I will identify several times during my day to do my Qigong and go for a walk or any other form of movement that I choose to do. I should turn and stand and look out the window at nature to change my rhythm and address the needs of my body to shift my attention. 

What will you prune from your life in order to make room for new growth?

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

The Calling

I don’t know whether it’s the generation or the profession but as I ask the healthcare workers in this long-term facility how they got on this path, their stories share they knew they wanted to help people. Since these are the only younger people that I am around, I have no idea if other younger people are being called into a specific profession so strongly.  

Some of the staff are nurses of course, but a Med-Aide’s work is helping people with their daily lives. That means bathing and dressing and eating and other bodily functions. Some of the people here have dementia. And I have had Med-Aides help me hang my stained glass in my window and also put my sea vegetables in the new spice containers, so the work can vary.

A newly licensed nurse I talked to wants to go work in labor and delivery. Another person knew she was going to become an OB/GYN surgeon. Another wants to work with handicapped children. Another really likes hanging out with older people. Of course the underlying motivation is that they want to help others. 

In my recent trip to the hip surgeon which requires a Med-Aide to accompany me while I get to ride in a wheelchair in the back of the big van, I was escorted by the same person who took me on my first trip. And I remember asking her then what the qualifications were for doing this job. And she said, “You have to be a really kind person.” And they all are. How lovely, to know your own calling and have it beckon so deeply. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

My Foray Into AI

I’ve seen two demonstrations of ChatGPT on MacMost and I’m going to begin to use it. There is a free version. I think I’ll use it a little like I use Google to do research. It sure does get the answers fast.  Welcome to the world of artificial intelligence. 

You can access ChatGPT by going to chat.OpenAI.comand logging in. If you’re on OpenAI’s website, you can log in to your account, then scroll down until you see ChatGTP on the bottom. 

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

Explore and Interpret the Guidance and Messages of the Divine Feminine

The Fight

What is unfolding in the United States is very scary. There is a portion of the population that wants to disavow huge other parts of the population – everyone who is not white – and they want to get rid of all women by preventing them from having fundamental healthcare.  

One way to look at it is that the Divine Masculine is fighting to keep the control it has had for centuries.  

What has the Divine Masculine shown us over the centuries? Domination and subjugation. In my cynicism I might say that’s about it. I’m a woman – a woman who has worked to get out from under male domination for a good portion of her life. And we have not achieved that yet.

Even as we fight for our freedom, we must bring forth the feminine traits of inclusiveness and caring. I’m not sure how to do that. It’s a tricky balancing act.

As mothers we can teach our sons about equality and inclusiveness and our daughters about knowing their true value and cultivating their individual path. As wives we can teach our husbands about equal partnership. As daughters we teach our parents how to embrace the new version of the role. As coworkers we can stand up for our rights without running roughshod over our male counterparts. As bosses and leaders, we teach everyone in our lives about inclusiveness.

How do you do that and where do you begin?  

=== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

On The Shift Network I discovered Roel Crabbe and I am drawn to his work and his energy. Ho is the meditation to connect you with a deeper awareness of the Web of Life. Enjoy

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

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective   

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Acupressure For Pain

My friend and gifted healer Christina Gerber taught me these acupressure points for pain.

“Your legs and feet are your thumbs and pinkies on your hands.  Pressing each inch of each hand is like massaging your whole body!  Your pain relates to your middle finger down to your wrist.”

===CARA’S CORNER===

Take Charge Of Your Own Health

I’m going to start learning and doing Qigong exercises for specific organs to assist in my own health. I have found videos for the Heart Meridian, Lung Meridian and Kidney Meridian as starters. These seem to be the meridians that are affecting my current physical imbalances.

Illness is about imbalanced energy and energy moves through meridians that flow throughout our body. What more direct way to self-heal than to strengthen the very channels that carry the energy through our body. What meridian will you start working on today?

Here are two places to start:

Heart Meridian With Lee Holden

Boost Your Kidney System with Alex Hui

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Energy Flow

I have to visualize the energy meridians in my body because I cannot feel them directly. 

I have to visualize the energy meridians in my body because I cannot feel them directly. But they are there and I must encourage their clear flow.

I have to visualize the energy meridians in my body because I cannot feel them directly. But they are there and I must encourage their clear flow. I do the work to clear the path for them and I heal. 

Cara Lumen, March, 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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