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How Do You View and Use Time?

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How Do You View and Use Time?

Living Our Deeper Song

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

Do you spend time? Do you value time? Do you waste time? Do you wish you had more time? How do you use one of the most precious gifts we have – time? I value my time in my spiritual practice. I value my time spent learning and contemplating and writing about what I discover. I don’t waste much time worrying. I do spend a bit too much time on the news. But the main question I have for myself and for you is are you spending the time you have wisely?

Now I understand that we can’t be in full blown action mode every moment but sitting and watching reruns on television and playing Spider Solitaire is absolutely and totally a waste of my time. So why do I do that? Why do we make choices that are less than stellar when it comes to the gift of time?

Now I can’t be on point every minute of the day. No one came be. We have to find balance in our life. But I have a feeling that each of us could find better ways to nurture ourselves than we have in place right now.

Perhaps keep a time journal for a week to see how you are spending your time – including worrying about something that may or may not happen. Maybe put a priority rating on some of the activities to get an idea of their value to you and their impact on your journey. Then give a grade to how well you spend your time and make some adjustments.

I’m just going to start with two or three rankings. One will be the most nurturing and satisfying and enjoyable things that I do. Two might be the things that I do to sustain myself like eat and walk the halls. But I can guess that three is going to be really full of things that I need to rethink and re-examine and re-choose.

I have a feeling if I try and put grades on what I do for a week or so I will gain some insight that will help me make some changes that would be more supportive in my life. I would spend more time learning the Qigong practices that I am studying. I want to listen to podcasts. I want to listen to a book for fun too. Create a balance of work. All play makes for a dull person and killing time is a shame.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I take time to examine how I choose to spend my time and make adjustments that nurture and enhance me more fully.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • For a week put a rating grade on the activities that you choose to do and the time spent doing them.
  • Look at how you are spending your time and make some choices that bring you a more balanced and supportive existence.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Make Time to Evolve

I sat and looked out the window and let my mind wander. I thought about the future I wanted to create. I watched the clouds move across the sky. I watched a squirrel run up a tree. And I sat in silence and stillness and listened to nature and my inner voice. We need to create time to simply be.  We need to create time to listen to our inner wisdom. We need to take time to explore our options – perhaps try them on for size in our imagination.

Stillness and emptiness make room for expansion and a deepening awareness of what is possible and what we can choose to do. Take time to be still. Take time to allow your thoughts to unfold. Give yourself time and space to evolve.

Change for the Future, Stay in the Present

There is a delicate balance we need to keep as we prepare for change. On one hand we have to explore options for the future and on the other we need to stay present with what’s going on in our world at this moment at this place and time. So I might vision how I want to rearrange my space when I move, and take steps to downsize now. But I am here in the space I have been in for some time. I must continue to build on that as opposed to spend too much time wondering about the future. Have a plan sure, but then let it go and let the next step unfold in its proper time.

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Self-Healing

What Are You Expecting?

I barely caught myself from making a major mistake. I have been focusing on what happens if the direction my aging processes seems to be taking continues. But I am also working with Qigong to create self-healing. I need to shift my focus toward a more positive outcome. Are you looking in the right direction? What are you focusing on? What do you expect will unfold? We get what we believe we deserve and what we believe is possible. Look closely at your beliefs. You can change your life by changing your focus and your expectations.

Manifest by Affirming

Our words and thoughts create our reality; therefore, we can manifest a great deal of what we want in our life by simply affirming that it is so. “I am whole perfect and complete” is a good place to start. What else do you need? “I see clearly within and without” is an affirmation I use as my eyes continue to change. “All is well in my world.” Can’t get much better than that. So what are you telling yourself? What kind of affirmations are you giving yourself that are actually working against your success, against your well-being? Notice your thoughts. Notice your vocabulary. Notice your intentions. We get what we believe we deserve and what we believe is possible. That’s such a core place to start to question how and why you are manifesting what is showing up in your life. For you are the manifester. You are the creator through your intentions, your beliefs, and your expectations. Manifest what you want in your life by affirming that it is so. And watch what changes.

Curb Your Excess and Cravings

I am so bummed. The article listed everything I’m doing as being the cause of the edema I’m experiencing. I’m literally eating my way into this pain and difficulty. We create are life experience by our choices. Are you manifesting what you want?  Or what you do not need? That’s something to think about.

In order to heal myself, the two things that I crave the most have to go. Look at what you’re craving either on the food level or the emotional level or the physical level and look at its repercussions on your overarching life experience. And make some changes.

===OUTER  WORK===

Exploration of New Potential and Possibilities

What Is Important Now?

As part of my on-going down-sizing I had my daughter take away the few remaining books that I have kept and had her read inscriptions in the front of the ones that were inscribed by some of my teachers. I had her read a few of the poems that I have written along the line and I let them go. They are typed into my computer. And they are part of my deep past.  As my dry macular degeneration increases, I can no longer read them and I have the experience and the memories and it is time to let go.

I continue to lessen the number of possessions I keep around me. I continue to select the ones that are most supportive in the present and release the rest. I know what I accomplished in my life. I know some of the lives that I have touched. I know when I did things really well and people were affected by what I offered.  I love my curiosity. I love my love of learning. I love being an explorer. It has been a good life.

As this “next” unfolds, part of the message I’m receiving is that it is important for me to be a trailblazer for aging and downsizing and needing more help. And I need to face it with creativity and willingness and wisdom. You don’t have to worry about what will show up for you because whatever it is, you will be prepared to handle it. Know that. Trust that your life continues to educate you and guide you towards the next steps of your journey and you are always prepared to take that next step. It might be a wobbly step but you will move forward. Trust the process. Trust yourself. Enjoy the journey.

Find One Solution – Then Leave Rom for Another

When you are faced with a major change find one solution to the situation, then let it go and create a whole lot of room for something entirely different and magical to show up. I have figured out how to fit into the smaller space of assisted living but now I’m going to let go of that whole next possible scenario and immerse myself in the gifts of now, the opportunities that show up and take me in an entirely different direction. I have one solution and that may or may not be the way it unfolds. It’s OK to figure out a plan but don’t get attached to it. Leave room for something magical to unfold instead. Design a possible path then go exploring for a different journey and different outcome.

Push the Pause Button

It is with great relief that I push the pause button on the rapid focus on this potential move. I have the mechanics figured out. Now I get to work on me. My fears. My apprehension. My willingness. My expectations. Even as I choose to prepare for the future, I want to deepen my experience of the present. I have a handle on the mechanics of downsizing and it is time to turn inward and work on my spiritual self.

Don’t get too caught up in an impending physical change. Give it some thought. Get creative with your ideas of how to solve it or respond to it. And then let go until it’s time to push it into place. Go back to your inner life. Go back to your vision. Go back to your role in the world. Stand strong.  Keep going.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Talk to the Rocks

I’m giving my daughter Cathy a lot of my crystals and I’m talking to each of them as I let them go. The ones I’m keeping are exceedingly powerful and they are for me at this point in time. As our energy changes we are to change the support items we keep around us. Whether it’s a crystal or meditative practice or a form of contemplation, be prepared to change. Be prepared to explore. Be prepared to let go even if you’re very fond of it and have been doing it for a really long time.

Shamanism changed my life when I learned to journey. Learning to play the native flute was an important exploratory step into meditation. Look through your collection of spiritual tools and try them out to see how they fit you today – if they are what you need for this part of your journey. I don’t have a timeframe established for this self-examination but it could be seasonal, it could be yearly but pause periodically to make certain that you are taking spiritual steps that are meaningful for this phase of your life, not just a form of habit. Then open to embrace change. Go exploring. Stay present in the moment.

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

Expand Our Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

What is Your Role?

Know what your role is in any given situation. I am a support person in the unfolding of our world today. It is not my job to be an activist. On the other hand, my role is also to light the path towards aging to make it a more reassuring experience for those who follow. Know the confines of your roles and fulfill them.

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

Raise Your Sights and Our Expectations 

Don’t Get Ahead of Your Timeline

I was so busy trying to make certain I could fit into the much smaller spaces I will be offered at some point in the near future that I got ahead of myself. I carefully purchased a smaller computer desk. My son-in-law diligently put it together. And then I realized I may not need it for six or seven months so why should I give up my bigger desk at this point in time? I got ahead of my timeline. I will keep both desks for now.

Now it’s great that I’m getting rid of things. It feels good to simplify. And my daughter is taking them and figuring out how to absorb them into her life.

Leave room for the scenario to unfold. Be aware of the possible adjustments you’ll need to make. Find some solutions to them. And then decide what steps and timeline you need to follow. Stay in the present and make the most of that.

I have a friend who’s going to move to another country halfway across the world. What she gets to take is a lot less than what I get to take moving across the street. Once again, we begin to choose carefully and thoughtfully what we want to keep around us and what we take with us and what we make room for in our lives.

Maybe you want to replace things in your new situation. For instance, my daughter and son-in-law are going to buy me a chair that helps me stand up and reclines with the push of the button. I only have room for one chair in the new space. I am thoughtfully selecting those things that I keep on the table beside me where I spend the most time. Very powerful crystals are asking to be kept at hand to help me with my self-healing and the ongoing changes in my life. I’ve made room for them. I have selected very powerful crystals that I am to work with right now for self-healing and self-awareness and expanding my potential.

The other aspect of downsizing is that you begin to choose your next steps, your next focus, what you are going to invite into your life next. You do that by listening carefully to the nudges and insight that show up.

The idea of not yet moving onto the smaller desk was a big eye-opener. Why was I squeezing myself in a smaller space when the smaller space has not been offered yet so there’s a timing aspect to preparing for change. Don’t get too far out over your skis. Don’t get ahead of the unfolding circumstances. Stay open to options and choose with awareness in the moment that is unfolding and what direction is being pointed to.

Do Your Vote Research

I was not as prepared for the primary election in Kansas as I should have been. Yes, I definitely knew how to vote in the counter-intuitive way you had to know in order to defeat the pro-abortion bill which we did mightily and hopefully inspired more women in the country, but I had not done my research on some of the candidates. So I’m changing that.

Do you take time to inform yourself about the choices that are offered to you in an election? Do you understand the issues and how the proposals are worded so that you vote the right way? Voting in the United States is being threatened. We must take time to inform ourselves about the philosophy and objectives of each and every candidate because there is some very bad stuff going on out there. Democracy is an incredible gift and it’s not everywhere in the world. How do you involve yourself in the governing of your country or your state or your city? Be an informed voter and vote for the highest good for all.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

The Aging Journey

As I move through this particular phase of aging, I do want to share again two books that told me what I really want to know and believe. They are written by psychologist Michael Newton who did past life regression work with a specific focus on what it is like between lives. I really, really like what he writes. The books are Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives and Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives.

I live in a senior center and I’ve had friends who died. I’m going to assisted-living and I think the turnover will be even greater. So how do I make the best out of this next phase in my life? I plan to stay productive and put out this newsletter as long as my eyesight will let me. And then I plan to get help to do it. I plan to keep learning. I love to learn. I will continue to develop and expand my ability to do Qigong because that is my self-healing method of choice. And I will stay open to what the universe wants me to create and do and learn from this next step in my life.

My life seems to run in 14 to 17 year cycles. I’ve lived here in Olathe for 13 years. And in this one building for 12. 13 more years in Evergreen would make me really, really, really old like 103. So that’s probably not what I really want. I’m sort of crickety right now and the physical aspect of my being is not as much fun as it used to be. So as with all of us I have a “next” coming up that I don’t know what it’s going to look like but leaving the planet is OK by me. So I put one foot at a time along the path, I try to make choices that enrich and deepen and expand my life experience. And I trust. I trust the past. And I trust my own personal journey. All is well in my world.

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

Listen For Your Future

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

The Green Funeral

This will be my choice.

Green Funeral Trends: The Mushroom Burial Suit 

This article highlights the eco-friendly option of the mushroom burial suit. It defines this burial method, as well as its benefits.

===CARA’S CORNER===

Do The Research – Make the Changes

I have basically been healthy all my life but as I approach 90, things are going south a bit. So when I got edema I had to go online and research it to see what it was and what caused it. Well, it turns out that the majority of my dietary choices were not good for me. All my favorites. The things I was eating the most of were wrong for me. So I took the right action, even though they were my favorites.

Again the Internet came to the rescue. Dandelion tea was recommended. I bought two brands so I can figure out which one I like and I think dandelion tea for detoxification may become part of my regular routine once I get my body healed.

Do the research and then make the changes the research suggests. Look at your cravings. Look at your excesses. It may very well be you are drawn to things that are not good for you in the long run. Be willing to make the change. If things aren’t working right either in your body or in your life, you need to reconsider your choices and your actions and your thoughts and make some changes, both major and minor. Experiment. Make a change, give it some time and notice the result. Then build on what you’ve learned. We are the caretakers of our bodies in our lives. Keep an eye on what’s happening and do the research to find the changes you need to make. Then make them. We are the stewards of our bodies.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

I Am The Caretaker

I am the caretaker of my body and my life. Where I go, what I do, and how it turns out, is all up to me and my choices.

I am the caretaker of my body and my life. Where I go, what I do, and how it turns out, is all up to me and my choices. I stay alert, I do the research, and I make the changes.

I am the caretaker of my body and my life. Where I go, what I do, and how it turns out, is all up to me and my choices. I stay alert, I do the research, and I make the changes. I am the guardian of my life and I stand strong and alert.

– Cara Lunen, August 2022.

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

Namaste,

Cara

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Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe

(“Ah-Shay”)

The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

The Mookaitite Jasper crystal tower I held in my left hand clearly said to me, “Dream your future into being.” If this is a dismemberment we are going through in our world today, we get to put together a whole New World unlike anything we have ever experienced before.

Right off the bat I see everything with solar power. There are ways to clear up the plastic waste in the ocean. There are new discoveries in healing every day. What if we just suddenly have this whole new world in place, a new way of doing things, a new way of interacting with each other? No harm to anyone. No harm to anything. Peaceful coexistence. Can we even imagine that? What if we fill every interaction with love and compassion? What if negativity simply dissolves and disappears. Each day is filled with inclusiveness and kindness. We care for each other. We care about each other. All species live in cooperation.

What qualities will you put into this world that we can vision into being together? Begin living that way now.

We must move our gaze. We must look for higher expressions of oneness and place them in our lives. Not only do we have to change what we look for, we have to change how we express ourselves. That means we have to cease being critical and find ways to feel compassionate and inclusive instead. That means we have to notice the small acts of kindness and compassion and moved to incorporate them into our own life expression and look for signs of inclusive self-expression in ourselves and in others. Change what you look for. Raise your gaze and focus on our oneness.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I focus on the positive kindness I see today and help it manifest more.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Shift your gaze from what is not working and focus on the acts of kindness and inclusiveness that are emerging.
  • Contribute to that unfolding.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen our Inner Awareness

Downsizing to Redefine Your “Next”

There’s nothing like downsizing to make you redefine your intentions and your direction and your purpose in life. That’s a lot to accomplish by releasing a few possessions. “Is what I’m keeping talking to my heart?” is now the best decision-maker I’ve ever created.

I’ve had to re-define my computer space with a smaller desk but I chose one that goes up instead of out. I am releasing crystals to go to new homes. But I’m talking to each one to make certain it’s ready to go. And I am definitely redefining what I get to keep and where I get to put it. Downsizing makes you keep around you what is important for this next phase of your life. This next step.

Perhaps you create change simply by rearranging what you are keep close at hand. For instance, I have four or five crystals that I want to be able to sit and hold and be with throughout my day. The table beside my main chair is getting pretty crowded. I can’t keep all my drums so I have to play them and bless them and let them go at some point before I move. Most of all downsizing makes you rethink what is truly important to you. In Feng Shui they start with empty space and very carefully choose each item that goes in. There are never very many items in a Feng Shui arrangement. It’s a good lesson. When you start to rearrange your altar or table or your desk, clear it off, put one thing back on at a time and feel how the energy changes. Visualize how you use the space and what you can do without. Releasing is at the core of downsizing. What can you let go of that would leave more space to move in, to be in and grow in?

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Self-Healing

Change the Energy of Your Home 

As I begin to downsize my possessions, the energy of my home is also beginning to change. It’s as simple as putting a crystal in a different place. Or moving a chair or giving a few things away. What simple fundamental things can you do in your environment that will change the energy? It may be as simple as a new plant or moving one that you have. It probably is about letting things go. See what you can do to change the energy of your space and enjoy the results.

===OUTER WORK===

Exploration of New Potential and Possibilities

Choose to Create Balance

My day is not in balance. I need to make some adjustments. There are things I need to do less of that would allow me to savor other things more deeply. How are you doing on your allocation of time? What do you consider a poor use of your time? Spider solitaire falls into that category for me. Listening to too much news could also be on that list. So I am beginning to free up chunks of my day and exploring the possibilities I could explore. What do I want to put there? Do I go sit in the sun? Do I make up a poem? What would you do if you suddenly had a chunk of free time that you could fill any way that you wanted to? Do that.

Double Duty

As I continue to downsize, a major thing I get to work on is how one thing can serve two purposes. Perhaps three purposes, it’s a very small space and I have no idea when I will move, it could be a year, there are five people ahead of me on the waiting list so meanwhile I’m practicing. I’m working with less. I’m doing more with it. I’m finding alternate ways to do something. This is a period of exploration and experimentation and I’m still sitting in the home that I’ve been in for 12 years. Work with what you have and perhaps work with less of what you keep around you and see how that frees up your energy and focus.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Create and Adjust

In your spiritual practice what is the most important aspect? Do you play instruments to nature? Do you meditate? Do you do affirmations? Notice which facets of your spiritual practice nurture you more than others and adjust the time you spend doing them. And then go exploring to find other forms of meditation. I have music in my spiritual practice. I consider learning and practicing Qigong part of my spiritual practice. I make up songs and there are rattles and bells and crystals on my altar as part of my spiritual practice. Even if you find something you really, really like, it doesn’t mean you can’t go exploring and find a new place and time to add it to your spiritual practice.

You may find that your spiritual practice changes with the seasons. Or with the time of day. See what new form of spiritual practice you can explore and adapt and absorb into your spiritual practice. Explore, experiment, and change.

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

Expand Our Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Our Role as Light Bearers

One of the ways Light Bearers are in service is by simply living their life in light. As we do, others see that same potential in themselves.

For instance, Corry, the Social Services Director here has offered help in such a loving compassionate manner that it was beautiful to experience. I commented on it and she told me she was very Christian-based and I told her I was very wu-wu. We laughed at how the compassion and caring was there for both of us. Shine your light. Others will recognize it in you and in themselves

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Explore The Unknown

Explore the unknown and try it on for size. I had quite a few responses from readers of this newsletter saying how much this conversation about changing and retiring and getting old is resonating with them and their concerns and uncertainties. I’m going to keep sharing this part of my journey because I can share the challenges that I have faced and the lessons that I learn. I’ve had my moments of being unhappy. Note that I was a theater major so they expressed themselves fairly dramatically for me. But I’m changing and rearranging things already in preparation – both physically and mentally. For instance, I’m going to begin listening to more podcasts. Depending on where the garden is from my room, I will go spend more time there and take my flute and play to the flowers. And surprise my neighbors.

I have a funny thing about my flute playing. My arthritis fingers are curved on the last joint so when I press what I think is straight down sometimes the sound is weird because the tips of my fingers are not covering the holes correctly. So maybe I won’t play to the flowers, I’ll just keep that to myself inside. But I can take my Kalimba, the flowers would like that.

I am grateful that I have time to downsize and practice living with fewer things so the change will not be as dramatic as it could be. And the timing is unknown.

What change do you see in your future that you could begin practicing for by trying it on for size and making adjustments to accommodate its unfolding and form? Go exploring and see what creative ways you can find to live your “next”.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Change Is Always a Lesson

As I continue to downsize in preparation for a move into Assisted Living, I continue to get lesson after lesson about what is truly important to me at this point in my life. This move is requiring a lot of releasing of possessions. Is it time for you to re-focus on what is core to you? How many of your possessions would you release? You might consider that. 

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

Explo re and Interpret the Guidance and Messages of the Divine Feminine

Responsibility

I live in Johnson County, Kansas and I’m very proud to have been part of the record turnout of voters that killed the potential amendment to end abortion in our state.

The Republicans put the abortion law into the primary in a very confusing language so we all had to learn how to turn down the amendment. Hopefully our state is a sign of things to come.

Choose your place of service. Where are you are the most valuable? Where are you the most effective? Where you are the most needed? Do that.

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Expanding Awareness

Journey to the Sacred Feminine

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Akashic Records 

I am going to listen to more podcasts, beginning with this one – Sounds True wrote:

“In every moment, you are receiving divine messages to help you align with your soul’s path—a path of spiritual evolution, soulful meaning, and universal love. These messages originate from the vast metaphysical library of your entire soul journey known as the Akashic Records.

Ashley Wood is an author, teacher, and co-creator of A Line Within, a platform dedicated to supporting others in using their Akashic Records for self-understanding and growth. Ashley also hosts The Line Podcast, a weekly show where she shares channeled teachings and tools for living in alignment with your soul. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Ashley joins Sounds True founder Tami Simon to talk about her new book with Sounds True, The Line: A New Way of Living with the Wisdom of Your Akashic Records. Tune in as they discuss:

  • The prayer or “sound code” required for entering the Records
  • The Pleiadian energies known as the Pinnacle
  • Becoming an open conduit for your soul’s wisdom
  • The Line: an energetic, intuitive frequency that we all hold within us
  • The connection between intuition and your Akashic Records
  • Activating your awareness of your own Line
  • The crown of the head and the bottom of the feet as the bridge between our energetic selves and our physical selves
  • How to distinguish between discursive thinking and Akashic information
  • How the feeling of alignment is uniquely personal
  • Why “the most important thing we can learn in this physical life is how to show ourselves unconditional love”
  • The evolutionary and revolutionary changes unfolding in our current times and the call to serve through offering your gifts

As Ashley explains to Tami, “You’re receiving guidance all the time. It’s just about being open, patient, trusting, receptive, and following what you have planned for yourself in this life… If this is your first time hearing the language of your soul and really feeling comfortable with that, it will take time and practice and dedication. But in time you will get it.”

We hope today’s podcast opens you to a deeper understanding of your soul and your own sacred path.

With you on the journey,

Your friends at Sounds True

P.S. Discover more about Ashley Wood’s book, The Line: A New Way of Living with the Wisdom of Your Akashic Records.”

===CARA’S CORNER===

Embrace Creative and Innovative Change

My life has gotten smaller over the years as part of my aging and downsizing process. Releasing my wonderful ’83 turquoise Honda Civic with not many miles on it that got 30 miles to the gallon was a huge change and the young woman who bought her is loving having her in her life.

I’m very content with my online life and the friends that I’ve made there that are like-minded. This upcoming change into a smaller space in assisted living is going to take some getting used to. I will probably eat better because they will bring me meals or I can go eat with others. I can get my haircut which would be a good thing. I’m a little like Rapunzel at this point.

There are important fundamental things I can’t do anymore – like taking my trash out on a walker let alone tossing it in the high trash bin. Have you ever tried to balance a trash bag on the walker and then walk?

I will probably see more people in assisted living than I do here because of the people who will bring me my food if I want and do my laundry and help me sort out my vitamins. But it’s a big step in my aging process. And I’m working to make peace with it.

So I’m moving into another season of letting go which I think is what progress is all about anyway. I need to choose what is most valuable to have around me at this point in time. And let the rest go. This aging process is a path of releasing and completion. I want and need to turn this move into a new path of potential. I don’t yet know what that’s going to look like. But it will evolve as I open myself to new experiences and new opportunities. The rooms look out on a large garden tended by master gardeners so I can watch nature’s ever-present journey.

We are thinking up, not out in filling my smaller space. I am taking my computer on a new narrower stand and an elongated bookcase as my “officer” and my daughter is arranging for me to have an automatic lounge chair that pushes me upright and also leans back so I can sleep in my chair. A twin bed is provided as is a low four-drawer dresser to put your TV screen on. I’ve ordered a royal blue headset!! This is being provided me because I am on Medicare so it’s a semi-private room, I have to trust the Universe to provide the right suite-mate. There are people to help me with everything, day and night. But I’m a loner who loves being free to pursue my own calling. My spiritual exploring and my writing and online outreach are at the core. So perhaps the change is only in the size of the room. And the help in the responsibility of self-care.

What can I do at this point in my life that will be more productive and more impactful for those I serve? I stay open and listen and respond.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Preparing for Next

I lay it all aside. I stop where I am in my life and put everything aside in order to create my “next”.

I lay it all aside. I stop where I am in my life and put everything aside in order to create my “next”.

My load must be lighter because I am old but I am full of wisdom to bring with me.

I lay it all aside. I stop where I am in my life and put everything aside in order to create my “next”.

My load must be lighter because I am old but I am full of wisdom to bring with me.

I begin my new adventure with an expanded heart and an ever-deepening vision of what is possible. It is unfolding as it is meant to be.

Cara Lumen, August, 2022

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song 

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

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Expect The Best 

By

Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe
The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

“Expect the best. Do not settle for second best.” That is a quote from the book Opening Doors Within by Eileen Cady, co-founder of the Findhorn Community in Scotland. Do not settle. 

I realized I had not set my sights and expectations high enough as I move to self-heal my body from some of its aging process. I am expecting only small goals for myself. Small changes. Why not set larger goals? Raise my expectations of what is possible. I’m not talking about unreasonable here, but I am talking about a higher expectation of what is possible than I have been holding. How would that change my mood? I would feel joyous. I would feel excited. I would be more determined to take the steps necessary to make it happen. All because I expected more of the situation and of myself. 

Where in your life are you letting yourself off the hook? Where are you expecting too little of yourself? What do you believe is not possible that actually is possible if you would simply believe it is? 

Notice where your beliefs and expectations are keeping you from advancing, what you think is not possible at all, or whether you think it’s not possible for you. Change is always possible in some form. Take one step and examine the results to see if your expectation is high enough and go for the goal. Trying makes a difference. The trying will take you further. 

Acknowledge the changes and shifts, the wins and the non-wins, and adjust accordingly. Offer gratitude to the universe for the support it always gives you as you move forward in your life.

What are you settling for? Expect the best. Do not settle for second best.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I always expect the best.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Raise your gaze. Use your imagination to see what is possible and explore different routes to obtain your goal. But most of all raise your sights. Do not settle for second best.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Too Much Stuff

I am now on the waiting list for assisted-living and have no idea when there will be an opening but I do have an idea of how small the space will be. So I have to get rid of a whole lot of stuff. If you were packing a suitcase for an on-going life journey, what would you take with you?

What I’m doing is creating what I’m calling “My Journey” shelves. It happens to be a four-shelf bamboo bookcase. On the top shelf I have placed a small pewter figure of a woman holding a crystal high which is me and this life-long journey. The setting is woods and rocks in nature. On that same shelf is my first spirit guide which was a giraffe because she has a far-reaching and elevated viewpoint until someone pointed out giraffes have no voice. My second major helping spirit came when I was in a guided meditation and was told a flying object was coming toward me and I saw a very large dragon. Then the person guiding the meditation said, “It settles on a branch.” The dragon and I looked at each other with amazement and she settled on the ground. Her name is Gwen and I have a dragon statue to represent her. That goes on the top shelf of my journey shelves.

The second shelf contains representatives of my journey as a communicator and teacher and explorer. The third shelf seems to be holding items that represent some of the guides that have helped me along the way. 

I don’t yet know what will go on the bottom shelf but it’s an interesting adventure to pick out the core elements of your life as objects and place them in a display.

It’s the sheer number of crystals I have that have me working to identify what needs to move forward with me. This week I gave a lot of big crystals to my daughter Cathy who has a yard. And my goddess piece of driftwood will go live with her.

If you are called upon to move into a smaller space, what will you take with you and what will you release? I have to let go of most of my drums and at least one of my flutes. I have a lot of stained glass in my three windows and I will only have one window where I am going. So again, I get to choose what is important and release my stuff in the world. What are you hanging onto? If you had to move to a smaller space and take one small bag with your life in it, what would you put in it? 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Self-Healing

Notice the Wins

The shifts and changes may be quite small but we need to notice all the wins that come our way. I managed to stand for about three minutes of Qigong practice during the last online class. I practice several times a day as I work to learn the sequence of moves. Of course the goal is to stand for much longer and I need to focus on the wins – how my body is changing and becoming willing to do so. Notice the small wins and build on them.

===OUTER WORK===

Exploration of New Potential and Possibilities

Break The Rules

It was a huge realization and release for me when Daisy Lee in our Wuji Hundun Qigong class said to simply practice which ever move calls to us in the moment. Rather than trying to master all 18 moves or even do all 18 in one session, we can take time to explore one move more deeply and find out the message and gifts it has for us. 

I gave myself permission to choose what I need in the moment. I gave myself permission to explore what is being offered one step at a time so that I understand its meaning for me and the changes it creates and integrate it into my life.

Are you trying to learn too much in one sitting? Is your life too full of projects or thoughts or ideas that you’re not savoring anything? Take time and leave space to develop ideas and patterns and practices that help you own the new concepts and integrate them into your life.

This is a huge thing to consider, particularly when you are trying to learn something new and bring it into your life. Take time to savor it. Take time to explore its possibilities. Take time to see if it’s right for you. Learn at you own speed.

I want to learn all 18 of these movements but I don’t have to learn them in the seven weeks of class. The videos and transcripts are there for life. 

How do you learn? What size bites do you need to take out of life in order to save what you experience? Question the rules, adjust them to your needs, and take time to absorb and own what you have chosen to learn or do or become.

What Is Holding You in Place?

Retirement is a big decision-maker for all of us. When do you retire? How much income do you need to retire? Where do you want to live? It’s a huge shift in our life as we prepare for an unknown length of time and actually unknown physical circumstances.

My daughter is waiting to become a certain age for her retirement money to kick in. She lives in a split level house that will not be good for aging.

Another friend just moved to part-time work and is in the process of creating and developing and training for the healing center she wants to create for her “next.”

Retirement is a good chunk of your life and it’s a huge chunk of unknown. My daughter knows that she wants to work with Reiki and animals but she’s too busy with a big job to consider the details. My friend knows her direction and is actively exploring the possibilities. She is taking classes and experimenting with her offerings and she is building a new home and is very aware of her own unfolding process.

I’m sort of dealing with what shows up physically for me – both the restrictions and the possibilities. I think the best way to prepare for retirement is to understand your heart and your yearnings. And nurture them both. Expand on a hobby. Learn a new skill to do for fun or for income. Retirement is a new phase of your life in which to explore and earn and create a new experience of life, to reposition yourself in the world. It’s like a clean slate that you can write on whatever you’ve learned from all that living you’ve been doing. What do you want to draw on your retirement vision board? And what ideas do you have for making it happen? Be creative and expect the best! 

Downsizing

I have no idea when an opening will occur in the assisted living place I have chosen to go to but I do know that I am letting things go like a mad woman. And selecting those very specific important things that I want to continue to keep. I am creating an incredibly powerful altar. The new space is very small so each thing I choose to take has to be meaningful. If you had to take a journey and take only one suitcase, what would you put in it when you knew you were not coming back. It’s interesting to think about that and see what’s truly important in your life. What will you bring with you on the next phase of your journey? 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

What is Meaningful?

I am in the process of creating the most powerful altar I’ve ever had in my life. Part of it is because I have powerful things to put on it at this point in my life. And the other part is that I know my journey now, where I want to go next. Each day I play my kalimba to honor the day. I drum and sing to the directions and I make up songs to the elements of my life that I am working on now. And then I do my Qigong. I actually do this twice a day. How do you want to change your spiritual practice as far as content and time? Go exploring. 

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Let Go

I voted. Yeah. My homemaker Shelley helped me fill in the ballot because I can’t see well enough to do that. It needed a stamp. I don’t have any stamps. But Shelley had Christmas stamps and offered to mail it for me. When she mailed it, she voted too. 

The world is changing so rapidly that our way of doing things, whatever it is, is quickly becoming outdated. So when we vote to keep things the way they are, we are not paying attention to the rapid scientific and technical and social changes that offer thoughtful and useful new solutions and opportunities. The world is changing. People are changing. Their needs are changing. The best way we can be in service in this world is to stay flexible in our thinking and make room for the scientific changes and environmental changes and social changes that are evolving. We must be aware of the new needs in the world and what is now outdated or destructive. We must stay aware of change and the evolution of both our needs and our thinking. Change is happening very rapidly. It is tricky to keep up. But we must build on the new science, the new discoveries, the new needs, the continuous unfolding of our new world.

The ways that you are stuck in are the beliefs of your parents that certainly are probably out of date. Keep watching the world and change what you believe is possible. New doors and opportunities open every moment. Don’t hang onto the past, help create the future – a positive, all-encompassing, aware future. How does your thinking need to change? What new choices do you need to make? Do that.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Our Ripple in Future Timelines  

I’ve been thinking a lot about my birthday earlier this year than usual because I will be 90 in November and that seems really old. That’s also reaching a point when you have no idea how long you will be on the planet or what shape your body will be in as you continue your journey. I think “next” is a great adventure so that’s not a problem. We all hope we leave the planet peacefully. 

What do you choose to do with whatever time you have left? Do you have a major goal? What are you doing to achieve it? What is important to you to do now that will impact the future, whether you are here or not? Do I want to battle the restrictions that are showing up today for women? Climate change seems like a big challenge to me from where I am in my life. What can you do now that will impact what follows? Given the approximate amount of time you have left and where you are in your life, what causes will you choose to support and change for the well-being of yourself and the world? Give it some thought. 

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

Expanding Awareness

Journey to a Chamber of the Seven Sacred Rays

Listen to my 

Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on

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and the 

Deeper Song Website

===CARA’S CORNER===

A Major Move

I need to move into assisted living. It will be a huge change with less room but more help. My daughter Cathy has checked out the place that would be my choice which happens to be across the street from where I am now. We are doing the paperwork and I will get on the list. There are five people ahead of me. It is unfolding.

All of the major moves in my life have been made in the space of an hour or so. I knew in a second then I was going to move to New York from Kansas City. It took me 20 minutes to arrange to have some financial help from my mother to move from New York to California. And it took me an hour to find the place I was going to move to here in the Kansas City area.

My daughter will take my cat because he can’t come, perhaps he signed up for this big change too. I have begun to let go of things and find smaller versions to fit into the space but I will be very, very grateful to have the physical help around me. I only spoke to my daughter a few days ago to suggest we look into it and she called me four days later and said she had an appointment across the street from where I am. It is hard to find low-income affordable care and this is the best one in the area. So I am on the list. Change is coming. Another path will be taken. Here I go adventuring.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

I Am Willing

I am willing to embrace change. I am willing to go exploring. I am willing to create new opportunities. But to do so I have to give up some things. 

I am willing to embrace change. I am willing to go exploring. I am willing to create new opportunities. But to do so I have to give up some things. I begin to let go. I thank and release many of the possessions that have served me well and begin to design my new life.

I am willing to embrace change. I am willing to go exploring. I am willing to create new opportunities. But to do so I have to give up some things. I begin to let go. I thank and release many of the possessions that have served me well and begin to design my new life. I thoughtfully select what will support me into my unfolding new adventure!

Cara Lumen, July 2022

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song 

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

Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they

Join the Deeper Song Community

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The Path You Choose to Walk

By

The Path You Choose to Walk

Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe

(“Ah-Shay”)

 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

It is time for us to adjust our path, to make certain we are walking the highest road we can manage. That we hold in our hearts the highest good for all. That our choices reflect this elevated journey. 

With so much chaos, negativity and harm being done on our planet, those of us who are called to be light bearers must stand strong, walk tall, and light the way. We do that through our choices. The words we speak. The actions we take. The thoughts that we think. The expectations we hold. Monitor your thoughts. Notice what you are focusing on. Use affirmations in your spiritual practice. Do visualization work for positive change in your spiritual practice. See yourself as the light vibration that you are and send those higher frequencies you are emanating out into the world. Every day. Every moment. Release the negative thoughts. Share good wherever you can. Focus on that. Focus on what is working. Focus on the good things people are doing. Encourage them in whatever way calls to you. What we focus on we get. What we believe we deserve is what we get. What we believe is possible is what we get. You have control over how you experience your life, how you experience your day. How you experience each moment. Your choice. Your focus. And your outcome. Focus your thoughts and create the reality you want to experience. Notice where you are looking and what you are looking for. What do you expect? What are you getting? Design the higher path you choose to walk. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I monitor my thoughts to make certain I am focused on the highest good so everything in my life reflects that choice.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Monitor your thoughts.
  • Monitor your expectations.
  • Notice how that changes what you manifest in your life. Your choice. Make the changes you want.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen our Inner Awareness

Shift Your Focus

Until I shifted my focus, I did not realize I had been looking in the wrong direction. I was focusing on what was not working in my body. The shift was to look at what changed for the better in my body and build on that. Because I made different choices in my physical activities, a new range of movements became possible. 

In what area of your life are you looking in the wrong direction? How can you shift your gaze to create a different outcome?

For me, it began with a choice to walk the halls again – I’m using a walker. The possibilities changed when that additional walking strengthened my hips and legs and affected my posture and my stamina. I begin to look for different potentials, different outcomes, different possibilities. And that, of course, totally changes the choices I make and where I’m going to end up. A whole new range of possibilities became available. All I did was make one small change that created results that opened up the potential for new opportunities and choices. I walked more, my whole body got stronger and the possibilities expanded. I shifted my gaze to a broader expectation and begin to make new choices that propelled me along this broader path to strengthening my body 

It was an evolutionarily sequence of choices that built on one another. I figured I could walk better after I had rested, so my first walk was after a nap. My body responded very strongly so that opened a new door. If walking was tied to just getting out of bed, then I began to walk also in the morning. Again change happened. I stood up straighter and my body moved with more coordination. 

We’re not talking long walks but we are suggesting you notice the change your choices create. Each step brought a new “awareness” of how my body was realigning and feeling stronger.

Notice the small steps you take that create change that will take you in the direction you want to go. Maybe it’s meditating in the evening instead of the morning to make a differentiation between work and home. I write in the morning because I am freshest but sometimes I get up in the middle of the night to write because an idea is pouring out. Flow in the moment. Be flexible and aware of the new opportunities to fill the time and space in a different way. Notice what shows up with your changes and set new goals. Experiment and explore. Notice what changes.  Create and adjust.

What Are You Trying to Achieve?

Your goals determine your actions. I’m not training for a marathon or I would do a different set of actions. But I am working on being able to walk outside more so my goal determines my actions. 

You can always raise your goals but perhaps consider raising them a little at a time so they feel achievable. Assess your goal, set some steps, do the steps, assess how they’re working, and make a new set of steps. Evaluate, then create new steps, and adjust as they create results. Keep your eye on what you are trying to achieve and shift directions and actions as needed. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Self-Healing.

 Your Self-Healing Plan 

Because I’m old and do not have and do not want a Western medicine diagnosis for what is going on with my body, I have to take self-responsibility for my healing. For me it is to work with the energy of Qigong forms. I can do it. Perhaps not like it is shown to me to do because I can’t stand up that well but I am moving energy. I am honoring the meridians and moving energy and I am observing the results of these new choices. 

Find your own path to wholeness. Whether you change your eating habits or expand your exercise program or increase your sleep opportunities or your emotional patterns, experiment and notice what shifts as a result. Keep experimenting until you find the balance you seek.

The aging process is real. Keep an eye on how it is evolving in your own body and as signs emerge, change some choices until you get the results you want. 

Manage Your Feelings of Overwhelm

You have to know what is important and what is not. You need to have a filter for your life that keep you from overwhelm simply because you have set no guidelines for being selective. I’ve had several learning opportunities offered to me lately but I also passed them up because I realized that my choice for my current focus is keeping up with and learning this new Qigong version. So I know what I want. And I keep my eye on it and select only those things that support that choice. How do you keep yourself on track without feeling overwhelmed? Know where you’re going and keep going in just that direction. 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen our Inner Awareness

What Magic did I Discover?

What if, at the end of each day, you ask yourself what magic you discovered? What would your answer be? Did you discover a new way of doing something? Did you discover a new way of being? Did you discover a new friend or have a new idea? What magic happened for you in the day? Take time to notice the gifts that are given as you move through your life and enjoy them and build on that new awareness. 

How Do You Nurture Yourself?

First you have to understand what nurtures you and then you have to give it to yourself. Do you know what nurtures you? Do you know what supports you in moving forward? We need to do that for ourselves.

Learning has always been nurturing to me. And thinking and writing about what I figure out is an exceedingly important part of my personal learning process. What nurturing actions do you take for yourself and are you doing enough of them? 

I can think of some things I might want to do more of but at the core I am doing for myself the mental things that stimulate me and make me feel interested and interesting. Check out how well you are taking care of yourself and give yourself more of what you need and want. Nurture yourself every day.

===OUTER  WORK===

Exoneration of New Potential and Possibilities

Move Your Gaze to See the New Possibilities

As my body changes, I’ll consider new possibilities. New things that I could do if I chose to. All because I am subtly changing as I practice and learn Wuji Hunan Qigong. What would I do if I could do more things physically? I get to raise my gaze. I get to consider new possibilities. Not just because my physicalness is gradually changing, but because I am looking in new directions for new possibilities. While I don’t have any grand plans, standing up straighter is good. Standing up longer is good. Build on the small gains. Let one small step change your expectations of what is possible. Let each small change open the door to new potential and new possibilities. 

 Just Do It!

It doesn’t have to be perfect and it doesn’t even have to be totally effective, but it does need to be present. I have two friends who are in the process of putting up either revised or new websites and they’re both sitting on the decision-making process. Just do it. Having something in place is better than having nothing in place and of course, they can be and will always be improved upon as your awareness increases. Just take the first step.

Of course your idea will evolve, of course you can add new elements to your business, don’t wait until you figure that all out before you put up your website. My friend Thuy Phane of Freshly Baked Brand has a lovely program called Get Known Now that enables you to put up a few web pages and have a powerful and immediate web presence. If you are considering adding a webpage to your outreach just do it. Help people find you so you can step more deeply into service. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Encourage Curiosity

What do you need to know that will take you on a new adventure? What new paths are beckoning to you? Are you following them? Look around your spiritual life and see what you need to explore. Look around at how you are doing and the choices you’re making in your life and see what new avenues call to you. Keep your curiosity going and move into deeper exploration. Go adventuring!

Create Your Own Oracle Deck

There are certain qualities that I would like to expand in my life. One of the ways I could help remind myself would be to create my own personal oracle deck. Simply write the words or qualities or actions that you want in your life on small individual pieces of paper and each day draw one as a reminder of what to expand or what to focus on that day. What qualities do you want to establish in your life right now? Create personalized oracle cards to help you focus.

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

Follow The Call

Ideas, instincts, inspiration, nudges, new choices – those are all your inner voice calling to you and offering suggestions for new paths of exploration and discovery.

What new concepts are you excited about that you can turn and share with others in some form? It could be a newsletter, a podcast, a phone call. Can you explore those intuitive suggestions and turn and share them with someone else? Do more of that. 

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

The Power of Willingness

Being willing is one of the strongest steps you can take in order to create change. Be willing to experiment. Be willing to consider options. Be willing to be wrong. Be willing to do the work. Doors swing open when you are willing to take a step forward. What areas in your life do you need to be willing to change? To improve? 

You probably have one or two stumbling blocks in your life that you wish would go away so what do you need to do, what do you need to release or acquire in order to change that situation?

The minute I became willing to walk the halls every day, my body immediately begin to improve as did my vision of what is possible. I think sometimes we just need the willingness to do a little more or perhaps a little less in order to make major change evolve. Willingness requires adjustment and will definitely create change. Experiment.

Now I’m not talking willpower here, I am talking willingness. Making it OK to take another step toward being interested in and acting on an idea. Willingness is about action. And any action will change the outcome.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Look For The Commonality

Look for what you have in common, not what sets you apart. Build on that.

I heard a rapper on a television interview who happened to be African-American passionately explain how he wanted to help young black men get the education they need so they can get the jobs they need to support the families they want. That’s very basic. It was always part of my assumption that my own children, both male and female, would go to college and easily support themselves. But that’s not the expectation in many segments of society. Those opportunities and privileges are not to be assumed. First count your blessings for what opportunities you have received and then perhaps turn to help someone expand their own expectations and reach. How will you do that?

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

Expanding Awareness

Are You Afraid of Change?

Listen to my 

Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on

Apple / Spotify / Google

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===CARA’S CORNER===

Fear

I am working to not be afraid of what my future holds. It’s all wrapped up in the aging process that includes diminishing physicality. It does me no good to dwell on it. It does me good to work to slow down the aging process or reverse it. What choices are you making that guide your life and are they taking you in the direction you want to go? Look for the positive and expect the best.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Shift Your Gaze

I raise my expectations. I change what I believe is possible. The world follows my gaze.

I raise my expectations. I change what I believe is possible. The world follows my gaze. Do I need to shift my focus and raise my expectations? Is my gaze leading me high enough? 

I raise my expectations. I change what I believe is possible. The world follows my gaze. Do I need to shift my focus and raise my expectations? Is my gaze leading me high enough?

I raise my gaze and change what I believe is possible and my life shifts. 

Cara Lumen, July 2022

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

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

Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they

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Be a Healing Presence for the Collective

By

Be a Healing Presence for the Collective

Living Our Deeper Song

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

What if the primary reason you and I are here is to be a presence for healing the collective of now? We were brought into this world with our spiritual searching, our insight, our gifts, our willingness and desire to raise the collective consciousness for this very moment, this chaotic dismemberment of our world. We are here to stand steady in light. We are here as healers. And we are here as builders of the New World. Wow. Builders of the New World. 

What do you want in the New World? I want a feeling of interconnectedness so strong that there’s only kindness and thoughtfulness and inclusiveness in everything we do. I want an awareness of the interconnectedness of all things so that we are open to the lessons of nature and the lessons of the universe. There will be a lot of inner work going on. We will live in interconnected stillness. 

Sandra Ingerman wrote: “There is a dimension of reality just behind ours where there is complete harmony and balance and cooperation between nature and humans. We can bring through those beautiful energies into our life now in the midst of the craziness if we keep up our spiritual work and let nature be our doorway into this other dimension of reality where there is only beauty.”

Contemplation. We let our human egos and needs become secondary to working for the higher overarching good for everything and everyone. That’s why we’re here. To walk in light. To be light.  We live in our light so completely that others see it and recognize it in themselves. We are light bearers. We must find the higher path for ourselves and we must lead the way for others.

Sandra continues: “Our spirit is our true home and being one with the creative forces of our universe is the lifeline we want, to have a strong link for our eternal health and well- being.”

We have work to do.  We have a gaze to raise, an expectation of what is possible to raise. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am a Light Bearer for the world and I hold my torch high as I walk the elevated path.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • How does your life need to change? Where do you need to hold your light higher in your own life? Where do you need to hold your light higher for others in order to guide their way? Where are you headed? Are you aiming high enough? Do the work. Shine your light. 

===INNER WORK===

The Healing Power of Rocks

I have three new crystals and I take each one into my left hand and listen. My Blue Kyanite told me immediately it is working with my eyes. My Golden Healer is for my body in general but it’s got a lot of territory to cover. The Mookaite is still talking to me about its role but that it is serving as a motivator.

I have so many powerful crystals in my home. I need to establish a practice of working individually with more of them. Sometimes the conversation I have with a crystal is about information. Sometimes the conversation is healing. Sometimes the work is so subtle it takes time to become clear. 

How do you work with your crystals? Do you spend enough time? Perhaps work with them more often.

===SELF-HEALING===

Qigong Acupressure For Any Blockage

This acupressure move helps with any blockages in your body and any pain anywhere in your body. 

Back of Hand

Use your thumb to massage along the side of the bone that runs from the knuckle at the base of your index finger about an inch and a half toward the wrist. Massage for two minutes on each hand or as much as needed at any time. Massaging here stimulates energy in your organs and throughout your body. This is a good, simple exercise you can practice just about anywhere.

From Head-to-Toe Healing by Master Chuny Lin. You can get it on Amazon or at springforestqigong.com or chunyilin.com.  

How Do You Nurture Yourself?

I don’t exactly sit here and think what I want to do to nurture myself but perhaps I should. What makes you happy? What makes you feel serene? What makes you feel hopeful?

First of all, identify what you need to change and how to make that change happen. For instance, I have finally begun to walk the halls each day and there is a glee and joy in finally doing that again. So that is nurturing – to acknowledge and know that I am doing something that will benefit my body and the quality of my life.

Experiment with a time that you do something. I find I walk better when I first get up in the morning rather than after I’ve been sitting for a while. Experiment with how you do it.  I might go to the mailbox one day and walk outside the next. Experiment with the number of times you do it and how long you spend doing it. Keep gently challenging yourself.

What do you need to add to your life in order to create change and how will you go about doing that? And when? Take action. 

===OUTER  WORK===

Are You Willing to Explore?

I love to learn new things so I’m usually both excited and willing to explore new concepts and new ideas – with my mind. But I’m not a big explorer when it comes to going places. I have a shy streak I inherited from my father that kicks in periodically and can actually stop me cold.

It’s important to know when you are full up.  I’m very clear that I’m full of Qigong commitments right now. So I let other opportunities pass by. Know what you have room for and what you need next that will take you where you want to go. And check out your willingness to go exploring. Be an adventurer!

Acknowledge Your Wins

As I set about to create a new pattern of daily hall-walking, it helps me if I keep score and acknowledge myself for my persistence and my wins. I’m only a few days into this hall-walking every day but I am writing it down so I can add up my wins and keep encouraging myself. Small steps count. Small steps make big steps. One step at a time. Keep going. Keep track of your progress and acknowledge your progress – and persistence. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Creative Spiritual Practices

Any action that you take mindfully can become part of your spiritual practice. My now regular walks in the hall have become meditative. My Qigong practice is meditative.  I have a meet the day ceremony. Your spiritual practice can be deepened depending on where you focus your consciousness and the purpose you set for what you’re doing. Work with reverence as your focus. Preparing and eating meals could be a spiritual experience. Talking to a friend can become a spiritual experience. When you complete the conversation, offer gratitude to your friend for the exchange. I feel gratitude for the ideas I get to write about and share. I offer gratitude to the energy of the crystals around me and the ones I choose to work with each day. Be aware of the energy in your life that comes from what you are creating, what you are drawing to you, and how you are choosing to respond to it. Be conscious as you move through your daily life and offer gratitude for its blessings.

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

Steady and Strong

Those of us in the universe who are holding High Watch for the planet and its current evolution must stay steady and strong in our visualization that the higher vibrations that people are drawn to will help. Look for the thoughtful kindness that comes your way and acknowledge the person who offers it with more than a casual thank you. 

When getting my mail the other day I thought I put the package in the bag I carry for that purpose since I use a walker, but it fell out of the bag and went onto the floor. I was debating if I could use my grabber to push it into the bag or if I had to scoot it down the hall with my foot, when a fellow resident showed up who turned out to be deaf!  I was able to signal what I needed and she picked the package up for me but I had no way to thank her more than having her lip-read my thank you.  I will begin to look for more opportunities to thank the people that I come in contact with.

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

Know Your Impact

It is important to know how your actions impact others. It may be in one-on-one interactions or it could be simply by the way you show up in a situation. How do others see you? I can get bossy when I get tense. I’m a loner but it would be good if I would go out of my way to interact more with some of the residents. I’m pretty good at writing thank you notes to my friends online. How can you become a brighter light in your world? Work on that. 

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===CARA’S CORNER===

My Role In The World

There are so many paths I could take. So many places I could help. How do you determine the most impactful place of service for you at this point in time? Nearing 90 years old and sitting in Kansas, I have to use my intention, my vision and my vibration to serve in the world. I do have interaction with others online. We exchange ideas and support, but my world work has to be vibrational. I have always been one to want to help those who are already flying high that I can help fly higher and reach more people. So my inner work, my spiritual work will be in energetically supporting those who are continuing to climb this higher path that leads to greater oneness, into passion and inner peace. Whether it’s a song I sing or an intention I hold or a blessing I offer, I hold a vision of those of us who are working with our raised consciousness to see the lighter path and keep doing the work. How are you helping our world?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Hold a Vision of Wholeness

I picture a world of peaceful co-existence. 

I picture a world of peaceful co-existence. How it would feel. How I would respond. What I would change. 

I picture a world of peaceful co-existence. How it would feel. How I would respond. What I would change. I follow that path.

Cara Lumen, July 2022

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

Namaste,

Cara

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