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How Does A Tree Know When To Drop Its Leaves?

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How Does A Tree Know When To Drop Its Leaves?

Living Our Deeper Song

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

The Weeping Birch tree outside my window recently began to drop her leaves. How does she know it is time? Is it marked on her calendar? Is it simply the subtle changes in the weather? 

How do we know when it’s time to let go of something, to release it, to let it fall to the ground and be left behind?

I can see more sky as leaves fall to the ground in golden showers. I like that because I like the shape-shifting clouds. Letting go offers a new view. 

If I were a tree with acorns, I would release them and they would be gathered and stored and later used to nourish a squirrel in the middle of winter. By releasing my gift, it would keep on giving. 

When is it a time for withdrawing in order to restore and replenish in preparation for a new season? A great deal happens when we let go of our leaves.

We can let go at any point in our life and at any stage in a cycle. What kind of inner wisdom do you call upon to let you know when it is time to let go – to leave something behind? And when you do, what can you see more clearly? 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I easily and effortlessly let go of patterns that no longer serve me.
I rest and restore and make room for new growth. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Go within and see what you need to let go.
  • Release it and study the new view it reveals.
  • Notice what new insights show up in the space that opens up.
  • Go exploring.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Intuitive Planning

When you listen to your inner guidance, it will lead you to your next step on the path you are to explore. Pay attention to those nudges and hunches. They are your inner voice guiding you. 

Then go exploring. Visualize. Can you imagine walking down that path? See how it feels and notice what opens up for you to consider. Make your decisions based on what you discover. Follow your intuition. It will take you where you need to go next. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

The Healing Power of Music

I have listened to and performed music all my life. I sang alto in the high school girls’ trio and girls’ quartets. I took voice lessons at the local college and sang in the chorus of their production of Bizet’s opera Carmen. I went through periods of liking Carol King and Rob McKuen and Peter, Paul and Mary. For about 10 years I listened to nothing but classical music. 

You can listen to all sorts of music on your television. During my day I often listen to light classical music and take great pleasure in listening to the range of instruments and the power of their individual sounds as well as the incredible harmony and emoting they produce.

Music reaches deep within. It changes our vibration. It changes our intention. It changes our expectations.

Where does sound fit into your life? How does it affect you and how can you go exploring more broadly? 

Optimism and Longevity

Japan recently broke another record for having even more centenarians.

Work ethic, a seafood-rich diet, deep family ties, and now improving medical technology are elongating the lives of the longest-living people on earth who are yet further defying perceived limits on the human body, mind, and spirit.

Optimistic men have a better shot at living a less-stressful, healthy life. Now I’m not a man but I sure can be optimistic. 

Optimistic means to be hopeful and confident about the future. Hopeful is pretty easy, confident may take some practice. How do you feel about your future? Is there a difference between how you feel about your immediate future and your future future? How do you approach each day? Is it with optimism and gratitude and high expectations? Or is it with dread and uncertainty? You are the captain of your emotional vehicle. And you can make those choices. When you move into conscious gratitude, you become more aware of the positive aspects of your life. Begin to be more aware of what is working physically, mentally, and emotionally. Be grateful for the positive forward steps that you take. 

I will tell you from experience it gets a little trickier as you age and stuff starts not working so well. But I am in control of my expectations. So not only do I practice coming from a place of gratitude but I keep looking for the positive aspects that keep showing up in my life. Stay optimistic and enjoy a longer life.

===OUTERWORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Where Do You Find Like-Minded Friends?

The more eclectic your interests, the further afield you have to go to find people who share your excitement. I think we begin with one interest at a time to develop our tribe around it. For instance, when I became a Reiki Master Teacher over three or four years in New York City in the 80’s, other Reiki students were my friends. And the more advanced my studies became, the narrower became the field of people who were interested in the same depth that I was. 

That was also true when I became a practitioner in the Center for Spiritual Living. Again, the more deeply I delved into the work, the more advanced were the people I was drawn to hang out with because our interests were similar. 

 Five years ago in a shamanic class with Sandra Ingerman, I was paired with my friend Martha (Minnesota) and we have talked nearly every week for five years. Even though we each have other interests that we are developing, we have a strong core interest in the metaphysical and our spirituality and we remain close friends. I met another close friend, Thuy, (France) when we were both students in the same class. Christina, (California) another good friend I speak with regularly I actually know in person from when I lived in California. And another friend, PJ, (Colorado) reached out to me because excerpts from one my books “Getting Your Feet Wet in Science of Mind” is on the websites of many Center for Spiritual Living Churches. Noralee (Canada) proofreads this newsletter and always sends me encouraging words along with the corrections. I periodically get emails from other followers of this newsletter.  I love that I am connected with people all over the planet. 

But that’s a very small group of people to interact with on a regular basis to explore my specific interests. I share slightly different interests with each of them.

I have taken a lot of classes on the Shift Network and they have Facebook groups in which I have found like-minded people on a particular topic. My suggestion is to follow a topic that calls to you and see what friends you find with similar interests.

For those of you in the Deeper Song Explorers! perhaps we can each share our favorite topics and teachers along with a link. 

Do You Have A Vision Board?

I haven’t made a vision board in years and as I approach 90, it feels like a strange thing to be doing. But it’s a good idea and now we can do it digitally and have access to some fabulous pictures. 

You can have areas on your vision board like “relationships” and “career” or you can just start with what you want in your life and find graphic representations for your vision board. 

What do you envision in your life? Make a vision board to help it manifest.

Look for A Creative Alternate Solution

One of the most helpful things my daughter Cathy has said to me recently is that I’m not the only one with a particular problem. With that in mind, I put inquiries out to the manager of this senior complex and the Social Security Director to see if there is a transportation company that would bring a wheelchair, put me in it, put me in the back of a van, take me to my eye doctor appointment and bring me back. And I found it. You don’t just stop needing things because you can’t move very well. 

What do you need in your life that you can find creative ways to get help with? Maybe there’s a special need that you want to build a business around that you can offer. Get creative as your needs change. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

An Altar Turns Your Space Into Sacred Space

As I continue to contemplate the pending downsizing, creating altar space has been first on my list. Without it there’s not much point to my life. It could be space in a bookcase or a table. I once had an altar on the floor. It could be an arrangement outside your window. Create sacred space and work with it, mentally be in it, and spend time with it every single day. 

I continue to rethink what I need and want to choose for the smaller space that awaits me. What ceremonies do you perform? Does it involve music or chanting or drumming or movement?

I use instruments to sing and play to the directions every day. I have a collection of special crystals to talk to and hold every day. I might begin to add an intentional element to my alter and work with that to manifest what I want in my life. 

Periodically changing and rearranging the elements of your altar could meaningfully deepen your spiritual practice. It will shift your focus and let you deepen different aspects of your spiritual practice.

Spend some time rethinking and rearranging your alter space and the ceremonies you choose to bring to it. Then notice what changes in your life experience. 

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

Expand Our Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Is There a Past Mistake You Need to Heal?

We all have things in our life that we wish we had done differently. I’m not suggesting you dwell on what choices you made along the line, but are there any past actions you might do differently if they occurred today? 

What comes to mind specifically is a personal interaction with another person that you could’ve handled better. In my case, those mistakes were usually because of my lack of awareness. Maybe you write that person a note and reestablish contact. Maybe you call them up. Maybe you just forgive yourself in your mind. A mistake is not intentional, it is one step taken in a particular moment for a variety of reasons. Sometimes you wish you hadn’t done it. Sometimes it was a happy mistake and worked out well. In your life are there any interactions that you wish to apologize for? Or, as you look at how it played out, you may find out it was not as big a deal to the other person as it was to you and you can actively forgive yourself.

This introspection is not intended to blame, it is to create an awareness that helps us not make the same mistake again. Our choices were made out of what we had to offer in that particular moment. Our awareness in particular, is a foundational cause of our choices. We are either aware of what we’re doing or are in a situation in which we are not very aware. We make our choices based on what we understand in the moment. Sometimes that awareness is more on target than others.

Learn from your less-than-stellar choices of the past. Try not to repeat it. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

What Brings Meaning To Your Life?

We get what we focus on. What aspects of your life are important to you, or nurturing to you and what do you do to encourage them, to cultivate them? 

My mind is important to me. It helps me learn. It helps me experience. I cultivate it in many ways. My spiritual practice is important to me. It has many aspects and I continue to explore there too. 

What aspects of your life do you value and how will you expand them? Identify and explore and find the things that bring meaning to your life and do more of them. 

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

Explore and Interpret the Guidance and Messages of the Divine Feminine

The Masculine In Religion 

It wasn’t until I listened to the Episcopal service for Queen Elizabeth that I remembered how predominate the masculine energy is in man religions. I guess I’m pretty far into this concept of the rising feminine. 

I was brought up in an era when women didn’t go to college, they just got married and had kids. But I did go to college. I even got a Master’s Degree in my 40’s and I did go off and make my own professional life.

When I got divorced, I could not get a credit card in my own name because everything was in my husband’s name. A gas credit card was the break I needed to begin to establish my own credit. But I had no work history to add to it. It’s been a long road.

Women today are brought up to believe they can be independent. And young women are the ones calling for major change today. 

So here we are in an era where women are standing strong and yet we do not earn the same amount of money for the same job as men do.

I’m no longer around any young people but I know one granddaughter has two children and is making major money while working from home. 

“These times they are a changin” (Bob Dylan) and that’s a good thing.

These Times They Are A Changin

Bob Dylan 1964

Come gather ’round people

Wherever you roam

And admit that the waters

Around you have grown

And accept it that soon

You’ll be drenched to the bone

If your time to you is worth savin’

And you better start swimmin’

Or you’ll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin’

Come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide

The chance won’t come again

And don’t speak too soon

For the wheel’s still in spin

And there’s no tellin’ who

That it’s namin’

For the loser now

Will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin’

Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call

Don’t stand in the doorway

Don’t block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

The battle outside ragin’

Will soon shake your windows

And rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin’

Come mothers and fathers

Throughout the land

And don’t criticize

What you can’t understand

Your sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old road is rapidly agin’

Please get out of the new one

If you can’t lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin’

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slow one now

Will later be fast

As the present now

Will later be past

The order is rapidly fadin’

And the first one now

Will later be last

For the times they are a-changin’

That was nearly 60 years ago!

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

Simply Being- The Art of Wu Wei

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Make Better Choices

What my life looks like and feels like is because of the choices I have made and continue to make. Therefore, all change is up to me. Some of my choices are very conscious. Some are rather unconscious. I need to check both out to make certain they are what I want and are taking me where I want my life to go.

For instance, I know that I need to add more movement to my life. That’s a given. So my choices becomes what form that takes. Then the choice becomes how willing I am to extend myself, as in do more or do it longer or do it differently. Of what am I willing to let go?  How am I willing to change? 

I need to stop thinking about the future because it’s not here, it is still unfolding, and I’m only guessing at parts of it. That is a waste of my time in this present moment. Be present. Notice what you are creating and what those choices are creating for you to consider. Give long thought to how you would like your life to be different and what steps you could take to make that happen. Then do those.

My choices include staying in the present. Doing physical stretching at my kitchen sink, standing up to do some of the Qigong even if I’m hanging onto my walker. And do Qigong at least three times a day. There are podcasts that I want to listen to. I want to listen to less news and check out at least one audiobook to see how I like listening instead of reading. That’s a pretty good list. 

I can go exploring. I may discover new opportunities that will change the results I’m getting today. What new choices will you make today? And what happens when you do?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Change Your Choices

The choices are mine and I can change them.

The choices are mine and I can change them. I can look up instead of down. I can do it or not do it. When I choose, I must observe the results and let that guide my next choice.

The choices are mine and I can change them. I can lookup instead of down. I can do it or not do it. When I choose, I must observe the results and let that guide my next choice. It’s all up to me in every moment. I make choices that lift me up. 

– Cara Lumen, September 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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What Do You See When You Look Into The Future?

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What Do You See When You Look Into The Future?

What Do You See When You Look Into The Future?

Living Our Deeper Song

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

What you see when you look ahead depends on where you are in your life. What age you are, how many years you think you have left, what stage of life experience you are in. Wherever you are is perfect. It’s a perfect place for you to learn. It’s a perfect place for you to act. It’s a perfect place for you to be. Because there is always more for you to do. 

It gives me satisfaction to look back over the past and see how I’ve walked my life path so far. As I near 90 and get ready to move into assisted living, I have to work harder at seeing a creative, productive, meaningful future. But I can do it. It just looks different than in other years.

Tune inward and ask your inner wisdom for some guidance, some support, some insights on your journey and what you are to accomplish next.

My next mission has to do with helping those of us who are aware to keep raising our consciousness in order to lift this planet out of the chaos it is in. I have no idea what the New Earth is going to look like. I just know I have the skill set and the energy practices to continue to move into this elevated way of being and share my discoveries.

Joe Dispenza teaches an exercise in which you travel 10 years into the future to see your future dself. When I do that, my Future Self is doing jumping jacks! Now I haven’t done a jumping jack in a lot of years and certainly can’t do them now, so I guess I’m going to learn how to do jumping jacks in the next 10 years. Or be able to. There is an interesting shaking Qigong exercise I know how to do right now that’s a rather odd version of jumping jacks. 

I’m not as big on prophesying ahead as much as understanding my current path and making certain that I continue to explore the side trails as well as walk a continually higher path of life. That’s the image I carry. I’m always walking uphill in the light. And raising my awareness as I go. What do you see when you look into the future? 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I continue to expand my vision for my potential and what I expect is possible. I raise my sights and follow that path.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Notice what you expect of your future and see how you would like to elevate it. This is your vision and it will lead you on your higher path.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Lessons From the Element of Water

Each of the elements teach us a lesson. For instance, water takes many forms, it is a gifted shapeshifter. It adapts to its environment. That’s a good quality to cultivate. Changing to rise to the occasion and being flexible and adaptable are key to both self-cultivation and making dramatic changes. Water can seep into the ground and bring life back or it can overflow the landscape and take away features forever. 

How will you invite water to work with you today? Will you let it gently explore and nurture and replenish? How do the qualities of the element of water need to appear in your life to rearrange things, change the landscape to find entirely new paths? Let the qualities of the element of water nurture you and take you on a new adventure. Explore the element of water in your life and notice the changes that are created. Let it help you create your own unique path.

Trust the Unfolding

You can make all the plans you want, but in the end you simply have to trust the process. Things will show up when they show up. You will respond however you respond in that moment. It may or may not look like what you thought it would. 

We get to stay in the moment and choose from where we are in the moment and what opportunity shows up.

How do you prepare for this surprise opportunity? You develop a strong sense of your values. You develop a strong sense of your gifts. And then you stay open and with the help of your inner voice, consider the nudges and opportunities that show up. Trust the Universe to provide much more than you ever dreamed about. 

A friend of mine in France was recently contacted by a manager in a company about a job and the match was so wonderful, it opened the doors for both of them. He saw a deep potential in her and he’s actually going to create a project around her skill set.  She saw the possibility of being in a new environment and working more from home – all the things she wanted.  It showed up and she recognized it as an opportunity she wants and will take. 

You never know how the new door will be opened. Stay open to the unexpected and go exploring. Be prepared to change directions in the moment. To try something new, to jump over hurdles and find a brand new path. Trust the universe to point the way.

Let Go

Lay the groundwork and then let go and trust. I apologize for sharing so much of my personal process around this impending downsizing move but it’s been hard for me and I have learned many lessons in the process. It’s time that I let go and trust. I am prepared, I do not know the timing, so now I get to let go, trust the unfolding and move forward. 

Are you belaboring an idea of something happening that hasn’t happened yet? Are you wasting time worrying or wondering about it? 

The big lesson I’m learning is to stay in the present moment. And trust. Trust you will be provided with what you need. Trust you will never be presented with more than you can handle. And trust that it will unfold in the perfect time in the perfect manner. Let go. Let it unfold. Trust the universe. All is well in your world.

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Self-Healing

All Change Begins Within

Whatever is going on in your mind, change begins within. That impending change can be shaped by going within to make changes in your beliefs and expectations about how it will manifest.

We begin by looking at what we believe we deserve and what we believe is possible. That’s how we create what unfolds. Change takes time or it doesn’t, but we have to allow time for change, make room for change, and see what happens, see what unfolds. 

Look at what you would like to change and choose a few shifts in your actions and your expectations and notice what happens. Keep experimenting. Do it until you manifest what you want. All change begins within. 

===OUTER  WORK===

Exploration of New Potential and Possibilities

How Do You Contribute?

There are many ways we make a difference in our world. Sometimes it is by our actions, often times it is merely by our thoughts and our intentions and the energy we send to unfolding situations and the well-being of others. Make a constant conscious choice to contribute. Spend some time each day sending energy to the world, the well-being of the planet or the healing of a situation – whatever calls to you. Make sending energy to the world part of your daily spiritual practice. Then turn around and do the work. 

Fall Equinox was September 22nd – What Are You Harvesting This Year?

I realize it’s not Fall Equinox in all parts of the world but these questions are good to ask yourself anytime.

What would you not change? 
What do you love about the situation as it stands now? 
How has it challenged you to grow? 
Create an Action Plan for one aspect of your life.

Here are my answers:
What would you not change? 
My intelligence, my creativity and my spiritual life.

What do you love about the situation as it stands now? 
Not too much. I am letting go of a lot of possessions and narrowing it down to the realization that there are two important aspects of my life – my creative learning process and sharing my spiritual exploration. That’s what I get to take with me in this move

How has it challenged you to grow?
I’ve been deeply challenged. I need physical help but the space is super small and I will have a roommate. This has not been a fun process to me.

Action Plan for one aspect of your life.
I will increase my physical activity. Longer Qigong sessions, stretches at the sink and more hall walking. I could do more meditation.

What are your answers?
(Idea from We’Moon News)

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Simple Changes, Large Impact

We periodically need to review our spiritual practice. We need to be willing to explore potential changes and the different outcomes we can create.

Take a close look at your spiritual practice. How would you change it? Are you simply repeating the same steps you always do? Are you staying longer on one aspect based of how you feel in the moment? For instance, I might play my flute longer one morning, then pull out my small djembe drum and play for a while. I might spend longer with one aspect of my Qigong practice to see how I feel when I do it more extensively. 

Choose an aspect of your spiritual practice and expand it and experiment with new versions of it. Add, subtract and rearrange each of the elements in your spiritual practice until you find a balance that feels good for right now. Then be willing to change it as you move forward. 

When you pay attention, when you allow yourself to deeply experience whatever form your spiritual practice takes, you will automatically choose to do more or less or do it differently. Immerse yourself in the experience, experiment with changes and noticed the results. Simple changes can have a large impact.

===GUIDANCE FROM OUR COSMIC COUNSELORS ===

Listening Beyond the Voice Within 

Cosmic Counselors, What Do I Need To Do Right Now?

I go to my Secret Garden and am immediately taken to the Misty Circle in the forest where sunlight shines through the canopy of giant trees. My three Cosmic Counselors are sitting in a circle watching a butterfly emerged from a cocoon. “This is where you are in the process of emerging into the new world. You are dissolving many aspects of your belief system and you are transforming into something new and beautiful with a different purpose. That purpose is to nurture, nurture the planet. Nurture its inhabitants because a new set of awarenesses, a new set of directions, are emerging.” 

I feel myself shifting into releasing what concerns me. I expand my awareness and make room for new unexpected change to occur. I am in a state of fluid change. That’s where we are on the planet right now, in a state of fluid change. Releasing. Reforming. Choosing an increasingly higher level of inclusiveness.  We are each part of the process. We each have our own role. We each have a different experience. When we focus on the highest good for all, we will take the right steps.

I return to my sacred secret garden. It is alive with butterflies moving to change the world.

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

Expand Our Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

We Are Both Seekers and Change Makers

We have work to do as both Seekers and Change Makers. First we have to see the new vision, the new path, the evolving changes. Then we get to turn to show others how to join us. We will each have a different individual version of what we seek and then we will each turn in our own unique way and offer a pathway to change. 

Keep exploring. Keep making room for change. 

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Explore the Unfamiliar

How adventurous are you? Do you go exploring very often? Where do you go? In nature? Online to learn something new? Place yourself in a situation to meet new people? There are many ways to go exploring and it is important to keep expanding our boundaries. How else can we grow? How else can we learn? If you were to pick one less-than-familiar topic to explore what would that be? I’ve explored Taoism, Shamanism, Qigong and native flute and drum playing. What topics call to you and where will you go exploring next? 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Our Choices Today Impact Our Future

In the United States we have an upcoming primary election in which what we choose will impact our future in ways we cannot even imagine. There’s a dark energy at work that can destroy everything around it. There is also an entirely different energy to choose from – the higher good for all. It makes us think beyond ourselves. It makes us think about how our choices impact all around us.  

Our choices today will impact our lives and the lives of our descendants – our children and grandchildren and beyond. It’s a major responsibility to make a choice for the future highest good for all of us and for our planet rather than a choice that is only good for us in the present moment.  We must raise our sights and take responsibility for the future through the choices we make in the present moment.

Our choices of today have a long-reaching impact. Think beyond the present moment when you choose.

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

Expanding Awareness

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Face Your Future with Loving Expectation

Future is an odd concept when you are nearing 90. However long it is, it’s up to me to constructively use every single moment of the time I have been given. I can’t do that if I worry about the future. I need to stay in the present moment. I need to keep exploring both spiritually and mentally. Do you need to release all the fancied expectations and completely live is the present moment? We must make the most of what we have. When we stay in the present moment, the future will unfold perfectly. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

All I Have Is Now

There is no tomorrow. There’s only today, the present moment, right now. That’s the gift I have been given – the present moment.

There is no tomorrow. There’s only today, the present moment, right now. That’s the gift I have been given – the present moment. I will not fill it with would-of’s and could-of’s and should-of’s.  What I have is the present moment to fill with thoughtful awareness, and heart-felt aware choices.

There is no tomorrow. There’s only today, the present moment, right now. That’s the gift I have been given – the present moment. I will not fill it with would-of ’s and could-of’s and should-of’s.  What I have is the present moment to fill with thoughtful awareness, and heart-felt aware choices. I live is the present moment in embrace of wholeness. All is well in my world. 

– Cara Lumen, September 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

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!

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Prepare, Let Go and Trust

Living Our Deeper Song

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

It was like turning off the faucet of worry. I had done all I could do as far as releasing physical things to make room for my move into a smaller space. The space will not open up for some months because there is a waiting list. I had prepared and planned and then I let go of it all. I trusted that my visioning work, my planning, my intention to be assigned a particular space size to accommodate my large screen monitor would manifest. I have done everything I know to prepare and it is now time to let go and simply trust. 

What a relief. I have no control over the timing but I am as ready as I need to be at this point in time. So I get to move on. Yeah.

At the same time, almost within the space of a few hours, a new focus of exploration showed up, the condo of the Cosmic Counselors, and I have joyfully and energetically immersed myself in exploring that concept and its guidance.  

Do the prep work. Do not move into worry over what the universe has to do. Trust the outcome. It’s a lesson we get to practice over and over in our lives. Do your part, then release and trust the process.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I prepare for my next step and then I release, let go, and trust.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Do the work. Get as ready as you can. Then let go and trust the perfect outcome will unfold.
  • Look around at what has opened up for you to do next. Do that. It will all unfold in the perfect time.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Who You Are Is The Sum of All The Choices You Have Made

We make our choices based on who we are in the moment that we make the choice. It is the sum of where our thinking is. It is the sum of how we feel about ourselves. It is the sum of influence from other people. It is a sum of what we are aware of or know of. 

All of those aspects are constantly changing, expanding, moving forward. I might make one choice in the morning and then make a different choice in the afternoon because my awareness has shifted. Our life unfolds according to our choices. We are responsible for what unfolds and we must trust that the outcome is perfect for where we are in our life right now. 

I don’t regret any of my choices and I’ve made some odd and impactful ones. I cannot change those choices that were made out of not knowing, of not being aware. I love my intuition and I follow it willingly and trustingly. 

Trust the unfolding process. Who you are is the sum of all the choices you have made and it is all perfect just the way it is. 

Where Does Your Guidance Come From and How Do You Recognize It? 

It can be a hunch, a knowing or a circumstance. Where does your guidance come from and how do you recognize it? 

My inner voice is very clear and can be fairly wordy. Sometimes it comes with a tremendously strong sense of urgency in knowing that I need to explore a particular concept and probably write about it in order to understand it.  

Sometimes it’s a circumstance that leads to some great “aha” moment when you recognize the door opening to a new path to explore and new choices to make. And sometimes it’s as easy as a phrase that comes floating into some conversation that makes you turn in an entirely new direction.

Pay attention. Learn to recognize the subtle and not-so-subtle nudges of the universe as it opens doors and guides you to new adventures. Where does your guidance come from? How do you recognize it? Come, let’s go exploring.

Finding An Answer

I love it when I find a new resource. On the second interview I listened to on the Shift Network Shamanic Summit I found Michael Meade (mosaicvoices.org) who gave me the answers I have been looking for about how I am to work with and respond to the dramatic changes that are going on in the planet both in nature and its population.  What a relief when a new path opens up new possibilities for you to explore. 

Nature is always about evolution and that’s what is happening. We are evolving. We are opening the door to the new and we are leaving behind old ways and expectations. We are evolving. 

It is comforting for me to know that all this chaos is simply a group process, a changing of direction process, an evolution. I can do change, for that’s what we’re being asked to do. We are to examine and reevaluate and re-choose so that we can climb higher and have a broader view. Let go of the expectations you’ve been holding onto and immerse yourself entirely in a new way of being and doing. The adventure has begun. Let’s go exploring and see what unfolds. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Self-Healing

The Power of Affirmations

We get what we believe we deserve and what we believe is possible. Affirmations work. What are you telling yourself either consciously or unconsciously about the success of your path or your role in the world? Monitor it. Be sure it’s positive. Be sure it’s what you want.

“I am whole, perfect, and complete” is a good place to begin. 

“I recognize my perfect path and step boldly on it.”

Notice how you are talking to yourself and keep the conscious and unconscious affirmations positive and supportive.

What You Need to Leave Behind

For the thirteen years I have lived here I have had a small garden outside my window along with a flat water dish for the birds and squirrels. Because of my impending move I had to give them up. It was with great sadness that I ended my years of gardening.  I cried. How do you say goodbye to a part of your life? Do you release it with gratitude for its years of being in life? Do you release it with sadness because it will no longer be? I’m sure it’s an individual response depending on what you are releasing and what you feel about it.

I have two small plants, a heart-shaped philodendron and a two-toned plant I don’t know the name of. I’m not sure there will be room for them as I take another step on this next phase of my journey. 

What do you cherish? How are you down-sizing and how do you let it go completely? 

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Change the Form, Keep the Purpose

I have a great many life lessons as I continue to downsize before I move into a smaller space. Some of it is to change the form, some of it is repurposing. A key word is multipurpose.

I have turned a small bookcase into a combination TV stand, kitchen counter, dresser.

I discovered a tray that fits over my walker handles and that means I have a place to continue to use my tablet to play games. 

Think up, think multipurpose and creative uses. How can you modify your space in your life to use less but get the job done? 

Know what is important, Get creative. Question everything. And think outside the box. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Who Are Your Teachers?

We have many teachers in our lifetime. Sometimes it’s a long relationship and sometimes the lesson happens in an instant. As we mature and expand our consciousness, we become more discerning. We search for particular teachers to learn from and we study with them for a long time or perhaps for just a lesson or two.

Who are the teachers in your life? I have some friends I speak with regularly who are always opening doors for me to explore. I learn online and many people have influenced me who have no idea they have done so. Sometimes the news reports an action taken by someone who might become my teacher and inspire me to take a new path. Keep your eyes open for instantaneous insights from all sources. When you find guidance and insight and inspiration, be sure you keep in touch with the teachers who are ready to help see you through your life. 

===GUIDANCE FROM OUR COSMIC COUNSELORS ===

Listen Beyond the Voice Within 

Let Go

A yellow leaf fell gently to the ground. Another followed. It was a signal from nature that is time to let go. 

We don’t even know we are hanging onto things. We don’t even know that we are stuck because we have crowded our space with concerns and thoughts and beliefs.  What do you need to release? What beliefs or expectations are holding you stuck in place? We need to periodically redefine our emerging gifts and our place of service. Flow with the stream of consciousness that moves you throughout your life. 

Is there something you are carrying you need to put down now? Is there a turn in the path you are on that you need to make? Life is fluid. Life is flowing. We are constantly changing our path and it is constantly opening up new opportunities.

What do you need to release now in order to make room for what is waiting to come in? 

Manifest a Positive Future

We create our reality out of our thoughts and choices of today. Expect the best. Do not settle for second-best. Be aware of where you are focusing in your intention and your beliefs. 

There are things about this move into assisted living that I am not pleased about and I’m working very hard to change my attitude into one of positive expectation. And there are some unknowns about it. But what I have right now in the present moment is the opportunity to think positive thoughts, create positive expectations, and send energy ahead for my own well-being. 

As I rearrange my belongings and give a lot away, I work to stay positive and optimistic about how my life is unfolding and what it will look like with this move. And I stay very grateful for each and every moment that I am still in the place that I really enjoyed with enough room but not quite enough help. 

Life is an ongoing series of unfolding cycles. Enjoy the ride. 

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Raise Your Gaze

As dramatic as the world news is today, we have work to do and we must raise our gaze. Instead of getting caught up in the drama and chaos and real evil in the world, our job is to walk the high road so others can raise their gaze and take a higher path.

Don’t allow yourself to be sucked into the chaos. Stay on the whole higher path and light the way.  

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Renew Your Cycle

The cycles of our life are always waxing and waning and we are in different stages in each of them. Each aspect of each on-going cycle asks you to take different actions, different steps, hold different awarenesses. If a cycle is in the waning mode, it is a time for replenishment, re-thinking and re-choosing. When a cycle is in the waxing phase, it is a time for action. You build from within and build on what you find around you. You take action. In both waxing and waning cycles, we must deepen our connection to our inner wisdom and guidance. Let your light build from within. Wherever you are in your cycles be present and increase the light within.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

How To Walk the Fine Line Between Knowledge and Panic

The more horrifying the news, the harder I have to work at staying centered and focused. It’s tricky when you want to be informed, but do not want to be depressed. 

As so many extreme responses keep showing up in the world, I have to know in my heart we will not be given more than we can handle.  

I have to trust the process, the lessons that are unfolding and the choices for change that are being made.

I hold High Watch for the planet. I try to monitor the number of times I receive the same information of the impending chaos or danger. There’s a fine line between being informed and being overwhelmed when so many things are threatening our planet.

A friend recently said we will never be given more than we can handle but we do have a say in how we handle it and what we accept to consider. 

We can do a lot of work for the highest good and hold safe for the highest energy. I want to hold my own light high and walk the highest path I can manage. I am holding a higher vibration so others can look up and see and change course to join me just as I look to others for the same guide. 

Participate where you feel called, spend a lot of time keeping your vibration raised in invitation to others to continue to raise theirs. Keep your light on the highest vibration you can manage as you mindfully walk the fine line of positive expectation.

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

Explore and Interpret the Guidance and Messages of the Divine Feminine

The Divine Feminine As Creator

There are several very strong dominant traits in play today as the Divine Feminine moves into her new place of power. One is creation and the other is to destroy anything that threatens her offspring. When we look at our unfolding world, we can see both. It’s a bit like thinning a forest so that the trees that are left have room to grow stronger and taller.

Nature is defining a new level of fitness and we are truly facing the survival of the fittest. Those of us who can stay in the light and walk the higher path and open our hearts and compassion and be in service for the highest good of all move forward, but those who cannot make that a personal shift will not. 

In the US, droves of female Republicans (and some men) are registering with the Democratic party. They are standing up for their rights as women above all else. This is a time of reckoning as the Divine Feminine protects her own. Nature is indeed unfolding and is in the process of creating a new world. The Divine Feminine is giving birth to a new way of being, one of compassion and inclusiveness. Yeah. 

=== DEEPER SONG  PHILOSOPHIES ===

 Live in the nowhere that you came from even though you have a home here. – Rumi 

As we walk this world, we must dwell in our inner landscape where we are whole, perfect and complete. As we do our work in the world, remember that we are light and our job is to hold our torch high so that others might recognize it and see it in themselves. We are lighting the way.

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

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

Listen to my 

Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on

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and the 

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

In the Shamanic Summit I resonated with Michael Meade and his Living Myth podcast. Michael is founder and director of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, a nonprofit network of artists, activists, and community builders that encourages greater understanding between diverse peoples. mosaicvoices.org and here.

===REFLECTIONS===

The Deeper Song Newsletter touches hearts and minds all over the world. I am always deeply moved and honored when someone signs up. It expands my sense of service, particularly when you are from another part of the planet. How did you find me? What drew you to sign up? I will never know but I thank each of you for being part of this expanding Circle of Light Beings.  We have work to do together. Welcome. 

===CARA’S CORNER===

You Create Your Reality With Your Mind

As I continue to acclimate myself to the idea of this much smaller space in assisted-living, I have a choice. I can look at it as being safely tucked in or I can see it as being locked in a closet. It’s a very small space. And I use a walker. 

There are big common rooms of course, but my interests are very strong and very select. And I provide them for myself.

I have to trust. I have to trust that I will be given only what I can handle. I have to trust that I am creative enough and clever enough and determined enough to make it work for me, to keep me mentally and spiritually stimulated and physically cared for. It’s really tricky when your interests are specialized. 

I’m going to immerse myself in a week of talks on Shamanism. I only have one friend online that I can talk to about what I discover because she’s interested in Shamanism too. It is up to me to be clever and creative and imaginative in finding like-minded people as I move into this next phase of my life. No one can do it for me. I have to create and adjust and make it work.

You create your reality with your mind. What are you creating? What would you like to change? 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

It Is Up To Me

How my life unfolds and what it looks like, is all up to me.

How my life unfolds and what it looks like, is all up to me. What I choose and how I use it, designs my life experience.

How my life unfolds and what it looks like, is all up to me. What I choose and how I use it, designs my life experience. I am ever conscious of my powerful role in the unfolding of my life experience.

Cara Lumen, September 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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How Do You Make A Major Decision?

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How Do You Make A Major Decision?

Living Our Deeper Song

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

Are you an in-the-moment, impulse person or do you deliberate a long time before making a change? It probably depends on the magnitude of the change you are considering.

The majority of major life-changing moves for me have been instantaneous. An opportunity presents itself and I act upon it. And I’ve never been wrong. Or sorry.

The first step in making wise decisions is to know yourself. The more you know your desires, your passions, your gifts and your levels of curiosity, the more accurate your decisions will be. The first step in decision-making is to know yourself. Then decide where you go exploring. Explore the options. Explore the pathways. Explore the possible outcomes. Journey down a few of the potential paths, wander down a few side trails and see how they feel and what shows up along the way. 

Can you make a decision in an instant because you know what alignment feels like? I can do that for a lot of things. 

One of the ways to make a decision is to do some exploring. Learn more about where the choice leads and what you need to know to get to that level. Sometimes you have to explore a lot in order to figure out if it’s for you. It can be rather disappointing when you realize a certain path is not yours to do. 

What kind of guidelines do you have for yourself? How do you make your choices? Know when you are full up and cannot manage to add another thing. Then pause and release a few things to make room for new possibilities to come in.

Know your preferences. Have some idea of what you need next. Then you can do one thing or several. You can go exploring on the physical plane and try to figure it out or you can trust the Universe to hand you the answer or the insight that makes you know where to look for the answer.

All the concepts in these newsletters come to me with an urgency for me to write them down. They’re usually a question I need to ask myself. But I take time and look ahead to see where my inner voice is guiding me.

I like it when a core realization makes itself known. That helps everything fall into place. Like when I realized I didn’t have to release my larger desk until it was time to move even though I was practicing living in a smaller space. It is not time to make that change. But I did have a solution for the smaller space.

How do you prioritize what shows up? I have a friend who is considering two major steps. And she is intrigued with both of them. I consider the smaller step to be the more exciting and impactful step. But she must rely on her inner voice to guide her. I encouraged her to go exploring and gather more information about where the choices would lead and what they would provide.

How do you make your decisions and are they leading you where you want to go? 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I listen to my inner voice and ask for guidance on the best choices at this particular point in time.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Explore several potential paths in your mind. When you are considering a change, a new option, visualize several ways to get there and several ways those choices could turn out. Notice how you feel about each one.
  • Trust your intuition. Trust your inner voice. And trust your inner knowing. Let them help you make your major changes. 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

How and When to Change a Pattern 

Are you repeating nonproductive choices? How do you change that?

First of all, notice your time-wasters, notice the nonproductive patterns that you keep repeating.

What will you replace them with? 

First you have to identify your time-wasters and then you have to get creative to figure out what to replace them with. I should add more movement to my day. I do some Qigong but there are other forms of movement I can consider. Change the form. A podcast or two would be good. Audiobooks would be good. 

I’ve begun to identify the patterns I would like to change. I’m still experimenting with what to put in there but I’m working on it. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Learn From Your Crystals

I first learned about the Stone Clan from Shaman Hank Wesselman and I knew immediately that was the clan I belong to.

Even though I’ve given away many of my crystals to my daughter Cathy in preparation for this move, I have many left. I have them by a comfortable chair and I will speak to each and every one of them to find out how or if they want to participate in this next phase of my life. 

Our left hand is our receiving hand so we put a crystal in our left hand and notice what we feel, where we feel it, what we think and what thoughts it conveys to us. I often feel energy in a particular chakra but you might also get an idea or thought. I still have 30 or 40 crystals left. I want to figure out how to work with them on a regular basis. 

I gave all but one of my crystal necklaces to my daughter and I kept a blue labradorite. But I have crystal wands and balls and eggs and clusters. I need to work with each one of them to find out how they would like to participate in this next phase of my life. 

Talk to your crystals. Ask them to show you or tell you how they would like to be in service and for what purpose. Then work with them regularly. You can learn a lot from your crystals.

===OUTER WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Trust the Unfolding

A blossom unfolds in its own good time. A butterfly emerges when it is complete. We need to back off and allow for the natural unfolding of our life and our circumstances.

My mind gets excited and keeps me from allowing things to unfold. I push ahead when waiting might be better. But we must learn to trust the universe to open the perfect door when it is time and show us the perfect path. We must trust that we will recognize our perfect next step. 

Where in your life are you forcing the issue? Can you back off and go within and listen to your inner voice and trust that you will recognize the unfolding process and know when to take the next steps and what those steps are? Trust the unfolding and trust yourself to recognize it. 

Walk The Higher Path

In my journey I was told that my job was to continue to explore the highest path I can find and to share with others what I find. It’s like opening doors, exploring what I am shown and inviting others to come on a new adventure.

I am looking for the path that helps those of us who are called to rise above the chaos of the world to hold High Watch and light the way. We are to make this path so bright that when others look up they say, “Oh yes, that’s the direction I am to go, the path I am to follow.” And they raise their intention, they raise their expectations, and most of all they change their choices and actions with intentions and focus that organically affect the entire planet population. 

We are to keep exploring. We are to widen the path and remove the stumbling blocks and invite others to follow us. We are not only to find and explore the path, we are to make it welcoming to those who choose to follow. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Sit In Nature

I don’t go out much but I look out my window a lot. I watch the leaves fall, the clouds change shapes, the birds fly by and the sun set. I play my kalimba and my flute and my drum to the unfolding day. 

Nature is all about unfolding, ongoing change, and expansion through creation, growth, death and decay. It’s all there in nature. 

What part of nature will you commune with today? Perhaps you just go and sit and listen and receive its message. 

===GUIDANCE FROM OUR COSMIC COUNSELORS ===

Listen Beyond the Voice Within 

Work With Your Cosmic Counselors

A friend recently shared the phrase “Cosmic Counselors” with me and it really resonates. She’s deeply into astrology and reads the messages from the planets the universe provides for us. I really like the concept so I wanted to go exploring and talk to my version of Cosmic Counselors and see what they would like me to do.

I took a journey and for me, the entrance is in the Indigo Portal which is where I go all the time. The Cosmic Counselors are there to prompt and guide and counsel me as I embark on a higher level of work than I’ve done so far. They are going to take me out of my physical manifestation concerns and eventually raise me above the chaotic unrest in the world today. They are going to take me and us to a higher level of awareness from which we are to do incredibly powerful wholing work. 

I had no tangible idea what it is going look like but I journeyed and the Cosmic Counselors for me are sitting across a reflecting pond from me and I listen to them, and I can see ideas and images reflected in the pool. 

The Cosmic Counselors will help us develop our work in the world. They will allow us to work from a level beyond the chaos on earth. From beyond the Cosmos we are to bring fresh ideas and practices that will help us rise above the level of unfolding we are experiencing on earth, and show us how to begin to live and manifest from our Cosmic Consciousness. I don’t know any more than that in this point in time. 

Journey and connect with your Cosmic Counselors. See where they are for you and what they look like. Ask them for a message of guidance. 

Let’s go adventuring together and help create our new world. 

Relief at Moving On

It is such a relief to stop focusing on this move that may not take place for many months and start working again with the energy of the universe. I love the concept of the Cosmic Counselors. I love the idea of working at a higher level than I have been. That’s what I’m here for. That’s what I get to do now and next. Come, let’s go exploring together. We have a great adventure awaiting us.

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

Expand Our Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

People in Loving Service to Others 

As I move on to the next phase of downsizing in my life, I need help and I receive it from two strong women. Shelly who loves to clean and takes care of my home, and my daughter Cathy who is helping me make the arrangements for this potential move. I would be unable to do any of this without them.

Shelley loves to clean. She just helped another of her clients downsize to Assisted Living. She not only cleans but does my laundry and puts my two weeks of vitamins in a container. What a loving, kind, supportive person she is. I’m lucky to have her in my life. 

My daughter Cathy is coming with patience and the capacity to haul things away as I let go of and release what I will not take with me. She’s patient. She’s understanding. And she is efficiently persistent. All good things. 

As I become more dependent on others for simple everyday tasks, I am even more grateful for those who step forward to assist. Who are the helpers in your life? Are you one of the helpers or are you one of the receivers? Are you one of those wonderfully kind generous people who are aware of the needs of others and step up to help? 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Like-Minded Friends

When I moved to New York City 40 years ago from Kansas City, I was starved for like-minded friends. I didn’t realize it until I began to meet people who shared similar spiritual interests and were ahead of me on the path I wanted to walk. I was drawn to them like a magnet and I soaked up their insights like a sponge. I was starved for like-minded friends. 

How is your circle of friends? Are they a few steps ahead of you? Are they taking a slightly different path that you can learn from? I can’t find those friends in person anymore because I don’t go any place but I sure can find them online and I consistently go exploring to pick some out and connect with them. 

How do you find your like-minded friends? Reach out. Reach out to people who are podcasting or writing or teaching about pathways that you are drawn to. Reach out to those who you want to learn from, those who are walking paths near yours and go exploring.

===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===

Expanding Awareness

The Backpack Journey

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Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Energy Healing

My close friend, Christina Gerber is a powerful intuitive healer. She recently gifted me with an online session and the experience was incredibly stirring and effective. I have so many levels of imbalance going on, I felt energy shift in my physical presence, my chakras, my aura, my whole being. If you need help rebalancing the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual or auric planes, Christina has the depth and breadth of skills to help you. Christina Gerber www.christinagerber.com

===CARA’S CORNER===

I Finally Got It

The answer was so incredibly simple. “Turn off the sound.” Of course, why didn’t I think of that? I mostly play games on my tablet and the sounds gets in my way since I watch TV at the same time. I casually mentioned that to my friend Christina and she said, “Turn off the sound.” It is a life changer and very simple, and yes – obvious 

What is going on in your life that you can either turn off or stop doing or let go of? And what difference would that make in your experience? 

I can turn off the sound of my internal worry and simply allow life to unfold. 

Let go and trust. Trust the universe to provide for you. Just keep sending energy to your highest good, for the highest good for all of us. 

What message do you need to stop giving yourself? Clear your thoughts and change the outcome. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Clear The Path

I clear my thoughts. I release my expectations. I sit in the center of stillness and allow my life to unfold.

I clear my thoughts. I release my expectations. I sit in the center of stillness and allow my life to unfold. Space opens up. Cleared space. Open space. Welcoming space. All because I let go and allow life to unfold.

I clear my thoughts. I release my expectations. I sit in the center of stillness and allow my life to unfold. Space opens up. Cleared space. Open space. Welcoming space. All because I let go and allow life to unfold. It’s a lesson learned today and the lesson I must practice tomorrow. Be present. Let go, be present and listen to and respond to what the universe offers you in each moment.

Cara Lumen, September 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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What Is Your Life Passion?

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What Is Your Life Passion?

Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)

The Creative in me honors the Creative in youQ!

What is the core passion behind your life choices? There are some aspects of your life that are so necessary to your existence that they are part of everything you undertake – your relationships, your work, your spiritual life. What is that core passion for you and how are you developing it and expanding it?

I thought I had two. I love learning. And I have a strong desire to turn and share what I figure out with others. But now I realize that the need to turn and share is part of my own learning process. It is how I figure out how to apply what I learn. So learning about the spiritual world is a core passion for me and has been a driving force all of my life. What is the core passion for you and how does it manifest? 

The further along you are in your life the more obvious the pattern is. What are the similar choices that you’ve made throughout your lifetime? What was the passion beneath those choices? Maybe it’s a gift that you have developed. Maybe it is similar experiences that you continue to seek out. 

Take a moment to look back over your choices and identify the core passion that has been driving you throughout your life.

Your core passion is something you don’t want to live without. I am faced with failing eyesight.  I use a 30-point font and I dictate. And I can listen. Be creative in how you pursue your core passion.

Nurture it and get creative with how you express it. I do love to write and have written for radio and television and books but still at the core, writing is how I figure things out and deepen my own learning process. When you discover your passion, do a lot more of it.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I identify my core passion and bring it more deeply into my life.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Make a list of the deeply important things that you do. Then look for what is at the core of your passion. What is driving you?
  • Get creative in how you keep that in your life. 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Guilt

Guilt is about feeling you made a wrong choice. That you are totally responsible for a certain outcome. We make our choices based on who we are at the time and the depth of our awareness and the breadth of our understanding of the over-arching situation. 

Sometimes we never reach a point of examining the choices that we make and the reasoning behind them in that particular moment. 

I have made some unaware choices in my life. I did not see the potential path they would lead to very clearly.  I was not aware enough to have a broader view. That’s just part of walking the path. At some point you realize the consequences and results that are created. Sometimes you do well. Sometimes not so much.

There is a tendency to believe our choices are the major factor in where we end up but I know that we are being guided by the Universe through our inner voice, our inner knowing. We respond or react in the moment. 

There are no wrong choices as much as some being not as stellar as they could be. Each choice brings a lesson that you need, that you wanted, that you asked for. And every choice affects where you end up. You need to trust your inner voice so that it can guide you. Every choice you finally make, for whatever reason, is perfect. 

Do you see the lessons and opportunities and outcomes that you need next? Trust that you make the choices that are right for you.  Keep raising your sights. Keep exploring the side roads. Pay attention to what your actions are producing in your life. And make conscious choices based on the results you are getting. Don’t feel guilty about the past or what those choices of the past created. What you have is right now. Listen to your inner voice, then open your heart and choose. It will be perfect. 

Release and Rechoose

I woke up at 6 o’clock in the morning with the entire new floor plan in place. I’ve been concerned because the assisted living space that I am applying for is very small. But what I discovered was if I flip-flopped everything it fit differently and better. What do you need to totally rearrange in your life in order to make it work? 

In this plan in my head, I moved a chair from one end of the room to the other and suddenly everything else had more room. What one big concern or focus in your life needs to be rearranged to free up more space for other things? What basic belief are you holding that is keeping you from rearranging your life? 

I was focused on having a major chair facing a window. When I put the major chair beside the window, the whole room opens up. And there’s more room beside the chair for things I want to keep close at hand. 

What major concern, what major focus is anchored so firmly in a decision or a belief that you cannot rearrange everything around it? I’m going to look at the timing of when I choose to do things throughout my day. I’m going to look very carefully at my belief system of what I think is possible. I’m very grateful to my inner self for totally flip-flopping my floor plan and opening and expanding the possibility and potential. Toss it all up in the air and see where it lands. Rethink, release and rechoose. 

You Have to Have Faith 

I’m writing this pep talk for me and sharing it with you because when we come up against an unknown in our life, we have to trust that we will have the wisdom and fortitude and clarity to move through it. This assisted living space I am to go to is very small. A friend who has been there wasn’t sure there was room for my computer desk. That shook me to the core. I have a 21-inch monitor because my eyesight has dry macular degeneration and I need it to be able to see. And even though I have been giving stuff away I have not apparently begun to give enough away. 

It is hard to give away things that have meaning for you. I have a lovely alternate that is small, but I may have to move it into the shelf of a small bookcase I hope there is room for. My friend who has been there kept telling me that I will not be given anything more than I can handle. I would have room for what I need. But I want too much. So now I’m going to go through the little bit that I have left and see what else I can release or rearrange more effectively. I have to trust that I will have room for everything I need to have with me. 

What are you dreading? What is it you are not sure you can do? We have to trust in the love of the universe that it will give us only what we can handle or need to handle in order to move forward. I think that’s called faith. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Self-Healing

Shaking

It’s a very simple shaking exercise I learned in Robert Penn’s Qigong class. You literally stand with your knees slightly bent and shake everything. You gradually bring your arms up so you shake them over your head as you keep gently shaking your whole body. It’s amazing how rejuvenated you feel when you finish.

===OUTER  WORK===

Exploration of New Potential and Possibilities

Realising

As I continue to downsize for a potential move at an unknown time, it’s very interesting to notice what one hangs onto under those circumstances. My daughter comes over every week and we rearrange and I release some stuff but it’s the things that I’m not releasing yet that I have a chuckle over. Sometimes I release something because I will never use it again. Then there are the things I’m having a hard time with. What do I want to keep around me and why and how do I prioritize that?

My new space will be smarter than what I’m in and my priorities are my altar, my computer, and a chair with room to have crystals and meditation tools beside me to work with.  

Sometimes it’s easy to release things and sometimes it takes quite a few tries. Some things you know you are going to keep with you until the very end.

Notice why you are finding it hard to release a situation or item. What emotion is it nurturing? What feeling it is creating? Simply find something smaller to serve in the same role.

I begin with my altar. My spiritual practice. I made that happen first. Then I’ve organized my computer and workstation. 

What are the priorities in your life? And what can you let go to make more room for those things that are truly important?

Stay Intellectually Curious

I love to learn Qigong and it is not only an intellectual stimulus but it is the source of great learning and adventuring. I am very intellectually curious. It’s important to keep exploring whatever your age. There’s always something new to learn. I’m learning more about energy healing in the form of Qigong even though I began to use energy in the form of Reiki 45 years ago. It is now my healing method of choice. Will you go exploring and look into an area that you’re curious about? Will you look at some videos or listen to some podcasts or take a class or two? 

Five years ago, I got on the Shift Network’s Shamanic Healing summit to learn about Shamanism. As I listened to the speakers, I knew that I wanted to learn it and I found my teachers. It has been an important learning process and journey for me. Now I’m exploring Qigong as a form of self-healing. 

Stay intellectually curious. It makes your life more interesting and it makes you a more interesting person. 

Space Clearing

I stood for a long time and looked at the space that had just been cleared before me. I felt like I could breathe again. My daughter and son-in-law just moved out a lot of things that I had prepared to go. In this process of pre-downsizing before I move into assisted living, I’ve had to give away a whole lot of things. In the evening that my daughter-in-law came and took the last few major pieces away, I rearranged what remained to resemble some sort of form that I’m going to have in the new space. There’s a whole lot of emptiness in the middle of the room and it felt very freeing. I felt as if I could breathe again.

Begin with an empty space and choose carefully what you put in it. Keep it simple. It will be beautiful. Can you truly breathe in your space? What can you remove that will make you feel more serene? 

I’m going to simplify the things I keep on my desk. It’s sort of like wiping the slate clean so I start fresh each day. What part of your life do you need to create open space and carefully re-choose what you bring into it? Keep it simple. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

When Is The Best Time For Your Spiritual Practice?

It’s a good idea to experiment with the time of day that you do your spiritual practice. When I learned Transcendental Meditation 50 years ago it was suggested we meditate when we come home from work so we make a break between work and restorative personal time. Some people meditate first thing in the morning. Explore an experiment to find the right time of day and the right place for your meditation practice. 

I have two times. After I’m dressed in the morning before I really begin my day, I play my flute while looking out the window, then do my transcendental meditation and some Qigong. And I take time again towards the end of the day to offer thanks for what has unfolded and what I have learned and the new pathway that are opening up. Experiment and find your own meditative rhythm.

One of the things I learned in Qigong class is that I don’t have to do the whole sequence every day. I can take one movement and deepen it. The same is true in meditation practice. I may make one whole meditation period about playing my flutes. And once you find out what works, don’t forget to experiment again later on. Because your needs will change. Be creative about the timing and the form of your meditative practice. 

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Passing The Torch

When we pass our wisdom on to others, we become both student and teacher. I have two major reasons for putting out this newsletter. One is to figure these things out for myself and the other is in hopes of changing a life here and there. So I am indeed both student and teacher. I get excited when I get an insight that helps me make clearer choices or newer choices or any choice. I get excited when I go exploring and discover something that changes my own life and I wish very much to turn and share that with others. What are you learning in your life and how do you turn and share it with others?

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Explore and Expand

I am a spiritual explorer. I am drawn to many modes of spiritual exploration. Shamanism, Buddhism, Qigong, metaphysics – all manner of inner work that defines and deepens my connection to the unseen essence.

Rather than work with just one system I like to explore various topics. I love any opportunity to learn more about the subject and to find potential new teachers. 

As I learn more, I become more discerning. I know what I do want to learn more about and what I need to not pursue at this moment. One of the first thing that I attended was a summit on Shamanism which I knew very little about at the time. That was six years ago. Not only did I begin to understand what it was about but I found the teachers that I needed at that time. And I began my journey into Shamanism. 

Online is a great place to learn, to go exploring. Whether you simply watch a “how-to” video that someone has offered or take a class, there are many ways to expand your knowledge and your experience of a potential area of interest. Go exploring and see what adventures it takes you on. Go down the path less worn and expand your horizon. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Explore Another Culture

One of the ways that we can become more inclusive is to learn more about the beliefs and habits and culture of another country.  My personal spiritual exploration has led me to Buddhism, Shamanism and Indian and Chinese culture. I know a little bit about Irish beliefs. I know about Christianity. I know about the Druids. 

When you take time to look at the cultural traditions of a culture, first you might find something you like and you will begin to understand where the people of that culture are coming from. 

Where would you like to go exploring? And what would you like to explore? See what gifts from another culture you would like to bring into your life.

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

Explore and Interpret the Guidance and Messages of the Divine Feminine

Amazing Lebanese Dance

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The Rise of the Feminine

I have an astrologer friend who says that Venus is coming into play this fall in a way that has not happened in our lifetime. In the US a record number of young people are registering to vote because they will not stand for the cruel and bigoted abolishment of the freedom to control their own bodies. That cruel law is being dictated by old white men. In the US I think the women are going to change the focus and perhaps abolish the Republican Party and its vitriol as we simply vote for those who stand up for the well-being of all. 

Wherever you are in the world, keep standing up for the rights of everyone. Particularly keep an eye on how women are doing in your part of the world. And take action.  

== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

Step Out of the Way

The master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself. 

– Tao teaching 

You must learn to trust. You must learn to observe. Learn to be patient. When you trust the universe to provide exactly what you need you simply accepted it. You trust. You trust the universe to provide and you trust that you make the right choices. Step out of the way and let the Tao do the work.

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Letting Go

I am over-thinking again. Possibly over-planning. It’s sort of who I am. But I’m approaching a time when I really have to let go of everything and trust. I have to trust that the right space opens up in assisted living – with a perfect roommate. I have to trust the timing is just right. I have to trust that I will be OK to continue releasing physical things to make room to fit in the smaller space. And that’s just the trust around the letting go part. I get to trust that I find the right things to do to help my body re-stabilize. I have to trust that I write things that are meaningful to those of you who read this newsletter. I have to trust the people who need to hear what I say find me and take action with the parts that resonate with then. I have to trust that this world will figure out this huge change we are facing and we will be able to raise our sights to hold a vibration for the highest good for all.

What do you need to trust? Do you trust the universe to offer your perfect next opportunity? Do you trust your inner voice to make a wise choice for right now? Do you trust you will recognize the next path that opens for you? There is a letting go part of trusting. You don’t manipulate, you don’t plan, and you probably don’t even vote. You just trust that you have the inner wisdom and insight to recognize the next opportunity and to make the right choices around it. How are you at trusting?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Let Go and Trust

My world unfolds in a perfect pattern.

My world unfolds in a perfect pattern. I trust in my ability to see clearly and take the perfect next steps. 

My world unfolds in a perfect pattern. I trust in my ability to see clearly and take the perfect next steps. All is well in my world. 

Cara Lumen, September 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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