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How to Explore Your Invisible Self

June 22, 2017 By Cara Lumen

invisible self

Just 5% of the universe is ordinary matter. The other 95% can only be explored through our Invisible Self. We have work to do.

The Body Suit

We are very familiar with our Body Suit. It lives in the restriction of time and space. It goes through a cycle of aging. It’s how we identify ourselves. Yet, it’s only a small part of who we are; only 5%!

The Invisible Self

The Invisible Self is the all-encompassing energy that’s in and through and of everything. We first begin to know it through our intuition and our dreams. We can consciously go exploring through our visioning and journeying.

The Body Suit and the Invisible Self are part of our whole but they use different ways to communicate.

The Invisible Self can communicate through our Body Suit

Our emotions and thoughts are from our Body Suit. And we rely on our mind for most of our understanding.

Our intuition and hunches are our Invisible Self guiding our Body Suit self. When we free ourselves from the limitations of our mind, we can learn to explore our Invisible Self.

The  Invisible Self communicates when we ask it to

Shamanic journeying is the earliest form of meditation. One of the ways it can be used is to ask a question. Then move into contemplative silence to receive the answer, which might come as a symbol or internal worlds or even a simple certainly.

Sit in stillness and ask a question you’d like answered. Allow yourself to move into a state of stillness and receptivity. Quieten  your mind and see if you “daydream”. You may see images, or experience a strong sense of knowing, or hear voices, or see other forms.

Observe and interpret

Trust what shows up. It may be a dream, it may be a spirit guide, it may be a voice in your head. It’s you talking to you, so listen.

Your Invisible Self uses your mind to give you nudges. I often get a loud voice in my head identifying an idea that resonates deeply and I immediately turn to my Body Suit and begin exploring – usually through writing. I write to figure out what I hear, how I might interpret that and apply it to my life. And maybe how you might apply it to yours, too.

Sometimes I meditate with a crystal and simply flow where it takes me. When I open myself up to choose a crystal, I get strong “crystal voices” saying “Today it’s me.”  Learn to listen and trust what you hear.

The Invisible Self moves within the Great Mystery

The human mind is limited by what it sees and feels and hears. It is limited in its ability to interpret. Our Invisible Self lives in the Great Mystery where there’s no limitation – where all things are possible, where everything is connected, where we’re all one. Learn to know the difference. Recognize the human level as restrictive and the subconscious level as being more representative of reality.

Introspection is the cornerstone of self-understanding

Become conscious of how you feel, what you want, where your passion lies, and follow that awareness. Let it guide you into choices that are aligned with your Invisible Self, your Soul’s Purpose. Listen to your Invisible Self with your Body Suit and pay attention to the many ways you’re guided.

Embrace the art of unfolding

Allowing your life to unfold is an open invitation for your Invisible Self to send you many subtle messages – the unexpected opportunity, the idea that suddenly pops into your head. This is the Universe guiding you. Even barriers that show up are a way your Invisible Self tells you it’s not time for that step or it’s not a good choice for you.

When we focus on planning and setting objectives, we use only our Body Suits. Include more time for inner work. Learn to leave space for your Invisible Self to guide you.

Be willing to change

Think about it. If our Body Suit is only 5% of what we think is possible, what happens when we let the 95% that is our Invisible Self have more of a say in what we do?

Begin to consciously communicate with your Invisible Self

Power Journal. Record your feelings and lessons learned from an experience or circumstance.

Journey/meditate. Move into a meditative state with a question and learn from the guidance that shows up.

Become aware of the subtle nudges. The unexpected circumstance, the sudden direction-changing thought and the voice in your head that offers guidance are all messages from your Invisible Self.

There’s much to explore in the Invisible Self. I meditate with rocks and crystals and receive their message. I love to take my Spirit Guides on healing journeys. I am overjoyed with how ideas pop into my head, which I immediately explore. And I’m amazed at the sudden knowing that shows up, the certainty that this is the right step or direction. I accept that powerful guidance from my Invisible Self.

Listen and you will hear.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

You Are All-That-Is 

What is Self-transformation?

How to Manage Your Subtle Energy

Our Need to Transcend

video – Your Body Suit and Invisible Self 

Podcast: 17 – Exploring The Village of Nothingness 

Filed Under: Inspiration, Self Transformation, Spiritual Expansion Tagged With: Invisible Self, Spiritual Expansion, transformational thinking

Wakan Tanka, the Originating Mystery

May 23, 2017 By Cara Lumen

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I haven’t used the word “God” in years – on purpose. I find it too limiting, too human. Long ago I moved to phrases like “All-That-Is” and “Universal Mind.” But recently I have come across a phrase that for me says it all:  “Originating Mystery.”

Rumi says, “Live in the nowhere that you came from even though you have an address here.”

“Nowhere that I came from” works for me too.

I want a word that takes me from my human limitations, a word that’s empty of an identifiable meaning.

Then I remembered the words “Wakan Tanka” which I had heard years ago in a CD of native American flute music by Carlos Castaneda. I looked it up.

“To the Lakota, those which made everything are Wakan Tanka. Though wakan have separate meanings unto them selves, Wakan Tanka can be loosely interpreted as “wakan” as “mystery” and “tanka” as “something great.” And being the “creators,” the Wakan Tanka also are Wakanpi, those things above mankind. They are never born and they never die.”

Wakan Tanka. In everything. Of everything. All there is.

That frees me of the limitation caused by my interpretation of a word in my physical-plane language.

Wakan Tanka deepens our connection.

If Waken Tanka is the Originating Mystery, the All That Is, the Tao, it is “It”. It’s us. It’s you. It’s me. It’s every element of nature. It’s everything we know.

That makes me want to treat it with respect and reverence.

All is within you

I have never gone outside myself for help. I never prayed for help or asked for help from any outside anything. If the Waken Tanka, the Originating Mystery, is all there is, then that’s all there is. That’s you. That’s me. That’s our world. That’s our life. And we have to use what we’ve been given to create the most productive and rewarding experience we can.

Not outside but inside. The change comes from within. The choices come from within and those choices lead to the results we get.

So the world is a mess and if I am all that is, that’s coming from me, right?

Yes. And that’s a tough one to accept with all the chaos. But all change begins within. So yes, it is up to each of us to do the inner work that has the power to manifest as change.

That’s a big responsibility. But remember, you are made up of Wakan Tanka, the Originating Mystery. You can do this.

Be aware of all you think and do. Make certain your thoughts and beliefs are full of inclusion and empathy.

Make choices for the greater good. Yes, we are responsible for ourselves, but some choices we make can benefit more than just us. Remember Wakan Tanka; we are all the same originating stuff.

Connect with nature. There’s much guidance and wisdom to be garnered by tuning into the cycles of nature, the power of nature, the messages of nature. Listen. You will hear.

Journey. Go within and let yourself go. See where it takes you. See what shows up. Whether you think it’s your imagination or a spirit guide, just go exploring in your inner world. There’s both wisdom and guidance to be found there.

Join your focused energy with others online who desire the same results. There’s great power in the concentration of focused energy toward one outcome.

Question your beliefs, especially your spiritual beliefs. If you’ve been brought up in a structured religion, I invite you to pick and choose from multiple spiritual expressions and create a spiritual practice that resonates with you and nurtures you.

My travels have included Christianity, metaphysics, New Thought, holistic energy work, Taoism, and Shamanism. My spiritual life today is an eclectic mixture of elements from each into my life that continue to deepen in meaning and in connection to Wakan Tanka, the Originating Mystery.

Go exploring. There’s a great deal you can learn. Then get to work to change the world.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Abracadabra! I Will Create As I Speak

The Great Collective

Our Work in the World

Return to the Simplicity of the Uncarved Block

We Are Part of a Larger Spiritual Order

VLOG: Insights of a Deeper Song

PODCAST: Reflections of a Deeper Song

Filed Under: Inspiration, Self Transformation, Spiritual Expansion Tagged With: self-awareness, Spiritual Expansion, transformational thinking

How to Nourish Your Inner Fire

April 6, 2017 By Cara Lumen

flame

Set your life on fire.
Seek those who fan your flames
– Rumi

A fire needs air. A fire needs fuel. Our inner fire burns at our core and the more we care for it, the brighter it will burn.

How do we nourish our inner fire?

Nourishing your inner fire is very personal. If you have a lot of outer stimulation in your life, you may nourish your inner fire by seeking silence. If you are alone and still, you may share that stillness with nature and find ways to deepen your understanding and connection. Whatever you need and however you need to do it, create time each day to connect with and replenish your inner self.

Connect to source

We are all one energy. The great stillness, the Originating Mystery, the All-That-Is, that’s who we are. Call it whatever you will, but that one energy is everything — you, me our world. It’s our core, it’s our soul.

We can connect with the originating spirit in many ways. You may find it in meditation. You may find it in an experience where everything comes together perfectly. It may be when you have a thought that releases something deep inside you and makes you cry. It may be when you hold a loved one in your arms. Or they hold you in theirs. The energy of wholeness is everywhere, in everyone and everything.

Sometimes we need silence to allow ourselves to go deeper within. That silence can take the form of meditation or mind mapping or singing or drumming or watching a sunset. You just need to be conscious of the moment and be still and listen. That’s one way to connect with your inner soul.

Connect to your wisdom

Your inner voice is your guide, your counselor, your interpreter of less obvious things. I connect with my inner wisdom by writing articles like this — my mind is out of the loop, my inner wisdom talks as fast as I can type. I am here, but I’m not accessing from my mind. I’m totally connected to my inner wisdom. And sometimes I marvel at what shows up.

You may connect to your inner wisdom through hunches, sudden ideas, phrases that show up unexpectedly. Learn to recognize your inner voice and then stay still and listen. Observe. And consider.

Connect to your authenticity

When you are true to yourself, when you honor your gifts, when you follow your passion, you connect to the truth of who you are. You know your purpose and your most impactful place of service.

When I connect with my authenticity there’s a deep sense of knowing that I’m in balance, of knowing where I’m supposed to be. I often use self-questioning to help my next choices materialize.

Journaling, mind-mapping, simply observing what shows up all lead to choices that will keep you authentically aligned with where you’re called to serve.

Take time to know yourself

However you access your inner voice, whatever form the ideas appear in, know your own values and keep aligning yourself with your passion, your calling, your gifts.

What method will you use to nourish your inner fire?

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Stoking the fire Fir Within
The Shedding of Your Skin
Clean Your Inside Home
How to Hold the Space for the New Vision to Emerge
Reserve Space For Yourself in Your Life
What Makes You Valuable?
How Being Different Makes You Special

Filed Under: Inspiration, Positive Change, Self Awareness Tagged With: personal growth, self-awareness, Spiritual Expansion

Accept Yourself As You Are

March 9, 2017 By Cara Lumen

woman hugging self

The people who stuck with the same thing for 40 years are in a different place than those of us who wandered around exploring a wide range of concepts. And I wondered if I had been wrong.

Don’t compare yourself with others from your past

I recently come across a group of people that I followed and learned from when I began my holistic professional career in the 1970’s. They have been developing their place of service for a long time and it’s both interesting and discouraging to see how far they have come.

But that’s not me

Before I began to beat myself up for not having as much to show for my life as they seemed to for theirs, my inner self hollered very loudly at me: “You don’t like to repeat things. You never have! You are an explorer and discoverer”. Now that doesn’t make me a good or a bad person, but it does make me an adventurer rather than a settler and that’s very helpful to know. We need both types in our world.

I don’t like to teach the same thing

I teach to learn. And once I learn something, I don’t want to repeat it. The fun and challenge and reward for me is in the creation of the system or exercises or material that moves both me and the student from here to there. But once we are “there” I don’t want to return; I want to keep exploring. Therefore, the trail I leave is a narrow one, not a well-traveled path.

But that’s OK.

I have actually been doing the same thing

There’s a pattern in your life — based on your passion and your gifts. I’ve been writing all my life, I’ve been exploring philosophically, and I’ve been seeing overviews and connections all my life. Those three things are what have nourished and inspired me and helped me grow into the person I am today. Just because it doesn’t look like you’ve been doing the same thing all your life, look closely and you’ll find a pattern.

Honor who you are

After moving to New York City years ago and finding all the budding holistic adventurers that lived there, my life totally changed. I jumped from one teaching to another, taking from it what resonated and making up my version that fitted my needs and passion. When you are taught something, it’s yours to shape. You keep some of it, you toss some of it, you modify some of it. And that’s perfect. Honor your unique way of learning and doing and appreciate your life.

Wherever you are is perfect

I am in the right place at the right time — for me. Just as you are. So we get to look around and see what we’ve created, decide what we want to keep and chuck the rest. Then we move forward.

The reason I’m back in touch with these pioneers from my past is that I’ve come in a circle and have met them further down the path. However, I still take only parts and pieces, the concepts that align with my current exploration and thinking.

So there is to be no jealousy, no regret. My life is good, just as theirs is. I, too, am in service. Perhaps not on such a grand scale as they are, but that wasn’t what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to do exactly what I have been doing and I needed to arrive exactly where I am now.

Just as you did.

Accept who you are at this point in in your life. Don’t compare yourself with others. Simply turn and look at the richness of your own life and deepen your own place of service.

You are who you need to be. You are where you are meant to be. Accept yourself as you are.

To Sing a Deeper Song consider:

Are You Inspired By Your Own Life?
Where Do YouPlant our Stake
How do You Put your Spiritual Insights to Work?
The Emergence of Collective Individual Spirituality
How to Grow fromYour Inside Out

Filed Under: Inspiration, Positive Change, Self Awareness, Self Mastery Tagged With: positve change, Self Mastery, self-awareness

The Art of Wholing – A Gift

January 28, 2017 By Cara Lumen

Wholing

There are major and often troubling changes taking place in our world. They are so vast, so all-encompassing, that it’s easy to feel helpless and afraid. I felt that way until I went exploring and found ways I can take charge of my life experience. I share them with you in a free booklet — The Art of Wholing.

Our natural state is wholeness. That means we are whole. Our bodies are whole. Our lives are whole. Our world is whole. Although it sure doesn’t look and feel like that sometimes. So what can we do to immerse ourselves in our natural wholeness? What do we need to learn to do?

This free booklet, The Art of Wholing, shows you a way to connect more deeply with your innate wholeness. It helps to bring your awareness of that natural wholeness into your daily life to heal yourself, to send out focused energy to balance and heal situations, to be a powerful participant in the well-being of our world.

Wholing is done though energy. Focused energy. Used daily. The Art of Wholing shows you how.

This powerful booklet contains a special gift — the Star of Conscious Change — a simple process you can explore that brings you to a deeper recognition of your oneness with All-That-Is and the wholeness that’s inherent there.

Once you access that point of recognized connection, you can direct energy to heal and whole yourself and to heal and whole others.

Focusing individual energy is powerful, and it’s available to everyone.

As I work daily with the Star of Conscious Change, my own 84-year-old body is no longer folded over; it’s gradually standing straighter and aligning itself. Subtle inner changes are also occurring that make me more focused, confident, creative and inspirationally productive.

Energy work heals and balances. It replenishes and restores. We are pure energy and we can each do energy work.

Begin today to bring the world back to wholeness. Begin today to restore your body to its natural state of wholeness.

Here is A Gift for your Deeper Song
THE ART OF WHOLING

Wholing

DOWNLOAD FREE
THE ART OF WHOLING

This FREE GIFT is part of a series of booklets that will take us both on an adventure — an exploration of subtle concepts that resonate but need to be explored in order to understand and apply. As I look for direction and answers, I invite you to go on this journey with me as we find new ways to use our Creative Consciousness for Change.

Filed Under: Inspiration, Positive Change, Spiritual Expansion Tagged With: free book, positve change, self healing, Spiritual Expansion

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