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Inclusiveness

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Inclusiveness

Insights From A Deeper Song

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

I am still stunned by the down-the-middle differences in the US.  I had no idea.  We have great healing to do.  

That means we must all – both sides – lay down our differences and stand shoulder to shoulder in order to move forward.  We must each compromise.  We must each explore the new viewpoints.  We must each question our own core beliefs. 

And find a middle ground – an inclusive path forward.

That means me, although I am very fond of my beliefs.  I don’t even have to wonder why others think the way they do, I just need to find our common ground, the path forward. The middle road.  The way we can walk along together.  It means compromise. Compromise means each side making concessions. 

I have a feeling a lot of people don’t feel that way.  

But I have only my life to live. My choices to make.  My beliefs to hold.  So I  blot out the consideration of division and move us all into unconditional love,  filled with the light of oneness, opening our hearts to incisiveness, and listening to each other as we thoughtfully and mindfully find a way forward – together.  A path that includes us all.  

It all begins with being with knowing and accepting that we are one energy and our individual actions affect the whole.  

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I make choices for the highest good of all. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Get over the idea that your ideas are right. They are right for you but probably not for the other person. 
  • Listen to identify the core needs of others. 
  • In a self-aware manner, look for the common ground and begin to build a partnership there. 
  • Always choose for the highest good of all.

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MY DEEPER SONG THIS WEEK
Heart Lessons from a Soul Star
An Exploration of the Unseen World

The concept of having your own personal Soul Star is amazing and reassuring. One star, for your soul, watching over you, guiding you, here to answer your questions. 

I asked.  I received answers that apply to any or all of us who walk this path of light and desire to serve our planet as she moves through these dramatic changes.  I share my experience in order to encourage you to go meet your own Soul Star.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore
Heart Lessons from a Soul Star
(Listen Here)

Listen to 
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on 
Apple / Spotify /Google

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:
The Unseen World Needs Us
Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self
Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World
The Space of Inner Knowing
How to Cultivate Deep Listening

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Inner Work
RECONSIDER YOUR BELIEFS

I was a tad smug in feeling that my way was right.  It turns out half of my country does not think so.  I am really trying to have some clue as to why those who see the world so differently than I do, believe the way they do. 

We can get a little smug in our thinking.  We take comfortable, familiar positions, and move forward.  But we need to question our own beliefs and we need to make room for the beliefs of others, the needs of others.  Both sides need to move toward a center path for moving forward.  

Examine your beliefs.  Are they valid?  Do they reflect the current world? If you are older, talk to a young person so see what kind of world they want and need.  Then help them build it. 

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Outer Work
UNSUBSCRIBE

With so much moving online we seem to be bombarded with summits and classes and offerings from all angles.

We have grown and changed this year.  Our interests have expanded.  We have learned a lot.  As we exam the end of this year and the flow of the year to come, this is a perfect time to unsubscribe from a few things. 

If you are like me, you are begging to feel full up. So we have to establish some guidelines and set some boundaries and unsubscribe to things we have outgrown. 

I have listened to enough summits to know what my primary interests are and what were just moments of curiosity.   I need to let go of the sources I will truly not pursue this coming year. 

If you are not reading that post or listing to a particular podcast look to see why.  Is it something you want to explore? Or does it no longer address the path you have chosen? Is it something you had a passing interest in?  Unsubscribe.  If you are not sure, copy the URL on one document and unsubscribe for now.  

This is an amazing freeing step to take to open space for the new year. 

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KNOW HOW YOU WORK

I may have just solved a problem that has been bothering me for a long time.  Here’s the question, would you rather take on a task you are not wild about and do it in one focused effort and get it over?  Or do you want to have it nag at you in small bits until you get it done?

Some time ago I learned that when I am faced with something I would rather put off I say to myself, “Think how good it will feel when you do (whatever it is you’ve been putting off). I keep saying it until the task is done.  (Like all the way to the trash)

But I made the mistake of parceling out house cleaning elements in the belief that it won only take 15 minutes to do…. whatever task I had decided upon.  Just as I have selected one day each week to march back and forth to the laundry room, I decided to choose a day to do whatever cleaning I need to do.  Think how good it will feel when you…

It worked.  I seem to have chosen Thursday mornings and then it’s done for the week. 

How do you work?  Do you want to do a little bit every day or simply get it over in one focused effort? 

Understand how you like to work and do that.

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SMALL BUT PROFOUND CHANGES

It theoretically could be seen as an accident but a whole door has reopened. Aren’t surprises wonderful!

I was eating and decided to turn on some Classical Music on my TV. I had forgotten how much I love Classical music and how little of it I have listened to in the past few years.  A theme from the opera Carmen came on and I remembered as a high school student I was in the chorus of the college production of Carmen because I was taking voice lessons there. I sang along and had a great time remembering and reliving. 

I have a whole new classical music habit to get into.  

Was it an accident?  No, I think my helping spirits have been planning for this to happen so it is a lovely surprise. 

Music is energizing.  It is a mood changer. It is inspirational. 

Do you need music in your life?  Add it and see how your mood is lifted. 

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BRING YOURSELF TO CENTER

It only takes a moment – one deep inhale, one slow exhale, close your eye and let it all go.  That’s how you center yourself any time, anyplace.

Sprinkle centering pauses throughout our day and see what change.

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GOALS VESUS UNFOLDING

It’s a funny thing about unfolding, you can’t rush it.  That’s the point – to give circumstances and realization time to evolve.  

How do you do that?  

Reflection comes to mind.  Pausing to observe. Pausing to contemplate. Pausing to consider.  

Have an over-arching goal but keep it broad.  My goal is to touch people more deeply. That’s it.  I now get to simply let it unfold.  As ideas and nudges and circumstances appear, I get to try them on for size – I get to explore the ideas that resonate with me and let the others go.  

How do you move forward?  Are you fluid and open and flexible?  Go exploring and let life unfold.

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OUR EVOLVING FUTURE

As I look forward to thoughtful, intelligent, inclusive leadership in my country my relief is huge.  Our leadership lessons were painful and divisive and I’m not certain everyone recognized the danger. Many of us got to look deeply at the core beliefs of how we want to live on this planet and vote our conscience.

So much is changing in our world that we need to learn to be flexible. Fluid and flexible. The old way is gone.  We get to create new versions. We get to adjust. And any of us are.   

Look closely at what core beliefs are driving you. We need to work in new ways.  We get to learn in new ways. New opportunities show up and we get to go expiring.  

Let go of how it has been. That way is gone.  How do you want to contribute in this new world we are building?   

Keep refining your awareness and ideas until you have established a new vision for yourself.  Then build on that.  

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MY REFLECTING POOL
Next and Now

There is no next.

There is no next. There is only now. 

There is no next there is only now. I use now wisely.

– Cara Lumen

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CARA’S CORNER
88 and the Infinity Symbol

I turn 88 this week.  What a wonderful age!  I particularly love it that those eights are two infinity symbols.

The first thing I see in the symbol of infinity are the cycles of life.  How we build on our past and bring that wisdom to the future.  How we leave behind what we don’t need from the past cycles as we move into the new one. How some choices may be continuing as their impact circles both backward and forward but with different emphasis and discovery.  We live in a constant cycle of change. If I see myself as the point where the two circles converge, I pause to examine both my past and my future.  How I got here and where I would like to go. I am drawing wisdom from my past and using my presence in the moment to make choices that will draw to me the future I desire.  I am at that crossroads of the past and future, standing on what I have learned and experienced and choosing how to affect what is to come, what lies before me, by the choices I make right now, in this moment of ever-presence.

88 has two infinitive symbols  It feels like it may be an important year. 

Each moment is crossroads. An opportunity to examine the choices that got us here and the opportunity to choose a next step. We build on our experience of the past and make conscious choices that affect our future.  We mindfully leave behind the past and step into our “next”.  

I get philosophical about me being 88.  I see the results of all my past choices.  Some could have used more consideration but I particularly like the philosophical choices I have made. And I love how my gifts continue to develop and express themselves. 

I look at what I have gathered around me in this present moment, this crossroads in the conjoined cycles.  It is the wisdom I have, the skills I have developed, and the insights I have accumulated and it is the deep friendships I have formed. All is well in my world. 

As I move into the opening cycle of the year before me I feel its fullness, the easy way I now communicate with the Unseen World, the loud nudges of my Inner Voice, and the ideas I am called to explore and share with others.  I am having the best time of my life spiritually. I am doing exactly what I want to do and writing about exactly what I want to learn.  And I’m getting really good at staying centered in the present.

One of my guides in a recent shamanic journey said they were guiding me by putting in front of me the things I need to know for my “next”.  So I just trust the insights and nudges and my sudden use of intuition that pull me forward into deeper exploration.  

The more I listen the more I hear.  

I will sit mindfully and serenely at this crossroads of double infinite symbols with great joy and peace in my heart knowing I have traveled the road well and trusting the path that is unfolding before me to be exactly what I need to know and do next. 

All is well in my world  Happy 88th birthday to me!!!

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A DEEPER SONG

Wherever you stand be the soul of that place”  – Gibran

“What you seek is seeking you”  -Gibran

Keep singing a deeper song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song 

I help those seeking to sing a deeper song to expand their relationship with the Unseen world.

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

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The Choices We Make

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The Choices We Make

Insights From A Deeper Song

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

I have journeyed a lot lately to understand what I am to do in my “next”.  And each time I am given many choices.  I am standing on a point in time with man options open to me.  

Eileen Cady, Founder of Findhorn in her book Opening Doors Within said, “Expect the best.  Do not settle for second best.”  So I stand on my point in time and choose the best. 

What two or three things are most important to you at this point in time? If an idea like “money” comes up take a step further to see what you want money to secure for you – safety, health, adventure?  If it is “health” begin to picture yourself in your natural state of wellness. Focus on what you want to attract, not how it is to be attracted. 

Then do the work.  I want my body to be stronger and straighter and I have specific choices to make and work to do to help it make that change.

I want to see clearly within and within. I’m doing better with seeing within. Not sure what to do about the physical  change in “without.”

Take the steps you can and then get very creative about how you seek out the more elusive aspects of your choices.  

We are each standing on one point in time. Our next step creates a new path.  It takes us in the particular direction of our choice. There is no going back but there are new trails to follow.  

Take a step and see what new vistas open up for you.  Do you need to take another step in that direction or do you explore that side trail over there? Look at the view from where you stand now and see what is available to you.  Then chose what step to take. 

Where are you choosing to go next?  What path do you follow?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I pause to consider the possibilities of each choice before I take my next step.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • What are three basic elements you want in your life right now?
  • Choose one and from a place of centered focus, look over the possibilities that seem to be available.  
  • Listen to your heart, your inner wisdom and take a step. 
  • Check out the new options that have opened up with that one steep.   
  • Repeat as you will. 

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MY DEEPER SONG THIS WEEK

We Are One With the Whole

An Exploration of the Unseen World

We are all one interactive vibrational energy, but we forget that when  we become too immersed in our bodies.  It takes some focused actions to cultivate our continuing awareness of ourselves as One energy – with everything. 

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore

We Are One With the Whole

(20 MINUTES)

(LISTEN HERE) 

Listen to
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify /Google

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

 Can You Experience Your Boundlessness

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe  

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

How to Align Your Vibration within our Collective Vibrational Core

The Space of Inner Knowing

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Inner Work

THE SUNCATCHER

I pulled out my paper calendar to look at the month that is unfolding and suddenly there were rainbows all over it. It was a sign, a sign of the month to come and its many blessings.  I have several sun-catchers in m window and rainbows often dance across my room. But these rainbows were on the month that is unfolding. Blessing it. Holding open portals for me to go through. 

What rainbows dance across your month?  What do you do with them?

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Outer Work

INCLUSIVENESS

I had no idea the US was as split in half as it is. It feels like it is me against we.  Not a good feeling. 

I journeyed in my dismay and was shown that my job right not is to monitor my thoughts because our thoughts create our reality.  Our most powerful change-maker is our thoughts.   

I begin to visualize our world as healing, coming together for the highest good of all. Learning to be more compassionate, more inclusive  All of is.  Each of us. 

I’m going to add more pauses in my day to simply breathe and be present and focus on our Oneness.  

Change your thinking, change your life. 

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OUR FOUNDATION

My body is making some changes as my hips organically realign and I realized how important our foundation is.  As  the foundation that is my hips changes, I can stand more upright.  My body is remembering how I once stood. 

What is the foundation you stand on now? Physically are you keeping your body strong?  Spiritually are you exploring new paths? How are you changing, rearranging, strengthening your foundation to carry you forward?

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HOW DO YOU ACCEPT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS?

Forty years ago in New York City in an est communication workshop, I was partnered with a young man I had never met before. We sat in chairs facing each other (as did the whole room) and took turns giving each other compliments. I felt myself energetically stopping each compliment before they even got to me. And that, of course, was the point of that exercise.  How we stop comments.  Is it because we don’t believe we desire them?  Is it because we are shy?  I began to watch how my friends did or did not accept a compliment.  Most of us flunked.  

Somewhere in m life in NYC , I began an acknowledgment journal. I wrote down what someone said, their name and  the date.  What I learned was what others saw in me that I did not. 

I now keep acknowledgements I receive on my computer and periodically it feels important for me to go read them – to reassure myself I’m on the right track and to see what I am doing that is working for others.  

Begin an acknowledgement page. This is not an ego thing it is an “I didn’t know that about thyself” thing. 

Discover what you do not see in yourself. Then act on it. 

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DEEPER SONGS I HEARD THIS WEEK

Black new anchor, Van Jones responds to US Election  Important.

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OUR EVOLVING FUTURE

When it feels like your fate lies in the hands of others you have to believe three are enough aware people to keep the world on a positive track. I write this the day before the US election where the fate of our entire democracy hinges on how this election goes.  

And I am one vote.  And it has been cast. 

Are there enough people who want to be unified again?  Are there enough people who are compassionate enough to want to equal the playing field and help everyone reach a level of sustainability?  Are there enough good people to correct our course?

So many new doors are opening to help us save the environment.  We just have to take them.  We have more power over this worldwide crisis that we fully grasp.  Countries like Australia and New Zealand have the virus under control.  There are examples of the steps to be taken.  We just have to take them.  As a whole country.  As a whole world.

In this evolving world, we are to learn from each other.  We are to listen and look and learn and follow those who are accomplishing what we want for our country.  And  that involves group consciousness. 

Our role is to raise our own vibration.  We do that with mindful intention and conscious choices.  That builds a higher vibration of positivity and attracts others who are ready to heed the call to oneness, to a world-wide community that turns its attention toward healing – healing the planet, healing its inhabitants. 

We must turn our gaze. We must focus on wholeness, on unanimity, or creating a world of equality.  That is what we are changing in the here and now.  We must heed the call. We must do the work. Here and now. 

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DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

Breath is an extremely powerful centering tool for your spiritual practice.  Pause.  Take a deep breath and let go. Feel yourself settling into a more cheered, tranquil place.  

All because you paused to take a breath.  Sprinkle mindful breaths throughout your day. 

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THE REFLECTING POOL  

Sounds of my flute drift out of my open window.  

Sounds of my flute drift out of my open window to move thought nature to the world.   

Sounds of my flute drift out of my open window.  To move thought nature to the world  takes only a single breath.

– Cara Lumen

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CARA’S CORNER

RETHINK OUR HERE AND NOW

The US is more divided than I knew. My eyesight needs me to make specific changes in what I offer and how I do it. My body is doing good things but odd things. I have some adjustments to make in the here and now.  

Stop where you are and look around. How has it changed for you? What is working? What is not working?  Make some plans and take some steps to experiment.  

Begin with making room for the new.  That means clearing some things out, letting go.  Do that physically and mentally and emotionally. Let go of beliefs that turn out to be incorrect or uninformed.  Let go of those that are so ingrained that you barely notice them.  Look at every aspect of or life and make new choices. 

Invite change into your life. 

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A DEEPER SONG

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.  – Wayne Dyer

Keep singing a deeper song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song 

I help those seeking to sing a deeper song to expand their relationship with the Unseen world.

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

Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they

Join the Deeper Song Community

Holding High Watch for the World

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Holding High Watch for the World

Insights From A Deeper Song

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

When I was a spiritual counselor in the Center for Spiritual Living in Santa Rosa, California several of us were always assigned to do High Watch for the service.  That meant we stayed focussed on the energy not the details of the service. 

I’m holding High Watch for the US elations.  I’m holding High Watch for the world and the pandemic. I’m holding High Watch for the environment.  

You get what you believe you deserve and what you believe is possible.  So although I have no clue how this gigantic evolution of multi-faceted change will unfold, I do know what I need to do. Hold a vision.  A vision of all of us living in harmony and inclusiveness  A vision of caring for each other.  A vision of new choices that save our environment.  

This period of time is a huge opportunity to manifest change.  We do that by our expectation – what we believe we deserve and what we believe is possible.

Look closely at what you are thinking. Turn it toward a positive outcome. 

All of humanity needs to be kinder to each other,  All of humanity needs to care for the environment. As I watch those who step forward to lead work to unify these varied needs and beliefs I am grateful that there are those who want to help us untangle what we have woven and move into an experience of harmony and inclusiveness and conscious caring for our planet and each other. That is the vision I hold.  I keep being myself living in the image of that environment – where everyone seeks to choose for the highest good for all.  

We make this positive change as we raise our own vibration and vision and believe in our ability to manifest change.  

We must be persistent and consistent. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I hold High Watch for the World

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Create a daily practice in which you consciously center yourself, expand your own energy, raise your vibration, and radiate your light into the world with the intent of raising the vibration of those who can raise theirs. 
  • Additional Exploration: 

How to Activate a Tree Messenger to Send Your Healing Energy into the Word.

The Emergence of Collective Individual Spirituality

How to Hold the Space for the New Vision to Emerge

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MY DEEPER SONG THIS WEEK

How to Lob Light Balls to the World

An Exploration of the Unseen World

Sometimes I feel helpless, sitting here, one person with a great desire to heal our world.  I always feel better when I lob a few light balls to the areas of conflict.

Lob a light ball.  We can all do that.  I don’t see it as putting out a fire, I see it as raising the vibration so those who see it recognize their own powerful personal light and bring their light to the situation they are in.  

And when they, do, when they join us, we collectively raise the vibrio of the planet.  

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore
How to Lob Light Balls to the World

(Listen Here)

(14 minutes)

With Transcript

Listen to
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify /Google

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

How to Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

New Consciousness – New State of Being  

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Inner Work

THANK YOUR BODY

The instructions were simple – appreciate your body, let it know you care.  

A month or so ago I Christina Gerber energetically removed a blockage in my right hip. I was emotionally aware of it leaving.  When I woke the next morning I knew my pelvis and realigned.  But that also meant that all the surrounding muscles were truly ticked off at being asked to work in a different manner.  It makes sense to talk to your body.  So I use essential oils, I thanked my body for its realignment, and together we are working things out.

What part of our body do you need to thank today?

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Outer Work

ADJUST AND KEEP GOING

I have to get creative to accommodate the dry macular degeneration in my eyes. I have used the dictation feature on my Mac before but after really working at making the corrections to my typing, it occurred to me that I must begin to use it more often.  (Choose Edit >speech from the Edit menu) I have to say the punctuation out loud.  And I think super fast and type super fast so there will be some adjustments in my delivery speed. But in the long run, it will make the Grammarly check steps faster and easier because it will be typed in right in the first place.  That’s a change I am going to make.  

What fairly large change do you need to make that will serve you better in the long run?

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PASSIVE INCOME

I consider myself an entrepreneur and when I was coaching I coached entrepreneurs.  There is a concept called passive income. That means you create something that people can buy without direct interaction with you  Thus the idea of “passive”  You make money while you sleep. You create it, make it available online and accept the income.

An online course comes to mind. You create a learning experience, put it in an online learning environment, and go create something else.  Does that idea fit into your business plan?

I guess most of our work goes off on its own to help those who find it.  New people continue to join our Deeper Song Coming from all over the world and I have absolutely no idea how they found me. But I do put my offering out there – a lot.  

Expand where and how you offer your work and let those who need it find it.  

Whether you create something to serve as a lead magnet or passive income, give some thought to what you can offer to help people connect with you with a smile click on a link. 

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THE ART OF NEGATION

Jake Tapper was interviewing US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and one of the most compelling things she said was that she looked forward to collaborating with Joe Biden.  Theire views are a bit different but when both sides are willing to move toward a middle ground, progress is made. 

There seem to be many reasons we hold on to our views. But they are just that  – our viewpoint just s others hold their own viewpoint.  

When negotiating, we begin by looking at the overall objective.  What is our common goal? Once we establish that, we begin to discuss the options, the details.  But first, we have to have an agreed-upon common goal. 

That takes us back to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.  If you are in survival you cannot think about esoteric overviews. Know who you choose to serve and seek out those who are in a mindset to see the overview and the possibilities that resonate with you.  

Where are you on the pyramid and what are you able to see and consider from there? 

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KNOW  YOUR ROLE

One of the interesting aspects of being old is that you sure can look back and see the patterns, patterns that kept returning.  I’m a good writer (I took that skill into professional radio and television and copywriting)  I’m a great organizer I’ve had my share of being in charge of things) I have used what I learned in my degrees in theater to move into podcasting. 

Look at where you are now and identify the most satisfying things you do.  It can be at work, at home or at play. What action makes you feel centered, focused, aligned, and gives you great joy and satisfaction?

Do more of that.

It’s good to know what your role is in the overall unfolding. 

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DEEPER SONGS I HEARD THIS WEEK

Online learning is a fabulous way to expand your world.  I am in a weekly Shamanic Class with Hank Wesselman, I just signed up for a FB group with shamanist  Sandra Ingerman and I am taking an advanced native flute course with Christine Stevens.  I’ve been on several summits this year – Shamanism, Sound Healing, Qi Gong. Check out The Shift Network and Sounds True and see what calls to you.

And don’t overlook your community colleges who are now offering more online learning.    

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OUR EVOLVING FUTURE

The US election is this week and we truly are fighting for the soul or our country.  We each have a choice because we are a democracy.  And we live with that majority chooses because we are a democracy.  

How we contrite to our future is by changing ourselves.  We need to monitor our beliefs, our actions, our thoughts.  Keep raising your vibration and shining your iight.  Stand up for our one-ness 

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CARA’S CORNER

THE PATH AHEAD 

My sense of strong change for my work is well, getting stronger.  I am patient and I am alert.  I am also excited.  

As the year comes to a close I pause to see what has changed. I like what I am experiencing. There is a whole new year ahead and oddly enough I cannot look very far into it because I am so content with what I have crafted in the here and now. But this increasing awareness of unfolding continues. It is exciting and I am patient.

I know that new portals of exploration are beginning to open. I will keep journeying to deepen my adventures in the Unseen World, but I have no timeline.  I only see the coming year as a slowly opening doorway to… who knows.  I’m going exploring…

I do know that I am going to offer more processes in my podcasts, experiences you can have as you listen.  That’s a rewarding new emphasis – learning techniques to deepen our connection with the unseen world.

I can feel something changing for me so I have begun to listen and see what I can learn.

It may mean looking at the harvest of my year to see what worked and what I want to do more of – and less of.

I am coming into balance.. As I get better at recording and editing, my offerings, in particular, have become balanced in the time and energy it takes to do them.

On a personal level, I have some new habits that I have begun or are evolving that are both physical and spiritual.

I am listening to my guides to see what I am to share with you. It’s like waiting to open a present!!!!

But most of all I am aware of a slight shift in my purpose that will affect what I offer. I cain’t put that into words yet, but I feel the shift and it is changing where I look for my answers. 

Go exploring and see what your inner voice tells you about change and the year that is approaching.

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A DEEPER SONG

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

Keep singing a deeper song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song 

I help those seeking to sing a deeper song to expand their relationship with the Unseen world.

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Create Intentional Sacred Space

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Create Intentional Sacred Space

Insights From A Deeper Song

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

I sat here buzzing with the powerful energy from the items I had placed in front of  me.  I felt I was being surrounded with healing, wholing, energy and I just sat there and soaked it in. The  energy flowing toward me was incredibly powerful. 

I had just rearranged the items I have around me at my desk, in particular, the shelf I face that is an altar.  Granted, I have lots of great crystals and meaningful objects but this was a huge and unexpected experience.  

I have a small desk with a shelf across the back. I have been using for my major altar since I spend a lot of time at my desk. I took everything off the shelf and then listened to my inner voice to see what belonged there now.  

I journeyed to recite guidance from my helping spirits.  

I was told my shelf alter was to have three areas, each with a specific intention. The middle area was to guide me on my inner world exploration to the Unseen world,  the right side was to honor my guardians and guides and the left side was for my personal transformation. 

I listened to my inner voice as I intuitively selected things to put back on the shelf/alar. Not everything was returned. Sometimes it made a difference where an item was placed.  Even a few inches sometimes felt different.  I would hear an inner voice that said no, it belongs over there”.  So I moved it. I put back less than I took off and I can clearly identify the three areas of personal choice, adventure, and guidance from the Unseen World.

I had a lot of things left over.

I moved them away from the area and sat there with my newly arranged shelf/alter and felt the energy surround me –  More energy than I have possibly ever felt from simply rearranging objects.  I became wrapped in and healed by and guided by the arrangements of the items I had chosen and placed there. 

I sat there for a long, long time and absorbed the powerful energy flowing from my new altar arrangement.   I became aware that my arrangement suggested a triangle with me as the point. No wonder I was blown away by the energy. As I sit at my desk my altar sends me very intense, powerful energy.  

And all I had done was clean and rearrange one shelf.  

It was interesting to have a purpose for each area.  Particularly the area that held the objects that were to help me create change in my life.  Change is about letting go and making room for and consciously choosing what I want in m life.  

My mala beads are in that area and I will use them each time I journey.  Three are in a stone bowl with rocks from New Zealand and Hawaii and Australia that were gifts that called loudly to be worked with more often. They have very powerful energy and much guidance to offer.  I added a multipointed calcite that represents an antenna for my healing voice and my podcasts going off into the world. In my adventure area I have items that represent my path and a multi-pointed light box crystal that to me represents a space ship going off to adventure.  My first power animal was a dragon so my alter has several.  And in the area that reprints my guides and guardian in the unseen world I have a small vase with a lotus that represents may wiliness as a receptive adventurer to accept ongoing changes. On the wall behind my altar is a lithograph I have carried with me for 50 years of a manual typewriter on a desk with a conch shell on the bookshelf behind it – writing is at the core of my life.  

I have been working with energy for a long, long, long time and this was one of the most powerful experiences I have ever had. 

It came from listening to my inner voice and making conscious choices.  

That’s a good way to live life.  

Place your altar in a place where you spend a lot of time. With the space empty,  mediate and let your guides suggest and deepen the purpose of the whole altar or a specific part of it. Then follow your inner voice and make choices. Thoughtfully and with energetic awareness place items in it. Let things call to you from all over your home. Choose one at a time, listening to where it wants to go. Sometimes even a shift of a few inches makes a difference in the power of the energy. 

What you keep around you makes a huge difference in the energy you experience. 

This altar is in my workspace. I send a lot of time here.  But I also have altars by my meditation char.  Take your time and energetically and mindful manifest and arrange your altars.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I create an altar that deepens my insight and awareness.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Select a location for your altar.
  • What is the purpose of that space?  Creativity, contemplation, inspiration, steady workflow?
  • Take everything out of that space and begin by looking at the location it occupies in the room. I turned my meditation chair to face the window so I can look out at nature while I play my flutes. The back of the chair now faces the room, but I face nature!
  • Put back the essentials.  My compeer for instance since my altar is at my workspace.. Will a slight change in positioning make a difference in the natural light? What do I need within reach?
  • Take your time.  Sit with each item you bring back in to hear where it would like to be placed.   
  • Be sensitive to how the energy changes with each addition.  Sometimes even slight adjustments make big changes in the energy.
  • When it feels complete, stop.  
  • Do this selective energetic practice to create other altars in your home

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MY DEEPER SONG THIS WEEK

The Power Of Our Luminous Light

An Exploration of the Unseen World

There are specific steps you can take to consciously expand your awareness of your luminous energy. With deepened awareness comes an increased awareness of our collective energy as we experience that energy joining with others to balance our world. Let me show you how to consciously expand our Luminous Light Energy and expand our Light Collective. 

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore

The Power Of Our Luminous Light

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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe

Three Ways  Raise Your Vibration

The Concept of One and the You as Observer

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness?

How to Direct Energy Outside fo Time and Space

Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

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Inner Work

HOW TO DEAL WITH NEGATIVITY

What you focus on you see.  But even as you look for and find positivity in our life, some negative may show up.  How do you protect yourself?

Raise your vibration.  Shine your light brighter.  

You can easily put up a Transformative Shield; (How to Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection ) which changes negativity into positivity – the fear or anger or apprehension you feel is immediately transformed and the negative energy that reaches the outside of your Transformative Shield also changes into positive energy to go back to the sender….

The next time you come across anyone who is angry or negative, put up your Transformative Shield and sit there and radiate light.  You do not move into the energy of the other person or the situation. Shift your focus to your own heart. Take some centering breaths, and sit there and radiate out streams of positive, high vibration.  

Notice if and how and when the negative person or situation changes. 

You now have control over your response to any negativity that shows up in a person or a situation  

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Outer Work

REDEFINE YOUR OFFERING

In these changing times, we need to develop a new perspective about how we earn our living, how we are in service, how we develop our own entrepreneurial offerings. 

For instance, I was coaching someone who wants to help people with money management and I realized the word “money” is not as meaningful as the words that describe what money brings us – safety, food, shelter – some people are having a harder time with those basics than others. Money also means learning, security, free time, adventure, an easy retirement…

So a goal of helping people with their money is not targeted enough and not emotionally connected enough.  If you are focusing on an entrepreneurial business, what specific outcome can you offer that will change a core situation for those you want to serve? What can you teach/show others how to do that will change their lives?

For instance, my podcast, Reflections of a Deeper Song helps us:

  • Expand our relationship with our inner world and learn to interpret its powerful guidance.
  • Raise the frequency of our vibration so we can be of greater service to the planet
  • Expand our role as Transformational  Leaders in the Unfolding of the New Consciousness

I help transcendent leaders who are stepping forward to define their role and potential participation so together we can build the bridges and pathways that guide us all into the New Consciousness. 

The catch is, none of this is very specific, it is more about an unfolding journey, an evolving future so I can only address the energy that we are cultivating in order to move into this new way of being.  But I do offer specific tools to use during the journeys that keep you aligned with your sou’s purpose.

Explore some phrases that describe your service to others and see if they open up some new portals to be explored. 

Who do you help and what do you help them do?

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THE POWER OF YOUR INDIVIDUAL CHOICE

I voted this week. I have not missed an election since I started voting.  What a powerful experience to know that I have a voice in this world, in my country, in my city.  

We must make informed choices, thoughtful choices for the highest good for all and vote our conscious. 

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THE ENERGY OF THE PLANETS

I’m not very deep into Astrology but I have noticed that my actively seem to slow down right before the New Moon and my energy and willingness and accomplishments take off with the New Moon.  It’s rather like being shot out of a cannon.

If this interests you, begin to notice your seemingly stuck times and your I-can-do-anything times and see if the moon phases have anything to do with it.  Then plan accordingly.

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OUR POSTURE

Bending over a computer or a phone will eventually make you unable to stand up straight. I know this from experience. 

Between bifocals and diminishing eyesight, and a huge amount of time at my computer, my body has not been happy. It resists standing up straight. Then I discovered this awesome OMOTON Laptop Stand, Adjustable Laptop Stand for Desk, Portable Foldable Laptop Holder 

It raises and tilts your laptop so you have to sit up straight with your shoulders relaxed. It is already proving to be be a posture game-changer!  It would make a great stocking stuffer.

Look at your own posture.  Look at the posture of your chorine and begin now to make the changes that keep your spine straight.  You want to be able to stand upright in your old age! Trust me

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DEEPER SONGS I HEARD THIS WEEK

A pandemic dance craze “Jerusalema” dance crazehas brought the world togetherat a time when we really need it. Check out these animal caretakers showing their four-legged pals some moves for the catchy song.  (Click here to rock out.)

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OUR EVOLVING FUTURE

I am sensing a new  awareness of my unfolding role in the New Consciousness.  It has not taken shape yet but I can feel it evolving.  I am fascinated. I am patient.  I am curious, and I am willing.  

Watch for the nudges from the Unseen World and see how where they are taking you.

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CARA’S CORNER

THE YEAR AHEAD

I’m a bit ahead of myself here but I’m giving some thoughts to next year, 2021.  What would I like it to hold for me, for the planet?  You begin by looking at where you are now because all your thoughts and actions brought you here. 

A few things for me are settled. Podcasts are ow my preferred platform  I love writing in this newsletter all week.  I like the Still Point quotes I offer because I have to consider them more deeply myself in order to write the sentences and process. So in one sense, I’m tucked in with my work for the coming year. 

But what needs to unfold is my direction.  I know it is exploring the Unseen World but since it is the Unseen World and I only know to use intentions to direct my exploration, I cannot make plans. 

Now that’s actually a good thing as I participate in this changing world we are living in.  We do not know the future so how do we make plans?

For me, the strongest step is to listen to my Inner Voice.  The more I listen the more I hear.  I pay attention.  Often it is in the form of a phrase I like and I sit down and write how we might apply that or add that concept to our consciousness.

We have to trust.  Trust that the perfect ideas will come to us and trust that we will hear them and trust that the steps we figure out to take are the most effective ones. 

So there is not much to do right now except look back over the year and see what was effective, what I had a great time doing, what touches my heart, and see if I can find some clues to what is going to unfold. 

Then I have to trust. I have to trust my body to hear the messages and trust my ability to apply what I am shown and share it in a way that you get it too. 

2021.  Look over your year at what you have harvested and give some thought to what you want to plant next year. 

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A DEEPER SONG

I’d like to think I am a seed, planting awareness. – Rumi

Keep singing a deeper song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song 

I help those seeking to sing a deeper song to expand their relationship with the Unseen world.

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

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What Lead Energy Are You Holding?

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What Lead Energy Are You Holding?

Insights From A Deeper Song


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

One of the most powerful ways we can help change the world around us is to simply hold space. How we hold that space is what will affect the results that manifest. We need to create space for quiet, internal awareness so our Lead Energy is positive and compelling. Did you know that when you send love to your immune system the cells respond? That’s very powerful to know.  What happens when we send love to our planet? 

At any given moment ask “What is my Lead Energy?”   If it is not as positive and inclusive as you would like, change it.

I had not thought about my Lead Energy until I heard Daisy Lee talk about it on the Qi Gong Summit.  What energy is expressing itself in me right now? What energy is leading me forward? Anxiety or compassion and love? I have choice in each moment but first I have to identify my Lead Energy and then see how or if or how I want to change it.

That’s a hugely important question to ask as you move through your day. What energy am I leading with right now?  If you don’t like the answer change it.

Pause and experience your energy right now.  What are you focusing on?  What are you concerned about?  Are you angry or sad or serenely balanced?  Are you tense or released?  Centered or unfocused? Develop tools to return yourself to the center like breathing in serene energy and on the exhale, releasing the energy you no longer want to maintain. Breath is a cornerstone of the Qi Gong work.  There are many hand moments in Qi Gong that are gently gathering the support of the earth into your body, then reaching to the stars to bring in that wisdom and guidance. You can do that with just your breath too.  

Together, we create a group chi field that has a particular resonance that is a result of our individual intentional choices of our Lead Energy. 

Through intent and focus, merge your centered, focused Lead Energy into the Group Chi Energy field.  That Group Chi Field expresses outward into the world. It expands as our conscious intentions become focused in it.

First, understand yourself. Learn to become aware of your Lead Energy in different situations. Change your lead energy with focused intention and you will change the impact you have on the world.  As you increase your personal positive Chi energy, it merges with the global world energy and lifts the collective.

Share your authentic, vital essence.  People look at how you share, what you share, and how you embody your beliefs.  When you come from a place of inclusiveness and integrity, it attracts those you are meant to serve and reminds them of those qualities within themselves. Our centered existence is a powerful form of activism. 

Activism thorough Being has great power.  There is stability in maintaining the peace of mind and peace of heart to hold space for others.  It takes courage to be a centered, loving energy among the chaos.  We lead by example. Others see our serene stillness and respond by stilling and centering themselves. 

When we maintain centered stillness, we become a stable lead energy to the world around us. Our Lead Energy continues personal alignment and inclusive compassion. It becomes a beacon of light, a role model for how things can be. We truly become a beacon of peaceful coexistence. 

We each manage our own energy.  What ripples out, what particular stone we choose to drop into the quiet pond to become the lead energy comes from our choice in every moment. Stay conscious.  Be aware. Chose wisely.

I like the idea of being a stone dropped into a quiet pond to see my energies of centered stillness move gently out into the world. 

What lead energy are you maintaining?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am continually aware of the focus of my energy and
keep myself serenely centered.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Pause right now and notice where your energy is focused. What is your Lead Energy?
  • Do you want/need to change your focus?
  • What Lead Energy are you sharing with the world? If it is not what you want, change it.

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MY DEEPER SONG THIS WEEK

How to Cultivate Deep Listening
An Exploration of the Unseen World

You have access to great wisdom when you cultivate deep listening.  It begins with your intuition, your hunches, your nudges, and moves into the deep listening of your inner voice and your imagination.  

It’s a journey of learning to trust.  It’s a skill of learning to interpret.  And it is the open portal to the Unseen World. 

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore
How to Cultivate Deep Listening
(12 Minutese)

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Inner Work

BREATH AND THE SPIRITUAL WORLD

When you breathe you move into the spiritual world. 

There was much emphasis on breathing in the Qi Gong Summit.  It is simple to use and it is very, very powerful.  

We use breath for clearing. We use breath for connection.  We use breath for self-healing.  We use breathe to live!

Close tour eyes and energetically connect with the center of the earth,  draw  in that life force, that energy of nature, and bring it up through your body to your heart.  Then reach up to your Soul Star and pull down wisdom and guidance and love into your heart. Sit with that awareness of wisdom and support. Sit there and radiate out your serenity.

Our breath connects us with our spiritual world.  Pause often and reach out. 

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Outer Work

WHERE IS YOUR NEXT PLACE OF SERVICE?

Those of us who are retired, or about to be, have a whole new world opening up to us.  In business, we look for who we want to serve.  I’m suggesting that in retirement we look for what we want to learn.  And go do that.  

Don’t look at it as a hobby.  Look at it as a calling, something you are to learn and share with others. 

The choice to follow what you want to learn is invigorating, stimulating, expanding, and frees you to follow whatever path calls to you.  When you turn and share your discoveries with others, it is exciting and rewarding. You are continually deepening your contribution to the world as you are expanding your own gifts.

You have 30 years in which to explore, to learn what calls to you, and share it in many ways.  Put those years to strong productive use creating work you can share that will change the lives of others. 

Now THAT’S retirement!

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OUR EVOLVING FUTURE

It is time for us to weave a new dream for the earth. Our thoughts create our reality so let’s get busy.

This is not about dreaming things back the way they were.  There are a lot of signs that were not working so well.  Turn away from the past and start weaving our future by noticing what is new, like solar cars, and 3-D houses printed in two weeks, and plastic roads and solar panels in the driveway that provide energy for the whole house, or the fact the solar panels can now be installed in apartment windows to provide energy. Those are major game changers we need to incorporate into our vision of the future. 

The old ways are over.  We are to leave them behind and turn toward the future.  In doing so we must have our values firmly in place – compassion, inclusion, the well-being of all, always choosing for the highest good for all. It is a change in our awareness, in our focus, in our thinking.

Monitor your thoughts. Our thoughts create our reality so examine what you think is possible and rid yourself of limitations of what you used to believe. 

Get creative in your dreaming for the New Consciousness that is forming. Open yourself to amazing possibilities.  And leave the old world behind. We are dreaming a new one into being!!!

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CARA’S CORNER

Find Your Flow

My friend was trying to get herself organized and she had blocked off segments of time for specific actions. I told her I pretty much go with the flow.  I honor my natural rhythm. What is your natural rhythm? Have you stopped to find out?

My creative time is my most precious so it always has priority whenever it shows up in m day. 

However, I want to add more Qi Gong in my life so I have begun doing a Chi Gong move each time I get up from my desk. Rather than setting aside a specific time in which to do a specific series of moments, I sprinkle Qi Gong throughout my day. I get in a lot of sprinkles.  I do Qi Gong When I leave my desk before I retune to my desk when I change tasks throughout the day.  Qi Gong is a serene, centering,  contemplative rhythm that is changing my experience of my day. 

Do specific work when your energy calls for it. I am most creative in the morning so whenever I get to my desk, that becomes about 90 minutes of making stuff up. I love that part. I eat and have tea at 11 while watching the View.  I take a shamanic journey at 12:30. My afternoon work is about complexing something. I am searching for the time I am willing to cook in mid-afternoon. 

Each day I only commit to one work task and one home care task. That doesn’t mean that’s all l do, it means that’s all l have on my to-do list.  It could be to record two podcasts and take out the trash.  The rest of my day unfolds organically but that’s all I have on my list to do. That allows me to not feel overwhelmed. I do the tasks I have chosen to do according to my natural energy flows.

It also helps when I focus on one type of action a day – a focus on recording, a focus on editing, a focus on writing.  I work in pairs on my podcast since they are short so I’m always ahead of my schedule. 

Be flexible and responsive to your energy and/or inner nudges. Leave space to resend to sudden bursts of inspiration.  When you are responsive to your moods and stay flexible in your schedule it leaves room for you to deep dive into anything that calls to you. I may take a shamanic journey and get some deep idea I want to share and turn right then and write a podcast draft. I often get a phrase that interests me and I go off to explore in writing. I can do that because my time is flexible and I am responsive to my inner voice. 

Notice your energy flow. When do you want to be active?  What do you want in your day? When do you need to rev up your energy? What do you want to make more room to do?  Having a short to-do list allows me creative flexibility in what I do and when I do it. 

Being organising your time by noticing your energy levels.  Play with that until you find what suits you and your energy flow. Keep your schedule flexible!

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A DEEPER SONG

“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.” – Kahlil Gibran.

Keep singing a deeper song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song 

I help those seeking to sing a deeper song to expand their relationship with the Unseen world.

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

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