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REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG
An Inner World Exploration

J-1 – Foundation For The Journey Within –
Create Your Sacred GArden

Within the inner world of your invisible self is a personal place of power and healing. It is a sanctuary for guidance, introspection, and spiritual deepening.  It is available to everyone.

Your Sacred Garden in your personal sanctuary. It is a place of self-healing. It is the starting place for meditation, for shamanic journeys.

It this episode, Cara Lumen, spiritual explorer and founder of the Deeper Song Community, leads you on a guided meditation to create this inner sanctuary for your own spiritual practice.

Using the ancient introspective method of shamanic mediations called “journeying”, Cara guides you to the inner realms where you create your personal place of refuge. Everything you find in your Sacred Garden is an aspect of you, a symbolic, metaphoric message from your inner self.

Whether you want to mediate for self-healing, a deeper understanding of your soul purpose, the well-being of our world, or insights and wisdom for your daily life, you begin your meditative journey in the sanctuary of your Sacred Garden.

In this episode. Cara will guide you in building a transpersonal bridge between the inner and outer world and help you uncover the treasures of your inner self.

In this episode: 

1. Discover the purpose of Your Sacred Garden. What is it, why you want to use it, how to create it.

2, Journey to your invisible worlds to create this sacred inner retreat.

3. Learn how to immediately add the Sacred Garden to your own spiritual practice.

Resources: 

Drumming Recording: For your personal practice, this drumming tape by Shamanist Sandra Ingerman will help you move gently into a receptive state for your journey. Your journey can be as long or as short as it turns out to be.

In this episode Cara use a Tibetan Hand Bell / Meditation & Prayer Bells / Dorje / Vajra – Medium.  There is a variety of these available.

Further Study: If you want to learn more about shamanism I suggest you begin with the book Awakening to the SpiritWorld, the Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation by Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman, both of whom I have studied with.

You can also take courses from both Sandy and Hank at The Shift Network.

THE JOURNEY TO THE INNER WORLD SERIES

The first three podcasts should be listened to in order.  They lay the foundation.

J-1 Foundation For The Journey Within – Create Your Sacred Garden

NEXT: J-2 Connecting with your Power Animal

Listen to Earlier Podcasts of
Reflections of a Deeper Song 

The Rise of the Feminine is at Hand.

Are you ready to adjust?

The Incas thought in terms of 500-year cycles. We’re just entering a cycle of the feminine. We’re coming from the aggressive, warrior, masculine energy into – well, it can go both ways – soft and nurturing and the individualist, the explorer, the leader, the philosopher. How we do things, how we see things, will be affected.

What does that mean in your work place? In your relationships? In your choices? What can you do right now to prepare yourself to take advantage of this long-time-in-coming shift in power?

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher, explorer, guide and founder of the Deeper Song Community helps us sing a deeper song. In this episode, she discusses three important changes we might make in order to move smoothing into the age of the feminine.
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In this episode, we consider:
1. How do we free ourselves from thinking the masculine is the right way – or even the only way? This is going to take some work.
2. How do we define and accept the new way of approaching life – the feminine more flexible way?
3. Why we must learn to become very tolerant of others who resist the change.

TO REFLECT ON YOUR DEEPER SONG CONSIDER:
Message from a Rainbow Mother
How Being Different Makes You Special
The Many Faces of Your Calling
46 – How the People You Hang With Affect Your Life
27 – Why Have You Been Chosen

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If you are the sum total of the five people you hang out with most, do the people you have around you now actively support you? Are they helping you achieve what you want to do? Or do you need to make some changes in the people you have allowed into your life? Who are the best people to choose and how do you fire a friend?

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher, explorer, and founder of the Deeper Song Community helps us sing a deeper song. In this episode she discusses the specific balance you need to keep among the three types of people you spend the most time with.

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In this episode we explore the balanced formula for choosing the people you invest the most time with:
1. One third are people who need your help.
2. One third are friends who support you in your daily life process.
3. One third are people that you can learn from.

Explore the balance of personal friends you have in your life right now and find out how to make more supportive choices.

TO REFLECT ON YOUR DEEPER SONG, CONSIDER:

40 – Who Do You Want to Serve?
39- The Power of Active Listening
28 – How to Walk Beside Someone in Service
27 – Why Have You Been Chosen?
What Do You Save Space for in Your Life?
Balance and the Flow of Living
Mindfulness as a Path to Self-Awareness
How Do You Nurture “Different”

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Have you ever come to the end of a day and realized that you have missed most of it – that you have rushed through tasks and hurried through conversations and have never taken a moment to experience what was happening?

Your life can become more serene, more enlightened, when you learn to be more mindful. There are specific steps and mindfulness takes practice.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher, explorer and founder of the Deeper Song Community help us sing a deeper song. In this episode she offers specific steps on how to become a more mindful presence.

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In this episode we consider:
Being mindful, to me, is about being present. It’s about giving my full attention to everything around me and to every choice I make. To do this I have several triggers that help me stay focused on what is going on.
1. Be still and listen
2. Interpret the signals
3. Allow life to unfold

TO REFLECT ON YOUR DEEPER SONG CONSIDER:

Mindfulness as a Path to Self-Awareness
41 – How to Make Decisions When Your Let Your Life Unfold
36 – Engage the Power of Trust
35—How to Hold the Space for Change
Balance and the Flow of Living
Embracing Tao
Live in the Nowhere That You Came from
The Freedom of Not knowing

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If you can’t explain what you do in words that help others see how you can help them you will never make a connection. Here are three powerful methods that help you identify your core purpose and the phrases that help others understand what you do.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher, explorer, map-maker and founder of the Deeper Song Community help us sing a deeper song. In this episode she discusses core positioning steps that serve to move you to a new level of understanding of why you do what you do and how you can explain that clearly to others.
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In this episode we explore three defining methods:
1. The “who and do what” statement that will help you clarify what you do.
2. The “I exist to serve by..” exercise that helps you find your core purpose
3. How to find the simple words you say in casual conversation that truly convey your message.

TO REFLECT ON YOUR DEEPER SONG CONSIDER:
The Length of Your Reach
The Many Faces of Your Calling
What Do You Do for People That They Can’t Get Elsewhere?
40 – Who Do yo Want to Serve?
34- Use Labels to Expand Your Possibilities

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