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The Power Of Our Luminous Light

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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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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

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The Power Of Our Luminous Light

An Exploration of the Unseen World

We have great power. We have great power as individuals and we have even more power as a collective.

I would like to teach you a simple, powerful meditative practice that will expand our Light Collective. 

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. 

I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am 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. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

Thank you for being a part of this journey.

In this episode of Reflections of a Deeper Song, we talk about The Power Of Our Luminous Light

It is important to know how to work with the Power Of Our Luminous Light because it raises our own vibration and it empowers us to make a difference in our world and in our lives and in and the lives of others. Raising our Luminous Light firmly establishes us in the Collective Consciousness that is raising the vibration of the entire planet. 

Find a quiet place in which to experience your Luminous Light where you will not be disturbed. This is a guided mediation.

We begin by centering ourselves. Become aware of the place four inches below your belly button. It is called the Tan Tien and it is the center of energy in your body, your chakra energy system. If you like, you can place your hands upon your abdomen but you can also just sit quietly and feel the energy expand from that Tan Tien place of power.  

Take a slow breath and breathe into your TanTien in your lower abdomen.  Feel it expand and quicken.  Let that energy radiate and expand.  Exhale.

Continue to breathe evenly and allow this inner light energy to become more intense.  Feel it radiate throughout your torso.  Let light energy fill your legs. Let light energy fill your arms and hands and fingers. Let light energy fill your head, the back of your head, your face, your crown, your third eye,  feel that energy fill your head.  Your whole body is tingling, your third eye is expanding. You become aware of your connection to the unseen worlds. Allow this core energy to expand until you feel you are radiating luminous energy –  light energy, vibrational energy from every pore in your body. Feel that pushing vibration radiate out. Feel that radiant energy create a golden circle around your entire body.

Now that we have centered our selves in our Tan Tien, the second step is to expand our light. 

With each exhale, feel your vibration strengthening in power and reach. Sit quietly and tingle and radiate energy from your entire body. As you align your whole being with the energy body created at your spiritual core, feel yourself heal and balance in your physical expression, feel your vibration increase in power as you heal and balance all levels of your body –  physical, emotional, spiritual. 

As you mindfully absorb your inner light, begin to extend that light into your room. Fill that room with your increasing,  vibrating light energy. Each corner, each object, absorbs the light and begins to radiate at a higher frequency. The whole room is humming with balanced energy.

Extend your radiating energy to the rest of your home. Extend your radiating energy to the land surrounding your home. Extend your radiating energy to your community. Extend your radiating energy to the world. Sit there in this amazing state of tingling vibration, feeling yourself  radiating, sharing your light energy, your radiant energy,  your spiritual energy with the entire planet.  

Firsts, we have centered our energy in our Tan Tien, we have raised our vibration within our body. Then we have sent that raised vibration out into the world.  The third step is to join our raised energy with the raised energy of others to increase the power of the collective field. 

It takes being light to see other lights. Now that you are were of our own raised vibration, you will easily recognize others who have raised theirs. 

Notice the other vibrating lights nearby.  They may be colored. They may be iridescent. They may be pulsing. They may be steady. 

Consciously and intentionally begin to join your radiating light with theirs until the entire group of luminous lights encircles the earth and the layer of light grows deeper and thicker as more luminous lights join in. 

Then just be.  Be that vibration. Be pure light. Know that you are a part of a global and galactic healing that is taking place by the simple act of being aware of being light, raising that light, and consciously radiating light in tote world.   Feel your power increase as you join your energy with others in this powerful and ever-expanding field of light energy  

Sit there as long as you like.

When you are ready, know that your light still radiates at this tiger frequency, even as you gradually bring your attention back to an awareness of the existence of your body. Return your focus to your Tan Tien.  Sit there and radiate out your expanded light field, your own Luminous Light.

You can access your Luminous Light any time.  Once you establish your awareness of your luminous light body it will become easier to access in more conscious moments. 

The steps are: 

  • Establish your awareness of the luminous light within you and raise your vibration. 
  • Radiate your energy body into the world. You join with others doing the same, each raised light expanding the growing power of the collective consciousness. 
  • You experience everything as one.  One energy. One spiritual essence. One All That Is.

Slowly bring your awareness back into your body and notice how you feel.  You have just expanded your Luminous Light 

This is how we change our world. This is how we change our future.  By raising our vibration and  radiating light. We don’t direct our energy field.  We simply radiate and expand our vibration and those who are ready, when they are ready, will recognize that vibration within themselves and consciously join their light with ours, their vibration with ours.  And the light field of illumined energy will grow stronger and brighter.  

Take this Luminous Light Journey every day. This is our collective energy body, core light, whole light, and it will attract others to join with it in wholeness – on all levels – in your body and in your Invisible self.  Your aura extends 22 feet from your body so as you radiate you will be sharing your light with all you pass on the physical plane.

That is how we heal the world.  This is how we heal ourselves.

Radiate Luminous Light – every day.

  • I hope I brought you some new awareness, deeper ways to connect and insights and encouragement for your next steps. 
  • Pause to be with what we have explored.  See what portals have opened up for you.  Where you will go exploring next.  This is a Journey of Discovery and we walk this part of the path together. 
  • Ashe, The creative in me honors the creative in you. 
  • To join me on further explorations I invite you to subscribe to this Reflections of a Deeper song podcast.
  • I also encourage you to join the Deeper Song community at www.deepersong.com to receive weekly posts or this podcast and the Deeper Song newsletter.
  • Until next time, this is Cara Lumen inviting you to Come Sing a Deeper Song.

Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self

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An Exploration of the Unseen World

When I first read that 95% of the world was unseen I was excited but I knew I had a great deal of work to do and I didn’t exactly know where to begin.  So I went exploring. 

My job, as I see it, is to ask the right questions, and then interpret the answers I get in a manner that we both can understand.  Then I figure out how to apply that information to my human expression and share that will you. I will help you Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self

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

Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self

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Begin your
Exploration of the Unseen World
with  these two foundational steps:

How to Create a transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Gaia Gateway and the Soul Star 

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Space of Inner Knowing

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

The Unseen World Needs Us

Dance With the Harmonies Within

How to Direct Energy Outside fo Time and Space

Transcript

Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self

An Exploration of the Unseen World

When I first read that 95% of the world was unseen I was excited but I knew I had a great deal of work to do and I didn’t exactly know where to begin.  

If just 5% of the universe is known to us, the other 95% can only be explored through our Invisible Self. What a great adventure!

I’ve done a lot of exploring with and through my Invisible Self and I continue to find new ways to connect with and understand and get messages from the Unseen World. I use the meditative practdice of shamanic journeying and I go on amazing adventures.  I have learned over the years to move out of the way for automatic writing as I sit at my computer and let my fingers do the talking.  I trust those messages. I share those messages. I learn from those messages. 

My job is to interpret the ideas and insight and metaphors I receive and bring back their messages to share with you. Now I want to help you Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self so  you too can go adventuring!

I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am 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. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

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 Transcendent Leaders in the New Consciousness.

Thank you for being a part of this journey.

In this episode of Reflections o a Deeper Song we help you e  Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self.

The more I explore the Unseen World, the less alone I feel and the more empowered I become.  We have a LOT of help in the Unseen world, we just have to connect wit it, to learn to listen  to its message and interpret the nudges and hunches, the sudden knowing and the metaphorical messages it gives to us. 

The exploration of the Unseen World is an ongoing process.  As I continue to explore I find new ways to explore and discover  new realms to investigate.  

My job, as I see it, is to ask the right questions, and then interpret the answers I get in a manner that we both can understand.  Then I figure out how to apply that information to my human expression and share that will you. 

But we need to begin by understanding the difference between our body and our invisible self and how to listen to both.

First we are going to explore 

  • how our body communicates with the Unseen World. 
  • Then we will help you identify your Invisible Self – what it is and how to intentionally communicate with it.
  • And finally,  we will discuss how the  Invisible Self can guide us and guard us. 

So how doe s our body communicate with the Unseen World?

I see our physical expression  ia necessary but restrictive aspect of ourselves.  It is the tool for communication that we use with others in a physical expression, but when we move within, we can hear and experience much, much more.  We can begin to communicate with the Unseen World

We are very familiar with our body. It lives within the restriction of time and space. It is guided by emotion and our busy but limited mind. 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%! We want to explore more than that!

The Invisible Self is the all-encompassing energy that’s in and through and of everything. We first begin to know it through our imagination   intuition and our dreams. We can learn to consciously go exploring through our meditation, our  visioning and journeying. All are forms of inner awareness that lead us to the Invisible World.

Both our body and the Invisible Self are part of our whole but they use different ways to communicate.

One of the ways the Invisible Self communicates is through our emotions and thoughts 

We rely on our mind and feelings for most of our awareness and understanding. Our mind and feelings are how we interpret the signs and signals from the Unseen World. And remember, this communication is limited because it is all our body is capable of doing.

Our intuition and hunches are the first way we experience our Invisible Self speaking to us from Unseen World. 

Fist we acknowledge that there is an unseen world. Then we work to free ourselves from the limitations of our mind and emotions.  Then we can learn to explore our Invisible Self.

So what is our Invisible Self and how can we intentionally deepen our relationship to it?

We are more familiar with our body than with our invisible self.  

So what is this Invisible Self?  Where is it?  How do we access it?  Wha does it do?

Since 95% of the world is unseen we, here in the confines of our body, get glimpses of the Unseen World but then we limit ourselves by  interpreting what we experience from the limitations of our human body. We just have to learn to communicate with  our Invisible self, our presence in the Unseen World and we have to ask the right questions in order to get the answers we seek. 

The Invisible Self is eager to expand our relationships with it.  It has much to show us and tell us.  

Think of a time when you acted on intuition alone – you simply had a strong sense of “knowing” what the right choice was in that moment. That was the Unseen World nudging you.

My new wise saying is “The more you listen the more you will hear.”  We need to practice listening and we need to learn to interpret the sometimes subtle messages we receive.

Any time you find a way to tune into your inner voice, your inner knowing, it will speak to you. You could do this through mediation, dreaming, journaling, visioning, sound, automatic writing – any way you find to free yourself up from the confines of your limited human body so that you can hear and begin to interpret the Voice Within. 

I’m a writer and I’ve been listening to my inner voice for a good portion of my life but a few years ago some really outstanding phrases begin to show up as I typed.  They were so stunningly eloquent I just knew they were not from me. They seemed to come from nowhere and they surprised me.  I imagined a trio of bearded Shakespeare-type men sitting with quills pens over my right shoulder giving me these awesome phrases.  

Gradually I realized it was only me, me and my inner voice. I had made room fo my inner voice to speak though my body by listing and writing down what it was saying.  My Inner voice  is very wise.  And comes up with some great writing! I welcome its messages. And the more I listen the more I hear and the better I am at interpreting it. 

It might be considered a form of automatic writing, when you get your human self out of the way and start writing whatever shows up.  I se it as listing to my Inner Voice.

Because I am used to capturing my ideas by typing, even when I do Shamanic Journeying, I type in what I see.  It is in metaphoric form and also provides actual messages of wisdom that I receive. I really, really like to journey.

Shamanic journeying is the earliest form of meditation. It is a doorway to the Unseen World and it communicates by offering images that are metaphors only you are to interpret.  If you find a metaphor you do not understand, simply ask for clarity. 

Since we’r going into the Unseen World, the first thing you do is set up your Transformative Shield. How to do that it in a previous podcast that is lined to in the show notes. 

Then we go to our Sacred Garden in which everything there is an aspect of ourselves. We begin by asking a question of the Helping Spirts and Guides that await us. Make it an open ended question, not a yes/no question.  How would I…?  Why is…. in my life now? May I have clarification on…

Move into contemplative silence to receive the answer. It might come as a symbol or internal words or even a simple certainly.

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

Those images are guides and helping spirits and messengers in metaphorical form. 

Your job is to observe and interpret

Trust what shows up. It may be in the form of am animal or an element of nature. It may be a talking rock or a talking butterfly, or a knowing look from an animal.  Go with what shows up. 

Everything that shows up  is there to guide you and guard you and teach you.  These are all helping spirits just for you. You guidance may be a voice in your head. It’s you talking to you, so listen. It is your Invisible Self speaking to you.  

I love to journey.  I am often very surprised at what shows up and I am definitely reassured by what continues to appear. 

In my daily human body-confined life, I often get a loud voice in my head identifying an idea that resonates deeply. The minute I do, I immediately turn to my Invisible Self, my inner voice, my Inner World, and begin exploring – usually through writing – typing actually. 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 your life, too.

Sometimes I explore the unseen world by holding a crystal,  experiencing its energy and in a meditative state, I simply flow where it takes me. I experience the  feelings and sensations that show up and notice how my Invisible Self interprets the signs and signals that appear in these meditative states. 

Your Invisible Self will speak to you on many levels.  When I open myself up to choose a crystal, I get strong “crystal voices” saying, “Today it’s me.”  And when I choose it and sit with the crystal in my restiving hand, m left hand, I am inundated with powerful feeling and awareness of its power and its message. It may manifest as a sensation in my body or a thought or as simple knowing. The crystal is speaking to me.

Learn to listen to the Inner Voice that is the Gateway to the Unseen World and trust what you hear.

So we have explored how our body communicates with the Unseen World

We have identified your Invisible Self – what it is and how to intentionally communicate with it.

Now let’s explore the many ways our Invisible Self can guide us and guard  us.

We now understand the difference between our body’s communication through emotions and thoughts and the more subtle inner knowing messages of the Voice Within. We know that metaphorical images is one of the ways our Inner Voice communicates from the Unseen World  And we have explored using Shamanic journeying to move more deeply into the Unseen World.  How do we interpret what we find? 

The Invisible Self moves within the Great Mystery, the All That Is, The Vibration of Wholeness.

Our human mind is limited by what it sees and feels and hears. It is limited in its ability to interpret because, well, it is interpreting though our body using only our emotions and our thoughts and our beliefs.

Our Invisible Self lives in the Unseen World where there is no limitation – where all things are possible, where everything is connected, where we’re all one. We are to learn to know the difference. We are grateful for the miracle that is our human body and at the some time understand its restrictions and limitations. 

When we go to the Inner World, the Unseen world we tap into our subconscious and we begin to experience our inner world as being more representative of what is possible.

Trusting your inner voice will change your experience or being limited to the confines of a body. It is your portal to the Unseen World.

Introspection is the beginning of hearing your Inner Voice. 

Listen to your Inner Voice and learnt to  interpret how it speaks to you. Insights, hunches, words, images.  Learn to pay attention and interpret the subtle messages.  

Become conscious of how you feel, what you want, where your passion lies, and follow that awareness. 

Learn to hear and trust your inner voice – your hunches, your intuition, simply knowing the next move. Experiment with the guidance you receive in order to understand and accept the power of its messages from the Unseen World.

Let your inner voice guide you to choices that are aligned with your Invisible Self, your Soul’s Purpose. Listen to your Invisible Self with you whole body and pay attention to the many ways you are guided.

The Unseen World reveals itself only as far as we are ready to listen and to understand. 

Whatever your experience it is exactly right for you in this moment. 

Only through a gradual unfolding can the true depth of the insight be revealed. Allowing your life to unfold is an open invitation for your Invisible Self to send you subtle messages – the unexpected opportunity, the great idea that suddenly pops into your head. The unexpected encounter on the street. 

This is the Unseen World guiding you. 

Even barriers that show up are a way your Invisible Self tells you it’s not time for that step or it lets you know that particular action is not a good choice for you.

When we focus on planning and setting objectives, we use only our limited bodies. AMake more more time for inner work. Learn to leave space for your Invisible Self to guide you with hunches and inner voice phrases. 

So we know the difference between the limitations of our body and the broad reach of our inner voice. 

We know that our inner voice comes form the Invisible world.

And we know that when we listening to our inner voice it will guide us and guard us.

What action do we need to take to bring that inner wisdom, that inner guidance into our limited body experience?

We have to be willing to listen and we have to be willing to change.

Think about it. If our body understands only 5% of what 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

For instance, you might have a Power Journal. Record your journeys, your feelings and the lessons learned from an experience or circumstance.

By all means establish a time to Journey/meditate. Move into a meditative state with an intention or a question and learn to interpret the guidance that shows up.

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

There’s much to explore in the Unseen World. I meditate with rocks and crystals and receive their message. I love to take my Spirit Guides on healing journeys in a mediative state. 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. The more I listen the more I hear.  Keep listening. …

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Begin to notice and listen to your inner voice 
  • Take one of the actions it suggests and notice what you learn. It may be yes do this or not don’t do this.  
  • Listen to the inner voice that speaks to you in your mind, your dreams or in simply knowing. 
  • Learn to interpret them. They will open doors for you.

The more you listen,  the more you will hear.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I explore different ways to hear my Inner voice and learn to listen to the messages of the Unseen World. 

  • I hope I brought you some new awareness, deeper ways to connect and insights and encouragement for your next steps. 
  • Pause to be with what we have explored.  See what portals have opened up for you.  Where you will go exploring next.  This is a Journey of Discovery and we walk this part of the path together. 
  • Ashe, The creative in me honors the creative in you. 
  • To join me on further explorations I invite you to subscribe to this Reflections of a Deeper song podcast.
  • I also encourage you to join the Deeper Song community at www.deepersong.com to receive weekly posts and the Deeper Song newsletter.
  • Until next time, this is Cara Lumen inviting you to Come Sing a Deeper Song.

How to Cultivate Deep Listening

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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 Minutes)

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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Space of Inner Knowing

How to Hole High Watch for the Planet

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

The Cloak of Empowered Service

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

TRANSCRIPT

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 the skill of learning to interpret.  And it is the open portal to the Unseen World. 

95% of the world is Unseen, and even using hunches and visioning and inner voice listening, we’re going to miss a lot of the guidance being offered to us.

We just need to begin and once we cultivate the capacity for Deep Listening, the unseenWorld will find other ways to communicate with us, to offer us its gifts.  

But we begin with cultivation Deep Listening. 

I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am 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. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

Thank you for being a part of this journey.

In this episode of Reflections of a Deeper Song, we discuss How to Cultivate Deep Listening

A number of years ago I became aware that sometimes when I wrung. some really great ideas seem to be coming in from someplace other them me. I pictured a trio of Shakespeare type men with feather pens over my right shoulder telling me what to write.  Ultimately I came to understand that it was only be listening to my inner voice and I was just writing some really good stuff. 

Give yourself credit for the guidance of your inner voice.  I’s you talking to you.  

It is important to cultivate the ability to listen deeply because the more we listen the more we hear. We just have to practice more 

There seem to be three levels to developing a Deep Listening practice. 

– First we have to learn to recognize the Hunches and Urges that seem almost accidental in nature. But they are not. 

– Then we begin to do more  Intentional Listening. Nut just trusting your intuition but actively calling on it for guidance.

– Ultiantely we begin to Cultivate a Deep Listening Practice and we come to rely on our inner guidance and wisdom  That’s the really fun part. 

The first step in developing a practice of Deep Listing is to learn to hear your inner voice. 

Think of a time when you had a hunch, followed it and it turned out to be right.  Were you surprised?  Were you pleased? Were you a bit amped?

Intuition is one way you Inner Voice speaks to you. 

Think of a hunch you had that turned out to be true.  That’s your Inner voice giving your nudge. Notice how many times your intuition or hunches are right and begin to trust them and follow them.

Years ago, I began getting flashes of ideas that I began to immediately write into fleshed-out articles. It would be a phrase on television, a phrase I read. I just suddenly knew I was to expand on that and share it with others.  So I did.  

Those flashes of inner knowing that I am to expand on a specific topic continue today and I pay attention. 

Flashes of Insight are a form of your inner voice speaking to you. 

As a writer, I listen to my inner voice and write down what it says. I am at the point that I literally feel myself get out of the way and let the words flow through my typing fingers. 

I consciously get my human mind out of the way and let her rip.  No human mind in there, only trust and deep listening to my inner voice. 

The unexpected flow of phrases and ideas grew until I knew I was generating them from a place of deep awareness –   far beyond the limitations of my human self.

Unexpected Inner Nudges are part of Deep Listening

How, then, do you cultivate Intentional Inner Listening? How do you purposefully talk to Your Inner Voice?

You begin to cultivate a habit of Intentional Inner Listening

You can begin with journaling.  When you write things down, your mind believes that information is safe and it moves on to access another layer, a deeper layer. So journaling is like peeling layers off to get to the core.

When I learned shamanic journeying,  a whole new world of intentional inner listening opened up. It is a form of meditation in which you set an intuition for your journey, go to your Sacred Garden within and wait to be given your answers in the form of metaphors – figures, natural objects. Whatever shows up is a metaphor that only you can interpret.  It’s rather imaginative with talking animals and shape-shifting rocks and helping spirits in many shapes.  

You begin with an intention and see what shows up.   

Once I learned that 94% of our experience is in the Unseen World I began to use shamanic journeying to intentionally go to the unseen world.  It is not a rapid process but I am persistent in my quest. I find myself sitting outside portals waiting for an invitation to enter, That may go on for several journeys before I am invited in.  

In order to receive guidance from the Unseen World, you wan tot develop a  practice of Deep Listening.

When I mediate, my body gradually disappears until I experience myself as pinpoint of consciousness in my third eye  I am no longer limited by the physical realm, I am in the unseen world and all things are possible  

Listen an you will receive answers.

Begin.  Perhaps you journal your thoughts because writing things down allows you access to a deeper layer.  Perhaps you draw with an intentional question to be answered and see what shows up.  Definitely meditate – use a mantra to quiet your mind.  Learn to do shamanic journeying if your like but as part of your spiritual practice is to give yourself space and time to explore the inner unseen world.  Listen deeply. There are messages just for you. 

I love my Inner voice.  I can be watching television and one phrase comes leaping across the room to me and I quickly write it down and later explore  it though writing for my newsletter or my podcast. 

I have Leonard to go even deeper in my shamanic meditative journeys. 

I continue to be amazed at the clarity and wisdom and insight that is offered through my inner voice.

There are more things I am going to do to cultivate a practice of Deep Listening. I play my native flutes every day and have begun to use them to talk to nature, the weeping birch outside my window, and her swaying branches. I use an intentional hum to move vibration throughout my body and listen. When I exercise, I notice what muscles need and compliment hem on the good work they are doing and how much stronger they are dieting. 

I journey every day and end up in amazing places in the unseen world. 

I am working to cultivate easier access to a Point of Deep Stillness

I listen to my inner voice as I begin to wake up.  I try to remember my dreams  

The Unseen world has many ways to speak to us.  We just have to learn to listen.  Speed time each day listening deeply.

  • I hope I brought you some new awareness, deeper ways to connect and insights and encouragement for your next steps. 
  • Pause to be with what we have explored.  See what portals have opened up for you.  Where you will go exploring next.  This is a Journey of Discovery and we walk this part of the path together. 
  • Ashe, The creative in me honors the creative in you. 
  • To join me on further explorations I invite you to subscribe to this Reflections of a Deeper song podcast.
  • I also encourage you to join the Deeper Song community at www.deepersong.comto receive weekly posts or this podcast and the Deeper Song newsletter.
  • Until next time, this is Cara Lumen inviting you to Come Sing a Deeper Song.

Stand Steady in Your Own Truth

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Stand Steady in Your Own Truth

An Exploration of the Unseen World

“She is planted in his own integrity, and there she stands, gnarled and knotted, perfectly at ease with herself, her roots deep in truth, her branches held up to let the light in.”  – Stephen Mitchen, Second Book of Tao

I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am 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. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

 Thank you for being a part of this journey.

In this episode we consider how we can stand steady in our own truth.

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Stand In You Own Truth

She is planted in his own integrity, and there she stands, gnarled and knotted, perfectly at ease with herself, her roots deep in truth, her branches held up to let the light in. – Stephen Mitchel’s Second Book of Tao.  

I want to be that person  I think I am that person.  Standing deep in my own truth. My branches held up to the light  

We are who we decide to be – the choices we make – the things we believe – the values we embrace.  All of those choices contribute to what our life looks like and how it turns out.  

Knowing that, knowing that your thoughts and values are what propel you forward, it’s interesting to reach the senior age of 87and look back over the long winding road to see how my choices, my awareness in the moment affected where and who I am today.   

Some of my choices were weird.  Some were uninformed, some were unaware, none were wrongly intended.  But each choice contrived to the path I have traveled and more importantly where I ended up.  Just as your choices do. 

Welcome to Reflections of a Deeper Song.  

I’m Cara Lumen, metaphysical philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am 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. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

Thank you for being a part of this journey.

In this episode, we think about how we can Stand In our Own Truth

I am very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, particularly Stephen Mitchell’s translation.  He went on to write “The Second Book of Tao”  and that’s where I found this passage that sets a goal for me – and perhaps for you.

He uses the male pronoun in his book.  But I wanted this for ME! so “he” became “she”.

What does it mean to stand in your own integrity?  What does it look like, feel like? 

How to put my roots deep in truth? 

Do I always hold my branches up to the ligh?  

“She is planted in her own integrity, and there she stands, gnarled and knotted, perfectly at ease with herself,”

What does it mean to stand in your own integrity? It is your morality?  Your honesty? Your integrity certainly impacts your choices. 

Integrity- it means honor – honoring the values that guide you and honoring the principles of conduct you have built around them. Those choices that you have made over time. That has taken some constant awareness and evaluation on our part. 

There is so much we need to question when it comes to what values we have built our integrity upon. 

Some of or values were embedded in us by our parents and the lessons of our childhood. We need to examine those and question them and reevaluate them to make certain they are relevant today.  

Our integrity is our own code of honor.  What is important to us. What we value.  Who we value. How we interact with others.  And that has evolved over time and some of those beliefs have never been questioned – but they should be. 

Now is a good time to examine your integrity. You have changed.  The world has changed.  Look for the obscure beliefs that you are standing on. The ideas that were so built into your upbringing that you don’t even know they are there. Look closely and question everything. 

I expected my children to grow up and go to college and live above-average lives because that’s what I had done.  But my firstborn child had her brain-damaged by a forceps delivery and that was not to ever be her path.  I remember looking to see what her gifts were and saw that she was very good with people.  I changed my measuring stick for what “success” looked like.

It’s tricky to question your beliefs because there are so many we take for granted. Sometimes it to examine your experience – or lack of – and raise those beliefs from the realm of a personal expense to a broader understanding of a larger viewpoint.  An understanding of the repercussion.  The recognition of a core need for change. 

What have you learned?  What old belief or level of unawareness do you need to change.?

Look more closely, become more aware and examine what you may unconsciously believe because of simply not knowing or not having an experience of or not being aware of. Expand the breadth of your awareness and how you are responding in your word experiences.  Awareness will bring change.

Stay aware of your integrity and question the foundation you are standing on and be certain it is where you want to stand. 

“She is planted in his own integrity, and there she stands, gnarled and knotted, perfectly at ease with herself, her roots deep in truth,”

“her roots deep in truth,” That means we want to plant our roots in truth.  What truth? Who’s truth?

We’re back to questioning  – everything.  Look out for your assumptions, particularly those that are limited by your being a physical plane presence. When I first began to use Reiki to send energy outside of time and space, I had to step into a new belief system, a new level of expectation that I had not experienced before. But I did begin to send energy outside of time and apace and spent time with others who were doing the same. And my belief and my expectations changed. 

We learn from how we spend our time, where we focus our attention. That includes what we see and what we begin to experience as our truth.  Look closely at who you have surrounded yourself with and choose your companions with awareness and a desire to raise your vibration through the experience. Fist Know our own truth and then make certain you stand in it.

“her branches held up to let the light in.”  

So we have begun to make certain we are planted in the integrity where we want to be.  We have learned to plant our roots more deeply in truth.  How do you hold our branches up to the light? 

You stand in the light though your inner work.  Your spiritual practice.  Your constant aware and aligned choices. 

My spiritual exploration is deep and wide and high. It is drawn into every aspect of my life.  And because I live alone I am free to spend my time as I wish. I lift my arms to the light in many ways.  I play my native flutes, I drum, I meditate, I do shamanic visioning, I write spiritual philosophy, I fully experience my cat, I sing to nature. We can experience the light anywhere and any time in any way.  

Being in light, embracing light is a conscious choice,  a cultivated choice, an aware choice.  And we continue to expand it. 

Cultivate a time of stillness.  tie when you stop your world work and move into the spiritual realm.  

I have begun to play my native flute several times during the day.   When you are playing a breath instrument your mind stops working  I have learned to play to nature.  One night there was a wonderful and dramatic storm. I listened and responded with my flute and it was an extraordinary bonding. 

Recently I discovered the seven notes my flute plays can correspond with my chakras and through my intention, I can send a healing vibration to my self, my body, my experiences, and even my future.  

I like thinking of myself a garnered old tree (I AM old so it’s fairly easy.)  I like looking at my spiritual path to observe my choices and my growth What began in a comparative religion class in college and led me through begin a spiritual counselor in the Center for Spiritual Living and on to become a shamanist has led me to be an explorer of the Unseen World. Each choice, each experience, was a part of my journey that established my roots and built the foundation for me to stand on. And as I followed my own inner calling, each choice becomes more and more aligned with my own integrity. 

How are you doing?  How is your integrity?  Have  you examined it recently?  How are you roots? Where are they planted and do they need any fertilizing or pruning? How are you holding your arms to the light? Can you reach even higher? What can you, what will you do more of?

When you know you have and are consensually making thoughtful, wise, aware choices you will be perfectly at ease with yourself. 

She is planted in her own integrity, and there she stands, gnarled and knotted, perfectly at ease with herself, her roots deep in truth, her branches held up to let the light in.  

Think on that and see where it leads you.

  • I hope I brought you some new awareness, deeper ways to connect and insights and encouragement for your next steps. 
  • Pause to be with what we have explored.  See what portals have opened up for you.  Where you will go exploring next.  This is a Journey of Discovery and we walk this part of the path together. 
  • Ashe, The creative in me honors the creative in you. 
  • To join me on further explorations I invite you to subscribe to this Reflections of a Deeper song podcast. 
  • I also encourage you to join the Deeper Song community at www.deepersong.com to receive weekly posts and the Deeper Song newsletter.
  • Until next time, this is Cara Lumen inviting you to Come Sing a Deeper Song.

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

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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

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