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How to Cultivate Deep Listening

September 30, 2020 By Cara Lumen

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

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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 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.

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Stand Steady in Your Own Truth

August 5, 2020 By Cara Lumen

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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Transcript

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.

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

January 31, 2018 By Cara Lumen

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.

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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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47 – Empower Your Feminine

October 1, 2016 By Cara Lumen

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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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DEEPER SONG PODCASTS

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46 -How the People You Hang Out With Affect Your Life

September 2, 2016 By Cara Lumen

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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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