Positive Change

Individual Curiosity and a Willingness to Change

July 24, 2019 By Cara Lumen

Individual Curiosity and a Willingness to Change
An Inner-world Exploration

How unaware we were when we were young. How much we didn’t know. How much we have learned. Just how willing have you been to let go of how it used to be or how you thought it used to be in order to deepen and broaden your experience of life in the present moment?

When I think of the really unaware choices I made along the line, it makes me cringe. When I think of the brave and unusual choices I made, I am a bit in awe.

What makes you do what you do, make the choices you do? Is it the lesson you need to learn? The opportunity you need to take? Both the opportunity and your choices are lessons and guidance from within.

Don’t focus on the less than clear choices

There was so much I did from a lack of awareness. And so much I did out of not thinking of the consequences. Sometimes my choices worked out. Sometimes they didn’t.

What we have is now. What we have is the opportunity facing us and the choices we make – in this moment.

It doesn’t help to look back because the past is long gone. No regrets. No should-haves. What is left are the lessons learned – the wisdom, the ever-increasing self-awareness. Use that accumulated wisdom to recognize, examine and make the choices offered to you today.

Choose from the place of who you have become

You can’t go back. You only have now, so use what you have learned along your journey.

Become aware of your current choices and how they are working out. What is the place of illumined service you are cultivating for yourself? What actions inspire and motivate you? How do you feel about the choices before you? If what comes up is an emotion or belief you don’t want, see what needs to change – you or the choice.

Where will this choice lead me?

What will this choice teach me?

Who will this choice affect? How many? How deeply?

Make the choice that resonates deeply within you in this moment that will guide you further along the path you have chosen to travel.

If it’s a sheer joy and pleasure to take the action, repeat it. Become aware of how your choices resonate within you and let that be your guide.

Expand your level of curiosity

I stay open to where my mind leads me. I am constantly surprised and excited about where I’m taken. I journey to the 95% that is the Unseen World and get ideas that stretch me here within my body suit. I bring those ideas, experience, and lessons back and work to figure out how to apply what I’ve learned into my life and take time to show others what I’ve discovered. I explore, I share. I explore more – and am always surprised.

Encourage your willingness to change

What I discover in my inner journeys raises my vibration, gives me new insights and I always return from these contemplations with ideas on how to change and a desire to change. That’s why I keep seeking these inner insights.

Question everything

Question your choices. Question your motivation. Question the opportunities that present themselves. Be curious and be willing to change.

Deep Song Affirmation

I am curious and
I am willing to change.

Deeper Song Process

Look at an area in your life where you are stuck.
Close your eyes and picture that area becoming unstuck – floating away or dissolving.
What takes its place? What idea floats gently in?
Consider that.
If it calls to you, do it.

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

Have You Raised Your Sails?

Believe In The Power Of Your Own Ripple

The Packed Potential Before the Beginning

Life Messages from a Potter

How to Weave the Sacred into the Ordinary

Raise Your Gaze

Broaden and Deepen
Your Personal Journey

I help spiritual adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and learn to share our discoveries with others. We are guides and way-showers with our light held high.

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To Whom or What Do You Give Thanks?

June 19, 2019 By Cara Lumen

To Whom or What Do You Give Thanks?
An Inner-World Exploration

If you believe, as I do, that we are all one energy and you are feeling grateful, to whom or what do you offer thanks?

I realized that I was not offering gratitude as much as I would like and then I released that I didn’t know who to offer my gratitude to. I’m working with concepts like The Emptiness That Holds Everything, and The Void, and All That Is.

They/it/whatever probably doesn’t need thanks. But I need to give it. Me, in my body suit, wants to notice the good stuff that shows up and say “thank you”. But that’s tricky when I think there’s only one energy and we are all it.

My Helping Spirits began to offer some insights. I do shamanic journeying every day and in those inner visits to the invisible world, I’m joined by helping spirits in the form of a metaphor that only I am to interpret. (Just as your metaphors are only for you to interpret.)

Sometimes those helping spirit metaphors make more sense to me than others. I have a big black snake named Charlie who lives in the Lower World and whose primary gift its to give me hugs….go figure. As I continue to study shamanism, I identify more and more levels of being-ness. However, some of those are based on the experiences and studies of others, and who actually knows what The Void is like? I realized I had to figure this one out for myself. Just as you will have to also do.

You ancestors are helping you

Fairly recently it was suggested I journey to talk to my ancestors. There seem to be several ways to interpret the ancestors. I like the idea that they live on a parallel universe rather than a linear one. The consensus is that they are actively engaged in our well being.

My ancestors showed up as a rabbit.

Well, hey, I can offer thanks to a rabbit. I was on a roll.

The Divine Feminine

Then I found myself having trouble with the idea of a Divine Mother. I can’t do an old white man in the sky Father figure and I have a similar problem with the idea of a Divine Mother. But I sure can embrace the idea of Divine Feminine. It’s interesting how a name can hang you up.

Who is guiding you?

I actually have several guides that have evolved as I have continued to take various shamanic journeys over the year. I finally figured out that a metaphor I call The Director is a primary guide for me. But I had a hard time bringing in the Angel with the Golden Wings. Again because I had a hard time with the idea of angels. She came in slowly in my journeys – almost one wing at a time. And I was resistant. Now I realize that for me, she is the metaphor for the Divine Feminine.

Back to giving thanks

Those helping spirits do not need my gratitude, but I need to offer it. And since they are consistently active in my journeys, they seem like a good place to begin.

I am thankful for my gifts and talents. Where do they come from? Who do I thank? Perhaps my ancestors (Rabbit) and my major guide (The Director) who helped me choose the form of this lifetime.

I am grateful for the adventures my mind is taking me on and the doors that are being opened in the Unseen World for me. Can I just toss that gratitude up into The Void, the All-That-Is? I think, that since I am currently in the form of a woman, I might offer gratitude to my ancestors or to the Divine Feminine.

Do you see my problem? Offering gratitude is a body-suit need. I know the ancestors or the Divine Feminine don’t need gratitude but I have a feeling they would appreciate it.

I can thank Nature. Sophia, the soul of the earth or Gaia. I can thank the elements of Wind, d Fire, Air, and Earth. Those seem tangible to me. And yet their spirits are very intangible.

But who do I thank when a particularly good idea comes through? And I write about it and it changes others? That’s not me. That’s the Energy of Oneness. Ah ha. A new metaphor. The Energy of Oneness. I like that. That puts my gratitude back out into the Vibration That Is Everything.

I don’t ask for help – I am responsible

There’s one other major consideration. I believe I create my own reality. So there’s no supplication or asking for help because I’m it. The buck stops here. I attracted it. I can send it away. That doesn’t mean that the Helping Spirits don’t shower me with ideas or insights or even courage, but it’s me doing my life. Me being my vibration. Me living in this body suit and figuring out how to do it well. The outcome is my responsibility.

Self-responsibility is challenging

Self-responsibility is all we have. There is no “other” doing it to us. It’s us manifesting whatever we’re manifesting because of our thoughts and words and actions. We change. Our life changes.

Does that mean I thank me? Hummmmm. It might. Not in praise but in acknowledgment and gratitude for the choices I make. Thank you, Cara, for recognizing this idea and exploring it. Thank you, energy known as Cara, for exploring and considering that great idea for a new project today. Thank you, Cara, for experiencing a shift and being willing to reach out to others more.

Who do I thank? Who do you thank?

There is something bigger

Of course, there’s something bigger. I just don’t know what it is. 95% of the world is unseen. But since everything is vibration, I think we communicate with whatever it is through our vibration. I’m working to raise mine. I know we communicate with whatever it is through those unexpected thoughts of insight and encouragement that make us climb higher on our path.

Why do you offer gratitude?

Who do you offer gratitude to?

Deeper Song Affirmation

I ask my inner guides to help me understand
how and to whom I am to offer gratitude.

Deeper Song Process

I think I win a prize for advanced spiritual philosophy on this exploration.

Who or what do you offer gratitude to?
Go beyond any religious or spiritual teaching you have received and see what your inner voice says.
If you journey or meditate ask for a deeper understanding of gratitude – its purpose – where it is to be directed.
Figure out how you want to offer gratitude in your life.
Do that.

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

Another Part of You – The Unseen World

How to Interpret the Messages from Within

The Packed Potential Before the Beginning

When I See Myself As Light

Raise Your Vibration Through Visioning

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World.

I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet.

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The Intentional OM Hum

June 12, 2019 By Cara Lumen

The Intentional OM Hum
An Inner-world Exploration

OM or AUM is a mantra (word of power) that is said to represent the seed sound of the universe and to represent all other sounds. When you combine the mantra OM with the extended vibration of a hum, you can learn to direct that vibration and let it linger and float off like a gentle wave to resonate and heal whatever it touches.

There are three sounds to the universal seed mantra OM. A – U – M. The word is linked to the sound of breath and is a subtle and high potency universal vibration which can be heard internally in the subtle planes as a deep sound.

Symbolically, OM represents the entire creation manifested in the three planes – the earth, the mid-region, and the heavens.

The Om hum

Combining the sound of OM with breath and intention is a powerful way to raise your own vibration.

Sit or lie down in a quiet place. Begin to take long slow, mindful breaths. On the exhale, vocalize A-U-M and let the sound of a hum flow out with a focused intention. Think of yourself as breathing out and sending forth a Divine Quality, the Universal Self, Space. Notice how this resonates throughout your body.

Since everything is vibration, the addition of a prolonged hum keeps the vibration moving outward. Ah – U – Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Work in cycles of seven. Take a breath, and on the exhale tone the sound OM (A-U-M.) At the M, let the sound turn into an audible hum and use your mind to direct that healing vibration wherever you wish it to go.

Intention is the navigator

Our intention is like focusing a lens. Our intention is the director of everything we do. You can begin with an intention to vibrate the healing Om hum through your whole body and when you get to the hum, allow that resonance to build and reverberate throughout your body.

If your intention is to heal another person or place, or animal or even the world, simply set the intention and feel the A-U-M gathering together your spiritual essence and radiating it out toward your intention.

Let the hum fade off into the universe.

Notice change

If you would like to see some recognizable, tangible evidence that this Intentional Om Hum made a difference, write down the situation and the date you begin to send it energy and periodically journal about the changes. Place Intentional OM- Hum into your daily spiritual practice.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I add an Intentional Om Hum to my spiritual practice.

Deeper Song Process

Set an intention to manifest change. In the beginning, make it something you will be able to notice.
Add an Intentional Om Hum to your daily spiritual practice.
Observe. Journal. Notice change.
Repeat

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Pillar of Light Process

Why We Need to Raise Our Vibration

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

Another Part of You-The Unseen World

How to Interpret the Messages from Within

When I See Myself As Light

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World.

I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet.

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Believe In The Power Of Your Own Ripple

June 5, 2019 By Cara Lumen

Believe In The Power Of Your Own Ripple
An Inner-World Exploration

As a rather old woman, I have made a lot of waves. Now I’m making ripples, but they still count. They’re still effective. I just have to believe in the power of my own ripple.

As do you.

What ripple are you sending out?

Everything you do sends out a ripple. So it’s a good idea to be both aware and selective of our thoughts and actions. I write a lot of stuff. Not all of it goes out. I give myself time to get some distance on each draft of my articles. That’s when some ideas, even if fully developed, never get shared. I look at them as part of the overall energy I’ve created and some of them are not a good addition to the ripple I want to send out.

When I idea calls to you – answer

When I got the idea for the 7-7 Vibrational Healing Drumming Day I wanted to share that and I hoped it would be passed along. So I posted it in the four online classes I was in and reached out and added friends from those groups to my Facebook page. I wanted that idea to make a splash, not just a ripple. But however it turns out, a steady and far-reaching ripple will be good too.

Everything you do sends out a wave

A moment of grouchiness – sends out a ripple. A moment of carelessness – sends out a ripple A moment of kindness – sends out a ripple. Laugher sends out a series of ripples.

What kind of ripples are you sending out and how can you raise the number of positive ripples you’re launching?

Be aware of the splash you make

When you begin to think of everything you do as sending out a ripple, having an effect on others, it can be a sobering thought. Is this the kind of energy I want to send out into the world? Be aware of your own vibration.

How can you change your response so that it will impact the ripple coming at you? Do you absorb the ripple? Do you reject the ripple? Can you change the energy of the ripple?

All change happens within you. It begins with being aware that everything you do creates a ripple that affects someone somewhere in the world.

Create your ripples with concessions awareness

I put a blessing on every post I send out. It’s a conscious blessing that’ll reach those it’s meant to reach, touch their hearts and change them. That’s a lot for one ripple to accomplish.

Perhaps, before beginning a task, identify the kind of ripple you want it to send out. Then see how you can make it kinder, more supportive, more impactful.

Monitor your thoughts so the negative responses and reactions never get sent out as a ripple. Dissolve them. Melt them. Wash the negative away so that the ripple you offer is supportive and full of love.

You’ve seen the destruction that high waves can make. They reshape and flatten and corrode. We’re just talking ripples here, gentle pebbles dropped in a still pool that sends out a gentle wave that eventually reaches the outermost edges. The outmost edges. Your ripple can go on for a long, long time.

Your ripple affects the ripple of others

Just about the time I being to feel ineffective, I remember that my ripple will change someone who will then, in turn, change someone else. One ripple goes on, and on and on.

That makes me want to be even more careful of what ripples I send out. I am affecting the lives of people I don’t even know and they will be changed by my ripple. I want to make certain the ripples I send out are supportive and loving and positive and meaningful.

We have to trust our ripple. We have to trust that what we are passionate about is our calling, our gift, our place of illumined service.

Trust your ripple. Understand what it is, how you affect others and do the best job of rippling you know how to do.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I am aware of the far-reaching effect of my choices and actions.
I create positive ripples.

Deeper Song Process

Give thought to the impact you have on the world. How far-reaching is it? How effective?
Are you sending out the ripples you want that are gently effective or are you creating your own tsunami? Give some thought to how you would like to adjust that.
Choose an action you can take that’ll allow you to see its ripple effect. Send it out and notice what happens.
Create a ripple that you simply must make and that you know you will not see where it goes and who it will affect. Check the energy behind your ripple, see that it is positive and well-intentioned. Then send it out. You may or may not know who and how it affects others.
Monitor your ripples. Send them with thoughtful awareness.

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

How Do You Make Your Actions Lasting and Meaningful?

Do You See and Hear and Walk in a Sacred Manner?

Raise Your Vibration with Serenity

Energy Cannot Be Removed-Only Re-purposed

When I See Myself As Light

The 7 -7 Vibrational Healing Drumming Day

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World.
I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration
so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet.

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with Insights and Applications,
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The 7 -7 Vibrational Healing Drumming Day

March 30, 2019 By Cara Lumen

The 7 -7 Vibrational Healing Drumming Day

On the 7th of every month, wherever you are on the planet, you are invited to create a wholing vibration for seven minutes at any time in your day with the intention of balancing our planet. It can be drumming, toning, chanting, using any form of vibration that calls to you.

We are vibration and vibration can heal and whole. When we raise our own personal vibration, it radiates out to enhance the vibration of others. The idea came when I learned to drum to heal myself in a class with drummers in over 30 countries. It felt awesome to think of all of us drumming for wholeness on one particular day.

As participants in the collective power of this world-wide vibrational energy, we can focus our drumming on very specific intentions – a population in crisis, a species of animals in danger, an environmental unbalance. However we frame our own intention for healing will be magnified by the collective vibrations sent out in that 24 hours in which it is possible that someone somewhere in the world is drumming for wholeness. As more people begin to drum, we will certainly create a ripple that will be felt and heard!

Drum for healing

Sound healing is powerful. Whether it is a drum, a flute, a chime, a bell, two stick struck tougher or your voice, vibration is a powerful balancer. Feeling and hearing a sound attunes our whole body and radiates out into our world.

The ripple effect

Will you join us? As more and more people choose to drum to the planet for 7 minutes on the 7th day of each month, it is possible that there will be drumming somewhere on the planet for 24 hours on that day. What a powerful effect that will have on our world consciousness!

Drum with intention

You are to drum with the intention to heal. The focus will be an individual choice. You might drum to one of the elements – more water, less water – your choice will determine the sound and rhythm and perhaps even your drum choice. Let the focus of your intention to send wholing vibration suggest the rhythm. The one uniting element in the 7-7 Vibrational Healing Drumming Day is drumming with the intention to raise the collective vibrational consciousness of the planet.

Experiment with sound

As I began to work with my drums for personal healing, I found a rhythm that resonated to me and I began to repeat it. I played it with my mallet. I played with my hands. I held the drum so the back faced my heart and let the vibration move deep into my body. I played it with the sounds of the different elements. I played on the rim. I played in the center. I used fingers and palms and the edges of my hand. My body began humming with healing vibration.

All sound creates vibration

This is a vibrational healing. You can use chimes and Tibetan Healing Bowls and tuning forks and rattles – whatever sound instrument calls to you, including your voice. You can sing and chant or tone. The focus is that for seven minutes on the seventh day of the month you will send a vibration of wholeness that will join with the vibration of others with the same intention in order to create a thick layer of an intentional wholing vibration that will raise the vibration of all of us – those participating and those unaware of the vibration.

7 minutes on the 7th Day to raise the collective consciousness of our world

Notice what changes. In you. In the world around you You will feel serene, connected, empowered, and know that you are an important contributor to the healing our world.

7 minutes on the 7th of the month to raise the vibration of our planet.

Will join us?

Deeper Song Affirmation

I lovingly send a healing vibration out into our planet.

Deeper Song Process

Mark your calendar for the 7th of the month.
If you have a drum begin to experiment with it to find a healing rhythm that resonates with you.
If you don’t have a drum, experiment with sound, a spoon and a pan, a pencil against a desk, your hands clapping on your knees. Use your voice or other sound instruments that call to you. Find how you want to participate and begin to experiment with rhythms until you find a pattern that resonates with you.
Begin to practice with your healing rhythm. If it is a Buffalo or frame drum, hold it so the back vibrates against your body. If it is a bell or a chime, move it around your body. However you hold and play your chosen instrument, notice the vibration it offers as well as the sound.
Be aware of what changes take place in your body.
Become aware of what changes in the world around you.
On the 7th day of each month, create a positive vibration for 7 minutes with the intention to raise the vibrational consciousness of our planet.
Forward the link to this post to any friends who might want to be a part of this international vibrational healing.