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Become a Pillar of Light

January 30, 2021 By Cara Lumen

BECOME A PILLAR OF LIGHT

An Exploration of the Unseen World

There are many ways we can self-heal.  Experiencing  yourself as a pillar of light is a powerful way to heal yourself and  raise your vibration. 

As I journey to the Unseen World I am given suggestions, nudges, idea to explore.  Then I have to figure out how to apply them. 

Experiencing ourselves a light is very powerful because that is who we are.   The Pill  ar of Light is a powerful process of deepened awareness to add to your spiritual practice.

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 sell heal as you Become a Pillar of Light

Become a Pillar of Light

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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

When I See Myself As Light

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work 

Another Part of You-The Unseen World 

How to Interpret the Messages from Within 

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed

Filed Under: Expansion Processes, Podcast, Raise Vibrations Tagged With: raise vibration

Three Ways Raise Your Vibration

May 5, 2020 By Cara Lumen

Three Ways  Raise Your Vibration 

Adventures in the Unseen World

“Sound is a shortcut to our soul.” I got that message in one of my shamanic journeys. My inner guides continued: “Sound lets you skip past the confines of the mind and the words into the soul of the thought.  Your poems are shortcuts to the core of what you want/need to say.  The shortest route.  The clearest route.  And others can follow. They are footholds of discovery for you.  It is a way to listen to the voice within.”

Don’t use words to interpret what you feel.  Learn to interpret vibration, a feeling, a sense of being touched by vibration. Learn to tune into that as you move through your life. 

Vibration of recognition

In my journey, I was told, “your posts set up a vibration of recognition in you and in some of those who read your work.  Your job is to create vibration – a positive, promising, supportive, nurturing, vibration of deepening awareness and acceptance.”

Now that’s an interesting idea.  A smile has a vibration of recognition.  So does a frown. The moment your cat begins to purr is a moment of feeling a deeper connection with each other. 

I have certainly read or heard a phrase that resonates deeply. Some words and ideas and images make a deep connection inside me.  

Change your vibration with breath

Your panting dog tells you she is hot.  A horse snorts in greeting. A bird sings when she feels safe.  An alerted  animal makes a sound of alarm.  

You can use a focused breath to change your vibration.  Breathe in, hold for a few counts, breathe out for a few counts.  Repeat. Find a rhythm that quiets and centers you.  

I find yawning is part of my process of letting go and turning in.  

You can use your breath with a mantra like OM (Aum). Long and slow and soft, inwardly allowing a shift in your vibration to take you into a deeper integration with the Vibration that is Everything.

Change your vibration with sounds

When you chant a word you do not know the meaning of you know only the vibration.  I love the chant Om Hrom OM Zoom Saha I am aware only of the vibration.  I do know the word OM but have no idea of the meaning/translation for the rest. I just know that my whole self resonates when I hear it. (I was told in a later journey that chant will open the third eye.) 

I do not know what these words mean but I really like the joyous energy of this chant:  Om Bhur Chant

You don’t have to know the words, you can just tune into the sound and feel the vibration.

Change your vibration with touch

You place your hand on a restless child and she quiets in her sleep. Your touch offers love to your pet. Adding a focusing intention to your touch is very powerful. 

Change your vibration with gesture

A mudra is a hand position that vibrates focused energy.  Cross your hands across our heart, right over left and just feel the vibration it offers.  

Wrap your fingers around your thumbs and notice how you feel. This is a mudra of a Buddhist Walking Mediation 

Entwine your fingers with palms facing and extend your index fingers away from you in a point that creates a deflection for unwanted energy. 

These are called mudras. They enhance the flow of energy in the subtle body.  Learn the power of a midrange and add it to your spiritual practice. 

Begin to experiment

Sit quietly and feel the vibration of your breath. Gradually change its rhythm and notice what happens to your body. 

Make a few sounds and feel their vibration even after the sound has ended.

Experiment with breath, sound, touch and gestures and find the ones that resonate with you at this point in time. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I use breath, sound, touch and gesture to raise my vibration.

Deeper Song Process

  • Experiment with sounds.  Humming, vowels, pitch. Use intention to direct the sound to places that need to be balanced.
  • Explore gestures as a way to direct energy.  Experiment with mudras.
  • Add focused breathing to your daily spiritual practice.
  • Keep exploring. 

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Deepest Sound is Silence

You ARE Vibration and Why it Matters   

Why We Need To Raise Our Vibration 

The Pillar of Light Process

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe

How to Open Space for Change

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe

Come Sing a Deeper Song

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

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Filed Under: Raise Vibrations, Spiritual Expansion, Transformational Community Tagged With: raise your vibration, self-healing, vibration healing

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

April 21, 2020 By Cara Lumen

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

An Inner-word Exploration

Affirmations are magical.  They have the power to change your thinking – and how life manifests around you.  

Use affirmations to reverse a negative situation

I was working on a list of things I wanted to change – in my work and in my personal life.  It was a fairly large list and I was getting discouraged. 

Until I remembered what I have known consciously for over half my life – affirmations have the power to change everything – to shift energy, to create new outcomes. 

I took a closer look at what I was telling myself. The vocabulary I was using.  The energy I was purging out.

Change is as simple as reversing your negatives

I need and want to add more movement to my life. I was bogged down in schedules and forms of exercise.  And then I remembered to create an affirmation.

My body joyously celebrates life and gets stronger in the process. I am physically strong and active and have a joyous time being in my body! 

Feel how that shifts the energy! It’s much more powerful than a list of when to exercise throughout my day.  It becomes an objective.  A purpose.  A pathway.

I have been fussing with myself for not getting some of my older books up on Amazon.  It is weighing me done and I am annoyed with myself for not stepping up to the plate and simply doing it. I knew what was stopping me was the challenge of relearning the technical part that was creating my reluctance to complete this aspect of my writing. Then I reworded it into a new affirmation:

I easily, effortlessly and joyously  complete all my writing projects.

What a relief!

What if it seems impossible?

Here’s an affirmation I have to work on.  I have Dry Macular Degeneration in my eyes.  That means there are cloudy places forming at the back of the eye that makes it hard to see. In today’s medical world they seem to not know a cure for it but in the medicine of the Unseen world there undoubtedly is. I just had no idea how to access it.  

So I sat here n my body suit with a situation over which, at the moment, I seem to have no physical plane power.

But I do. So the switch has to begin with my belief system.  

What do you want to change in your life that you don’t think is possible?

Drop your physical plane ideas of what can or cannot happen. We really don’t know. We are just vibrational energy housed in our body suits.  But that vibrational energy is whole, perfect, and complete. We just need to encourage it to manifest more noticable.  My affirmation could be “The macular degeneration in my eyes heals itself!”

But I I want to move it to a higher realm and affirm:

“I see clearly – within and without.” 

That ought to get the job done!

Look for ways to shift how you view a situation

In our body suits w look at the problem and use body suit steps to try to shift things around, to fix it or remove it or…

But that is body suit thinking and our minds limit what we think is possible. We need to change our thinking. It will change or lives.  

Losing a job can be “a fabulous opportunity to follow my passion.”

Having a friend move away can be “I offer deep gratitude for the time we spent together on our path.”

This unexpected change in my life is actually a door opening to a new phase of my journey.”

How can you switch a situation you are viewing as negative, into an affirmation?

“My body joyously welcomes new strength and vitality.” 

“I love caring for my home and being in its vibrant energy.”

“I am continuously inspired with new ideas and insights that I love to share with others.”  

Creating an affirmation will lift you out of the doldrums, or a stuck place and open up a new world of possibilities. 

What problem or situation do you need to reframe into an affirmation?

Deeper Song Affirmation

I look closely at how I view my life and
create a new positive affirmation for every situation.

A Deeper Song Process 

  • Write down three things that are not working in your life.  
  • Notice the language you use.  
  • Notice the negative or unsupportive energy the words offer. 
  • Rewrite the idea into a positive statement as if it has already happened. 
  • Repast frequently and consciously as you move through your life.

To Sind a Deeper Song Consider:

Nurture the Garden Of Self

Individual Curiosity and a Willingness to Change

Do You Keep Sacred Time?   

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

Another Part of You-The Unseen World

How to Interpret the Messages from Within

Come Sing a Deeper Song

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

To receive our weekly
Deeper Song Insights and Applications

Join the Deeper Song Community

Filed Under: New Consciousness, Raise Vibrations, Self Transformation Tagged With: affirmation, posistie thinking, shift your view

Heart Bridging Blessing

April 14, 2020 By Cara Lumen

Heart Bridging Blessing 

An Inner-world Exploration

It was an unexpected gift from the Unseen World. In my shamanic journey, I found myself in front of Stone Woman and she offered me a beautiful blessing She crossed her wrists in front of her and blew a blessing/greeting between her hands.  

I knew it was both a blessing and a greeting and I wanted to bring it into my own spiritual practice. I journeyed again for more detail and I have experimented with the energy this blessing creates. It has led me to the evolution of a most lovely and powerful greeting/blessing to be offered to anything you wish to send loving and supportive emery to. 

Heart Bridging Blessing

  • Cross your arms over your heart  with one hand on each shoulder. Your heart is covered by your crossed wrists. 
  • Say, I am Light
  • Keeping your wrists stil crossed,  extend your arms away from your body and point the palms down toward the earth.  (Experiment with which arm you want to have on top. Notice if/how it changes the energy.) 
  • Say” My heart walks the earth to your heart.”  Feel your heart blessing move from your heart, through your downward-facing palms to the earth and on to wherever you desire to send it. Feel the energy traveling through the core of the earth to the object of your greeting/blessing.
  • Move your hands into prayer position with palms together.
  • Say “My heart walks the sky to your heart.” 
  • Feel your Heart Blessing raise up from your whole body and move its uplifting vibration out into the world and to the object of your Heart Blessing.
  • Blow over the top of the fingers of your facing palms in a blessing that connects earth and sky and sends you greeting/blessing to the person or object of your intention.
  • Extend your arms out with palms face up in welcome/greeting. 
  • Say “We are one light. We are one heart!  Namaste, (Nah-Mah-Stay – the Light Within me honors the Light within you)”
  • Bring your hands back with palms together. Bow to conclude your Heart Blessing.
  • Use this blessing often and let the energy and your intuition guide you into your own version of it. 

Again:

  • Cross your arms over your heart  with one hand on each shoulder. Your heart is covered by your crossed wrists. 
  • I am Light
  • Keeping your wrists crossed, point the palms down toward the earth.  
  • My heart walks the earth to your heart.  
  • Move your hands into prayer position with palms together.
  • My heart walks the sky to your heart. 
  • Blow over the top of your fingers in a blessing that connects earth and sky and sends it in greeting/blessing to the person or object of your intention.
  • Extend our arms out with palms face up i
  • We are one light. We are one heart!  Namaste, (Nah-Mah-Stay)
  • Fold your hands back into palms together. Bow to conclude your Heart Blessing.

Deeper Song Affirmation

We are One.
I am you.  You are me.
We are One. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Add this Heart Bridging Blessing to your spiritual practice.
  • Offer this Heart Bridging Blessing to others who are receptive.
  • Offer Heart Bridging Blessing to elements of nature
  • Offer Heart Bridging Blessing to situations
  • Offer Heart Bridging Blessing to artifacts on your altar
  • Look in the mirror each morning and offer this Heart Bridging Blessing blessing to your body suit from your inner self!

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Pillar of Light Process 

The Intentional OM Hum

Why You May Want To Have an Altar  

Are You Sacred Space?

Abide at the Center of Your Being

Come Sing a Deeper Song

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

To receive our weekly
Deeper Song Insights and Applications

Join the Deeper Song Community

Filed Under: Expansion Processes, New Consciousness, Raise Vibrations Tagged With: blessing, heart blessing, nature blessing

The Aging Process is about Expanding Your Light!!!

March 11, 2020 By Cara Lumen

The Aging Process is about Expanding Your Light!!!

Adventures in the Unseen World

On my Shamanic journey, I asked what the purpose of mankind was.  I got assorted answers, but this one sentence needed to be explored and embraced: “The aging process is about expanding your light!!!!!!!”

Wow. That is sure not how most people see it. We live our lives, work our jobs and then plan to retire – to what????? Is the reward for a lifetime of work only play?  Or is it a time to use our wisdom and curiosity and deeper insights to explore new ways to expand and communicate?

I like that version of aging a lot.  How are you doing with your plans for expanding your light?

I must say that being older (87) is one of the richest, most productive times of my life. I don’t have to go to work a job or build a business. I get to study what calls to me, write what I want in order to learn and share with others. And each day is incredibly exciting to me.  

I’m not sure I could have said that in my younger years. There were a lot of “have-to’s” in order to survive. 

Recognize and honor your own value

We are not taught that being old has value.  It used to be that the ancient ones were revered for their wisdom. Now we are just considered out of touch. And, well, we are. Technology is moving very rapidly and it’s tricky to keep up.  But everyone has value. We just have to figure out how to shape it and share it. 

Find a new form of expression

As a young woman, I was at the beginning of the end of the period in which women stayed home, raised children and kept house. Period.  And men were considered the most valued. I got my first job when I was divorced in my 40’s.  No one thought that raising four children and managing a big house and serving on several community organizational boards counted for anything. Oh yes, and I was educated – I had gone back in my 40’s to get my Master’s degree. 

But none of that counted. I had to start at the bottom. I could type.  I was fast because I was a writer. And I was an outstanding organizer. I became an Administrative Assistant.

Your past work life may not be the source of how you are to serve today.  

What could you learn now that would expand your life experience today?

I think learning and growing go hand in hand. What would you like to learn to do? You don’t have to be good at it, you just want to explore it. If you happen to do it well, so be it. Perhaps you explore more.

I remember taking an oil painting class and painting a tree that looked like a really bad Gauguin – it was dark and dramatic and odd.  But I had painted it. I had taken a blank canvas and created something. I was proud of that painting for a long time. Simply because I had made something out of nothing.  

Who would you like to interact with?

I started to write “who would you like to help” but I realized that for me, the people I help the most are those who are walking a similar path and we shed light on each other’s journey. 

When you are doing something that fulfills you, your light is brighter and stronger and reaches further afield.  

Look at your passion (mine is exploring the Unseen World).  Look at how you want to express that passion (mine is through writing). And then figure out how to reach those whose lives you can change as you share your own passion. 

Follow your gifts and create an offering you can share

Identify a general group that you want to work with.  When I became a Reiki Master Teacher we shared how we would use our work and one person said she was going to teach all the poor people.  And that’s when I knew – I was going to help those who were already flying high and reaching far afield and I would help them fly higher and change more lives. 

Know who you want to serve.

My current path is to explore the Unseen World, translate what I discover and share it in ways that allow those who are called to read my work to apply the concepts that call to them. 

I get to learn and expand and grow and I bring others with me on my journey.

When you are older, you can look back and see how your gifts have been received.  You also are free to choose to do what will deepen your own life, expand your current place of service and raise your vibration.  

Do that. Create that.  Share that.

Remember the internet

I no longer have a car. I have dry macular degeneration and driving is not a safe thing for me to do anymore.  But I have the internet!!!!!!!!.  I take online classes. I listen to podcasts.  I read books on Kindle. I have regular Skype and Zoom calls with a few like-minded friends who are on similar paths.  And I happen to share with others on the internet through my posts and newsletters, books and podcasts. I don’t need a car – I can bring the interaction I need to me.   

How are you going to expand your light as you age?

The purpose of aging is to expand our light – to raise your vibration and help others raise theirs as they respond to your light. What form will that take for you?  What form does it take now?

Don’t kill time. Don’t waste time. Savor time. Embrace time and let it take you on powerful new adventures. 

The big turn around

Understanding that my job as I age is to raise my own light created a major new awareness in me and a strong sense of purpose.

I am in a senior center where mostly what people do is sit around and wait to die. They may have pot lucks and play bingo, but there is no sense of fulfilling a larger purpose.  

I don’t know where you are in your life but I have some work to do to turn around some of my ideas about the process and purpose of aging. I’m working steadily and successfully on the “raising my light” part.  My posts and podcasts are all about raising your vibration, expanding your light, deepening your place of service. They are my lessons I teach myself and pass on to you.

But I allowed my body suit to buy into the aging expectation of lessening in strength and power and now I have to actively turn that around.  

It’s all doable – but we do have to “do.” Understanding that my job at this point in my life is to raise my light is a major turning point for me. 

What do you want your life to look like in ten years?  In twenty years?  In thirty years?

I’ve done a bit of shamanic journeying to my future self – in ten years. She is doing jumping jacks and yoga. I have to make some major changes in the here and now to make that possible. 

What do you want to be doing in ten years or twenty years or whenever your “retirement” period is.  It’s not about retiring, it’s about reinventing yourself, repurposing yourself.  What do you want to create?  How will you begin now to do that?

What does raising your light mean to you?

I would really be stuck if it were not for the internet. I take classes in helloing techniques and shamanism and drumming and bring those ideas into my life as part of my active spiritual practice.  

But then I’m an explorer. 

I have no close friends in my physical plane environment, my interests are too specialized. But I do have five internet friends and we speak on the internet regularly.  So don’t sit in your home and feel you are alone – go participate in activities that are aligned with your gifts and goals. And do make use of the vast and enriching world of learning and interaction that is available on the internet. 

Keep learning

Remember when you had to take particular core courses in order to graduate or learn a specific skill?  That’s not the case when you are older. You can learn whatever you choose to learn.  In the past couple of years, I have begun to play an Indian flute, I have eight drums I vigorously play, and I’m learning to work with tuning forks for vibrational healing. I also learned Shamanism in the past five years. And all my life I have written. I write to figure things out.  I write in my excitement to share what I find. My current expression is in posts and newsletters and books and podcasts for the Deeper Song Community. I keep working on raising and sharing my light. 

That’s while I’m in my 80’s.  Who knows what I will think up to do in my 90’s!

Know what is calling to you

You may have to go back to your early years to find the gift or passion that you may have put by the wayside in order to develop a career and raise a family. But do look.  I was an editor of my High School paper.  I was Managing Editor which spoke to my leadership and organizational skills, not Literary Editor, but I was also a writer on the paper so I was beginning to explore those major gifts already in my teens.  

What have you even forgotten that you love to do?  Look back at your early life and see what gifts you put aside.  Is it time to revive it?

Throughout my life I have been called to write, to organize and to teach. Look for the pattern in your life. There is one. Either you were asked to do certain things because others saw your gift, or you were drawn to doing something even as a hobby or by taking some classes.  

What form do you want your gift to take at this point in time?  For the moment don’t look to see if it is a form of income, look to see if it is your passion….

Cultivate your passion

I was always drawn to write newsletters for every organization I joined. I still am drawn to write and share what I discover.  Sure, I studied how to write a good article  I have a web site.  I have podcasts and blog posts and books.  All were created one step at a time as I followed my passion to explore what called to me and to communicate what I learned. 

What kind of learning-sharing pattern has been drawing you?

How can you use that today to raise your own light and bring it to others?

Define your place of service

You may have a specific group you want to work with – environmental, children, wildlife, or a specific topic you want to investigate.  Identify that focus and prepare to go exploring. Find how you can become involved and then find ways to turn and share your passion. 

What do you want to learn?

I am constantly driven by a need to learn – all sorts of things- whatever calls to me. There is a learning pattern in my life that involves energy healing.  It includes Metaphysics, Reiki, New Thought, Taoism, Shamanism and Vibrational Healing.  It is simply a journey I am taking and I follow my inner voice and allow it to lead me where I am to go next. 

Listen to the inner nudges.  Respond to the outer openings. 

Remember your job as you age is to raise our light!!!!!

How do you choose to do that?

Deeper Song Affirmation

I continue to expand my light as I age!

A Deeper Song Process 

  • Look closely at how you view our life and its purpose at this time.   Do you see yourself as proactive, sharing your gifts with the world?  Do you see yourself as a necessary and vital participant on the planet?  Or do you see yourself sitting around waiting to die?  There is a huge gap there.  Perhaps you’d like to select a different viewpoint. 
  • How are you expanding your light?
  • How are you sharing your light?
  • Do more of that.

To Sind a Deeper Song Consider

Believe In The Power Of Your Own Ripple

The Road Ahead Cannot Be Seen

Make Use of Emptiness  

To Gain Strength, Renew the Root 

What Are the Winds of Changs Whispering to You?

Raise Your Sails 

Walk the Sacred Path Within Surely and Steadily and Leave a Trail

Individual Curiosity and a Willingness to Change

Come Sing a Deeper Song

I help people who are consciously raising their vibration
to explore the Unseen World
so that we can help create a New Consciousness.

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Filed Under: Raise Vibrations, Self Transformation, Spiritual Expansion Tagged With: aging, feeling useful, gifts, servce

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