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Self-Healing

Where Your Mind Goes Qi Goes

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Where Your Mind Goes Qi Goes

Living Our Deeper Song

(“Ah-Shay”)
The Creative in me honors the Creative in you

I was struggling to do the moves in Robert Peng’s qigong class when he said, “Where your mind goes the Qi goes.” I was already tingling all over with the moves even though I was only halfway able to do some of the standing exercises. What a powerful gift to know that my mind directs the Qi energy. So even as I work to self-heal using Qigong moves, my intention is doing a lot of the work too. 

So I get to start looking at my life choices from a different viewpoint. Where is my mind focusing my energy in this chaotic world? Big question. Not a good answer for me. I’m too focused on what is not working. What you focus on you get. So I really get to examine what I am focused on. What I expect for myself. What I expect for the world, for where your mind goes the Qi goes. I get to monitor my thoughts and my intentions. I get to picture Qi energy going in and fixing things in my body. And in my life. Intention and focus and action. Where are you directing your attention? Where are you directing the Qi energy that exists everywhere? What are you expecting? We get what we expect we deserve and what we believe is possible. That’s a sneaky one. And can get us stuck in odd places that we are not aware of. The Qi energy will go wherever your mind goes. Send it to the places that are not working and watch change happen.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I use my mind to direct Qi energy for self-healing.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Perhaps do some study of Qigong and acupressure points to become more aware of the interconnection of every part of our body and how easy it is to access a meridian and focus Qi energy towards wholeness. Two sources are Robert Penn and Grandmaster Chuny Lin

===INNER WORK===

The Waxing and Waning of Cycles

Life is one continuing mixture of changing cycles. Some are waxing. Some are waning. Some are on the physical plane. Some are on the emotional plane. Some are on the spiritual plane. You don’t have to know where you are in the cycle. The waning cycle is meant to be a time to regroup and restore and rethink and re-choose. The waxing cycles is when you get to work. You make stuff happen. You take action and explore. Different aspects of your life are in different phases of the waxing and waning cycle. And yet there is a general overview flow to your life. Know when it is time to change cycles and rethink and re-examine and heal and mend before starting out again. Know when it is time to step forward and take a new path, find a new adventure, seek answers for your path. Begin to notice the guidance of the cycles of your life – both inner and outer. 

The Power of Introspection

It is important to take time to understand why you feel the way you do and why you do what you do. The more you understand the reasoning or impulses behind any action, the more control you have over it. Look over the choices you make each week. Take time to understand why you see things the way you do, why you think the way you do, why you respond the way you do, why you react the way you do. That will help you make more informed choices. Spend time in introspection not to be critical but to understand and perhaps make new choices.

===SELF-HEALING===

It’s Never Too Late to Self-Correct

Part of this is a pep talk for me. It is never too late to self-correct. I eat a lot of chocolate chips and said to my friend Shelley that I was perhaps eating too many and she said, “There comes a time when it doesn’t make any difference.” But that’s not true. How you care for your body always makes a difference.

I have come across three men in their 70s who are not doing anything to keep their bodies moving. We’re talking 20 more years here of not moving. And it gets worse if you don’t self-correct now. This is a warning. Keep your body strong! And yes, it gets a tad harder as you get older. You have to find a version of movement that works for you.

Now I will tell you that I am doing Qigong moves even while barely being able to stand in my walker and it is making a difference. I wish I had begun to do it before I couldn’t stand up very well. There are gentle forms of movement that will keep you going. Qigong, Tai Chi, and if you have a tool like yoga in place, don’t neglect it. Keep doing it as you age. I can’t emphasize this enough. It is no fun to not be able to walk very well or get up out of a chair very well or get in and out of bed easily. And those everyday things are what will begin to get difficult if you do not continue to cultivate the strength in your own body.

It is never too late to self-correct. Do something! And do it today.

===OUTER  WORK===

Look on the Bright Side

What you see you get. So when you consciously choose to look for the positive that’s what you find. When you choose to look for the doom and gloom that’s what you find. So we have a very strong choice every moment. We can look at the gifts that were brought by any circumstance and we can look at the challenges as opportunities to learn. How do you view the circumstances of your life and can you change them into seeing the bright side?

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Personal Fulfillment

What have you done recently that makes you feel really good or nourished by what you experienced? What are you learning? That’s personal fulfillment and we get to pay attention to the choices we make and how it unfolds because we have choice in how we sprinkle it throughout our day. 

I cheer myself on when I do a Qigong move better or longer than I have before. I write on this newsletter every day and each time there is a sense of joy and fulfillment at being able to discover something to share with you. What makes you feel fulfilled in the course of your day and how can you put more into your life experience? 

===HOW TO BE A STRONG CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE DIVERSE CIRCLE OF LIGHT BEINGs===

Shamanic Journeying for Community Healing Now
A Free Online Seminar with Sandra Ingerman, MA

I think Sandra Ingerman has a better handle on how to work through the chaos in the world than just about anybody. I’m for sure going to listen to this introductory offering. And I may even take the class even though I’ve studied with her quite a few times before. I just need a new approach to the planet right now. FYI. 

Sign up for the intro here: Shamanic Journeying for Community Healing Now

===BROADEN YOUR HORIZON – EXPAND YOUR VIEW===

Examine It From Several Viewpoints

Things look different from the inside than they do from the outside. Circumstances seem different when you’re in the middle of them than they do when you are an observer. Change your viewpoint and gain new understanding of a circumstance. Perhaps you gain a new view of the circumstances that came to pass by stepping into the other person’s shoes to see it from their point of you. It will open up new facets and intuition, new opportunities and informed directions. Notice what your viewpoint is and then shift it. Are you an insider looking out or an outsider looking in? The more viewpoints you get on a particular aspect of your life, the greater diversity you can encourage in your response. Keep looking from different viewpoints. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Leave Space for the Future to Unfold

Are you a planner? Do you like to know what’s going to happen next? What if you backed off and left space for the future to unfold? What would happen? What would that feel like? What would you stop doing?

I love to let the future unfold. It gives me room to listen to the small nudges and the big bumps on the head the universe provides that say – check this one out, see if you like this one, go here, perhaps this is what you want. The universe gives us many options. It is up to us to stay flexible and curious and look at what is unfolding from where we are right now. Not where we plan to be or where we hope to be, but where we are right now.

Sit right here in your day and don’t have a plan. And see what your inner self, your inner wisdom suggests are possibilities for exploration. Then from the same place of stillness, see what you want to do. Don’t think about what it will lead you to or show you how you might get there. Simply be present and experience the idea. That’s how you leave space for your life to unfold.

Balancing Life’s Chaos With Qigong 
with Daisy Lee

This is an ancient, never before offered in the US form of Qigong with my favorite Qigong teacher. I’ve enrolled. Intro :Saturday, June 18, 11:00AM Daisy Lee Event Page
Click here to access the event. If the following two broadcasts have already occurred, this link will give you access to the event recording as well as any further live events that may be scheduled.

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===

Expanding Awareness

Journey to the Sacred Feminine

Journey to the Sacred Masculine

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Too Much – Too Little

I’m falling into some ruts and I need to not only identify them but to change them. What unhealthy habits have you fallen into? What are you doing too much of? What are you doing too little of?

I’m sitting too much. I need to get creative about where I stand up and how long I stand up and whether I walk or stand or do Qigong or whatever I need to do to change this lack of movement. It’s easy to unconsciously fall into a habit that becomes too much of one thing. Seek balance as you make your choices to keep your body and your mind and your emotions and your spiritual life healthy and expanding. If you don’t want to go for a walk – dance. If you’re watching too much television, go read something that’s less sedentary or more enlightening. 

Question your daily choices. Are you doing enough? Are you doing too little? But more importantly are you getting the results that you want and deserve? If I want my body to get stronger there are choices I need to make to make that happen. Look at the result you are achieving and see what you need to do more of and less of.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Rhythm of Wholeness

Too much. Too little. Not enough. Am I getting the results I desire? 

Too much. Too little. Not enough. Am I getting the results I desire? What do I want? What do I need to change? What do I need to release? I alone can make those choices.

Too much. Too little. Not enough. Am I getting the results I desire? What do I want? What do I need to change? What do I need to release? I alone can make those choices. I am the designer of my life. I have created the outcomes by the choices I made. What do I want? And how do I get it? I make changes. I have choice.

Cara Lumen, June 2022

We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take.  Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

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How to Self-Heal

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How to Self-Heal

Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

We are responsible for helping ourselves.  It is our job to change our focus and do the work.  We do that by staying tuned to the vibration of wholeness.  How do we do that?  

We have to believe healing is possible.  We have to imagine ourselves as healed and restored.  We have to believe that we have the ability to self-heal. 

Imagine. We use our imagination to visualize and even experience ourselves as whole. Remember what it felt like to… Use your imagination to create a vision of what is possible, what can be restored and corrected. Rather than focusing on what ability is slipping away, remember what it felt like to be active and strong, whole and healthy.

Focus on the positive. When I feel a positive self-correction in my body posture, I focus on that, I acknowledge my body for that and my spirits are lifted by that success. 

Visualize. Visualization gives your cells permission to change, to repair, to strengthen.  Visualize the way it can be. Visualize the way this positive change will make your body self-correct. Visualize yourself as whole and perfect and complete.  

Trust. Your body knows how to self-correct, to heal itself.  Watch for the small improvements.  Watch for the subtle changes that make new ways of being possible.  

Each day I sit in meditation and draw energy up from the earth and down from my Soul Star.  I imagine those moving in a counter-clockwise spiral within my body that clears and releases and restores and replenishes.  I don’t have to know the details, I trust my body to do its job. I just have to keep the positive intentions coming its way.

Notice the subtle changes.  Let that encourage you to keep imagining wholeness, to keep expecting wholeness, to experience wholeness.  We are responsible for our own self-healing.  Do the work.  Reap the rewards.

Imagination, focus, visualization and trust are our guides to self-healing.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am whole, perfect and complete. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Create a visualization process in which you see what is out of balance return to balance and wholeness.  What does that feel like, look like, be like?
  • Trust the self-healing process and notice the positive results.  Let that encourage you to keep self-healing. 

===INNER WORK===

Honor Your Natural Rhythm

We get so busy and caught up in life that we have no clue what our natural rhythm is – how we would prefer to organically move through life. My daughter has a very big job and works long hours and when I asked her what she did on a day off she said, “Nothing”, she just sat around all day. That was restorative for her because she does not have a job that will allow her to establish and work at her own rhythm. If you are caught up in a demanding situation, how do you find and establish your own rhythm?

In the 80s I worked as a temp at Estée Lauder’s headquarters in New York City.  Of course, Estée was a woman and all of her officers were women. There was one vice president who, every day at 4 o’clock, stopped everything for 20 minutes and had a Perrier and was not disturbed. She regrouped. She grounded. She balanced herself. She changed her rhythm. Where would you put a pause to regroup in your day? And what would you do in that time? You might meditate. You might go for a walk. You may look out the window and take deep breaths. Build some conscious pauses into your life and establish a way for you to re-center yourself. Honor your natural rhythm and stay balanced.

===SELF-HEALING===

Raise Your Vibrational Set Point

We have great control over where we focus our attention and intention. We can focus on what is not working. Or we can focus on what is positive and creative and nurturing. In an instant, we can change our focus and our life experience.

Nurture and raise your vibrational set point.  Focus your thoughts,  your expectations and actions around your life so your experience will always be expansive, inclusive, and rewarding.

You are your higher self, expressing itself through the human form. Know that.  Be that.  Experience that. Remind yourself of that as you move through your day.

Give gratitude to your Higher Self, your Cosmic Self. Give gratitude to your human self, to your heart. Commit to this unfolding and trust you cannot do this wrong. It is your birthright. 

===OUTER  WORK===

Monitor Your Response

This is an incredibly important time to monitor your responses. Do you respond out of fear? Do you respond out of anger?  Or do you focus on the higher positive energy? Somehow, someway, in this unfolding Divine Feminine, we have to build a new path. Each of us has to choose the direction and form of our own path. We must choose it with deepening awareness. And we must stay on as high a road as possible. Each day brings us a variety of circumstances that ask us to question our beliefs. To rethink our position. To re-visualize our future and make new choices. Making those choices, those changes, will get us there.

The old habitual responses are damaging. Many are based on outdated beliefs and no longer useful habits. They no longer have value. Once again we go back to ask what you believe you deserve and what you believe is possible. Thats what you will get and it should keep changing for the better. I can sit here and focus on all the ways and things that can go wrong. Or I can use my imagination and visualize how things could work in entirely new ways, in new structures, new formats, and new interactions. Everything needs to be examined and questioned. Then we must turn to focus on the unfolding possibilities that are being revealed to us in every moment. Are you getting the lessons? Are you changing your viewpoint? Are you free in your thinking to move into this new unfolding incredibly unusual Divine Feminine?

Foresight and Exploration

This is a time of change that is so dramatic that we need great foresight to see the unfolding possibilities. Then we must go exploring and see how we can shape the new ideas we find and utilize them and bring them into being. Be on the lookout for new ways to accomplish what resonates with you. Then explore and experiment and see if it is yours to do. Technical things come to mind, but there is huge philosophical change being called for in today’s changing world. Look ahead, go exploring and participate.

Have You Stopped Exploring?

It had been a very long time since I simply sat outside in nature but this week I did – on my new blue four-wheel walker with a seat.  I call her “Adventurer”. I took my double flute and sat on the patio and played to the world.  Now that I’ve managed to do that, I can do it again – often.  I’m not sure what the neighbors thought about the old lady and her flute but they will figure it out.  So now I have solved the physical challenges of sitting outside.  Yeah for adventuring.  What change do you need to make in your life that will open up new possibilities?  

Preconceptions and Expectation

Preconceptions are limiting beliefs.  They are made up out of our imagination, low expectation, and lack of information. And they can mess us up.  Move into a new situation, a new experience, a new relationship with inner stillness and observe and experience and evaluate as you go.  Let it unfold and choose in the moment. Be present.  Do not anticipate. Immerse yourself in the experience and evaluate from your Still Point. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

How Do You Shift Your Consciousness?

You can intentionally use the power of sound and vibration to shift your own state of consciousness.

Do you find yourself humming when you are happy?  You are using vibration to shift your mood. It is an organic response that helps shift your mood.

Stop what you are doing and notice your mood.  How is your day unfolding?  What has been your response?  You can change your mood by consciously altering your focus.  If I focus on a beautiful sunset it moves me and deepens my connection with the flow of the universe and all my human stuff fades away.  

Perhaps identify a doorway that you pass thorough during you day and each time you move through it, pause to relax your shoulders, take a deep breath, perhaps close your eyes for a moment, and move to your center.  Be fully present and move into your Still Point and simply be in the Center of your Being. 

Pause.  Breathe.  Make a conscious choice. 

===HOW TO BE A STRONG CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE DIVERSE CIRCLE OF LIGHT BEINGs===

Explore New Pathways

The first step in understanding where you fit in to this rapidly evolving planetary change in opportunity, is to understand yourself. Understand your gifts. But most of all, understand your calling.  You may have been on your life path for a long time, so you can see the pattern of the choices that you made. But this is a time to not just examine the past. Let’s stand tall right here at the entrance to the future and look around at what has become available. Look at what is now possible. Look at what calls you. Look at what gifts you can offer. Look what you need to learn in order to move forward. And go learn it.

I don’t have to get a job, I don’t have to earn money, but I very much want to remain relevant in our world today. I know many of my gifts, but where are they to be placed in service now, next? I can only ask that question of my inner self and wait patiently for the answer, or the insight, or the actual opportunity. I have given away some really good ideas recently because they’re not mine to do. But they need doing. And I seem to know people that could do them. 

It seems like our next steps are all about change. Changing what we think. Changing what we believe. Changing what we think is possible. Changing our expectations. So I am standing here and looking around at what is evolving in the world around me and noticing what needs doing. Then I am to consider the “doing” part and see if it is mine to do.  

I’m in the waiting stage right now. The nudges I’m getting seem to be ideas for other people which is actually very exciting. And that’s what I’m supposed to be doing right now – getting ideas and passing them on to the people who are ready to do them or whose path it fits.  So my job is not to do the ideas myself, but to allow ideas to fly through me to others for the doing. I can do that. 

Look at new fields of opportunity, look at new pathways leading to them, be very aware of your own gifts in a particular passion. Go exploring, make some choices, do your thing. 

===BROADEN YOUR HORIZON – EXPAND YOUR VIEW===

Path of Curiosity

This is the time for trying new things. Of course it’s more comfortable to walk the familiar path and do the familiar things but with the world changing so rapidly we will be left behind if we remain on the path that we have been on. I choose the path of curiosity. That means I explore new ideas. I may try them on for size. I may make a different version of them. But I am mostly looking at change –  how to change, ways to change and what to change, because the world is changing very rapidly and we have no idea what is going to look like yet. Our expectations will take us there. Our imagination will take us there. Take the path of curiosity. That’s what’s called for now in this unfolding world. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

World Work

It’s a tad tricky to be an 89 year old woman and still feel like you are contributing to life.  I felt much better when I realized that I am fulfilling an important role – making others think.

As I go exploring wherever my wonderful mind carries me, I write to figure out what I discover, how I might bring the concept into my life.  When I share that with you, I hope it prompts some new insights in you.  

Our impact can be very subtle and it can be very far-reaching.  This idea that I am still relevant by sharing my inner world explorations adds a depth of meaning to my life that is very welcome. 

How are you touching lives in the world?  What is your world work?

======THE UNFOLDING DIVINE FEMININE=== ===

The Divine Masculine Has to Change

I’ve been so busy wondering what the Divine Feminine will look like that I forgot that the Divine Masculine has a tremendous amount of change to make too. It involves a great deal of letting go of how things have been and expectations for how they can be.  It calls for moving into a place of honoring a new role, a new participation in the group involved in the formation of the new world. The masculine must be a partner, not a dominant force – a collaborator, not a boss. How flexible can Divine Masculine be? It’s going to be a little like pushing and shoving to find space for the feminine self expression as roles grow bigger and smaller. It is time for both male and female to let go of old beliefs and expectations and gradually evolved into what is to be. 

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===

Spiritual Practice

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

Self Healing

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Expanding Awareness

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

Listen to my
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify / Google

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===CARA’S CORNER===

 Watch the Signs?

Sometimes the Universe has to bop us on the head to get our attention.  A friend of mine got Co-Vid even though she had two shots and a booster, her boyfriend ended their relationship and she got so many personal clients that she got to cut back on her job!  It was like a helium balloon being freed to fly.  

What is holding you to the ground and how do you let it go?

As I watch my body continue to adjust and strengthen I must ask more of it, expect more of it.  A long time friend is ready to do her website and I get to write all the content for it.  It is wonderful and exciting and rewarding.  My hot-air balloon rose a little too. 

What is releasing in your life that leaves change for expansion?  Pay attention.  The Universe has exciting plans for you. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Nudge

The change was subtle – a shift, a release, a new way of being. 

The change was subtle – a shift, a release, a new way of being. But the vista it opened up was huge – wide and welcoming. 

The change was subtle – a shift, a release, a new way of being. But the vista it opened up was huge – wide and welcoming.  First I will go exploring, then I will choose. A new path is unfolding for me.  I will find it deep within. 

– Cara Lumen, January 2022

We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take.  Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they
Join the Deeper Song Community

Past Issues of this newsletter are being curated on my site on a page called Insights.

Our Global Deeper Song Community

Our Deeper Song Community extends throughout the planet. Welcome new Deeper Song Explorers. I’d love to hear of your experiences –  caralumen@gmail.com or let’s discuss on the Deeper Song Explorers!

Self-Healing and Measurable Results – a Winning Combination

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Self-Healing and Measurable Results – a Winning Combination. 

Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

I had a fascinating experience a few weeks ago, a Narrative Coaching session with Mathilde Taburet in France. She coaches in both French and English. I choose to speak with my body, particularly my hips which are realigning and straightening but are hurting in the process. It was a fascinating session and I basically shut my eyes and talked out loud to my body as Mathilde asked me questions. The next day I woke up and knew there had been an important shift!  Yeah for self-healing. 

Then I wanted to figure out how to work with what I have uncovered in this exploratory inner work adventure. What was the core message and what are my action steps? 

Establish a relationship with the problem

For me, establishing and deepening the partnership with my body is the cornerstone  – listening and giving her what she wants.  How do you create a relationship with a problem?  What kind of questions do you ask? What kind of beliefs do you examine and change? I became aware that addressing belief systems about the inevitable deterioration of the body as we age was a big one to work on. 

I became more aware that I wanted to use intentional vibrational and sound healing more actively in my own self-healing.

Beliefs to Change

Belief, for me, is the cornerstone of all change.  Some belief has brought  you to this place, this juncture.  What is it?  For me, it was a belief about the aging process – the belief in gradual and persistent deterioration. There is no fear of death for me, just apprehension of the discomfort of the deterioration process.  That is not a belief that serves me.

Believe in your ability to change

I also need to have a firm belief that I can self-heal! That may take working with a variety of self-healing techniques or it may be as simple as affirmations that I repeat over and over to change my thinking and thus my life. 

New Choices to make

I had some optional choices come up, more Qigong, more hall-walking, more interaction with nature, more flute-playing and vibrational sound healing, new bitfield work, more intentional healing. I’m having a good time with the new resistance stretches my physical therapist gave me. It feels like a major positive change to add more conscious movement to my self-healing process .

What steps/changes/disciplines do I need to apply in order to make consistent choices that give me the results I seek?  

Frequency and consistency – My cornerstones 

Here’s where you make a plan – specific steps that you take. You observe the changes and then tweak your choices until you get the results you seek.  I just found the perfect place for the resistance training. I interwove it with a little Transcendental Meditation and have a lovely session. I have a selection of affirmations to sprinkle throughout my day. I have a group of posture-correcting movements to do regularly as I move into different rooms.  What can I change that will bring a different result? Going outside even a little would be good. How do I change my beliefs about what is possible? My expectations?  What new choices do I make?

I’m going to do more releasing through journey work. Also more vibrational healing and meditation.  Create a plan, follow it, notice the results and make changes. Keep flexible and encourage change. Create, adjust and create some more.

Beliefs to deepen

This body rearranging is reversible. It will take consistent, aware focus and actions to manifest this change. I can do this. 

Monitor the results of your choices and changes 

What is working?  What is not? The new place I have added the stretch band exercises is perfect – a bit of nature, plus a time for mediation and it is a welcome change in my routine I have added several times in my day.  Experiment, try different combinations and monitor your results. Then make more changes.

Bottom Line: I have work to do to support the strengthening of my body. 

I have work to do to keep my spirits up around my LightPath and the fascinating journey it is inviting me on. 

Keywords: Awareness and Consistent Creative Change.

What is a problem facing you? How do you define it, address it, and create the change you desire?  Get creative.  Get busy!

Self-healing and measuring results are a winning combination!

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I get creative about how I address the problem of ….

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Choose a problem to address in which the changes will be noticeable.  
  • Create your lists of Beliefs to Change,  Choices to Make, and Awareness to Deepen. 
  • Experiment, observe and create change.

Thank You for Your Birthday Wishes

I sit here in my apartment in the suburbs of Kansas City and don’t see very many people. And then I have the audacity to announce my birthday in my newsletter and send it not only to my subscribers, but post it on on Facebook and Twitter and suddenly I am beautifully aware of a planet full of friends. Your response is an extremely awesome and humbling experience. Thank you for taking time to acknowledge me. Thank you for taking time to read what I write and what I record. Thank you for walking this path with me. We are indeed a Circle of Light Beings and our collective light grows stronger. Feel our connection. Feel our collective support of each other in this journey we are taking together. Blessings and gratitude. Namaste – the light within me honors the light within you.

===INNER WORK===

Get Your Answers By Doing Your Inner Work

It’s not enough to be told how to do it, the only way you own something is by doing it – experiencing it for yourself. As I search to increase my use of vibrational healing I have to work on myself.  I have to experiment, practice, experience, explore, discover, and find my own path to the core message.  I have to practice it and experience it and get my own results in order to truly own the wisdom and experience. Then I have something to share and teach.  Find you answers though your own exploration and experimentation. 

Perspective and Self – Empowerment  

The SpiritSong oracle card I drew was “Perspective and Self-Empowerment” and I saw that as a very powerful combination to consider.  Empowering yourself to take action or find a solution is as simple as changing your perspective.  My challenge is my body, so from the perspective of my body it needs strengthening. That need triggers new choices.  Having that need, that focus, empowers my choices.  Rather easy, actually, shift your perspective and find new solutions.

SpiritSong Tarot

===OUTER  WORK===

Habit versus Conscious Choice

I gradually fell into the habit of walking with my head forward.  An instructor in an exercise class noticed it 4-5 years ago.  I let that unconscious habit dictate my posture until I was walking bent over.  Now I have begun to consciously change that. When I walk through a doorway in my home I pause to stand up straight and tall and hold that position for the count of 20.  It turns out that a lot of standing up straight is simply choosing to do so – being aware that one is not standing up straight and then mindfully making the change.  

Changing a habit is a matter of consciousness.  Awareness that you are doing something from habit.  And making a choice that you no longer want to mindlessly do that habit.  Awareness + Choice = Change.  What do you need/want to change?

Weigh the Choices

I’m sort of a just-do-it girl, I get an idea and I do it without a whole lot of thought. That works if you know yourself pretty well and it could get you in a tad of trouble if you were not aligned with your purpose and calling. We need to be aware of the general direction we are going at all times so that when a new choice or opportunity comes up it is easy to identify where it fits into the overall flow and helps us make an aligned decision.

I’m very much an intuition person but I am also very self-aware and know what and where a choice will lead me. Be aware of the consequences of your choices and actions and choose wisely.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Look for the Big Signs

I was seeking a personal answer to a personal problem and I found an answer that was all-encompassing and changed the course of my life. Are you asking questions that are big enough and broad enough to take you on a new journey? To lead you where you are to go next? To open up new doors and show you a new pathway? Don’t look for small answers. Look for the big signs that say “come this way”. And follow that. 

===INTENTION BLESSING===

May we walk the Path of Light with a sure foot. 

May we keep our gaze on the Summit of Light.

May we take this journey with an open heart. 

I entwine my light with yours and we move forward to guide the way.

===DISCOVERIES ===

Energy Healers, Read This Book!

I learned Reiki  in the 80’s – First Degree  on September 19, 1983 in New York City from Dr. Barbara Ray who had learned it from Hawayo Takata who of course learned it from Mikao Usui. I took Second Degree a week later September 25, 1983. I took Third Degree April 29, 1984 and became a Reiki Teacher on February 10, 1985. I was given 4th Degree March 20, 1986.  Reiki has been a part of my life for nearly 40 years, nearly half my life.  So I was fascinated to hear the interview on Sounds True with Dr. Shamini Jain and her experiences with biofields and energy healing, including reiki. 

This is new research of the use of bitfields in healing which has been used in ancient practices like yoga and Qigong that understand and utilize the energy meridians in our body.  This book will deepen your awareness and use of bitfield energy. Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health Her website is The Consciousness and Healing Initiative  You might want to get on her mailing list. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Is it Fear of Change or Fear of Being Irrelevant?

I’ve been thinking about the way people are so adamant about their positions.  Two thoughts came up – fear of change and fear of being irrelevant.  Both would give one pause to consider their options.  

Technology is moving so rapidly that even when we try to keep up we get behind.  It is creating new jobs and eliminating familiar ones.  How do we even learn the new jobs? Are there enough people who know the new technology to teach us?  And what if we’re not technically inclined?  There are a great many reasons to feel unsure.  Yes, every single one of us is going to become outdated and in some way irrelevant if we keep doing things the familiar, comfortable way.  That means I have to question all my choices  and a fair number of my beliefs particularly around what is possible!  It takes some bravery to question, to erase conclusions you have drawn, and begin a new path.  Fear of needing to change and not being able to change is in the minds of a lot of people whenever they are conscious of it or not.  And what if in all this change you become irrelevant – what if your skills are no longer useful?  They are printing houses for heaven’s sake, what does a carpenter do? Gas stations are becoming irrelevant as solar technology emerges.

What is underling the unease you feel about your future and the worlds’ future? The point is – what are you going to do about it?  How are you going to change?  How are you going to adapt?  Or are you?  What is being invented/created now that suits you and your interests and your skills?  How do you learn to do that?  Where are the new jobs to do that?  

This is a time for examining and exploring and trying on new options and opportunities.  Look around at the new doors that are opening and step through one!

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===

Spiritual Practice

Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

Self Healing

Do You Hold the Beat or Play the Melody?

The Space of Inner Knowing

Expanding Awareness

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

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===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Our circle of influence is much larger than we imagine.  Our thoughts, our actions, our beliefs are like a radio tower sending off signals into the world.  What messages are you sending? Are you holding out frequencies of hope, of exploration, of high expectations?  Check your broadcast frequency and see if you need to raise it.

===CARA’S CORNER===

A Winning Combination

I drew two cards from my new SpiritSong tarot deck: Empowerment and Ambition was one,  Mentality and Focus the other.  I can’t think of a better combination for moving forward.  It puts the results squarely in my lap.  My ambition, my desire is empowering and chooses the direction – the desire drives my choices and my  willingness to do the work.  It gets results.  When I add ambition I take off and when I add mentality I find the path.  It creates big results. To ambition add focus, keep making choices in alignment with your goal and off you go – flying high! Your choices.  Your results.

Heres’s my takeaway. Everything is up to me.  What shows up in my life.  How I feel about it.  What I do about it.  I am sitting here creating my life from what I believe I deserve and what I believe is possible.  How am I living my unfolding?

I look at my body as healing and adjusting toward greater alignment even though it is grouchy while doing it.  I trust I will be shown where to go and what to explore on my changing path.  I am getting more insights on what is changing in the world and what some of our choices might be.  My journeys are showing me a higher path and I am taking it. The moment of change is now, in this second, with the beliefs we embrace, the choices we make, and the expectations we hold.  What are you dreaming up for yourself?  

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Creating My Life

What do I want?  What do I want my life to look like?  To feel like?

What do I want?  What do I want my life to look like?  To feel like? I have choices to make in the here and now that will direct the outcome.

What do I want?  What do I want my life to look like?  To feel like? I have choices to make in the here and now that will direct the outcome. It’s totally up to me. I choose thoughtfully.

– Cara Lumen November 2021

We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take.  Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.

Namaste,

Cara

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Journey to Gaia’s Misty Circle 

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Journey to Gaia’s Misty Circle 

A Deeper song Adventure

There are many ways to create a self healing process. I plan to create serval journeys using different approaches. Intention is key. Belief in change is vital. Belief in the your ability to manifest change. Those are the starting points. 

I can goo the Sen Sacred Rayys  with my healing request.  I can journey to my Ancestors with my healing request.  I can go to Gaia with my healing request.  In my personal Sacred Garden I have a Healing Hut that has a thatched doomed roof.  

This healing journey is to a Circle of Light in an old growth forest in which we reach out to Gaia to restore balance.

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

Journey to Gaia’s Misty Circle 

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How Cycles Sneak Up On You

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How Cycles Sneak Up On You
An Inner-world Exploration

Look at your life.  Are you happy or would you like things to be different? 

You can’t make a change unless you know change is needed  

The sneaky thing is that life moves in cycles – small increments that you barely notice.  You gradually find yourself in a different position than you thought you were going and you don’t even know exactly how you got there. That’s why it’s important to take regular well-being checks – on all levels – emotional, spiritual and physical.  Well-being – how well is your “being?“

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