Self Transformation

The Seedling

Living Our Deeper Song

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

I was sitting at the edge of a sandpile in Central Park in New York City while my granddaughter, Kimberly, played on the slide. I looked down and at the edge of the sandpile was a very straight, very green, very healthy and very small 4-inch seedling. I looked up at its parent and saw an exceedingly tall tree proudly looking down on this tenacious seedling. It was a very brave seedling. But it had chosen the wrong place to grow. It would not be allowed to stay there very long. I greatly admired its tenacity and its beauty. My granddaughter, who was four had just transplanted with a major change into my custody even though I was in my 50s. Her mother was not capable of taking care of her. It was a good move for her to change her environment. It was in fact a very major transplant for her. She now had room and encouragement to grow.

Here’s the point. We get to choose where we plant ourselves. Perhaps not as young children, although I believe we agreed to that particular set of parents and circumstances before we came in. But if we, once mature, find ourselves in an unhealthy environment, we owe it to ourselves to change where we are planted. That could mean beginning or ending a relationship, it could be changing jobs, it could mean moving, it could mean learning a new skill or making new choices in your life. What do you need to change about your environment that will assure you of healthy growth?  

I have made several cross-country moves in my lifetime and I knew in an instant that I was to do them. In an instant, I knew it was time to move from Kansas City to New York City. 13 years later, I knew in an instant that it was time to move from New York City to the San Francisco area of California. 17 years later, I suddenly knew it was time to move to Kansas City so I could be close to my daughter as I age. And recently, I suddenly knew that I needed to move into long term care.

Do you trust your instinct, your intuition, when it comes to major decisions? Are you able to reach your full potential where you are now? Where would you fare better? Will you make that change?

Our world is suggesting we embrace all manner of change in order for it to survive and for us to heal ourselves. We must be flexible and creative and experimental about where and how we choose to live in this chaotic evolving environment. We must continue visioning a positive and inclusive and self-healing planet.

What changes do you need to make and will you make them? If you need a new place to grow, go plant yourself there. We have more work to do.

Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.

-Rumi 

I’d like to think I am a seed, spreading awareness.    – Kahlil Gibran

He is planted in his own integrity, and there he stands, gnarled and knotted, perfectly at ease with himself, his roots deep in truth, his branches held up to let the light in.  

-Stephen Mitchell, Second Book of Tao

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I look closely at my environment to see if there is a need to change. Then I respond to what I discover.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Look closely at where you are planted and see if it’s the best place for you at this point in time. It may be a job, a relationship or a location change. These times are asking for new growth and commitment from us. Are you planted in the right environment?

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Incubate Your Ideas

All things need time to grow, to mature, to reach fruition. And that includes ideas.

For me, what evolves begins with a nudge that I receive. It often comes as a single core concept that I am drawn to and I pause to examine it for myself first in writing.  The writing helps clarify and anchor it for me. 

It’s a little like talking to myself in order to discover new abilities and potentials.

An important part of incubation is to try out your ideas in different scenarios and different forms. And then give yourself time to reflect on the possibilities that emerged.

You can try different versions, different approaches, and different processes to see what and how you want to bring your idea into manifestation. You can actually try on different versions in your imagination and see where they take you.  Go exploring, look at it from different angles and see where it takes you.

Allow yourself to end up in an entirely unexpected place. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Life Is What You Make Of It 

Here in long term care, some seniors sit and watch television – all Game shows and Turner Classics. But there is a man who sings and leads the karaoke sessions. I also saw two men in wheelchairs going down the hall and one said “If you hold onto the railing, you can go faster.” 

Life is what you make it. Are you living your life in the most productive manner? Are you achieving the goals you set for yourself? And are they good goals? Productive goals? Impactful goals? Life is what you make of it. How are you doing?

The First Step

“A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step”
– Lao Tau

Just begin. Take a step and look around at the new views you have just acquired. New opportunities appear with every new view. Keep exploring. 

This week Occupational Therapy removed the holders for feet from my wheelchair to make me use my feet to move forward, which is a really good exercise. Later that day I was taken down to get a shower and needed to use my feet and the railing along the wall to move forward. There were two young high school girls, Katie and Emily, who are in training and we had a wonderful conversation about everything from my crystal to my flutes and rattles that I have in an altar shelf.  It was great fun to reach out to connect with several generations below me too. When they left, they thanked me for the conversation and I enthusiastically thanked them back.

The bed here is magical in that the top and bottom move up and down separately and the whole thing moves up and down with the press of a button. Occupational therapist Kristy showed me how to get in and out of bed. My previous version has been to throw myself backward into bed and hope the legs followed. Hers was similar but there was a purposeful approach to it which I can now emulate. 

And I love their version of a reclining bicycle which of course is a big machine with pedals and arm movers and I really love how it is freeing up my body.

The Midwest is a very kind part of the world and because they are all social workers who want to help people, it is a lovely environment. I have three extremely tall windows looking out over a Gazebo and a gardening area and I have a bird feeder outside my window. I can watch the sun rise here and I watched the sun set across the street where I moved from.  I wonder if that’s an omen.

My Life Coach Patricia said she had had fearful  dreams and I sent her a link to my podcast  The Transformative Sphere and she tried it and it worked for her.  She forwarded the link to her boss who was excited to explore my website. I knew I had a new path unfolding but I never dreamed it would be here.  You just never know where you will be called into service.  My role is to support these kind people on their deep path of service.                       

===OUTER WORK==

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

What It Means to Be in Service

I get help from a physical therapist, occupational therapist, doctor, dietitian, nurseand I actually had my haircut for the first time in over a year because I didn’t have access to one. She cut off 5 inches. I’m having all sorts of intake experiences. I know it will slow down. Meanwhile I am getting medical help I could not get to because I can no longer get in the car. All my needs are taken care of through Medicaid. I get $62 a month. But they supply everything. This is long term care. The willingness of the staff to help is touching. There is a shortage of service individuals which is going to be hard as the boomers age and need this type of care. Willingness is the corner stone of their service.

We are in service in many ways. Some ways seen so small as to be unnoticeable to others. All acts of kindness have an impact. Up your game and reach out to more people in service.

Where Do You Find A Teacher?

You choose a teacher because they provide an answer to questions you have at this moment in time. You may follow that teacher for a long time or it may be a one-time experience. 

I have recently begun to turn to my teachers of the past. I’m rereading some of their poetry and books. Those words will have a different meaning for me now because I have matured and gained insight and wisdom. The messages will go deeper and resonate more broadly. I attend a lot of free on-line summits and often find wisdom and sometimes teachers I want to experience.

Know when you are on topic. For instance, I’m tempted to take a new Qigong class and I must stop and think about how much I’ve already studied, how much work I need to do to really absorb that into my spiritual practice. Go exploring to put yourself in a position to learn something new. 

It’s also important to be able to know when a certain topic is not what you are to explore right now. I know how to do shamanic journeys and I would like to do those daily again. Look closely at how you spend your time and see what you need right now. Teachers are everywhere. It may be a moment with one of your friends, a statement on the television, or maybe in more formal settings, a podcast or an actual class. Go exploring and see what teachers call to you.

A Life Lesson From A Dramatic Change

I’m on my sixth day without watching television because my television does not work. My daughter and son-in-law are buying me a new one which is not here yet. Meanwhile I have not listened to one piece of news nor have I bothered to go look for it online. What a huge difference that is making. Partially because it’s scary out there. We have a huge election coming up which has the demise of our US democracy at stake. I need to change my focus and particularly my concept of how I spend my time. 

My daughter helped me learn how to use my Bluetooth headphones with Spotify. There is an outstanding classical station and I am humming and singing and loving every minute of it. I want to notice how my personal vibration changes with this withdrawal from dramatic daily news. I also have not played the game Spider Solitaire in seven days. Mainly because I can’t figure out where to put my tablet. But also because that was one of those things I did while I watching the news. 

Sometimes we take vacations to rest and restore and examine our habits and modify them or choose new ones. This is not a vacation, it’s a permanent life change, but it is a perfect opportunity for me to examine the choices I continue to make and have made. I have a feeling that this change from mindless habits to conscious choices will make a huge difference in my life. 

What are you doing too much of? What would you like to do more of? How will you rearrange your choices to accommodate that? 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Self-Healing Spiritual Practice and Deepening Awareness of Our Cosmic Oneness

Build A Stable Spiritual Practice

A major goal for us in this time of turmoil is to build a stable place within where we can put our roots deep into a spiritual practice that helps us find balance and insight and the right action we make through all the changes we are experiencing.

There are many ways to communicate with and experience the unseen realm where we can receive the guidance we seek. When we listen, we are shown how to live a centered, focused, compassionate life. We must create and explore a path of positive change for ourselves and for the collective. You may choose ceremony, you may choose meditation, you might find yourself writing down ideas – whatever method works that brings you a deeper understanding of how we can work to facilitate positive change. Our meditation practice, our ceremonies, our beliefs and expectations bring us a deeper connection with the unseen world and the guidance that it offers. 

Be aware of what your mind is focusing on. Look at your choices and see which ones have become less than positive for you and stop doing those. 

We are part of nature and nature is always changing and unfolding. It is expanding and contracting. Notice how your life is changing and evolving and make conscious choices to explore your path. 

Notice the dimension of life where you have chosen to spend the most time and move from the 3-D world into the spiritual realms using your imagination and insights to listen to the guiding nudges of the universe. 

We can choose the dimension we live in – fear and suffering or positive expectation. We build that by deepening our awareness of ourselves as a natural part of the unfolding process. We can design our own inner landscape, plant in it what we choose and weed out what we do not want. As we deepen our inner spiritual awareness, the landscape on the physical plane will change to a more positive expression. 

Use your words and thoughts to create your reality. Watch the vibration and frequency of the emotional energy you choose to share.  Ask your helping spirits to show you how to use frequencies to create an interesting landscape that both comforts and elevates your expectations by the thought you think in the words you use. 

===GUIDANCE FROM OUR COSMIC COUNSELORS ===

Listen Beyond the Voice Within 

How To Respond To Turmoil

I have not had a TV for a full week. I came here with my old one which didn’t work here because it’s on satellite not cable. That whole week without news. When I began to see how our world is changing, I went to the Cosmic Counselors for guidance. “What are our next steps? What is our role in this unfolding shift?”

I go to my Sacred Garden. The Cosmic Counselors are once again moving in a circle around the planet which is slowly turning within their sacred circle. “It is unfolding,” says a beautiful butterfly that is flying around the planet in a counter clockwise circle. “For those of you who are aware, you must touch hearts and help to expand the vibration across the cosmic consciousness so others can see it. You can do that with your mind and your intention. And then you listen, listen for guidance for the next step. The next step is fluid and graceful and very creative. It unfolds as you explore your imagination. Give it free rein.  You can discover some of it with obvious choices that you have to make. Look for the unformed energy waiting for direction.  Listen to the signs. Look at the spaces. Be prepared for a new adventure. Hold High  Watch for your own continued balance and the new choices that are making themselves known. Keep your heart focused and expect the best to unfold for the highest good for all. That is your part of it.”

The Director sits beside me on the bench. “Unfolding. Look for your role and trust”.

When I return to my home space, I realize my role continues to be to expect the vibration, to see it and experience it and emanate it. We are Light Beings and we are to show others the higher path.

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Listen With Your Heart

Next time you have a conversation, listen with your heart. Listen beyond the words to the core need or emotion and what is not being said in the moment. 

When you listen with openhearted silence, you see beyond the words. You move into the core emotions and needs and beliefs that are being expressed. And you can respond to their core need. When we listen with our hearts, it lets us connect to others on a soul level, taking us beyond mere words into the realm of truest and more honest communication. Use your heart center to listen and see what new dimensions of understanding appear.

Communicate From Your Heart 

Years ago, Chris Brogan interviewed me. I have no idea how he came to choose me and I was so new to the Internet that I could barely get onto Skype. I have followed him in his newsletter ever since. He is now an executive and he recently wrote this in his newsletter which I think is a very powerful consciousness to have, particularly if you are in a position of leadership. 

“An Executive Approach to Business (And Life)

“Before You Communicate – I wrote the next idea first, then added this. Before you reach out to anyone in any part of life, ask yourself the following few questions:

• How can I co-create the best experience with this interaction?
• What do I need or want to convey?
• How do I want this person to receive it?
• How can I say this briefly? (Remove the garbage, backstory, etc)
• Does this serve everyone well?

If more people did this step before EVERY communication in ALL parts of their life, verbal or written or otherwise, life would be much more magical!””

=== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

The Web of Life

“Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” – Chief Seattle

We must be conscious of our role in the universe and keep it in mind as we live our life and make our choices. Everything you do impacts the web which in turn will impact us and how we live our lives, focus our intention, and encourage others to do the same. 

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The lived experiences of these two global icons, and self described “mischievous brothers,” serve as a profound example of the power of Joy in the face of adversity.  They teach us that Joy is an essential key to meeting the many ordinary and profound challenges we now face, individually and collectively.

The summit will include a free screening of Mission: JOY — the laugh-out-loud funny documentary that shares the magical friendship, practical wisdom, and historic final in-person meeting of the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu — as well as inspiring and practical sessions with 30+ speakers.

The summit November 13-16, will explore:

●     Practices to transform stress, anxiety, grief, depression, despair, isolation, challenging emotions, and difficulty

●     Practical tools to cultivate well-being, connection, love, compassion, and Joy

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●     Joy as a “clean fuel” to power transformative action

●     Ubuntu, Interconnection, and Compassion as essential keys to healing our planet and creating a good future

●     A special keynote with His Holiness the Dalai Lama

●     Live interactive workshops and musical performances

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===REFLECTIONS===

Creative Adjustment

For all my apprehension about moving across the street from where I’ve been living for 13 years, it has all gone very smoothly. And I’m exactly where I am meant to be. Much of what I anticipated did not unfold. There’s more space in my space than I expected. And I’ve never had this much help in my entire life from kind, thoughtful, willing people. When you need to make a major change be flexible, experiment, and expect the best.

===CARA’S CORNER===

Feeling Cared For

I have moved into Evergreen and I’ve never felt so cared for in my life. The first few days were very busy with everyone figuring out their role in my well-being. I will receive Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, access to a medical doctor. And I got my first haircut in 14 months. She took off 5 inches! I’m back to the real me. I’ve had a bath in the Jacuzzi and I will see the doctor here and come under her care. I get to sit beside a window using my computer again, and there is a bird feeder right outside my window. It turns out this is long-term care, not assisted living. But it is the right place for me.  It seemed like there were millions of people to come offer different types of services and all of them are wearing Covid masks so it’s hard to recognize let alone remember them all. They can help you with everything. I am eating better than I ever have, even though I’m the only vegetarian in this entire population, although some of the staff are vegetarian. I get lots of vegetables in a variety that I could not have managed as a single person buying groceries for myself. I get physical therapy. I love their version of a recumbent bike and in three days it’s making a difference. Having both physical and professional help makes a huge difference in how I can take care of myself. 

Patricia, the Life Coach Manager of my wing said her mother lived to be 113. So maybe my 13-year-old cycles of change will hold. Golly gee.

My TV was too old to work here which is on satellite instead of cable so I have been without the news for seven days which is probably a good thing. But I will modify my news watching.  My daughter and her husband are very generously going to buy me a new television with a voice remote.

I voted this week with the help of one of the section managers. That’s one of the things I can do on the physical plane to help to heal the planet.

So here I go on my new adventure.

If you find it’s time for you to receive more help, go exploring and find a place that you can call home for the next phase of your life. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

A new cycle begins. A cycle of change, a cycle of evolution, a cycle of discovery. 

A new cycle begins. A cycle of change, a cycle of evolution, a cycle of discovery. I change my thinking, I change my actions, and I listen to and look for the myriad of nudges and insights the universe gives me. 

A new cycle begins. A cycle of change, a cycle of evolution, a cycle of discovery. I change my thinking, I change my actions, and I listen to and look for the myriad of nudges and insights the universe gives me. I trust the unfolding. All is well in my world. 

– Cara Lumen, October 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

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Living Our Deeper Song

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

Are you an in-the-moment, impulse person or do you deliberate a long time before making a change? It probably depends on the magnitude of the change you are considering.

The majority of major life-changing moves for me have been instantaneous. An opportunity presents itself and I act upon it. And I’ve never been wrong. Or sorry.

The first step in making wise decisions is to know yourself. The more you know your desires, your passions, your gifts and your levels of curiosity, the more accurate your decisions will be. The first step in decision-making is to know yourself. Then decide where you go exploring. Explore the options. Explore the pathways. Explore the possible outcomes. Journey down a few of the potential paths, wander down a few side trails and see how they feel and what shows up along the way. 

Can you make a decision in an instant because you know what alignment feels like? I can do that for a lot of things. 

One of the ways to make a decision is to do some exploring. Learn more about where the choice leads and what you need to know to get to that level. Sometimes you have to explore a lot in order to figure out if it’s for you. It can be rather disappointing when you realize a certain path is not yours to do. 

What kind of guidelines do you have for yourself? How do you make your choices? Know when you are full up and cannot manage to add another thing. Then pause and release a few things to make room for new possibilities to come in.

Know your preferences. Have some idea of what you need next. Then you can do one thing or several. You can go exploring on the physical plane and try to figure it out or you can trust the Universe to hand you the answer or the insight that makes you know where to look for the answer.

All the concepts in these newsletters come to me with an urgency for me to write them down. They’re usually a question I need to ask myself. But I take time and look ahead to see where my inner voice is guiding me.

I like it when a core realization makes itself known. That helps everything fall into place. Like when I realized I didn’t have to release my larger desk until it was time to move even though I was practicing living in a smaller space. It is not time to make that change. But I did have a solution for the smaller space.

How do you prioritize what shows up? I have a friend who is considering two major steps. And she is intrigued with both of them. I consider the smaller step to be the more exciting and impactful step. But she must rely on her inner voice to guide her. I encouraged her to go exploring and gather more information about where the choices would lead and what they would provide.

How do you make your decisions and are they leading you where you want to go? 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I listen to my inner voice and ask for guidance on the best choices at this particular point in time.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Explore several potential paths in your mind. When you are considering a change, a new option, visualize several ways to get there and several ways those choices could turn out. Notice how you feel about each one.
• Trust your intuition. Trust your inner voice. And trust your inner knowing. Let them help you make your major changes. 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

How and When to Change a Pattern 

Are you repeating nonproductive choices? How do you change that?

First of all, notice your time-wasters, notice the nonproductive patterns that you keep repeating.

What will you replace them with? 

First you have to identify your time-wasters and then you have to get creative to figure out what to replace them with. I should add more movement to my day. I do some Qigong but there are other forms of movement I can consider. Change the form. A podcast or two would be good. Audiobooks would be good. 

I’ve begun to identify the patterns I would like to change. I’m still experimenting with what to put in there but I’m working on it. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Learn From Your Crystals

I first learned about the Stone Clan from Shaman Hank Wesselman and I knew immediately that was the clan I belong to.

Even though I’ve given away many of my crystals to my daughter Cathy in preparation for this move, I have many left. I have them by a comfortable chair and I will speak to each and every one of them to find out how or if they want to participate in this next phase of my life. 

Our left hand is our receiving hand so we put a crystal in our left hand and notice what we feel, where we feel it, what we think and what thoughts it conveys to us. I often feel energy in a particular chakra but you might also get an idea or thought. I still have 30 or 40 crystals left. I want to figure out how to work with them on a regular basis. 

I gave all but one of my crystal necklaces to my daughter and I kept a blue labradorite. But I have crystal wands and balls and eggs and clusters. I need to work with each one of them to find out how they would like to participate in this next phase of my life. 

Talk to your crystals. Ask them to show you or tell you how they would like to be in service and for what purpose. Then work with them regularly. You can learn a lot from your crystals.

===OUTER WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Trust the Unfolding

A blossom unfolds in its own good time. A butterfly emerges when it is complete. We need to back off and allow for the natural unfolding of our life and our circumstances.

My mind gets excited and keeps me from allowing things to unfold. I push ahead when waiting might be better. But we must learn to trust the universe to open the perfect door when it is time and show us the perfect path. We must trust that we will recognize our perfect next step. 

Where in your life are you forcing the issue? Can you back off and go within and listen to your inner voice and trust that you will recognize the unfolding process and know when to take the next steps and what those steps are? Trust the unfolding and trust yourself to recognize it. 

Walk The Higher Path

In my journey I was told that my job was to continue to explore the highest path I can find and to share with others what I find. It’s like opening doors, exploring what I am shown and inviting others to come on a new adventure.

I am looking for the path that helps those of us who are called to rise above the chaos of the world to hold High Watch and light the way. We are to make this path so bright that when others look up they say, “Oh yes, that’s the direction I am to go, the path I am to follow.” And they raise their intention, they raise their expectations, and most of all they change their choices and actions with intentions and focus that organically affect the entire planet population. 

We are to keep exploring. We are to widen the path and remove the stumbling blocks and invite others to follow us. We are not only to find and explore the path, we are to make it welcoming to those who choose to follow. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Self-Healing Spiritual Practice and Deepening Awareness of Our Cosmic Oneness

Sit In Nature

I don’t go out much but I look out my window a lot. I watch the leaves fall, the clouds change shapes, the birds fly by and the sun set. I play my kalimba and my flute and my drum to the unfolding day. 

Nature is all about unfolding, ongoing change, and expansion through creation, growth, death and decay. It’s all there in nature. 

What part of nature will you commune with today? Perhaps you just go and sit and listen and receive its message. 

===GUIDANCE FROM OUR COSMIC COUNSELORS ===

Listen Beyond the Voice Within 

Work With Your Cosmic Counselors

A friend recently shared the phrase “Cosmic Counselors” with me and it really resonates. She’s deeply into astrology and reads the messages from the planets the universe provides for us. I really like the concept so I wanted to go exploring and talk to my version of Cosmic Counselors and see what they would like me to do.

I took a journey and for me, the entrance is in the Indigo Portal which is where I go all the time. The Cosmic Counselors are there to prompt and guide and counsel me as I embark on a higher level of work than I’ve done so far. They are going to take me out of my physical manifestation concerns and eventually raise me above the chaotic unrest in the world today. They are going to take me and us to a higher level of awareness from which we are to do incredibly powerful wholing work. 

I had no tangible idea what it is going look like but I journeyed and the Cosmic Counselors for me are sitting across a reflecting pond from me and I listen to them, and I can see ideas and images reflected in the pool. 

The Cosmic Counselors will help us develop our work in the world. They will allow us to work from a level beyond the chaos on earth. From beyond the Cosmos we are to bring fresh ideas and practices that will help us rise above the level of unfolding we are experiencing on earth, and show us how to begin to live and manifest from our Cosmic Consciousness. I don’t know any more than that in this point in time. 

Journey and connect with your Cosmic Counselors. See where they are for you and what they look like. Ask them for a message of guidance. 

Let’s go adventuring together and help create our new world. 

Relief at Moving On

It is such a relief to stop focusing on this move that may not take place for many months and start working again with the energy of the universe. I love the concept of the Cosmic Counselors. I love the idea of working at a higher level than I have been. That’s what I’m here for. That’s what I get to do now and next. Come, let’s go exploring together. We have a great adventure awaiting us.

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

Expand Our Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

People in Loving Service to Others 

As I move on to the next phase of downsizing in my life, I need help and I receive it from two strong women. Shelly who loves to clean and takes care of my home, and my daughter Cathy who is helping me make the arrangements for this potential move. I would be unable to do any of this without them.

Shelley loves to clean. She just helped another of her clients downsize to Assisted Living. She not only cleans but does my laundry and puts my two weeks of vitamins in a container. What a loving, kind, supportive person she is. I’m lucky to have her in my life. 

My daughter Cathy is coming with patience and the capacity to haul things away as I let go of and release what I will not take with me. She’s patient. She’s understanding. And she is efficiently persistent. All good things. 

As I become more dependent on others for simple everyday tasks, I am even more grateful for those who step forward to assist. Who are the helpers in your life? Are you one of the helpers or are you one of the receivers? Are you one of those wonderfully kind generous people who are aware of the needs of others and step up to help? 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Like-Minded Friends

When I moved to New York City 40 years ago from Kansas City, I was starved for like-minded friends. I didn’t realize it until I began to meet people who shared similar spiritual interests and were ahead of me on the path I wanted to walk. I was drawn to them like a magnet and I soaked up their insights like a sponge. I was starved for like-minded friends. 

How is your circle of friends? Are they a few steps ahead of you? Are they taking a slightly different path that you can learn from? I can’t find those friends in person anymore because I don’t go any place but I sure can find them online and I consistently go exploring to pick some out and connect with them. 

How do you find your like-minded friends? Reach out. Reach out to people who are podcasting or writing or teaching about pathways that you are drawn to. Reach out to those who you want to learn from, those who are walking paths near yours and go exploring.

===INTENTION BLESSING===

May we hear and heed the call of the Divine Feminine. 

May we expand our hearts and our expectations.

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

May we keep our gaze on the summit.

May we take this journey with a full heart. 

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

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

Expanding Awareness

The Backpack Journey

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and the 

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Energy Healing

My close friend, Christina Gerber is a powerful intuitive healer. She recently gifted me with an online session and the experience was incredibly stirring and effective. I have so many levels of imbalance going on, I felt energy shift in my physical presence, my chakras, my aura, my whole being. If you need help rebalancing the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual or auric planes, Christina has the depth and breadth of skills to help you. Christina Gerber www.christinagerber.com

===CARA’S CORNER===

I Finally Got It

The answer was so incredibly simple. “Turn off the sound.” Of course, why didn’t I think of that? I mostly play games on my tablet and the sounds gets in my way since I watch TV at the same time. I casually mentioned that to my friend Christina and she said, “Turn off the sound.” It is a life changer and very simple, and yes – obvious 

What is going on in your life that you can either turn off or stop doing or let go of? And what difference would that make in your experience? 

I can turn off the sound of my internal worry and simply allow life to unfold. 

Let go and trust. Trust the universe to provide for you. Just keep sending energy to your highest good, for the highest good for all of us. 

What message do you need to stop giving yourself? Clear your thoughts and change the outcome. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Clear The Path

I clear my thoughts. I release my expectations. I sit in the center of stillness and allow my life to unfold.

I clear my thoughts. I release my expectations. I sit in the center of stillness and allow my life to unfold. Space opens up. Cleared space. Open space. Welcoming space. All because I let go and allow life to unfold.

I clear my thoughts. I release my expectations. I sit in the center of stillness and allow my life to unfold. Space opens up. Cleared space. Open space. Welcoming space. All because I let go and allow life to unfold. It’s a lesson learned today and the lesson I must practice tomorrow. Be present. Let go, be present and listen to and respond to what the universe offers you in each moment.

Cara Lumen, September 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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Listen to the Silence

Living Our Deeper Song

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

Stop reading a moment and listen to the silence. There is a sound to silence. There is a presence in silence. There are lessons and messages in silence. Take a deep breath, center yourself and listen.

It’s not your voice that speaks in the silence. It is the energy of the unseen world. Standing in an ancient redwood forest that silence holds eons of experiences and thoughts and expectations. Looking out over the ocean makes one think about what lies beyond, what adventures might be waiting. And whether you’re going to stay on shore or go exploring.

In the silence is a presence. It is in the presence of All-that-is. It is the presence of Oneness. It is the presence of a collective energy. In that silence there are insights, deepening understanding, expanded awareness, and serenity.

In silence there are answers to questions. There are ideas that beg to be explored. In that silence decisions are made. Silence is a very powerful place to be.

Meditation instructs you to empty your mind. That’s a good thing to do. Simply sit and be with the presence of the silence that surrounds you. Sit there with no expectation. Keep your thoughts still and let the stillness seep into your very core to bring you tranquility, inner peace and wisdom.

How do you take time to cultivate silence in your life? Do more of it. 

Listen to the sound of silence. It is the universe speaking to you. Heed what it is saying.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I empty my mind completely before meditation. I make room for my inner voice to offer its wisdom. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

• Use a centering prayer to empty your mind and move into your Still Point before you meditate.
• Allow there to be words or allow there to be nothing. Simply be present with the feelings and emotions and knowingness that steps forth.
• Explore the silence and heed its messages.

===INNER WORK===

Cultivate Your Intuition

All you have to do is pay attention to those small nudges and notice how right on they are. That’s how you cultivate your intuition. By paying attention and understanding that it is offering you subtle insights into what is.

I use my intuition to talk to my crystals. I definitely use my intuition when I journey to ask a question for guidance. I’m given all sorts of metaphors that are totally up to me to interpret. And I interpret then with my intuition and my imagination. Pay attention to your intuition and learn to trust it. It contains powerful guidance for you.

Cultivate Inner Peace

Teach yourself to quickly and completely center yourself into that place of inner wholeness, inner peace. You can do that with a deep conscious breath. I can use my transcendental meditation mantra to put me there in seconds.  Perhaps take a moment to look out at nature and connect with a tree or a cloud. Throughout your day change your rhythm and bring it from outer concern to inner peace.

Waiting 

I’m waiting. I’m waiting for it to be time. I have a zoom call scheduled. I have groceries being delivered. I haven’t had my cup of tea yet. So I’m waiting. Sort of suspended in time doing nothing, going nowhere, simply waiting. I need to turn that into a moment of introspection, contemplation, gratitude. How much time do you waste simply waiting? And how will you learn to enrich that?

===SELF-HEALING==

The Power of Limiting Beliefs

In my Qigong class Master Lin says there are six causes of all illness, emotions, diet, injury, changes of weather and season, wrong medication and living environment. My doctor friend Dr. Martha Lacy suggested another – limiting beliefs. For me that is huge and I have no idea how to address it with all this body stuff that’s going on for me. I usually attributed what’s manifesting now in my body to a past life injury that has been released and is manifesting change now in my hip area. I have no trouble believing that. But on the other hand, I have dry macular degeneration for which Western medicine says there’s no cure. And I believe them. It is a limiting belief. How can I cure a past life injury and not be able to heal a present one? I have no idea and I wish I did.

In my current Qigong class, we were taught to replace the Chi energy that is causing the stalemate. You clear it out with a big breath that gathers it up in your lower Tan Tien (behind the navel) and lets it go like smoke. And then you put in fresh Qi. I will do more of that with my eyes but I know deep down that my limiting belief is that I can’t change it. So on one hand I sort of see what life is gonna be like as my eyes cloud up and what am I gonna do about it and on the other hand, I am trying to envision myself walking outside again and clearly seeing everything as my body heals. I don’t have an answer, I just pose the problem.

Where do limiting beliefs come from? They come from our parents having taught us their own beliefs. They come from experience, they come from some other authority figures saying this is so. 

How do I become the creator of a positive belief? I can do affirmations, but I have to believe them to make them work. I go back to that very important concept, “We get what we believe we deserve and what we believe is possible.” I deserve to have clear eyesight so I can continue my work. How do I change the what-is-possible part? I can use affirmations like “I see clearly within and without.” I do that. I can offer gratitude to my eyes as they do their work. I will begin to do more specific healing work around them. Perhaps envisioning going in and imagining reversing the dry macular degeneration which is a clouding of the back of the eye that makes you lose sight in the center of your vision. I will do visioning of the clearing of that back part of my eyes. I will acknowledge my eyes for what they can still see. And I will see what I learn in my self-healing qigong class.

A Good Move to Know

I learned this qigong move in one of Daisy Lee’s Qigong classes. To encourage your large intestine to do its work, use your cupped hands on your abdomen and move them in a patting motion that moves around and down your left side (descending colon). To slow your intestines down, go the other way. It’s a handy qigong move to know. 

My Unexpected Self-Healing Experience

I was playing Spider Solitaire on my laptop as I often do when I noticed that I was moving my legs in sort of a dancing motion and nothing hurt, which has not been my recent experience. I was aware of a sense of being whole which I have not felt for quite a while. I looked in my body again and realized that the anticipation of pain was gone and that I had been sitting in that chair for quite a while without my hips hurting. When I got up it did not hurt like it usually does and I found that there had been a major adjustment in my body and it was in my shoulders. They were freer at the base of my neck and it was affecting my hips in an amazingly positive way. I walked more easily. 

So two things happened – it was spontaneous, it just happened organically and I knew that I was better. I have been focusing on the hips as the cause of this walking difficulty but it was the base of my neck and those upper shoulders that felt lighter and freer and more flexible. So perhaps I wasn’t even looking in the right place for the cause of all this. This was spontaneous, it was unexpected. All I have done differently today was one Qigong movement from Robert Penn that I will now repeat forever, in case that was the releasing factor. I will see what unfolds. Year for self-healing…!

I have signed up for Robert’s seven-week online course and I’m recommending it highly to add to the self-healing quality of your life. Here is Robert Peng’s Live Long Qigong . Here is Robert’s web site. Here is the move that caused the shift .

Yi Directs Chi in Self-Healing

I’m not going to continue to give you a blow-by-blow account as my body self-heals, however I woke from a nap knowing that a muscle on the outer part of my left thigh had made an adjustment. When I got up to move around, I found it was indeed true and I was able to put weight on my left leg in the correct manner that I have not been able to do for a very long time. It had finally realigned!

It happened right after that I took my fourth Self-Healing Qiong class form Master Chin. We talked about the Yi, which is our intention, and how to use it to direct Qi energy. So as I took the class I also stood up and with my Yin intentions, sent more energy in that left leg and it stood firm holding my weight for the first time in a very long time.

You use your Yi, your intention, to send the Qi energy into the area that needs to be re-balanced. And yes, we have to let the Qi do its thing. 

===OUTER WORK===

The Power of Persistence

Persistence is a good thing. That slow but steady one-foot-at-a time process then gets you where you’re supposed to go. Or want to go. But even as we continually walk in a particular direction, we need to pause to look around to see if it is in fact taking us in the direction we want and need to go right now. Don’t do something just because you said you would. If it’s not unfolding as you expected or taking you where you want to go, change directions. There is no need to continue on and complete a no longer resonating path. Choose the path that is guiding you in the right direction. 

That means we have to pause and consider and evaluate often. Where has this present path taken you? Is that where you want to go? Is there an easier way to get there? Have you learned enough to make your decisions to continue or not? Is this path the easiest way to get where you want to go? 

You also have to know when it’s time to let go of a particular path. This path is not working for me, this step is too hard, time consuming, uninteresting. This choice is not working for me. Sometimes it’s because our goals have changed. Sometimes it’s that we’ve learned as much as we need to know from a particular path. There are many reasons to stop going in a specific direction. That does not mean you have given up. It simply means you have learned what you need to learn from that particular path and can make new decisions based on those discoveries. This is not about not completing a job that you set out to do exactly. Unless what you set out to do is no longer relevant. Or you found a shortcut or better solution. See how you’re doing. 

If I were trying to play the violin and I practiced and practiced and still was not very good at it, I would have to evaluate why I want to play the violin. If I just wanted music in my life perhaps there’s another instrument I should undertake. Explore. Persistence is good but only if you’re going in the right direction. Pay attention to the road signs as you move along. 

I would learn to pay attention to the nudges and urges to guide me in what I choose to do. Today I feel like… or not. Rest and finding your own rhythm would be a good place to start. 

Then you get to go exploring. What do you like to do with this open time? Who do you spend time with? If you are in a relationship that dynamic is going to change because you’re going to have more time together or at least bump into each other more often. This moving into a new phase is a time of evolution. 

Whatever you establish at the beginning is going to change overtime. So don’t lock yourself in. You may find lots of naps are important when you first retire as your body rebalances. Then you find yourself bored out of your mind and get some stimulation going. Take your time and be prepared to change what you choose. Stay open to the new invitations offered by the universe as it begins to help you design your new place of service.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Re-think Your Meditation Space

The problem was simple. I wanted to open the window for some fresh air and can longer reach it over my walker. And suddenly I was rearranging my entire meditation corner. What space do you need to reconfigure because its usage has changed or you have changed? 

I had a big chest in front of the window that was meant to be a place for my cat Sebastian to get on and look out the window. He doesn’t do that much, at least not enough to tie up that whole space for his occasional desire to look out the window. So the removal of one fairly large object helped me recreate my entire meditation corner. I turned my chair to face even more fully toward the window to look out into nature. I moved a small altar that I really love that had been displaced from my bedroom into the centerpiece and I kept my flutes and drums nearby so I can reach them from my meditation chair. It has greatly deepened my appreciation and enjoyment of and work in my meditation corner. 

What has changed in your life that asks you to rearrange your space? I can’t reach certain things so I need to put them up on something. I definitely have more things than surfaces. I have added items to my meditation practice. I would add more if I could put them within reach of sitting in a chair. I can do that. 

Question the arrangement of the space you use all the time. It could be where you spend the most time. See if how it is arranged is still serving the way you want to use it or if some changes, either minor or major, will make it a more usable and nurturing space. 

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

Appreciate Your Own Value

We take ourselves for granted. We often don’t appreciate how much we actually contribute to ourselves and to others and to the world around us. Perhaps you’d like to pause to notice how much you do contribute. 

I have a small circle of friends who are exceedingly important to me and I often don’t stop to think about how important I may be to them. Why are we friends? What do we give each other? It is an important exchange. 

I put out this newsletter because I need to figure things out and I get excited aboutwhat I learn. I don’t necessarily get feedback on what I write. But I do know that I contribute to the lives of others. 

It’s not exactly about your self-worth or your value, it is about how you perceive your place in the world, your contributions to the world, your role in the unfolding of the world. Can you pause a minute and give yourself some adjectives? I am wise. I am thoughtful. I expressed myself in a way that changes the lives of others. I’m an explorer. I’m creative. I love to learn new things and pass them along. None of those are necessarily things anyone will tell me about myself. What do you need to tell yourself about your own value? Do that.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===
Create a Vision Board

I have not made a Vision Board for a lot of years. A good friend of mine decided to do one for the major planetary conjunction we had recently. It turns out she made hers out of clay. I turned to the group I am in and suggested we each do at least three drawings or find images for a vision board. So we will do that and share them at our next online meeting. I can think of two for my vision board. The picture of me in nature standing tall without my walker is the first one. The second one may be about my work in the world which includes my blue bell tower which plays the songs that I sing, and a tall transmitter tower on top of a mountain to share my ideas and discoveries with the world. 

As I write this, I figured out my favorite drawing. It’s going to be a spider who weaves her web from within and builds on what she finds around her. Spiders cannot hear so she responds to vibration. That’s an important way for me to live my life – from within, building on what I find around me.

There’s another image that comes to mind that may be incorporated in the third drawing. It’s me on an upward trail. I am followed by my white donkey who carries a backpack full of transformational butterflies. I carry my walking stick which is actually Charlie the snake who is meant to hug me. I found him in a journey to the the lower world. And Samson the eagle who has the overview and shows me the way. That’s my journey. I am to keep walking uphill. I might add other light bearers on the path behind me but I haven’t drawn this yet so we’ll see. Perhaps you’ll join me in drawing three images for your vision board to see what it unfolds for you and where it leads you. 

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

Spiritual PracticeHow to Direct Energy Outside of Time and Space
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Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
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Deeper Song Website

==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

I am taking this Qigong class with Robert Peng 

===CARA’S CORNER===
When the Time is Right 

For five years now I’ve watched my friend move along her path and be ready to take this next step. We’ve had many discussions, a lot of exploring, some resistance, and gradually increasing self confidence in not only her ability but what she wants to offer. And the words for her new website are flowing and the decisions are being made and steps are being taken because it is time. 

Don’t be impatient with yourself, give yourself time, but also when the time is right, step forward and take action. You will know. It’s rather like a dam breaking, or a volcano erupting because it all flows out and into place so effortlessly. When you are ready the idea will take shape. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

When I am Ready

When I am ready the answers will appear.

When I am ready the answers will appear. When I am ready the doors will open.

When I am ready the answers will appear. When I am ready the doors will open. When I am ready I will step through.

Cara Lumen, April 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!