Self Transformation

Listen to the Silence

April 21, 2022 By Cara Lumen

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
Listen to my
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify / Googleand the
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.

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Buying and Striving are Not the Point of Living

March 17, 2022 By Cara Lumen

Buying and Striving are Not the Point of Living

Living Our Deeper Song

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

“Buying and striving are not the point of living” was one of the many thought-provoking ideas in Changing of the Gods. It was jarring because I realized that acquiring things was part of how I had been brought up to think and it was time for me to reexamine my life focus. You got educated, you had a career, you had a family. It was all about the doing – not the being. I get to check my thinking and reconsider my purpose.

I have not been trying to earn my living since I moved from California to a Kansas City suburb in 2009 and had knee surgery on both knees. My content development coaching practice organically dissolved in the process. My daughter helped me find a lovely subsidized apartment and I tucked myself in. It is actually very freeing to not have to earn a living. In fact, since I live in subsidized housing, I will be penalized for doing so.

So everything I do I get to do because I want to, not because I need to sell something to someone. It is very freeing since I was never a very good salesperson.

But the majority of people are concerned with consuming things and earning the money to do so. They need a roof over their head – but how luxurious and expensive does that roof need to be and how much time and effort and money will go into maintaining it? That decision adds to the degree of striving we have to do to support that choice.

I don’t have answers here. I just really like the idea of making certain I am not living just for the purpose of acquiring things.

I also am not striving to achieve a goal, I am focused on unfolding and expanding my place of service.

How does this idea call to you and what will you change because of it?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I work to stay in meaningful service rather than to acquire things.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

Monitor your spending, look at why you buy versus what you truly need.
What are you striving to achieve with your earning power? Is it still relevant?
What adjustment will you make in order to make buying and striving not the point of living?

===INNER WORK===

Incubation

To incubate something means to keep it in a safe space with the environment controlled so that it is perfect for the growth and development of a living organism. We need to provide a safe environment for our ideas to develop, a way to continue to nurture and nourish them so that they have time to develop. I often get inklings of change coming without any more clarity than that. All I can do is be patient and stay open and aware and let it mature. Even when the idea begins to emerge, I don’t rush it. I observe the subtle changes and pay attention to how it feels and looks. I consider the possibilities and how it might develop.

Evolving takes time, you can’t rush maturing. I don’t poke it or prod it or move it around. I pretty much let each idea develop in its own time. We are constantly incubating our own path of change. We must give our ideas and evolution the best environment we can to keep them safe and give them time to mature. Do you do that? Do you give yourself time to have an idea evolve for your next step? Are you patient with yourself? Do you let things unfold?

You can’t force something into being. You keep it safe and provide it with the nourishment and nurturing that it needs and simply give it time to emerge. Give your ideas time to incubate.

Keep a Creativity Journal

I keep a journal about my personal life, but I’d never thought about keeping a creativity journal until recently. That means it’s a place you write down anything you want to explore or consider doing. It could be an idea for a poem, it could be an idea for a picture, it could be an idea for a woodworking project. I wouldn’t want to turn it into a list of “to do” things but it would be fun to have one place to keep all the ideas that come in. Perhaps I would prioritize them, do some exploring, and actually do some of them. Just a thought. Will you start a creativity journal today?

===SELF-HEALING===

Meaningful Pause

Periodically throughout your day, take a conscious pause and take a mindful breath. Breathe in stillness. Breathe in centering energy. Quiet your inner self and simply be present. You may want to turn and look out the window at nature. We have great shape-shifting clouds here in the Midwest. They are definitely worth some contemplation time. Take time to think of the people you love. Be grateful for the moment, the experience of being alive, for your role in the world.

Pausing to change your focus, your rhythm, and your intention gives you a moment to notice how you’re doing and if you’re going in the direction you intend. Pauses are good. Consciously build them into your day.

===OUTER WORK===

What Can You Learn From a Friend From Another Culture?

Most of us have explored a little bit of other cultures simply by eating their food – French, Chinese, Mexican, Indian Italian, Korean, but what else do we know about those cultures and the richness they could bring to our own experience?

Thinking about that I realize that I have been interested in Buddhism for a very long time so that’s a spiritual culture I know a bit about. I have studied Qigong and Shamanism that originated in other cultures. Living in New York City gave me the greatest opportunity to explore wonderful restaurants.

However, I live in the Midwest now and there are few people from other backgrounds living near me. I don’t have very many diverse friends and that’s too bad. For me. I miss out on a lot. As I’m listening and expanding my way of looking at the world, I could look at different cultures to add depth and richness to my life. Art is different in different cultures, music is different. I’m missing a lot of fascinating experiences by not exploring other cultures.

What culture would you explore to learn more about its way of living, its food, its thinking, its culture? Pick one and go exploring.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Create a Sacred Container for Your Intentions

It has been a long time since I created a Sacred Intention Container. I seem to want to create a new one. The idea is to create a special container for your intentions, then contemplate them and send energy to them on a regular basis. I write my intentions on paper and place them in a container that has a lid. I place it in my meditation corner so I can work with it. You could put your intentions in an envelope or a cloth bag or a bowl. Write your intentions in the present tense as if they have already happened. Place the intentions you have written in the container you have chosen and send energy to them as a regular part of your spiritual practice.

Since I have dry macular degeneration, I have the affirmation “I see clearly within and without” Others are: “I deepen my connection with nature.”

“I welcome wholeness and balance into my physical body and my life experience.” ‘I deepen my spiritual experience and connection with the unseen world.” “I deepen my love for and connection with the circle of friends I have drawn around me in my life.” “I find new ways to serve in the word and share what I discover with others.” “I easily and effortlessly step onto the path I am to travel now.”

You can periodically pull the individual intentions out and work with them or you can simply send positive wholing, balancing energy to the whole collection of intentions that you have. I suggest doing both.

What kind of an intention holder will you create and what intentions will you put in it?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Stay Curious

80% of potential jobs are not created yet. With fields like AI and robotics, solar and block change just getting underway, those industries and opportunities have barely begun to define themselves as existing, let alone define their potential and job descriptions. That means that we as workers in the world, whatever generation we are, need to stay fluid and flexible and curious and willing to change. It’s a little tricky to prepare for what does not yet exist but when the opportunity unfolds there will be ways to serve it and we can learn then. Say curious. And keep learning.

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

Expanding Awareness

Simply Being – The Art of Wu Wei

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

and the

Deeper Song Website

==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Self-Healing

A powerful approach to self-healing can be found through Master Chunyi Lin, Creator and Founder of Spring Forest Qigong springforestqigong.com I am enrolled in his new class at the Shift Network. Heal Yourself & Others With the Power of Qigong. We will be guided through experiential journeys in which we will refine our body’s reservoir of energy — aligning our breath, movement, and awareness — and direct it to facilitate increased energy and the capacity to heal ourselves and others. His websites are springforestqigong.com and chunyilin.com

===CARA’S CORNER===

Keep Learning

I love to learn but I haven’t taken a class in quite a while. I wasn’t planning to until I looked at the class called, Heal Yourself & Others With the Power of Qigong. It’s about self-healing, using your breath and attention to work within the energy fields of your body to balance and restore. I’m very much into self-healing because what’s going on in my body is nothing that a Western medicine doctor can fix. It is an organic structural readjustment that’s causing much muscular discomfort. So I know that this correction is up to me. And I am willing to take responsibility and do the work. This particular qigong class seems to be the work I need to do next. Isn’t it interesting how the answer comes along when you need it? I’ve been doing self-healing all my life and I know it’s entirely up to me but I have never done intentional self-healing on the internal plane in this manner. When you have a problem, stay open to ideas and nudges and insights that show up and consider them. See how they resonate. See how deeply they call to you. I was totally surprised at my strong response to the idea of learning this and I am excited to take this class. It feels like it is the help I need to manifest my own self-healing. Keep listening, keep looking and take action when it feels right.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Answer

It was unexpected when it came.

It was unexpected when it came – the answer to the problem, the next step, the possibilities.

It was unexpected when it came – the answer to the problem, the next step, the possibilities. Stay aware. Keep listening to the voices within. And the next step will appear.

Cara Lumen, March 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!

Explore The Rewarding Path of Change

February 24, 2022 By Cara Lumen

Explore The Rewarding Path of Change

Living Our Deeper Song

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

I’m not exactly in limbo but there is change occurring all around me and I don’t know where it’s leading or what my role is to be. I can’t force it. But I keep looking for ways to help it be revealed to me.

I pulled some tarot cards to get some answers. The first one I drew was “changed and possibilities.”

“Possibilities” is a door opener. It is a game-changer. What do I need to let go of or do more or change in order to open up new possibilities? Sometimes all we need to do is sit still and contemplate the changes and openings in the new path that show themselves.

We must explore. We must identify what calls the most to us and walk down that path a bit to see where it might lead. See how it feels. See if it’s a direction we want to go in. We must be willing to change.

We must explore our new interests deeply enough to have a sense of the possibilities it opens up. Their potential. The direction it will lead us. The gifts it will bring. We can’t always identify what opportunities and challenges a new choice will bring so we need to stay alert as we travel the path and keep making changes, keep exploring, keep questioning. We need to know how it feels, what changes would be possible and where they might lead. And with each step, we must reevaluate the new perspective it reveals. Consciously explore each developing new pathway, make your choice, and move forward. We must be persistent in our search, resilient in our exploration, and patient for the path of change to be revealed.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I stay open to change and the new possibilities for me to make a difference.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

Keep a lookout for new concepts and choices that open up new possibilities.
Explore those that call to you.
Draw them into your life and go exploring.

===INNER WORK===

Create a Shamanic Ceremony for Guidance

Several things will influence the experience you have creating a ceremony. You will get better with practice over time.

The first is the skill and life experience you bring to the table.

There are many ways to design a ceremony. It can be short or long it can be elaborate or simple. Explore different forms of ceremony and perhaps identify several that are applicable to different situations you find yourself in.

My major form of ceremony is a shamanic journey. I journey all the time. My process is very simple. I decide on the purpose of my journey. It may be guidance, it may be self-healing, usually I have a question and seek clarity.

Begin your ceremony by centering yourself. I could play my flute or look out at nature. Or close my eyes and focus on my breathing.

In a quiet place, I use my imagination to go to my Sacred Garden and ask for guidance. The images that show up are mine to interpret. They are my spiritual guides speaking directly to me. The first three times I journeyed I saw nothing but a campfire and only sensed others around it. Be patient with yourself as you learn to journey. And don’t be surprised with the form it takes. Trust what shows up.

The second contributor to your ceremony/ritual is your relationship with the unseen world and the guides that show up which deepens over time.

I have a resistance to angels and when one started to appear in my journeys, it was only her feet and the tips of her wings that I could see. It took awhile for me to let her in but now the Angel With The Golden Wings is often present to guide me on my journeys.

Trust the images that appear and trust how you choose to interpret them. All of these images are metaphors for only you to interpret. If you are not clear, ask them for clarity.

What you do with the guidance you receive is also an important influencer on the effectiveness of the rituals and journeys that you take. Do the work. Explore the suggestions. Let your guides help you unravel the question you’ve asked.

Be willing to believe what you see. Be willing to listen to talking rocks and fly on the backs of big birds and communicate with dolphins. Listen and interpret whatever images and thoughts and ideas show up and trust your interpretation. Keep practicing and you’ll get better at it. This is one of the ways that the inner world speaks to you.

Always give gratitude for all the guidance and awareness that you’ve been given. Your guides are there to be helpful. Thank them for their insights and wisdom.

Keep a journal. Take notes right after you have your journey or ceremony. And be aware of any changes and ideas that show up in the days and weeks that follow. Record those too. It helps to clarify the overview.

Our shamanic work comes with the obligation to honor the power and spiritual magic and not take it lightly.

Know that you are safe.

Have a clear intention.

Treat the experience with great respect.

Add a shamanic journey as one of the forms of ceremony in your spiritual life and gather to you the insights of the inner world.

You are responsible for your own experience. Keep exploring.

===SELF-HEALING===

Trust the Stillness

How much time do you spend in silent stillness? There is no better place to heal and regroup than in the silence of our inner world. I don’t mean sleep, I mean meditative stillness. A time when you go within and create space for your inner wisdom, your inner guidance, to make itself known.

The form that guidance takes may vary. Allow it time to evolve.

I was to lead a segment in a Zoom call. I had an idea. As the days progressed, I got ideas for different versions the experience could take. I explored them as they came up, taking them a step deeper or in a slightly different direction. I trusted my inner voice to take me in the right direction. I gave the concept space to evolve and trusted the process.

Set an intention and then sit with it. Notice what comes up without judgment. You will know when to choose and what to choose. Let the stillness nurture and clarify.

(It turned out to be a powerful experience for all of us on the call…)

===OUTER WORK===

What Makes Life Meaningful?

The facets of your life that are meaningful in the moment change over the years as your life changes, as your focus changes, and your expectations change. What is meaningful for you right now? My mind is meaningful. Without it for me there’s nothing because it’s entertaining, it’s informative, it’s creative, it helps me reach out to others.

Do you have a gift that you particularly enjoy or find meaning in sharing? Do you need to do more of it? Do you need to find a broader audience to share it with? How are you using your gifts? Who are you sharing them with? And how can you widen your reach?

What Do You Want?

What do you want? What are your priorities? Is it your health? Your relationships? Your work? Your future? Choose one and begin to do some active work on it – both inner and outer. That means visualization. How could it unfold? What does that look like and feel like? How will the choices you are considering affect others? The world? Your own life? Take a few steps. See how it feels and where it is leading you.

Perhaps you need to work on not just what you want, but what you need right now in your life. That could help you sort out your priorities. Do you need friendship? Do you need money? Do you need better health? What is your main need right now and what are you doing to make it happen?

On the physical plane, I want my body to feel better. On the spiritual plane, I want the world to feel better. I can work on both of those. But I need to know that I need them both and I want them both, so I can choose the right steps to take and the right beliefs to hold to help it come into being.

Make a list of a few things that you want and then prioritize them. Pick the first one and design three steps to move you forward in your awareness of its potential and impact. Your future is yours to design. It is yours to create. It is yours to cultivate. Choose in alignment with the highest good of all. And get to work.

Ideas and Discipline

I get tons of ideas. They crowd my head. They crowd my day, they crowd my work. I love them. But I continue to develop criteria by which to choose and measure the usefulness of an idea.

Not all ideas are yours to do. They may be an idea to give to someone else. They may be an idea to be done at a later time. Don’t let yourself get so crowded with ideas that you don’t act on any of them. Learn to be selective and choose the ideas that take you the furthest in the direction you want to go next.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Above and Below

More and more healing practices that I come across begin by connecting deeply with Gaia and bringing up her powers, then turning and connecting with the cosmos, your Soul Star, Source. We bring both of those energies into our humanness and use them to release, restore, repair, and rebuild. I sometimes feel those energies coming from above and below turning into a counter-clockwise spiral, releasing, repairing, and replacing all throughout the column of my body. Use your imagination and take time to bring the energy from below and from above where you do your self-healing work.

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

Work With Another Light Being

When my daughter retires in a few years she wants to move into animal healing using energy techniques like Reiki. I’ve connected her with a friend of mine who is a very gifted animal healer. She will have an example and a mentor and a guide as she moves into her new field.

I have a small group of women that I interact with regularly and each time I do, I find insights and meaning and often new steps to take to enrich my own life. Do you have that kind of circle of friends? Start with one person. Find a friend that is on a similar track and arrange to talk on a regular basis, to encourage each other, and to share what you have learned.

I have a primary longtime friend that I was paired with when we were in one of Sandra Ingerman’s shamanism classes and we have continued to talk weekly for five years or so. We have grown alongside each other. We have supported each other in that growth. We know each other’s patterns so we can be supportive.

You will have different friends for different facets of your life. Encourage that. Explore that. Expand on that. In my case, I’ve introduced those friends to each other. They have developed their own relationships.

As you grow, your friends will change. Allow that to happen. And seek new friends that will help you move higher on the new path that you’ve chosen.

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

Adventure and Potential

How do we know our potential if we don’t go adventuring? If we don’t try new things? Or explore new venues? How much exploration are you doing currently? Do you go a little way down the path you’re on to check out what else is there? Are you turning and exploring a whole new path? Will it take you on an adventure that will lead you places you cannot imagine? Be aware that you must continue to explore. You must adventure down unexplored paths and look around and see what calls to you. When you go exploring you will find a new adventure and your greater potential!

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Choice

There sure are a lot of us on this planet making a lot of different decisions, going in a lot of different directions, not at all in harmony with each other. It’s kind of a mess. I suppose it’s a growth stage. Each person trying to expand and find their role. Some are more aware of the consciousness of the earth and some have more compassion and empathy than others. It’s an eclectic collection of people all here on the same planet and we are not working in harmony.

We must consciously define and follow our own path, our own heart. We must constantly strive to take the higher path – the path of inclusion. Not everybody’s going to be on that path. But we must continue our journey on the highest road we can find and keep making conscious choices for the highest good of the most people.

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

Expanding Awareness

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Building My Web of Life

As I look around to see how my “next” will unfold, the lesson of the spider calls to me. She weaves her world from within herself and builds on what she finds around her. She also can’t see so she works only from vibration. Hummmm. I want to create like a spider.

I am probably forcing my search for what I am to do next. In fact, I’m pretty sure I am. So if I take a lesson from the spider, what do I do?

I am patient. I pay attention to what is inside of me. My thoughts, my urges, my insights. And I wait patiently to discover where I might apply those ideas. It’s the patient part I’m not too good at. But there is a serenity and surety and resilience about building on what you find around you and building from within you. I will keep practicing.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Nudge

One idea. One nudge. I explore.

One idea. One nudge. I explore. I experiment, I imagine. I vision.

One idea. One nudge. I explore. I experiment, I imagine. I vision. My new path opens up, my new calling unfolds, and I move into a new adventure!

Cara Lumen, February 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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How to Self-Heal

January 20, 2022 By Cara Lumen

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.

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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

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===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

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What You Can Imagine You Can Create

November 5, 2021 By Cara Lumen

What You Can Imagine You Can Create

Living Your Deeper Song

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

As I try to find my role and my path in this world that is changing so rapidly one of the answers that I am drawn to is found in the book “The Quest of Rose: The Cosmic Keys of Our Future Becoming (Future Humans Trilogy) Book 1 by Anneloes Smithsman and Jean Houson.

Now I have not finished it by any means but I am already blown away by this concept:

One of the core ideas is that when we understand that was ARE Cosmic Consciousness a whole new world of possibilities opens up – instantaneously. We immediately drop our human limitations and go soaring into the expansive realms of possibility.

How do we do that? Is creating a new future as easy as moving into our imaginal powers and making stuff up? And if so, what do I want to make up?

For me, the vast diversity in humanity is daunting. Each individual has a different need, a different take on how to do something, a different belief system. It makes sense to use our imaginal powers to manifest the life we live and the world we live in. If we can imagine it, it can exist.

I get to shift my focus. Insisted of noticing what is not working, I get to look for and focus on what is working.

Now, I observe and am excited by the oppoturnities that keep opening up. When are aware, when we make choices for the highest good, we have a way to save the planet, to live in peace. But we have to make those our highest priority. W cannot put our own needs first. We must find within us the qualities and form of expression that radiant out the most wholeness, the most tranquility, and we get to reside there. Others feel that and notice those same serene qualities in their lives and begin to cultivate them more. And the world grows calmer as more and more of us center and focus and calm our oath thoughts, beliefs, and expectations.

But we have to look for those quitter expectations, we have to want to live in deer serenity. We have to want to peacefully coexist. When we recognize what we want, we can take steps to move ourselves toward it.

If you shut your eyes and picture yourself in a serene place in nature, your whole body responds – your breath calms, your shoulders relax, your heart rate slows. All because you shifted your focus onto an image of serene existence.

We get to do that more often – shift our inner gaze. Look for those tranquil rhythms within and reside in therm.

Begin with an open mind. Monitor your thoughts and particularly monitor your expectations. Develop a sprite practice that involves slow breaths, going within, and floating off into your imagination where you look for and find and exist in tranquility – with others and alone. Once you experience it you can begin to bring it into your human expression – let a conscious breath center you, take a long gaze out the window at nature, and tune into that slower tempo. All of these steps change your rhythm and your expectations.

Use your imagination to explore the way you would like the world to be. Then stand bak and watch it manifest.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I focus my attention on a positive expectation for our planet and my life expression.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

Begin by centering yourself with long slow breaths.
Go to your Still Pint and allow yourself to merge with cosmic awareness.
Go where your guides take you.

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===INNER WORK===

The Power of Encouragement

You don’t know encouragement has been missing in your life until you get it. I have been receiving physical therapy for several weeks now and I realize how powerful the encouragement that I received from my physical therapist is in motivating me to do the work. She doesn’t ask me to do too much. She does encourage me to keep doing what she has taught me. And it is making a huge difference in my willingness to do the exercises that she has assigned me.

So how do I give that to myself? How do I encourage myself?

First of all, notice where you’re lagging behind and where you need encouragement. Then create your own little cheerleading section – yeah you did this – yeah you did that. Acknowledge the steps you do take and also identify what feels like a stumbling block, and take time to look for a way to walk around it or climb over it or find another path. We are on a continuous journey. Some parts of the path are easier than others. We have to find a way to encourage ourselves to keep going.

Singing while you do a task might help. Putting on music in order to exercise might help. Having a specific purpose like getting the mail that makes you walk down the hall might help. How do you encourage yourself? Who is encouraging you? And who are you encouraging to move forward in their life?

Change Your Narrative, Change Your Life

Our words have power. They manifest what we say what we see and what we experience. When we change our narrative we change our lives. So as I wrestle with my body I see that I have just made a terrible choice of words. I’m not wrestling with my body I need to think in terms of encouraging it and caring for it. See how much damage my own words almost did? So instead of looking for what is not working, I get to look at what is working. I’m going to have to change my focus a lot. I may even have to go beyond listening to anything human and go to a centered spot by being in nature. Become more aware of simple cycles – he beginning and middle and end of the ongoing and ever-present cycles.

What are you telling yourself? What affirmations are you giving yourself? What hurts? What is adjusting? What is working smoothly? Do I focus on what a long way it feels to walk down the hall or do I focus on how good that step was and how good it feels to strengthen my body? What is the narrative you are giving yourself? Pay attention, Negative affirmations can be very sneaky. Monitor your thought and speak only in positive terms.

Change your narrative, change your life. I am safe. I am cared for, the Universe loves me. Communicate unity, belonging, and wholeness.

===OUTER WORRK===

How Do You Handle Discouragement?

It seems like it’s too much to do. It seems like you don’t have enough skills, energy, talent, time to make it happen. And you sit there in discouragement. What do you do? How do you move yourself out of those moments of down-heartedness? Like feeling that you can’t make it happen? Feeling like you don’t have the skills? Feeling like you’re trying to making this happen all by yourself? Those are discouraging thoughts and feelings. And they happen to all of us. What do you do when you get discouraged?

As I write that I remember Snow White’s seven dwarfs and their song “Whistle While You Work.” I think that may be the answer – to simply be in the moment and do the best you can. Be grateful that you the opportunity was sent to you. And then acknowledge what you’ve accomplished. Not what is still left to do – but what you have already done. Perhaps with your new viewpoint, you divide the steps up into smaller pieces so they don’t feel so daunting. You may have to have some help. You may need to learn some new skills. What preparation steps do you need to take to make yourself more capable of doing this job you set for yourself? Do that.

Take smaller steps and let the path unfold before you.

The Length of your Reach

Michelle, my physical therapist, gives me pieces of paper with the exercises drawn on them. There are three on a page and are not arranged in the order I am given to do them. I told her I would like to see these exercises on individual cards on a key ring that I could add to and easily use. I would put them in batches of chair exercise and bed exercises and… She liked the idea, told her supervisors and they are going to look into doing it.

Now, here’s the lesson. I had a need. I shared an idea. The idea resonated. It will get implemented and it will affect physical therapy patients from this office for years to come. Who knows, it may spread even more.

All because I had a need and I share a solution.

What solutions are you sharing and how far-reaching will they go?

Establish a Daily Self-Scanning Practice

When we scan and soothe our energy field our body responds. You can do this sitting or lying down. Place yourself in silliness and with your focused awarenss move slowly through your body. Moving in and through the muscles and veins and experiencing light energy moving into every corner and crevice to cleanse and rebalance and restore. Notice the places the energy is low and breadth energy into it. Notice the place where energy is stuck or highly concentrated and breathe out while releasing all that stuck-ness. Take deep, slow breaths that fill your body and re-balance it. Take another breath that moves along your aura and soothe that and balance it. Your aura extends many feet from your body. Soothe the energy to the edges.

Be present within and feel yourself radiate out tranquility as your body regains its balance on all levels. Breathe balance into your body and notice what changes. Breathe centered stillness into your body as you make conscious choices through your day.

Try Something Different

Brian Clark thinks It’s Time for a New Adventure. The phrase that caught my eye was “try something different.” He’s going to South America to the Rain Forest. What do I, here in my space, in my circumstances, at my age and abilities try out? What kind of adventure can I create for myself?

The first thing that comes to mind is – my mind. I am deep into the latest Jean Houston Book and have another book waiting to take me on a great adventure. So my mind seems to be a major path to adventure.

Try something new. I have been invited to attend an advanced shamanic ceremony/graduation of a close friend on Zoom. I have meaningful friends I connect with regularly who inspire me with their creative activity. Where can I go adventuring? What can I try that’s new?

I have a Qigong class I want to finish. I want to do some sketching of elements from my journeys. I am writing some very fascinating podcasts. My mind seems to be my doorway to adventure. Wonder where it will take me…

Keep looking for change. Keep exploring new pathways. What adventure will you go on next? Where will you go? Try something different and see what shifts for you.

Create Change by Changing the Size of the Problem

This was a huge realization for me – to change the size of the problem rather than expand on the size of the solution. It’s fairly simple. Now that I use a walker it is tricky for me to take out my trash which I put in my good-size four-wheel laundry cart and push while walking with a cane. So the problem is a large bag of trash and me on a walker. Not a good match. How do I push-pull any thing and still use the walker? My first thought was to change the frequency I took trash out as in relying on my homemaker every other week and perhaps enlisting my son-in-law the opposite weeks for once a week trash run. But I really would like to do it more often than that and I was at standstill until I got the idea that I can use my walker if I take smaller loads. I changed the problem! I made the problem smaller and found a solution that fit!

That means more frequent trips which are good for my walking but it eliminates the problem of enlisting others to solve my problem.

What problem are you facing that feels too big that if you did it in smaller chunks or more frequently it would change the execution and the result? Create change by changing the size of the problem.

Adjust Your Foundation

When I sat at my desk chair it isn’t long before my hips hurt and I had to stand up. It is a bit tricky to keep working while standing up, looking through bifocals at a tall 21-inch monitor, and having the keyboard still down at a sitting position.

I have a solar keyboard so I figured out how to raise that but it suddenly dawned on me to change my foundation – change the size and shape of the pillows I was sitting on. (I sit on lots of pillows to get the height I need to get out of the chair.) It is working. My hips are less cranky. So the lesson is that if the structure is having a problem, begin by changing the foundation. What foundation needs changing in your life? You’d be surprised what a difference a small adjustment will make.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Combinations for Your Spiritual Practice

I was listening to an introduction to a class on herbalism and David Crow said the ancient formulas put herbs together so they enhance each other’s powers.

I wondered how I might apply that idea to my spiritual practice.

For instance, I know that playing a drumming track while I play my flute expands my playing. There is a freeing element to it. It creates more space in the music because of the give and take. I know that singing the songs I made up while drumming deepen my awareness of my connection to nature. I also know I want silence as I meditate and that wrapping a warm shawl around my shoulders enhances and deepens my experience. There are a few Qigong breathing exercises I know that change the tension I feel at various points in my day. I am listening to more and more classical music rather than news or stories. Those small choices change my experience of my day.

I know if I hum to myself as I use my walker to walk correctly down the hall it lifts my spirits and my body and turns it into an adventure rather than a task. If I could walk better I might dance down the hall!

I use my breath to use The Intentional OM Humto parts of my body. I also use the Intentional Hum to balance circumstances.

Give some focused thought to the rhythm of your day, what energy shift you need and when and how you will manifest that.

What elements can you put together in your day that will strengthen an experience?

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST ==

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Spiritual Practice

Create a Releasing Ceremony For Yourself

The Two Vital Sides of Your Spiritual Practice

Self Healing

The Backpack Journey

Journey to a Chamber of the Seven Sacred Rays

Expanding Awareness

Listen For Your Future

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective

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===DISICOVERIES ===

Here’s a very powerful description of the shamanic practice of dismemberment of thought forms by Sandra Ingerman Transmutation News – November 2021

===MY DEEPER SONG ADVENTURES ===

Restorative Sleep

My cat, Sebastian, commandeers my magnetic Kenko Naturest® Custom Pillow the minute I abandon it. Instead of sleeping hidden in the closet he now luxuriates against my magnetic pillow. He knows it is healing. We are both super silky – his coat, my skin and hair and I think it’s from sleeping under the magnetic KenkoTherm Cocoon. I have also been sleeping all night with my Kenko Power Sleep Mask. It may help with my dry macular degeneration. Oh yes, I’ve been drinking from the PiMag Waterfall® for 20 years. Don’t you love it when you find a healing format that works for you!

===OUR EVOLVING FUURE===

The Job Of Future Generations

It was my grandson’s birthday recently and one of the things I am aware of is that his generation has their work cut out for them. They have to change their beliefs. They have to explore and learn to apply new technology. They have climate change to halt. This is a time of huge deep consequential change. And his generation and those around him are in charge of making it happen for themselves and for their children.

When we explore change, we have to let go of the familiar and truly go exploring to discover what is now possible. I subscribe to Good News Network and every day there is reporting of a new way to do something or the discovery of an animal that was thought to be extinct or a way to support an idea that had not existed before. It keeps us aware of the positive evolution that is so prevalent today when we look for it.

If you are raising children make certain you teach them flexibility and questioning and the love of change, the adventure of changing, the need to change. We are always outgrowing where we are. Most of what we know is outdated, no longer useful, so what do we teach our children? Concern for the highest good for all, the inclusion of and respect for nature. What are you teaching those around you and what are you learning for yourself?

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Our Choice

It wasn’t exactly a dream, but I woke up with a scenario moving through my mind of the angry people that I know of in the US. And where that might lead us. Certainly a divided word – one world of thoughtful, caring, inclusive, people and another of angry, bitter, defensive, mean-spirited people – that’s a very large division. Of course, there are gradations. But we have a choice.

I was upset a few years ago when a major shamanic teacher said that there was a new path being formed to a higher level of being and even though many of us would use that higher road not everyone would and that we had to be OK with it. And I felt sad that people would be left behind. But now I see people are actively making choices. Sometimes it is an angry choice. For me, it seems to be a misguided choice. An unrealistic choice, the choice based on misinformation. But I pick up my walking stick and continue on my upward sloping path. Always seeking higher ground. Always trying to help those who travel with me along the path. I can only travel one pair. Everyone makes their own choice and crates their own future. Mine is the high road.

===CARA’S CORNER===

I have never shared a complete journey before but this was very powerful. I now dictate as I journey so I get great detail.

COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS JOYRNEY

I go to my Still Point in the center of m being and allow myself to step within it. I dissolve, merge with, become a part of this large sphere of Cosmic Consciousness. I am floating. And when I move my arms I fly a little bit. When I turn my head, I go that direction. I am flying in Cosmic Consciousness.

There is a stillness here. But there is also a humming vibration. The vibration of aliveness. The vibration of action. I am alert. And I am tingling all over. How am I to use this awareness of the cosmic consciousness in the planetary world now? I hear a whistle. A male walker is coming down the pathway whistling his tune. “You go adventuring,” he says. “You go exploring. You want to set a really high intention,” he says. What am I to help unfold? What awareness am I to share? What am I to explore and experience and bring back to share? “This is a whole new adventure, this move into cosmic consciousness. Let go of your human concepts of things like the web of life, let us give you the experiences to formulate new ways of being – new ways of communicating. New understanding of steps that can be taken. New choices.” I go deeper. I take a breath and feel my body begin to not so much dissolve as merge with the energy around it. I become a floating light of sorts. Or at least a floating glow. And I realize that my awareness has changed. I am no longer looking from my humanness. I am looking from my wholeness. An imbalance over there gets a cuddle, gets to be held and hugged and sheltered. I do the same with an eruption over there. I move in with focused intention and surround the irruption with serenity. Until it calms down.

There is a hum in my heart. A lullaby of sorts – the song of wholeness. A song of resolution. A song of assurance that all is well – all will be well.

I don’t know how, but my human body has become space. I feel it merge with and become part of the greater consciousness, the cosmic consciousness. There is an underlying hum of cosmic energy and yet there is this pinpoint of awareness of my current presence on earth. How will you work with us? I ask. The guide smiles, he tips his hat, turns and walks up the road whistling. He pulls out his flute and plays as he walks. H is the Pied Piper. Nature follows him, people follow him, he is simply being himself and it attracts others. How do I change myself to be that piper? How do I clear myself of my own misgivings in order to hold a belief in wholeness and happiness and infinite well-being? I know that it is possible because the adventurer has gone before me. I know that I am called to go adventuring because I am already on the path. Right now my message is to keep whistling and keep walking and others will hear you and find you and see you and follow you and gradually strengthen their own form of awareness and being present and understand their role of being in the universe. It is unfolding.

The guide was an example of what I am to be – hat is unfolding for me. “Explore more uses for imagination and your intuition and your inner knowing to interpret and share these universal messages how we as humans are to move into this new unfolding evolution.”

My journey experience with Stone Woman comes to mind. She lives in a cave behind the waterfall in my Sacred Garden. And one day when I went to meet her she was sitting behind a desk with her arms crossed and her hands on her shoulders. She didn’t move. Didn’t say anything. But I knew it was a greeting. In a later journey, I understood it meant “my heart crosses the earth to your heart and we build a bridge” I invite you to help me build the bridge. To become a path opener. A way-shower. And explorer. Step into the void and ask what you need to know now. Then listen. You will be shown what to do.

The Indigo Library is there with the words of wisdom. Sampson Eagle is there show me the overview. The blue bell tower is there, carrying my words of wisdom into the countryside, my Individual Harp is there, and the Circle Light Beings. I’ve already been given much help much guidance. The word “self-healing” shows up. Balance the energy field. I sit and feel the energy beginning to spiral clockwise and I get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and I move into the space in the cosmos and there is a point of light that I’m headed towards. Yes, I moved your space. My body heals in the cells and strengthens and releases what it no longer needs. My Still Point. I have been going within to begin which is fine but I am to allow myself to experience the Still Point in the cosmos. Go there. Listen from there. Feel from there. Experience from your soul, learn from there. Sit in the middle of the cosmos and learn.

I hear the adventurer whistling in the distance then I begin to create my own path among the stars and the planets in the universe that is in the void.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

My Inner Gides

My inner guides are always present, always supportive, and always wise. I just have to listen.

My inner guides are always present, always supportive, and always wise. I just have to listen. They point. They teach. They open new doors.

My inner guides are always present, always supportive, and always wise. I just have to listen. They point. They teach. They open new doors. The journey is totally up to me. My choice. My journey. My outcome.

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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