Spiritual Expansion

Have You Thought About Being a Shape-Shifter?

May 19, 2020 By Cara Lumen

Have You Thought About Being a Shape-Shifter?

A New Consciousness Exploration

In my Shamanic journey, I am suddenly on a cloud, a shape-shifting cloud. I meld with it. I become a shape-shifter. “As you explore, merge with what you are exploring and experience it and learn from it and then write about it.”

So I went exploring to see what it would be like to become a shape-shifter.

Merge with the emotion

I am drawn to the concept of tranquility.

What does it feel like to merge with tranquillity? It is more than stillness, it is different from peaceful. It is not just an experience, it is an awareness. It is being present. Accepting where you are and who you are and what you are experiencing. Become tranquility. Don’t just feel it. Shape-shift into tranquility.

Tranquility is also a form of preparedness, like gathering strength for “next” – tranquil restoration, tranquil balancing, tranquil expectation, tranquil readiness. There is a contentment in tranquility, no need to do or move or change. There is acceptance but more than acceptance, you as a shape-shifter experience a welcome sinking into tranquility, a merging. A being-ness embraced by tranquility. A being-ness soothed by tranquility.

That’s how you shape-shift into an experience.

What if you shape-shifted and merged with peace or serenity? What if you shape-shifted into the experience of one-ness? Of nothing-ness?

Create a shape-shifting practice and merge with experiences that call to you.

Experience the qualities of a shape-shifting cloud

A cloud is flexible. There is a fluidity of response in a cloud. It can be dramatic or subtle but there is constant change.

A cloud is adaptable. A cloud is an expert at going with the flow. As a shape-shifter how can you learn to be more adaptable? Do you need to simply stop and consider? Do you need to let go of something? Do you simply need to embrace the experience?

A shape-shifting cloud both holds and releases

We are grateful for rain clouds when we need rain, but perhaps less grateful for tornado clouds. Which are you? Do you come into a situation as a gentle nurturing summer rain? Or do you come pouring in and rearrange everything? Just notice. And choose.

A shape-shifter both holds and releases.

A shape-shifting cloud is constantly changing

Clouds are masters at adapting. They constantly change. They allow themselves to move with the natural flow. They have power, but for the most part, they shape-shift and adapt with the moment.

How are you, as a shape-shifter, like the Element of Air?

Air is life-giving. It is life-sustaining. Air, in the form of movement, is like your inner voice, offering messages and insights. Wind can blow and clear a path. Wind can knock things down that are in the way. And air can simply be still and nurture. What are the qualities of the wind that you admire?

How are you, as a shape-shifter like the Element of Sun?

The Sun is life-giving. It helps things grow. Its presence is warming, its absence is chilling. Sun is vital to all of nature. It is a nurturer and life-sustainer. The sun marks the cycles – of night and day – and the seasons.

How do you, as a shape-shifter, embody the Element of Sun?

How are you, as a shape-shifter like the Element of Earth?

Earth, for us here in our body suits, is our foundation, our sustainer, our base. We are nurtured by it. It is our home.

As a shape-shifter, you are steady like the Earth even as you offer yourself presence in many forms. There is a core nurturing that remains present in all forms you take.

What qualities of the Element of Earth do you express in your role of shape-shifter?

How are you, as a shape-shifter, like the Element of Fire?

Fire is versatile. Fire is passionate. Fire is flexible. We use fire to prepare our nourishment. We use fire to keep us warm. Sometimes we use the heat of fire to shape things like metal and clay. Nature used the element of fire to clear and make room for new growth.

How do you, as a shape-shifter express the Element of Fire?

How are you, as a shape-shifter, like the Element of Space?

Space is ever-present. We expand and contract and shape-shift in space. We use space to create our homes, to contain our businesses, to live our lives. How do you, as a shape-shifter express the Element of Space?

You are one with all the elements.

How do you learn from the elements?

Do a merging shamanic journey with each of the elements and ask how they wish to express through you as a shape-shifter. Your answers will be in metaphors for you to interpret.

Lose yourself in the teaching of the elements Listen to their guidance. Practice their teachings. It will shape your heart and expand your vibration so others who are ready can experience it, learn to shape-shift and adapt it to their current life expression.

Adapt to the situation

As you move along in your body suit life, become more adaptable. More receptive. Learn to shape-shift using the lessons of the elements to meet the need of each occasion.

You can be like a shape-shifting cloud that turns into arrows to point the way to others

Be aware of your power as a shape-shifter and adapt your response and your participation to the form that best serves the situation.

There is a freedom here – in this shape-shifting form

Shape-shifting is the freedom of adaptability. It is the freedom of being in fluid service A feeling of having an impact for the higher good. Shape-shifting. Flexibility. Listen to the guidance of the elements. Learn their lessons and use them.

What will you do as a shape-shifter?

Deeper Song Affirmation

I become more aware of my surroundings and shape-shift for the higher good and greatest positive movement.

A Deeper Song Process

Pick one of the elements and explore its lessons and its qualities. See how you would like to express that in your role as an adaptable, lesson-giving shape-shifter and guide.
Explore all five elements and learn from them.
Repeat.

To Sind a Deeper Song Consider:

(This is a series of focused shamanic journeys I took to inquire about the purpose of the element in the New Consciousness we are weaving.)

How We Are to Create a New Consciousness

What is Your Role in Creating the New Consciousness

The Role of the Element of Air in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the Element Water in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the Element of Earth in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the Element of Fire in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the Element of Space in Our New Consciousness

Come Sing a Deeper Song

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

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The Role of the Element of Space in Our New Consciousness

May 15, 2020 By Cara Lumen

The Role of the Element of Space in Our New Consciousness

A New Consciousness Exploration

(Form a Series of Shamanic Journeys to Explore the New Consciousness)

I have been told the Five Elements will guide us to the New Consciousness. I went exploring.

I place my intention into the Unseen World as I begin my Shamanic Journey. “We are in the process of weaving a New Consciousness. What is the role of the Element of Space in this new awareness?”

Freedom is the role of Element of Space in the New Consciousness. We get to the New Consciousness though our raised vibration.

Freedom to exchange, explore, expand, contract. It is flexibility at its highness level. That means you have the freedom to participate, or travel or explore any place that calls to you. It means you can instantaneously feel tucked in and safe. It is the quality of expanding and contracting. You have room to grow.

It is a constant interchange of energy. A giving and taking, a waxing and waning ad flowing into new shapes and forms.

So we will shape-shift in this new Consciousness?

Yes. The energy of “you” will form into whatever shape you want or need.

It is difficult to share these ideas with you because you are accessing them from your body suit mind. But there is freedom. Great freedom. And there is expansion.

This is not about exploring the planted and stars, because those are body suit things. It is about exploring and being energy. Pure shape-shifting, energy that interacts with everything. An energy that IS everything.

So there will be noting negative?

Not in the purposefully harmful way. There will be some imbalance that needs to be corrected.

How do we do that?

You create change and balance through intent. But first you have to notice the imbalance and that can be very subtle.

So the intent is to stay in balance, stay in harmony with all energy?

Yes, energy wants s to harmonize, it wants to vibrate in symmetrical waves. One harmony will change the quality of another tone.

We change the energy through our tone

Yes. Your vibration, just as it does here on earth, changes and affects the vibration all around you. You can practice now, here in your body suits to send this harmonious vibration out into the Unseen World and let it become recognized and resonate with those who can see and hear it.

For all beings, the move to the New Consciousness begins with your own vibration. Your own energy, your own caregiving of the energy that is represented in your current body suit – call it essence. Your very essence is what moves into the New Consciousness and begins to interact with other essences in harmonious waves of energy.

Are we productive in the New Consciousness? What work do we do? How do we serve?

You serve a greater good beyond earth. It is in the Unseen World and it is very, very, very large. Your work in this transition to the New Consciousness, is to help raise your vibration, and join with those you meet who are on this same journey, so that your collective vibration, your song of oneness grows louder and louder and sends its vibration into the smallest corner of the world so it reaches all and all have an opportunity to hear and recognize and join in the New Consciousness.

Your job now is to be heard and felt and recognized

Raising your volume or your tone so clearly that others recognize that same One Tone in themselves and begin to shift and raise their own vibration.

You are to build a bridge to the New Consciousness through harmony and the raised vibration you keeps offering it

Each of you who feels called to this adventure is to keep looking around you. There are two ways you can raise your vibration, learning and choice.

Listen to your inner guidance. Explore the paths you are shown, particularly the ones that seem truly off the known path. You may serve as a leader but you are also being guided. Spend time listening and heeding the advice you are offered.

Is there a time limit for the creation of this New Consciousness?

There is a steady calling, a steady path, a clarity of purpose. If you stay focused that will meet the timeline.

Your job is to clarify your energy – to raise it and learn, in your body suit, to keep it raised. And gather with others who have and are raising their vibration to create a brighter glow, a greater harmony, a wider reach. You are already making a covering over the earth of this newly raised vibration. Make that covering thicker and broader so those who look up will see and heed the call.

Heed the call. It is time.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I am an active bridge-builder to the New Consciousness.
I continue to raise my own vibration and
share that with others.

A Deeper Song Process

Take your own journey to the Element of Space in the New Consciousness and see what you are shown.

To Sind a Deeper Song Consider

How We Are to Create a New Consciousness

What is Your Role in Creating the New Consciousness

The Role of the Element of Air in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the Element Water in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the Element of Earth in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the Element of Fire in Our New Consciousness

The Concept of One and the You as Observer

Are You a Transformative Leader?

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness?

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe

When I See Myself As Light

Come Sing a Deeper Song

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

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Do You Hold the Beat or Play the Melody?

May 12, 2020 By Cara Lumen

Do You Hold the Beat or Play the Melody?

Adventures in the Unseen World

A drum can serve two functions – to hold the beat or offer a rhythm that motivates. Each person who drums is a combination of place holder and creator. it is hopeful to know which role you are playing in any situation.

In one of my online drumming classes with Christine Stevens, Awaken Your Rhythm. we were taught to establish a base rhythm, build on it, and return to the foundational rhythm.

That’s a good metaphor for living life.

What is your foundational rhythm?

We all have a foundational rhythm, a beat that carries us through life. Mine is philosophical curiosity and a love of learning. It is present in everything I do. My son-in-law’s core rhythm is kindness and doing for others. He was a high school teacher and now he focuses on grandchildren. I have a friend who is a highly positioned doctor and is moving into energy healing to practice in her retirement. But her core rhythm is healing others. See how this works?

There is a core rhythm you have built your life upon. Can you identify it?

How do you build on your core rhythm?

You may have built upon your core rhythm in different ways throughout your life. What prompted me to explore this idea was that in my actual drumming on my hand drums, I am NOT content to keep the beat, that is way too boring for me – I have to let the energy flow and play whatever rhythm calls to me. Then I make up my own songs to go with the rhythm. I have to continue to explore.

Some people hold the beat for others to build on. Some people explore the rhythms. Both are vital components in our universal expression.

It is import to know how you want to play your rhythm of life.

Are you playing a soft beat or a loud one? Are you playing a fast beat or a slow one? Do you establish a beat and then build on it? Do you play several types of drums? (I have eight) Do you play other types of rhythm instruments in your life? On the physical plane that might mean bells, and flutes and claves. On the inner plane you express your personal rhythm though the choices you make.

Be aware of what resonates with you

I’m pretty much an improviser in the rhythm of life but there is a steady underlying beat of a strong need to explore – currently, it is vibration and the Unseen World. Can you look at your life and identify what your core rhythm is? What calls you the most insistently? Are you honoring that? Or are you yearning to have a wider variety of rhythms in your life? Or would you like to settle down to a steady, reliable beat? How would you make that happen?

Be aware of the subtle rhythms of life

As I continue to study sound healing I realize there is a whole world of motivating vibration I know nothing about – yet. But I have come to know that everything is vibration, connected one vibration and to change one part of it here is to change a different part over there.

I use tuning forks – (biosonics.com Starter Pack.) The sound is subtle but the effect is noticeable and on-going. I use intention to focus them. I certainly cannot see how they are working, what they are balancing, what they are clearing, but I experience the results. And learn from that.

I also use humming in my self-balancing practice. Humming with intention to right what I want to balance. I cannot see how that works either. But I experience the result.

Rhythm is at the core of life

All of nature moves in cycles. Sometimes the rhythm is slow like the dormant winter cycle. Sometimes the rhythm is like the industrious activity of spring preparation and planting. And within each cycle are smaller cycles.

Begin to notice your own rhythm. The rhythm of your day. The rhythm of your life. The rhythm of your relationships. The rhythm of your spiritual exploration.

Change those rhythms as desired.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I become aware of the multitude of rhythms in my life and adjust the rhythm to bring balance to my life.

Deeper Song Process

Pick a facet of our life – work, family, study, inner exploration – and see if you can identify the rhythms – slow and steady supportive, sustaining rhythm, an enthusiastic rhythm of leadership, a magical rhythm of exploring?
Identify an area you might like to set about changing the rhythm – speeding up, slowing down, brooding its scope.
Do that.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

How Vibration Heals

The Intentional Om Hum

The Deepest Sound is Silence

You ARE Vibration and Why it Matters

Why We Need To Raise Our Vibration

Follow Your Personal Drumbeat

Come Sing a Deeper Song

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

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Three Ways Raise Your Vibration

May 5, 2020 By Cara Lumen

Three Ways Raise Your Vibration

Adventures in the Unseen World

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

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

Vibration of recognition

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

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

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

Change your vibration with breath

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

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

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

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

Change your vibration with sounds

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

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

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

Change your vibration with touch

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

Change your vibration with gesture

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

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

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

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

Begin to experiment

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

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

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

Deeper Song Affirmation

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

Deeper Song Process

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

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Deepest Sound is Silence

You ARE Vibration and Why it Matters

Why We Need To Raise Our Vibration

The Pillar of Light Process

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe

How to Open Space for Change

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe

Come Sing a Deeper Song

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

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How to Hold High Watch For the Planet

March 25, 2020 By Cara Lumen

How to Hold High Watch For the Planet

An Inner-World Exploration

There are transformational thinkers all over the planet who are holding High Watch for the world. We sit in serene silence and radiate out light into the world – the people, the situations, the environment, our future. We join with other light beings and begin to cover the planet in heading, wholing, light vibration, working together to raise the collective consciousness. That’s how we hold High Watch for the world.

What is High Watch?

High with is about raising the vibrational energy of a room or a ceremony or a situation or even the world by raising and focusing our thoughts and expectations to the highest level we can imagine.

As a member of the clergy in the Center for Spiritual Living, some of us were always assigned to sit in High Watch during every service. That meant we did not participate. We sat and held the energy of the room in our consciousness in order to keep it receptive and centered and open and loving.

You do that by focusing on serenity and tranquility and well-being for all.

If you are old like me, your options to participate in the word have some limitations. But boy, can I share positive energy! I can hold High Watch for the world!

I invite you, as a Transformational Leader, to add to your spiritual practice a period of High Watch for the World. That may mean sending light energy to a particular place or group. It may mean seeing yourself joining with other points of light to cover the entire plant in an ever-brightening layer of light. Then seeing and feeling that light continue to thicken as others see and recognize the collective light and join in. Hold High Watch for the World in whatever way calls to you.

Use vibration to send light consciousness

Because everything is vibration, our goal in holding High Watch is to raise our own vibration and to see others in their form of higher vibration. Hold us all in Light, so to speak.

You can create a ceremony, or a visualization, or say some words, or simply sit there and radiate out light to the entire world. Create and expand your own individual way to help raise the collective consciousness of our planet.

How to prepare to hold High Watch

All you really need to hold High Watch is you and your positive intention to do so. That mindfulness will anchor us each in a deeper sense of connection.

You could, if you prefer, set up some sort of ceremony or gather special objects on your own version of an altar to help your focus.

It may be a simple as one rock on a plate. Or any object that we declare to represent our planet home. You may choose other items to represent our planet and to help focus your vibrational intentions. It can be a bowl of water, a leaf, a stick, a crystal, a rattle or a bell.

Or just sit, go within and start to radiating light.

Your intention drives the energy

Set an intention. Where do you want your wholing energy to go? Ask for the vibration to be for the highest good and don’t get more specific than that. Let the energy go where it is needed and do what is needed to be done. Trust the wholeness of energy to restore balance where it is needed.

Begin by simply observing your breath. Slow your breath and pause at both the inhale and exhale. Become observant of what you experience in those moments. Shift your awareness within until your body suit disappears. Just sit there and radiate out your own powerful, all-encompassing light.

When you are ready, begin to feel the presence of other light beings doing the same.

Gradually allow yourself to feel yourself floating above the planet, shining your light of wholeness on it.

As you float, you become aware of other light beings doing the same things and gradually you feel a part of a cloud or layer of light surrounding our earth, holding the light energy of those who have awakened, who are aware that they are light.

The intention of High Watch for the World

Our purpose in holding High Watch for the World is to add our energy to that of the Light Collective, and together to radiate beams of light down on the people on the earth so they recognize themselves as being of that light and begin to raise their own vibration. They begin to see it as a way they too can help our earth home.

You will recognize this inner light as being something inside you that you can nurture and grow and blossom. We are watering the seeds of awareness with the light of our spiritual focus.

Develop your own way to hold High Watch

I have a soft Hug-a-Planet that I send energy to every day. I have a big light-box crystal that I touch each day in my morning spiritual practice and ask it to send support and love and deepened awareness to the light workers of the world. I have a tree outside my window that I use as a messenger to nature all over the planet, offering it wholeness and blessings and balance. I have a wind whistle I use to blow a blessing to the planet. I play my Indian flute as I watch the sunset, sending it on around the world to carry wholeness and healing.

Sometimes, if there are places that seem at deep unrest, I lob a few envisioned light balls in their direction, to whole and heal and balance the area. But mostly, I simply sit and radiate out my light energy at various points in my day.

How to become aware of the results of your High Watch

Once you begin looking for the signs of your impact, you will see them. It may be the branch of a tree waving at you as you walk by. It may be a feeling of inner tranquility that you carry within you for longer and longer periods of time. It may be the story on the news of someone making a major positive difference in the care of our planet and its inhabitants.

How will you begin to hold High Watch for the planet?

Deeper Song Affirmation

I hold High Watch for the Planet.

Deeper Song Process

Choose a focus for your High Watch. It can be a place, a situation, a species, or a general advancement of humankind.
Create our own version of High Watch and add it to your spiritual practice.