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Help Your Inner Voice Speak Louder

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Help Your Inner Voice Speak Louder

Living Our Deeper Song

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

Universe is always talking to us. Are you listening? Do you recognize it as your Inner Voice? What are you doing with the information it gives you? The Inner Voice is a few steps higher than intuition. It goes into greater detail. Intuition is a hunch, a feeling. Your Inner Voice is a statement – often a complete sentence. In my case, often a series of sentences. But then I’ve been listening to my inner voice for quite a while.

A dear friend of mine recently made a decision to move ahead with a business project that she and I have been talking about for years. My mind immediately went crazy with ideas and content for her website and product ideas and I could hardly shut it off.  It was my Inner Voice dictating to me as fast as I could type. This happens to me fairly often. I wake up and a thought starts coming so I rush to the computer in the middle of the night to capture it. I might be doing something else when a thought pops in that needs to be captured right away and again, I go immediately and write it down, explore it, and capture the expanded idea. When I do this, I feel like I am simply opening a channel and typing what I’m told at the time. I often just dictate. It’s exciting. It’s relevant. And some great ideas are coming through. Clear ideas, complete ideas. Profound ideas. I trust my Inner Voice.

So how did I get to be such good friends with my Inner Voice? I paid attention. I stop and I listen when it shows up – even with a whisper. I have learned to interpret it through the nudges that it gives me, the phrase that suddenly pops into my mind and the complete sentences and paragraphs it often offers. Sometimes it’s like my Inner Voice is simply dictating and I’m just sitting there in the body vehicle to bring it in. 

The more I listen to my inner voice the more I trust it. The inner world speaks to you in hunches, feelings, and sometimes opportunities. You have to notice and respond to what shows up. It’s not enough to receive, one must choose what to pay attention to and then explore it. What form does your inner voice speak to you and are you listening?

Be open to receive.

Practice listening to your Inner Voice and see how detailed it will get for you. Perhaps ask it questions for clarity. Practice following through on the responses that show up and see what great adventures they take you on. Learn to accept a feeling of inner knowing that supports you in making a particular choice. This is you talking to you. The more you listen the more you will hear. Keep listening to your Inner Voice. It has great insights and guidance for you. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I listen to the wisdom and guidance of my Inner Voice. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Notice the nudges of your Inner Voice. Are they a complete thought? A visualization? A feeling?
  • Follow through on the nudges and notice how accurate they are. Where do they take you?  What do they reveal?
  • Ask your Inner Voice for guidance and clarity.
  • See where that leads you.

===INNER WORK===

Create Space Between Doing and Being

When we cultivate and nurture our inner world, our outer world prospers.  We must set aside time in our daily life to simply be – to be still, to be present, to be aware. To quiet our mind. To listen to our inner voice. It is in the silence that we can evaluate and explore and choose. We monitor our physical plane thoughts and bring them into order so that we can quietly listen to our inner voice. Find times in your day to be still to listen, and to simply be present in the knowing.

===SELF-HEALING===

Do The Work

The reason I am so immersed in understanding how self-healing works is that whatever is going on in my body is mine to rebalance. The doctors have not identified a “problem.”  There are no pills to take or procedures to have because what I think is happening is the gradual realignment of a hip that was tilted. How or when it got tilted I have no idea. But a year ago it un-tilted and my body has been uncomfortably and noticeably realigning ever since. 

So what do you do if you have a physical problem for which there is no Western medicine cure? You start working with energy medicine. You learn about the biofields. You work with Qigong and acupressure and herbs and sound healing and visualization.  And you shift your belief system into the belief that your mind and your beliefs create your reality so the change that you want is all up to you. That’s why I’ve gone exploring. It is all up to me. I need to walk more in order to get my body stronger. I need to consciously stand up straighter to support my body in retraining itself. I have to change my beliefs, but most of all I have to take responsibility and believe that my choices and my intentions will bring my physical body back into balance.  There is no Western medicine procedure to straighten and strengthen my body other than me and the choices I make. What I do or don’t do. Whatever changes my body can manifest are totally up to my actions and my beliefs of what is possible. I’m pretty sure that’s the way it is in all cases. Whatever the symptom that is showing up is a request to change some of the choices you are making or have made and question the beliefs you hold of what is possible.

Now I’m pretty old, so at some point, my body is going to say, “Well we’re through here.’” And that’s OK. But meanwhile, I’m going to take responsibility and do the work to help my body regain some of its strength and flexibility. What do you believe is possible and what are you doing to make it happen? Do the work. You will get the results.

Restorative Self-Care

When was the last time you took a nap? Or a long hot bath? When was the last time you did nothing? Perhaps you sat and looked out the window and were simply present. Self-care is about pauses and choices. It is about meaningful pauses in which you evaluate and question the choices you’ve made and explore new ones. How do you give yourself restorative self-care and how often do you do it?

===OUTER  WORK===

Spread Understanding and Awareness

It was a huge shift for me when I realized that all this world changing was about the Divine Feminine coming into prominence.  When I did, a lot of what was going on began to make sense.  So I’ve been thinking about it and writing about it and sharing my ideas.  The more I am aware of how the Divine Feminine is manifesting, the more understanding I have about how it might unfold and what could be expected of me and how I am to change.  Share your evolving ideas with others.  Find those who are curious and questioning and concerned and together increase your understanding of the energetic changes and your awareness of your role in the unfolding new world view. 

Be More Curious 

We have to be curious.  We have to wonder what we don’t know.  We have to look for how we can do things differently. Then we get to go exploring to see what is available for us to examine next, to do next.  What new adventure will you have today?

Look It Up

When something needs adjusting in your body look up a Qigong move online for it – Qigong for eyes, Qigong for back, Qigong for shoulders.  The exercises are easy to do and powerfully effective.  

I have taken several classes from Daisy Lee on The Shift Network but looking it up online is an easy way to add a few powerful Qigong moves to your life and health. 

Watch for the Signs

It can be a thought, an insight, an opportunity – all are signs that the universe is ready for you to move.  What are people asking of you?  What situation is calling to you to heal and balance? What resistance has dropped and what new role is emerging for you to consider?  Whether it’s a major bop on the head or a small but potent thought, listen to the nudges of the Universe and let them guide you on your path…

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Intuition and Sacred Knowledge

The oracle card I drew from the SpiritSong Tarot was  The High Priestess – Lynx – Intuition and Sacred Knowledge.  Wow, do I want to be this.  I could live my life around intuition and sacred knowledge.  How do I go deeper?  How do I learn more? Where do I begin? 

Intuition – I listen to my inner voice all the time and the more I listen the clearer the messages become. I listen and I take action. Sometimes that inner voice simply dictates into this newsletter.  It is a very busy inner voice.  

Sacred Knowledge.  For me now that means finding the highest path I can walk and get on it.  It means looking for the guidance of the Divine Feminine as she makes herself known and adjusting as rapidly as I can to accommodate the new wisdom and direction.  

If you drew the High Priestess – Intuition and Wisdom how would you build on it?

Nested Meditations

Nested meditations first came to my attention in the June 2004 issue of Spirituality and Health magazine in an article called “Surprised by Grace” by Kevin Anderson, PhD.   

Writing a nested meditation is like opening a surprise package. Once you write the first line you are open to unexpected revelations on the succeeding lines.  You don’t have to stop with three lines either. Just keep going. Each line becomes a meditation. You can write more than three lines. You can use the same start and conclude it differently. You can change the punctuation, or a single word within a line. It is a flowing, living expression of self. 

How to Write a Nested Meditation

Sit for a moment and choose a phrase that comes to mind which you then write down on paper. It becomes your first line. 

Then you write the first line again and add a second line. 

The third time you write lines one and two and add a third line. 

It’s the third line that often comes out as a surprise for me. You can change the meaning of the words by changing the punctuation.

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

Turn the Page, Begin a New Chapter

We are not who we were yesterday and we are not who we will be tomorrow.  Our life story is constantly changing.  So however messed up our past was, we can always start now, in this moment, to make new choices and hold new expectations.  You are not your past, you are your potential.  Turn and look ahead.  Where do you want to go? Take a broad look and then go exploring until you find the path to your new future.  The past is over. It is an old story. How would you like your life to unfold next?  Perhaps remember the lessons but leave the old story behind. Today is a brand new day – the beginning of a new chapter.

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

Know the Size of Your Sphere of Influence

Some things I can change.  Other things are not mine to do. Understand the edges of your responsibility and tend to what is yours to care for.  

There are global things that feel like I cannot control. I am not interacting with them on the physical plane but boy, am I busy on the inner plane – holding High Watch, sending energy, staying on the high road. Participate in change by using your thoughts and visualization to change everything.  Take specific action in your own sphere of influence and make it count. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Outdated Information

Not long ago I made my living as a Content Development Coach helping people write the copy for their website. I loved it. I am good at it. However, it occurred to me only recently that it is possible that some of the marketing premises that I was basing my work on may no longer applicable. If I were still in business I know where I would turn, to Brian Clark for one and his innovative look at the digital nomad. But boy, is there a lot to learn in order to not only catch up but to keep up – let alone stay ahead. How has your business changed and what do you need to learn in order to adapt it to the unfolding new order of our rapidly changing world?

The Peaceable Kingdom

The Peaceable Kingdom is a painting by minister and painter Edward Hicks. The painting represents a prophecy in the book of Isaiah (11:6): “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.

A Peaceable Kingdom seems a long way off right now.  What do we do?  How do we change?  What do we change?

Picturing a peaceable kingdom might be a good place to start.  What if everything we did was about compassion and caring? What if everything we experienced was about inclusiveness and generosity of spirit?  That’s exactly what we need to do – visualize it into being. 

It begins by monitoring your own actions.  

It’s hard for me not to be a bit angry at the people who have ideas and beliefs that are in such opposition to mine.  I’m very inclusive in my embracing of different forms of spiritual expression, but I’m having a much harder time with the people in this country who, to me, seem only to care about themselves, not about the higher good for all.  But see, that’s judgmental of me.  I’m not sure what to do about that, particularly when those who see the world differently than I do seem very intolerant of my viewpoint.  

The steps I can think to take are to keep focused on the concept of a Peaceable Kingdom – where everyone exists in harmony. Hard to imagine, isn’t it?  What would that feel like?  It’s not so much about being in agreement as it is about making room for each person to have their own opinion, their own response, without the need to find affirmation or agreement by bonding with others to force their beliefs onto others and make your way the only way.  

Peaceable Kingdom.  What would that look like?  What would that feel like?  How do we get there?

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

What Makes You Feel Inferior?

A lot of the opposing positions that are moving into place are because if someone does not agree with your beliefs you begin to feel inferior.  And you turn that into defensive anger.  It is not easy to feel you are wrong. It is even harder to know you are wrong.  At least in America, there is a group of people who are negatively responding to being outnumbered in their beliefs, and are especially angered at definitely becoming a minority race.  And they are angrily fighting those feelings of being less-than.  Perhaps they don’t even know it.  

Being around differences is challenging.  If I can’t eat with chopsticks, for instance, I may feel less than a friend of mine who can when we are in a Chinese restaurant.  That’s a small thing and perhaps barely noticeable, but it is those small comparisons that can build into resentment or unexpressed misunderstanding.  

I know very little about other cultures.  It doesn’t make me feel less than, but I am not as sure of my choices among people of other cultures.  

Uncomfortable, less than, different from.  What happens if we change that to expressions of diversity and broad cultural knowledge and the fact that there is so much to learn from each other, particularly from other cultures.  

Where will you go exploring to expand your understanding of another way of being?  Are there people from other cultures in your workplace that you could get to know? What about a friend of a friend who can teach you about his or her culture?  I know so little sitting here in the mid-west.  The coasts are more diverse and I would have learned more if I had actively gone exploring with the set intentions of getting to understand the beauty and insights and gifts from other cultures.  

The human was not meant to be one particular race. We are born into diversity and we must learn to live within the joyous beauty of that diversity.  How will  you go exploring another culture today?

==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION === 

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

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===CARA’S CORNER===

 Living the Divine Feminine

A friend recently pointed out that I had been living the Divine Feminine for a long time.  And I flashed back to 1977 when I moved from the Kansas City area to New York City and lived there for 13 years.  I was 45 when I arrived and 58 when I left. I thought I went because my only friend, who happened to be gay, was going to NYC to be with his partner.  To this day, I do not know how it happened but suddenly in a single moment, with no debate, I knew it was time for me to go there too.  I made a trip to NYC and found an apartment in a former department store with 18’ high ceilings and a loft. It was above a grocery store on the Upper West Side.

My friend was going to help drive the moving truck with our things and helped me load it but then he had to go ahead for the first leg of the journey. So I drove a big moving truck from Kansas City to St. Louis by myself to meet up with him.  When we got to NYC a few days later, we unloaded my things at my apartment, then his things at his partner’s apartment, and I was the one who drove the rental truck to lower Manhattan, turned it in and took the subway by myself back to the Upper West Side.  I walked alone to my apartment and there I was – a new resident of NYC. On my own.  It was the most important shift I made in my life for it was in NYC that I got my metaphysical education.  My friend moved back to KC in a few years but I stayed for 13 years, I learned a lot and I loved every minute of it. 

The Divine Feminine was strong within me even then and I am very grateful for her presence and her guidance and her great strength.  

How long has the Divine Feminine been nudging you and where will you allow her to lead you next?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Heeding the Call

The call was clear and direct.  I had no choice but to heed it. 

The call was clear and direct.  I had no choice but to heed it. The adventure was huge and it changed my life forever.

The call was clear and direct.  I had no choice but to heed it. The adventure was huge and it changed my life forever. I am grateful for both the call and the courage….!

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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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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Universe is always talking to us. Are you listening? Do you recognize it as your Inner Voice? What are you doing with the information it gives you? The Inner Voice is a few steps higher than intuition. It goes into greater detail. Intuition is a hunch, a feeling. Your Inner Voice is a statement – often a complete sentence. In my case, often a series of sentences. But then I’ve been listening to my inner voice for quite a while.

Clear Space for a New Cycle

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Clear Space for a New Cycle

Living Our Deeper Song

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

The Winter Solstice is December 21 and a new calendar year begins soon.  What a perfect time to rethink, regroup and reorganize.

Rethink

Take a long look at what you have gathered to you in your life.  What is still relevant?  What have you outgrown?  What do you want to add? What do you want to accomplish? Pause to make a list.  Give this some thought. You are designing your “next.”

Regroup

There’s nothing like a cleared space to create room to rethink everything. What is now currently important in your life? What do you need to have near you in order to make that happen? Begin to prioritize based on what you know now and what you want to create next. This means you will leave some things behind. It means you may need new tools in order to create this new next or expand on what you are already building. What do you want to create? What do you need to make happen? Where will you get it?

Clear out things you take for granted, or have outgrown, or are simply a habit you have fallen into that no longer serves you. Make room for change.

Reorganize

One of the things about reorganizing is that when you reposition things, you make them more accessible, to give them more time, more energy, more space, and  more predominance in your thinking. What do you want to accomplish in the next year, in the next quarter? Choose just a few things that you can focus on and list some steps you can  actually accomplish. Then begin to structure a plan. Learn the new skills you need. Reorganize your schedule to make room for growth. This is a time of creation. Make room for what you love to do. Let your imagination flow as you design your “next.“

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I celebrate the beginning of a new cycle by rethinking and rechoosing – everything. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Perhaps divide your reorganization into segments like personal and career and relationships. Some areas may need more attention than others. 
  • Set a mission statement for each area.  I want my professional life to… I want my relationships to… I want my health to…
  • Let go, rethink, rechoose, reorganize and prepare to move forward.

===INNER WORK===

Nudge Notes

As a new idea starts to come in I get it in small snippets.  I call them nudges and I started a Nudge document on my computer to capture then, where I can quickly record and expand on my nudges and help them come into being. 

Having a place to write down the one or two word nudges that your intuition gives you may be an interesting way to help your ideas develop and expand. 

Contemplation Brings Wisdom

As I contemplate what the unfolding of the Divine Feminine could look like I am questioning all my beliefs and especially my expectations of what is possible.  Most of these ideas are not mine to live out because of my age, but it is precisely because of my age that I can see the overarching patterns and how they might change. 

When faced with a decision or a need to understand more, contemplate and explore.  Contemplate the possibilities.  Explore the alternatives.  Use  your imagination to create new combinations.  Take one piece and expand it.  Take one piece and remove it and see how the whole is affected. All of these possibilities can be explored in your mind when you simply take time to contemplate the alternatives, visualize the possibilities and let  your expectations soar!

When We Don’t Know That We Don’t know

My friend Christina and I often journey together on our Zoom calls.  On 12/12 she said it was the day of the black madonna, the Virgin of Guadalupe.  I had never given that much thought. She suggested we journey to her. We each took our own journey and at the end of mine I was in my Sacred Garden and looked in the Reflecting Pool and there was the Circle of Light Beings in all manner of ethnic expressions.  It was only then that I realized that I had been thinking of the Circle of Light Beings as more “me’s” not a wonderful variety of “we’s”.  It was a huge realization.  How is your imagination limiting you and can you change it? Where are you unconscious about the narrowness of your vision?

===SELF-HEALING===

Trust

As I proceed to work with the biofields in order to heal and balance my body, I get to trust the choices I make and the nudges I receive.  I get to trust my deep knowing that healing does take place in the energetic fields. Are you listening to your inner voice and hearing its nudges?

We Get What We Expect

Our thoughts create our reality and our possibilities. 

Our thoughts create our experience. How do we  alter both our thoughts and the result?

What do I expect?  If my experience in getting out of a chair is pain, guess what I’ll get.  If I consciously start acknowledging the times I get up that there is no pain then that reinforces that belief. You see where I’m going with this -our mind and beliefs and our expectations create our reality. What we expect we deserve we get. What we expect is possible we get. We have a great deal of control and determination over the flow of our thoughts and the outcomes they produce.

Positive thoughts. A belief that it can happen. No, I’m not going to stand here and imagine myself running down the driveway but I will stand here and envision myself walking tall and straight and effortlessly down the hall even with a walker. That’s progress. That’s a shift in my belief in what is possible. That is a shift in my focus toward the positive rather than on the negative. Our thoughts create our reality. What are you creating for yourself?

===OUTER  WORK===

Are You Stuck Or Are You Purposefully Planted?

There is a difference between being joyfully planted in a nurturing environment that encourages growth and experimentation and being stuck in a non-nourishing environment. Are you stuck or are you planted?

It takes courage to change.  It takes courage to let go and move on, and yet all life is a cycle and that means we must regularly make new choices.  

I can feel cycles ebbing and flowing in my life.  When a new cycle is coming in I know it is coming but that’s all I know.  Then one day there it is – clearly defined.  This exploring of the Divine Feminine was like that.  It burst upon me and demanded my attention and my exploration. It is an idea that deeply excites me and I am eager to explore.  It holds many answers for our “next.”

Pulling up roots can be big or small. I have moved across the US four times and those were really big changes. I have changed my current environment by establishing more online friends than in–person friends so even though I don’t physically go many places, I have a rich world of emotional and intellectual exchange with like-minded people in many parts of the world.

Even if you feel you are planted, check to see if there are some weeds crowding you that need to be removed so you have room to grow wider and taller and deeper.  Bloom where you are planted and have a good time doing it.

What Motivates You?

Motivation is a driving force. What motivates you to do what you do?  My need to explore what my mind offers is so huge that I get up out of bed to go write what is coming in.  And yet I am not doing as much physical work on my body as I could and should and want to.  How do I change my motivation?  I want it to be enticing and encouraging, not scary and full of dire results.  If I don’t do it thus and so will happen.  The motivational change will come from within. I have to want to do it.  I have to feel it is important.  And I probably need to feel satisfied after doing it.  

How do you motivate yourself and what do you need to motivate yourself to do more of?

Simplify Your Schedule – Work in Clumps

Having three things on your To-Do List feels a lot better than having 20.  What if you thought of your work in clumps?  You would have a clump for Self-Care, a clump for Relationships, a clump for Working your Passion.  It would make you feel like you had accomplished more. You can work in time clumps – 90 minutes, 2 hours, a half-hour on one focus.  But then shift to another major focus so each gets some action.  

The first parcel of time after I am dressed for the day is spiritual – meditation, playing my flutes, a little Qigong. It also includes dawning a SpiritSong Tarot card to help me think about my choices and my progress and my potential. 

Then I open my email and tend to wherever that takes me.  

My second time slot is always creative – my favorite time and action.   Since my work is creative it often looks like I am moving projects forward because I am. 

When you focus on the purpose of each period of time it becomes richer and deeper.  Eating is mindful, study is enriching, connecting with others is invigorating. 

Whatever you are doing, immerse yourself in it, give it your full attention, and then pause to acknowledge what you have accomplished. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

All Change Begins Within You

Our old way of life is simply gone.  It does not exist anymore. What we create next is up to us.  It is within our imagination, our expectations, our beliefs in what can happen and the choices we make. What are you dreaming into being?

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

Who We Are

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but rather spiritual beings having a human experience.”—Pierre Teilhard de Charin.

How do we learn to consciously come from our spiritual essence in everything we do? 

===THE UNFOLDING DIVINE FEMININE===

Revolving Friends

Do you have any friends you have had all your life? Probably not. I can think of people who nurtured me during different periods of my life. No one person has walked the entire path with me but there were always gifts of insight and awareness involved in our time together. 

That is the point of life – to go on our specific adventure, walk beside different people on the path who deepen our experience and our expectations. As we move through our journey of life we cultivate change within ourselves – in our beliefs and our expectations of what is possible for us. And thus draw to us new people who are walking that part of the path too.  

As a woman who was married twice and lived the majority of her life alone, I’m a fan of the walk-the-path-alone adventure.  It allows me to stop and fill myself up or move past something that does not resonate.  I chart a path that is mine alone and I do it without accommodating the needs of another. 

We all walk the path on our own, at our own tempo in our own direction.  Allow yourself to be open to new friends and exchange gifts with them that enrich you both.  And let go when your paths need to separate.  There is another adventurer up ahead waiting to walk beside you in encouragement and support and new insights.  Do not be afraid to walk the path alone. 

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Planning for a Future We Cannot Imagine

My daughter and her husband help me with physical things that I need as I grow older. You may not have children. I have Social Security and subsidized housing which makes it possible for me to live comfortably and safely and affordably. Will that be in place for you when the time comes? 

What do you teach your children about the plans for their lives when you have no idea how the future is going to unfold and what dramatic changes it is already bringing to it? 

Flexibility in our willingness to change is the cornerstone for a successful life. Do not go down a paved road that may lead nowhere. Walk an eclectic  path of winding opportunity and go exploring to find what resonates with you.

===INTENTION BLESSING===

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

May we expand our hearts and our expectations.

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

May we keep our gaze on the summit.

May we take this journey with a full heart. 

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

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

Spiritual Practice

The Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

Self Healing

The Space of Inner Knowing

Expanding Awareness

Do You Hold the Beat or Play the Melody?

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

==DEEPER SONG BOOK SHELF===

Cornerstone Books

It depends on what you want to learn but there are books to take you adventuring everywhere. Here are a few of my cornerstone books.

The Prophet , Kahlil Gibran.  There is such life wisdom here.  On the last page, in the last paragraph, I found the phrase “I will return and you will sing to me a deeper song.”  I caught my breath.  I wanted to sing a deeper song.  And so I am.

Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman BarksI love Rumi. Deep wisdom and insights I need to expand into my life. 

The Complete Works of Lao Tzu: Tao Teh Ching & Hau Hu Ching by Hua Ching Ni Another cornerstone book for me is Lao-Tzu. It holds the core concepts of Taoism and that path resonates with me.  

==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Winter Solstice is December 21 – Create an Experimental Garden

Winter Solstice is the day I honor in December.  It is a time of deep contemplation and realignment. It is also the beginning of a new year. I’m suggesting that we create an experimental garden of crops we may want to plant in the coming year. Fill it with ideas you want to explore, new directions you want to expand, and qualities you want to develop. And of course you want a compost pile in which to put beliefs and expectations that no longer serve.  

Take pencil to paper and  draw your Experimental Garden to help you see what choices you have made, choices you want to make.  How much of each you want to plant. What’s working, what’s not. Drawing up our “Garden of Next” is as simple as labels for rows, labels for varieties of the same idea and wiggly lines for the rows. More rows of one thing, less of another. As you think about this you may keep making new versions.  It’s a drawing, draw away. Capture your ideas visually.

You may have crops for income, health, personal growth, creativity, exploration – whatever you want to experiment with and develop in the coming year. This is an easy way to explore and clarify your feelings and expectations. 

Give some thought to what you would like to explore next, even just enough to see if it supports the direction you want to go and especially if it will change the direction you think you are headed. What do you want to bring into your life and how much of it do you want? Let us each design an Experimental Garden to guide our “next” and draw it into being. 

===CARA’S CORNER===

Get a Handle On Your Beliefs and Expectations

As I work on creating my Experimental Garden for 2022 I get to examine both my beliefs and my expectations.

The problem is that possibilities are changing very rapidly. Ideas are shape-shifting as rapidly as I can think them up. I need to glide into this – be more like a shape-shifting cloud, constantly changing but with the larger form emerging slowly.

A small change can make a huge difference.  As my body moves through its changes, it makes small shifts that affect the overall structure.  Standing a little straighter realigns the whole body.  Do not underestimate what a small shift will make in your beliefs, your choices, and your opportunities.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

What We Notice

It was a small change, I barely noticed. Like a bud peeking out of a plant.  

It was a small change, I barely noticed. Like a bud peeking out of a plant.  But it grew. It expanded my possibilities.  It extended my expectations. 

It was a small change, I barely noticed. Like a bud peeking out of a plant. But it grew. It expanded my possibilities.  It extended my expectations. And a whole new world opened up. 

– Cara Lumen December 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

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the 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 expectation.

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Self-Healing and Measurable Results – a Winning Combination

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Self-Healing and Measurable Results – a Winning Combination. 

Living Our Deeper Song

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

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

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

Establish a relationship with the problem

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

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

Beliefs to Change

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

Believe in your ability to change

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

New Choices to make

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

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

Frequency and consistency – My cornerstones 

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

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

Beliefs to deepen

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

Monitor the results of your choices and changes 

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

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

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

Keywords: Awareness and Consistent Creative Change.

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

Self-healing and measuring results are a winning combination!

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

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

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

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

Thank You for Your Birthday Wishes

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

===INNER WORK===

Get Your Answers By Doing Your Inner Work

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

Perspective and Self – Empowerment  

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

SpiritSong Tarot

===OUTER  WORK===

Habit versus Conscious Choice

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

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

Weigh the Choices

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

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

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Look for the Big Signs

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

===INTENTION BLESSING===

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

May we keep our gaze on the Summit of Light.

May we take this journey with an open heart. 

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

===DISCOVERIES ===

Energy Healers, Read This Book!

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

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

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Is it Fear of Change or Fear of Being Irrelevant?

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

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

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

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

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

Spiritual Practice

Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

Self Healing

Do You Hold the Beat or Play the Melody?

The Space of Inner Knowing

Expanding Awareness

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

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

===CARA’S CORNER===

A Winning Combination

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

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

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

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Creating My Life

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

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

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

– Cara Lumen November 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help spiritual explorers find powerful and creative ways to connect with and explore their own cosmic consciousness.

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Why You Are Here

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Why You Are Here

Living Your Deeper Song

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

November 19, 1932 – the day I was born.  It was during the depression and there were not a lot of people having babies then.  I was a young girl when I listened on the console radio at my grandfather’s house to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I was in high school when vets came back to go to the local college on the GI Bill. I remember the first television shows. When I graduated from the University of Kansas in 1954 I remember wondering if this was all I got to learn to prepare myself for life.  I learned Transcendental Meditation in the 60’s because the Beatles did. And had my four children take it too.

We are brought into a certain time frame in history for a specific purpose and we build our lives on that – either knowingly or unknowingly. I was in New York City during the ’80’s and did a lot of Reiki with AIDS patients.  I also developed the metaphysical foundation that I continue to stand firmly upon. There was a friend who pointed out that we were rocks and others depended on us.  And we depended on other rocks. And the day I went to the Center for Spiritual Living in Santa Rosa, California, I knew I had come home.  Five years later I was a licensed practitioner.  My decisions have been sudden but done in absolute certainty.  I suddenly knew I would move from Kansas City to NYC.  I suddenly knew I would move to California. I suddenly knew it was time for move back to Kansas City.  No debate.  Just immediate, compete, definite knowing. Followed by giant steps. I trust my inner voice.  

I still have work to do.  My path is built on my lifetime of spiritual exploring.  I am to continue to explore and open up new pathways for myself and for others to follow and perhaps choose.  

Each year marks a strong forward movement.  Each year brings in new awareness, new adventure, new knowing.  I have given up planning very far ahead. I work to stay in the present moment – always exploring and considering and experimenting – looking for my next steps and the discoveries and insights I am to learn for my own journey and turn and share with others.  

Live your day mindfully – fully, with deep awareness of what is being offered you …… and take in as much tranquility as you can hold. 

Happy 89th Birthday to me!

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I immerse myself in the fullness and tranquility of life and step forward into my deepest path of service. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Pause where you are and consider – where you are, what opportunities are unfolding, how the world is changing.  What is your role?
  • Do that. 

===INNER WORK===

Draw Your Vision

Drawing is a fabulous way to try an idea on for size. It doesn’t have to be a good drawing, it just has to be an image that suggests to you the form and shape and depth and width of your vision. Give it a try. Draw your vision into life.

Step Back Into Your Own Power

In the chaos and disruption of today’s world, it is easy to feel lost or even hopeless. But it is right now, in this moment, that we are each to step into our own strength. Our inner strength of spirituality, our inner strength of higher purpose. We must step outside the disruption of our humanness and rise above this chaos. We are to gather together above the fray. We are to join together with a higher vision for the whole planet,  for the whole universe, for All-That-Is. We are to hold that vision, that higher vision, and see it and feel it and experience it and immerse ourselves in it until it becomes a reality. Think beyond yourself. Sink into the cosmos. Step into the cosmic awareness and be whole.

===OUTER  WORK===

Know Your Work Style

I’m a loner.  I prefer to work alone.  I prefer to do it my way.  It’s important to know your preferred working style. 

As I watch the US congress rework and compromise and stall, I know for sure I’d rather be the CEO and simply make the decisions and stand by the results.  No compromise for me – I want flexibility and innovation and exploration, based on my own knowledge and interpretation. 

I have also known I would rather work with advanced explorers than beginners.  There are always choices.  Know your work preferences and build upon them. 

Get Rid of What No Longer Serves You

Periodically we need to do a reality check – what are we actually using and what is no longer part of our path. 

My daughter and her husband helped me get some possessions recently – things I would never use again.  I kidded and told her there would soon just be me and all my crystals living here. 

Letting go is interesting.  It can be challenging and it can be freeing.  It involves a choice.  A recognition that something is no longer useful and a willingness to let go of it. 

Look around at your life and your possessions and see what needs to move on – and out. 

Know What Calls To You

I was reading the wrong book.  I think it has things in it I need to know but it was deep and takes persistence and focus to read. I was having a hard time staying with it.

I had a second book, Dr. Jains’ book on biofields, and the minute I read the intro I knew I had to shift directions.  

This is what I want to know now.  This is what I need to learn next.  My energy lifted, my focus shifted and I was off like a rocket ship. 

Change your gaze and see what calls to you.  Then take off on the adventure. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Laughter

I don’t have occasion to laugh-out-loud much. Can you remember the last time you really had a big belly laugh and you couldn’t even stop laughing? I’ve begun to look for a smile, even an inside smile. A moment that makes me pause and look and appreciate and absorb the gift of whatever it is that is making me smile. It’s not often laughter, but it is an uplifting of spirit. See what you can find today to make you smile.

===DISCOVERIES ===

Good News

CNN has a new positive news email that really lifts your spirits.  The Good Stuff

And there is also is The Good News Network 

What news are you allowing to shape your day?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Are You Moving on?

I was listening to the news – particularly about people who don’t want to change.  They don’t want to change their thinking.  They don’t want to change their beliefs. They don’t want to explore.  They don’t want to let go.  They don’t want to question. They don’t want to experiment.  They mostly do not want to be wrong. And of course, as we expand and learn and experiment, we do grow and change and replace ideas and actions.  

Growth is good.  Exploration is fabulous.  Be like the breeze going through the trees and let exploration create movement in your life. 

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

Spiritual Practice

Simply Being  – The Art of Wu Wei

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

Self Healing

The Backpack Journey

Heart Lessons from a Soul Star

Expanding Awareness

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Transmute the Past into New Sources of Energy

One of my major gifts is enthusiasm.  It takes me exploring. It inspires me to share what I discover.  Curiosity and enthusiasm are major drivers for me. As I move forward on my own journey I am to translate my lessons and achievements of the past into new sources of energy and inspiration for the future.  I build on what I know.  I stand on the heights I have achieved so far and look further afield.  My path is changing. I am climbing higher.  I am seeing further.  I am being called to higher service.  I will build on what I have learned, what I have achieved, how I have developed, and what I am called to do. Come. Let’s go adventuring!

===CARA’S CORNER===

Follow the Path that Goes Deeper

This is the time of the year when we begin to reflect on what we have done and how we are doing. How did the choices we made work out? What didn’t work out so well? Not only do we reflect, but we have an opportunity to make new conscious choices. Is there an overarching theme we should look at as we make our choices for the coming year? 

In a recent journey, I got the message ”follow the path that goes deeper.” Deeper into a connection and awareness of our integration with Cosmic Consciousness. Experience a deeper spiritual presence in my daily life, one of continuous gratitude and appreciation and awareness. Make conscious choices that deepen in my inner connection with All -That-Is. A deepening awareness that enhances  my interactions on the physical plane. How do I take my path deeper? At the same time, I want to go higher. Rise above the chaos of the planet. Move off into the ethereal awareness that is available to all of us. Dig deeper to rise higher, perhaps that’s how it works out. As I deepen my relationship with my inner voice, my inner self, I learn to interpret it in more ways, from more angles. And as I deepen my relationship with my physical plane, I enrich and expand my choice of focus and action. We are to dig deep and climb high. I can do that.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

 Directions from Within

I settle into my Still Point and listen.  

I settle into my Still Point and listen to the soul of me, my essence, my being-ness.   

I settle into my Still Point and listen to the soul of me, my essence, my being-ness.  I move forward from that centered place. I dig deeper and I climb higher. All is well in my world. 

– 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

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help spiritual explorers find powerful and creative ways to connect with and explore their own cosmic consciousness.

Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they
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Finding Balance in Today’s Dramatically Changing World

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Finding Balance in Today’s Dramatically Changing World

Living Your Deeper Song

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

Many of us are looking for ways to survive, handle, change, and live with the intense negativity that is erupting on our planet. How do we protect ourselves? How do we change the energy of the world?

First, we clear our own thoughts and expectations. 

As I move through dismay, shock, disbelief, and the volatile energy that is erupting from some humans, I have to protect myself from it. I have to set up my Transformative Shield. (Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection.) I have to remove all the negative thoughts I have and fill them with white light. How do I even do that?

I go within. I move into meditation and contemplation and stillness and connect with that place within where there is the serenity of wholeness and the feeling of centeredness, of being cosmic consciousness itself. One. One energy. One whole energy. One pure energy. I am Cosmic Energy. You are a Cosmic Energy. We are Cosmic Energy. Know that. Be aware of that. 

We must monitor everything we project into the outer world.

Monitor your thoughts. Monitor your beliefs. Monitor your expectations. Move to that place within where you know we are all Cosmic Consciousness and Pure Energy. Pure inclusive loving Energy. What we see around us are fragments breaking off. Let them go. Be responsible for what you are projecting into the world. In every moment. Clear out the negative thought and expectations that are within you and make room for the stillness and serenity of light. Be present in your most spiritual state.

Trust your inner wisdom. Follow your inner guidance. 

You know to let go of negative thoughts. You know to be kind to others. You know how to raise your focus to the highest good for all. Do that. Exist in a state of light awareness that radiates out through your own being and on out into the world. Be the light that you are.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I walk the world as Loving Light. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Become aware of the thoughts and ideas that you are allowing into your life and make changes. Choose to focus on the positive.  Keep looking for the expressions of higher consciousness and acknowledge it.
  • Notice how you feel when you resonate at the highest level of your being. 
  • Keep doing it. 

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!

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

How to Deepen Your Cosmic Consciousness

A Deeper Song Adventure

It was a powerful realization for me when I came to understand that we are in fact cosmic consciousness. It is not out there. It is who we are. And because we are in human form we are not as aware of it as we could be. And I set out to change that.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore

How to Deepen Your Cosmic Consciousness

(11 Minutes)

(Listen Here)

Listen to my
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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

The Two Vital Sides of Your Spiritual Practice

Journey to a Chamber of the Seven Sacred Rays

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

===INNER WORK===

Efforting versus Unfolding

What if you stopped efforting? What if you stopped trying to make things happen? What would be left is simply allowing life to unfold. At its own pace. In its own way. In its own good time.

No more forcing. No more have-to list. No more deadlines. Simply observing and responding to the openings that unfold. What a gentle way to live. We can do that.

Explore New Pathways

There is a big difference between walking briskly and purposefully down a path or meandering while looking around and stopping to observe and savor the smells and sounds. When you slow down, you might even discover a side path that leads you on an intriguing adventure.

We have a tendency to make lists and line things up and get things done. But what if, in every action we take, we stand at the entrance to that activity and look around. Look around at what has gotten bigger, or what has gotten smaller, or what new opportunity has shown up. Pausing to observe is a powerful practice.

Look for changes you are to make. The first time I used a walker my body was super sore – until the next day I realized its purpose was to steady me, not support me, and I needed to make the rest of my muscles do their work again. I was asking too much of this new path, and I was not doing my part.

Experiment with possibilities. The Transcendental Meditation I am establishing in my spiritual practice is exceedingly powerful, but I have not found the exact right time for it. Too early in the morning and I am restless. Too late in the day and I take a nap in my chair. I need to adventure and explore to find the right places to insert Transcendental Meditation into my life cycle.

Get the right tools to do the job. With my new walker, I can more easily take out the trash and get my mail. So those no longer are big perceived barriers for me, because I have the right tools for the job.

Be selective. Go down only the paths that call the most to you. I am currently full up of online classes. And yet there is an advanced Qigong course that I own but have not competed but really want to learn and incorporate it into my life. Be selective. Choose what calls to you, what will move you forward the most effectively, and what serves your passion. Do that.

Explore new pathways every day.  The Universe awaits you. 

===OUTER WORK===

Our Unfolding Role

We are being shown two opportunities simultaneously. We are being given our individual role and we are being shown our collective role. They may be similar, and they may be quite different. It is up to us to listen and explore and try out the ideas that present themselves and make our choices. We are being shown two paths at the same time. That of explorer, and that of way-shower. They may be similar and they may be quite different. 

One of my jobs is to explore and share what I discover.  My role is explorer and way-shower, not do-er. Parts and pieces call to people throughout the world and they act or not. I have a small group of friends I interact with regularly in mutual support. But my role with them is quite different from my role when I focus on the larger job of the Transformative Community.

We get to do both – our personal path and our role in Transformative Community. They may be quite different. And they may be intertwined. Listen to your inner voice. Pay attention to the opportunities that are presented. And notice the choices you are strongly called to make. Follow your individual calling.  Lead the way.  

Small Persistent Steps

I am currently working with a physical therapist and the major lesson is small, correctly done, persistent repetitions.  Over time.  

As I work to incorporate these small correctly done physical movements into my life, I use the triggers that are already there – sitting at my desk, drinking my tea, going to get the mail, preparing meals. When I consciously become aware of using a change in focus as a trigger to strengthen my body, my practice becomes more frequent and deliberate.  And effective. What habit are you establishing and what prompts do you use to remind you?

Change is as simple as remembering to – well,  change.

Find Your Own Reason for Change

It slips up on you, no longer pushing yourself even a bit, letting things go until the project is daunting.  Change is easier when you make it in small increments. 

As I move through physical therapy, the exercises are simple, but the point is to do them correctly and consciously and regularly.  That’s what builds up strength and alignment.  

Be conscious.  When I take a moment to straighten my torso, everything else shifts and is asked to do its job more efficiently. That focused moment of conscious awareness has huge impact.   

Persistence is important in creating change. I need to stand up more, walk further, stand up taller, walk with more awareness. Take persistent action in order to establish a desired pattern. Know your goal and keep going for it. 

Change Your Expectation

What if you painted something blue and it turned orange instead?  That would certainly change your decor.  Life is a bit like that.  We make a choice, we apply it and sometimes something totally unexpected shows up.

This is one of those times where nothing is showing up like it used to.  What is our new role for ourselves?  What is our new role in the collective? Who do we serve? Who do we help? How do we need to change ourselves?

Those are partially decisions to be made and they are partially circumstances that show up.  If a situation touches my heart and calls to me, I must explore and see how I am to participate and contribute. When an insightful thought pops into my mind that raises me to a whole new level of awareness, I must follow it – explore and decide if it is for me and how I am to participate in its unfolding.  

On one hand, we all have our personal journeys to unfold, but a new path is opening up for those of us who are aware.  It is the path of the Higher Collective, the Light Bearers.  We are being called into service as Holders of the High Awareness of Ultimate Oneness.  We must experience that oneness in our own lives and turn and experience it as a collective.  One energy.  

When you see your role as part of a larger purpose, how does that role change?   Be open.  Go exploring. And enthusiastically participate in the Collective Change.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Take Small Steps

Ease your way into change. Try out a new path in small steps.  Savor it as you go.  Look and listen and respond to what shows up. Pay attention to the nuances. 

The first night after I got my walker, my body was super, super sore.  It was not entirely about how I was using the walker, it was what I was not doing that was causing the pain.  A walker is there to steady you, not hold you up.  I had been using a cane and I was leaning on the walker too heavily and my shoulders hurt. A walker is there to hold you steady while you move your body more effectively and with more assurance. But you have to consciously engage and stand tall. It is not a replacement for the work you and your body must still do.  

It’s fine to use some support when you are beginning to walk a new way on a new path, but consciously work to stand tall and strong on your own. Use support to build strength and stamina one mindful step at a time.  

===DISCOVERIES ===

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===MY DEEPER SONG ADVENTURES ===

Be Joyfully in Service

“I was so excited to bring you this I left my mask in the car, I’ll be right back,” said my Physical Therapist Michelle.  She had brought me a walker!  Don’t you love it when people love their work!  

As someone on the receiving end of her help, it is meaningful to me that Michelle loves her work, loves being creative about how she helps people regain their physical strength and flexibility.  We’re talking about teaching people very basic and easy strengthening and flexibility exercises. Michele understands how all the bones and muscles and nerves work together in the body and uses that deep knowledge to help others restore some semblance of self-sufficiency to their life.

What are you excited about doing in your own work?  How creative are you in teaching others what you have to share? What do you do for others that makes you feel deeply in service?  

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Let Go of How It Was

It’s always more comfortable and feels safer when we cling to the familiar. But in this rapidly and dramatically changing world, we cannot do that. We must let go. We must move on. We must leave some beliefs and exceptions behind.

This is the period of the next generation and those of us who have lived on the planet awhile need to get out of the way. Our ways are outdated. We are behind in understanding and working with what is evolving. And this next unfolding is not ours to design. It is ours to support and encourage others, and make room for what they create for themselves. 

What if you were faced with a cleared plot of land upon which you could build anything you wanted or grow anything you wanted or live on it in any way you want. How would you design your life? Don’t bring along any of your old baggage. Enter this new land as a child full of wonder, learning from your current surroundings and the opportunities it presents. Observing, making new connections, trying out new approaches. Very flexible. Very experimental. Quite open to change. That’s how we get to approach our “next”.

Be an explorer in the unfolding new world.

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Focus on Raising the Energy

It’s easy to get pulled down into the detail and be mired there. But how we survive is to focus on raising our awareness of our existence in the collective consciousness. Not everyone can hear that or do that or wants to. But when I get an email in response to a post or a newsletter that says, “You spoke to me”, I know I am assisting others simply by staying focused on exploring and learning and keeping my energy focused on the whole. It is not my job to focus on the details of certain levels of existence. I have my tribe. We have each other. And my role is to support us in being transformational leaders, in expanding our own consciousness, in building bridges to this new evolving future that is filled with light and collective understanding. Focus on where you want to go. And don’t look back. 

How Are You to Be In Service? 

Look back over your life at those life-altering moments when you gained a new awareness of your role and its possibilities.  Three come to mind immediately for me. 

When I asked an ex-priest where you go for help if you don’t believe God is out there somewhere but is actually deep within you,   he said, “You dig deeper within yourself, pull yourself up by your bootstraps.”  That was a major step into a lifetime of self-sufficiency. 

20 years later, walking across Central Park my friend said, “We are rocks, others depend on us.”  I asked, “Who do we depend on?” “Other rocks” was her answer. I understood. 

In the past ten years or so, I see myself as a spiritual explorer who is to share what she discovered with others. Now I am looking for my role in the Unfolding Planet.  It is still about exploring and sharing what I find.   But there is also a calling to encourage others to raise their expectation of their own role in this unfolding new era.  How I do that is evolving, but my role is clear, join with others to raise the Awareness of Oneness in those who can hear it. 

Stay open for the doors that are opening for you and walk through them. What is your role in this rapidly moving world and how is it changing?

===CARA’S CORNER===

The Empty Reed

My flute holds empty space and yet when I offer it my breath it sings a song.  

The wind plays a melody of rustling leaves as it moves through the trees. 

There are sighs of relief. Sighs of ecstasy.  Sounds of laughter.  All from our breath and the reed of our body.  

What songs do you play on your body instrument?  Joyous songs, thoughtful songs, introspective songs, sad songs, playful songs?  You are the player and have control of the music you share.  What are you playing and would you like to change your tune???

Be empty and let spirit speak through you.

===SING A DEEPER SONG===

The Cycles of Change

The first yellow leaves fall to the ground. It is the ending of one cycle and the beginning of another. 

The first yellow leaves fall to the ground. It is the ending of one cycle and the beginning of another. Change wraps her cloak around my shoulders and I settle in. 

The first yellow leaves fall to the ground. It is the ending of one cycle and the beginning of another. Change wraps her cloak around my shoulders and I settle in. We will go adventuring, Change and I.  I wonder what we will discover. 

-Cara Lumen, October 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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