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My Three Words for 2021 – Deep Listening, Exploration, Unfolding

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My Three Words for 2021 – Deep Listening, Exploration, Unfolding

Creating Conscious Connection

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

Goals are good and goals can be overwhelming.  I’m a go-with-the-flow person. I rely almost exclusively on my inner voice to guide me in the moment.

However, identifying an over-arching theme might be a good idea.  Chris Brogan suggests we choose three words for the year.   I have done that for a lot of years. Here are the three words I have chosen for this year.

Deep Listening. Since my work is unfolding, the first focus for the coming year that I choose is Deep Listening.  That means moving to my Still Point multiple times throughout my day to let go of my human thoughts and sit in silent serenity.  I am learning that I don’t have to make decisions other than in the moment. I just let my inner nudges show up and I explore where they take me. 

Exploration is my second word for the year.  I feel pretty certain that most of what I offer is going to come from my inner work, my journeys, and my unexpected insights. That means I am to stay aware, move into deep listening, and when a nudge shows up, I am to take time to examine and explore – a little or a lot, depending on how I feel about the topic of the moment.  Here I go adventuring…

Unfolding.  I started to chose “change” but this is such a huge period of change. Then I considered “evolution” which seems huge. But in this dramatic and rapidly changing world, I can only sit in thoughtful awareness and listen to my inner voice guide me to my next steps.  I let life unfold and shape things as they come. 

Deep Listening, Exploration, Unfolding.

What three words will you chose to open up new portals for you this year?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I move into deep listening and choose three words to guide me this coming year. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

Here are my three words from the past:

My Three Words for 2020  – Strength, Intention, Explore

My Three Words for 2019 – Vibration, Nature, Portal

My Three Words for 2018 – Invisible, Radiate, Journey

My Three Words for 2017 – Broaden, Deepen, Change

My Three Words for 2016 – Determination, Trust, Explore

My Three Words for 2015 – Impact, Connection, Flexibility 

How ChrisBrogan Changed My Life– 2014

OUR GLOBAL DEEPR SONG COMMUNITY 

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DEEPER SONGS I EXPLORED THIS MONTH

Life Lessons from a Lump of Clay

Sometimes it seems like there is no rhyme nor reason why our lives are the way they are or how we turned out the way we did.  But there is.  There are choices and beliefs and interactions that created our path, our journey. We are exactly where we should be considering what we thought and did. 

There are many circumstances that are pushing and shoving and moving and shaping our lives.  It helps to think about some of them and where they might lead.

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

Life Lessons from a Lump of Clay

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The Path We Choose

Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self

The Power of Your Still Point

Life Lessons from a Spider

***INNER WORK***

Rediscovery

I drew the oracle card “Rediscovery” on the first of this new year and I am thinking about what that might mean.  I will look for gifts I have that I have left by the wayside.  I will look for ideas that organically fell into second place along the road.  And I’m going to look at what I can repurpose in this rapidly changing new world. In this moment, I only have a vague feeling about what that will be. And it may not be a tangible step.  It may be introspective work, an expanded spiritual practice, even a review of something I used to do from my present viewpoint of what is unfolding.  

What will you rediscover?  Go exploring and look in all the corners….

Our Inner Strength

“When things fall apart around you, you’re really left with what you’ve developed inside you.”- Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

I stopped to consider what I have developed inside me that keeps me moving inward and upward.   

I have a deep and varied pattern of spiritual practices.  I am mindfully moving to my Still Point more often during my day to encourage moments of deep tranquility and introspection.

I have taken what may be an intuitive proactive step as I become clear what my role is in humanity today.  I am not an in-person, interactive contributor to the well-being of our world. My work is to help us raise our vibration.  My work is in the inner world, where I explore and interpret and share what I figure out.  But my main job, my core work is with vibration – learning to raise our vibration with conscious awareness and encouraging those who can hear the message to do the same.  Not everyone will hear this call, but as we each move more deeply into our role as Light Beings, others will recognize it in themselves and make the choice to consciously join us. 

There are many things I cannot and am not meant to do on the physical plane.  So I focus on what I have developed inside and share that. 

What have you got going for you?  What do you need to add to your life pattern that would expand and elevate your experience and your place of service?  What is not yours to do? Let that go.  Keep building your strength within and rely on your inner voice.

***OUTER WORK***

How are you Nurturing Yourself and What do you Need to Change?

We slip into destructive patterns without realizing it.  I have been watching too much news and it finally caught up with me.  I very much enjoy the fabulous minds and incredible vocabulary of cable news, but the subject matter has been like watching a horror movie.  Even with change in sight, and hope on the horizon, I was being drawn deeper and deeper into despair. It even manifested a feeling of depression over the holidays – and I have never been depressed in my life.   

Finally, I made a major change.  There are wonderful music channels on my TV.  I love both classical music and New Age and my life has been woefully short on both.  Until now.  

What kind of habits have you fallen into that you need to break?

It easy to identify habits you would like to create. But what habits do you have that are doing you harm? And how will you change that?

Use Music to Heal 

Music is a powerful vibration.  It can soothe you and challenge you and lift you up.  Music comes from the soul of the composer and the musician – a gift from them to you. Go exploring into musical venues you have only dabbled in before and see where it leads you.  I will explore jazz more.  I like it very much but it seems to be third on my list.  There is a difference between light classical music and classical music. Composers really give it to you in classical music.  It can be very demanding. And stirring. And motivating.  It makes you feel like you should rise up and go take on something big. Light classical feels a bit more joyous and less demanding.  I get to choose to fit my mood and my need. 

Focus on an instrument you love to hear. I’m a cello fan and a saxophone fan – both low, mellow sounds.  I play the native flute and have played the piano in the past.  And I have sung in lots of quartets and choral groups.  Odd that I let music slip out of my life. 

I have 8 drums but seem focused on two, a buffalo drum I made in a workshop 30 years ago and a small djembe from Africa.  There is something very freeing and releasing about drumming. 

Notice the vibrations you allow into your life. Notice what you listen to and how it affects you.  Silence is good too. It has a healing sound of its own.  Humming as a focused vibration is healing. Making up songs is liberating and creative.  

Make a rattle out of popcorn in an empty spice jar.  Make a drum out of the bottom of an empty plastic container and experiment with your own rhythms. There is a way to play two spoons!

How are you spending your downtime and are you aware  of how it affects you?

Make conscious changes that include adding more sound experience to your life and notice the difference it makes. 

Make Room for Change and then Wait for It!

There is nothing more powerful than making room for change and then waiting to see what shows up.  I eased up on my publication schedule and in the space that was cleared by that choice I continue to find new ideas and opportunities now that they have room to make themselves known.  

How do you invite change in?  Sitting in silence with no expectation is a powerful place to begin. 

***DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE***

Deepen Your Spiritual Practice Through Art

We get so caught up in our words that we get tangled up in them and ultimately find we are limited by them.  Sometimes real clarity comes when we use art to explore our feelings, our thoughts, our inner world. What words cannot describe, drawing can.  

I do pencil drawings of my journeys. Not all of them, but when I do take time to draw images from what I see, it clarifies and broadens my understanding of my journey.  And when I revisit the drawing, the whole journey pops back into my mind. I keep my drawings in sheet protectors in a binder.  

You could use art to describe your feelings or to explore an idea for a project. My drawings have stick figures and signs that point to wavy lined paths.  When in doubt about what the image is meant to be, I add a label…! Drawing your idea provides a new way to look at it and explore its possibilities. 

You could doodle or paint, cut out paper figures, use clay or finger painting or crayons.  Every color has a message, just choose colors that call to you and perhaps write words on your paper that pull up the images from your experience of the thought you want to capture. 

Find other ways to explore your thoughts besides words. It will open up new depths of understanding. 

***DEEPER SONG  INSIGHTS ***

The Question that Heals

“How are you doing?” my friend inquired in an email.  I sat down to answer her and uncovered insights and awareness that helped me heal myself. All because my friend knew I had had a rough time and cared enough to ask how I was doing.

When you listen, when you offer other people the gift of your caring presence, it opens up space for them to go within and find the core of their imbalance.  Through their self-awareness, self-healing occurs. 

How are you doing? I’m listening.

Purpose and Intention versus Unfolding 

The article said, “Begin the year with purpose and intention.” And it immediately felt forced to me.  I’m an unfolding kind of gal.  Now that doesn’t mean I don’t set objectives for myself, I do, but they are broad, not detailed and I’m just not very attached to them – I let them unfold. I go with the flow.  I’m pretty relaxed about when I do them or if I do them.  I tune in to what I am in the mood to do and then do that.   

That’s pretty casual, right?  How do I get things done? I listen to my inner voice and respond in the moment.  And I am aware of the results of my choices and change those choices as seems appropriate. 

Choose, act, evaluate.  Repeat. That’s how I let things unfold.  

***OUR EVOLVING FUTURE***

What is Your Role?

I’ve been listing to a lot of classical music lately and it makes me think of the long path to becoming a professional musician.  

There are very few solos in an orchestra. But the ones I have been hearing are heart-stirringly beautiful.  That means that person has spent hours and hours and hours learning to play that well. 

What is your role?  Are you to be a core member of a group?  A soloist in an orchestra?  A performing artist in your own right?  Or do you just love to play music?  What is your role in life – soloist, conductor, member of the ensemble or a joyful player of music for yourself?  Whatever level you are, you bring with it joy, commitment and love of music.  

Looking back over my life, I have been in ensemble groups that created an experience I could not have done alone – quartets, choirs, the cast of a play.  And I have worked diligently and consistently to hone my own individual skills. 

But my role now is as a member of a much larger group –  the growing ensemble of conscious seekers who are working together to raise the  vibration of our planet. 

This is a time of change.  Our role is changing.  The opportunities are changing.  

Look back over your life for the signs and signals and the opportunities you did or did not take, and notice the choices that led you to where you are now.  You have the power to change direction by changing your choices. 

I have spent a large portion of my life writing – both professionally and perennially.  What gift weaves its message throughout your life?

Know what is driving your life and your life choices. What is your role and how are you going to fulfill it?

Message from the Sacred Earth Cards

Revolution

I drew this card “Revolution” for myself this week and had to go to the oracle book that came with the cards in order to discover it is about cycles.  Revolving cycles. Expanding and waning cycles. We are always in some stage in multiple cycles.  They intertwine, and ebb and flow, and our life changes.  On the card, a woman is holding a lotus in a globe.  A lotus is rooted in mud below the surface, and its awesome flower rises to the surface to share its beauty with the world.  Be aware of the mud that nurtures you.  Be aware of the multiple cycles you are in and see if you can understand and take advantage of where you are in each cycle.  

I am in a cycle that is changing my offerings.  It is affecting the frequency, the form, and what I write about.  I am in another cycle with my body – a sort of uncomfortable  straightening of my body as I release something I have not identified.  I am in a cycle of introspection, focused on raising my vibration and understanding my next steps. All three cycles are underway simultaneously.

Let your life unfold, but pay attention to the revolving stages of increase and decline in each cycle.  Allow yourself to evolve into the New Consciousness.

Sacred Earth Cards

CARA’S CORNER

Follow Your Nudges

Amazing answers show up when you stay still and listen.  

As suddenly as I got interested in Astrology, I am just as suddenly putting it aside. Or, at least not exploring it more deeply and giving it a lesser role in my own exploration. I have an over-arching intention.  I will follow that and it will show me what I need to do, what I need to consider next. 

A shift happened when I was writing the opening article. The Deeper Song Process became a list of podcasts and posts that depend on the experience of the topic of the article, and I understood that is another way to help you explore more deeply, that it enriches what I offer.  

I created a slightly different format for this newsletter and it is helping me focus on what I offer. It up-levels the content and helps me make more focused choices about what to include.

We are to go exploring more deeply together.  I have no real idea what that will look like, but I know I can go deeper and explore further afield and we will expand our consciousness together. 

What I invite you to do is to follow your inner voice, your nudges, and explore what calls to you.  Be selective, be aware of what is calling you, and when you start exploring, notice how what you are learning and experiencing resonates.  Use your response to guide your steps. 

We are taking a turn in the path here. We will end up in a new place, a new space of opportunity.  We just have to pay attention to the guideposts along our path – and choose each step with awareness. 

A DEEPER SONG

It is time to take a step. 

It is time to take a step further. 
The Unseen World embraces me with open arms.

It is time to take a step further. 
The Unseen World embraces me with open arms.
Here I go adventuring!

– Cara Lumen

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 adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and turn to share our discoveries with others.  We are guides and way-showers with our light held high.

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The Other Person’s Shoes

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The Other Person’S Shoes

Insights OF A Deeper Song

Living our Light

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

I sit here safely tucked in and have no clue what it feels like to be running out of food, or facing eviction. I cannot imagine being a black woman driving her car, being stopped by the police with guns drawn, and have my children put into handcuffs. I have not experienced being crowded into a multi-generational home with no privacy and no space to express myself.  

So what do I do? I shake my head and my heart is sad and…what?  It feels huge, much greater than I am capable of healing.

Some of my oblivion comes from being unaware, particularly as I was younger.  But even now, I am sheltered from the world at large.

I don’t know if I’m supposed to watch more news so I stay informed or shut out the news from all the really off-balance things that it portrays.

I have always had what I need in my lifetime.  I do not know what it means to be in need.

We each have our particular place to serve.  I was never much of a hands-on helper, I was more of an organizing idea provider.  I get to notice that and be OK with that.  But if I’m an idea person I get to put that gift to work for the greater good.

How?

We are in the process of learning to raise our vibration.  Not all of us will do it.  Not all of us are meant to do it.  But it is neither an honor, a bad thing, a privilege, or a punishment. It simply is. It is part of a grand over-arching pattern we, as humans, do not understand.

So I work on my inner world. I work with my inner voice. I experiment and I discover and I share it in a post or a podcast.  

And I expand my spiritual practice.  I add more intentional ritual.  I work to evolve a deeper connection to the earth so I hear her rhythm and align myself with her vibration – her requests of me. 

I meditate in the form of shamanic journeys. I create rituals of intentions. I hold high watch for those of us who are working to raise our vibration so that we experience success and raise ourselves to a new level of awareness and service. 

We have to walk with determination in our own shoes.  We have to walk our own path with as much awareness and thoughtfulness as we can muster. There are others walking beside us and we can hold our light high to light our mutual path, but each person has to walk in their own shoes and do it the best they can.  

Fill your own shoes well. Then reach out a helping hand.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I walk my path as steadily as I can and hold my light high to show others a way. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Look closely at your own path and how you are walking on it.  Are you r standing upright?  Are you moving forward?  How bright is your light?
  • Let your light expand to the hearts and minds of those around you, lending a helping hand when you are called, and send light energy to others to light their way.

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MY DEEPER SONG THIS WEEK

How to Align Your Vibration within our Collective Vibrational Core

An Inner-World Exploration

In order to shift, realign, and rebalance our world, we must each deepen our awareness of that all-encompassing vibrational core, that one creative, generating, void energy and know and feel ourselves to be just that – one energy. 

(Read more…)

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Inner Work

DO YOU JURNAL?

I write to figure things out, to see how I want to apply what I have learned or how or even if I am to apply them.  That’s what journals do, they help you sort out your thoughts and ideas and feelings and intuitions. 

When you write down a thought, it is safely captured and that frees you to look beneath that thought, to look more deeply into the next level of the message.  

You can journal by hand or on your computer.  You can dictate it to your computer if that feels right to you. (Just remember to say, “period” or you will have a major run-on mess.) Your journal might include some acknowledgment to yourself for what you accomplished. It may be a thoughtful review of an experience you had or a step you took that felt very aligned.  It’s not a to-do list, it is an acknowledgment of your awareness, of your progress, and a desire to understand what lies below the surface, to hear your inner voice more clearly.

I stop often during my day to write about an awareness I have experienced, a message I received in a journey a thought I want to explore.  I capture it so I can look at it at a time when I am prepared to explore it more thoughtful and perhaps even to take action.  

Go within and explore and examine the messages of your day. Then, write them down for clarity and contemplation.

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Outer Work

BE SELECTIVE

This month be a good month to tidy up your to-do list, perhaps unsubscribe to those emails you no longer need.  

It is a good idea to look at your projects and prioritize them.  Is there an aspect that you can hire done for you?  Do you need some more training? Is there a topic you want to explore?  Look at the rest of the year and see what you need and want to put in place. 

But first, complete or abandon what is no longer relevant.

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PURE WATER

My skin is as soft as silk.  My hair is soft and shiny. My cat is as soft to touch as velvet. And that means we are soft and clear inside as well.  And it’s all beech of the water we drink. I have used a Nikon Water Filter for 25 years.  I actually bought a new one last year but gave my old one away because it’s still extremely usable.  The 

Nikken PiMag Waterfall sits on my kitchen counter in a position for me to fill it from the spray hose on my sink.  It contains a powerful filter and mineral rocks that together improve the water even if it’s from a good water source.  I just wanted you to know it exists.  My cat and I are sitting here as soft as newborns – inside and out. 

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FIND THE RIGHT PLACE

In a journey this week some things were suggested that I want to establish in my life.  I’m to create a moment in which I reach and maintain a point of stillness. How I do that is under exploration.  I want it to be a simple moving within to that point of stillness so I can connect more deeply with it and clarify and apply what I learn there. What if I could figure out how to sit here and become a single point of stillness.  I have experienced that only once in my life. Even the idea makes me deepen my stillness.

What do you want to add to your life as a meditative practice and how will you do that?

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WHAT SERVICES ARE NO LONGER NEEDED?

Our future is now and it sure looks different than yesterday did.  As I think about how we are to each reposition ourselves. I am aware of some services that will be needed less.  Being a tailor, for instance.  If we all stay home in our comfortable clothes we have no need for a tailor – or even much of a variety of clothing.  So what do you do if you love to sew and create things out of fabric?  The fashion industry will take a big hit because of the lack of social events to dress up for.  

And will they come back?  Not to the extent they used to be because our new normal is to work from home.  And that does mean increased work in the technology we barely know about They recently printed a 3-D house in three weeks which with transform the building trade.  What about musicians, people who make their living playing in concerts and on tours, the backstage roles that are part of that business. The timeline for live concerts is rather far off.  What do those people do in the meantime?  How do they reposition themselves to mover forward?

We have each been given a multitude of gifts but it’s the expression of our passion that we seek most.  So I may become a street musician with my guitar case open for donations, but there are no longer theater crowds emerging from the theater district.  What about the actors – it’s hard enough to get work when there is work to be had.  What if you have a passion that is no longer needed in the workplace?

These seem to all be creative examples, artistic examples.  And once you have known full artistic expression, there does not seem to be any sort of substitute for it.  

I don’t have answers here, just more questions. 

I remember years ago in New York City talking to a woman who was called upon to take all of the broadway show cast photos. She was grateful for the income but she said she did not have time to do her own work. Or course not, she was doing commercial work, not self-exploration expression work.  

How do we feed our soul if we are creative? I guest we get very creative….

I can write for the sheer joy of writing but its more rewarding to know I have touched a life or two. 

Work is all so tied up in making a living and what you are suited to do. Work needs to be more than that.

I think of the farm workers who do labor to feed their families.  What happens to a creative child in that environment?  We often go in the direction our parents did, unless someone helps us to go further, to take a path more suited to our individual gifts. 

The point is we each get to rethink and re-examine what we need at our core. And how to get it for ourselves.  

No, wiring commercials is not nearly as rewarding as writing what calls to me.  Playing a song alone is less rewarding than if I can share it with someone and we can play off of eh other’s gifts. Is that the answer, then, to share what you create? Possibly. 

We each have been given several strong gifts.  Now is the time to look closely and get very creative about how we can offer those gifts to bring ourselves personal satisfaction as well as income. 

There is one other major observation around this new how-do-I-make-a-living scenario we are in.  Consume less.  Choose less. Get creative and create our own entertainment.  Remember the game where one person starts a story, gets it to a point of decision or challenge, and then passes it to the next person to continue the story?  That’s a great family adventure. 

Not everyone was cut out to be a parent and yes here we are expecting ourselves to be a focused parent, gifted teacher, reliable workers, and fulfill our own calling.  The lucky children are the ones with smart parents who can teach them at home and support them in their learning.  But even as they do that, they get to rethink about the child’s future – and they get to be evolved choices they will have.  

I remember taking geometry in high school and wondering where I would ever use that.  The first and possibly only time I did was want I was making pleated drapes and had to figure out the spacing and the depth of the pleat and how much material to buy.  But I’m glad I could figure that out. 

Explore as many skills and areas of knowledge that you can. The internet makes it easy.  How can you repurpose what you know?  I have a friend who is a master horticulturist.  She could explore plant healing or make a new hybrid food or…  Take your skill and your passion and shape it into sometime new and usable.  Then offer it to the world.

Be creative  Think creative. Make up you own perfect income stream. 

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INSIGHTS FROM PAST POSTS AND PODCASTS

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HowDoo You Nourish Yourself if You Are a Rock

 Do You Have The Courage to Stand Alone

How to Redefine Yourself and the 30-year Plan 

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OUR EVOLVING FUTURE

I feel tremendous pride and hope for my country with the inclusion of a very powerful and capable woman, Kamala Harris, as vic- president nominee. She is so capable and well prepared that I am ready for her to go on to be president.  

It is like a door opening, fresh air being let in, and a whole new level of feminine power begin put in place.  Not only is this historic, this is life chaining for this country.   

It’s not jut about placing a woman in power, it is about the change she represents in her awareness.  She is of a younger generation and she is aware, astute, and very ready to govern. 

Change is good.  Change is well, life-chaining.  My country needs so much healing.  Let it begin with these two peacemakers.

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FIND YOUR TRIBE

The lovely thing about having to stay home is that we have to go online to find our interactions with people and that opens up the entire world.  I speak with friends in France and Switzerland, as well as people in the US.  Here’s the caveat – you want to find people that stretch you, that make you think and consider new options for yourself.  People at a similar level in the topic you have in common who are in on a similar life path.  I have several people to talk shamanism with, I have one person to talk computer and web stuff with. Many of my friends are energy healers. One of my most amazing in-person friends is the Social Services Coordinator here at the Senior Center where I live.  We had a great talk just the other day.  We have just a plain ol’ affection for each other. 

I need them all in my life.  

How do you find these friends that resonate with your own path? Begin with an online class you are taking, post on the community FB page and see who responds and reach out to them.  Classes are great ways to find like-minded friends. They have self-selected to show their interest in the topic.  

Look over your past and perhaps reach out to someone who shared a portion of your path with you that you have carried forward.  Only one of the six people I speak with regularly have I met in person.  We use zoom or Skype and it is easy.  And I have recently added frequent emails with a new friend.

Reach out.  Begin with emails. Toss in a call or two and begin to expand your relationship.  Schedule another call before you hang up to keep the momentum going. Like-minded friends are super important for your own personal growth.  Expand our circle.  Reach out.  

Do You Need a New Tribe? (post) 

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CARA’S CORNER

SELF HEALING – SOUND HEALING

I had an extraordinary experience with my flutes this week.  In my flute class with Christine Stevens, we begin to play to our emotions and something we wanted to heal.   Playing with that intention changed my music. 

We played to our home, to bless every corner of it with the sound vibration. 
We played to others.  I played to my sister who has Alzheimer’s and said yet another goodbye to the sister I had.

This playing to an emotion was all done though intention and opening my heart  It was very powerful. 

Now granted, the pentatonic scale of a native flue has no wrong combinations, but there is much you can do with your breath and your tongue and your fingers – and your intention.  But the key to this experience was playing from my heart – in gratitude, in blessing – with purpose.  It took me to a whole new level of self-healing and made me realize how vital and powerful sound healing is.  

I also realized I need to get Christine’s recommended drum app because before the class there was a drumming soundtrack she had made and it expanded my playing to have that rhythm as a counterpoint.

I also have three flutes to choose from and I chose them depending on the intention of the playing. I cried three different times with emotional release from my own life. 

All that from a piece of wood with some holes in it.  
The first known flute was made out of an animal leg bone and the spacing of the holes in the same today.  

Native flutes are made from wood so before we play we have a ritual to honor its connection to the branches which touch the sky and to the earth were their roots reach.  And finally, we connect our flute to our heart which is to be the source of our music.

I write this because I was surprised at the intensity and the ease with which the emotional connection happened. 

Vibration is healing and it takes may forms – especially music. 

How do  you have music in your life?

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A DEEPER SONG

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” -Rumi

Keep singing a deeper song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song 

I help those seeking to sing a deeper song to expand their relationship with the Unseen world.

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Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

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Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

A New Consciousness Exploration 

Everything is energy. Energy cannot be destroyed, only repurposed.  So how do we repurpose or deflect negativity? 

We create a Transformative Energy Shield. We can create a Transformation Energy Shield around ourselves and we can create one around a group. It is a shield of intentional energy that deflects and transforms negative energy. 

It is natural to think in terms of putting up a protective shield for ourselves. When we put up a Transformative Energy shield, it converts, repurposes and raises the vibration of whatever shows up.  What a life-changer that is!

The Transformative Shield transforms energy on both sides of the shield. When we place ourselves in the protection of a Transformative Sphere of Energy, it immediately begins to transform our own negative energy.  If we are fearful or angry, it transforms that energy and reflects it back as centered serenity.  The Transformative Energy Shield also transforms negative energy coming toward us and reflects it back as positive energy to others. It is a two-way transformer of energy.

The Transformative Energy Shield can be erected in seconds. 

You create a Transformative Energy Shied through your breath and your intention.  Take an intentional breath and feel transformative energy surround your heart. On an exhale, feel a shield form and expand to surround your body. It is invisible and invincible. Continue using intentional exhales to expand and thicken your Transformative Energy Shield until you feel secure.

Maintain a positive inner energy

Use the Transformative Energy Shield to clear your own body suit of negative thoughts and energy. Begin at your heart center.   Breath a Transformative Energy Shield into existence and with each exhale extend it further out, feeling it clearing away all negative, non-supportive thoughts and transforming them into a higher vibration.

On each inhale intentionally raise your vibration. From your centered heart energy, feel yourself radiating out positive energy to balance all levels of your body suit. 

Transform the energy around you

When you become aware of negative energy and want to shield yourself from it, create a Transformative Energy Shield with a single exhale and experience it deflecting any negative energy and transforming it into a higher, positive vibration. 

Use the Transformative Energy Shield to balance the world around you

Now that you are balanced, begin to consciously send out healing, transformative  energy to the world to restore balance to all those you come in contact with. You become a walking Transformative Energy Shield, balancing energy wherever you are.

You become an Organic Transformer

Whatever energy comes into your field is changed. This Transformative Energy Shield is not only about protection, it is about transformation.  It radiates the transformative energy of your positive intention. It radiates the transformative ability to intentionally raise energy to a higher, more positive vibration. 

The Transformative Energy Shield is a field of vibration that changes whatever shows up into harmonious, balanced, positive, higher-vibration energy.

Use the Transformative Energy Shield to raise your vibration

Your life experience manifests form your own vibration and you have the power to raise your vibration at will.

Your awareness, intention, and choices allow you to clear, repurpose and raise the vibration of energy.

Teach yourself to become more aware of levels of energy – not just its existence but its quality, its tone, its impact.  Notice the vibration of a room, of a person, of a situation and use the Transformative Energy Shield to raise that vibration. 

Become more aware of the many levels of vibration you experience in your body suit existence.  Elevate those.

Choose what you want to transform and use the Transformative Energy Shield to do it. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I am aware of the power of my Transformative Energy Shield and I use it to raise vibration all around me. 

A Deeper Song Process 

  • Center yourself in your heart.
  • With a focused exhale begin to erect your Transformative Energy Shield from your heart to surround your body suit.
  • Notice how it immediately transforms any or your own body suit negativity.  
  • Turn your attention to the world around you and become aware of how the Transformative Energy Shield transforms any outer negativity coming your way.
  • Know that your Transformative Energy Shield is one of transformation and develop your own unique way to use it to raise the vibration of the energy around you. 

To Sind a Deeper Song Consider:

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe 

How Vibration Heals

The Transformative Sphere

The Concept of One and the You as Observer

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How to Deflect/Contain Negative Energy

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How to Deflect/Contain Negative Energy
An Inner-world Exploration

Take a moment to feel yourself safely tucked into a sphere of energy.  It can be any color that shows up. If you’re not certain, try golden or indigo blue. It can be opaque or translucent or transparent.  Just notice what shows up for you. Sit a moment and feel the energy surrounding you.  

This is your protector/reflector and it’s as easy to call upon as it was to imagine it. 

Use it. 

If you’re walking into a room of people you don’t know, you may want to feel that protective ball of energy around you.  If you’re going into a shamanic meditative journey, you wrap yourself in the protective energy of an envisioned sphere. You can expand a sphere to include an entire group of people – for protection or for amplifying the collective energy.  

The protective sphere reflects back to you your own energy

If you’re angry or thinking negative thoughts, those negative responses are reflected right back at you by the shield that’s always around you.  If that’s what you want, have at it, but if you’re not happy receiving back your own negative energy, change your thoughts and words and deeds so that positive thoughts and actions reflect back to you from your protective sphere.  

How to protect yourself from negative energy

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Raise Your Vibration Through Visioning

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Raise Your Vibration Through Visioning
An Immer-World Exploration

“If we learn to sense everything from a higher vantage point or vibrational frequency, we may actually see the world as it really is, a construct of our minds and our collective dance. Nothing is what it seems.”  – Raja Choudhury 

When we raise our vibration it affects our world.  How do we do that?  What do we need to do to raise our vibration? The ideas are pouring into my consciousnesses and showing up from many directions.

In my shamanic journeys, I ask for and continue to receive ideas for specific ways to raise my vibration.  I am adding a small ceremony/practice to my daily work that involves raising my vibration.

Raise your vibration through visualization

In a quiet place begin by being aware of your core. The core of you. The strength of you.  The inner world of you. In my practice, I begin there, in my essence.  I experience myself as a container filled with golden light that comes in my crown and slowly fills my body.  That is followed by rainbow light that moves through my body righting what is wrong, working to heal and restore and rebalance all of my body –  the corners, the crevices.  I give it time to do a thorough job of wholing.   

Gradually I allow that pillar of light that is me, to expand until I become and have a feeling of being only pure vibration. Individual/ego“Me” disappears.  I experience myself as light.  I relax into the vibration, the feeling, the experience.  There may be an accompanying sound, there may not be.  In this journey of visualization, as I begin to expand my own vibration I become aware of other expanded vibrations, other light beings who are also expanding their vibrations. We nod in recognition and then join our vibrations together to become a larger vibrational energy.  This continues – coming up next to a vibration of wholeness, merging with it to increase our collective power.  Not absorbing, simply merging to become bigger and broader and more far-reaching.  Our strength grows, our reach expands.  I am still aware of my mind, but no longer sense my body.  We, the collective vibration of those who are aware and who have chosen to be a part of this vibratory expansion, fill the void.  We put our collective, expanded, positive vibration right into the earth, into nature, into all the inhabitants, into the core of the earth itself.  We, as this collective energy, wrap ourselves around the moon and the sun to absorb and share their gifts.  We, as light vibration, move within the core of the earth to heal and balance.  We touch all living things, insects, birds animals, people.  

We begin to merge our thoughts. We spread our light like a calming ray into the harried thoughts of concerned and aware seekers.  They take a deep breath and see life a bit differently.  They recognize their own light and are enhanced.  They begin to explore their own vibration. 

Breathe.  Breathe light, breath the vibration of wholeness. Fold your hands in the mudra prayer position or just put your index fingers together and blow light vibrational energy over the top out into others in the world, to those beings who are raising their vibration. Use your breath like a tuning fork. Others hear, are drawn to it, and begin to resonate.  

Begin your daily ceremony with visualizations of our collective vibration and see where it takes you. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

Each day I become more aware of the energy of my essence
and how I can use it to connect with others. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Experiment with using visualization to raid and expand your core energy.
  • Adjust your visualization until you can experience yourself as pure vibration. 
  • When you are comfortable, expand your vibration to meet up with other expanded vibrations and notice what you experience. 

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work 

How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness

Another Part of You-The Unseen World 

How to Interpret the Messages from Within 

Do You Practice Self-Transcendence? 

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