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How Has Your Spirituality Expanded?

Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe

(“Ah-Shay”)

 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

It has been 60 years since I was in an Episcopal church service. I had been a Presbyterian before that. It was interesting to watch the services for Queen Elizabeth and remember some of those ritual patterns. 

When I was a senior in college, I took a comparative religion course and had never even heard of half of the religions we studied. Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Jews, folk or traditional religions, includingAfrican traditional religions, 

Chinese folk religions, Native American religions, Australian aboriginal religions, Baha’i faith, Judaism, Sikhism, Shintoism, Taoism, Tenrikyo, Wicca and Zoroastrianism. There is a myriad of meaningful approaches to a spiritual life.

My spiritual life has evolved. I discovered philosopher-poets like Rumi and Kahlil Gibran and Tagore who speak deeply to me. In 2000, after five years of study, I became a spiritual practitioner in the Center for Spiritual Living. I love the Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchel’s translation). I have studied and embraced many elements of shamanism. I have explored the energy philosophies of Qigong and Yoga. I do shamanic journeying several times a week and explore the unusual realms I am shown. And I have become aware that my spiritual path is about to take a new and upward and powerful turn. And that is unfolding fairly rapidly. It is indeed an eclectic spiritual path I have followed.  

How are you exploring spiritually now? We usually begin with whatever our parents taught us. Sometimes we stay with that. Do you move through life looking for the concepts that touch your soul and follow wherever they may take you? You may end up following one path. Or you may end up with an eclectic spiritual practice. It’s all perfect. Whatever opens new doors and takes you deeper within is the place to go exploring.

How has your spirituality expanded? What new spiritual path will you explore next?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am open to an expanded and eclectic spiritual path. I go exploring. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Explore. I can suggest  
• The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
• Tao Te Ching tr. Stephen Mitchell 
• The Essential Rumi tr. Coleman Barks
• Every Tao by Deng Ming-Tao 
• The Water Experiments of Masaru Emoto
• Shamanism as taught by Sandra Ingerman.
• Qigong (I’ve studied with Daisy Lee, and Robert Penn)
• any yoga class
• Go exploring and see what resonates with you and move more deeply on that path. 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

What Is The Foundation For Your Beliefs?

The beliefs we hold have risen from many places. A great many were taught to us by our parents based on their beliefs and their life experience ad their parent’s beliefs. Many beliefs are passed down in cultures. Those are tricky to identify and overcome because they were given to us at such an early age that we don’t think to question them. 

Another set of beliefs develops over our life experiences. We can sometimes identify those that come out of a specific experience or relationship. All of those experiences culminate into a belief of what is possible. 

Question your beliefs. I’m a metaphysician so my beliefs are focused around life, it’s purpose and its process and I continue to find ways to explore the unseen world. It has happened organically as I have come across new ways of going within.

We change our beliefs because we learn something that resonates more deeply. We organically let go of the familiar and establish and embrace a new set of beliefs. That probably means our friends will change as we seek like-minded people who are exploring similar paths to share in our adventure. 

Changing your beliefs will change your trajectory. Identify and question all of the beliefs that are guiding your life and see if they are still relevant to the journey you want to take.

I’m working at changing a lot of my beliefs about age because I’ve never gone through this part of the aging process before. What I believe is possible for me at this stage in my life has changed with the aging process. 

What impactful changes can you make? Do you start something new? Do you stop something you’ve been doing? What changes can you make that will change the trajectory of your life? 

I believe that I can help change the world through my thoughts and intentions. I believe that I have the ability to self-heal. I don’t always know exactly how to do that but I believe it can be done. I have an interesting set of beliefs about what happens when you die based on Michael Newton’s books. And I continue to learn life lessons like when to let go of a concern and simply trust. 

Allow your beliefs to change. Question your beliefs. Discard the beliefs that no longer serve you. 

Explore the new possibilities that open up with the clearing of that space. Look closely at the foundations for the beliefs you hold today. Explore other cultures. Notice what science is opening up as possibilities. And perhaps establish new beliefs to carry you forward. 

You Are Your Own Everything

You are your own lover, your own teacher, your own best friend, your own healer – you are your own everything. Stop looking outside yourself, just do the work yourself.

Wow. That puts it all on you, your choices your thoughts, your inner wisdom. That’s where your guidance is. That’s where your insights come from. That’s where your actions originate – within you.  Whatever you observe in the world around you, it ultimately is up to you what you do with it – accept it, change it, reject it – it’s your choice. There’s no one outside of you to get the job done.  You are the one that makes you feel happy. You are the one to make you feel loved. You are the one who guides your steps and chooses your path. Follow your own inner wisdom. Watch for the nudges the universe provides for you and be your own best friend.

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Overview

We are responsible for our own healing and choices to do or not do things that affects our physical form. How are you doing? What areas of your life need to be strengthened? How would you do that? Will you do that? 

When we look at the overview of our life, it is easier to see the patterns that were established in the areas that are calling out for change.

First, identify what needs to change and then explore and experiment how you would like to change it and what methods you would use to do so.

I am resisting walking more but I am welcoming the Qigong shaking exercise and a Qigong sequel for joints. What will you do? Don’t beat yourself up for what you won’t do. Substitute. Identify what you will do and do it. I’m going to add more stretching moves when I stand at the kitchen sink. I’m going to do more standing and looking out the window. Substitute as you will, but keep the over-arching purpose in mind – to create a change that improves your life on some level. 

It could be more meditation, it could be more movement, it could be different eating, it could be a real shift in attitude. Change is good. 

Pause and take an overview of where you are in life and make some new choices. Is it time you create some changes in your life? Do it!

Where The Mind Goes, The Qi Goes

In my Qigong Yin-Yang course, Robert Penn said, “Where the mind goes the Qi goes.”  I need to get busy. That means that my thoughts can alter a physical condition, a situation, an event – wherever I direct my intention. I already knew that as a Reiki master teacher. But it was good to be reminded. I need to be conscious with that much power. I need to be selective with that much power. I need to be productive with that much power. My thoughts create my reality. We are responsible for what we experience. Oh dear, I have some work to do. 

Know that your mind can send healing Qi energy wherever you send it. What well you heal today? What will you change today? Get to work. There is much power within your mind and your intentions.   Where the mind goes the Qi goes

The Voice of Authority

I have dry macular degeneration for which Western medicine knows no cure. And I have an eye doctor appointment soon so I have to be really careful about what I let the “voice of authority” tell me is possible or not possible. I can hold on to the holistic belief that we can rebalance and self-cure our physical bodies. 

And I am gradually losing my eyesight. So what adjustments do I get to make in order to stay functional? What new skills am I to learn? What things will be out of reach for me? 

I know that I’m going to start listening to more podcasts and audiobooks so that I know how to do that. What about ordering groceries online or accessing my bank account? What creative adjustments will I need to make there? 

What I really have to guard is my belief in what is possible and my belief in what I deserve. I have to really, really stay on top of that in order to have a voice in this particular unfolding physical process.

Who we see as an authority figure or what concepts we believe are hard to overcome requires us to move into our personal belief system in defiance of what appears in our material world. When we search, we can find those seeming miracles. 

Be aware of the power you give those you see as knowledgeable.  Look for some of the miracles that have happened for others.  Whatever you feel, there are always exceptions to everything and you might just as well be one of them. 

Simple Changes

My office chair broke several months ago and I have been sitting on a walker and it hurts my body. I have finally replaced it with a new office chair and it is making tremendous shifts in how I’m able to work at the computer. 

What have you put off replacing that could change your life? With this new chair my posture is different, I can work longer, I can actually lean back. It has been too long since I had a chair that would allow me to do that. Why do we put off the things that we know are good for us for so long? 

Look around at the things you need to change, whether it’s physical or emotional or even spiritual. What have you been putting off and will you do it now? Then notice what happens. Be prepared for positive change. 

===OUTER WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Your Weekly Promise

I thought I was going to write a little segment about setting goals until I realized this is really about making a promise to myself to do some things that I really want to do and have been putting off. I have a podcast I really want to listen to and have been putting off. That’s on my promise to myself list. I really need and want to establish a walking pattern each day. That’s on my self-promise list. I really want to learn that joint healing Qigong series that I shared last week. That’s on my list. I will keep it to those three things because I want to establish the habit of making a promise to myself to do something that I really want to do and do it. What will you promise yourself to do this week just for you? Keep it simple. Keep it small. And make it happen. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

A Focused Eye

Take time to examine your spiritual practice to make certain it is meeting your needs. What is nudging you? What can you do more of? What will you do less of? What new spiritual practice do you want to explore? Make changes in your spiritual practice.

One of the practices I may begin to do again centers around a box in which I have put quotes that are really meaningful to me. The practice is to simply draw one out of the box each day and explore it during the day. I have quotes from the Tai Te Ching, Rumi, Tagore, Deng Ming-Dao, Stephen Mitchell on a range of topics. So drawing out one quote is an interesting way to focus my day. Sometimes it prompts me to take an action. Sometimes it is just something to contemplate. What element can you add to your spiritual practice that will deepen your experience? 

Anchor The Intention With A Talisman

A talisman is any item imbued with a specific power by its bearer to serve a specific intention.

It could be a crystal you hold or wear.  It can be something you write or read aloud.  It can be a plant or a song. A talisman is used to anchor energy on the physical plane.

Traditionally, a talisman anchors energy in the physical plane. That energy may be protective in nature or may be intended to draw abundance, wealth, or a wide variety of blessings to its user. 

A talisman is usually something from nature. Meaning might come with words or symbols or color or shape – whatever calls to you.

I have a lot of crystals. Hand holders, clusters, small stones, tall columns, round stones in all colors. I hold them in my left hand and listen to their message. Then I choose how to use them in my spiritual practice. 

Where you place your talisman may have an impact on its energy so tune in as you place it and experiment. I am aware of the directions when I placed things on my altar. 

It would also be interesting to rearrange your altar at the equinoxes and solstice to honor the seasons.

What objects will you select to guide you and where do they belong in your spiritual practice? What talismans will you choose to use and for what purpose? The physical properties of the talisman are not as important as the intention of its bearer. If you are grounded in your desires, your talisman will give you something that you can concentrate on to help you affirm your intention and achieve your goals. 

===GUIDANCE FROM OUR COSMIC COUNSELORS ===

Listen Beyond The Voice Within 

I go to my secret garden and sit on the bench beside the reflecting pool. Across the pool my three cosmic counselors are dancing. They are dancing in a slow circle and my squirrel guide is beating a drum for the rhythm they dance to. It is a dance of movement and change. It is a dance of moving forward. It is a dance of releasing and moving on. It’s a dance of evolution.

We are to move with the rhythm of unfolding. We are to be aware and flexible and willing to change. And most of all we are to trust that what we will be given, the opportunities that will open up, will be absolutely perfect for where we are in our life right now.

The three Cosmic Counselors end their dance and with their hands in prayer position bow to each other. The squirrel guide puts down her drum. They sit in a circle of serene contemplation – ready, willing, and open to change. 

I sit on the bench beside the reflecting pool and do the same.

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

Expand Your Role In The Rapidly Evolving Universe

How Do You Use Time?

We can spend time, we can lose time, we can waste time, we can value time. How do you view time? How do you value time? How do you use time?

I have some serious soul-searching to do because I waste a lot of time on activities that do not improve any facet of my life. How do I change? 

I’m aware of some choices I would like to make like listening to podcasts and audiobooks. But I haven’t taken those steps yet. It’s way too easy to stay stuck in a mindless game of Spider Solitaire and reruns. What a true waste of my time. 

Now I know I can’t work all the time. I need to have balance. I write often throughout my day as an idea comes up and I dictate a version of what I want to say. But there are huge chunks of time that I spend mindlessly. I would like to stop that.

I want to explore and cultivate alternative options. Which means I have to listen to the podcast on the Akashic records that I know about and have wanted to listen to for three weeks straight. Just do it. I identified at least one book I want to read. I know of one audiobook I want to get. Why do I fall back into the mindless choices that have almost become a habit? How do I, we, get unstuck from non-supportive choices? 

Just do it. One step at a time. I am writing this particular segment on a Sunday. Monday I will listen to that podcast. Tuesday I will order that audiobook and listen for an hour. That’s a start. Just begin.  I will notice my choices and then be selective and purposeful. I will keep myself from falling into the mindless routines that are easy but nonproductive. That doesn’t mean I have to be busy. I just need to keep exploring new options.

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Learn From Other Cultures

My life is rather eclectic. I’ve taken bits and pieces from the spiritual practices of many cultures and have turned them into my own version of spirituality. I like Taoism. I like some of the ceremonies of the Native American cultures. I talk to crystals, I like flower essences. I have studied yoga and Qigong and Shamanism. I learned from Eastern poets like Rumi and Gibran and Tagore. I have absorbed ideas from many cultures into my life. That is a good thing. 

I will always question a new belief to see if it suits me at this stage of my particular path. Sometimes I adapt it. Sometimes I absorb it. Sometimes I only take a small portion of it. 

Examine your own belief system and see if what’s there is what you really truly want to keep. Perhaps do some spiritual practice cleaning. Perhaps do some simple rearranging. Examine the beliefs you hold and see if they are what you want guiding you in your life today. Choose what serves you now. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Fall Cleanup

Depending on where you are on the planet, it is fall. And that means it is time to clean up and put away things for the winter. What in your life do you need to clean up? This might be a good time to look and do the work. 

Pause at this change of seasons to evaluate what you are creating in your life, what you want to release in your life, and what results you want to encourage in your life. Any change of season is a good opportunity to evaluate where you are and plan your future.  

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs   

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is often shown as a pyramid that shows our basic needs. Here are our needs from the wide bottom up: 

• physiological
• safety
• belonging and love
• esteem
• cognitive
• aesthetic
• self-actualization
• transcendence.  

Obviously the top gets narrower and that means if you are at a survival level there is no way you can think about self-actualization. Your paramount focus is to survive. So when I hear prospective voters in the US put the economy first, I realize they are more in survival than concerned over the possible loss of democracy in this country. That’s too esoteric for them at this stage of their being-ness. 

If you are reading this you are certainly in the self-actualization category and we’re working our way into transcendence. 

Those of us who are toward the upper point of this pyramid of needs have work to do that only we can do. It is consciousness work. It is visualization work. It is holding High Watch for the planet work. It doesn’t make me happy about the people in the lower, broader base of this pyramid who want to abolish democracy but it helps me understand that they feel threatened on the survival level. You cannot possibly think in terms of self-actualization and transcendence which are at the lower and broader end of the pyramid.

We have work to do, those of us who can. I suggest that what we want to do is to go within and consciously become aware of our own role as a Light Bearer for this planet. How we are to express that is still unfolding. 

I’m going to suggest we begin with our spiritual practice. Perhaps we spend time focused on balancing the entire planet. Perhaps we spend time focused on healing or changing a situation.  If you were going to help create change in the world, what would your focus be?

I send energy to the planet for self-healing, the power to restore its rivers, to cease its destructive weather patterns and forest fires, and begin to self-heal.

I do not understand those who seek to do harm. I don’t want to understand. But I can create a visualization in which I see them encased in a sphere that simply sends back to them the negative energy they send out. They self-destruct. I’m not going to spend a lot of time on the bad guys, I would rather focus my attention on supporting those who are consciously ready to actively heal themselves, raise their consciousness, and participate in the interconnected web of life in a positive, powerful, and collaborative way. 

That would eliminate some worry – if we only focus on the good guys and how we can do more good. 

In my shamanic journeys I set up a transformative sphere around myself. (The Transformative Sphere). It protects me from anything destructive that comes toward me while I am in that inner world. Because it is a transforming sphere it also transforms my own worries and concerns while I’m in it so that I have less fear, less apprehension. I can then spend time encouraging and cultivating a vibration that nourishes and expands my awareness of the wholeness we are. 

=== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument
while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

 – Rabindranath Tagore

Do you spend all your time getting ready rather than doing? Are you so busy preparing that you never step forth and do the work? Are you spending so much time stringing and unstringing your instrument that you get nothing done?

Just begin. Take a step. And then another. Explore. Taken action. Check the result. Made changes. Try something new. Repeat. Start playing your song. It will be perfect. 

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Deeper Song Calendar

I have a new project. I’m not sure if it’s for me or if it’s for us. It’s the Deeper Song Calendar. I am building it on astrology which bases the focus for the days of the week on the planet that is overseeing it. And I am working with my deep love of quotes that have been meaningful in my life. I may just share it as I go along and hopefully get to the point where it’s one big offering but I want to use it to consciously focus my intention each day. It is a work in progress and it is unfolding. 

===DEEPER SONG REFLECTIONS===

Death is not extinguishing the light, 

… it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. 

   – Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

===CARA’S CORNER===

My New Path

I do need to find out from my guides what I am to be doing now and receive any messages of guidance they choose to give me at this point in time. The core messages was: Allow yourself to be taken to new realms of possibility and work from there.

I will stay open to nudges from the universe, unexpected insights that appear in my mind, and stay open to unexpected interpretations of the unfolding of the planet, its population and its existence. The key is to stay open. 

I have no plan. I’m just going to be open to whatever thoughts show up and explore them in whatever direction I am called to take. 

That’s all I know at this point – rise above the chaos of the planet and find serene guidance there that I can share with you. Let’s see where it takes us. Let’s see what kind of adventure unfolds. I’m game. Are you? 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Explorer

I trust. I trust the nudges. I trust the insights. I trust the unexpected circumstances. I allow myself to be guided by the unseen world. 

I trust. I trust the nudges. I trust the insights. I trust the unexpected circumstances. I allow myself to be guided by the unseen world. It is a higher journey I go on now. I’m not even sure what I’m looking for, but I will know it when I experience it. And I will bring it back for us. 

I trust. I trust the nudges. I trust the insights. I trust the unexpected circumstances. I allow myself to be guided by the unseen world. It is a higher journey I go on now. I’m not even sure what I’m looking for, but I will know it when I experience it. And I will bring it back for us. I release all preconceptions of what is possible. I do whatever needs to be done, and I open my heart and my mind to the unexpected. I am guided by what shows up.

Cara Lumen – October 2022. 

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

Namaste,

Cara

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Living Our Deeper Song

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

It was like turning off the faucet of worry. I had done all I could do as far as releasing physical things to make room for my move into a smaller space. The space will not open up for some months because there is a waiting list. I had prepared and planned and then I let go of it all. I trusted that my visioning work, my planning, my intention to be assigned a particular space size to accommodate my large screen monitor would manifest. I have done everything I know to prepare and it is now time to let go and simply trust. 

What a relief. I have no control over the timing but I am as ready as I need to be at this point in time. So I get to move on. Yeah.

At the same time, almost within the space of a few hours, a new focus of exploration showed up, the condo of the Cosmic Counselors, and I have joyfully and energetically immersed myself in exploring that concept and its guidance.  

Do the prep work. Do not move into worry over what the universe has to do. Trust the outcome. It’s a lesson we get to practice over and over in our lives. Do your part, then release and trust the process.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I prepare for my next step and then I release, let go, and trust.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Do the work. Get as ready as you can. Then let go and trust the perfect outcome will unfold.
• Look around at what has opened up for you to do next. Do that. It will all unfold in the perfect time.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Who You Are Is The Sum of All The Choices You Have Made

We make our choices based on who we are in the moment that we make the choice. It is the sum of where our thinking is. It is the sum of how we feel about ourselves. It is the sum of influence from other people. It is a sum of what we are aware of or know of. 

All of those aspects are constantly changing, expanding, moving forward. I might make one choice in the morning and then make a different choice in the afternoon because my awareness has shifted. Our life unfolds according to our choices. We are responsible for what unfolds and we must trust that the outcome is perfect for where we are in our life right now. 

I don’t regret any of my choices and I’ve made some odd and impactful ones. I cannot change those choices that were made out of not knowing, of not being aware. I love my intuition and I follow it willingly and trustingly. 

Trust the unfolding process. Who you are is the sum of all the choices you have made and it is all perfect just the way it is. 

Where Does Your Guidance Come From and How Do You Recognize It? 

It can be a hunch, a knowing or a circumstance. Where does your guidance come from and how do you recognize it? 

My inner voice is very clear and can be fairly wordy. Sometimes it comes with a tremendously strong sense of urgency in knowing that I need to explore a particular concept and probably write about it in order to understand it.  

Sometimes it’s a circumstance that leads to some great “aha” moment when you recognize the door opening to a new path to explore and new choices to make. And sometimes it’s as easy as a phrase that comes floating into some conversation that makes you turn in an entirely new direction.

Pay attention. Learn to recognize the subtle and not-so-subtle nudges of the universe as it opens doors and guides you to new adventures. Where does your guidance come from? How do you recognize it? Come, let’s go exploring.

Finding An Answer

I love it when I find a new resource. On the second interview I listened to on the Shift Network Shamanic Summit I found Michael Meade (mosaicvoices.org) who gave me the answers I have been looking for about how I am to work with and respond to the dramatic changes that are going on in the planet both in nature and its population.  What a relief when a new path opens up new possibilities for you to explore. 

Nature is always about evolution and that’s what is happening. We are evolving. We are opening the door to the new and we are leaving behind old ways and expectations. We are evolving. 

It is comforting for me to know that all this chaos is simply a group process, a changing of direction process, an evolution. I can do change, for that’s what we’re being asked to do. We are to examine and reevaluate and re-choose so that we can climb higher and have a broader view. Let go of the expectations you’ve been holding onto and immerse yourself entirely in a new way of being and doing. The adventure has begun. Let’s go exploring and see what unfolds. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Self-Healing

The Power of Affirmations

We get what we believe we deserve and what we believe is possible. Affirmations work. What are you telling yourself either consciously or unconsciously about the success of your path or your role in the world? Monitor it. Be sure it’s positive. Be sure it’s what you want.

“I am whole, perfect, and complete” is a good place to begin. 

“I recognize my perfect path and step boldly on it.”

Notice how you are talking to yourself and keep the conscious and unconscious affirmations positive and supportive.

What You Need to Leave Behind

For the thirteen years I have lived here I have had a small garden outside my window along with a flat water dish for the birds and squirrels. Because of my impending move I had to give them up. It was with great sadness that I ended my years of gardening.  I cried. How do you say goodbye to a part of your life? Do you release it with gratitude for its years of being in life? Do you release it with sadness because it will no longer be? I’m sure it’s an individual response depending on what you are releasing and what you feel about it.

I have two small plants, a heart-shaped philodendron and a two-toned plant I don’t know the name of. I’m not sure there will be room for them as I take another step on this next phase of my journey. 

What do you cherish? How are you down-sizing and how do you let it go completely? 

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Change the Form, Keep the Purpose

I have a great many life lessons as I continue to downsize before I move into a smaller space. Some of it is to change the form, some of it is repurposing. A key word is multipurpose.

I have turned a small bookcase into a combination TV stand, kitchen counter, dresser.

I discovered a tray that fits over my walker handles and that means I have a place to continue to use my tablet to play games. 

Think up, think multipurpose and creative uses. How can you modify your space in your life to use less but get the job done? 

Know what is important, Get creative. Question everything. And think outside the box. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Who Are Your Teachers?

We have many teachers in our lifetime. Sometimes it’s a long relationship and sometimes the lesson happens in an instant. As we mature and expand our consciousness, we become more discerning. We search for particular teachers to learn from and we study with them for a long time or perhaps for just a lesson or two.

Who are the teachers in your life? I have some friends I speak with regularly who are always opening doors for me to explore. I learn online and many people have influenced me who have no idea they have done so. Sometimes the news reports an action taken by someone who might become my teacher and inspire me to take a new path. Keep your eyes open for instantaneous insights from all sources. When you find guidance and insight and inspiration, be sure you keep in touch with the teachers who are ready to help see you through your life. 

===GUIDANCE FROM OUR COSMIC COUNSELORS ===

Listen Beyond the Voice Within 

Let Go

A yellow leaf fell gently to the ground. Another followed. It was a signal from nature that is time to let go. 

We don’t even know we are hanging onto things. We don’t even know that we are stuck because we have crowded our space with concerns and thoughts and beliefs.  What do you need to release? What beliefs or expectations are holding you stuck in place? We need to periodically redefine our emerging gifts and our place of service. Flow with the stream of consciousness that moves you throughout your life. 

Is there something you are carrying you need to put down now? Is there a turn in the path you are on that you need to make? Life is fluid. Life is flowing. We are constantly changing our path and it is constantly opening up new opportunities.

What do you need to release now in order to make room for what is waiting to come in? 

Manifest a Positive Future

We create our reality out of our thoughts and choices of today. Expect the best. Do not settle for second-best. Be aware of where you are focusing in your intention and your beliefs. 

There are things about this move into assisted living that I am not pleased about and I’m working very hard to change my attitude into one of positive expectation. And there are some unknowns about it. But what I have right now in the present moment is the opportunity to think positive thoughts, create positive expectations, and send energy ahead for my own well-being. 

As I rearrange my belongings and give a lot away, I work to stay positive and optimistic about how my life is unfolding and what it will look like with this move. And I stay very grateful for each and every moment that I am still in the place that I really enjoyed with enough room but not quite enough help. 

Life is an ongoing series of unfolding cycles. Enjoy the ride. 

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Raise Your Gaze

As dramatic as the world news is today, we have work to do and we must raise our gaze. Instead of getting caught up in the drama and chaos and real evil in the world, our job is to walk the high road so others can raise their gaze and take a higher path.

Don’t allow yourself to be sucked into the chaos. Stay on the whole higher path and light the way.  

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Renew Your Cycle

The cycles of our life are always waxing and waning and we are in different stages in each of them. Each aspect of each on-going cycle asks you to take different actions, different steps, hold different awarenesses. If a cycle is in the waning mode, it is a time for replenishment, re-thinking and re-choosing. When a cycle is in the waxing phase, it is a time for action. You build from within and build on what you find around you. You take action. In both waxing and waning cycles, we must deepen our connection to our inner wisdom and guidance. Let your light build from within. Wherever you are in your cycles be present and increase the light within.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

How To Walk the Fine Line Between Knowledge and Panic

The more horrifying the news, the harder I have to work at staying centered and focused. It’s tricky when you want to be informed, but do not want to be depressed. 

As so many extreme responses keep showing up in the world, I have to know in my heart we will not be given more than we can handle.  

I have to trust the process, the lessons that are unfolding and the choices for change that are being made.

I hold High Watch for the planet. I try to monitor the number of times I receive the same information of the impending chaos or danger. There’s a fine line between being informed and being overwhelmed when so many things are threatening our planet.

A friend recently said we will never be given more than we can handle but we do have a say in how we handle it and what we accept to consider. 

We can do a lot of work for the highest good and hold safe for the highest energy. I want to hold my own light high and walk the highest path I can manage. I am holding a higher vibration so others can look up and see and change course to join me just as I look to others for the same guide. 

Participate where you feel called, spend a lot of time keeping your vibration raised in invitation to others to continue to raise theirs. Keep your light on the highest vibration you can manage as you mindfully walk the fine line of positive expectation.

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

Explore and Interpret the Guidance and Messages of the Divine Feminine

The Divine Feminine As Creator

There are several very strong dominant traits in play today as the Divine Feminine moves into her new place of power. One is creation and the other is to destroy anything that threatens her offspring. When we look at our unfolding world, we can see both. It’s a bit like thinning a forest so that the trees that are left have room to grow stronger and taller.

Nature is defining a new level of fitness and we are truly facing the survival of the fittest. Those of us who can stay in the light and walk the higher path and open our hearts and compassion and be in service for the highest good of all move forward, but those who cannot make that a personal shift will not. 

In the US, droves of female Republicans (and some men) are registering with the Democratic party. They are standing up for their rights as women above all else. This is a time of reckoning as the Divine Feminine protects her own. Nature is indeed unfolding and is in the process of creating a new world. The Divine Feminine is giving birth to a new way of being, one of compassion and inclusiveness. Yeah. 

=== DEEPER SONG  PHILOSOPHIES ===

 Live in the nowhere that you came from even though you have a home here. – Rumi 

As we walk this world, we must dwell in our inner landscape where we are whole, perfect and complete. As we do our work in the world, remember that we are light and our job is to hold our torch high so that others might recognize it and see it in themselves. We are lighting the way.

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

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

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===REFLECTIONS===

The Deeper Song Newsletter touches hearts and minds all over the world. I am always deeply moved and honored when someone signs up. It expands my sense of service, particularly when you are from another part of the planet. How did you find me? What drew you to sign up? I will never know but I thank each of you for being part of this expanding Circle of Light Beings.  We have work to do together. Welcome. 

===CARA’S CORNER===

You Create Your Reality With Your Mind

As I continue to acclimate myself to the idea of this much smaller space in assisted-living, I have a choice. I can look at it as being safely tucked in or I can see it as being locked in a closet. It’s a very small space. And I use a walker. 

There are big common rooms of course, but my interests are very strong and very select. And I provide them for myself.

I have to trust. I have to trust that I will be given only what I can handle. I have to trust that I am creative enough and clever enough and determined enough to make it work for me, to keep me mentally and spiritually stimulated and physically cared for. It’s really tricky when your interests are specialized. 

I’m going to immerse myself in a week of talks on Shamanism. I only have one friend online that I can talk to about what I discover because she’s interested in Shamanism too. It is up to me to be clever and creative and imaginative in finding like-minded people as I move into this next phase of my life. No one can do it for me. I have to create and adjust and make it work.

You create your reality with your mind. What are you creating? What would you like to change? 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

It Is Up To Me

How my life unfolds and what it looks like, is all up to me.

How my life unfolds and what it looks like, is all up to me. What I choose and how I use it, designs my life experience.

How my life unfolds and what it looks like, is all up to me. What I choose and how I use it, designs my life experience. I am ever conscious of my powerful role in the unfolding of my life experience.

Cara Lumen, September 2022

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

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What Is Your Life Passion?

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The Creative in me honors the Creative in youQ!

What is the core passion behind your life choices? There are some aspects of your life that are so necessary to your existence that they are part of everything you undertake – your relationships, your work, your spiritual life. What is that core passion for you and how are you developing it and expanding it?

I thought I had two. I love learning. And I have a strong desire to turn and share what I figure out with others. But now I realize that the need to turn and share is part of my own learning process. It is how I figure out how to apply what I learn. So learning about the spiritual world is a core passion for me and has been a driving force all of my life. What is the core passion for you and how does it manifest? 

The further along you are in your life the more obvious the pattern is. What are the similar choices that you’ve made throughout your lifetime? What was the passion beneath those choices? Maybe it’s a gift that you have developed. Maybe it is similar experiences that you continue to seek out. 

Take a moment to look back over your choices and identify the core passion that has been driving you throughout your life.

Your core passion is something you don’t want to live without. I am faced with failing eyesight.  I use a 30-point font and I dictate. And I can listen. Be creative in how you pursue your core passion.

Nurture it and get creative with how you express it. I do love to write and have written for radio and television and books but still at the core, writing is how I figure things out and deepen my own learning process. When you discover your passion, do a lot more of it.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I identify my core passion and bring it more deeply into my life.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Make a list of the deeply important things that you do. Then look for what is at the core of your passion. What is driving you?
• Get creative in how you keep that in your life. 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Guilt

Guilt is about feeling you made a wrong choice. That you are totally responsible for a certain outcome. We make our choices based on who we are at the time and the depth of our awareness and the breadth of our understanding of the over-arching situation. 

Sometimes we never reach a point of examining the choices that we make and the reasoning behind them in that particular moment. 

I have made some unaware choices in my life. I did not see the potential path they would lead to very clearly.  I was not aware enough to have a broader view. That’s just part of walking the path. At some point you realize the consequences and results that are created. Sometimes you do well. Sometimes not so much.

There is a tendency to believe our choices are the major factor in where we end up but I know that we are being guided by the Universe through our inner voice, our inner knowing. We respond or react in the moment. 

There are no wrong choices as much as some being not as stellar as they could be. Each choice brings a lesson that you need, that you wanted, that you asked for. And every choice affects where you end up. You need to trust your inner voice so that it can guide you. Every choice you finally make, for whatever reason, is perfect. 

Do you see the lessons and opportunities and outcomes that you need next? Trust that you make the choices that are right for you.  Keep raising your sights. Keep exploring the side roads. Pay attention to what your actions are producing in your life. And make conscious choices based on the results you are getting. Don’t feel guilty about the past or what those choices of the past created. What you have is right now. Listen to your inner voice, then open your heart and choose. It will be perfect. 

Release and Rechoose

I woke up at 6 o’clock in the morning with the entire new floor plan in place. I’ve been concerned because the assisted living space that I am applying for is very small. But what I discovered was if I flip-flopped everything it fit differently and better. What do you need to totally rearrange in your life in order to make it work? 

In this plan in my head, I moved a chair from one end of the room to the other and suddenly everything else had more room. What one big concern or focus in your life needs to be rearranged to free up more space for other things? What basic belief are you holding that is keeping you from rearranging your life? 

I was focused on having a major chair facing a window. When I put the major chair beside the window, the whole room opens up. And there’s more room beside the chair for things I want to keep close at hand. 

What major concern, what major focus is anchored so firmly in a decision or a belief that you cannot rearrange everything around it? I’m going to look at the timing of when I choose to do things throughout my day. I’m going to look very carefully at my belief system of what I think is possible. I’m very grateful to my inner self for totally flip-flopping my floor plan and opening and expanding the possibility and potential. Toss it all up in the air and see where it lands. Rethink, release and rechoose. 

You Have to Have Faith 

I’m writing this pep talk for me and sharing it with you because when we come up against an unknown in our life, we have to trust that we will have the wisdom and fortitude and clarity to move through it. This assisted living space I am to go to is very small. A friend who has been there wasn’t sure there was room for my computer desk. That shook me to the core. I have a 21-inch monitor because my eyesight has dry macular degeneration and I need it to be able to see. And even though I have been giving stuff away I have not apparently begun to give enough away. 

It is hard to give away things that have meaning for you. I have a lovely alternate that is small, but I may have to move it into the shelf of a small bookcase I hope there is room for. My friend who has been there kept telling me that I will not be given anything more than I can handle. I would have room for what I need. But I want too much. So now I’m going to go through the little bit that I have left and see what else I can release or rearrange more effectively. I have to trust that I will have room for everything I need to have with me. 

What are you dreading? What is it you are not sure you can do? We have to trust in the love of the universe that it will give us only what we can handle or need to handle in order to move forward. I think that’s called faith. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Self-Healing

Shaking

It’s a very simple shaking exercise I learned in Robert Penn’s Qigong class. You literally stand with your knees slightly bent and shake everything. You gradually bring your arms up so you shake them over your head as you keep gently shaking your whole body. It’s amazing how rejuvenated you feel when you finish.

===OUTER  WORK===

Exploration of New Potential and Possibilities

Realising

As I continue to downsize for a potential move at an unknown time, it’s very interesting to notice what one hangs onto under those circumstances. My daughter comes over every week and we rearrange and I release some stuff but it’s the things that I’m not releasing yet that I have a chuckle over. Sometimes I release something because I will never use it again. Then there are the things I’m having a hard time with. What do I want to keep around me and why and how do I prioritize that?

My new space will be smarter than what I’m in and my priorities are my altar, my computer, and a chair with room to have crystals and meditation tools beside me to work with.  

Sometimes it’s easy to release things and sometimes it takes quite a few tries. Some things you know you are going to keep with you until the very end.

Notice why you are finding it hard to release a situation or item. What emotion is it nurturing? What feeling it is creating? Simply find something smaller to serve in the same role.

I begin with my altar. My spiritual practice. I made that happen first. Then I’ve organized my computer and workstation. 

What are the priorities in your life? And what can you let go to make more room for those things that are truly important?

Stay Intellectually Curious

I love to learn Qigong and it is not only an intellectual stimulus but it is the source of great learning and adventuring. I am very intellectually curious. It’s important to keep exploring whatever your age. There’s always something new to learn. I’m learning more about energy healing in the form of Qigong even though I began to use energy in the form of Reiki 45 years ago. It is now my healing method of choice. Will you go exploring and look into an area that you’re curious about? Will you look at some videos or listen to some podcasts or take a class or two? 

Five years ago, I got on the Shift Network’s Shamanic Healing summit to learn about Shamanism. As I listened to the speakers, I knew that I wanted to learn it and I found my teachers. It has been an important learning process and journey for me. Now I’m exploring Qigong as a form of self-healing. 

Stay intellectually curious. It makes your life more interesting and it makes you a more interesting person. 

Space Clearing

I stood for a long time and looked at the space that had just been cleared before me. I felt like I could breathe again. My daughter and son-in-law just moved out a lot of things that I had prepared to go. In this process of pre-downsizing before I move into assisted living, I’ve had to give away a whole lot of things. In the evening that my daughter-in-law came and took the last few major pieces away, I rearranged what remained to resemble some sort of form that I’m going to have in the new space. There’s a whole lot of emptiness in the middle of the room and it felt very freeing. I felt as if I could breathe again.

Begin with an empty space and choose carefully what you put in it. Keep it simple. It will be beautiful. Can you truly breathe in your space? What can you remove that will make you feel more serene? 

I’m going to simplify the things I keep on my desk. It’s sort of like wiping the slate clean so I start fresh each day. What part of your life do you need to create open space and carefully re-choose what you bring into it? Keep it simple. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

When Is The Best Time For Your Spiritual Practice?

It’s a good idea to experiment with the time of day that you do your spiritual practice. When I learned Transcendental Meditation 50 years ago it was suggested we meditate when we come home from work so we make a break between work and restorative personal time. Some people meditate first thing in the morning. Explore an experiment to find the right time of day and the right place for your meditation practice. 

I have two times. After I’m dressed in the morning before I really begin my day, I play my flute while looking out the window, then do my transcendental meditation and some Qigong. And I take time again towards the end of the day to offer thanks for what has unfolded and what I have learned and the new pathway that are opening up. Experiment and find your own meditative rhythm.

One of the things I learned in Qigong class is that I don’t have to do the whole sequence every day. I can take one movement and deepen it. The same is true in meditation practice. I may make one whole meditation period about playing my flutes. And once you find out what works, don’t forget to experiment again later on. Because your needs will change. Be creative about the timing and the form of your meditative practice. 

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Passing The Torch

When we pass our wisdom on to others, we become both student and teacher. I have two major reasons for putting out this newsletter. One is to figure these things out for myself and the other is in hopes of changing a life here and there. So I am indeed both student and teacher. I get excited when I get an insight that helps me make clearer choices or newer choices or any choice. I get excited when I go exploring and discover something that changes my own life and I wish very much to turn and share that with others. What are you learning in your life and how do you turn and share it with others?

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Explore and Expand

I am a spiritual explorer. I am drawn to many modes of spiritual exploration. Shamanism, Buddhism, Qigong, metaphysics – all manner of inner work that defines and deepens my connection to the unseen essence.

Rather than work with just one system I like to explore various topics. I love any opportunity to learn more about the subject and to find potential new teachers. 

As I learn more, I become more discerning. I know what I do want to learn more about and what I need to not pursue at this moment. One of the first thing that I attended was a summit on Shamanism which I knew very little about at the time. That was six years ago. Not only did I begin to understand what it was about but I found the teachers that I needed at that time. And I began my journey into Shamanism. 

Online is a great place to learn, to go exploring. Whether you simply watch a “how-to” video that someone has offered or take a class, there are many ways to expand your knowledge and your experience of a potential area of interest. Go exploring and see what adventures it takes you on. Go down the path less worn and expand your horizon. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Explore Another Culture

One of the ways that we can become more inclusive is to learn more about the beliefs and habits and culture of another country.  My personal spiritual exploration has led me to Buddhism, Shamanism and Indian and Chinese culture. I know a little bit about Irish beliefs. I know about Christianity. I know about the Druids. 

When you take time to look at the cultural traditions of a culture, first you might find something you like and you will begin to understand where the people of that culture are coming from. 

Where would you like to go exploring? And what would you like to explore? See what gifts from another culture you would like to bring into your life.

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

Explore and Interpret the Guidance and Messages of the Divine Feminine

Amazing Lebanese Dance

This is extraordinary:  An all-female Lebanese dance troupe on America’s Got Talent. or Watch in Instagram

The Rise of the Feminine

I have an astrologer friend who says that Venus is coming into play this fall in a way that has not happened in our lifetime. In the US a record number of young people are registering to vote because they will not stand for the cruel and bigoted abolishment of the freedom to control their own bodies. That cruel law is being dictated by old white men. In the US I think the women are going to change the focus and perhaps abolish the Republican Party and its vitriol as we simply vote for those who stand up for the well-being of all. 

Wherever you are in the world, keep standing up for the rights of everyone. Particularly keep an eye on how women are doing in your part of the world. And take action.  

== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

Step Out of the Way

The master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself. 

– Tao teaching 

You must learn to trust. You must learn to observe. Learn to be patient. When you trust the universe to provide exactly what you need you simply accepted it. You trust. You trust the universe to provide and you trust that you make the right choices. Step out of the way and let the Tao do the work.

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

Spiritual Practice

How to DeepenYour Cosmic Consciousness

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Letting Go

I am over-thinking again. Possibly over-planning. It’s sort of who I am. But I’m approaching a time when I really have to let go of everything and trust. I have to trust that the right space opens up in assisted living – with a perfect roommate. I have to trust the timing is just right. I have to trust that I will be OK to continue releasing physical things to make room to fit in the smaller space. And that’s just the trust around the letting go part. I get to trust that I find the right things to do to help my body re-stabilize. I have to trust that I write things that are meaningful to those of you who read this newsletter. I have to trust the people who need to hear what I say find me and take action with the parts that resonate with then. I have to trust that this world will figure out this huge change we are facing and we will be able to raise our sights to hold a vibration for the highest good for all.

What do you need to trust? Do you trust the universe to offer your perfect next opportunity? Do you trust your inner voice to make a wise choice for right now? Do you trust you will recognize the next path that opens for you? There is a letting go part of trusting. You don’t manipulate, you don’t plan, and you probably don’t even vote. You just trust that you have the inner wisdom and insight to recognize the next opportunity and to make the right choices around it. How are you at trusting?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Let Go and Trust

My world unfolds in a perfect pattern.

My world unfolds in a perfect pattern. I trust in my ability to see clearly and take the perfect next steps. 

My world unfolds in a perfect pattern. I trust in my ability to see clearly and take the perfect next steps. All is well in my world. 

Cara Lumen, September 2022

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

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Vision Our World Into Being

Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe

(“Ah-Shay”)

The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

The Mookaitite Jasper crystal tower I held in my left hand clearly said to me, “Dream your future into being.” If this is a dismemberment we are going through in our world today, we get to put together a whole New World unlike anything we have ever experienced before.

Right off the bat I see everything with solar power. There are ways to clear up the plastic waste in the ocean. There are new discoveries in healing every day. What if we just suddenly have this whole new world in place, a new way of doing things, a new way of interacting with each other? No harm to anyone. No harm to anything. Peaceful coexistence. Can we even imagine that? What if we fill every interaction with love and compassion? What if negativity simply dissolves and disappears. Each day is filled with inclusiveness and kindness. We care for each other. We care about each other. All species live in cooperation.

What qualities will you put into this world that we can vision into being together? Begin living that way now.

We must move our gaze. We must look for higher expressions of oneness and place them in our lives. Not only do we have to change what we look for, we have to change how we express ourselves. That means we have to cease being critical and find ways to feel compassionate and inclusive instead. That means we have to notice the small acts of kindness and compassion and moved to incorporate them into our own life expression and look for signs of inclusive self-expression in ourselves and in others. Change what you look for. Raise your gaze and focus on our oneness.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I focus on the positive kindness I see today and help it manifest more.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Shift your gaze from what is not working and focus on the acts of kindness and inclusiveness that are emerging.
• Contribute to that unfolding.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen our Inner Awareness

Downsizing to Redefine Your “Next”

There’s nothing like downsizing to make you redefine your intentions and your direction and your purpose in life. That’s a lot to accomplish by releasing a few possessions. “Is what I’m keeping talking to my heart?” is now the best decision-maker I’ve ever created.

I’ve had to re-define my computer space with a smaller desk but I chose one that goes up instead of out. I am releasing crystals to go to new homes. But I’m talking to each one to make certain it’s ready to go. And I am definitely redefining what I get to keep and where I get to put it. Downsizing makes you keep around you what is important for this next phase of your life. This next step.

Perhaps you create change simply by rearranging what you are keep close at hand. For instance, I have four or five crystals that I want to be able to sit and hold and be with throughout my day. The table beside my main chair is getting pretty crowded. I can’t keep all my drums so I have to play them and bless them and let them go at some point before I move. Most of all downsizing makes you rethink what is truly important to you. In Feng Shui they start with empty space and very carefully choose each item that goes in. There are never very many items in a Feng Shui arrangement. It’s a good lesson. When you start to rearrange your altar or table or your desk, clear it off, put one thing back on at a time and feel how the energy changes. Visualize how you use the space and what you can do without. Releasing is at the core of downsizing. What can you let go of that would leave more space to move in, to be in and grow in?

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Self-Healing

Change the Energy of Your Home 

As I begin to downsize my possessions, the energy of my home is also beginning to change. It’s as simple as putting a crystal in a different place. Or moving a chair or giving a few things away. What simple fundamental things can you do in your environment that will change the energy? It may be as simple as a new plant or moving one that you have. It probably is about letting things go. See what you can do to change the energy of your space and enjoy the results.

===OUTER WORK===

Exploration of New Potential and Possibilities

Choose to Create Balance

My day is not in balance. I need to make some adjustments. There are things I need to do less of that would allow me to savor other things more deeply. How are you doing on your allocation of time? What do you consider a poor use of your time? Spider solitaire falls into that category for me. Listening to too much news could also be on that list. So I am beginning to free up chunks of my day and exploring the possibilities I could explore. What do I want to put there? Do I go sit in the sun? Do I make up a poem? What would you do if you suddenly had a chunk of free time that you could fill any way that you wanted to? Do that.

Double Duty

As I continue to downsize, a major thing I get to work on is how one thing can serve two purposes. Perhaps three purposes, it’s a very small space and I have no idea when I will move, it could be a year, there are five people ahead of me on the waiting list so meanwhile I’m practicing. I’m working with less. I’m doing more with it. I’m finding alternate ways to do something. This is a period of exploration and experimentation and I’m still sitting in the home that I’ve been in for 12 years. Work with what you have and perhaps work with less of what you keep around you and see how that frees up your energy and focus.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Create and Adjust

In your spiritual practice what is the most important aspect? Do you play instruments to nature? Do you meditate? Do you do affirmations? Notice which facets of your spiritual practice nurture you more than others and adjust the time you spend doing them. And then go exploring to find other forms of meditation. I have music in my spiritual practice. I consider learning and practicing Qigong part of my spiritual practice. I make up songs and there are rattles and bells and crystals on my altar as part of my spiritual practice. Even if you find something you really, really like, it doesn’t mean you can’t go exploring and find a new place and time to add it to your spiritual practice.

You may find that your spiritual practice changes with the seasons. Or with the time of day. See what new form of spiritual practice you can explore and adapt and absorb into your spiritual practice. Explore, experiment, and change.

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

Expand Our Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Our Role as Light Bearers

One of the ways Light Bearers are in service is by simply living their life in light. As we do, others see that same potential in themselves.

For instance, Corry, the Social Services Director here has offered help in such a loving compassionate manner that it was beautiful to experience. I commented on it and she told me she was very Christian-based and I told her I was very wu-wu. We laughed at how the compassion and caring was there for both of us. Shine your light. Others will recognize it in you and in themselves

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Explore The Unknown

Explore the unknown and try it on for size. I had quite a few responses from readers of this newsletter saying how much this conversation about changing and retiring and getting old is resonating with them and their concerns and uncertainties. I’m going to keep sharing this part of my journey because I can share the challenges that I have faced and the lessons that I learn. I’ve had my moments of being unhappy. Note that I was a theater major so they expressed themselves fairly dramatically for me. But I’m changing and rearranging things already in preparation – both physically and mentally. For instance, I’m going to begin listening to more podcasts. Depending on where the garden is from my room, I will go spend more time there and take my flute and play to the flowers. And surprise my neighbors.

I have a funny thing about my flute playing. My arthritis fingers are curved on the last joint so when I press what I think is straight down sometimes the sound is weird because the tips of my fingers are not covering the holes correctly. So maybe I won’t play to the flowers, I’ll just keep that to myself inside. But I can take my Kalimba, the flowers would like that.

I am grateful that I have time to downsize and practice living with fewer things so the change will not be as dramatic as it could be. And the timing is unknown.

What change do you see in your future that you could begin practicing for by trying it on for size and making adjustments to accommodate its unfolding and form? Go exploring and see what creative ways you can find to live your “next”.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Change Is Always a Lesson

As I continue to downsize in preparation for a move into Assisted Living, I continue to get lesson after lesson about what is truly important to me at this point in my life. This move is requiring a lot of releasing of possessions. Is it time for you to re-focus on what is core to you? How many of your possessions would you release? You might consider that. 

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

Explo re and Interpret the Guidance and Messages of the Divine Feminine

Responsibility

I live in Johnson County, Kansas and I’m very proud to have been part of the record turnout of voters that killed the potential amendment to end abortion in our state.

The Republicans put the abortion law into the primary in a very confusing language so we all had to learn how to turn down the amendment. Hopefully our state is a sign of things to come.

Choose your place of service. Where are you are the most valuable? Where are you the most effective? Where you are the most needed? Do that.

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Akashic Records 

I am going to listen to more podcasts, beginning with this one – Sounds True wrote:

“In every moment, you are receiving divine messages to help you align with your soul’s path—a path of spiritual evolution, soulful meaning, and universal love. These messages originate from the vast metaphysical library of your entire soul journey known as the Akashic Records.

Ashley Wood is an author, teacher, and co-creator of A Line Within, a platform dedicated to supporting others in using their Akashic Records for self-understanding and growth. Ashley also hosts The Line Podcast, a weekly show where she shares channeled teachings and tools for living in alignment with your soul. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Ashley joins Sounds True founder Tami Simon to talk about her new book with Sounds True, The Line: A New Way of Living with the Wisdom of Your Akashic Records. Tune in as they discuss:

• The prayer or “sound code” required for entering the Records
• The Pleiadian energies known as the Pinnacle
• Becoming an open conduit for your soul’s wisdom
• The Line: an energetic, intuitive frequency that we all hold within us
• The connection between intuition and your Akashic Records
• Activating your awareness of your own Line
• The crown of the head and the bottom of the feet as the bridge between our energetic selves and our physical selves
• How to distinguish between discursive thinking and Akashic information
• How the feeling of alignment is uniquely personal
• Why “the most important thing we can learn in this physical life is how to show ourselves unconditional love”
• The evolutionary and revolutionary changes unfolding in our current times and the call to serve through offering your gifts

As Ashley explains to Tami, “You’re receiving guidance all the time. It’s just about being open, patient, trusting, receptive, and following what you have planned for yourself in this life… If this is your first time hearing the language of your soul and really feeling comfortable with that, it will take time and practice and dedication. But in time you will get it.”

We hope today’s podcast opens you to a deeper understanding of your soul and your own sacred path.

With you on the journey,

Your friends at Sounds True

P.S. Discover more about Ashley Wood’s book, The Line: A New Way of Living with the Wisdom of Your Akashic Records.”

===CARA’S CORNER===

Embrace Creative and Innovative Change

My life has gotten smaller over the years as part of my aging and downsizing process. Releasing my wonderful ’83 turquoise Honda Civic with not many miles on it that got 30 miles to the gallon was a huge change and the young woman who bought her is loving having her in her life.

I’m very content with my online life and the friends that I’ve made there that are like-minded. This upcoming change into a smaller space in assisted living is going to take some getting used to. I will probably eat better because they will bring me meals or I can go eat with others. I can get my haircut which would be a good thing. I’m a little like Rapunzel at this point.

There are important fundamental things I can’t do anymore – like taking my trash out on a walker let alone tossing it in the high trash bin. Have you ever tried to balance a trash bag on the walker and then walk?

I will probably see more people in assisted living than I do here because of the people who will bring me my food if I want and do my laundry and help me sort out my vitamins. But it’s a big step in my aging process. And I’m working to make peace with it.

So I’m moving into another season of letting go which I think is what progress is all about anyway. I need to choose what is most valuable to have around me at this point in time. And let the rest go. This aging process is a path of releasing and completion. I want and need to turn this move into a new path of potential. I don’t yet know what that’s going to look like. But it will evolve as I open myself to new experiences and new opportunities. The rooms look out on a large garden tended by master gardeners so I can watch nature’s ever-present journey.

We are thinking up, not out in filling my smaller space. I am taking my computer on a new narrower stand and an elongated bookcase as my “officer” and my daughter is arranging for me to have an automatic lounge chair that pushes me upright and also leans back so I can sleep in my chair. A twin bed is provided as is a low four-drawer dresser to put your TV screen on. I’ve ordered a royal blue headset!! This is being provided me because I am on Medicare so it’s a semi-private room, I have to trust the Universe to provide the right suite-mate. There are people to help me with everything, day and night. But I’m a loner who loves being free to pursue my own calling. My spiritual exploring and my writing and online outreach are at the core. So perhaps the change is only in the size of the room. And the help in the responsibility of self-care.

What can I do at this point in my life that will be more productive and more impactful for those I serve? I stay open and listen and respond.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Preparing for Next

I lay it all aside. I stop where I am in my life and put everything aside in order to create my “next”.

I lay it all aside. I stop where I am in my life and put everything aside in order to create my “next”.

My load must be lighter because I am old but I am full of wisdom to bring with me.

I lay it all aside. I stop where I am in my life and put everything aside in order to create my “next”.

My load must be lighter because I am old but I am full of wisdom to bring with me.

I begin my new adventure with an expanded heart and an ever-deepening vision of what is possible. It is unfolding as it is meant to be.

Cara Lumen, August, 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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