
The Path You Choose to Walk
Living Our Deeper Song
Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!
It is time for us to adjust our path, to make certain we are walking the highest road we can manage. That we hold in our hearts the highest good for all. That our choices reflect this elevated journey.
With so much chaos, negativity and harm being done on our planet, those of us who are called to be light bearers must stand strong, walk tall, and light the way. We do that through our choices. The words we speak. The actions we take. The thoughts that we think. The expectations we hold. Monitor your thoughts. Notice what you are focusing on. Use affirmations in your spiritual practice. Do visualization work for positive change in your spiritual practice. See yourself as the light vibration that you are and send those higher frequencies you are emanating out into the world. Every day. Every moment. Release the negative thoughts. Share good wherever you can. Focus on that. Focus on what is working. Focus on the good things people are doing. Encourage them in whatever way calls to you. What we focus on we get. What we believe we deserve is what we get. What we believe is possible is what we get. You have control over how you experience your life, how you experience your day. How you experience each moment. Your choice. Your focus. And your outcome. Focus your thoughts and create the reality you want to experience. Notice where you are looking and what you are looking for. What do you expect? What are you getting? Design the higher path you choose to walk.
DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION
I monitor my thoughts to make certain I am focused on the highest good so everything in my life reflects that choice.
DEEPER SONG PROCESS
- Monitor your thoughts.
- Monitor your expectations.
- Notice how that changes what you manifest in your life. Your choice. Make the changes you want.
===INNER WORK===
Deepen our Inner Awareness
Shift Your Focus
Until I shifted my focus, I did not realize I had been looking in the wrong direction. I was focusing on what was not working in my body. The shift was to look at what changed for the better in my body and build on that. Because I made different choices in my physical activities, a new range of movements became possible.
In what area of your life are you looking in the wrong direction? How can you shift your gaze to create a different outcome?
For me, it began with a choice to walk the halls again – I’m using a walker. The possibilities changed when that additional walking strengthened my hips and legs and affected my posture and my stamina. I begin to look for different potentials, different outcomes, different possibilities. And that, of course, totally changes the choices I make and where I’m going to end up. A whole new range of possibilities became available. All I did was make one small change that created results that opened up the potential for new opportunities and choices. I walked more, my whole body got stronger and the possibilities expanded. I shifted my gaze to a broader expectation and begin to make new choices that propelled me along this broader path to strengthening my body
It was an evolutionarily sequence of choices that built on one another. I figured I could walk better after I had rested, so my first walk was after a nap. My body responded very strongly so that opened a new door. If walking was tied to just getting out of bed, then I began to walk also in the morning. Again change happened. I stood up straighter and my body moved with more coordination.
We’re not talking long walks but we are suggesting you notice the change your choices create. Each step brought a new “awareness” of how my body was realigning and feeling stronger.
Notice the small steps you take that create change that will take you in the direction you want to go. Maybe it’s meditating in the evening instead of the morning to make a differentiation between work and home. I write in the morning because I am freshest but sometimes I get up in the middle of the night to write because an idea is pouring out. Flow in the moment. Be flexible and aware of the new opportunities to fill the time and space in a different way. Notice what shows up with your changes and set new goals. Experiment and explore. Notice what changes. Create and adjust.
What Are You Trying to Achieve?
Your goals determine your actions. I’m not training for a marathon or I would do a different set of actions. But I am working on being able to walk outside more so my goal determines my actions.
You can always raise your goals but perhaps consider raising them a little at a time so they feel achievable. Assess your goal, set some steps, do the steps, assess how they’re working, and make a new set of steps. Evaluate, then create new steps, and adjust as they create results. Keep your eye on what you are trying to achieve and shift directions and actions as needed.
===SELF-HEALING===
Take Responsibility for Self-Healing.
Your Self-Healing Plan
Because I’m old and do not have and do not want a Western medicine diagnosis for what is going on with my body, I have to take self-responsibility for my healing. For me it is to work with the energy of Qigong forms. I can do it. Perhaps not like it is shown to me to do because I can’t stand up that well but I am moving energy. I am honoring the meridians and moving energy and I am observing the results of these new choices.
Find your own path to wholeness. Whether you change your eating habits or expand your exercise program or increase your sleep opportunities or your emotional patterns, experiment and notice what shifts as a result. Keep experimenting until you find the balance you seek.
The aging process is real. Keep an eye on how it is evolving in your own body and as signs emerge, change some choices until you get the results you want.
Manage Your Feelings of Overwhelm
You have to know what is important and what is not. You need to have a filter for your life that keep you from overwhelm simply because you have set no guidelines for being selective. I’ve had several learning opportunities offered to me lately but I also passed them up because I realized that my choice for my current focus is keeping up with and learning this new Qigong version. So I know what I want. And I keep my eye on it and select only those things that support that choice. How do you keep yourself on track without feeling overwhelmed? Know where you’re going and keep going in just that direction.
===INNER WORK===
Deepen our Inner Awareness
What Magic did I Discover?
What if, at the end of each day, you ask yourself what magic you discovered? What would your answer be? Did you discover a new way of doing something? Did you discover a new way of being? Did you discover a new friend or have a new idea? What magic happened for you in the day? Take time to notice the gifts that are given as you move through your life and enjoy them and build on that new awareness.
How Do You Nurture Yourself?
First you have to understand what nurtures you and then you have to give it to yourself. Do you know what nurtures you? Do you know what supports you in moving forward? We need to do that for ourselves.
Learning has always been nurturing to me. And thinking and writing about what I figure out is an exceedingly important part of my personal learning process. What nurturing actions do you take for yourself and are you doing enough of them?
I can think of some things I might want to do more of but at the core I am doing for myself the mental things that stimulate me and make me feel interested and interesting. Check out how well you are taking care of yourself and give yourself more of what you need and want. Nurture yourself every day.
===OUTER WORK===
Exoneration of New Potential and Possibilities
Move Your Gaze to See the New Possibilities
As my body changes, I’ll consider new possibilities. New things that I could do if I chose to. All because I am subtly changing as I practice and learn Wuji Hunan Qigong. What would I do if I could do more things physically? I get to raise my gaze. I get to consider new possibilities. Not just because my physicalness is gradually changing, but because I am looking in new directions for new possibilities. While I don’t have any grand plans, standing up straighter is good. Standing up longer is good. Build on the small gains. Let one small step change your expectations of what is possible. Let each small change open the door to new potential and new possibilities.
Just Do It!
It doesn’t have to be perfect and it doesn’t even have to be totally effective, but it does need to be present. I have two friends who are in the process of putting up either revised or new websites and they’re both sitting on the decision-making process. Just do it. Having something in place is better than having nothing in place and of course, they can be and will always be improved upon as your awareness increases. Just take the first step.
Of course your idea will evolve, of course you can add new elements to your business, don’t wait until you figure that all out before you put up your website. My friend Thuy Phane of Freshly Baked Brand has a lovely program called Get Known Now that enables you to put up a few web pages and have a powerful and immediate web presence. If you are considering adding a webpage to your outreach just do it. Help people find you so you can step more deeply into service.
===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===
Self-Healing Spiritual Practice and Deepening Awareness of Our Cosmic Oneness
Encourage Curiosity
What do you need to know that will take you on a new adventure? What new paths are beckoning to you? Are you following them? Look around your spiritual life and see what you need to explore. Look around at how you are doing and the choices you’re making in your life and see what new avenues call to you. Keep your curiosity going and move into deeper exploration. Go adventuring!
Create Your Own Oracle Deck
There are certain qualities that I would like to expand in my life. One of the ways I could help remind myself would be to create my own personal oracle deck. Simply write the words or qualities or actions that you want in your life on small individual pieces of paper and each day draw one as a reminder of what to expand or what to focus on that day. What qualities do you want to establish in your life right now? Create personalized oracle cards to help you focus.
===HOW TO BE A STRONG CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE DIVERSE CIRCLE OF LIGHT BEINGS===
Follow The Call
Ideas, instincts, inspiration, nudges, new choices – those are all your inner voice calling to you and offering suggestions for new paths of exploration and discovery.
What new concepts are you excited about that you can turn and share with others in some form? It could be a newsletter, a podcast, a phone call. Can you explore those intuitive suggestions and turn and share them with someone else? Do more of that.
===BROADEN YOUR HORIZON – EXPAND YOUR VIEW===
The Power of Willingness
Being willing is one of the strongest steps you can take in order to create change. Be willing to experiment. Be willing to consider options. Be willing to be wrong. Be willing to do the work. Doors swing open when you are willing to take a step forward. What areas in your life do you need to be willing to change? To improve?
You probably have one or two stumbling blocks in your life that you wish would go away so what do you need to do, what do you need to release or acquire in order to change that situation?
The minute I became willing to walk the halls every day, my body immediately begin to improve as did my vision of what is possible. I think sometimes we just need the willingness to do a little more or perhaps a little less in order to make major change evolve. Willingness requires adjustment and will definitely create change. Experiment.
Now I’m not talking willpower here, I am talking willingness. Making it OK to take another step toward being interested in and acting on an idea. Willingness is about action. And any action will change the outcome.
===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===
Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future
Look For The Commonality
Look for what you have in common, not what sets you apart. Build on that.
I heard a rapper on a television interview who happened to be African-American passionately explain how he wanted to help young black men get the education they need so they can get the jobs they need to support the families they want. That’s very basic. It was always part of my assumption that my own children, both male and female, would go to college and easily support themselves. But that’s not the expectation in many segments of society. Those opportunities and privileges are not to be assumed. First count your blessings for what opportunities you have received and then perhaps turn to help someone expand their own expectations and reach. How will you do that?
===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===
Expanding Awareness
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===CARA’S CORNER===
Fear
I am working to not be afraid of what my future holds. It’s all wrapped up in the aging process that includes diminishing physicality. It does me no good to dwell on it. It does me good to work to slow down the aging process or reverse it. What choices are you making that guide your life and are they taking you in the direction you want to go? Look for the positive and expect the best.
===SING A DEEPER SONG ===
Shift Your Gaze
I raise my expectations. I change what I believe is possible. The world follows my gaze.
I raise my expectations. I change what I believe is possible. The world follows my gaze. Do I need to shift my focus and raise my expectations? Is my gaze leading me high enough?
I raise my expectations. I change what I believe is possible. The world follows my gaze. Do I need to shift my focus and raise my expectations? Is my gaze leading me high enough?
I raise my gaze and change what I believe is possible and my life shifts.
Cara Lumen, July 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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