Transcendent Leadership

Clear Space for a New Cycle

December 16, 2021 By Cara Lumen

Clear Space for a New Cycle

Living Our Deeper Song

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

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

Rethink

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

Regroup

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

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

Reorganize

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

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

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

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

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

===INNER WORK===

Nudge Notes

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

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

Contemplation Brings Wisdom

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

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

When We Don’t Know That We Don’t know

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

===SELF-HEALING===

Trust

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

We Get What We Expect

Our thoughts create our reality and our possibilities.

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

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

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

===OUTER WORK===

Are You Stuck Or Are You Purposefully Planted?

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

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

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

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

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

What Motivates You?

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

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

Simplify Your Schedule – Work in Clumps

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

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

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

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

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

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

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

All Change Begins Within You

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

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

Who We Are

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

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

===THE UNFOLDING DIVINE FEMININE===

Revolving Friends

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

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

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

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

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Planning for a Future We Cannot Imagine

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

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

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

===INTENTION BLESSING===

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

May we expand our hearts and our expectations.

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

May we keep our gaze on the summit.

May we take this journey with a full heart.

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

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

Spiritual Practice

The Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

Self Healing

The Space of Inner Knowing

Expanding Awareness

Do You Hold the Beat or Play the Melody?

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

and the

Deeper Song Website

==DEEPER SONG BOOK SHELF===

Cornerstone Books

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

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

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

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

==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Winter Solstice is December 21 – Create an Experimental Garden

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

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

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

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

===CARA’S CORNER===

Get a Handle On Your Beliefs and Expectations

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

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

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

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

What We Notice

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

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

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

– Cara Lumen December 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song

I help adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the energy of the Divine Feminine

to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectation.

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We Are Weavers of Light

December 2, 2021 By Cara Lumen

We Are Weavers of Light

Living Our Deeper Song

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

As I watch this world evolve and change I keep looking for my role. Our role. We are Weavers of Light. It is our job to continue deepening and expanding our spiritual awareness so that all we do, everything we say, everything we think, is focused on traveling on and continuing to take the high road – this path of light that we are weaving as we go. We build it through our intention. We construct it through our choices. We reinforce it through our words and thoughts and deeds. Weaving is about intertwining different colors and textures of threads to make a pattern and to add strength to the overall offering. We are to find creative, inclusive, innovative ways to intertwine our lives with each other. To keep us on the higher path. The path of light. The path of wholeness. To raise each other up. To walk hand-in-hand. To lead the way. We are Weavers of a Light Path. We have work to do.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am constantly aware of my role as a Weaver of Light.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

Be aware of your responsibility as a Weaver of the Light Path.
Monitor your thoughts. Monitor your choices. Always choose the high road, the Path of Light. Hold your light high and help others along the journey.

===INNER WORK===

Your Relevance

If you feel relevant you feel useful. You feel valued. What makes you feel relevant? Having people respond to my newsletter or podcasts makes me feel relevant. It helps me know I am touching hearts and changing lives. I have friends in various parts of the world and when we talk on Zoom we are each aware of our reliance on the other for encouragement and insights and self-reflection. What makes you feel relevant and how is that changing for you?

It is an amazing experience when you find yourself feeling both useful and relevant. Your feelings of relevance may come from being a parent or a worker or a partner in a relationship. But as our world is changing so are our roles and therefore it is possible that we are not feeling as relevant as we used to. How has your role changed? How has your contribution changed? How do you think your value has changed? Where are you needed now? New doors are opening up. Go exploring. Look around. What new path is calling to you that will make you feel more relevant? Explore and define your new role.

The Power of Stillness

Your mind can be a busy little bee, so busy that it keeps you from being centered and still. Quiet your body, quiet your mind. Yoga, Tai Chi, Qigong, Breathwork, Meditation are all powerful practices that still your mind and focus your energy. What do you do to manifest stillness?

===SELF-HEALING===

Ritual and Expectation

I am not a fan of ritual. Just let me cut to the core and do the work. Until I read this: “Indigenous ritual set up a process to ready the body-mind to receive the healing.”

Ready the mind. What do you expect from your physical workout? What do you expect when you put your body in bed? Do we need to create a Ritual of Readiness?

I’m doing a variety of things to help my body self-heal. There is an expectation when I go to a partial chair for meditation. The mere act of sitting in that chair gets me ready to meditate. I usually do a few Qigong moves to signal my entry into this inner space.

Where can you add a ritual of expectation into your spiritual practice?

Balance the Flowing Current of Energy in Your Body

I am reading the book Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health by Shamini Jain and in the description of yoga she talks about how the asanas – physical postures – help foster and balance the constantly flowing current of energy in our bodies. It allows the mind to obtain greater stillness. They “help foster and balance flowing current of energy in our bodies.” That’s what healing is about – balancing the flow of energy in our body. We do that by the choices we make, the actions we take, the thoughts we think, and the people beside whom we walk the path. All of our choices affect the flow of energy in and around and through our bodies. It would make sense to start paying a great deal of attention to our choices.

In New York City, I learned yoga and even took a teacher’s training. Just as I left I was introduced to Bikram Yoga (Hot Yoga) and if I had not been raising my granddaughter by myself at that time, I would have gone to take a teacher’s training in that form. My body has lost the habit of doing yoga and it would take a lot of work to even come vaguely close regaining that. But I have studied Tai Chi and now do Qigong. I also meditate. It’s just a matter of finding the method that draws you to balance the flowing current of energy in your body. Keep exploring but also keep doing it…

Singing and the Vagus Nerve

The vagus nerve is the longest and most complex of your cranial nerves, and it affects every organ in your body. Recently a healer friend said she took time to stimulate her vagus nerve every day. She sent some links for me to explore which I share below.

You can reach your Vagus nerve behind your ears and simply massage that. Let your palms rest on your neck so you are giving energy to a long length of vagus nerve.

Singing and toning affect the vagus nerve so I made up the Vagus Hum: Place your middle fingers behind your ears and reset your palms on your throat. Begin to hum at a pitch that focuses the hum between your ears. The pitch will make the whole throat vibrate. Now gradually lower the pitch and feel the vibration move down your throat and neck to the base of your neck. Notice how that feels.

Your have just done a Vagus Hum!! It’s a great way to slow down, center yourself and replenish your whole body.

Massage, tone, read the links below and begin stimulating your vagus nerve every day. Here are the links courtesy of Christina Gerber

5 Easy Ways to Stimulate the Vagus Nerve

6 Ways to Reset Your Vagus Nerve for Detox

===OUTER WORK===

Learn from Experience and Experimentation

My shamanic journeys have been very clear – I am on an upward golden road that keeps climbing and I am in a period of exploration and experimentation. I’m talking to my body more – both listening to its responses and experimenting with alternative choices. My body is teaching me what it wants and need. I do not know where we are headed but this is a time of preparation – getting ready for what is unfolding.

Experimentation is an interesting personal growth concept. We need to keep looking. We need to dig deeper. We need to experiment and find our own best practices and put them to use. I listen to all the ideas that come my way and I go exploring to see if/how they will enhance my journey. As my body responds or my life changes, I observe and evaluate what seems aligned with my path and that guides me to make more informed choices.

For instance, I found a new chair in which to do seated exercise, I expanded my diet with food salad choices from the deli. I read, I explore, I experiment and I pay attention to the results.

What I learn from my experimentation guides my next path of exploration. Be creative. Be reflective. Stay in alignment. Listen. Explore. Evaluate. Choose. Build on that new point of view. See where it takes you and repeat.

Self Healing, Expectation, and Observation

We get want we expect. We get what we believe we deserve. We get what we expect is possible. Do you believe you can self-heal? I do. I have no specific success stories to share, but I know every choice I made affects the unfolding of my life, whether it was conscious or unconscious.

So what am I expecting from my 89-year-old body? I expect to be actively in action until it’s time to leave the planet. That means my brain and my ability to share what I figure out has to stay flexible and in good working order. I will hold it to that expectation.

My choice seems to be to explore, organize my next steps around what I find, make the change and move on. I apply what I learn but then I go learn something else and apply that to make even more changes. I do a lot of exploring and experimenting. No long-term studies here. Well, that’s not true, my exploration of Spirit is very long term – pretty much lifelong.

Expectation is a cornerstone for the results you build on. I need to expect my choices to change the outcome, to alter the experience. I need to observe and adjust and keep experimenting to find the right balance. Pay attention to the expectations you hold for the results of your action and keep adjusting both the actions and your expectation until you get it right. Self-healing can be enhanced by expectation and observation followed by adjustments based on what you learn.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

A New Realm of Inquiry and Discovery

The vision I keep getting in my shamanic journeys is of being on a road that is gradually elevated. It is a golden road and I have two guides with me. It is rising above earth, the path is rising above the chaos. It is a golden path leading toward I don’t know what. But it is a new realm of inquiry and discovery which means I get to explore, ask new questions, reach new conclusions, try out new concepts. I will discover new things to try. I will experiment. I will be observant. I will listen. I will learn. And I will discover. Pretty good for entering a new realm of inquiry and discovery. Yeah for more adventures.

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

The Search for “Next”

I am aware of the ongoing cycles of my life. Periodically I find myself sitting in a state of “not knowing”, waiting for the next cycle to unfold, to make itself known, and all I can really do is sit here and wait. And be observant.

One of the things you can do while waiting is to notice what is no longer working for you. What is taking too much time, not getting the results you wanted, that is now boring? Then, while you’re waiting for your “next” to unfold, look at what is giving you a really good time. I love doing that. Make a list of the things that are exciting for you and rewarding for you. Do more of those.

One day, in a glimmer of knowing, you will see your new path. And you will step on it with joy and conviction and confidence and march right along. While you’re waiting for that path to show up, see what you need to let go, and see what is calling your heart. You are being shown the new path. You just have to pay attention.

===INTENTION BLESSING===

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

May we keep our gaze on the summit.

May we take this journey with an open heart.

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

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

An Experimental Garden for 2022

As the year draws to a close, it is a good time to give some thought to our “next” – what we would like the coming year to be like. What we would like to accomplish. What we would like to learn. It’s great to stay open to unexpected surprises but it’s also a very powerful step to pause to evaluate where you are, what worked, what didn’t work, and what’s calling to you. I particularly like taking time to find out what’s calling to me. So it’s kind of fun to think in terms of planting an experimental garden. Plant a little of this and a little of that and see what you like. So if you were putting in an experimental garden to decide what crops you want to develop next year, what would you put in it?

I’m going to put in a whole row of different types of physical movement so that I can experiment with the ones that best meet the needs of my body. I’m going to plant another row that helps me deepen my Transcendental Meditation practice – as in doing it more often and for longer periods of time. That is simply an existing crop I want to expand. I’m going to plant another row of new friends. People that I may already know, that I deepen my relationship with. People that I don’t know that have yet to come into my life. I want to stay open to expansion. I want to expand my learning. So I will plan another row of concepts I want to explore in the form of books or courses that call to me. That’s a pretty good experimental garden. So in this garden, I will plant varieties of each of these ideas and go exploring to see how they nurture me and how they excite me and how and what they teach me. And when I figure that out I will plant more rows of that same concept with perhaps a larger number of varieties. For instance, I could see how many varieties of “mindfulness” I can plant. What experimental crops do you want to plant in your “Garden of Next” to see how it would fit into your calling for the coming year?

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

Spiritual Practice

A Transformative Clearing Process

Self Healing

How to Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

Expanding Awareness

New Consciousness – New State of Being

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

and the

Deeper Song Website

===A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS===

Give yourself a gift this season:

Music

Kalimba Thumb Piano This is a can’t-play-it-wrong musical instrument for any age. I love it. My grandchildren love it. My cat Sebastian loves it (He only listens…) A lovely meditation tool.

Self Care

Gua Sha Facial Tool Keep it handy for instant stress relief. Natural Jade Stone Guasha Board for SPA Acupuncture Therapy Trigger Point Treatment.

Favorite Reads

Stephen Mitchell, Tao Te Ching

Stephen Mitchell, The Second Book of Tao

Love his translations.

==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATIONS ===

I am blown away by this messages in Sandra Ingerman’s latest newsletter. “There is a learning curve of how to tend to oneself and others during this time of dismemberment and simultaneous rememberment.” I hadn’t though about the simultaneous part. I encourage you to take the time to read this newsletter. There is also a Winter Solstice Ceremony recovered that I plan to participate in on December 21st. I hope you consider subscribing to this powerful monthly newsletter. She is a thoughtful leader. December Transmutation News.

===REFLECTIONS===

The Lone Leaf

A lone leaf drops to the ground. It floats gently into to the end of its cycle. It is complete.

A new cycle begins. A cycle of gradual organic change in which she will be dissolved and move into a new life, a new form, a new place of service.

Endings mean new beginnings. It is the cycle of life.

– Cara Lumen, December 2021

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Persistence and New Possibilities

“Persistence and New Possibilities” were on the oracle card I drew and I really resonated with that combination. As I take these small persistent steps to strengthen my body, new possibilities being to appear. It’s exciting because my potential has expanded. It’s as simple as one more stretch, one more step, one more choice to move toward wholeness and the path widens, doors open and the journey gets easier. All because of persistence that opened up new possibilities. What new opportunities are showing up for you? Be persistent in your exploration.

===CARA’S CORNER===

I Have the Resources

As I move excitedly through the pages of Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health by Shamini Jain, I realize how well prepared I am to manifest my own healing. I have the tools (reiki, meditation, qigong, yoga, breath-work, mindfulness) I just have to design my personal program. How exciting! I practice various techniques, observe the experience and the results, and design my own self-cultivation program. My sense is that this self-designed path will both widen and deepen as I explore. The point is to keep exploring and to evaluate my experiences and results so I have a basis for further choices. I can just do it, or I do it, write down what I did, and record my responses/results. Somewhere in between is more likely where I will land. I do what to keep track of what I do so when I get a super positive result I will know why and I can repeat what I did.

I am totally drawn to the seven steps of Yoga as described in this book and since I am reading it to learn to facilitate my own healing, I will practice and notice and choose what resonates most with me at this point in my evolution. The point is to pay attention to the results and figure out how to get more of the outcome you want. I can do that.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Building on the Results

I take a step and pause to look around. Where am I? Is this where I want to be?

I take a step and pause to look around. Where am I? Is this where I want to be? I shift my gaze. I look at the possibilities that surround me.

I take a step and pause to look around. Where am I? Is this where I want to be? I shift my gaze. I look at the possibilities that surround me. I change my rhythm. I follow my inner voice and step forward into a new adventure.

– Cara Lumen, December 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song

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

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Why You Are Here

November 18, 2021 By Cara Lumen

Why You Are Here

Living Your Deeper Song

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy 89th Birthday to me!

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

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

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

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

===INNER WORK===

Draw Your Vision

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

Step Back Into Your Own Power

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

===OUTER WORK===

Know Your Work Style

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

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

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

Get Rid of What No Longer Serves You

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

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

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

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

Know What Calls To You

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

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

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

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

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Laughter

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

===DISCOVERIES ===

Good News

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

And there is also is The Good News Network

What news are you allowing to shape your day?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Are You Moving on?

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

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

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

Spiritual Practice

Simply Being – The Art of Wu Wei

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

Self Healing

The Backpack Journey

Heart Lessons from a Soul Star

Expanding Awareness

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

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

and the

Deeper Song Website

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Transmute the Past into New Sources of Energy

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

===CARA’S CORNER===

Follow the Path that Goes Deeper

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

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

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Directions from Within

I settle into my Still Point and listen.

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

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

– Cara Lumen, November 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song

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Understand Your Role

November 11, 2021 By Cara Lumen

Understand Your Role

Living Your Deeper Song

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

I’m a start-up gal. I love to explore and identify ideas and use them in unusual ways. I’m not always much of a completer but I’m definitely an originator. It is important to know your calling and honor it as your special gift.

Some of this I came to understand by studying the enneagram. There are boss types and creative types and worker bee types. Some people thrive on being in service to others. It’s important to know your own preferences and honor them.

If I insist on being strongly creative, then I probably need to find someone else to do the technical work of editing my podcasts. If I love to strategize, I may best be in service by stepping in at various stages along the path of a project to help organize some ideas and structure them for action, a getting-projects-unstuck sort of person.

Know your role. Know your gifts and let those guide your path.

You may fill different roles in different situations. I usually instinctively and organically step in to organize – whatever it is. I also always want to write publicity or explanations or guidebooks. I use my writing to focus thoughts – including my own.

Look back over your life and notice the most rewarding, fulfilling experiences you have had. What was your role? How rewarding was it? How would you adapt what you are doing today to make it more rewarding?

Sometimes we get in a rut in playing our favorite roles. Part of it comes from people calling on us to do what we are good at. Other times we are so good at performing a function that it simply is usually our job to do.

Go exploring. Move outside of your comfort zone. I’m not a particularly good artist, but I have taken art classes and I have a good time making line drawings of some of my journeys. I have studied music and sung in many choral groups – now my musical expression is through native flutes and drums for my own enjoyment. Your gifts will evolve over the years. Your talent will be applied to a variety of formats. Go exploring.

Notice what has evolved as a new opportunity for you. Podcasts are a natural for someone like me who has two degrees in theater and was television talent. I have been a professional copywriter and a Content Development Coach. Now I get to write what I want to in my own newsletter.

Your gifts will evolve. Where you apply them will unfold. Go exploring. Learn to use your gifts in new ways and see where it leads you. It’s not enough to simply understand your role, it is important to choose your role to fit where you are in your life path today.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I look at my path of the past and my path of today and bring forward the best in myself.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

Look for new ways to apply the gifts you have been given.
What new roles are opening up into unexpected ways that the unfolding world is calling to you?

===INNER WORK===

How to Overcome Fear

I am writing about how to overcome fear to figure it out because I don’t have an answer. My legs hurt a LOT when I get up from a chair. I think it is because my structure is shifting, but it hurts and now I experience fear and apprehension before I stand up which simply makes it a worse experience.

What do you do when you anticipate pain? How can you change that fear? Anticipation can be numbing.

Do you go into circumstances expecting the worst? Do you picture all sorts of devastating scenarios before you move into a situation? It’s really hard to keep a positive thought when your past experience has been painful.

I send Reiki to my hips before I stand. I center and take a calming breath before I stand – so I can stop the anticipation of pain that I expect at the move I am planning to make. I need to focus on what I do that feels aligned. But boy, negative anticipation can really stop you cold.

I don’t have an answer. As the pain stopped happening the fear went away. If you continually experience something negative you come to expect it. You anticipate it. You fear it. You tense up and make the experience even more extreme than it actually is.

The next day I was able to stand up with less pain and the fear and apprehension begin to dissolve. How do you stop anticipating the worst?

I don’t have an answer for this. Only the problem. And the negative anticipation makes the experience worse.

What are you anticipating in your life that needs to be shifted? How will you do that?

Solitude

The centered awareness of being in your Still Point. Your complete immersion in the heartbeat of nature. Losing your sense of self in the expression of music. A quiet mind that makes room for deeper awareness. How do you find solitude? How do you create stillness?

Solitude is replenishing. It is restorative. It is revealing. You can be in solitude alone and you can feel alone in a crowd. Create moments of contemplative thought throughout each day. Take a releasing breath. Gaze out into nature. Allow for the deep absorption of the energy around you. Be aware. Take time to be alone. Find your Still Point and reside there.

===OUTER WORK===

Forgive Yourself

Looking back over my long life, there are some less than stellar choices that I made along the line. But I also know I made them in the moment from what I knew and understood and felt and experienced. So yes, they were somewhat unaware choices. Perhaps unaware of the long-term effect. Perhaps unaware of the immediate effect. I simply was not aware. And what’s true of you is true of others. People who hurt you or added negativity to your life were probably doing it out of simply being unaware of certain circumstances at the time. Everyone needs forgiveness for the past. Just let go and leave behind your less-than-stellar choices and actions so you can move forward. Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Let go. And move on.

When You Are ready the Answer Will Appear

I’m reading a book that is rich and deep and is exactly what I need to learn right now. Don’t you love it with the right information shows up in a form you are eager to accept? And I have another book I will read next that will be equally expanding.

So what do you do with new information? In my process of absorbing an idea I write about it – here and in podcasts. That’s one way I figure things out. Then I find creative ways to apply the concepts and experiment with them and adjust my actions as I get results.

How do you explore a new idea? Where do you find your transformative ideas? Keep looking. Keep exploring and experimenting.

Goals and Your Progress

I have completed three months of physical therapy and next week I meet with my therapist to outline what I want to accomplish in the next three months. This is interesting because setting these goals depends on how my body responds. It is not like setting a goal I know I can accomplish. I’m not going to aim for walking to the end of the parking lot driveway. I will aim for quality – standing tall, everything working smoothly and in coordination, and providing the foundation upon which to build up stamina.

There, I found it – my goal is to strengthen my foundation – the strength and stamina, and flexibility that I can build upon.

As you begin to consider goals for the coming year, how strong is the foundation you are building to stand on? And what beliefs do you need to change in order to know that what you imagine is possible?

Lift your gaze. And your expectation of what is possible.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Recognize the Positive

Our thoughts can be positive or they can pull us down with their negativity. As you move through your day, notice the direction of your thoughts. Notice how much encouragement you give yourself. Notice how much discouragement you give yourself. And make some changes. Look at what you have created and focus on those manifestations that truly represent the progress you choose to make. Pat yourself on the back for that. Release the less than stellar choices as experiments that you learned from. Learn from your mistakes and move on.

Self-Sufficiency Training

I journeyed to find out what I need to actively do to help my body, to restore its stamina and flexibility. The message was, “This is a form of self-sufficiency training. How much are you willing to do to strengthen your body and help it restore to some semblance of stronger usefulness?”

Do the work. We have to do the work. We can’t just sit and hope, we have to take action steps. We need to be conscious of our choices. We need to structure our personal progress so we explore, develop and mindfully choose what we need to know and accomplish next. Create your personal well-being program, your own self-sufficiency training. What does that look like for you?

===DISCOVERIES ===

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime astrological event happening in 2022…The United States of America’s Pluto Return.

This means that Pluto is returning to the exact point it was when the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th, 1776…

And it only happens once every 225 years! There is a seminar here on November 12: Astrology Hub

===MY DEEPER SONG ADVENTURES ===

Listen to the wind. It talks.

Listen to the silence. It speaks.

Listen to your heart. It knows.
– Native American Proverb

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Shine Your Light in the Corners

Those of us who are called are to not only raise our sights but also focus on shining our light of Consciousness Awareness in all the corners. How do we do that?

My version begins with looking for and identifying those who are working in light, who are walking the planet in an ever-deepening place of service. When you identify them, step up and walk beside them for a while. We support each other, we encourage each other, we learn for each other, we inspire and motivate each other. We teach each other. And perhaps we even protect each other.

Be responsible for your own path. Make conscious choices. Takes conscious steps. Lift your gaze.

Keep walking upward on your path. Keep listening to the encouragement you receive and notice where it comes from.

In this continuing flow of change, we must keep choosing – we must keep choosing light, we must keep choosing awareness we must keep choosing Cosmic Consciousness. We must choose it each day, consciously, with curiosity and determination as we search for the lessons and guidance to move us into a positive, inclusive, cosmic future.

Shine a light in the corner of your life and take heart with what you find. The corners are full of unexpected gifts to help you move purposefully along your path.

Do You Follow Your Insights?

It sometimes takes time to trust that inner voice, your intuition, those hunches that seem to show up out of nowhere. But they are you talking to you. They are your inner voice, your inner wisdom, your inner guidance offering you nudges here in the human world. Pay attention. At least consider them. Perhaps explore them a bit to see how they unfold. Let your hunches direct you as those insights take you adventuring. You’ll be surprised where you end up.

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

Spiritual Practice

Journey to a Chamber of the Seven Sacred Rays

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Self Healing

The Backpack Journey

Simply Being – The Art of Wu Wei

Expanding Awareness

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

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

and the

Deeper Song Website

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Your Soul’s Purpose

I turn 89 this month which means I have a lot of life to look back over to see what my soul’s purpose has been and still is. Some of the themes are evident, the curiosity, the creativity, the writing, with the common thread of spiritual searching. My path has held consistent themes.

Finding your purpose is not always easy. You must embrace life wholeheartedly, explore many different pathways, and allow yourself to grow. Your purpose is as unique as you are and will evolve as you move through life.

Purpose is what excites you. It is what fills you with satisfaction. It’s what drives you. Can you identify your soul’s purpose?

Jump Time

What appears to be chaos is actually opportunity. It is jump time. Time for us to take giant steps, leaps of faith, and trust that we will discard what is no longer needed and encourage what is beneficial for this next unfolding. So the old habits, the outdated thought patterns, the no-longer useful beliefs are dying and they are not happy about it. But they are no longer needed. They are to be rapidly replaced with a sense of world community that makes us care for each other, support each other, walk strongly beside each other. No wonder some people are really grouchy at this change. It goes against the grain. It makes their perspective outdated and wrong and not useful.

This is a giant jump we are taking. There’s new technology. New urgency. And those of us who are moving forward must let go of what is no longer working, what no longer serves us, what no longer serves others. It’s it is if we’re about to step out of a warm shower and choose a fresh wardrobe for the day. How do we want to craft our life? How do we want to shape our exchanges with others? All of life comes from our inner world. It comes from our beliefs and intentions and expectations. So we can actually sit quietly and make stuff up. We can visualize people living in harmony. In collaboration. And peace. We can learn to feel the experience of inclusion. And look for it and bring more of it into our day. We are jumping into the future with every choice we make. Make sure they are conscious choices.

Who are you becoming?

===CARA’S CORNER===

I Am Moving into the Cosmos to Do My Work

Here’s another of my shamanic journeys:

Question: I have turned onto a new path. What guidance can you give me?

Journey: I am walking beside the male hiker guide that I met in my last journey. He whistles and walks jaunty down the path. I walk without my walker beside him. I don’t walk jauntily but I am waking strongly.

Are you going to show me my path? I ask. He grins and takes a larger step. I follow. Suddenly we are in a circle from which emerges nine paths. There is no straightforward path, there is a choice to be made. And that choice will make all the difference. I want to go to the cosmos they say. Seven of the paths turn into one of the seven sacred rays. I do not want to choose a path of an individual ray I say. I want a higher path. The golden path. A higher path. My guide and I rise three feet off the ground. Angel With The Golden Wings comes down and takes my hand and off we go. We fly even past the Void into the Cosmic Consciousness. There is a humming there. Because those who are there are busy. They are imagining and creating scenarios in the air and they are helping others. I get to work. Suddenly I am in a long golden robe and I’m in the Circle of Light Beings. We have our Individual Harps playing a song that is very intertwined. “This is one place I serve,” I say. Angel With The Golden Wings nods in agreement. “You need to get to the book on the biofields,” says my guide, my Male Hiker. That will give you some tools to begin to do deeper work. It’s OK to have this imaginal concept but the biofield is the way the work is done. Keep studying.

“I am worried about my body and my capabilities to keep going because I’m having a really good time.” You have work to do and you’ll be able to do it. You are prepared for the work. You will do the work. You can do the work. You want to do the work. It is important work. Yes, you can share more journeys with the Deeper Song Community. Perhaps do a journey specifically for the group. Your body is entering a new phase of participation. Be patient with it be supportive of it, do some work with it so it can get strong again.

“I’ve just gotten out of my chair and it hurt my body a lot. Can you please help my body so I can do this better?” You have some choices to make and one of them is to care for your body better. Do that first. Keep your mind open. You have work to do and you will be shown what to do and how to do it and when to do it. Rise above your humanness. The Flying Indigo Rug is good, the Cat is good, the new direction is good. Let it unfold.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Trust

My inner voice speaks to me. Sometimes I understand, sometimes I don’t.

My inner voice speaks to me. Sometimes I understand, sometimes I don’t. But I always trust – trust its wisdom, trust its guidance.

My inner voice speaks to me. Sometimes I understand, sometimes I don’t. But I always trust – trust its wisdom, trust its guidance. And I keep exploring.

Cara Lumen, November 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song

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

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The Path We are Taking

October 29, 2021 By Cara Lumen

The Path We are Taking

Living Your Deeper Song

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

Imagine an unexplored landscape before you. It has mountains. It has plains. It has valleys. We are faced with an unfolding new era. There are no main roads yet. There are many paths of exploration. Many possibilities to consider.

Here’s how our new landscape will unfold. People will be drawn to a particular path and as more and more walk on it, it becomes a road. And that road will lead to a particular destination that many people seek.

We will evolve our unfolding new era by journeying with like-minded seekers who are going in a similar direction and together we will widen the path and open the way for others to follow.

There will be many paths and many travelers.

How do we know we are on the path that is right for us? How do we know it is a promising path, that it will lead us to a higher level of existence and collective action?

Begin with your own values and beliefs and make certain they are founded in truth.

Choose the level of existence you desire to live in. I will not live in anger. I will not live in fear. I am only focusing on the positive. I hold my focus on what is supportive and keep walking toward it.

Those of us who are singing our deeper song live all over the planet. We may be in groups both large and small and we may be sitting in our homes alone. But we hold the same vision, the same expectation. Oneness. Cosmic Oneness.

As we journey down various pathways in exploration, we must keep in mind what we are searching for and plan to find that higher level of existence where we can gather together in a collective energy of wholeness and inclusiveness. Not everyone will be drawn to that, but those of us who are are finding each other. We are supporting each other in holding the vision and in finding pathways that lead us into the higher awareness that we are all one.

So as we sit here on the planet watching anger and destructive behavior toward others play out, we must hold High Watch. We must hold the Vision of Oneness – the expectation of inclusion and cooperation. What we look for we see. What we believe is possible we find.

Do not drop down into the muck of division. Keep your focus on the pinnacle, the pinnacle of unity that we hold as our true destination.

Like any landscape, people will settle all over it – some in the valleys, some at the peak of possibilities. Wherever you are headed, raise your sights higher. Look for those who are walking the path toward this higher state of awareness and fall into step beside them. Hold your light high so others may follow. Keep walking on the high road. Together, we are creating our own path toward existing together in a higher collective conciseness.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I raise my sights and walk the higher road.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

Look around you at what other people are doing and notice some paths that are aligned with where you want to go.
Begin to walk beside those walking uphill.
Turn and give others who seem open encouragement and a helping hand.
Keep climbing higher.

Our Global Deeper Song Community

Our Deeper Song Community extends throughout the planet. Welcome new Deeper Song Explorers. I’d love to hear of your experiences – caralumen@gmail.com or let’s discuss on the Deeper Song Explorers!

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

Are You Afraid of Change?

Deepening Our Interaction with Cosmic Consciousness

If I am right, being afraid of change explains a lot of the negativity that is going on on the planet today. Why do you want to keep something the way it is? Because you are afraid of change. Change might make you ineffective or irrelevant. I’m not sure we are aware of that, but I think fear is one core issue for a lot of what is going on in our world today.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community helps spiritual explorers find powerful and creative ways to connect with and explore their own cosmic consciousness. She helps transformational leaders who are now stepping forward to understand their role and their potential participation so that we can build the bridges and pathways that guide us all into the New Consciousness.

In this episode we explore

Are You Afraid of Change?

(20 Minutes)

(Listen Here)

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Deeper Song Website

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective

Listen For Your Future

The Two Vital Sides of Your Spiritual Practice

The Field of Opportunity

How to Deepen Your Cosmic Consciousness

Trust Your Inner answers.

===INNER WORK===

Create a Sanctuary

A private haven. A sanctuary. A place of refuge. A place to restore and renew and revive. A nurturing place of tranquility. Do you have such a place? Have you assigned one corner of your home as a restorative sanctuary?

I have a chair turned to look out the window that is part of my sanctuary. My native flutes are nearby. It’s a good chair to meditate in. With the window open I can feel the air and hear the sounds and feel closer to nature.

We’re talking about a chair here. A chair I have designated as my sanctuary. I go there with the purpose of being still. I’m contemplating. Restoring. And simply being. Where is your restorative space in your home and are you going there often enough?

Keep Listening, You Are Being Shown the Way

I journeyed to gain clarity for my next steps. I saw myself moving steadily upward on a gently tilted path. I received affirmations about the work I am currently doing, but the main message was to “keep listening, you are being shown the way.”

Listening is the key to making the right next choice. Listen to your heart. Listen to your passion. Experiment with the opportunities that show up – try them on for size, modify them, keep them or discard them. Just keep listening. You are being shown the path. You just have to notice it.

Introspection and Intuition

Our inner world offers us powerful guidance. We simply have to listen. The first step is introspection – those times of focused thought in which you consider your options, examine your choices and explore the possibilities. Then comes intuition. Knowing what your choice is to be. Not what it needs to be or what it could be but what it is to be.

Sometimes my answers are several months in coming. One day I simply know there is a change to be made. I feel a gradual letting go of what I am currently doing but have no clue what is to take its place. Because it’s not time. First I have to make room for the new to come in. So I let go of my plans, of my expectations. And I simply wait. I leave room for change.

As I sit in expectation and awareness, I get glimpses of a potential choice. It could be an idea, it could be a path I explore, it could be a completely new direction simply dropped into my lap. This is a time for looking around. Feeling what calls to me. Noticing what new avenues are available. No choice yet, just an observant expectation and thoughtful exploration.

And then one day I know. The door to the next step is open and I step through. Take time for introspection, to go exploring what is possible. Then let your intuition make the final choice. Have a great adventure!

Power Animals

When we journey to our Sacred Garden, everything in it is a metaphor just for us to interpret. So the other day on a journey I got a cat as a spirit guide. I actually live with a cat – Sebastian, but I have not had a cat spirit guide before. We were actually on my Flying Indigo Rug flying in the Void. There were other guides on the rug with me but here was this cat sitting on my left. Being present. At the time, I simply observed it and did not interact with it much. It seemed content to simply be present. A few days later, I started to look up the meaning of the cat as a power animal on line. Until I realized that it is only mine to interpret, that I am the only one that can understand and interpret the meaning of the presence of a particular power animal. I have since journeyed again to talk to cat. But I have not yet received an answer. She simply sits on the left side of the Flying Indigo Rug as we move around the Void. She is present. And she has a purpose. And she will reveal herself to me in good time.

There is a temptation to look up a meaning when you encounter a new spirit guide. But that spirit guide is there just for you. What does it mean to you? Listen to what comes up. You can ask your power animal how you are to work together but you probably know or she/he would not be there. Trust your answers and your intuition.

At this point, I feel the cat power animal is a guide and it is not yet time for me to be guided where she will take me

Here we go adventuring.

===OUTER WORK===

Choose Your Own Coordinates

Many paths lead to the same destination. Some of the paths are long and winding and easy to walk on. Other paths take more effort, more energy, more stamina, but they get there faster. You may not want to live at the top of the mountain. You may want to live in the serene rolling low land. Or you may choose to go exploring in the more heavily wooded areas where there are more opportunities and more encounters and more challenges. Maybe you even get a ride to the top of the mountain on a large bird and hang glide off into the valley. There are many paths for us to take to fulfill our destiny.

We each have to choose our own coordinates, our power path, and the timing of our travels.

There are some things I knew about my own journey early on, and there are other things that I only recognize after being on the path a long time.

Our destination is changing if we choose for it to. There are new portals opening for us to explore and learn from and live in. We may be content where we are. We may be burning with passion to go explore a new frontier. Follow your dream. Follow your passion. Follow your insights and instincts.

Learn from those whom you choose to walk beside. See how they are adjusting to the path. Notice the creative ways they use to journey forward. Copy what you will. Create your own innovative ways to move forward. It’s your path. Your journey. And your choice of a destination. Set your own coordinates and journey on.

Find a Creative Solution

I can no longer reach the floor. I have a grabber tool in every room, you know those pinchers on a handle with grabbers that can pick up a dime.

I also have a tongue drum – an 18” rounded metal drum. It sits on a plant stand in my meditation corner. Until one day I backed up my desk chair too vigorously and the tongue drum was suddenly on the floor. A heavy, good-sized piece of metal was on the floor which is not where I wanted it to be. I had a choice. I could wait nearly two weeks until Shelley came back to clean my apartment, or I could figure out how to get the tongue drum off the floor. I got creative.

I seem to have lots of baskets in my home and there was one that was big enough that when I lay it on its side, I could simply use my cane to move the tongue drum into it. I used the handle of my cane to pull and scoot the metal drum into the wicker basket. Then I used my cane to tilt the basket upright so it was taller and I could lift it up. Yea for creative innovation! I immediately rearranged my meditation corner to put the metal drum in a place where it could not be knocked over. I had gotten creative and I had solved the problem.

However, I got to do a similar thing again when I dropped an entire half-gallon of ice cream on the kitchen floor. Once again, grabbers can pick dimes off the floor but not half-gallons of ice cream. There was a definite moment of dismay and panic until I remembered my basket trick. And once again, by using my cane, I was able to scoot that half gallon of ice cream into a basket lying on its side and then right the basket and gain possession of the ice cream. Clever me. Creative me. Innovative me.

When faced with a problem, think outside the box. Work with things that you didn’t expect to work with. Try new ways of doing things that will still get the job done. Find creative solutions to the unexpected challenge that come your way.

Honor Your Resistance

I love to learn and apparently I am full up because every time I start to sign up for a new talk or a new program, I feel great reluctance and resistance. It is definitely a feeling of being full up.

This hesitancy to engage is probably an incubation period. A period of purposeful non-action in which I am to release, repair, make room for, and give time for me to recognize this new next step. Meanwhile, I do nothing, or very little And that has to be OK.

I listen to my inner voice. I honor those instinctual insights that repeatedly show up. I examine them, consider them, and if called to do so, explore a bit deeper to see how fully they resonate.

Take your time choosing a new project, or a next step. Listen to the rhythm of your own evolving awareness. Give your choices time to expand and materialize. Go slowly. Be patient. And know when to say no.

Wrap It In Joy

I took a journey to seek advice for my physical state and the main message was to wrap my physical activity in joy – in particular put on some music and dance!!!! That’s much more fun than doing exercise repetitions. Jazz music channel here I come!

Our Alternate Path

What happens when we come up against a barrier? We find an alternate path. We go around. We go over. We may even back up a bit and start in another direction. A barrier gives us an opportunity to reconsider our options.

We’ve got a problem with the thinking of a lot of people in this world. It is producing fear and negativity. I don’t want that. I don’t believe in that. So how do I create change in order to move around this huge dark energy that is covering the earth?

The opposite of dark is light. I have to embrace this darkness and cover it with light so that it can change. Not by force. But by the recognition that this path of light holds more hope and promise and potential than the path of darkness. Not everyone is going to see that. Some will even fight that. So those of us who know the path of awareness, the path of compassion, the path of inclusion is the way to go, must simply keep walking that path with clarity of purpose and resolution and determination. We turn and help those who are struggling to follow along. But we do not join our energy with those who cannot see or hear the potential of light. All we can do is keep shining a light on the path to higher consciousness. Keep walking. Keep looking higher. Keep shining.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Set Up A Purposeful Day

When you close your eyes at night, bless the day you have just lived. When you open your eyes in the morning, bless the day ahead. And take a moment to set an intention. An intention to be more mindful. An intention to take time for more inner work. An intention to release a blockage you perceive. Have a plan, a one-step plan that will raise the expectation of your day. Choose an inner growth purpose for your day and make it happen.

===MY CURRENT READING ===

I am reading and being inspired by this Jean Houston book:

The Quest of Rose: The Cosmic Keys of Our Future Becoming (Future Humans Trilogy) Book 1 by Anneloes Smithsman and Jean Houston.

UP NEXT:

I heard Shanini Jain on a Sound True podcast and her ideas on bitfields make great sense. Her book is up next:

Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health by Shamini Jain

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Riding the Roller Coaster

It feels like we are being bombarded with anger, with actions that threaten our very existence. And like a roller coaster, we often feel we are simply along for the ride – the scary heights, the sudden drops, the tilted curves. And all, what we are trying to do here is live our life.

Bear in mind that this is the emergence of the power of the feminine and the masculine is scared because they know it is no longer their turn. They know that the dominant qualities of compassion and inclusion and caring are taking over.

Think about how that is shaping our life. What will it feel like when all choices are made for the highest good of all – not the few dominant males? What if our guiding principles were compassion and inclusion? Do we even know how to live that way? We get to learn.

As a woman, I say, “You go, girl!” As I start to put on my warrior outfit to go to battle, I realize that is not how the feminine is to advance – not with masculine ways. And I get to think long and hard about how a woman does fight, how she does claim authority. How she guides and leads. She does it with an awareness of human nature, of the need to feel valued, the need to be heard and heeded. She listens, she considers and she walks a path that is inclusive while still getting the job done. Even that path will not make everyone happy. It’s not about taking the middle road, it is about taking an inclusive road, the road that made the most room for the most participation, the most effect, and the most powerful outcome. That may take some doing…

Be patient as we figure out how to evolve this next part of our journey. Allow yourself to consider and experiment with and explore new ways of thinking, new ways of doing things. We evolve together and we must be very, very flexible and open to change.

The Highest Good

I live in the US where not enough people are considering the highest good for all. We are mired in selfishness. I’m not sure how we get to move out of it. Except to look closely at our own lives to see where we are making choices that are not for the greater good but are based on our own fears or superstitions or greed or need.

We need to back off to see the greater picture, the over-arching impact of a belief, of choice, in order to see what is the highest good for all is. The greater good. The actions that will positively impact the most people. All people face these kinds of choices – do I choose for me or us? All countries face that. Our world faces that. Me or we.

Next time you start to make a choice or even experience a strong belief, examine it for its over-arching impact and make a choice that will benefit the most people and circumstances. Act for the highest good of all.

Moving Toward the Next Version of You

I continue to explore this idea that we really have two paths to consider – our path of personal expansion and our path of global service. They may or may not be the same.

I notice that people are quitting jobs in droves because they want and expect more for themselves, their life expression, their life experience. So they go searching for it and the hum-drum, non-satisfying jobs go unfilled.

Or, they could find a way to make a boring job meaningful. Not sure how to do that. I’m the moving-on type.

First, ask “What do I want to change? What is working? What is not working? What is really not working?” Get to work on that first.

Change can be scary. Change can mean really, really letting go and moving on, moving forward, moving over change. First, you let go. Let go of what is holding you down. Let go of what no longer makes you happy. And that includes relationships. It may include where you live. It may include the job you’ve had for a lot of years. Let go and move on. What do you want in the “next” you are going to experience? Not what you want it to look like or be like, but what do you want it to feel like?

I would like my body to get strong again but my focus needs to be on what I can do again when it is stronger. Like walks in nature. Focus on what you will be able to do when the change is complete. Hold that focus as you continue to make changes.

I’m not sure it’s so much about planning the next version of you as it is about making room and space and time for this next version of you to evolve and emerge.

“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 Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell

“The Master lives in the center of the universe,
which turns out to be the center of herself.
When things seem to be in discord return to the center.”

Stephen Mitchell 2^nd Book of Tao

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Creating Our Next

In my secret garden is an Indego Carillon, a bell tower, and when it plays its music, the sound goes throughout the countryside. Some pause to listen. Some do not. But it represents my voice and my ideas and it spreads throughout the world. It occurred to me that we are each an instrument of vibration that is sending our song out into the world for others to hear and be touched. Their spirits are lifted. Their expectations are raised. All because we sing our song. We are the instruments ringing out the tones that vibrate and create throughout this other world.

Make certain your melody is joyful and encouraging. Make certain your harmonies raise spirits. Make certain your rhythm is one that motivates people and leads them forward. Play your melody. Sing your song. And raise the vibration of the world.

The Double Path of Unfolding

There are two paths that are unfolding right now for each of us. Our personal role in our own life and our role in the unfolding and far-reaching change on our planet. There is probably a third one – the Cosmic Consciousness and our role in its evolution.

I’ve been noticing my personal flow as the topics of my exploration continue to flow into new venues. I feel those coming and have learned to recognize them.

It’s the unfolding role in the greater picture that I am just beginning to recognize and define.

I use words like the “Great Transformation” as we move into the power of the Feminine. But where are we going and what is our role there?

Your role will be newly defined. There will be evolving and unfolding choices that shape our future

The role of the Light Bearers in the larger shift is only now beginning to define itself. And I have a feeling that the task at hand is so huge that we will go through many layers of unfolding revelation. Be alert. Be aware. Be ready. Creatively embrace change.

How We Walk the Path

I was on a lovely journey and I was getting deep messages. When suddenly I got: “You do not need to know the destination, it is the path and the way you walk it that counts for now.” And I abruptly ended the journey. I have been looking for my next. The goals. The path. And that’s not what I should be looking for. I am to notice and be aware of how I am walking my path. Is it with a broad and inclusive awareness? Is it with a deeper understanding? Is it with a willingness to explore and perhaps change directions if called upon? Am I flexible? This is not a time to make concrete plans. It is it a time to look deeply within to understand why you came onto the planet in this particular bodily expression. What deep core calling is guiding you and how are you are to be in service, particularly now, in this time of dramatic change. Be still and listen. And you will hear.

How Meaningful is Your Work?

Does your work make your heart sing? Do you love to go to your place of employment, your place of service, and do your thing? Do you end your day feeling fulfilled and satisfied and rewarded knowing that you have made a difference? You’ve changed a life. That you have used all your skills and gifts and talents for the highest good?

I get those kinds of feelings when I finally release something to the world. It may be my newsletter or it may be a podcast. It may be an email or Zoom exchange. The act of writing those offerings is my growth process. It is my period of exploration and choosing. But it is the moment of release when I send it out into the world that gives me a sense of completion and accomplishment. Once again the image of the bell tower, the carillon that is in my Sacred Garden comes to mind. Pealing my words, my thoughts, my ideas, my version of life out into the world to be heard or not heard. To be listened to or to or ignored. The point is I play my music. I sing my song. And I send it out into the world.

I have control over who or how my end product affects others. Perhaps your work is a piece of a greater whole. Focus on the greater whole. The part you help to create. Your role in the over-arching outcome.

Choose work that is meaningful. Find ways to make your contribution meaningful. Bless your work and fill it with the energy of purpose to go with it as it leaves your hands. Perhaps create a blessing for your work as you complete each aspect or bless tour contributions at the end of your day, sending it out with purpose for the highest good. How meaningful is your work and how can you raise your sights?

===EMBRACING CHANGE – WEEKLY NEWSLETTER ===

I know these newsletters are long but I keep learning exciting concepts I want to share and explore with you. I seem to be entering a particularly exciting stage of discovery right now. I am going to start sending out a newsletter every week so hopefully, they will not be so long for one sitting and I can keep sharing all the exciting things I am learning. I’m not sure that will solve the length problem but it sure will take us on some exciting adventures!

===CARA’S CORNER===

Weaving 0ur New Home

Those of us who are aware are weaving a new home, a new way to exist. Like the spider, we must weave from within ourselves – from the inner work we do, from the visioning we do, from our expanding consciousness of the high level of our vibration.

We must make internal changes before weaving our new home from within our own vision.

Give yourself over to the unimaginable – how do you want to exist? A land of supportive interaction working toward the higher good of all? We create that with visioning. We create that by raising what we believe is possible.

First, we imagine it. Then it takes form. What are you focusing on? What do you believe is possible?

As an older person not in the thick of things, I have to trust others to see the new possibilities and to step into them. But I can hold the intention. I can hold the essence of a very high vibration. I can hold an expectation of what is possible. Visioning counts. Intention counts. Expectation counts. Step upon the high road and become the leader you are and light the way to a higher way of being.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Web I Weave

My web is made of silken thoughts, each brought forth from within me with care and deliberate craftsmanship.

My web is made of silken thoughts, each brought forth from within me with care and deliberate craftsmanship. I breathe love into it. I breathe inclusion into it. And the strands grow stronger.

My web is made of silken thoughts, each brought forth from within me with care and deliberate craftsmanship. I breathe love into it. I breathe inclusion into it. And the strands grow stronger. The web I weave is my home. I build it with deliberate and caring intention.

-Cara Lumen, October 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

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