Transcendent Leadership

How to Connect with Those Who are looking in a Different Direction    

Creating Conscious Connection

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The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

Our discussion was about how or what to do to communicate with some of the radical, discordant thinking that made itself so blatantly known in the US recently. 

My first thought is that you cannot reach those people on a mental level because that’s also where their rhetoric and motion is coming from.  And if they are following threads of misinformation, words cannot even begin to connect.  

We have all manner of metaphysical things to consider as we respond and/or react to our changing world. 

What you focus on persists.

We have this negative energy coming together.  It is the center of the news and the concern.  To focus on it gives it more strength. We don’t want to focus on it but we do want to protect ourselves from it. 

We get to do all of that, – be aware of the discord, focus on raising the vibration of the collective whole, and set up protection for ourselves from the negativity. 

My major thought is that you cannot connect on the physical level with those who are what – angry, misinformed, building on a negative premise?  We cannot connect mentally or emotionally. But we are all one energy.  And at its heart it is an energy of wholeness – One.  All-That Is. 

Those of us who can, have to help others see and recognize in themselves the energy of Oneness, the core of who we are in the Great Nothingness.  We cannot solve this on the physical plane. We are to heal the negativity on the spiritual plane. 

How do we do that?

The image I keep coming to is a field of golden spiritual consciousness surrounding the earth.  Those of us who are aware of being part of that consciousness shine our lights as brightly as we can.  And some others, who are caught up in the mundane physical plane, look up and see us and say, “Oh, I remember that part of me. I want to go to that place again.”

And they do. The instant they make that choice their vibration raises. The minute they begin to turn inward and nurture their inner light, their vibration raises. As they walk with more awareness of themselves as Light Beings, others begin to see that Light of Oneness in themselves too and they choose that as their new focus. 

What we focus on persists. 

I started to say that I’m going to cut back on my news watching and develop a spiritual practice that sends healing energy to the earth. Lobbing Light Balls comes to mind. But that keeps me focused on the negativity that is abundant in the world.  I have to change my focus. I have to focus on the positive, the good, our wholeness.  

Expand your spiritual practice of Oneness.

I can work to raise my own vibration so I shine brighter and further and others see the light in themselves and pass it forward. I do that through intention. 

Watch where your focus is taking you. Where you allow it to take you. Raise your sights.  Focus on the higher vibration that is shining forth from many of us. Seek out those fellow Light Bearers and support each other in being brighter, more far-reaching lights.

I move now to do my inner world and shift my focus away from the negativity on the physical plane. To change the world I have to change myself so how do I begin?

Monitor your thoughts. 

When you find yourself in a place of anger or judgment or fear, stop those thoughts and immerse yourself in the Oneness that holds us all.  

Monitor your actions.

Rather than try to argue with someone you disagree with, hold your own vibration high and continue to raise it.  The other person may or may not be aware of the choice you are offering – for them to raise their own vibration.  They may feel it but not understand it.  Hold steady in the Light. They will either recognize it in themselves – or they won’t. 

Monitor your chores.

The majority of our work has to be within ourselves.  In my Sacred Garden of Self, I can plant and cultivate and harvest whatever I choose.  If you are looking at a seed catalog to see what to plant in your Inner Garden of Self, notice what you do NOT want to grow as well as what you do want to cultivate.

Spend time comparing varieties of the same plant in order to choose the ones that best adapt to where you have placed your garden. 

You don’t plant everything in the sun, some plants need shade.  Some need more water and some need less water.  Each concept you plant in your Garden of Self has its own rhythm, its own unfolding process and its own growing needs. 

What if some seeds come over from the neighbors garden that I don’t want in mine?  Be aware of the  unwanted seeds that take root.  Weed your Inner Garden regularly and keep an eye out for the seeds you do not want to grow in your Sacred Garden of Self.

Becoming aware of what seeds you are allowing to grow in your Garden of Self is a very powerful step to take.   You can weed out beliefs, misconceptions, ideas you unconsciously picked up from someone whose beliefs are different from yours. You are the gardener here.  It is your job to cultivate and nurture what you want to grow and weed out what is not wanted.

Change your thinking, change your life.  You get what you believe you deserve and what you believe is possible. 

What are you thinking?

What is growing in your Inner Garden of Self?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I monitor my thoughts and raise my vibration even higher as I add to the group consciousness of our planet. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

• Monitor your thinking. What are you focusing on?
• Open your heart to experience a greater feeling of inclusiveness. 
• Focus on being an Agent of Change who is raising your energy higher and higher for the well being of all.

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DEEPER SONGS I EXPLORED THIS MONTH

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

An Exploration of the Unseen World

There is tremendous and dramatic change in the world around us.  It is the emergence of the feminine, the rise of a New Consciousness.  Not all of us are called to rise to this higher vibration but those that are finding each other and are being bolstered as we gather together on this journey into the New Consciousness. 

I journeyed to ask for insights and guidance around this massive change the world is undergoing.  I was surprised and bolstered by the answer I received.

In this episode we explore

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

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

Important Links & Mentions From This Episode:

How to Create a transformative Energy Shield for Protection

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Gaia Gateway and the Soul Star 

The Space of Inner Knowing

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

How to Align Your Vibration within our Collective Vibrational Core

Your Future Self

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

The Space of Inner Knowing

***INNER WORK***

What Started You on the Path You are On?

Look back over your life and identify the major choices you made that brought you to where you are today. That includes the family you chose to be born into.  Identify the major choices that led you to where you are now. They become guideposts for creating your “next”.

My need to write showed up in High School where I began contributing to the school paper as a sophomore and became editor my senior year.  A comparative religion course I took in college opened up an awareness I had not had before. My choice to not take a news reporting class as part of my Speech and Drama degree left out some valuable information I had to acquire later.  And dropping out of my undergrad play writing class when we were told to write about what we knew – and I did’t think I knew anything. (I made that up in my 40’s when I went back to get my Master’s Degree.)

My first job out of college was as a Radio Continuity editor at KMBC radio in Kansas City.  

A few years later I applied for a job as a copywriter in an Advertising Agency. I was told to write a black and white ad and had to ask what that was.  I finally figured out it was a print ad and wrote one.  I got the job.

I became online talent in television when I was a copywriter and a salesman told me to write myself into a commercial for a client of his.  The opening lines were “Your eyes are your most important possession.”  It was the beginning of a modest career in television. 

The most life-changing choice I made was to move from the mid-west to New York City where my broad and enthusiastic holistic education took place.  It would not have been available to me at that time anyplace else in the world. 

There are choices you have made in your life that opened doors to new adventures and shut the doors to other pathways.   Can you identify some of the major choices you made that brought you to where you are now? How did that work out? What are you choosing in the moment?  Where will that lead you?   

What self-aligned choices can you make today?

Stretch

I have drawn the oracle card “Stretch” four times in the month that I have had my Sacred Earth cards.  Each time I journal what it means to me. The picture shows a woman with both deepening roots and spreading branches so I understand that I am to use my Still Point to move more deeply within to explore the Unseen World and turn and translate that to share with others. 

It is like drawing up nourishment from Gaia, I am to draw in the awareness, the insights, the consciousness of the Unseen World.  Then turn to raise my vibration, to share what I have discovered. “Stretch” means to expand, to reach for.  It means being able to expand without tearing or breaking. What are you reaching for? And are you reaching far enough?  And high enough?

What Are You Breathing In?

There is both negative and positive energy and in each moment we have a choice which one we breathe in. We do that with our intention. 

We are constantly breathing energy in and breathing energy out.  In each moment, we have a choice whether to breathe in positive energy or breathe in negative energy.  We have a choice with each breath.  

Set your intention. Do not breathe in negativity.  Do breathe out inclusive, high vibration.  Be aware of your choices. 

We are self-healing.  Use your breath to consciously bring in energy that heals you. Go to Gaia and the elements and breathe in their power. 

If you don’t breathe in consciously you are not consciously breathing out. We have the power to transform and transmit all energy – with a conscious, intentional breath. 

***OUTER WORK***

Be Flexible in Your Thinking  – It Opens New Doors  

There are many ways to do things.  Think of cooking – you can bake, fry, steam, eat raw – all of those approaches produce edible food.  Think of the many spices one can add to a meal.  That’s the kind of flexible and innovative choices you want to add to your thinking. 

Not just in how you do it but in when you do it and what you choose to do. 

It involves some exploring.  With a goal of sharing what I learn, I can consider posts, newsletters, podcasts, videos, and books.  My choice is based on what I want to do and what reaches the most people.  

Explore your options and possibilities.  I explore.  I experiment.  I discover that one form really pleases me and I’m rather good at it.  I make a choice only after exploring and experimenting and seeing how that form is received. 

Be flexible in your thinking and do a lot of exploring and experimenting before you choose a path. 

Let Go – Make Room

My daughter Cathy and her husband Ron came and helped me make a major change – I got rid of a lot of stuff I was no longer using!  It was my idea to give some stuff away and I worked for three days taking things out of closets and bookcases.  There were moments of sadness as I remembered how I used to be when I used those things.  I pulled out a lot of things to give away.

But Cathy was relentless as she took on my pantry where all manner of things were crowded together.   “When was the last time you used this?”  was her mantra.  And in most cases, I had kept it “just in case” and it had not been used in years. 

We forget why we hang on to things.  

Whether it’s a closet or your cluttered desktop, rethink what you keep around you and be relentless in the choosing.

There comes a time when we cannot reach high places and low places in our home. There comes a time when we can’t reach into the corner to clean. There comes a time when we simply need to give away what we no longer use or need.

If you have an older person in your life, consider offering your strength and flexibility to help them reorganize their space with one intention being to give things away and make the things they use more assessable.  

***DEEPEN  YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE***

Let Your Daily Spiritual Practice Evolve

A daily spiritual practice can be short or long. it can be simple or elaborate.  The purpose, the intention, is to move you from your physical plane limitation into the expanded power and overarching guidance of the Unseen World.  The All That Is. The Nowhere That You Came From. You seek to cultivate the vibration of wholeness.  You want to connect with it, experience it and draw it more fully into your life. 

A deep breath to your Still Point is an easy place to begin. In several breaths, you can drop away from your humanness and go deep within.

Find a way to connect with nature.  She is our guide.  Her seasons, her cycles, her power are lessons and guides for us.  We are part of nature, we are to express ourselves with the same fluidity.   

I sit looking out a window and play my native flutes.  Two squirrels are playing tag there.  I can see the shape-shifting clouds and I have a large weeping birch who is my tree messenger to send positive energy to the world. 

Honor the elements.  I have chosen crystals for each element. I have made up songs for each element.  Elements are powerful teachers.  Take time to connect with the elements each day. 

Set an intention.  Mine often revolves around a blessing for the words I write or share – that they touch hearts and change lives. 

You can have an opening and closing of the day – a moment of contemplation.  I sometimes play down the sun with my flutes.   

I bless my work for the day.  I bless the food that I choose.  I offer gratitude for my body’s support.  

You know how to do this.  Create small focused moments of gratitude and blessing at several points in your day. 

Deeper Listening: 

The Power of Your Still Point

How to Activate a Tree Messenger to Send Your Healing Energy into the Word.

The Role of the Element of Fire in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the Element of Earth in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the Element  Water in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the element of Air in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the Element of Space in Our New Consciousness

What is Your Role in Creating the New Consciousness?

How too Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

Use the Intention of Your Breath for Healing

We can heal and realign and restore through the power of our breath. When you take in a breath consciously, take in the higher vibration, not the lower vibration that is so prevalent in the world today. We do that through the power of our intention.   Through intention, take in your breath from the higher vibration, the Oneness, the All That Is.  Let it heal your body, your thoughts, your intentions, and when you breathe out, breathe out oneness and serenity into the energy of the planet.

Focus the Tone of each Day with an Intention

I have a sequence of spiritual steps I take each morning but I had not thought about programming my day until Shama Puma Fredy Quispe Singona suggested it. What is the purpose of your day?  What focus do you want it to bring to you?  When lessons do you want to receive? What gifts do you want to offer? The Universe will give you all of that but setting an intention for each day will help you recognize the guidance that comes in. 

Use your breath to create a small Ceremony of intention for the focus, outcome, and well-being of your day.

The headline was “Great change only comes with great friction.” I don’t choose to look at change that way. I see myself welcoming change, encouraging change, embracing change.  To make room for change I have to willingly let go – of beliefs that no longer serve, solutions that no longer work.  The more powerful word is unfolding.  Just keep looking closely at what shows up.  Change is all around you. Change is up to you. Focus it.   Embrace it.  

***DEEPER SONG  INSIGHTS ***

How Do You See Change?

The headline was “Great change only comes with great friction.” I don’t choose to look at change that way. I see myself welcoming change, encouraging change, embracing change.  To make room for change I have to willingly let go – of beliefs that no longer serve, solutions that no longer work.  The more powerful word is unfolding.  Just keep looking closely at what shows up.  Change is all around you. Change is up to you. Focus it.   Embrace it.  

Covid-19 Shot

I got my first Covid-19 shot this month.  A pharmacist came to our senior center and gave 100 shots. I am very grateful.

***DEEPER SONG IDEAS ***

Man Hasn’t Been to the Grocery Store in 8 Months Thanks to Tiny Pandemic Garden 

***OUR EVOLVING FUTURE***

Choice 

We are moving through a period of domestic terrorism in the US.  As I watch these citizens of a country built on democracy work to overthrow the government, I also know they have no clue what to do if they were in charge. There is no plan, only the anger which in this case is fueled by major disinformation and decades of white supremacist beliefs. 

They exist.  They are dangerous. And there are many who are undertaking to stop their actions.  

And I choose to shift my focus, to look in a more positive direction.  Not ignoring the evil, just gathering hope and purpose from looking in another direction.  It is a consciences choice I make.

As I watch President Joe Biden put extremely skilled and experienced people in charge of all aspects of government, I see a powerful, opening light at the end of the tunnel.  A new beginning.  A new era.  I have hope and confidence in the unfolding of the future.  That’s where I choose to focus my gaze. 

Ok, that’s my pep talk for those of us in the US.  Now let’s get to what we, as individuals get to do in every moment of our lives that impacts, influences and directs what happens next.  We get to choose.  Over and over and over.  Our choices create our future.  Our choice of reactions, or mindful choices.  Our choice of action or non-action.  Our choice of where we focus, our choice of who we are and what we support, our choice of the steps we take to move ourselves forward. 

Choice is our tool.  Choice is how we change directions.  Choice is how we learn.  

Where have your current choices led you? What choices are you making for yourself and where will it take you next?

Chose your next role. It helps me to understand that I’m an energy worker, not a hands-on worker. That awareness focuses my search for how I am to be in service in this unfolding new world we are experiencing.  The choice of your role focuses your path and guides you to your future. 

Re-think and re-chose the purpose of  your work.  I seek to raise my own vibration and help others do the same.  I do that by exploring the Unseen World for insights and guidance that I interpret and bring back to share. I have developed several platforms through which to share. Focus on your purpose. It helps you make powerful and aligned choices. 

Explore your options. What conscious thoughts are you exploring?  Choose one and walk down the path a bit to see if it takes you in the direction you want to go. How does it feel?  Where will it take you?  Is that where your heart wants you to go next?  Who do you see walking the path beside you, in front of you or right behind you?  Are they the people you want to walk with? To learn from?

Keep exploring until you are walking along the path that will take you in the direction you want to go in this moment. Then get to work. 

Professional Evolution – Stay Relevant

The clever people will keep up with the new discoveries and quickly get the training they need to stay relevant.  We can refuel an airplane with elements found in air while it is flying in mid-air. What kind of jobs does that create that never existed before and which jobs does that new technology make obsolete?

As we move to solar and wind-power, entire industries will be elevated. And new professions will be created.

They can print a 3D house in three weeks.  What does that do for carpenters and electricians and painters?  Do real estate agents turn and help the underprivileged?  Each one of these areas will be impacted and each one will have new job descriptions that need filling. 

How flexible are you?  How curious are you?  Are you keeping up with the new possibilities, the new rapidly unfolding potential?

I’m a writer.  There is now a way to write with the help of Artificial Intelligence!!!!

And there are audiobooks and videos and podcasts – each venue nurtures a separate audience and each venue requires some different talents in my skill set.  

Can you create an online program that teaches bored children and keeps them entertained while their parents work from home?  How does a person who knows about waiting tables repurpose and retrain themselves in order to find employment?  What skills have you overlooked that could be utalized in order to open new forms of employment?

Nothing is the same and we each have to go exploring.  How are you staying relevant?

***MESSAGE FROM THE SACRED EARTH CARDS***

I have been drawing an oracle card for myself every day.  I turn to my computer and journal what ideas come up.  I also put a date on it.  What I am finding is that the same card shows up several times a few days apart and each time I write how I interpret it, I gain new insights. 

I drew an oracle card for us this week and got two cards:

CORE

This is an amazing cad.  It shows a woman with an open heart and her hands on her solar plexus pulling up all she has to radiate out through her third eye.   We make a powerful difference when we come from our hearts.  We make aligned decisions when we come for our inner knowing. 

Whatever you do, do it with your whole self.  Immerse yourself in the doing, then given yourself over to the flow from inner to outer. Live your life from the center of you.  Nurture yourself at your core and feel the power of your core radiate out in all you think and say and do. 

INNOCENCE

“Innocence” is the second card I drew for us this month.  They were “stuck” together and came out as a pair.  It shows a woman holding a dove with great tenderness and care.  Her third eye is open and all-seeing. At the top are the phases of the moon. The natural organic, ongoing cycles of life.  How do we interpret this for us today? 

Look beyond the physical manifestation to the soul, the core, the essence – in yourself and in others.  To care for yourself be aware of the opportunities to make choices – to begin again with a fresh clean start.  Treat those fledging ideas with gentleness and listen to your inner voice, your inner eyes for the fresh insight, the new energy, the purest way to begin from where you are. Innocence – Lay down everything and begin with an open heart. 

We seem to have a message of “core innocence”.

Sacred Earth Cards

CARA’S CORNER

The Discomfort of Healing

There was a large physical shift and I knew that the 90 minutes call I had been on in Zoom with my fellow healers had moved something within me.  I really, really, really hurt.  It hurt to stand, it hurt to sit, it hurt to lie down.  Not that we have to hurt to heal but I am going through an organic process of realigning my spine and posture and the muscles are being cranky as we make the shift. 

I’m not certain what happened, just that something let go and my body rearranged itself.   I stood differently.  

Change does not have to be painful. However, if you suddenly  remove a blockage, all sorts of things are going to get grouchy as they move  back into alignment.  Cranky – my body was really cranky….

You know how one small course correction can take you miles away from your destination?  So a small adjustment on the physical plane can take you on a new adventure.  

How do I know it is a healing? Because change is healing. Because I simply know.  And I am listening and changing my intentions and raising my expectations so my body can adjust and move in the direction it needs to go next.

Beware of change. Be flexible in change.  Welcome change.  Adjust to change. Let change open up new vistas for o to explore. Change means you are can choose a new direction and that is a good thing. 

A DEEPER SONG

Change.  It was a small change.  

Change. 
It was a small change that took me in a new direction. 

Change. 
It was a small change that took me in a new direction. 
I welcome change and invite it to take me adventuring. 

– Cara Lumen

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

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

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