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Sing a Deeper Song

Transformational Community

It’s Time to Shift into a New Possibility

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Creating Conscious Connection

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

A shift is a gradual change.  It is like moving your sail a bit to catch the wind differently and thus steadily directing yourself to an entirely new destination.  I like that way of changing – a shift in focus that takes me to a new destination.   

I also like the idea of new possibilities.  It means that I can make a slight shift and from that new viewpoint, I can see new vistas, new directions, new possibilities – all by simply shifting my gaze. 

A possibility is not a “have-to” place to go.  A possibility is a place to explore, to consider, to try on for size.  You can take all of it or part of it or none of it.  

The idea is to shift – to turn our gaze, to look more closely at new options, to perhaps even explore a bit.  

Shift.  If we keep shifting our weight from one foot to another – we don’t go anywhere, but our view is different and our body is being used differently, all because we changed the emphasis, the focus, the weight from one place to another. 

Shifting can be like moving around furniture in a room or it can be like moving a dish a few inches on a counter to line it up better.   Small changes can make things align differently, open up new vistas, and create new possibilities. 

Shift your gaze. Center your attention in one place and slowly and consciously begin to identify the different energies and the feelings and sensations that viewpoint generates. Immerse yourself in the feeling of the energy, exploring the messages you intuit.  Change your gaze or your compete location to engage in a deeper experience of the messages of the energy you are aware of. The operative concept here is to shift.  Shift your gaze. Shift your thoughts. Shift your attentions.  Shift your intentions.   

How will you shift your gaze today?  Look closely at the new vistas it opens up. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I consciously shift my awareness and go adventuring.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Close your eyes and notice how you feel, what you hear, how the air smells.  Let those experiences soak into you. 
  • Now go deeper, leaving the physical plane behind, and shift your awareness to the Unseen World.  Leave behind all awareness of your body, or all sound, even of your breathing.  
  • Where are you? What do you see?  What do you feel?  
  • See where a gentle shifting of your gaze can take you?

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 have a discussion on the Deeper Song Explorers!

 ===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEEPR SONG====

Step Beyond the Limits of Yourself

An Exploration of the Unseen World

“The Tao is vast and fathomless. You can understand only by stepping beyond the limits of yourself,” says Stephen Mitchell in the Second  book of Tao.

What does that mean? What are the limits of myself?  How do I do that?

The word “Tao” means all-ness, everything that is, everything that exists, seen and unseen.  Tao IS.

And here we sit, all stuffed into our limited bodies, relying on limited resources trying to understand this immense vastest.  Where do we even begin?

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

In this episode we explore

Step Beyond the Limits of Yourself

(17 Minutes)

(Listen Here)

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

Important Links From This Episode:

Stephen Mitchell Tao te Ching and Second book of Tao

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe  

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

The Power of Your Still Point

The Unseen World Needs Us

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

= ==INNER WORK ===

 The Empty Room

What if your life right now was like an empty room? You could bring into it only the things you like. What would you bring in?

I love the serene energy of a basic Feng Shui arrangement – usually 3-5 pieces. That might be a chair, a lamp and a table, or it may be a dish and plant and candle on a tabletop.  But I could never just choose three of anything for a tabletop or shelf. I am definitely not a minimalist and at the same time I appreciate the serenity of simplicity.

We get to become aware how just one more thing upsets the perfect balance.   

What is the first item you would bring into your inner room?  My computer has to come – for writing and learning and interconnecting. 

I would want my cat, Sebastian, to be with me.  We have a great interactive time. He is a supportive friend.

And then I would like a schefflera plant – a big one. I love those. 

A plant, a cat, and a computer.  Good so far.

I would like a place to rest and a way to feed myself.  

That makes for a fairly simple and clear space – until I bring in my crystals and my flutes and my drums…. 

But what I have established in my own mind is my priorities.  That helps.  

I recently gave away a lot of stuff.  My daughter and her husband helped me by hauling it away.  It was amazing how the energy in my home changed with that major letting go.  And I did gradually rethink and rearrange all the surfaces in my home.  Less crowded a bit, but very meaningful for my current awareness and nurturing to look at. 

If you were to begin with an empty room, what would you bring in and in what order?  And most importantly, when do you stop adding things…

Begin with an empty room…

Listen for the Messages of Your Heart

It’s not that your inner voice and the messages from your heart are different, it’s just that they are presented in a different way to help you interpret them. 

My inner voice picks up words and ideas that trigger a response in me.  I explore them and develop them. Some I keep.  Some I don’t.  I do that so often that I’m getting really good at it. 

I really had to stop to see how I hear the messages of my heart.  My heart spoke to me when I got super excited over helping a new friend find the words for her new website. I had a great time, the results were powerful and I had a marvelous time helping her figure out the positioning of her work.  Yes, it was mental but it made my heart sing. My creativity touches my heart.

Playing my flutes each day resonates to my core.  Sometimes it is simple melodies to nature that show up. Sometimes it is the specific songs I have composed for the directions and elements.  The melodies come from my deepest inner self and resonate throughout my body. They are definitely songs of my heart.

I’m in my mind a lot so I may need to practice listening to the messages of my heart. It will be as simple as looking for them. 

Having said that, my mind unerringly leads me to ideas and actions that make my heart sing.

We are a multi-faceted being and we get to access our actions from both our heart and our inner knowing.  Which is louder for you?  How will you turn up the volume?

Use Your Intention to Transform

We manifest things through our intention.  We set an intuition to do something and we do it.  We sent an intuition to change our focus and we do.  In shamanic journeying, we set an intention for our journey. At my altar, I set an intention for my day.  I set an intention for the energy I offer my work. 

Intentional intention….!

What do you intend for today?  What do you intend for your life?   Intention is purpose.   Intention is a plan.  Intention is a focus. Intention makes things happen. What is your intention? Think big.  Aim high!

The Dreams/Expectations You Were Given

So much of what we manifest for ourselves is based on a dream we were given.  An expectation for our lives from others.  Women my age did not have jobs, we were expected to get married and raise children.  Period. 

A young woman of today does not have that expectation for herself or her future. She has multiple choices and she goes exploring. And her expectations for herself are high. 

Let’s say your entire family is artistic and had managed to make their living as artists.  Not necessarily an easy thing to do.  But what if a member of that family is artistic but can’t follow in the footsteps of the others, even though the longing is great, the skill or know-how or whatever else it takes to succeed is simply not there? What kind of a wound does that make? Does he or she keep pursuing a path that is not theirs to follow?  

What did your parents expect of you? Is that the direction you chose? Did you fail to live up to their expectations?  Or did you far exceed them?

I didn’t realize I expected all my children to go to college until my first child was brain damaged by a forceps delivery at birth and that path was never an option for her.  I had to change my expectations. 

I took a very unique turn in my life that made me who I am today.  If I had not made that unusual and daring choice, my life would be quite different.  I have lived on both coasts and my metaphysical education grew by leaps and bounds. My choice.  My experiences.  My results. 

Pause and examine what your parents expected of you and how that helped or hindered you.  Have you put aside a dream because of someone else’s expectation of who you should be and what you should do?  Not just parents, but friends, spouses, even children have expeditions that you may or may not meet. 

Pause and notice what you expect from yourself and where that expectation came from. Are some adjustments in order?

===OUTER  WORK ===

Rethink Your Routine

Routine means a fixed pattern, a sequence you continuously follow.  It may be what time you go to bed, when you eat or when you walk your dog.  My cat Sebastian, has a very insistent routine that is guid not by a clock but by his stomach.  He reminds me it is time to feed him. There are all types of prompts that create a response or a reaction. It is the thoughtfulness that goes into your choices that determine their ultimate relevance to the present moment.

Question your choices.  Are they a response or a reaction? 

I have more free time than I have created for myself in a while, yet I want that time to be relevant, rich in ideas, fertile in offerings I can share.  And that’s all I need for now. Just keep your eye on your overarching goal, reset your routine and let your daily choices take you in the new direction you have chosen. 

Like Attracts Like

Pause to look at the people you have attracted to you. What are they like? Happy, angry, contemplative, jovial, serious, relaxed? They are a mirror of you.  How do you like your reflection and what would you like to change about yourself?

= ==DEEPEN  YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE ===

The Offering

I bought the Lotus Incense Holder for – incense – but instead I am using it for my personal offering – with my breath.  It has a lid which I lift as if I were letting smoke out and I name what I am offering – “I offer my curiosity, my love of writing, my sense of adventure to my day and its unfolding.”

There are many ways to make an offering. I have some paper I can write on that dissolves in water.  You can light a candle, you can use incense, you can simply use your breath to make the offering.  You can put your hands together and made a small bow. What will you offer to your world today?  How will you offer it?

Spring Equinox, March 20

If you garden, you have begun to look over the seed catalogs to see what you would like to plant for the coming year.  We can do the same for our life in the Spring Equinox. What we plant now is what we will harvest in the fall (or sooner) and what will tide us over in the winter. What will you plant?

I have a foundational planting of alternating podcasts and newsletters that seem to be a very good balance that leaves me time to explore. Now is the time for me to choose other things I want to explore or deepen or learn.

My problem is that I let things unfold and I can’t put them into a list. 

But I can make choices and go exploring.  

For instance, I want to do more shamanic journeying into the unseen world.  It’s hard to figure out any details beyond that.

One of the crops I want to plant is to expand my spiritual practice.  That means more moving meditation like Qi Gong, expanded musical meditation with flutes and drums, and using writing as meditation as I explore my thoughts.

We are plants too, growing in the Garden of Self, but I have a few “Cara” Plants growing that I would like to have less of – some habits of omission (like the need to walk more). Do keep an eye on the unwanted plants that show up. A weed is a plant too, but when it shows where it is not wanted it is considered a weed…

The overarching tone of my Garden of Self this year is exploration.  What crops are you going to plant?

= ==DEEPER SONG  INSIGHTS  ===

Koan

Shenshan was mending clothes with a needle and thread.
Dongshan asked, “What are you doing?”
Shenshan said, “Mending.”
Dongshan asked, “How are you mending?”
Shenshan said, “One stitch is like the next.”
Dongshan exclaimed, “We’ve been traveling together for twenty years now, and you can still say such a thing!
How can you be so dense?”
Shenshan asked, “OK, then, how do you mend?”
Dongshan said, “As if the whole earth were spewing flames.”

If you want to study Koan’s, I highly recommend Illana Berger, PhD

illanaberger@gmail.com, www.illanaberger.com

Formation  

I drew the Oracle card “Formation” after having drawn “Ready But Waiting” a number of times.  So perhaps this period I have gone through of knowing change was forming but not knowing what it would look like is moving forward. 

Formation can be very slow, like centuries of layers of sediment gradually build up layers to become rock.  Or it can be a rapid change, like lava pouring over the hillside to change its shape forever.  Forming is about shaping, evolving.  It is change. It is an emergence.  Like a baby bird working its way out of the shell in its own perfect time, or a caterpillar securely wrapped in its cocoon and gradually changing form.  Formation takes patience and awareness of its subtle changes. 

What is forming in your life and how is it unfolding?

= ==OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

A Path of Your Own 

The future is not about fitting into something that exists, it is about forging your own unique path, using the new technologies and concepts that are available to shape your own future.  

This is a time to celebrate your uniqueness.  To identify what sets you apart and cultivate that into a possible new path. 

This is no longer a time for figuring out how to fit into something that already exists because all that exists is in the process of changing, evolving, repurposing, and retooling. This is the time to make up a new role for yourself. 

I am listening to my inner voice make suggestions for slightly shifting my focus in a way that will both eliminate some of what I am doing and expand others. 

Whatever you develop, your path will be unique, yours alone, paved with choices that match your gifts, your interests, and your desire to serve.

Where you are standing right now is a result of the choices you have made along the line – both choices to do and choices not to do.  Identify what resonates, identify what led you to manifest that outcome, and create a path that is uniquely your own.

A Cosmic Question   

I heard the phrase “cosmic question” from Judge Merck Garland in his confirmation hearing for Attorney General in the US. It not only was an interesting phrase coming from a fact-based federal judge but I had to pause to figure out what it meant to me. 

I think it means to look at the over-arching impact. How far-reaching the answer to the question will be.  It means to look beyond the reason for the question into the potential impact of the possibilities the idea suggests.  What does that mean exactly?

A cosmic question means to look into the far-reaching consequences both for now and in the future and even in future generations.  What will this decision impact? Who will it impact? We are to look beyond the reason for the question into the possible and probable impact of the decision.

The most obvious example is our climate.  It’s not just about dropping our one plastic straw into the ocean, it’s about the zillions of other people who thoughtlessly do the same without any consideration for the future impact of that mindless act. Change is made in our consciousness -our conscious decisions, our conscious choices. 

When we do something, you can bet there are a whole lot of others doing the same.  What will our collective impact be?

Yes, we feel overwhelmed, but I control my own personal universe, as do you.  I am responsible for my own choices and for their impact. 

In essence, we are to ask a cosmic question about everything we do. Who will this impact?  What will it impact?  Is this what I want to do?

===MESSAGES FROM THE SACRED EARTH ORACLE CARDS  ===

Space

We need to give ourselves space to grow.  We need to give ourselves space to move.  We need to give ourselves space to think.  We do that with pauses. We do that with meditation. We give ourselves space when we simply pause to look out the window and connect with nature.  We open up space when we take a deep breath and move to our Still Point. 

Space is also about – well, space – the planets, the galaxy, the unseen world that is 95% of everything.  

Do you give yourself space to think?  To Feel?  To contemplate? To change?  How will you focus on space in the next few weeks?

Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER ===

Allow Time for It to Unfold

After many months of knowing change was coming. I finally and dramatically and totally had the vision come into being.  

I type my journeys as I experience them so when the clarity of this new direction finally kicked in, I went back to see what I had been told in my journeys of the last few months. 

The hints were there. In fact, they were more than hints.  I had just not been in a place to hear them.  Until suddenly I was and this next body of work became incredibly clear.  The Universe had to keep showing me the new direction a whole lot of times until I was ready to hear it.  

Guidance is there all the time. The more you listen, the more you hear. 

Journal, make some lists, gather more information, whatever form you need in order to make some of your ideas visible in the human realm so you can relate to them and consider them.  Write those ideas down in one place and when you are ready, you have a good-sized collection of potential answers.  

What am I going to do?  Process Podcasts.  Guided meditations that can be listened to multiple times that give you a different, individualized experience every time.  I have some processes recorded but not like these.  They are specific. These are about you filling in the experience.  So it will be different for you every time you listen because you will be accessing your inner wisdom. 

It takes time for ideas to unfold but when you are ready, they will be there in order to move you forward! Keep listening…!

===A DEEPER SONG ===

A new path opens, a new journey begins. 

A new path opens. A new journey begins and the road ahead widens.

A new path opens. A new journey begins and the road ahead widens to reveal untold possibilities. Here I go adventuring!!!!!!

-Cara Lumen

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

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

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Respond Rather than React

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Respond Rather than React

Creating Conscious Connection

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

Reaction is unthinking. It is automatic, visceral, instinctive, primal, and uncontrolled behavior. 

Respond is to consider, and weigh our options and consciously choose your answer and your actions. 

Reaction seems to be emotional and very uncontrolled.  Response is measured and is consciously and mindfully reasoned out.

Recognizing and understanding the difference is empowering. 

We have control over where we focus our attention.  If we focus on the negative, what is not working, we experience fear and dismay and … all manner of negative emotions. 

When we are consciously selective, when we focus on the positive, the possible, the overarching well-being, we experience an entirely different emotion.  

They are both emotional – one focus is soothing and hopeful.  The other brings us angst and tension.  

A response can be negative but because it is a response rather than a reaction, it seems to offer us a logical way forward that a reaction doesn’t always have.

A logical way forward. A focusing of our ability to reason, to evaluate, to compare, and to choose.  Those quantities make up a response.  We want to cultivate our ability to respond rather than react as we move with conscious choice through our lives. 

The first step for moving into purposeful evaluation is to quiet your mind.  Shut down the what if’s and disbeliefs and particularly the scenarios of potential failure that we have a tendency to create. 

Our first tendency when facing a new situation is to begin to use our mind to evaluate, but I’m suggesting we learn to move into our Still Point with a deep breath and consciously relaxed shoulders, and sit in silence.  Listen as the silence deepens and calms and centers you.  This is where the truth lives. Not the what if’s, but the serene, awareness of natural unfolding cycles, and the consciousness of Oneness.  Go there. Be there. Trust that.  

Once you are centered in your Still Point, you are in a position to evaluate and mindfully choose your response.  

In this calm, centered state, feel yourself move to a place of seeing the overview. From that calm, centered, all-inclusive position, begin to consider your options, your possibilities, your potential path. Just observe with no emotion.

What can you actually control or directly affect?

Unless you are in charge of something on the physical plane, the majority of change comes from the energy and focus you create within yourself. Change begins within you.  That change radiates out into the world and is powerfully vibrant and influential.

As an 88-year-old woman, my in-person service work is now done within. I’ve held signs on street corners in protest a few times a long time ago.  I walked out on the highway in New York City to be part of the Hands Across America movement, but now my sphere of influence comes from within – though my intention and continually raising my vibration. 

This work is subtle. But it is powerful.  I watch as people join the Deeper Song Community from all around the globe and I know there are many of us, consciously moving to raise our vibration and the vibration of the collective consciousness.  We are in deep service and we are making a difference.  And because we are all doing inner work, energy work, consciousness work, we get to look more closely in order to see its subtle and powerful effect. 

And we get to trust.  Trust that this expanding, collectively raised vibration is making change. 

To convince yourself of your innate power to change, begin by making changes you can see and experience.  I can walk more and see the changes in my body.  I can study more and experience the deepening of my knowledge. I get to choose where I focus my energy.  

I’m relying on Gaia and my Soul Star to be my messengers, to help me support positive change.  I  consciously rise above the human chaos and focus on our wholeness, our heightened energy and I pick up my individual  harp and join the Circle of Light Beings as we play our music to raise the vibration of – everything.

Tune your individual harp strings to the sound of One.  Play your melody but stay in tune with the overarching symphony.  To respond is to make conscious choices.  Let us join together to raise the vibration of the whole.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I move into my Still Point, tune my soul harp to the sound of One, and begin to play my melody for the well-being of all. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • In your quiet times, consciously raise your vibration and join it with the Circle of Light Beings and watch the powerful change that takes place. 

To explore your options and develop your personal approach, explore: 

How to Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

The Power of Your Still Point

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

How to Direct Energy Outside of Time and Space

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 have a discussion on the Deeper Song Explorers!

===DEEPER SONGS I EXPLORED THIS MONTH===

Simply Being – The Art of Wu Wei

There is an emptiness about Wu Wei.  There is a tranquility about Wu Wei, there is a posture of moving with the flow, being gently rocked in the current of life while serenely sharing your inner light

Wu Wei is a concept in Taoism that means non-action.   Wu Wei means do what is natural, appropriate and leaves no traces.  

The “leave no traces” is an interesting aspect to consider. 

Here’s how I think it is: 

Stephen Mitchell’s translations of the Tao Te Ching says: 

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.”

Wu Wie means to be present, resounds with inclusive clarity and leaves no traces.  

Wu Wei is about non-interfering, non-obstruction, and non-forcing.  It is about letting life unfold.  

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

In this episode we explore

Simply Being – The Art of Wu Wei

(20 minutes)

(LISTEN HERE)

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

Important Links From This Episode:

Stephen Mitchell Tao te Ching and Second book of Tao

Deng Ming Dao –  Everyday Tao-Living with Balance and Harmony

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Power of Your Still Point

The Concept of One and the You as Observer

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness

The Space of Inner Knowing

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

We Are One With the Whole

===INNER WORK===

Patterns

I drew the oracle card “Pattern” and had to explore what it meant to me. A pattern is a repetitive design. I looked at the pattern of my life.  Strong elements in my personal pattern are intellectual curiosity, communication, and spiritual exploration.  Those are some of the threads I weave into my life.  But the pattern is up to me.  I can change the emphasis of one thread over the other.  I can change the depth and width of the use of that thread in the overall design.  Each element has a different color range.  How fascinating to feel myself weaving my day into being.  What threads do I emphasize? What patterns do I create? What colors do I choose?  

Think of your day as a tapestry you are weaving and choose your pattern with thoughtfulness and creativity.

===OUTER WORK===

What is Driving You Forward And Does it Leave you Room to Explore?

When we look closely, we will be aware that that are several core driving forces moving us forward.  It’s important to know what your core focus is and also periodically examine it for relevance. 

Survival is certainly a focus.  But what level do you seek?  Are you comfortably tucked into a modest home or do you want something luxurious that takes more time and money? Your choice will determine the size of the job you take and how long you work at it.  Supporting your choices will determine how locked in you are to the path you must take to support it.   If I have a backpack and an open road, I need only to take a dishwashing gig in a restaurant to find food. If I am running a big company, there are many layers I must master and manage. 

Balance is important.  Adjusting our goals is one way to make space to adjust our actions.  

I’m still in a stage of evolution; however, the clues from my inner self are getting stronger and clearer. But I do not make myself so busy that I do not have time to listen and explore in the moment. We need to make space for new ideas to make themselves known.  Spend quiet, contemplative time often.

Are you too busy to have time to listen, and think and consider what new opportunities are presenting themselves?

Find time to go exploring.  I have modified my offering output so that I can literately sit here and say, “What do you feel like doing?” My absolute favorite thing is to explore through writing.  That’s easy and fun. Shaping that into the format to share with others is the next step. 

So I mindfully listen in stillness and make room to explore what shows up.  

I love to learn but I’m rather full up.  I love to create and that’s a priority. What is important to you? What is your priority? What is your driving force?  What is crowding you so much that too don’t’ have time to explore?

Make some choices and leave room to explore.

Who Do You want to Serve? What do You Want to Help Them Do?

With the world undergoing such rapid and dramatic changes, this would be a good time to pause and make some thoughtful choices.  What new needs have opened up that you might fill? Who do you want to serve and what do you want to help them do? Let the answers to those questions guide your choices as you set about to create your “next.”

I was in Michael Port’s first Book Yourself Solid Coaching certification and one of my favorite tools to work with is the “who and do what” statement. 

If you are considering a new step, whether changing jobs, moving into retirement, or starting your own business. figure out the answers to these  three statements: 

I help (kind of people you want to help) 

To Do (what does your service/offering help them accomplish?) 

So that (what they can do after working with you that they couldn’t do before?)

Making those decisions will get you rapidly focused on the direction of your net step. 

How do you want to be in service next?

“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.”

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Prayer for Sacred Pauses

Goddess of the sacred pause
please grant me the courage
to lay aside swiftness
and take up slowness,
to embrace limitations as learning,
silence as stabilizing,
waiting as worthy,
and sitting as divine.
Goddess of the sacred pause
help me to know stillness as strength,
patience as powerful,
and healing time
as holy necessity. 

© Molly Remer 2019

The Unexpected and Its Source

The dish I had ordered for my altar was not the color I had ordered, it was not ceramic as I had thought.  It was plant-based resin and it has been a tremendous source of energy from the moment I opened the package.  This feather-shaped dish sent energy to heal my body, my heart, my insight.  All this happened within seconds of my opening the package. I had a sense the person who created this had infused it with very powerful healing energy.  I accepted the gift.  

I had ordered the dish from an artist on Etsy and the package came from Latvia.  I had to look up exactly where Latvia is. “Latvia is a democratic sovereign state, parliamentary republic Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania had been part of the Russian Empire since the end of the 18th century, but after the Russian Revolution of 1917, they became independent states.”  It is on the Baltic Sea across from Sweden and down from Finland.  My little package had traveled a long, long way.

I wrote the woman who made it and asked what she had added to it energetically. And she wrote back “only a little piece of my heart.”  

Be aware of the energy of “inanimate” objects.  Learn to feel their energy.  Learn to interpret their energy.  

This particular item is a  small dish shaped like a feather.  I got it to serve as an offering dish on the altar I am creating under the window next to my desk.  

I have to thank the universe for bringing this energy to me.  I thought I ordered blue – I would not have ordered it in black.  I thought it was ceramic or I would also not have ordered it.  But the Universe made those choices for me.  It wanted the energy it carries to get to me. 

I have recently learned of the powers of the Condor in Peruvian shamanism so I will use this feather to represent the Condor, which represents the Upper World, the realm of the divine origins and Spirit.

So unexpectedly, I have received an additional gift.  It has opened my heart and offers to take me on journeys to the upper world.    

But the gift was greater than that. As I work with this dish and it keeps reflecting back powerful energy to me, I realized this is reflecting MY energy, perhaps enhanced by the women who made it, but the resonance is so strong in  my heart chakra that I have come to understand it is the energy of my own heart that I am expanding. And when I held it above my crown chakra, it was like being blessed with very powerful cosmic energy. This is my own focused energy being reflected back to me! So here is my big lesson – don’t give others credit for the energy that is actually coming from you.  

I did not expect this. I simply ordered a small dish for my altar. And I got much, much, much more. 

Be aware of the powerful positive energy you project and notice how it is reflected it back to you. 

Create Releasing Ceremonies

One of the strongest images I have received in my journey work is the idea of leaving behind what no longer serves us – to lighten our load as we move forward along our path.  

A Releasing Ceremony helps us leave behind what is no longer aligned with our purpose, what is actually stopping us. Setting aside those obstacles clears the path for a positive journey into our next adventure.

In your Releasing Ceremony, you can be specific or general.  With my blessing, I release whatever is causing my body to resist standing up straight. I am grateful for my eyesight and intentionally release any and all elements of my past and present that are causing my vision to blur.

Move deep within to create your statement of release. Feeling what you want to release, move out from the deepest corners of your being and begin to lift.  

You have to believe that you can make this healing happen.  It’s not you making it happen, it’s you opening yourself up to allow it to happen, to allow our body to self-heal, to self-correct.  Encourage it.  Keep releasing the known and the unknown beliefs that have brought you to where you are.    

In one journey, I laid aside what I no longer needed and watched it turn into butterflies of transformation. In another journey, I watched what I laid down to leave behind turn into water to nurture the life near by. 

Release what you no longer need however you are called. Burn it in fire and watch it turn to smoke.  Dissolve it in water.  Simply lay it down and leave it behind.   It is up to you to choose what you want to release and how you want to release it.  Look at your willingness to let go and make certain you are truly willing to release it – what you know and also what you don’t know, what you are not aware of. I release any and all beliefs, ideas, circumstances that are holding me back from wholeness in the present moment.

Make releasing a part of your daily spiritual price.

Further Exploration: 

The RIver of Time – The Discovery

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

Your Offering

I got a lovely lotus incense burner from Etsy with the intent of actually burning incense in it.  But instead, I have turned it into an offering bowl in my morning ceremony.   It is interesting to feel your intentions being offered as if they were the smoke of incense being carried off into the world. What do you offer the world today?

I offer my healing voice. I offer my curiosity.  I offer my willingness to explore.  You get the idea – create some form of an offering moment each day and with intention send that focused energy out into the world. 

===DEEPER SONG  INSIGHTS ===

When the Time is Right

This change has been a long time coming.  I have felt it but nothing definitive showed up.  Until now and I sure was surprised.  “Sound healing with your voice. That is a new step for you. Heal with your voice.  Heal with your tone. Heal with your intention.”

So, here I go exploring and experimenting with and sharing how we are to use our own voice to heal – ourselves, our planet, others.  That’s all I know at this point.  

Deeper song member Noralee noticed that I had changed gong sounds at the end of my podcasts.  I had been using a handheld energy gong but have begun using a 6” desk gong that sits on my desk.  Christina Gerber  and I had a long conversation about using humming to heal.  I have written The Intentional OM Hum. I have made up songs to the elements that I used to sing but now play on my flute. Recently I am beginning to use a focused intentional hum toward my body and my life.  I will experiment with vowel sounds and pitch and sequence.  I will begin with an intention and see what evolves.  I may play with the poetry pattern I know of beginning with a word that is repeated and placed in an expanded context.  I have words I sing in my head as I play my flute but it never occurred to me to sing them to anyone else. 

My intention is for my voice to be healing.  That could take many forms. I can do that.

In my journey on this topic of my unfolding process, the Circle of Light Beings were a primary component – singing our individual songs and also combining our voices to support an overarching collective, harmonious sound.  

What it looks like is that in some future podcasts, I may sing to you!!!!  

Aren’t new adventures fun! 

A Deeper Song Exploration:

The Intentional OM Hum

How to Use Sound for Self Healing

The Deepest Sound is Silence

Play Your Body Song  

Join the Circle of Light Beings

How to Interpret the Messages from Within

How I Found Connection – The Visionary Harp  

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Create a New Model For Our Changing World 

Our world is constantly changing.  Things are different but just how different are they? One major shift is that everything is now online. What do you need to do to get better at that?  Create a home office, get a better microphone, adjust your lighting, figure out how to host on Zoom?  

The first step in creating change is to recognize that change is needed.  

The second step is to explore the possibilities.  I like doing podcasts better than videos.  I don’t want to teach a class but I will work 1:1. I increase my FaceBook connections by friending people I take online classes with.  Where else do I need to do to make myself known – to reach the people I want to serve?

The second step is to choose from all the possibilities you have explored. For instance, my spiritual practice keeps evolving as I immerse myself more deeply in that experience.  I moved things around so I can easily add my xylophone and my tongue drum to my morning spiritual practice.  Drawing an oracle card each day has become very meaningful for me. Experiment, rearrange, choose what resonates.  

Develop what you have chosen to explore.  Take it a few steps further so you can see the possibilities, so you underhand the potential.  Take time to understand how this new direction feels to you. How it expands and challenges you.  

Adjust.  Constantly adjust because as you grow, as you get better at what you are doing, you can take on more challenges or expand your reach. 

Create your new model for this evolving world by recognizing the need for change, exploring the myriad of new possibilities that are evolving, choose those that resonate, develop them to fit your needs, and adjust until you own them!

===MESSAGE FROM THE SACRED EARTH ORACLE CARDS===

Stretch 

“‘Stretch is the oracle card I drew for us for the next two weeks.  It shows a woman with many roots and branches coming from her head and arms and hands.  She is expanding her reach by deepening her roots and broadening her reach.  Part of stretching is about exploring and another part is about nurturing what we have going for us.  I might expand my reach through an action I take and I might deepen my reach by deepening my inner work.  

There is an element of being flexible when we stretch.  We must know how far to reach and when to pull back.  

What area of your life are you ready to expand? How far are you willing to stretch in order to grow?

Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER===

I am a Happy Rebel

I am such a rebel.  I keep choosing and using only what resonates with me in the way I want to use it. 

I just signed up for a three-month online course – “Andean Shamanic Journeys and Rivals to Align with the Divine Feminine for Strength and Purpose” and I already know I do not want some of the details I will be taught, I what the overview, the insights that I can turn and creatively apply to my own life and explorations. 

I’m not a rule follower.  It’s not that I’m a rule-breaker, but I am a major adapter.  I take a core idea and shape it into what works for me. It’s great fun and is very freeing.  

I am an over-view person, not a detail person so that’s also part of my free-wheeling response.  

For instance, in the intro to this new course, there was a detailed ceremony.  But what drew me were the intentions of some of the steps. I know I will find a way to add those intentions to my own spiritual practice in my own way.  I would work with the intention and let the “how” part simply evolve.  

Perhaps not so much a rebel as an individualist.  I can work with that….

My DEEPER SONG

My way.  My creative way.  My personal way.  

My way, my creative way, my personal way unfolds before me like a golden beacon of adventure.   

My way, my creative way, my personal way unfolds before me like a golden beacon of adventure, bringing deeper understanding and broadening views.   

I go exploring. 

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

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

Creating Conscious Connection

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
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.

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 have a discussion on the Deeper Song Explorers!

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  

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Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

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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  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.

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

In this episode we explore

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

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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

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

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

Creating Conscious Connection

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deep Listening, Exploration, Unfolding.

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

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

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

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

Here are my three words from the past:

My Three Words for 2020  – Strength, Intention, Explore

My Three Words for 2019 – Vibration, Nature, Portal

My Three Words for 2018 – Invisible, Radiate, Journey

My Three Words for 2017 – Broaden, Deepen, Change

My Three Words for 2016 – Determination, Trust, Explore

My Three Words for 2015 – Impact, Connection, Flexibility 

How ChrisBrogan Changed My Life– 2014

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DEEPER SONGS I EXPLORED THIS MONTH

Life Lessons from a Lump of Clay

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

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

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

In this episode we explore

Life Lessons from a Lump of Clay

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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Stand Steady in Your Own Truth

The Path We Choose

Build a Strong Bridge to Your Invisible Self

The Power of Your Still Point

Life Lessons from a Spider

***INNER WORK***

Rediscovery

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

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

Our Inner Strength

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

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

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

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

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

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

***OUTER WORK***

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

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

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

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

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

Use Music to Heal 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Make Room for Change and then Wait for It!

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

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

***DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE***

Deepen Your Spiritual Practice Through Art

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

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

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

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

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

***DEEPER SONG  INSIGHTS ***

The Question that Heals

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

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

How are you doing? I’m listening.

Purpose and Intention versus Unfolding 

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

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

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

***OUR EVOLVING FUTURE***

What is Your Role?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Message from the Sacred Earth Cards

Revolution

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

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

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

Sacred Earth Cards

CARA’S CORNER

Follow Your Nudges

Amazing answers show up when you stay still and listen.  

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

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

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

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

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

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

A DEEPER SONG

It is time to take a step. 

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

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

– Cara Lumen

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

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

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