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Raise Your Consciousness

Creating Conscious Connection

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

What is our role? How do we help? We each have our own expression of self from which to participate in elevating the changes that are going on in the world. It’s not just about intention. We each have a role. 

What do we do with our intention, with our insights, with our understanding, with our focus, with our deeds? How do we serve in the world to raise the collective consciousness?

We can change by changing our focus, by changing our beliefs, and we can change by making choices that continue to align with what we see as our higher purpose. We will serve at different levels. Some people will do the hands-on work. Others will do the introspective, intentional work. I’m one of the latter. I haven’t exactly decided what to do with my role. I can do visualization work, I can journey to the future and ask for guidance, I can send positive energy to all of those who are working to become more aware of their own higher vibration. I can write about it. I can talk about it. I have no idea whose life I might change or how I might change it. I keep listening to my inner voice, my cosmic guidance and move forward from there. My role evolves with  insights from my own introspection.

Introspection is a good place to begin to raise your consciousness. What do you believe is possible? What do you see as your role? What new roles are opening up that you are to consider and perhaps explore? Know your most effective place of service. Know what you can and cannot do and know what you are and are not to do. Listen to your inner voice. 

A long time ago I understood that my role was to work with people who were already flying high and whatever I added to their awareness helped them fly higher and reach more people. That’s who I serve. Who do you serve?

Don’t let the evolving drama pull you off course. This is a time of perpetual change. But it is not a time of giving up. It is the time of repositioning. It is the time of exploring totally new possibilities. And it is the time for making new, conscious, aware choices that elevate the world around us, the world we live in and a time to make choices that elevate our own life experience.

A great deal of movement comes when we examine what we believe is possible. That’s interesting because there are so many unexpected and innovative discoveries and inventions that are opening up pathways we never knew existed because we were not aware of their existence until now. So much more is possible today than it was yesterday. 

So we explore. We try on new choices to see how they feel. We take exploratory forays down the various new pathways that show up and we see what resonates and what is possible. I think we have to stay in exploration mode for quite a while because the change is going to continue to be rapid and dramatic. So don’t picture yourself tucking into your corner of the world quite yet. Picture yourself in a test kitchen tasting all the dishes that are being prepared. To see how you like them. To see what extra flavoring or seasoning should be added. And what should be served on the main menu.

Notice the level of excitement you feel as a new opportunity shows up. It may suddenly feel so in line with all you’ve done in your life that you know this is the right path for now. Or it may feel like you are to explore a bit and take parts and pieces from that path with you on your journey. For certain, this is a time of exploration and choice. What choices are you making to raise your consciousness? 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I explore the many possibilities that are unfolding around me.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Pay attention to your inner voice and how it responds to all the new possibilities that are currently showing up.  It may be a momentary excitement or it may be deep joy at having found a new path to explore. 
• Explore the idea. Explore the possibility, the potential, and see where or if you would like it in your life.
• Then do that.

Our Global Deeper Song Community

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

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

The Field of Opportunity

An Exploration of the Unseen World

It was like standing in a garden so filled with organic goodness that I was hard pressed to choose.  This was the Field of Opportunity and I had come here seeking my future.  

Where was I being called? What did I want to do? Had I explored all the opportunities that were being offered? Was I ready for my next step?

My inner voice said, “Be present in the moment and it will be revealed.”

So I stood in my Field of Opportunity and looked at all the possibilities that surrounded me.

In this episode we explore

The Field of Opportunity

(12 minutes)

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Listen to
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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

The Ongoing Emergence of our Future

Life Lessons from a Spider

Trust Your Inner answers.

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

===INNER WORK===

Redefine Your Place and Depth of Service

Identify a few words that explain how you see your role in the world.  One of my phrases is “Spiritual Philosopher.” But over time, I have come to know it is not only who I want to be but who I am.  

Define yourself beyond your role of parent or spouse or good worker or…  

I consider myself an Explorer of the Unseen World.  I know what my role looks like on the physical plane – that I write newsletters and record podcasts.  But what we are looking for is an over-arching description that raises your sights and your expectations of who you are and who you are becoming. I might consider myself a way-shower, guide, an adventurer, a light being.  You get the idea.  How do you label yourself and is it a broad enough label?  Choose a role that demands that you grow into it.

Do You Go With the Flow?

I have never surfed but as I watch people who do, they skillfully go with the flow. They have to adjust their weight and their position of the board and the direction they are going in order to catch a wave in a certain way so it will carry them forward toward shore. It’s a lesson we need to learn as we move through our lives. We have to become aware of the ebb and flow of the various cycles of our life that are both ongoing and intertwined. So we each have to become aware of where we are on each cycle and what cycle is predominant and is offering urgent choices for the present. There’s a constant sense of being aware of the unfolding situation and a constant awareness of choices to be made in order to get the best “ride” in life. Listen to your inner voice. Be observant of the results of your actions. And constantly reconsider your options. That will help you go with the flow and have a great life journey.

===OUTER WORK===

Does Your Work Make Your Heart Sing?

Your life work is made up of the things you choose to do 

that allow you to express your intelligence, passion, and creativity in accordance with your values, and experience the profound joy of simply being yourself. Unlike traditional work, which may demand more of you than you are willing to give, life’s work demands nothing but your intention and passion for that work.

To identify your life work, you must consider your interests in the present and the passions that moved you in the past. Or there may be a passion you have yet to unfold. If you don’t know where to begin, as your search for purpose, take stock of your strengths, passions, beliefs, and values in your daily meditation. 

 Ask the universe to clarify your life’s work by providing signs. Then be sure to pay attention.  

Since life’s journey is one of evolution, you may need to redefine your direction on multiple occasions throughout your lifetime.  Do what makes your heart sing. Be open.  Be flexible. Be aware. And most of all, be open to change. 

An Absence of Striving

What would it feel like to give up all striving and simply be? Feel that stillness. No striving. Simply being present. I hear more when I quiet my mind. I feel more when I quiet my breath. I go within to my Still Point and listen and experience and simply be. 

There is no staving, no efforting, no concerns.  I exist in simple being-ness.

I will go to my Still Point more often during my days and deepen my sense of tranquility.

Know When You are Full Up

It was tempting. The leader of the class is someone I respect and want to learn from. But I am full up. Full up of learning. Full up at one more step to take. Full of the things I’ve given myself to do. We do this to ourselves. We fill our life, our space, our time and our thoughts all by ourselves. So periodically we need to clean house to stop and sit on the front porch, rock in the swing and listen to the birds singing and the wind blowing. Are you full up? What do you need to let go of? Do that today.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Keep Your Spiritual Practice Fluid

It is very easy to get caught up in routine – even the routine of a spiritual practice.  How can you keep your spiritual practice vital and relevant?

Know when to stop doing something.  I love my Oracle Cards but it is also time to not do them so often.  I have a variety of spiritual practices I can add or modify or adapt. The trick is to make it a choice that is relevant in the moment of the choosing. 

Pay attention to your inner voice, your inner nudges, and act upon them.  I like to play my native flutes to nature but I can be more spontaneous and do it more often – immersing myself in how it feels in the moment. Notice what calls to you to do it differently.  And immerse yourself in the moment.  

Let your spiritual practice be one improvisation after another.  What do you feel like doing?  Do that, how did it feel?  Do more.  Do something else. Explore the new and expand the comfortable.

Change the location.  I found a different location to do my Qigong and it changed how I feel about doing it.  Go out in nature for your spiritual practice. Change chairs.  I have one chair facing toward the window that I sit in each day to greet the day or play the sun down, or watch the storm, or simply be with the day. You may find different times to do to different aspects of your spiritual practice.  Let your body tell you.  Let your inner voice tell you.  Experiment for a while and let your flexible and creative new spiritual practice unfold. 

===MY DEEPER SONG ADVENTURES ===

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===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Stay Open

German Company Makes Concrete to Charge Electric Vehicles From Roads With 95% Efficiency and Low Cost 

Think what that will eliminate – no gas stations, no gas production, no fossil fuel consumption or pollution.  And that’s just one major change from one idea.  We can print 3-D houses in two weeks.  Artificial Intelligence takes over mundane jobs and makes complex jobs easy.  

We have to stay flexible.  We have to stay open to change.  We get to rethink everything we do.  What an opportunity and challenge.  Stay flexible and open to change and new and unexpected opportunities!

What Does It Take to Change Your Mind? 

I watch the world rearrange itself on a dramatic scale. I watch new decisions being made and wonder at the reasoning behind many of them. I watch new discoveries unfold that will change our world. And I begin to think about what it will take to change my mind about anything.

Changing your perspective, changing your mind begins with your focus. What is important to you at this point in your life? As the opportunities unfold, so do the insights. And our position changes.

We have to consider our options. If a person is against taking the Covid virus vaccinations, what does it take for them to change their mind? They have to look closely at the source of their core beliefs. And that’s not always easy to do. Our beliefs can be very sneaky and creep up on us without even knowing that they are anchoring themselves in our lives. We establish our beliefs based on what our parents taught us and what we learn as we respond or react to our life journey.  Our experience contributes to our beliefs. 

What does it take to change your mind? I think we should be in a state of constant questioning. Because the world is changing rapidly. Opportunities are unfolding we never even dreamed of. We need to keep exploring and considering and trying things on for size. We need to be aware of the myriad of inventions and discoveries that make some of our choices obsolete and open ourselves to paths we never dreamed of before. 

Dido you get up every day and ask what direction you are supposed to go in that day? Each day is an opportunity to look closely at what has evolved overnight. What changes have come about in your experience, your thinking, the opportunities that have presented themselves, and how that changes or should change your beliefs and your responses. Stay fluid. Keep observant. And stay open to change.

===CARA’S CORNER===

Be Willing to Change

My recent big lesson is to be willing to change.  That involves a reality check, it involves exploring new options, and it definitely asks you to make new decisions.

Take a reality check.  I have spent a lot of money on my health and now have to ease up on other spending.  My body is shifting for the better but it offers me both new challenges and new choices. I have to actively explore new actions that are now open to me that will support and advance this new strength and flexibility.  Shift your gaze.  Change your options. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Shift

Shift your gaze. 

Shift. Your gaze lands on new perspectives, new possibilities. 

Shift. Your gaze lands on new perspectives, new possibilities. One step forward changes the entire landscape and offers a new view. Explore.

Cara Lumen, September 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

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

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Cycles Bring New Growth

A Deeper Song Awareness

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

Cycles are not just circles, they are also spirals. So every time you return to what feels like the same place you were in the last time you were around that circle, you are actually in a higher place in that cycle. You have learned more, you’ve explored more, and circumstances have changed. So even though you feel like you are in the same place in the cycle, you are not. And we must learn to discern the subtle changes that are inviting us to move forward.

Deng Ming-Dao says, “The idea of a cycle means every point is important. Priorities must be maintained in relation to the center and movement is essential.”

The center.  The reason for the cycle. Where are we in relation to the center?  We may be closer to it.  We may as far away from the center as the cycle goes. That will affect our viewpoint and our choices, 

I might have a cycle of health that has many cycles within it – rest, food, gentle movement, rapid movement.  I must pay attention to my relationship to the center. 

My spiritual cycle has facets.  Flutes, tuning forks, meditation, writing to understand, shamanic journeys.  All are separate cycles within the cycle of spiritual expansion.  I must keep my eye on the center which holds the core purpose of all that activity.

Cycle brings more wisdom, more experience, and deepened understanding. When we return to what feels like the same starting place in the cycle, we are actually at a higher level. Just as when I go to bed at night.  The steps are the same but I am in a different place than I was the night before and the night before that.  The sleep that lies ahead of me builds on the previous cycles and brings with it a whole new level of possibilities. 

Cycles can be large and small and they can be intertwined.  Like the cycles of a season, or the cycles of a year, or the cycles of a day. 

It is important to understand that as you move through these constant cycles, you will return to what feels like a familiar spot. However, you are also in a higher, more advanced place in the cycle. You have learned new things through your experiences. Your awareness and your needs and your purposes may have changed. Since we are constantly moving in spirals, there is constant change to be aware of and to consider as we make our new choices. 

There are cycles of healing. Cycles of creativity. Cycles of understanding. Cycles of change. Cycles of growth. Cycles constantly offer us a new view.  

As you move to a new place in your cycle, go within to feel what has changed and what new choices and awareness have appeared that will help you bring forth the desired result.

Each place in the cycle holds a new set of tools and awareness with which to make your next choice. Give thought to what you have learned and what you have accomplished and make a new choice based on your continually deepening awareness.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I build on my cycles of growth and understanding and make aligned choices that move me forward.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

• Choose one cycle you know you are in.  It can be a work cycle or a play cycle or a learning cycle. Notice where you are.  Perhaps make a few notes. 
• Choose a period of time – a day, a week, a month, and periodically return to the notes you took and see what has changed,  how you have changed, what you have learned, and how you now do things differently. There are constant lessons in the moment of cycles.

Our Global Deeper Song Community

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

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

Listen for Your Future

A Deeper Song Adventure

I feel it forming.  I am aware of change taking place but it is not yet clear.  It is a feeling, a knowing actually. And so I wait.  Patiently.  Observing, considering, evaluating, imagining.  Letting it make itself known to me.

This is a time of evolution and my role is to observe and consider before I act.  

Change cannot be hurried.  Change gradually makes itself known as it organically unfolds. One must be patient and observant and let change show itself in its own rhythm. 

In this episode we explore how to 

Listen for Your future

(17 Minutes

(Listen Here) 

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

The Backpack Journey

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness

Trust Your Inner answers.

===INNER WORK===

Leadership, Introspection and Intuition 

One of the first animal spirits I saw as I first began to journey was a brown bear. Her face looking out of the bushes at me and that’s the closest she came. She didn’t show up again for a long time.  A few years later in my wildlife calendar, there was a picture of a brown bear whose challenging gaze said to me-  “Get to it!” I saved that picture. Bear has not shown up for me as a major guide until recently, in an odd way. Over time I seem to have collected three small stone beers. I gathered them together and looked up what bear meant as a spirit guide. The major qualities are introspection, leadership, and intuition. What an awesome trio of qualities to have in you own life.

The largest of my three small stone bears is citrine and I call her “Leadership” because she is capable of leading the way.  I lead by example.  I lead by learning and sharing what I learn.  

The middle-sized jade bear I call “Introspection”. How else do you know where to go? Thoughtful contemplation brings clarity.

The smallest amber bear I call “Intuition”. We need to learn to trust our inner urges, our unexpected knowing. 

These three bears sit on my desk to remind me of some of the roles I take. 

What a wonderful way to look at your own life expression – a leader who uses introspection to explore the possibilities and accesses intuition to guide the way.

===OUTER WORK===

Does Struggle Help You Clarify?

Astro Butterfly said: “If at times you feel at odds with society, keep in mind that any struggle, any conflict is an opportunity to understand yourself, and your place in the world better.”

We get to constantly reexamine our beliefs and our choices. We get to modify them.  We get to make new choices depending on where we have grown, what path we have taken and where we find ourselves. What is calling you? What does it mean you are to do next?

The Power of Pruning

In the weeks since the Weeping Birch outside my window was trimmed so severely, I’ve been noticing what has changed because of the pruning. And I wanted to explore how to apply pruning to my life.

Pruning actually makes the plant stronger. So those branches that were trimmed off are now standing taller because they’re not so weighted down. It has to be better for them to stand taller. The grass growing below the tree has more sunlight now so it can grow more easily. That’s a good thing. Pruning actually opens up space for stronger growth.

I have a wonderful full view of the sky now and the clouds and the sunset. There is more light coming into my home and I can see more clearly. What has become overgrown in your life? What is choking off new growth? What will you prune? And when you prune, what will you discover?

Rethink and Re-choose Your Priorities  

There are obvious times, like a major change in your life, in which you have to rethink your options and your priorities. Like starting a new job. Or the last child going off to school. Or you take a new job. These are dramatic changes. And they offer a perfect opportunity to rethink and reprioritize and re-choose. My friend whose son has recently moved out gets to rethink what she wants to eat and when. She gets to evolve the kind of schedule she wants to keep now that she is on her own. She has space and time to decide what she wants to do and when she wants to do it. She gets to find her own rhythm. She can even rearrange her home to best suit her needs. This new repositioning of circumstances becomes a time for inner listening. For deciding what really calls to you at this moment in time. What will pull you forward? What will support your next steps? And even sitting there, deciding where you want to go next and what you want this next phase of your life to look like. Each day is a choice. Each day unfolds in its own rhythm with its own gifts and unexpected offerings. Be present in your day. Be present with your thoughts. Be present with your feelings. Listen to the inner guidance of the universe. Notice the unexpected opportunities that show up. Live your day with awareness and conscious choices.

Rethink and re-choose your priorities often and keep the flow going. 

Dependability and Structure

I drew the Oracle card “dependability” and didn’t know what to do with it. It actually raised the question “does structure block you in?” Yes, a structure is a foundation to build on, yes structure holds everything together. But the structure can also stop you from expanding. I don’t exactly know what to do with that awareness. As I thought about it I decided I want my structure to be flexible. Did you know that skyscrapers are built so they can move in the wind? The whole building is built so it can move a little bit. So how can I have flexibility in my structure and have that structure be dependable? 

The image of water comes up. Water makes change one grain of sand at a time or it can also overflow the banks and make huge changes for many miles. Water is dependable only in that it moves in cycles, but its form and frequency, and intensity are subject to change. I don’t have an answer here. I’m just wondering how structure limits our flexibility.

Does the structure you have built for your life box you in? 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Intentional Humming for Healing 

It is very healing to sit and direct your intentional vibration by way of a hum focused on parts of your body.  It seems to require different pitches but you can definitely direct a vibrational hum to different areas.  Try it.  Close your eyes. Choose a place in your body to send an intentional healing vibration and began to hum.  Change the pitch until you feel that healing wholing vibration resonate where you want it. 

===DISCOVERIES ===

Unity 

I drew the Oracle card “Unity” and didn’t know what to do with it. I see my role as helping others recognize themselves as cosmic consciousness and move into that vibration as an expression of their life. They make a conscious choice to take a different path, a higher path.  And that leaves people behind who cannot, will not, or do not want to experience that cosmic inclusiveness.  That choice separates us. That does not unify us. And therein is my problem. 

Here’s what I figured out. Those of us who can are to wrap the world in a deepening cloud of purifying vibration, lifting the hearts of those who can see it and inviting those who see and feel that vibration to raise their own awareness into a deeper connection with all of nature, all of the world.  So we each work on our own consciousness, others see it and recognize it in themselves and make a choice to join us. We are Circle of Light Beings and we play our individual harps to bring awareness to the world of what is possible. We come from this place of natural wholeness and organic universality. 

===MY DEEPER SONG  ADVENTURES ===

Tuning Forks for Sound Healing

Dr. John Beaulieu, ND, PhD was the first to use tuning forks for sound healing and reading higher states of consciousness. He says all you need to start is a C and G fork to work on your vibrational level and the 128 weighted turning fork to place directly on your body. I have the rubber disk to tap them on. He recommended one minute in the morning and one minute in the afternoon. If you wondered where to begin with tuning forks for sound healing, this is it. Here are the links: 

Biosonic Body Tuners – “C256 & G384”$59.95

Tuner – “Otto 128” (Weighted) (in green bag)$59.95

Tuning Fork Activator – “7 Pointed Star”$14.95

Sound Healing with Values Visualization$21.95

The Site:  biosonics.com

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

The Diverging Paths

This is a time of dramatic choices. This is a period of examining your core beliefs to make certain they are inclusive. Then standing up for them. We are on a path that asks us to leave things behind. Including people.  Including ideas that no longer serve, or have been replaced by new methods and ways to do things. 

Those of us who are aware that we have a powerful choice to make, do so with thoughtful awareness and contemplation. 

Step on your new path. Follow it. Go adventuring down some side roads until you find the path that works for you. Look for the new people that are going in the same direction you are. And leave the others behind. Our paths are separating. Take the high road.

=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

Consistency

“Consistency” is the oracle card I drew for us to consider.  It means steadiness, evenness, equilibrium.  How is your life balanced? How are you managing all the change?  How are you establishing a pattern of consistency in your life? 

Re-examine and rethink your spiritual practice. Try new things.  Put others aside that no longer resonate. 

Look at how you spend your time.  Are your choices moving you consistently in the direction you want to go

Consistency means fluid movement.  How are you doing?   

Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER===

Knowing When You Need Help

There are some things that are getting harder for me to do and it is time to get help.  That’s hard for a self-sufficient, independent woman to do.  But the reality check says I have to either get stronger or get help.  I will do both.  

What is changing in your life that you need to adjust to or accommodate?  Make creative changes and choices as you move in a slightly new direction. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Barrier or Opportunity

It could be a barrier or an opportunity. My choice. 

It could be a barrier or an opportunity. My choice was to see it as both – a barrier to move around and an opportunity to find a new path. 

It could be a barrier or an opportunity. My choice was to see it as both a barrier to move around and an opportunity to find a new path. And it led me on a fine adventure….!

– Cara Lumen, August, 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

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

Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they
Join the Deeper Song Community

Past Issues of this newsletter are being curated on my site on a page called Insights.

Where Do You Go For Help?

Insights of a Deeper Song

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

You may not agree with this.  

When I was in college, I was at an event talking to a former priest.  I asked him, “If you believe that God is within you, where do you go when you get int trouble?”  He said, “You go deeper within and pull yourself up by your outstrips.”

That led me to a very long life of relying solely on my self. 

There are times when I wish I could say, “Please God, fix this, help me to….” But I personally cannot do that. My belief system is that we are all one whole vibrational energy and I am responsible for finding the answers and the actions within myself.  There is no “there”, only “here”. Ther is me as an expression of wholeness, me as an expression of light vibration.  Change comes from within. 

As I watch the blatant display of wrong-doing in the US leadership, both immoral acts of doing and the immoral acts of ignoring, I wish some higher power could explain it to me, and even fix it.  But that’s not in my belief system.  This is a collective consciousness that is manifesting.  I have to elevate my own role and know that others are doing the same.  Together we can manifest positive change – at least for those who are looking to change. to rate heir vibration to raise the group consciousness.

I go back to what I think.  What I expect.  What I focus on.  I feel tremendous relief at the powerful, thoughtful, intelligent speeches that I have heard in the Democratic Convention.  It’s like an oasis of sanity and I have seeped myself in it.  It is positive, incisive, and hopeful.  Just as I strive to be.

And I only have one vote.  The fate of my nation is made up of a collective.  And if I could pray, I would pray that we save our democracy.  

But I can’t pray to an “outside” source because Source is within me, just as it is within you.  So here we sit, powerful, individual, contemplative containers of Source doing what?  How do we help restore balance, raise the vibration, bring thoughtful, incisive people into leadership?

It’s a very, very, very big job. It is a job for the collective, for those of us who are aware of the collective consciousness and its power to manifest change. 

Our power is in the collective, the combined focus of our intention on an outcome for the highest good for all.

How do I do that, sitting here in my mid-western apartment? How do I help change the world?  How do you?

W focus on what we want.  We want inclusion, compassion,  kindness, food security, safety security, income security, peaceful coexistence.  Those are all human things we need.  

But we have to go deeper.  We have to go down to our bootstraps and pull ourselves up.  Up from anger and despair in order to focus on the positive, peaceful, compassionate coexistence we wish to create.  Up from fear into active small steps that secure our own well being as well as that of others.  We have to move into our heart and experience our deep contention with Tao – All That Is. And when we begin to resonate with that higher vibration, we need to stay there, in Oneness, filing our minds and emotions and thoughts with the reassurance of our Ones, of everything and everyone being all one energy.  And from that place, we can intentionally send balancing energy to the turbulent downdrafts, the rough water, the lower energy.

We have great power as a collective.  And there may be opposing “collectives” – one focused on raising our vibration, one focused on staying put in a lower vibraiotn. We seek our own level. We go high. We cultivate a spiritual life that encourages us to pause, and breathe and be – in gratitude, in awareness, in a conscious choice to raise our vibration even higher. 

We can do make a difference.  It all takes place within. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I move deep within and raise my vibration to a place of inclusive wholeness.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Expand your practice of raising your vibration. 
• Focus your attention on the positive. 
• Hold an intention for more people to become aware of their light within and to choose to raise their vibration. 
• See the ever-thickening cloud of Collective Consciousness encircle the planet. 

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MY DEEPER SONG THIS WEEK

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

An Exploration of the Unseen World

Changing your life is totally in your control and it is easier than you think. In fact, changing your life is done  simply by changing your thinking. Your thoughts have great power. Your thoughts create your reality. 

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 how to 

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

(17 Minutes)

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Inner Work

BALANCE YOUR ENTHUSIASM

Boy, do I get carried away with new ideas.  I was given an idea by a friend, it appealed to me, I wrote a landing page the next day and then – with a mindful pause, I realized it is not a widely impactful use of my time.  But I sure did get excited about the idea.  

We do get to listen to our inner voice, this nudges that take us adventuring, but we also have to know our bottom line – our personal measuring stick.  

This idea was for a 1:1 session I could offer.  I even figured out what to call it and how to structure it.  But my work now is to reach more people so I just need to continue to expand my ideas in my podcasts.  

But it sure was exciting to consider.  Until my reality check of who I want to sere ad how I want to serve and where I have the most impact. Don’t get pulled off track.  Explore your options but stay true to your core purpose. 

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Outer Work

HOW THOUGHTFULLY ARE YOU CREATING YOUR FUTERE ?

In a recent journey, I got “There is no future yet, you are in the process of creating it.” 

That means I have power. you have power, we have collective power.  We can influence the future by the next step we take.  By the direction we go  next upon our path.  

I stand on my path and look around me.  I have a choice of directions, to one side or the other, straight ahead or to the let of to the right.  So many choices that will influence where I aim going, what my life is to be.  And I have to choose. I have to take my next step.  See where I am and take another step.

I make the choice from a place of centeredness and mindfulness and an open heart.

When I look around I see that my choices have shifted some, the paths seem lighter, more filled with light and growth.  When your choice of path is aligned with your heart and your purpose, your path becomes filled with opportunity. 

So many choices, so many opportunities.

I close my eyes and go deep within.  

“Look around you, thoughtfully, carefully, with insight and awareness.” my inner voice says.

I stand and look around at where I am, what strengths I have to help me move ahead. And I take a step. Forward.  One step. And the view changes.  New pathways have open up with that one step, the path seems clearer, the sky overhead seems brighter, the clouds have shapeshifted into meaningful new patterns of encouragement.  With one step my view has changed. 

With one step I have changed my future.   

Take each step with thoughtful awarenss.  It is creating your destiny.

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THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF A TREE

My friend, Maratha Lacy, bought some property in Colorado, and in order to build on it, some trees have to come down.  She is sad about that so she took a shamanic journey to the trees on that land and learned that they have a “hive” mentality – they know that some of them must be removed for the overall health of the whole.  Now Martha will probably turn some of that wood into walking sticks and native flutes and ceremonial fires but only a very small portion. The rest will go to the lumber yard to be made into other useful items.  The trees will go on serving.

What an interesting idea – a hive mentality – living your life for the well-being of the whole.

We get to think about that. 

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WAHT DRUM TRACK DO YOU CHOOSE FOR YOUR DAY?

I recently began playing my flutes to drum tracks and it is extraordinarily freeing and creative.  The steady rhythm becomes a foundation from which you soar and return. 

And I wondered if I needed to choose a drum beat for my day.  What would that look like? How would I do that?  What would it shift?

I can see different rhythms to my day.  The most cherished is my creative time when I first sit at my desk.  I literally tune in and see what I want to work on – I know it needs to be creative.  That seems to be a period of  Deep Listening.  When I write I listen to the voice within.  So it is a receptive time, a contemplative time.  It has a specific rhythm.  I seem to set that rhythm with my intention to listen and write what I discover.  I deliberately choose the drumbeat of that experience. 

I choose other rhythms when I feel productive. A deep inner rhythm appears as I record and a receptive rhythm is there when as I edit a podcast.  Y our rhythm changes with the task. There is a determination underneath those rhythms, it is a rhythm of steady progress that contains an energy of excitement at getting things ready to share.  

My cat cuddle time has its own rhythm. It is slow and contemplative and full of love and companionship.

If I would make room for it, my meal preparation and eating has its own rhythm too. 

I know there are more nuances to the rhythm of my day.  Perhaps I simply need to listen to the changes and dance to a new tune.

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SELF RESPONSIBILITY

I have to admit that I’m an “easy sell” but I was inspired by David Crow’s talk on the Plant Medicine Summit.  The purpose of our life is our spiritual fulfillment and we need our body to do that.

Whether it is the use of herbs in our food or for our medicines, or the movement of Qi in our body though moment and breath, we are responsible for our own body home – its health and its availability to our spiritual expansion.

I could do better.

I became a Certified Bach Flower Counselor in the 80’s.  The first year Dr Richard Bach used the remedies, he treated every patient with only seven essences. Whatever they had out of balance, he used only seven flower essences.

I still have my original set of remedies and my training notes.  I could revisit those. 

Since then people have been making other combinations of flow essences.  I was in a very early class and the teacher was adamant that Dr. Bach deliberately destroyed his work on many plants to only focus on the particular essences he eventually chose to work with.

Do I cling to the old or explore the new?  I’m thinking here. It’s a good idea to You keep Bach Rescue Remedy around for you and your pets and any sudden trauma. 

I have a good-sized collection of essential oils. I have a diffuser in my home that I use daily, I have begun to wear my necklace diffuser again, but my study on their uses could be improved. I could go exploring again. 

There is a process of muscle testing I still use. Kinesiology.   I was first shown it in NYC. I was told to hold my arm out in resistance and the practitioner pressed down hard on it.  It held steady.  Then he put a package of sugar in my relaxed hand and pressed on my resisting arm again – It collapsed.   

The body knows.  

When it was time to order vitamins again I compared the natural sources in two versions. I know to take B12 beaus I’m a vegan and do not eat the food sources that naturally continue it. 

But here’s where I am with this.  I’m going to talk to my body more  I’m going to do more muscle testing on things I choose to eat. Or use my pendulum to dowse the answer. I’m going to monitor the spices and foods I choose and see what nutrients and vitamins they are giving me so I can tell what my body needs.  I do listen to what my intuition says to eat.  I do buy all organic food.  I  recently added recently spirulina. Not even sure why- figured the ocean has lots to GIA,

My herbal teas are healing plants. Yerba Mate and Oolong in Chamomile tea every night to prepare for sleep. 

Spices are a powerful way to consume healing herbs. Do some research around the spices you like and be aware of how you use them for your health. I use turmeric and Bagg’s Apples cider vintager and lemon every day. I will do more research on the power of herbs.

I’m cooking more for myself so I can make soups I love, and find spices that resonate with me. 

The job we have is to stay healthy.  We do that through food and rest and movement and a strong spiritual practice.  

The message I got is to listen.  To listen to the messages of the food, of my body of the energy around me, of the choices I make.  The answers are al there.  Are you listening?

How are you balancing your body? What will you change?

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FOUNDATIONAL INSIGHTS FROM PAST POSTS AND PODCASTS

08-How Willing Are You to Change – and Why Not?

03- Planting Roots and the Fundamental Need for Security

Do You Need a New Tribe?

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OUR EVOLVING FUTURE

All change comes from within  It is a consciousness – a raised awareness, perhaps even a decision to change, to see things differently, to act differently. 

Not everyone is going to be able to do that.  So those of us who can have to get busy.

Sometimes it’s more about our belief system than our actions  Belief that it can change, a vision of how it how that change might evolve and manifest.

I have to believe that everyone who is here on earth came here by choice knowing they would have to move through certain patterns of life in order to expand their evolving soul.  In other words. we chose what lessons we would learn, what opportunities ti explore n we would be given.   

We each have that core responsibility, to live our human life with the most integrity and consciences awareness we can manage.

How are you doing?

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DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

THE POWER OF INTENTION

My flute class has ended and there are more uses to explore. For instance, I want to use my flutes specifically for healing. This week I realized that each note corresponds to a chakra and with intention I can focus energy to each of my chakras in turn. I have added that sequence of notes to my daily  practice.  

Intention is very powerful.   It means “purpose, goal, target.”  It’s like aiming your arrow at the center of the target. The more focused you are the more accurate is your aim.  

It’s also interesting to have a broad intention.  My broad intention may be to clean my home, my specific intention will be to wash my crystals.   I want to talk to you about broad intentions.  

My broad intention is to add more focused moments to my day.  Cal them meditation, ritual, ceremony, affirmations  – I wan to create some form of intentional focus that brings me a greater connection to my inner self.  An action that stills my mind.  I will use my breath to still m body.  To bring me into a deeper awareness of what I feel and what I want and what I need.  A pause to reflect – that’s where I begin – a pause to notice, to check me out, to see where I am and what I need/want to do next.  A checkpoint.  A reflective pause.  

And from that still place I can reset my intention – to work with deeper awareness, to perform a certain task, to pause to take deep centering breaths.  It’s the pause that holds the magic, the pause in which you move within to evaluate where you are, and set a new intention for how you want your “next” to unfold.  

My intention was to record three podcasts this week   My intention was to offer them from my heart with clarity and passion.  My intention was to have my words and thoughts and ideas move into a positive experience for those who listen. 

That’s a lot of intention-setting for one action.  But I did it and recording was a lovely experience.

Give some thought to why you are doing something.  See what intention you can place around it.  I might add some Qi Gong and the intention is to not just strengthen and make my body stronger and more flexible, my intention can be to support me in all the inserting things I continue to do.  

Perhaps set both a specific intention and a broad intention.  

Use the power of intention to focus your experiences throughout your day.

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WHAT IS HEAING?

Healing is to “bring back something that is missing”.  When I heard that this week it made me think.  Healing is about bringing back balance.  It is about restoring to wholeness. It is about helping every aspect of our bodies and emotions align in order to realize their full potential.

So what does that look like?

I recently had a most amazing healing from my friend Christina Gerber.  My right pelvis has been tilted. I have no idea when it happened or why.  In a healing journey, Christina removed a blockage (a spear actually). I was surprised when I felt both sadness and grief as I let that blockage go.   

The muscles of my right hip that had been allowed to reposition themselves were very grouchy the next day as they began to work in a new way.  

But a few days later, as the right hip began to get stronger and straighter, my left hip got all grouchy because it was being asked to operate in a new way, a more aligned way.  And it had to strengthen some muscles that had been out of use or used differently.

Healing is about bringing back something that is missing.  Balance that was missing. Alignment that was missing.   

The other shift that has occurred is that structurally I am able to stand up stagier and that aligns my spine and my neck and yes, activates some muscle there in a new way. 

All of this happened because a blockage was removed and my body was able to return to its more aligned position.  

Healing is about bringing back something that is missing.

What is missing in your life? In your body?  What do you need to bring back or realign in order to heal? Do that.

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THE REFLECTING POOL

“Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”.   – Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is particularly good advice in today’s rapidly chaining word.  In one sense we are each being asked to create our own unique path.  It’s actually very freeing.  You get to look at your unique gifts and how you love to use them.  Then you look for how you want to share them, who you want to reach. And you go exploring to find your new unique place of service, your new unique offering.  You explore your own path and leave a trail…

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CARA’S CORNER

DO YOU NEED NEW FRIENDS?

Look closely at the people you spend time with.  Look closely at how you have changed. Do you need new friends?

The choice of friends may be even more important in this time of unusual circumstances.  Not everyone is going to be able to rise to this challenge. You have a choice depending on what you need – to help those who are faltering or seek out this who can pull you up.  Look closely at what you need to support your own journey and chose friends whose presence and interaction will help you do that.

All my friends are spiritual but they are also uniquely specialized.  As they express themselves and choose their direction, I see that our paths are parallel, they are adjacent, but they are distinctly different. And that is a good thing.  None of my friends are holding me back.  None of my friends are pulling me forward too rapidly, or in a direction I don’t want to go.   We really are strong, independent souls, walking solidly in our own path, shining light as we go, and opening up new ideas and possibilities for each other.  

Who is in your tribe?  Are you a group of explorers? Light Bearers?  Guides? 

As you change, you will have to leave some friends behind.  They may not choose to keep up or they may choose to go in a different direction.  Know that. Notice that.  And let them go.  

When we are true to our own calling we continue to change so it makes sense that we will interact with someone for a while and then part ways and move off into our own individual journeys.

Look at who you spend time with and see if you are still nurturing each other and helping each other expand and explore.   Or see if you have outgrown each other. Life is about learning.  And that means new paths and new adventures.  Travel with those who are going in the same direction you are  – until it is organically time to part ways and follow your own path.  

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A DEEPER SONG

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.” – Kahlil Gibran

Keep singing a deeper song.

Namaste,

Cara

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