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What Are Our Action Steps For Transformation?

Living Our Deeper Song

Transformation is about creating a new consciousness within yourself that you can then translate and interpret and share. It is about opening up a new awareness of potential and possibility in the unseen world.

How do we do that?  Where do we begin?

Create a new consciousness within yourself 

Creating a new consciousness within yourself requires inner exploration and deep questioning.

Why is our world the way it is?  What do we need to change within ourselves to create change in our environment? All change comes from within. What do you need to change in your belief system? What do you need to change about what you believe is possible? What do you need to change about what you believe you deserve?

Translate and share what you discover

Once we figure out these core beliefs and expectations, we have to figure out how to absorb these ideas into our life and find ways to share them with others.

For instance, I am trying to redefine my role and how I can help shift the chaos in the world.  You know, simple things…

Develop a new awareness of potential and possibility in the unseen world

Someplace beyond our human consciousness is a higher level of awareness that opens us up to new possibilities and new potential.  We must deepen our awareness of this higher consciousness and learn to hear and interpret its meanings.

For instance, it was a major shift for me to energetically join the light bearers who are focusing on cultivating peace in our hearts and expressing it in our lives. It gives me a sense of active participation and effectiveness.

Is there a new level of consciousness emerging?  What is it?  How do we embrace it? How do we expand it?

This is esoteric, imaginative, insightful, creative inner work that we must each do. There is a deeper level of consciousness and interconnectedness for us to achieve and a creative, innovate plan of action to take.

This is a time of exploration, expansion, experimentation and exciting discovery. Be open to change.  What are your action steps for transformation?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I explore and experiment to deepen my consciousness and expand how I participate in the world. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Release your worry about the physical plane and move into deeper inner work to define your next steps. 

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The Power of Three: How to Manifest Your Intentions

This is a great idea. I am doing this. Here’s the podcast: 

“The Power of Three. We all know 3 is a powerful number for creation, manifesting and abundance. In this week’s episode, Deb and Samantha break down exactly how you can create a Power of Three Intention group to give up a boost to your prayers, intentions and manifesting goals.” 

Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psychic-teachers/id361910564?i=1000636591471

Vision Board

We visualize our lives into being so what better tool than making a vision board.

We used to cut photos out of magazines but now we can find wonderful photos online or you can simply draw your vision board. What is your vision for the coming year?

Three Words

This idea originated with Chris Brogan. Choose three words to guide you and open new pathways in the coming year.

My three words for 2024 are:

– balance – my physical, my emotional, and my spiritual path. 

– deepen – my contribution to the staff here, and to my readers.

– expand – my awareness, my impact, and my spirituality.

What are you three words for 2024?

Moving To Music

I am having a good time listening to music I used to enjoy and moving my body to the rhythm. It is fun and can be a spirited form of exercise.  Will you get out your dancing shoes?

My Meditation Really Kicked In This Week

I have no idea how it happened but my meditation experience has suddenly gone deeper than I have experienced in years. I use a mudra (thumb to middle finger) and my transcendental meditation mantra (you can  use Aum) and I went deep in seconds and stayed there.  However and whyever it happened, I am grateful and will set myself up to meditate several times a day.

Experiment with the time of day you meditate and where you do it and the frequency and see what unfolds for you and for your meditative experience.  

Take Time To Absorb The Gifts of Nature

Each morn as I sit at my computer, the sun comes into my window. To begin my day, I sing to my wall of flowers and watch the sun deepen the colors of the foliage. I hum to the plants and to me and to my day. 

I work awhile and then the sun comes in at a different angle and I stop, close my eyes, relax my body and go within and meditate. I quiet my mind and disappear into the Great Silence.

I write to learn throughout my day as I explore new ideas and concepts. When the weather is nice, I go out and play my flute and thumb piano at the koi pond. I also turn to look out over nature and play my drums during the day.

How do you pause to be with nature during your day?  

Music From The Past

I am having a great time listening to music from my past as I search for music to move by. 

Carol King – I Feel the Earth Move

Benny Goodman – Sing with Swing

Glen Miller – In the Mood

Lionel Hampton – Flying Home

Barbara Streisand

Frank Sinatra  

Gene Krupa’s drum solo  from the Ed Sullivan show!!

Who were your favorites? Pull up these songs online and enjoy them again.  Move your body and remember.

Giving Gifts With No Money

What if the gifts you gave this year were ones of service? What would that look like? What would that feel like?  How would that be received?

It could involve organizing – a garage, a basement, a room.  Hauling stuff away, organizing, labeling. Jobs that get put off because they can be daunting. Shoveling snow.  Raking leaves. Cutting grass. Walking a dog. Cooking a meal. Babysitting so the parents can have a night out.

What would you want if someone were to offer you a gift of service?

I would like to roam the land again.  I see it from the back of a van in my wheelchair as we speed down the highway to an appointment but I’m talking about a leisurely drive in the country.

It would be fun to have someone teach me a new instrument.  I have asked for a pan flute for Christmas and there are videos to learn that online but it would be great to be coached by someone.

Sometimes the gift can be as simple as an afternoon coloring together or working a puzzle together or walking around the block. 

Look at the gifts of time and service you can give this year. Giving is about love and caring.

Something To Think About

“When you do things from the soul, the river itself moves through you. Freedom and a deep joy are signs of the current ” – Rumi

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Step Beyond the Limits of Yourself

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The Power Of Three

I’ve never worked with a crystal grid before so I am learning and creating and experimenting. I will use a crystal grid for my power of three altar. I found a graphic of three conjoined circles and asked my social worker to print it out for me so I can use it as a basis for my grid. 

It took some thinking for me to figure out what three things I want to focus on for the next three months. My two friends will also have three things and we will all have them on our grid and work energetically with them. Mine seem to be around health, service and my work in the world. I will welcome the energy and the power of three to my goals.

I don’t know the specifics of my daily participation but I will tell you more next week. I am looking forward to working with the power of three.

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The Power Of Three

There is not just me – there is the Power Of Three.

There is not just me – there is the Power Of Three. I feel the support.  I feel the expanded power.  My expectations rise.

There is not just me – there is the Power Of Three. I feel the support.  I feel the expanded power.  My expectations rise. The Power of Three expands our impact and my potential for change.

– Cara Lumen, December 2023

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 Transformational Leaders
deepen our relationship with the Unseen World
and expand our role in the New Consciousness

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How Do You Express Your Spirituality?

Living Our Deeper Song

Spirituality involves a personal quest for meaning in life. It is a fluid and constantly evolving adventure. I’m the one around here who keeps having to say, “I am not Christian but I am very spiritual.” I have adapted a fairly broad range of spiritual philosophy and practices and have woven them into my unique spiritual practice.

We develop our spirituality as we explore and shape our lives.  We add ceremony or a specific spiritual practice and experiment with ways to deepen our inner connection with spirit. We make our spiritual practice uniquely our own. 

We find a ceremony or thought patterns that resonate with us and absorb our version of them into our own life.  We keep exploring and experimenting as we find new ways to expand and deepen our spiritual way of living.    

I found the philosophy of the Tao Te Chin about 40 years ago. I learned transcendental meditation in the 60’s. I learned mudras in yoga classes along the way. I first studied shamanism about ten years ago. Shamanic journeying is part of my spiritual practice. I like to journey to get guidance from my Inner Voice. My spiritual practice includes meditation and Qigong and drumming and singing and sound healing. Your spiritual practice can be eclectic and changing.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I explore and expand my spiritual practice.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Chose a new element to put into your spiritual practice.
• Rearrange the elements of your daily spiritual practice – the order or time of day or frequency or length. Experiment with one new element to see how it suits you. (I am creating a vision board and I have begun to weave working with that into my daily spiritual practice.)

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Winter Solstice December 21

The Winter Solstice marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the winter hibernation. It is a time for reflection.  How did you do?  Perhaps make a list of your accomplishments and most importantly, how you feel about that. What did you learn?  What new paths opened up for you?

This is a time for reflecting – for absorbing what you learned and giving thought to how it can change your life.

What do you want to learn? What do you want to explore? 

I’m going to explore the possibilities of intelligence in outer space. I’m going to be more aware of how I can share my holistic knowledge with the western medicine staff around me. I will deepen my inner work around my role in the planet. 

I will use the Winter Solstice for reflection, for recording ideas that I will examine in the Spring.  The Winter Solstice is a time for replenishing, restoring, renewing, re-thinking and restoring inner balance. It is a good time for journalling and writing down insights and ideas that show up.   You will make your selections for seed planting in the Spring.  Winter Solstice is a time for deep reflection and inner work.

Did You Have The Wrong Parents?

The young woman told me her parents had never been able to care for her and she had ended up in foster care. I paused to look at my parents and what they each did or did not contribute to my life. I looked at my role as parent for my children and the granddaughter I raised.  

There are so many nuances in parenting and in growing up.  We must be both forgiving and accepting as we review our relationships as a child, as a sibling and as a parent. To each stage we bring a different awareness, different needs and different responses. And all of those experiences will affect those with whom we come in contact. We must be forgiving of ourselves and those with whom we interacted and know that we did not know what was going on with the other person.

Forgive yourself. Forgive those you feel hurt you.  Look at those moments as important lessons that you both needed to have and build on the experience.

Dancing To Better Health

I have a new self-designed exercise program built around moving to music. I have had a great time exploring songs I have enjoyed through the years. I keep a list of the links and I organically create my Moving To Music exercise program. It doesn’t have to be very fast. You can mindfully stretch to slower music, stand up tall, move into a faster beat, turn from side to side – whatever your body is willing to do. How will you add moving to music to your life?

Accept The Need To Change

I have a big confrontation that I must handle and I don’t know how. I am in a therapy group with three other people and a therapist.  For the most part, I find it interesting and I am grateful for the friends. It turns out that I am good at asking leading questions. But one member epitomizes the reason I do not choose to socialize with old people as a rule. She only talks about herself and her memories. There is no moving forward for her. My irritation is so great that I know it shows on my face and I am having a very hard time controlling it. So the Universe is giving me an opportunity to heal and I don’t want it. 

I have to change. I have to find a way to be around her. She has a reputation for going on and on about her own story so it’s up to me to figure out what to do about it. It is such a major plug-in for me that I have no idea how I will handle. 

What do you do where there a major plug-in that you have no idea how to handle?

What Excites You? 

I have to look hard to find a time when I was excited. I was excited about my major moves to New York and California. I get excited when I get to learn something new. I’m excited about moving to music every day. But I can’t think of many times in my life that I was excited. How about you? What excites you and do you savor the moment?

Take Time To Appreciate

I want to take more time to appreciate things in my day. I sit by a big window and can easily turn and look at nature. I have interesting exchanges throughout my day. I learn something every day. But I would like to be more appreciative of where I am and what I have been given at this point in my life.

Do you notice the gifts the Universe bestows on you? Do you take time to savor and appreciate them? Do you thank those around you for their friendship? I, for one, am going to start doing a better job of appreciating and acknowledging the gifts I am given.

The Day Looms Large

The day looms large.  How do I want to shape it? How do I want to fill it?

The day looms large.  How do I want to shape it? How do I want to fill it? I want to learn something new. I want to grow inside. I want to feel productive. This day is bursting with possibilities.

The day looms large.  How do I want to shape it? How do I want to fill it? I want to learn something new. I want to grow inside. I want to feel productive. This day is bursting with possibilities. I sit in silence and contemplate my many options. I’m going to make it a great day.

– Cara Lumen, November 2023

A Quiet Mind

I sit in the sun and quiet my mind.  

I sit in the sun and quiet my mind. I withdraw from the world and feel peaceful.  

I sit in the sun and quiet my mind. I withdraw from the world and feel peaceful. I release my humanness and disappear into the moment,  

deep into my inside world. 

• Cara Lumen, November2023

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The Field of Opportunity

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We Create Our Own Path

I made the choice to live alone in the 80’s – when I was in my 50’s – except for the years I spent raising my granddaughter – and it has a been a conscious choice. I need a bit more physical support now but it is generously provided here at Evergreen. How will you handle aging alone? 

More and more young people are choosing not to have families, so aging alone is an aspect around which we must be creative. 

In the US we have Social Security. We each need to research what that means for us. We are not building enough long-term care facilities. The aging population is expanding rapidly and subsidized housing is not keeping up. Educate yourself on your options. Begin to design your elder years.

Evergreen has the best reputation in Kansas and Missouri as a long-term care facility. Others come here to see how we do it. Explore your options and get on a waiting list. There was a three-year waiting list in the subsidized independent living that I lived in before here.  Do your research before you need it. Take charge of your aging process long before you need the help. We create our own path.  How will you take charge of yours?

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The Choices Are Mine To Make

I can be prepared or I can be surprised. I can explore and deliberate and make a conscious choice.

I can be prepared or I can be surprised. I can explore and deliberate and make a conscious choice. None of us know what our “next” is but we must understand our options and our choices before we actually need them. 

I can be prepared or I can be surprised. I can explore and deliberate and make a conscious choice. None of us know what our “next” is but we must understand our options and our choices before we actually need them. After that, all we need to do when it is time is to make the change and do that.

– Cara Lumen, November, 2023

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 Transformational Leaders
deepen our relationship with the Unseen World
and expand our role in the New Consciousness

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

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This Is A Time Of Change And Not Knowing

Living Our Deeper Song

And it’s kind of scary. On the news this week was the fact that AI could send false information that would mess with our election.  That seems overwhelming and it makes me feel helpless.

So what role can I create for myself that makes me feel like I am participating and making a difference? What can I impact?  

I have recently received several emails of appreciation from members of the Deeper Song Community that touched my heart and help me understand how I am in service and that I am on the right track.

Who would you like to acknowledge? I write people I do not know to thank them for some idea they shared that moved me forward. I will take more time to make certain I thank the people around me for the kindness they bring into my life. I will begin there.

You need to know what is yours to do and let the rest go. I can’t stop wars.  I can’t stop evil in AI but I can work with the hearts of humans who are open to change.  I started to write those who are capable of change – but we are all capable of it, we just have to have the desire and willpower and intention and make the choice.

The most impactful work is on yourself.  What do you think? What do you focus on? What needs to change?  We manifest what we believe is possible and what we believe we deserve.

Just because we can’t see how we can make it happen does not mean that it cannot. I don’t know how to stop wars but that doesn’t mean they won’t stop. I don’t know how to make people stop hating each other but that doesn’t mean they won’t change. So what is my role? What are my steps? How do I participate? What are the options laid out before you that are your pathway to create change in yourself and in the world?

I have an obligation and responsibility to help bring balance and love into all the world. It’s not my job alone. It is our job. It’s a big job but those of us who can picture and practice peaceful cohabitation and loving kindness must work to do so in order to bring it into being. 

What are you focusing on? What is drawing your attention? What will you change in your beliefs and focus to help create a positive existence for us all? 

We must do the work. We are the change-makers of the world. We must keep re-defining and expanding our role. This is a time of change and as Light Bearers we have work to do.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I am a powerful change-maker for our planet.

Deeper Song Process

• Accept that you are a powerful change-maker and are needed in this world.
• Develop your own role. How are you to participate in changing the energy of our planet and its people?
• Create a progress journal in which you write down what you are going to focus on, how you are going to focus on it and what are the changes you intend to manifest. Keep creating and adjusting to make your participation more powerful. 

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How To Accept What You Are Not To Be

There are various times in our lives that we need to take a reality check. We get to notice what is not going to happen. We get to notice what we cannot expect to happen. It’s not about giving up. It’s more about taking a reality check. Just because the signs are not there does not mean that the path is not going to open later.

What are the things you wish you had done that it will never be possible for you to do? 

I’m never going to be a leader who changes lives through speaking and organizing but I will change some lives by writing and sharing. 

We never know what small exchange can have a profound effect on the life of another. Or how the example of how we live our lives might inspire and motivate another. 

I never had any long-term ambitions or goals. I am a spontaneous explorer. I pretty much let life unfold and responded in the moment and I am content. I’m content with who I am and what I’ve managed to do in my life. How are you going about releasing the dreams of what you will never get to be or do? What new dreams and goals are you allowing to unfold? Listen. And go adventuring.

What Did You Accomplish Today?

It is easy to come to the end of a day and wonder if you have done anything of value at all. That is the perfect time to pause and reflect. 

Think of the people whose lives you touched by your presence. It could have been a smile exchanged in passing or a short interchange between the two of you. If your day flew by, you might have to look closely at the small moments of impact that you had. 

You did have impact. You did make a difference. Pause and acknowledge what you accomplished.

Never Underestimate the Reach Of Your Light

Think back over your life at one small seemingly minuscule encouragement or exchange that totally changed your life. It could have come from a person. It should have come from a circumstance. It could have just been a wonderful nudge-thought from the universe. But it was instrumental in changing the trajectory of your life. 

The boy who was to be the editor of my high school newspaper moved away his senior year and I got the job. It helped me discover what a good organizer I am. A television salesman suggested I write myself into the commercial and when I did, it opened up a whole new career path for me. A friend’s casual statement about being a rock as we walked across Central Park was life-changing for me. So we may never know when we are going to make a difference in someone’s life and when someone will make a difference in ours. But it’s good to pay attention so we notice them.

You never know how a positive response affects those around you. You never know how a small gesture is exactly what a person needs in order to have the courage to keep going. Sometimes it’s something you read. Sometimes it is as basic as the sun shining through the window to pause to appreciate all that you have. 

I’m pretty sure many of those people who affected me in our casual exchange have no idea of how profoundly they changed my life. Just as I have no idea how my presence affected theirs.

Do not underestimate the impact you have in the world. Become more away of the small things you do that impact those around you. Be certain you impact the world is done in the manner that you want it to. Never underestimate the reach of your light and keep on shining.

How Do You Know When To Quit?

Sometimes there are things we are not meant to do. Sometimes there are things we are not to complete.  Do you know when it’s time to quit?

Sometimes the Universe bops you on the had and takes an opportunity away from you. Sometimes it tosses you onto an entire unexpected path.

I was fired once. I quit jobs several times. Many times I have made instantaneous decisions to take action, particularly around the opportunity to learn something new.

We quit for several reasons. We quit because we have taken what we need from a learning situation. We quit because we have learned enough and are ready to move on to another level. We quit because something more interesting, more recent, more impactful takes its place. We quit because it is too hard. We quit because it is not leading us where we want to go.

It’s important to know when to let go, to quit, to move on. But it’s also important to know when not to quit.

What are the criteria you use to make the decision to quit and move on?  Do you just let it fade away or do you make a conscious decision to quit and move forward?

What I think of as slow neglect is probably the most common and sneaky. Perhaps it is time to make a list of what nurtures you. Make certain your day is appropriately filled with those.

How do you need to rearrange your days and modify your choices to make your life experience nurturing and open for new opportunities for growth. How do you know what to quit and when?

Imagine Your Life Into Being

She is 16 and knows that she wants to be a nurse practitioner in pediatric oncology. She has begun her journey by interning here in my long-term-care facility. 

I was lucky to get a college education, women had so little status in my early years. None of us had career dreams because we had no women role models ahead of us to light the way.

The young women of today are very lucky and they have a challenging path to lead, to balance a strong professional role with relationships and possible parenting. 

It’s a bit tricky to imagine your life into being when you have no role models but it can be done.  What doors do you want to fling open and go through and how will you imagine your life into being?

The Power Of Gratitude

“The event that Americans commonly call the “first Thanksgiving” was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in November 1621. This feast lasted three days and was attended by 90 Native American Wampanoag people and 53 survivors of the Mayflower (Pilgrims).” (Google)

This might be a good time to pause and give gratitude not for what you have but for who you are. Kind.  Giving.  Supportive. Generous. Smart. Creative. Curious. Funny. Thoughtful. Quiet. Gentle. Enthusiastic. Contemplative. Loving. 

Take a moment to write down how you show up in the world and offer gratitude for the amazing person you are!

What I am Reading

“From Outer Space to Inner Space: An Apollo Astronaut’s Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds by Edgar Mitchell.

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Are You Afraid of Change?

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I Thought It Was Depression

I have never been depressed in my life but I felt like I was experiencing it. It went on for a week. Then my therapist recognized it as grief and it suddenly made huge sense. It was also very empowering because I know steps to release grief.  My grief was over a changed relationship with one of my children.

What are the relationships in your life that did not work out well?  Can you look back and understand why? Perhaps you had expectations that would never be filled. That could be in the form of expectations for yourself and expectations you held for another person. I have expectations that will never be brought into being. I had to let them go and I grieved.

Be patient with your times of change. Let them unfold and gently explore and modify your responses. Let your awareness unfold and take time to explore its potential. 

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I Disappear Into Wholeness 

The sun on my shoulders reminds me to stop – to take a deep breath, quiet my mind and become present in nature.

The sun on my shoulders reminds me to stop – to take a deep breath, quiet my mind and become present in nature. Its message is patience and stillness and simply being present. 

The sun on my shoulders reminds me to stop – to take a deep breath, quiet my mind and become present in nature. Its message is patience and stillness and simply being present. I quiet my mind, move within and disappear into wholeness.

– Cara Lumen, November 2023  

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 Transformational Leaders
deepen our relationship with the Unseen World
and expand our role in the New Consciousness

Cara Lumen, explorer, spiritual philosopher, teacher, guide, leads us on a journey of self-awareness, spiritual expansion and impactful service. She helps us believe in our value, trust in our gifts, express our passion in a unique manner and build something meaningful around our wisdom and expertise. She helps us sing a deeper song.

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What Is Your Role In The World?

Living Our Deeper Song

Living Our Deeper Song

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

I am trying to define my role in today’s chaotic world. I don’t want to use my age as an excuse but I do need to consider my physical limitations.

I am not to physically fight. I have no extra money to give to a cause. I’m not in a position to volunteer. I do vote. I encourage others to register to vote. Which brings me to energy work.

How do I position myself? Where can I be effective? Where do I focus my intention? 

I know that group consciousness is powerful and effective. I focus my energy work on raising the collective consciousness for the well-being of the planet. This includes climate change and our environmental well-being as well as peaceful coexistence on all levels.

I get to monitor what I focus on. I get to monitor what I believe is possible, to make certain I am not stopping myself by feeling separate from Source.

My current role is an open heart and a raised consciousness with the intention of helping others who are working to hold their light high and help others raise their consciousness.  We are to focus on the group consciousness – to encourage each other.

Some days it does not feel like enough.  But it is what I have to work with and it is effective even if not as rapid as I would like.

Make certain your impact is what you want it to be in how you respond, through your interchanges. What you focus on impacts how you feel and affects your impact. Monitor that.

I need to watch less news but I want to be informed.  I need to get real about what I can and cannot impact.  I can impact everything with my intention but the effect will be more noticeable in some places than others.

My role is to deepen my awareness of my existence in Source and work to reflect that light energy so others see it and recognize it in themselves. I can do that. What is your role in the world?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I deepen awareness of my existence as Source and radiate that out into the world.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• How do you see yourself?
• Where is your purpose guiding you?
• How are you expressing that?

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Shift Your Focus. Raise Your Gaze

What is within your power to do in the circumstances you find yourself in? 

There are certain things in my life I no long have control over. I get to accept and adjust.  Most of this is physical but my concern over the state of our world and my search for my way to contribute is on-going and a work in progress.

What is out of your control?

There are so may horrific things going astray in our world. I only know I am choosing intention and focused energy as my way to help.

Where can you shift your focus so it’s 100% on the parts of your life that you control? 

I need to trust. I need to trust that my intentional work is effective. I need to trust that healing is possible.  

The Universe offers us lessons and it is a very big trust issue for me to feel effective through my inner work. It is any opportunity for me to grow and establish a path that is effective for me. How will you shift your focus? How will you raise your gaze?

How Are You Integrating The Lessons Of Your Life?

Did you learn the lessons life offers or do you keep repeating them?

I am not good with money but I sure am good at exploring ideas. I have had strong supportive friendships but draining dependent relationships in which I was the stronger partner.  I have led the majority of my life standing on my own. 

Look back over the patterns and choices of your life and identify your strengths and your weaknesses. How are you cultivating your strengths?

I’m an explorer.  I search, I find, I dip in a little and move on taking with me what resonates. I only dive deep in a few places.

There are core gifts that have guided me – my writing, my curiosity and my overview mind. 

Pause and list the three or four gifts/talents that have been obviously prevalent in your life and notice how frequently they impacted your choices. Notice how many times those gifts impacted the trajectory of your life. How are you integrating the lessons from the experiences of your life?

Remember The Importance Of Your Work 

I’m not talking about the work you do to support yourself, I’m talking about the spiritual work you want to do in the world and how you want to do it. That is very important. Sometimes the two are combined and sometimes they are separate.

I’m watching a friend move from being a doctor onto a new path as a medical astrologer and a potter.  I watch another friend prepare to move from an executive position in an insurance company to being a reiki animal healer. 

As you approach your next stage, how will your place of service change? Where is your current place of service that is not linked with your profession? 

I have written before that I am an ambassador of holistic healing to the staff here that is trained in western medicine.

What is the form of your work and how can you broaden your impact?

The Challenges And Rewards Of Our Life

Can you identify some of the challenges in your life?  What do you see as your reward?

I had two unsupportive marriages but I have four great children. Organizing, learning and writing have been strong threads throughout my life. What strength patterns can you see weaving through your life?

Curiosity has pulled me strongly onto many paths. It has kept me moving from adventure to adventure.

Can you see a thread in your life that pulled you forward and guided you on your life adventures?

You Have More Than One Chance To Learn A Lesson

How many times have you made the same mistake?  How many times have you wished you would remember the lesson?

Many of my lessons have been around handling money and I still haven’t learned it. I have been pretty indulgent with myself and not in a responsible way. I hope I’m not too old for that lesson to sink in. Wha lessons have you been challenged with learning in your life?

What Are You Dreaming Into Being?

We imagine our life into being.  We think it up, we give it a try, we shape it as it emerges. That’s how we live our life – one creative experiment at a time.

So how do we shape our lives? We do it by choosing, experimenting and adjusting. 

Sometimes we get our ideas from the examples of others. Sometimes an idea just pops into our head and we act on it. We are driven by what we believe can happen, what we believe we deserve, and what we believe is possible.  

When I first moved to long-term care, I had a strong sense that a new path was unfolding but I did not know the specifics. It was gradually revealed.

Be patient, explore the ideas in your imagination, listen to your inner voice and then make the choices that move you forward. Keep dreaming your life into being.

How You View A Circumstance Affects How You Absorb It As A Lesson

You can see it is a disaster or see it as a gift. You can see it as a lesson or you can see it as a punishment. How you perceive a circumstance determine both its effectiveness and its gifts.

I’m in a bit of a funk right now, feeling a tad lost and without purpose. But there is a purpose. I just don’t know what it is yet. So I sit in observation and wait and listen.

I don’t have to live my life with a list.  I don’t have to do certain things every day, I just have to be still within. I have to quiet my mind and listen to my inner guidance. I am aware of the nudges but it is important for me to learn to flow through life and be more fluid in my responses.

I’m more of a list-maker than a let-it-unfold person. It would feel good to go with the flow more.  I do like the idea of less structure and more flow, but I will have to practice that.

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

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

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===CARA’S CORNER===

On Becoming 91

I never gave any thought to how old I would become. Or even what it would be like to be really old but I’m about to turn 91 and that’s a healthy number. As I know more and more people who are making it to 100, I’ve expanded my own goals, my own objectives, my own beliefs and the possibility of making it to 104. I’m not sure why I chose that number but it seems far enough away to not be imminent. 

So what am I going to do with the next thirteen years of my life? It will help if I can stay physically strong. It will help if I can figure out creative ways to work around my dry macular degeneration. But I have my brain and it’s great fun. It can always be counted on to take me on a new adventure. 

The Universe knows where I am going and what I am to do. It is my job to listen and explore – and adapt. 

I doubt there are many role models for actively exploring old age. It may be up to me to simply explore and experiment and define my own path. I can do that. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

On Becoming 91

The road is getting a little narrower but it is still a good road, a creative road, a road of imagination and discovery.

The road is getting a little narrower but it is still a good road, a creative road, a road of imagination and discovery. I walk a bit more slowly but my adventure continues. I leave clear markers along my path to show others the way.

The road is getting a little narrower but it is still a good road a creative road, a road of imagination and discovery. I walk a bit more slowly but my adventure continues. I leave clear markers along my path to show others the way. Where it will lead me I do not know.  When it will end will be revealed in good time.  But I am an adventurer, an explorer of life, and this is my road to travel. 

– Cara Lumen, November 2023

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 Transformational Leaders
deepen our relationship with the Unseen World
and expand our role in the New Consciousness

Cara Lumen, explorer, spiritual philosopher, teacher, guide, leads us on a journey of self-awareness, spiritual expansion and impactful service. She helps us believe in our value, trust in our gifts, express our passion in a unique manner and build something meaningful around our wisdom and expertise. She helps us sing a deeper song.

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Does Your Spiritual Philosophy Help You Find Meaning And Purpose?

Living Our Deeper Song

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

How do you define your personal spiritual philosophy? Have you ever questioned the religious beliefs you were taught as a child? They came from your parents who got them from their parents. Have you explored different spiritual philosophies to identify your own beliefs and a path that resonates? 

I was brought up Presbyterian. In my thirties I explored the low Episcopal church for a bit and then stopped when that church would not conduct my second marriage. I was in my forties when I started seriously exploring to identify spiritual beliefs that resonated with me. I found them in several sources – particularly the Tao Te Chin of Lao Tzu and the Sufi poetry of Kahlil Gibran, both of which expressed philosophies and ways of being that resonated with me.

Research shows there is a global shift away from organized religion. Those of us who are questing and exploring and reframing our spiritual and philosophical guidelines are identifying an eclectic collection of esoteric concepts that resonate and help us express our humanness in a deeply spiritual manner.

These conscious philosophical choices impact our actions, our belief in what is possible and the way we interact in the world.

Here’s an important point.  Our spiritual philosophies are ours to shape in our own lives but they are not ours to try to impose on others. We are each responsible for our own actions.  If how we live our lives is an inspiration to others, so be it, but our responsibility is to live our own lives as morally responsible and as meaningful and inclusive and compassionately as possible. It is not our place to impose our views on others. 

Those of us lucky enough to have the freedom to question and choose the spiritual philosophies that call the most deeply to us today have an obligation to do just that. I rely on observation, experimentation, and what resonates with who and how I want to be in the world.

I want to express myself in the world as a kind, inspiring, wise spiritual explorer and philosopher who enhances the lives of others. If my presence plants the seeds of change in others, so be it.  My role is to express myself with as much kindness and awareness and inclusiveness as I can muster.

What is your personal spiritual philosophy? Do you express it fully in your life? Expand your perspective. Live more consciously and let your life create change by its example.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I live my life conscious of how my presence impacts and influences others.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Take time to look closely at how you express your life.  Is there an area that needs to be improved? 
• Look at the people you admire and identify what qualities or actions you would like to incorporate into your own life. 
• Do that.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

A Peaceful Pause

The winter sun flows through my window. I pause, close my eyes and accept its gifts. 

The winter sun flows through my window. I pause, close my eyes and accept its gifts.  My mind quiets.  My shoulders relax. My breath slows. The warmth brings a stillness that flows through my body.

The winter sun flows through my window. I pause, close my eyes and accept its gifts. My mind quiets.  My shoulders relax. My breath slows. The warmth brings a stillness that flows through my body. I listen to the messages of nature and am at peace.

• Cara Lumen, November 2023

Re-Envision Your Self Image

Too often we don’t outgrow the image we had of ourselves as a young person. We may have been shy, we may have been smaller or larger than other children around us. Our parents may have been having a hard time and took it out on us and made our home environment difficult. All of those things are easy to blame yourself for and add to the self-image we continue to build upon as we mature. So how do you go back and change your self-image that was built on the past? 

First you have to identify what is no longer true. A good way to do that is to list your strong points. Notice what you have developed as skills. Notice how you express yourself, how others reflect you back to you.  Make sure the picture you hold of yourself is not built on the past but on the present. Noticing what is true now will help you release the limitations you felt in younger years that are no longer true today. 

Then notice the signals you are getting today. A long time ago I had a blank notebook in which I wrote down the positive things people said about me along with the date and who said it. When I was feeling down, I would go back and read that book and was often surprised at how other people saw my strengths and my gifts. It was very empowering. 

Perhaps sit down and write a list of how you see yourself today. Then ask someone who is close to you to describe what strengths and weaknesses she/he sees in you. You may be surprised at both your strengths and your weaknesses. Perhaps you will revise how you see yourself.

Give some thought to how you view yourself and your potential. Begin to re-envision a more impactful you.

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

We Must Learn Patience When We Depend On The Help Of Others

I’m not good at this. I’ve been self-sufficient all my life and now I need help to do certain physical things. I’m not very good about being patient until a Care Partner can come and help me. I have a lot of work to do on that. 

I try to stay as self-sufficient as possible but there are things I simply can no longer do for myself. There are call buttons within easy reach to alert the staff to come help me but there are a lot of people who need two people at a time to lift them, and sometimes I have to wait longer than I would like to get the assistance I desire. 

What kind of a person will you be when you have to depend on others for some of the more mundane aspects of life? 

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

What Do You Still Have To Do?

You may have started out a long time ago with ambitions and goals for what you wanted to achieve in your life.  How are you doing?  What new unexpected opportunities and paths have opened up to you and what are you discovering?  How does it change your life?

My life has certainly had its share of unexpected paths and opportunities. I could never have foreseen or predicted most of it. But the question is what do I still have to do? 

Wherever you are in your life, pause and take stock.  Acknowledge what you have achieved.  Notice what new paths have opened up.  What have your learned? What do you feel is important for you to still achieve?

Your perspective has changed.  Your objectives may have changed. Pause in your life and see where you are and where you want to go. 

At 91 time is a factor for me.  What can I do in the next ten years that will have the most impact? I will have to be on the lookout for the Guidance the Universe provides.  I have to be open to the unexpected. I have to stay flexible and thoughtfully responsive. What do you still have to do? Stay inquisitive and flexible.

Change The Energy Of Your Home

When you step into a space, you can feel its energy. Whether it is an empty room or a space full of people, there is an energy to be felt and responded to.

Our homes are filled with energy that we create and allow to flourish. We need to establish a pattern of being aware of the energy of our space and develop some techniques to improve it.

We also need to become aware of the energy we bring with us into a room and develop conscious pauses in which we clear and focus ourselves before we enter. 

Energy from old arguments hang out in the space and must be cleared. Visitors bring their own energy into the space and it may need to be cleared. Objects and reminders of the past we have kept around may be contributing negative energy to a space and need to be removed. Take charge of the energy you keep in your home. Become aware of the energy of each space and then take steps to bring it into balance. Stand in the doorway and experience the energy.  Notice how it makes you feel. What, if anything, needs to change?

I clear the energy of my space every morning and night.  I happen to use reiki but you can create an intentional vibration to clear a surface or a room. Make it an integral part of your day to clear your space as you enter and as you leave.

You might also create a clearing ceremony that you do at the full moon or new moon or the solstice or equinox.  Or you might do it weekly – or daily.

Look at your space as the field of energy that it is and decide how you want it to feel, then take steps to clear and refresh it for the purpose you desire.

Be Selective

We only have so much time and energy. We must be selective. To do so, we must monitor our choices to make certain they are the most productive and are taking us where we want to go.

So what does that look like? Does this choice result in furthering my over-arching goal? Is the time spent doing this particular activity the best use of my time and resources? Will this choice create the results I want?

Experimenting can open up new opportunities for change. Thoughtfully identify your goal and what paths are available and make thoughtful choices. How will you know it is not worth pursuing? How will you know it is?

Perhaps spend time journaling your action and the result or conclusion you reached. Notice that some things may be really great ideas but there may not be the time or energy to develop or pursue them.

It helps to know your major objectives. I have two major physical goals – walk better (which will get a lot easier after the second hip surgery) and figure out the tools I need for my changing eyesight. On the spiritual level, I am mindfully watching the unfolding of how I am to contribute next. My intellectual exploration needs no encouragement, I can barely keep up with my ideas now.

Look at the balance in your life.  Is it how you want it to be? Are the things you want to accomplish getting done?

The structure in my day has evolved as my awareness of my desires sharpens. Write, explore, learn. I create in the morning because that’s the most rewarding thing I do. Tuck in movement and meditation in the sun and I have a good start.

How do you design your day? Are you creating the harmony you want and need? What do you need more of? What do you need to do less of? Be selective in designing your day.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Self-Healing Spiritual Practice and Deepening Awareness of Our Cosmic Oneness

Leave Space For New To Come In – Then Go Exploring

When I moved into Evergreen a year ago, I knew my path was changing but I did not know what it was changing into.  It has gradually been revealed and I was surprised. In looking at the shorter number of years I have, I am watching for the revelations an unfolding of what I am to accomplish. 

Wherever you are in your life, leave space for new to come in – then go exploring.

===HOW TO BE A STRONG CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE CIRCLE OF LIGHT BEARERS===

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Choose Balance Rather Than Overwhelm

We have a choice.  We are in control of what we allow into our lives and what we focus on. 

Stop and make three columns. Leave the first one blank. In the second column write down what gives you excitement and satisfaction and rewards you with deeper insights.

In the third column write down what you believe you have to do.

In the first column design your day. Alternate things you love to do with things you have to do. Design a balanced day. Cross off things from the other columns as you move them to the first column.

Notice what you moved from the “things you love to do” column and notice what you left behind. Be aware of your preferences and see how you can rearrange your life to accommodate them.

Live In Tune With Your Own Vision

As we live our lives in this world, we share our energy and our spirit with the people around us in numerous ways. Our presence touches their lives and, through them, we touch the lives of many more people. When we strive to live our lives to the fullest and are true to our own gifts and values, we are doing something big on an inner level, and that is more than enough to make sense of our purpose for being here on this planet at this time. There is no need to hold ourselves to an old idea that we need to make headlines or single-handedly save the world in order to validate our existence.

We can each look within our hearts to discover what is true for us, what gives our lives meaning, and what excites us. We can release ourselves from any pressure to perform that comes from outside of our inner sense of purpose. Staying in tune with our own values and living our lives in tune with our own vision is all we need in order to fulfill our time here. Our lives are a process of becoming so we cannot help but create. By being who we are, responding to each moment as it comes, we can trust that we are enough.

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

The Gifts That Others Gave You

Look back over your life and notice the insights that others have given you.

My mother made certain I had the education she had wanted for herself. I can name four or five friends who have been impactful in my life through our friendship. I have a feeling it was mutual but I don’t know specifically what I gave them in return. 

I can think of several instances in which someone said something that impacted my thinking and my choices.

Most of my major choices have been made instantaneously and they have always been good ones. They usually had to do with learning something. 

Give some thought to the life-changing insights that came from others. It is very often a two-way exchange.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for Our Unfolding Role in the Future

What Are You Focusing On?

Amidst the wars and hatred in the world we need to focus on what we as individual light beings are helping to create. It’s not that we have to ignore the killing and the destruction, but we can make major change by turning our attention and our imagination and our intention towards a peaceable kingdom – living together in harmony. As hard as it may be, we need to picture collaboration and caring in the hearts of everyone in the world. Granted, that may take some doing but it will be powerful.

Look for what is working to bring harmony and peace in the world. Join those groups of people who are sending positive energy to our planet, to our environment and to humanity. 

Do not focus on what is not working, focus on what is working and see how you can maintain those ideas and concepts in your own life. It’s important to control your thoughts. What are you focusing on? 

===DEEPER SONG DISCOVERIES===

Resources to Explore

Soul Growth

How do we expand our soul? We do it through thoughtful awareness, contemplation, and observations of the light energy streaming from within us and those people we admire. 

I look at people whose actions inspire me to see why they inspire me and what insights I want to adapt and expand in my own life expression. Mostly I take bits and pieces of what I see others express and adapt and adjust them in my own creative way in order to absorb then into my life. 

My personal growth is taking me into an exploration of the Universe, the concept of a Web of Life and better still, that the drop of the entire ocean is within each of us.  I/we have work to do.

Accept your gifts and be creative in how you express them. Don’t focus on what is missing, focus on the gifts you’ve been given with which to shape your life.  

Create time for introspection and imaginative exploration. What if? What would that feel like? Where will that lead? Is that what I want to do next? In your quiet contemplation explore, try out, try on and trust your intuition. Make your choices, go exploring, create and adjust. You will expand as you move through new doors and explore new opportunities. 

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We Are Cosmic Consciousness

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Those Who Touch Your Life

I’m reading another book about Michal Newton’s past life regression work. It is about the souls who come into your life to help move you along. My list is fairly short but the impact was deep.  Make a list of the people who have impacted your life and how they did it. My mother is on the list. So is the television salesman who told me to write myself into the television commercial. When I did, it opened up a whole new career path for me. There is a friend who was the catalyst for my move to New York City. Dr. Barbara Ray who taught me Reiki in the 80s and three or four friends who have been impactful for me. It’s not a very long list and it does not include some of the people you would think it would, like husbands and children.

Pause a minute and write down the people who have impacted your life by being a catalyst for change. You may be surprised who goes on the list. How did they change your life?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Those Who Touched My Life 

I can count them on one hand – the people who changed my life by their presence or their actions. 

I can count them on one hand – the people who changed my life by their presence or their actions. A comment, an insight, an example that left an impact, created a change and shifted my vision.

I can count them on one hand – the people who changed my life by their presence or their actions. A comment, an insight, an example that left an impact, created a change and shifted my vision. Where would I be without those nudges and gifts of awareness? Certainly not where I am today. 

– Cara Lumen, November 2023

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 Transformational Leaders
deepen our relationship with the Unseen World
and expand our role in the New Consciousness

Cara Lumen, explorer, spiritual philosopher, teacher, guide, leads us on a journey of self-awareness, spiritual expansion and impactful service. She helps us believe in our value, trust in our gifts, express our passion in a unique manner and build something meaningful around our wisdom and expertise. She helps us sing a deeper song.

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.

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!

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