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Manifest What You Want

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Manifest What You Want

Living Our Deeper Song

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

In order to manifest what we want we have to continually make choices that are aligned with our goals. We have to be aware of what those choices are producing, and make adjustments. There are certain methods for doing this. Affirmations are powerful. A vision board is too. But I like the idea of a manifestation box. Or you could have an envelope with different topics in it, or a list or collection of photos on your computer. Whatever the form, it’s where you put your intentions, what you want to manifest in your life. 

So one segment might be about your living conditions. What do you want to change about that? What qualities do you want? What would that look like? Would a new plant help? Or a picture, or organizational help? Do you need to throw stuff away? 

Another might be for your work. What are the qualities you want in your career? Freedom of expression, acknowledgment, creativity? Make a list of the vibrational qualities you want in your work and then notice what happens. Perhaps make a note of how they manifest and how frequently they manifest. In other words, create and adjust, but always with an over-arching vision and intention. 

I want my relationships to have certain qualities, but I have to make certain that I’m manifesting those qualities myself. I must reflect those qualities in my own life.  Be aware of the vibrational energies you want in your life. Then make choices that support those qualities. You direct your life by your awareness of what is manifesting and your conscious choices to adjust what you see and experience. Hold your vision and use intention to direct your life and manifest what you want to have in it.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I create a manifestation container and begin to put my dreams and intentions in it.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Choose the form of your manifestation box. It can be an envelope, it can be a list, it can be slips of paper, whatever works for you. The point is to have the qualities you want to manifest in your life in a form that you can touch and feel and look at and contemplate and work with.
  • Then get to work. You might have an envelope for creativity, you might have an envelope for work, you might have an envelope for friendships. Keep adjusting the qualities that you want in each of those areas and watch what manifests as you do the work.

===INNER WORK===

Cultivate Tranquility

I like the word “tranquility” better than “serenity”. Somehow it’s like a quiet forest pool deep in contemplation. Tranquil to me means a quiet mind which is sometimes tricky to cultivate or acquire. Tranquility means being ready but being very centered in the waiting period. It is an active awareness. How do you cultivate tranquility? See if you can discern the difference between serenity and tranquility. You may prefer one over the other. There is a difference and it’s very subtle. Cultivate the one that draws you deeper into your spiritual practice. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Strengthen Your Spine

Your spine is very important and has lots of energy channels and nerve systems running through it. Keeping the channels open along your spine helps keep all the energy channels of your body open.  

A Qigong move to do that is very simple.  Standing or sitting, bend your elbows, raise your arms to shoulder height, palms facing the ground.  Begin to slightly rotate your arms from side to side and feel your spine flex and bend and straighten. Imagine the energy channels of your body opening and the Qi energy flowing through to replenish everything! Do this for three minutes several times throughout your day. (No. 31, Head-to-Toe Healing by Master Chuny Lin. You can get his book on Amazon or at springforestqigong.com or chunyilin.com.) 

Listen To Your Body

My body got pretty dramatic this week because I was not paying attention to how I was caring for it. It was actually kind of scary. But the lesson is that as hard as it is for me to walk and even stand, I must and have to do more of both to gain back my strength and flexibility. Use it or lose it. I’m losing it.

And I have a way to do that. I like Robert Peng’s Qigong series and I am practicing it so I own it – at least my version of what I can manage.  I can’t do it very well, but what I manage to do is very effective. So it is one major step in my self-healing. But I have to do the work – at least my version of it. Do not put off the care and nurturing and exercise of your human body. It will get grouchy on you and you will have to work really hard to get it to be un-grouchy. The exercises I have learned in my class are found below. Even when I don’t do these moves very well the movement of the Chi energy is huge. We’re talking 20 minutes a day here and it is something that I know you can do. I can’t stand up all the way and I’m doing them and Qi energy is just swirling around in me. I just have to do the work. As do you. Find the form of movement/exercise that appeals to you and do it regularly. Notice the results and adjust what you do to get better results. I make a conscious effort to stand up straighter when I’m at my kitchen sink or when I walk through a doorway. Make conscious choices that constantly strengthen your body. Make physical movement a core part of your life. You will not age well without it.

QIGONG 8 CYCLES VIDEO

8 Cycles is a series of gentle exercises that can be safely practiced by anyone to energize the body and calm the mind. Through the repetition of simple movements, energy centers are activated and internal organs are massaged, nourished, and invigorated. Over time, as the movements become familiar, they elicit a deep meditative state that transform the experience into a journey that opens into a vast and mysterious realm of joy and light. https://www.robertpeng.com https://www.robertpeng.com/store

A Powerful Qigong Move that Distributes Qi

This is an important, easy-to-do Qigong move that is simply about rubbing your ears to distribute the Chi energy. Get powerful results from Spring Forest Qigong Ear Qigong Move.

===OUTER  WORK===

Seek Simplicity

When I pick up a crystal to hold in meditation, it is a simple act that often leads to a powerful experience. I pick up a rock and I feel its energy move through my body. New ideas come to mind. I often pause to explore the experience and insights in writing that I later share with others. I absorb the bird song outside my window. I pat my cat’s head and rub behind his ears and feel the vibration of his purr. Slow, aware moments enrich my life. Seek out those small moments. Notice how you feel and what you were thinking and let them direct your thoughts and choice. Bless your choice as you make them. Bless your food as you prepare it. Be grateful for the lessons you learn, the teachers you have in your life, the insights you receive. Notice the little things. Seek the power and clarity of simplicity.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Create Songs for Your Spiritual Practice

It began with wanting to begin my daily meditations by honoring the directions. So I began to drum and I began to think of the element of fire. And I began to sing “Fire burning brightly all through my day, light the path before me all along my way.” I kept going until I had evolved a song for each of the directions. 

Make up songs as part of your spiritual practice. Perhaps start with a simple drumming rhythm and see what words show up. I have a song to all the directions and I am in the process of making of new songs for a new altar dish that my friend Martha Lacy made for me that honors the cycles of life in an infinity pattern. 

Let the phrases show up. As you drum you see what works or doesn’t work. Keep doing it till you have a song. I have a song I sing at the end of my day to myself and my cat, Sebastian that begins “Day is over, night has come, please watch over us.” Make up some songs to add to your spiritual practice. 

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

Take Your Warrior Stance

I need to take my warrior stance. I’ve been playing victim to all that’s been evolving in the world today.

A warrior is someone with the strength to stand up for what he or she believes, someone who perseveres in the face of challenges and obstacles, someone who speaks and acts in the service of an ideal, someone who protects those who are too weak to fight for themselves.

I have been content to walk my higher path, working to raise my vibration so others can experience it and choose it for themselves. I will keep doing that but I also want to turn and protect. 

Pick your battles.  I care about the environment, I care about wildlife.  But I have to make a mental shift around people, and what we are doing to ourselves. Because it’s very scary. And it feels overwhelming.

If my belief system says that I create my own reality, my work has to be in my mind, in my imagination, in my journey work, and my intentions. I have to shift my focus to see who is walking the path I want to walk, that higher path of inclusion and serenity. That leaves me walking my higher path and sending the energy back to the world in trouble. That works. It doesn’t feel very warrior–ish but it is an action. Whether you march in rallies, or give money, or actively campaign for a cause, or go help with your local food bank, or deepen your spiritual practice, or find a new place of service and do it with conviction. A warrior serves.

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

What Gifts Has Aging Given You?

I love the wisdom that aging has brought to me. I love the experiences upon which I build that wisdom. I cherish the insights that have come from a life of exploration and experience. I am wiser with age. And I like that.  Yes, my body is grouchy but my mind is a blessing. It entertains me, it stimulates me, it takes me on adventures, and it helps me gain new wisdom. It’s a great mind and I love it. 

What wisdom has aging brought you? What strength of character, what insights, what depth of knowledge? Look at the blessings the years have brought you. Keep building on them.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Tucked In and Safe

I have never been very good with money. And it’s only by happenstance that I’m balanced right now. But for that reason, I urge you to do a reality check about your retirement. My daughter and son-in-law recently paid off their home and are enjoying that phase of their financial planning, but I began talking about their “tucked in” home. The one that has no stairs, everything on one floor for an older person to get around on. One that does not have a big yard that needs maintenance. A tucked in home. 

If Social Security went away, I would be on the streets along with a lot of other people. What would I do as an old, crickety woman to make my way in the world? I’m not prepared to do it and I’m not sure I could do it.

Anticipate your aging process and its part in your limitations. And at some point, make the change that will tuck you in for that slowing down process. It’s great if you can keep hiking for miles as you age. But in case you can’t, it might be good to live someplace where another person mows the lawn.

I am tucked into a safe place. There is a staff of people who take care of it inside and out. They can fix and repair anything. There is a social worker to help me find resources. I am safe and I can afford it. And I am grateful.

It’s not about thinking doom and gloom around the aging process, but it is about being realistic about stairs and levels and grounds to keep. I like the word I am tucked in. Find a place to live in your old age in which you are tucked in safe and sound with the help you need to maintain it. It will be a good feeling when you do. 

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

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Believe the Messages

My friend, Christina Gerber, is a powerful healer and she is very generous with her skills when we talk on a regular basis. My left hip has been out of alignment. It will not hold its place steady and therefore it causes me pain. We did a healing on that hip this past weekend on Zoom and what I discovered truly surprised me. My left hip had an emotion, a strong one. It felt left out and unloved and she really wanted to be a unified part of the body. She wanted to belong to the whole. It was a very strong, emotional longing on the part of my left hip. So I hugged her and embraced her and welcomed her into our body, telling her that we really wanted her to be a part of the overall flow. I had to comfort her for some time. I hugged my left hip and comforted her and welcomed her into the whole. There was a lot of emotion stuck there.

Then I began to do infinity circles that wove both sides of my hips together, welcoming her into the overall pattern of standing and sitting and walking. I had to do that for quite a while until I felt that she was reassured, comforted and fully integrated. But the major surprise for me was that my hip felt such a strong emotion of being unwelcome and not a functioning part of the overall body. Who would have guessed that? Who would’ve gone in to give a healing based on that knowledge? No one. Trust your inner voice. Trust your body to tell you what it needs. Listen and trust what it says. Believe the messages and act on them. Your body knows.

Give it time to manifest.  Two days after my work with the emotion in my hip I had a very strong response to the Qigong work I was doing online with Robert Peng and the day after that I realized that my left hip had aligned! It was an organic sequence of healing events that built on each other. Be patient. Be aware. And keep doing the work. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Voice Within

My body spoke to me. It was loud and clear. It surprised me but I listened. And I learned.

My body spoke to me. It was loud and clear. It surprised me but I listened. And I learned. I was startled by the clarity of the message. And I paid attention.

My body spoke to me. It was loud and clear. It surprised me but I listened. And I learned. I was startled by the clarity of the message. And I paid attention. I hugged it and welcomed it and reassured it and it responded. Your body knows what it needs and it will tell you. Keep listening. 

Cara Lumen, June 2022

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

Namaste,

Cara

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Trust Your Intuition – Follow Your Inner Voice

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Trust Your Intuition – Follow Your Inner Voice

Living Our Deeper Song

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

Our intuition is the first sign of our inner voice speaking up. It comes as a subtle feeling, an awareness and when we pay attention it opens up a new pathway.

Do you follow your hunches? Do you listen to your intuition? Check it out. See where it leads you. Test it to see how on target it is all the time. Learn to trust those subtle thoughts that seem to come out of nowhere.

I use my intuition to make choices. Sometimes it’s as simple as what I’m going to eat and other times it’s more complicated – like what I am going to write. And sometimes my inner voice talks so fast I can only sit here and dictate what it says into my computer. 

The more you listen to your inner voice, the louder and more clearly it speaks. When change is going to happen in my life I get a feeling, a hunch, an awareness. I don’t know what is going to happen, I don’t know when it’s going to happen, I just know that there is a change in progress.

So I keep listening and I keep considering and I keep exploring whatever shows up to see if that’s what I’m supposed to be doing. And then one day it’s totally clear. My next step is right there in front of me. My next project, my next pathway, my next offering, my next place of service. All right there as clear as day. My inner voice has spoken.

First, learn to listen and then learn to trust. Notice the hunches, notice the thoughts, and pay attention to the gradual unfolding process. If they unfold. When they unfold. How they unfold. Keep tuning in as things progress. Learn to trust your intuition. Follow your inner voice. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION
I explore my hunches, my nudges, my intuition as they appear in my life. I learn to trust them.
DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Learn to pay attention to those random thoughts that are not actually random but are simply not noticed. Notice them, consider them, and see how they unfold. 
  • Listen, explore, and learn to trust.

===INNER WORK===
Do Not Second Guess the Future

It’s a natural tendency that when you get really old you start to think about how you might die. And you hope it doesn’t hurt. In fact, you very much hope it doesn’t hurt. But in a recent journey, I clearly got that it’s not time for me to consider that right now even though I am rather old. I am to get on the ball and do my work and make every day a meaningful and loving experience full of joy. I could keep really busy doing that. 

What are you anticipating with some dread and how is it sapping your energy and spoiling your present moment? Take life one day at a time. Savor it. Enjoy it. Do your best work in it. And expect the best!

I realize that I’m counting pretty heavily on this new self-healing Qigong class I’m taking to help me make changes in my body. But there are subtle changes for the good taking place even now. I just have to notice them and build on them and encourage the subtle changes.

For instance, it hurts very much to get up out of a chair. And I was beginning to sit there and rock back-and-forth in anticipation of the pain, which only makes it worse. And yes, it hurt to stand up. Then one day it didn’t. And I had to teach myself not to anticipate that it would. Do not anticipate, particularly in the negative. And if you can’t hold a vision of ease, at least hold a neutral space in which the action can unfold organically.

Remember that what you get is what you believe you deserve and what you believe can happen. So if I believe I can stand up easily and effortlessly that’s what I can create. That’s what I am creating. That’s what I have created. Stay positive and expect the best.

Come From Your Spiritual Center

It’s easier to get pulled off track – by a situation, by an interaction with a person, by something not working the way it is you want it to. Whatever shows up in your life, take a breath, pause to return to your spiritual center, and rebalance. That moment will change how you view what is unfolding and will also greatly focus and enhance the way you respond. Keep mindfully coming from your spiritual center.

===SELF-HEALING===
Don’t Give Up

I get discouraged sometimes when my body takes its own sweet time getting better because it hurts. And yet, there is progress.  Small steps in the alignment of my body. There is progress but it sure is slow.  I have to keep holding my vision of wholeness and give it time to evolve.  I get discouraged but I know I must keep focused on the successes. When you get discouraged, what do you do?

Create a Self-Healing Segment in Your Spiritual Practice – The Wide Reach of the Vagus Nerve
As I continue to take more and more responsibility for self-healing my body, I’ve begun to look at the meridians. I know very little about them and I want to learn. Somehow I’ve started with the vagus nerve and there are two ways that I’m really attracted to stimulating it. One is the Lower Dantian Breathing Technique with Grandmaster Chunyi Lin. I do this one many times a day.

The other practice I’m going to establish is to massage the vagus nerve manually. As part of my self-healing program, my intuitive healer friend Christina Gerber is going to teach me about the meridians. She says the vagus nerve runs the length of the body so Kegel exercises help the vagus nerve reset. Also, moving your tongue in your mouth side to side to reset it and massaging from your clavicle upwards along your neck to your temples front and back of the ear resets it.

The vagus nerve has a huge impact on mental and gut health. It’s known as the “wandering nerve” which encircles the digestive system, lungs, and heart and as a result, impacts nearly every part of the body. From immune to inflammatory response, to fight or flight, the vagus nerve plays a major role. As a result, stimulation of the vagus nerve is important for both physical and mental health. 

Keep adding self-healing techniques to your spiritual practice. You and your body deserve it.

Imbalance as a Lesson

If I work to heal various parts of my body, I am very aware that the imbalance that I experience is meant to be a lesson for me. A lesson of correction. A lesson of self-healing. Perhaps even the doorway to an entirely new path.

It’s not my favorite way to get a lesson. But there are messages in any imbalance and an opportunity for you to create change in your life. 

Along with my hip adjustment, my dry macular degeneration is also a lesson that is kicking in. Something for me to heal. Even though there is nothing Western medicine can do about it. I know the acupressure points around my eyes and massage them every day. I know I will learn more ways to help it in my Qigong self-healing class, and I look up exercises for the eyes online and go exploring. What prompts me to keep exploring is the belief that my health, my well-being, my self-responsibility and my choice of actions can create positive change. If I don’t, I sit here and just let stuff happen to me. And I’m a victim of this whole aging process. I’m not gonna do that. I keep adding self-healing practices to my self-care. I am taking a course on Qigong self-healing. And I am putting specific self-healing segments into my day so that I consciously stop and pay attention to these areas of my body and life that need to have adjustments made. And I get to work on it with my own energy and my own intention. Don’t just accept an imbalance in your life. Do some research, choose the steps that call to you and do them. Take responsibility for self-healing and expand your spiritual practice to include a regular self-healing time. Pay attention to the results and adjust your self-healing practice as those results unfold. How is your self-healing practice shaping up?

===OUTER  WORK===
How Do You Make Your Choices?

Some people make their choices based on an in-the-moment response and their instinct. Other people spend a lot of time weighing and considering what their options are and where they might lead. Where are you on the spectrum?

The choice of what to eat might be made out of instinct in the moment. Many of the things I write about come in the moment. I find a couple of words or a phrase that calls for explaining and I sit down and write about them. It happens pretty fast actually. I’m not one to spend a lot of time considering the options but perhaps I should be. How do you make your decisions? How do you find the balance between logic and emotion? Or do you?

It’s fine to make a choice between what kind of cookie you want to eat but you need to take a little longer when you’re making a choice between some major change in your life. We do need to consider options. At the same time, we don’t want to overthink them and make ourselves not do anything because we’ve got too many things going on in our minds. How do you find that balance between what your heart wants, what your instinct says to do, and what your mind says is a reasonable and logical step to take? It may depend on your personality and it may depend on the type of decision you’re making.

I write in the newsletter all the time. I find an idea and I write about it and put it in the newsletter draft. However, when I review it, I can just as easily take it out depending on what else I have written that week.

Noticing results is one indication of how your choices are working out. For instance, I had some fairly obvious body responses to some Qigong moves I started doing. So I continue their practice and increase the frequency I do them. That choice was made from the observation of a result.

Some of your choices will depend on how much you trust your inner voice. How much do you trust it to be on target for you? I knew in an instant that I was going to leave Kansas City and go to New York City. No questioning, no wondering how it’s going to happen, not even concerned about what that meant when I got there. It was just instinctual I knew I was going to do it. That sudden, instant knowing decision came two more major times in my life – when I moved from New York to California and when I moved from California to Kansas City.  In each of those huge decision-making moments there was no questioning, only a complete knowing it was what I was to do next. 

In looking over my life I’m pretty much an in-the-moment let’s-do-it person. That’s not necessarily a good thing. Sometimes examining the options might’ve been a better choice. But these were all wonderful moves.

How do you make your choices? Do you lean too much towards deep analysis or do you instinctively and intuitively jump on anything that calls to you? Both are extreme responses. Find balance in how you make your decisions. Whatever that looks like to you.

Adjust as the Situation Changes

I’m having a hard time playing my native flutes. Some of the tones are not clear. My fingers feel like they cover the holes on the flute correctly. But then I noticed the end joint on some of my fingers are being bent to one side by arthritis. So even though I feel like I am still bringing my fingers straight down to cover the hole, in actuality the ends of some of my fingers are not covering the hole completely to make the pure tone. That’s disturbing and I’m not sure what I do with those jauntily curved fingers but I am learning to adjust my fingering now that I know why the unclear notes are occurring. It is easier to play my wider double flute than the round single flute.

What physical changes have come up in your life? Make adjustments in order to continue forward. Stay flexible and creative and keep going…

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===
Add Music to Deepen Your Meditation

I play music as part of my daily meditation.  My native flutes for certain but I get a lot of pleasure from myKalimba Thumb Piano. It is soothing and easy to play.  It is also an inexpensive addition to your meditation practice.

The Kalimba is an African musical instrument consisting of a wooden board with attached staggered metal tines played by holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs. Here’s what it sounds like: Kiss the Rain

It is believed that the thumb piano was invented twice in Africa; one version originating on the west coast using wooden or bamboo tines around 3000 years ago, and the other version originating on the southeast coast using metal tines around 1300 years ago.

It can be a solo instrument or as an accompaniment to singers, musicians and dancers. I use it for meditation and my cat, Sebastian, is particularly fond of its sound. Here’s the one I have Kalimba Thumb Piano

===HOW TO BE A STRONG CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE DIVERSE CIRCLE OF LIGHT BEINGS===
Stay Balanced

I’m trying to stay balanced between me and the bravery and the horror stories of the Ukraine while keeping my spiritual focus on the higher vibration that embraces all of us. I’m not always successful.

I wish I had an attention thermometer. It would help me stay on track. It would make me notice when I was focusing too much on the physical plane and need to go spend more time on the spiritual plane. I just have to teach myself to recognize that in myself. I could listen to less news and spend more time reading books and looking at videos that help me raise my own vibration. What kind of balance are you maintaining in your life and how do you need to change it?

===BROADEN YOUR HORIZON – EXPAND YOUR VIEW===
Self-Healing

I started my Qigong class on self-healing this week. And it certainly is an interesting concept to know that you are responsible for what your body presents to you in wellness or sickness. And it is through energy, because we’re all energy, that we can change how it is manifesting. That’s really neat, and it’s also a very sobering responsibility. I don’t want to blame myself for what’s going on in my body because I know in fact it’s a healing of a past life experience because that’s where it started- in a healing session around a past life experience. I have to look closely at this very subtle change toward wholeness that has recently taken place. And trust that more signals and results will follow. Because I am the guy responsible for getting well, I have to stay open to the nudges and clarification that comes with what I am to do. I’m getting results.

When you undertake a self-healing process or self-correcting process, keep track of the steps you take and the results that occur when you do. I have two simple breathing exercises that have begun to make more shifts in my body. Look at what you do and look at what happens when you do it. Then adjust. 

I’m probably gonna take a second Qigong class about ceating longevity because as an old person Qigong seems to be a very powerful way to change and support my physical body. Keep exploring, keep practicing, keep changing.

I’m taking Heal Yourself & Others With the Power of Qigong and the class I will probably take is Live Long QiGong with Robert Peng. Here’s a free online event with him: Premiere: Saturday, April 16, 10:00AM (PDT) 
Encore: Tuesday, April 19, 12:00PM (PDT)

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===
Why Are We In Each Other’s Lives?

How did you find me? Why are you reading this? Why am I writing this? We are in each other’s lives for a reason. Do we know what it is? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Trust the fact that we are connected.

Why are certain people in your life? What gifts are you giving each other? What lessons are you offering each other? Sometimes the exchanges are uncomfortable. And sometimes they are full of joy. Know that with every interaction with any individual there is a gift exchange involved. You give something to them. They give something to you. Be aware of this lovely gift exchange.

Why are we walking this part of the path together   I’m glad we are.

===THE UNFOLDING DIVINE FEMININE===
A Dramatic End of an Era

The era of the old white male is coming to an end and they are fighting like a flounder on a hook. The very worst of male dominance is in evidence in our world today. A stark contrast was given with the hearings to install Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court of the US. The bullying techniques exhibited by some of the white male members of the senate were reminiscent of high school bullies. Those insecure people who had to pick on the people they see as stronger and potentially more powerful than they are. Do you know any of those?

And this lovely, gracious, extremely smart, extremely well-educated woman, who happens to be black, sat there with grace and integrity and patience with the bullying and childlike actions of the men who were theoretically there to infirm her. 

Could you do that? As a smart, educated, proven professional woman could you and would you sit there and let anyone try to bully you? She has to in order to gain the position she is so overqualified for. I would’ve lost the job because I would’ve had something to say about their behavior. But then I’m white and she’s black and she’s smarter than I am. She just stayed calm and centered and polite and the belligerent senators were taking the their last gasp at trying to feel relevant. 

Are you experienced enough and confident enough to know your own worth? So that no one and no circumstance can rattle you and make you move off of that focused centered position? I may have to practice that. 

Know your own worth, believe in your own value and trust that knowledge. 

I wonder what the world will be like when the Divine Feminine sets the tone. 

My Two Favorite Books

There are two foundational books that always strengthen my spiritual awareness when I read them. One is The Prophet by Khalil Gibran which I discovered in my 30s and actually provided me with the name of my current business.

On the last page. in the next to the last paragraph, it says, “And I shall return and you will sing to me a deeper song.” I caught my breath because I knew I wanted to sing my deeper song. And so I am. And so are you.

The Tao Te Ching is the other book that is foundational for me. I like the Stephen Mitchell translation the best. It is so much about how to live a spiritual life, a mindful life. I have read them both many times. Do you have a life-changing book that you return to throughout your life? If so what is it? Is it time to read it again?  

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===
Spiritual Practice
How too Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work
Listen to my 
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify / Google
and the Deeper Song Website
==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===
Save The Animals

Spring is the time of year I take time to donate to organizations that help save animals: World Wildlife Fund, National Wildlife Federation, The Nature Conservancy,Sierra Club– whatever way you want to support the nurturing and growth of nature.  

===CARA’S CORNER===
When You Are Ready the Answer Will Appear

I’m into self-healing. My collection of skills is expanding. My holistic friends offer me insights and skills of their own to add to my own physical growth practice.

When you make a major shift the key is to keep an eye out for the results it produces. Or doesn’t produce. I am feeling shifts in my body and it still hurts. So I will continue to explore additional options to help it rebalance.

Part of allowing change is to realize the changes to be made. I’m getting extra help on the physical plane as my son-in-law drives over to take out the trash which was becoming quite a challenge for me. My dry macular degeneration is kicking in and I have to get creative working around that too.  I’m not sure how that’s going to work and look like. What kind of adjustments are you making in your life to accommodate the changes that are showing up? Do you want those changes? How do you want them to unfold? Do you have a great deal of choice in the outcome? Get to work.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===
My Work

I am the only one who can fix this. I’m the only one who can make change. I’m the only one.

I am the only one who can fix this. I’m the only one who can make change. I’m the only one. I explore, I experiment, I make choices, and I do the work.

I am the only one who can fix this. I’m the only one who can make change. I’m theonly one. I explore, I experiment, I make choices, and I do the work. I keep exploring and experimenting and change keeps happening.

Cara Lumen, March 2022

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

Come Sing a Deeper Song  
I help adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.
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Find Your Own Voice

By

Find Your Own Voice

Living Our Deeper Song

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

This is a time of searching. This is a time of exploration. This is a time of questioning. Most of all, this is a time for choosing. It is time to find your own voice. It will be a new voice. It will be a different voice. It may be an unexpected voice. It will be a stronger voice. It will be based on the dramatically changing needs of the world today, the calling of your heart, and the most impactful and far-reaching use of your gifts. It may be a professional job. It may be a volunteer position. You may step out on your own. It may be a service within the confines of your group of friends. But your role will change. And much will change because of it.

Find your voice by noticing why people are drawn to you. What do they seek from you? What do they ask of you? How has that changed recently?  What is your new unfolding vision for yourself and for our planet? What do you believe is possible? How do you see your own role evolving?

Notice how your beliefs and expectations may have changed. Notice what new strengths you have developed in response to the emerging Divine Feminine and the violent reaction of the Divine Masculine who is lashing out in all directions. We must keep our center. We must keep our focus. And most of all we must continue to choose for the highest good for all. Or at the very least the highest good for the most people.

Let your new role unfold. Be patient. But be curious. Go exploring. Try on different versions of similar paths. Or try a whole new path all together. Find your voice. It is needed. Make it a strong voice placed deeply in service for the well-being of all.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I step into the passionate calling of my new voice

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Close your eyes and listen with  your heart.  What circumstance, situation on earth calls most to you?  
  • Give some thought to how you might serve that calling.  
  • Go exploring and find your new voice. 

===INNER WORK===

Being Light

How can you simply “be” light? How do you walk through your day as a Light Being? You do it with intention. You do it with an awareness of yourself as a spiritual being, cosmic consciousness itself. You are essence in a physical body. It is an essence of the highest vibration. That’s who we are. If you know yourself to be light, how does it change what you do and how you do it? 

I will move into a gathering with more awareness of the collective consciousness. I will give gratitude to my human form and for the many ways it allows me to participate in this life. I will give gratitude for my mind which is part of who I am, a favorite part granted, but just part of me. Since our consciousness creates how we express ourselves, I will listen to my consciousness. I will support her in staying on the high road and seeing the highest good for all, for being present and not just reacting, but for responding with compassionate inclusion. This inner work is constant. It’s about being continuously aware. Aware of what you are thinking. Aware of what you are doing. Be aware of the nudges of the universe and what you are to do with them. Move through your day with awareness and let Spirit guide you.

===SELF-HEALING===

The Power of Encouragement

I was practically cheering as I walked down the hall to get the mail. My body is doing such a fabulous job of self-healing and the results are encouraging and rewarding. Which do you notice – what is working or what is not?

Focus on the wins and build on them.  

===OUTER  WORRK===

Focused Action

As both men and women search to find our new role in the unfolding Sacred Feminine, we will have to try out a variety of roles. Some of them are roles that have not even been invented yet. So we have to keep listening to our inner voice and turn to the world and try to place  ourselves in new roles in unfamiliar and rapidly unfolding situations, finding unexpected but much-needed evolving places of service.

So many new ways to do things are being discovered daily that we need to stay alert to what is calling us, what is appropriate for us, what is next for us, what is possible. And then we go exploring to see where it leads us. How does our heart feel? What are our goals? What are our accomplishments? Are our choices accomplishing what we want to get done? Are we going in a positive direction?

Take an action, focus in on a situation, and adjust according to the response  you get.  Stay flexible.  Do the work. 

Find Your Natural Rhythm

We get so caught up in schedules and appointments and obligations that we forget to establish our own natural rhythm. When do you do your best work? Are you a morning person? A night person? Do you work in strong bursts and then change pace for a while? Or are you a strong, steady type? Those are all valid ways to work which may not be allowed in the way we structure our life and work. It is helpful to know your natural rhythm and find ways to honor it.

I’m super creative in the morning. So whatever writing or creating I’m going to do is worked on then. Sometimes I find study is a good use of my energy in the afternoon. Take time to notice your natural rhythms and see how you can adjust your day to accommodate them.

Bring Nature Into Your Life

I have been known to have twigs and leaves and acorns in an arrangement in my home.  My windows are lined with plants with colorful leaves. I have sun catchers in my window rather than shades so I can easily look out and be with the flow of nature.  How do you bring nature into your environment?

My meditation chair faces a window so I can be with nature during that time of contemplation. I play my flutes to the new day.  I play my flutes to the sunset.

My Qigong practice begins by bringing energy up from Gaia and down from Cosmic Consciousness.  I pause as I move through my day to look out at nature to see what she’s sharing with me, what mood she is in, what messages she has.  

How do you live with the unfolding cycles of nature?

What Are Your Options?

There is always more than one choice. There is always more than one way around a problem. What are your options? Do you simply stop and stare at a blockage in your life and not move forward without looking around for different ways to get around it? Over, above, around – all are approaches that offer different options. Is it really a problem or is it actually an incredible opportunity that asks you to rise to the occasion and give more of yourself than you have before? It is an opportunity to grow. There are always options. Do it. Don’t do it. Partially do it. Give it to someone else to do. Consider your options and expand your expectations before you move forward.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Cultivate Your Inner Voice

It takes time to cultivate the interpretation of your Inner Voice. Mine sometimes shouts at me. Other times it is a nudge so slight that if I’m not paying attention, I will miss it. Sometimes I reject what the inner voice says because it doesn’t feel like it’s the right time. But usually, it is. My Inner Voice has so many good ideas that it often makes me stop what I am doing and go act on the idea. 

Learn to trust your inner voice. Learn to ask your inner voice for guidance. And listen closely to the very soft nudges it brings to you throughout the day. 

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

Continue Working On Your Own Evolution

We are being called to set aside who we are, what we know, and where we think we’re going because our world is dramatically changing. It clears out the old and births the new. We have to stay flexible. We have to evolve. We have to chart a new path. We have to explore and make new choices. This is a time of major change.

The question I’m asking myself a lot is what I am to do now? What is needed from me now? Where will I have the most impact?  How can I be the most useful?

What’s coming up for me is based on my natural curiosity about the unfolding feminine and the form she is evolving into. 

I also intend to go with the flow. I will not plan so far ahead that I cannot make an instant course correction when a new insight shows up or a new opportunity comes to me. I will not lock myself into a long-term plan for now, I think there’s too much change going on.

You can’t rush change. You can’t rush recognition of new possibilities. But you can teach yourself to be aware and observant and thoughtful. As this unfolding continues, you will find criteria to use as a measuring stick. You will also find things that are so exciting, it will blow your mind because you never thought that would be possible in your lifetime. The idea that you would be able to do it opens realms of new possibilities. Let your imagination soar.  Go exploring.  Make new choice.  Create new expectations for what is possible.

I’m not sure what staying flexible does for year-long plans or objectives or goals like we used to do. I think we might have to take it project by project. Perhaps even moment by moment. A project could be completed in any length of time that will make it usable and we will find out what change that leads to, what it evolves into. Continue work on your own evolution and enjoy the unfolding opportunities that present themselves. 

Reach Out

 I cherish my online friends.  I talk to them at regular intervals and we support each other on our respective journeys. Each friend seems to address a different area of interest of mine and it is very supportive to be able to have regular conversations with people who are walking a similar path and exploring in a similar direction at a similar level. We do not share all parts of our paths, but we support each other on the part of the path we share. 

Perhaps you make the first connection. Reach out and make arrangements to have a conversation on Zoom with someone you would like to know better. Or begin with an email exchange. The more specialized your area of interest, the trickier it is to find someone interested at the same level you are. The more advanced you get, the more you need advanced people in that area to share your journey with. Reach out. Arrange a monthly call and see how you can support each other.

How will you begin to build your far-reaching online community of friends?

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

Expectation

As I watch the challenges in the US, I have a choice – I can worry or I can raise my expectation of what is possible. I’m going to do the latter. So even though the answer, the next move, the solutions are not yet obvious, I’m going to trust that the solution for the highest good for all will emerge and prevail. What do you expect is possible? Raise your expectations and you will invite in higher energy.

Understand Your Process

How do you learn?  What process do you go through to make your observations?  What are the criteria for your choices? 

I’m an over-view person.  I see the potential and its variations very rapidly.  I do not remember detail very readily.

I have a friend who remembers detail forever.  She weaves it into lovely patterns of understanding.  Both of those learning styles are gifts. 

Give some thought to how you learn, how you make choices, how you choose your action steps.  Once you understand your pattern you can create a methodology to evolve an effective deepening process for your decisions. 

However you make decisions is perfect for  you but understand how  you work and figure out how to utilize those preferences. 

Change and Possibilities

Because change is happening so rapidly around us, we have to keep looking for the new possibilities that are emerging. They may be in a form that we recognize. They may not. They may be ours to do. They may not. I think we are entering a stage where we need to question everything we do because there’s going to be an alternative way to do it. Solar panels came to mind. 3-D printing of houses come to mind. Elimination of plastic come to mind. These are huge changes in how we used to do things. Keep learning. Pay attention to what is new and available. And keep questioning your choices so that you can keep building and finding new ways to do everything and anything.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Creator Economy

Brian Clark says this is a creator economy.  There are so many platforms that give us access to people all over the world that our business goals can and need to be global.  This includes coating, teaching, designing, marketing, technical development, and reaching a worldwide audience.   Brian says, “It’s an amazing time to be a creative entrepreneur and build your personal enterprise.”

Look imaginatively at the unfolding needs that you can now identify in the world and find innovative ways to fill that need.  This is a period of creativity and originality. Enjoy. 

======THE UNFOLDING DIVINE FEMININE=== ===

Establishing New Feminine Qualities

This has been such a male-dominated world that there are no Divine Feminine examples for us to copy. We only have the masculine view of the world. But that is changing.  So what do you see as the new, unfolding feminine qualities? I see independence. The Divine Feminine walks her own path in her own way in her own time. She has confidence and she is strong and she is very, very, very attuned to the guidance of her inner voice. She is so strong that she does not need support. She may choose to partner with someone in order to increase that strength or expand the possibilities. But she really prefers to walk alone. Independent. Wise. Inquisitive. Smart. Feminine is all of those. If you don’t believe that, you are still listening to the male-dominated world. And you have some choices to make. There are probably some beliefs to change. Forget what is out there right now like unequal work opportunities and unequal pay. And especially look out for the unequal expectations – by others and by ourselves. Each of us, both male and female are evolving into this new feminine. Men and women both have to change their beliefs in what is possible for women to do. 

How do we do that? We notice what calls us and we go exploring and keep a lookout for any of those restrictive feminine role clichés that are bound to show up. 

There are many ways to approach a situation. If I wanted to help fight fires but am  a small sized woman, not a big strong man, I have to perhaps create a role for myself in that profession. I may be the pilot to spot the new fire path and report back. I may create a new tool for fighting fires. I may develop a new conservation technique that prevents forest fires or reseeds forests. There are many ways to participate in helping a cause. We have to learn to think beyond anything we’ve imagined before because the opportunities are different and the tools are different. Be clever. Be creative. Be innovative. Create your own version of being in the Divine Feminine in this unfolding time.

=== DEEPER SONG  PHILOSOPHIES ===

Look Within

My strongest guiding philosophy is to keep looking within. I love my inner voice. I love that the more I listen the louder she speaks. And when I listen, I discover new opportunities, new paths, new possibilities. Are you listening to your inner voice? She is showing you the way.

===INTENTION BLESSING===

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

May we expand our hearts and our expectations.

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

May we keep our gaze on the summit.

May we take this journey with a full heart. 

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

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

Just read this about aging from Brian Clark 

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

Spiritual Practice

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

Self Healing

A Transformative Clearing Process

Expanding Awareness

New Consciousness – New State of Being  

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===CARA’S CORNER===

Pass It Forward

I have been collecting crystals for 50 years.  This week I passed along my crystal jewelry collection, with the exception of one labradorite necklace I wear, to my daughter, Cathy.  I was surprised to find that I felt relief the next day. I had made some of the jewelry in a jewelry-making class in New York City and I got to point those out to her.  One rutilated quartz necklace had been shouting at me for days that she wanted to go be with Cathy now.  It’s interesting how rocks can talk, can make their wishes and their needs and their gifts known.  We just have to listen.  

What do you need to pass forward?  What do you need to let go?  I still have a huge number of crystals but I found a group who were ready to move on to help Cathy deepen her spiritual practice.  

There is a time for everything. Sometimes that time is to stay and sometimes it is time to let go. 

What do you need to pass forward?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Letting Go

I let go.  It was time. 

I let go.  It was time. What I released was needed elsewhere. And it made room for me to bring in the new. Or expand what I kept. 

I let go.  It was time. What I released was needed elsewhere. And it made room for me to bring in the new. Or expand what I kept. Now there is room to grow.

Cara Lumen, January 2022

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

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Don’t Force the Petals to Open

By

Don’t Force the Petals to Open

Living Our Deeper Song

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

I should be writing this in the spring but because it’s the end of year, I was imagining 2022.  And in my journey, I got “do not force the petals to open.”  I need to ease up and let the buds of change open in their own time. 

I have to be certain that making plans does not close me in or keep me from finding unexpected and unusual options.  I have to stay fluid.  And the main reason I do is that no one knows what the Unfolding Divine Feminine is going to look like.  We’ve never had it before. So unlike past years, I cannot set specific goals because that would lock me into a closed path.  

In the journey I took to find guidance for 2022, I got my Happy Hiker Guide who is a new guide for me. He wears a jaunty hiking hat with a feather and plays a flute to encourage me on the winding, uphill path.  He cautioned me not to lock myself in, to just stay open to possibilities, and I would have what I need to examine and evaluate every choice. 

I don’t exactly have a plan other than to ease up on making action plans.  When an idea comes up, I will explore it from several angles.  I also want to watch what I change and how I change it because that will alter my choices and my potential.  Do I need to expand something? Do I want to explore something new? Probably both. That means I have to be willing to let go and/or change rather fluidly as new ideas and awareness ripen. 

I like the idea of letting an action or an idea ripen.  Give it time to nurture itself in each stage.  A caterpillar changes who she is by dissolving herself and becoming an entirely new being. I’m not planning to go that far, but I do think it would be a good idea to leave some no-longer-needed things beside the path and move on. I just have to be aware of what I need to leave behind. Fear, apprehension, uncertainty, there is no room for those, we have too much exploring to do.  What we do need is a strong sense of what is important for the collective well-being so our choices support our inclusive values and keep us moving toward a higher level of participation and expectation. 

Because the world is changing so rapidly and dramatically, we get to question every choice and many of our conclusions and that will take some practice.  A new possibility shows up and we have to squelch any negative thought and instead, turn the idea over in our mind to see how it fits into the unfolding world and if we have a role in it.  Then we can choose.  

Over-arching broad goals help us prioritize, but long-range plans won’t work because the world is unfolding and rearranging its potential. We have to stay flexible and open to change. You can’t push the petals to open. You have to let them unfold in their own perfect time.

Most of all, keep an eye out for the unusual and unfolding potentials that are going to come tumbling in.  Go exploring, give it a try, and see where it takes you. Stay nimble and fluid.  The world is going to give us a fascinating ride. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I eagerly explore the new ideas that come from the Divine Feminine.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Question how you see the role of the Divine Feminine.  She has just begun to reveal her potential and the form she will take. What idea do you need to release?
  • Explore what calls to you and examine its potential. 
  • No need to choose yet, just explore and examine and consider its possibilities in your life.

===INNER WORK===

Review Your Year

This is a helpful reflective exercise.  Answer the following questions:

2021 Review

What went well this year?

What didn’t go so well this year?

What did I learn?

What I will do differently?

What will I do more of?

As new opportunities unfold ask:

Where is this leading?

Is there a role in this for me?

Do I want that role?

Do I want to explore more or let it move on?

We are going to be flooded with new ways to do things and it is an opportunity to get to know ourselves as we are now and to make some choices about where we want to go next.  Go exploring and be selective. The Divine Feminine is going to take us for an exciting and adventurous ride.

Develop a Habit of Inner Listening

I’m helping a friend explore and discover and establish her next path. My major advice is to listen. Listen to your inner nudges. Pay attention to the unexpected opportunities the universe provides. I do a lot of my exploring by writing. It doesn’t make any difference what I write, it’s that I write and in so doing open up a clear path for my inner voice to speak to me. It always helps me sort things out. It helps me explore a new possibility. You might dictate your thoughts into a document you keep on your computer. Just dictate it and give it a title. And a date. I’m big on using a table of contents to keep track of that kind of journaling in order to have an overview of my thoughts. When you get in the habit of simply dictating an idea, you’ll be surprised at what you reveal. Start listening to your inner voice and see where it leads you. 

Expect the Best. Do Not Settle for Second Best

We get what we expect. We get what we believe we deserve. We get what we believe is possible. Do not settle for second best. 

This is not just about optimism, this is about expectation. I believe in wholeness, high vibration, cosmic consciousness, and oneness. As we live our human lives in this huge collection of humankind, we must raise our expectations and our beliefs and take the highest road possible. Expect the best, do not settle for second best. You deserve it.

===SELF-HEALING===

Vibrational Work

I am creating positive changes in my 89-year-old body and it is very comforting to experience the power of vibrational work in the bitfields.  

I do Qigong each day. But I also do acupressure.  I have set up a table near a chair where I have put all sorts of acupressure tools and my tuning forks. I sit there several times a day and work with my body.   You don’t have to know the meridians, just find the sore places in your body and massage them. It’s not at all strenuous.  And it is producing results. I also do intentional humming to send vibrations to my body. This is an easy self-care habit to acquire.

===OUTER  WORK===

Broaden Your Support System

Having the physical help I need has made a huge difference in the quality of my life experience.  It’s not easy to ask for help but when you experience the relief of hard-to-do physical aspects of your life being taken from you, the relief is huge.  I have added two physical pain support people to my team – a physical therapist and a fabulous woman who loves to clean.  They have changed my world.  I have a core group of friends that I talk with regularly on Zoom that are a lifeline to intellectual curiosity and spiritual expansion and supportive friendship.  What or who do you need in your life that would support a forward motion? Where would you find it? And will you ask for the help? Keep broadening your support system. 

When You are Aligned You Can Move Freely

I have no idea what’s actually going on in my body, but I woke up one day this week and my left hip was aligned clear up to my waist. And I could walk better, I could stand straighter. I have no idea what was released. I just know that the alignment changed and the result was dramatic. What is out of alignment in your life and what would one small shift do to bring everything back into a stronger connection?

Discovering Your Next

I used to be able to coach people into a new place of service but a lot of what I know how to do is perhaps no longer useful.  That said, your place of service is about following your heart and exploring and expanding your gifts into new places of expression and service.  For me personally, it has always been about what I can learn next. 

I have a friend who is 68, retired from her profession but wants and needs to create income.  Some of the things I know to do to create a new career path are still valid – if a target audience is too far into the need to simply survive, they cannot move from that into a higher consciousness level of exploration (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs). But I think we teach what we want to learn.  What do we know, what do we want to learn, how do we put that together to move ourselves and others forward? 

In our conversation, we discovered a deeply  personal and relevant aspect of my friend’s past that could be the starting point for evolving her next plan of service.  My suggestion is to simply begin going in that direction to see what unfolds and how it feels.  In her case I suggested she get one document on her computer and start writing and exploring any relevant ideas that show up. And let that intuitive writing open the door to new possibilities. 

First, you have to identify the problem that you want to help others solve.  It may be something you want to learn too. We learn by teaching. We help others learn by sharing our process of exploration, discovery, and change. 

The form is secondary.  She wants to teach, she wants to write, there are technical steps like websites and list building to take. But first, you have to know who you want to serve and how you want to serve them. 

What do people need?  What has changed dramatically that you can help them with?  What is the problem you will help solve?

My main message is to explore deep within yourself to find what new direction is ready to emerge that will take you where you need/want to be next. Then turn and bring others with you. 

Go exploring to discover your “next.” Then make it happen.

Mark the Trail

I was working on my thoughts for the coming year and I got “I am to go exploring and mark the trail.”  What does that mean?  What does that look like?  The exploring part I get – I stay open to what calls me to learn and understand next.  Part of the trail I leave is what I write or podcast about, but the majority of what I am to do is experiment and share what I learn.  It will probably not be my personal path because my role is explorer and path-finder and way-shower.  I am to stay free and loose and full of curiosity and report what I discover – the possibilities, the changes, the new insights.  I am to explore and share what I find.  I can do that.

Use Your Curiosity As A Compass

Our curiosity is a gift. It is a guide. It is a planner of adventures. It opens new portals and shows us the path. Do you listen to your curiosity? Do you nurture your curiosity? Do you take time to explore what your curiosity suggests might be a new adventure? Pay attention to your curiosity and take time to follow its nudges. It will show you the way. 

The Flexible Plan

A plan is only as good as the results it produces – if it gets you where you need to go. Sometimes there are detours that add unexpected richness to the experience. Be open to those. Take a few steps, stop and examine the new vista, then make new choices based on the new view you have just acquired.  That means every step forward requires you to stop and look around to see what has changed, and choose which direction to go next.  Life is one big stepping stone after another.  

Do take the next step. Do take another step.  Do explore the ideas that pop up.  Your insight, your decisions, your choices are the springboard to your version of “next”. Choose away.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Are You Open to Possibilities?

As I use intention and focused vibration for self-healing, I have to keep looking at the subtle changes that show me a path to new possibilities.  They can be subtle and I may have to look closely for them but change is constant when I look for it.

When inviting change into your life, we have to be alert to subtle nudges and gradual changes.  Trust  your spiritual practice.  Trust your self-healing practice and stay open to the possibilities they suggest. 

Do You Allow Yourself to Receive?

Self-sufficiency is a good thing – unless you carry it too far. Do you allow yourself to receive? Are you aware of what is being offered? Do you accept it with graciousness? Sometimes the gifts are very small and you have to look closely in order to notice them. Sometimes the gifts are downright life-changing. 

Notice what is being offered to you by those around you. Notice what is being suggested to you by the energy of the universe. Allow yourself to receive. You deserve it. You are worthy. Allow yourself to receive.

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

Where Are You Looking?

I have to raise my gaze.  I am looking down, at my body and my work to strengthen it.  That seems immediate.  But it is not what I want to focus on. Raise your gaze. 

As I sit here watching all manner of new opportunities and challenges make themselves known, allowing themselves to be considered, they point the way to a whole new path for moving forward. 

We have to question and explore and consider everything that shows up to see how it resonates with our personal path and the path of the Divine Feminine as she moves in to redesign the world. 

Maybe you begin to make a list of new things that are possible that were not in existence last year.  There is new science, there are new ideas, there are new social causes.  I feel like I am skimming along on the surface of a roaring ocean trying to find the landing place of my next place of service.  

Use your imagination to explore.  Use your curiosity to figure out new places of service. Where are you looking and are you looking broad and far enough? Raise your sights. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

How Do We Help Bring In The Unfolding Divine Feminine?

The Divine Feminine is unfolding and seeks expression.  I am to help her find ways to express herself and establish her authority.   My daughter is a top-ranking female manager in her company and her group is the only one in the whole organization that is working well.  The groups led by men are not.  She says she’s in meetings a lot which means there is collaboration and discussions and a group director.  That’s the way of the Divine Feminine. 

Another woman friend is completing a cycle of major leadership and the male person in charge of finding her replacement, instead of looking within the organization for a person to promote, is looking outside.  A very masculine approach.  

Can you begin to see the differences between masculine and feminine leadership in your workplace? What’s working?  How can you help bring in the Divine Feminine? How is your new role evolving?  Stay fluid.  Keep flexible.  She is making herself known. 

Your Mind is Your Guide. Your Curiosity is the Compass

I got this message in a journey – “Your mind is your guide, your curiosity is your compass”. I cannot look very far into 2022 because the change is so deep and is just beginning to make herself known. Our job is to stay centered in our values and flexible in how we express then. And we even get to question our values. Are they based on inclusive concepts? I bet a lot of them or not. How do we build our place in this unfolding New World of the Divine Feminine? I think our job is to listen to look, to explore, perhaps even try out a few new roles. But most of all we must listen to our inner voice and what it tells us. Let your mind be your guide and curiosity be your compass.

Leave Space to Take a Wrong Turn

The wonderful thing about taking a wrong turn is the amazing new places you get to discover. That actually means there is no such thing as a wrong turn. Because wherever you are, there is opportunity. Don’t fill your life so full that you can’t take an unexpected turn and just go exploring. Each day should be an adventure not a march down a given path. There should be pauses to look around and check out the scenery. There should be pauses to feel and experience and absorb the energy of the moment. And make adjustments according to what you discover. Leave room in your life to go exploring. To try on a new experience for size, to see how it feels, to see if it will take you where you want to go. See what adventure it takes you on. Go exploring and leave space to take a “wrong” turn. You never know what magic you may discover. 

======THE UNFOLDING DIVINE FEMININE=== ===

I Wrote Republican Liz Cheney 

I’ve been a Democrat all my life but only recently realized that I’m actually a Progressive Democrat. So it was with interest that I found myself wanting to acknowledge Republican Liz Cheney for her work on the Investigating Committee for January 6. 

I had to post my note on her Facebook page because I’m not from her state but I thanked her for standing tall in her beliefs and for being such an outstanding example of leadership in the emerging Divine Feminine. I know she will remain a leader of the thoughtful, inclusive Republicans who will split off and redefine themselves.  It is a changing time, isn’t it? We get to rethink everything. 

Who do you see being true to themselves and helping the Divine Feminine emerge?  Perhaps you could acknowledge them.

===INTENTION BLESSING===

There is a new path we are walking.  It is the High Path.  The High Road.  It keeps us walking above the fray. 

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

May we expand our hearts and our expectations.

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

May we keep our gaze on the summit.

May we take this journey with a full heart. 

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

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

Spiritual Practice

The Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

Self Healing

A Transformative Clearing Process

Expanding Awareness

The Role of the Element of Earth in Our New Consciousness

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Fountain-of-Youth Pill Could Be On Horizon  Grape Seed Extract has a new role. It has been found that Grape Seed Extract can delay, alleviate or prevent illnesses, aging-associated functional decline of organs, and increased risk of chronic disease. 

===CARA’S CORNER===

My Unfolding Role in 2022

I’ve been journeying a lot to receive guidance from my spiritual guides so that I step into 2022 headed in the direction that is most powerful and effective for me. 

Now that I see the Circle of Light Beings in all our glorious diversity, I am to focus on how we are to be contributing members to the Unfolding Divine Feminine. I know we are to play our individual harps and our individual songs but there is also an overarching composition that creates powerful change.  We will explore what that looks like and develop a new symphony of powerful, guiding, life-changing harmony.

The second message I got is that I am to establish a spiritual practice that is self-healing and informative to a rapidly unfolding world. I’m working on the vibrational self-healing part but there is much more to be revealed. 

The guiding message was “Your mind is your guide. Your curiosity is the compass.”

Here we go adventuring….!

“She is planted in her own integrity, and there she stands, gnarled and knotted, perfectly at ease with herself, her roots deep in truth, her branches held up to let the light in.”  – Stephen Mitchell Second Book of Tao

I am that tree. Standing with my roots deep into the life I have chosen for myself with my gnarled branches offering shade and comfort while some are reaching the sky for inspiration and future growth. What is your tree of life like?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Outreach

I have been here a long time. My roots are deep, my branches are spread, I have made my home, my place on earth.

I have been here a long time. My roots are deep, my branches are spread, I have made my home, my place on earth. My “next” is up to me – my choices, my expectations. 

I have been here a long time. My roots are deep, my branches are spread, I have made my home, my place on earth. My “next” is up to me – my choices, my expectations. I lift my branches and joyously reach into the Unfolding Unknown.

-Cara Lumen, December 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

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Autonomy – The New Freedom

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Autonomy  – The New Freedom

Creating Conscious Connection

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The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

Autonomy is about self-governing.  Being independent. Taking responsibility for all your choices – and their outcome.  It is very freeing.  Autonomy is about being true to yourself. It is about having a sense of freedom and control in your life.  

On the mental level I feel very free in my life.  I get to write about what calls to me and explore what beckons without any regard to trying to make a living. I truly can explore anything I want – mentally.  Physically not so much anymore. But my inner world is expanding…

I have a very strong sense of purpose and the imagination and flexibility to allow my focus to shift as I expand my awareness and my horizon. I go exploring a lot.  And I listen to my inner voice all the time.  

Autonomy is about your sense of purpose. I am exceedingly lucky to be 88 and have such a strong sense of purpose. It makes my days rich in exploration and discovery.

Autonomy is also about what you refuse to put up with any longer. I made a very unusual decision 50 years ago to leave the Midwest and go to New York City.  It was life-changing.  My first week in NYC, I attended an event with a panel of achieving women saying they were more powerful because of having taken  “est” and that was the beginning –  est, Reiki Master Teacher Fourth Degree, Certified Bach Flower Counselor, Trager Practitioner.  I taught Reiki to young men when the AIDS epidemic was just beginning.  I read only philosophical books and took classes at the New School with powerful teachers and I immersed myself in a great city for discovery and expansion.  I explored things that were not yet in the mid-west I had left. 

Even when I was working for someone else, I worked as a temp rather than commit.  I was an explorer on a roll!

This is a fascinating time to reposition ourselves, to open up new paths to explore and potentially take.

Pause to examine what you are tolerating now that you don’t want to do, don’t need to do, or seems not to be lining up for you right now.  What can you release?

What is your passion?  Your primary gifts? Are you using them?

Cultivate a new community of like-minded friends online and support each other in moving along your similar paths together. 

What do you want to manifest in your life right now?   Choose one and find creative ways to make it happen. 

How are you expressing your autonomy – your individuality – your sacred calling? 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I make choices that are true to my gifts and my purpose. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • This is a time of great change. Look back at your life and see what unused or unexplored gifts you have that you would love to explore.
  • Do that. 

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

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

An Exploration of the Unseen World

We are in an era of profound change.  How we form our “next”, our future, is up to us and the choices we make today – in each moment.  

The world seems so chaotic. There is so much going on, that it is easy to feel helpless, like a small pebble in a very large ocean. But we have great power and it lies in each choice, each thought, each belief. 

Our destiny is up to us. We must take self-responsibility for what we think, the words we speak, the actions we take, the choices we make and the beliefs we hold. That’s how we manifest our “next.”  Our destiny.

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

In this episode we explore

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

(17 Minutes)

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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

The Vibration behind Your Beliefs

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe  

===INNER WORK===

Centered Serenity – Ready but Waiting

I’ve drawn the Oracle card “Ready but Waiting” a lot the past few months. How we wait is important.  “Centered Serenity” came up for me.  I can be expectant or excited but the best place for waiting for something to unfold is in centered serenity.  A peaceful place of being present in the now. An aware place of listening deep within. There is nothing to do – you are ready and you are to wait for your next step to unfold.

As I learn to wait with centered serenity,  I use my breath to move into my Still Point, drop my shoulders, relax my body, and immerse myself  in the silence around me. I am in a moment of being nothing – of being everything. As I allow my body to merge with and dissolve into the unseen world, I experience myself as part of a grand scheme, a larger purpose.  And I know and trust that when I wait with open willingness, my next step will be shown to me in the perfect tine. 

Make Room for Change

Change can take its time unfolding and it can also happen in an instant. We get to be both patient and alert. And don’t overthink the nudges and ideas and circumstances that show up. Let it unfold and chose in the moment.   

When a new idea or circumstance presents itself, center yourself and examine it from an overview perspective of where you are and where you want to go.  

These months of cutting back on content have given me space to rebalance, to explore new ideas, to adjust what I am doing  All because I made space – the space of nothing to do except what I felt called to do in the moment.  If that was thinking, fine. If it was a nap, fine.  If it was an idea to explore, even better.  Immerse yourself in a large chunk of nothingness and see what shows up.

===OUTER  WORK===

See the Bigger Picture 

It’s so easy to get caught up in detail and lose sight of our bigger vision.  I’m watching this new vision for process podcasts unfold and because it is unfolding I need to stay loose, I need to be flexible.  I need to be patient.  I need to give myself room for this vision to unfold – allow time for the concepts to evolve and mature.  So each step I take is leading me into a broader view of what is possible.  

Give up on the details and raise your gaze to see where you are headed.

===DEEPEN  YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

The Huge Impact of our Word Choices 

We are not always conscious of our word choices and the affirmation they give us.  “I can’t” is the first one that comes to mind.  That’s a show-stopper.  Feel the difference in these words: That’s easy.  That’s too far.  That’s hard.   That’s exciting. That’s fun.  I love this. That is beautiful.  My heart is open.  I feel the connection. All is well in my world.  

Just notice the words you say to yourself and others as you move through your day.  And perhaps rethink some of your word choices…

Where is Your Sanctuary?

A sanctuary is a place for refuge, a place of safety.  Where is your sanctuary?

Sometimes we find sanctuary in nature.  Sometimes we find sanctuary in music.   Sometimes we find sanctuary in family or friends. 

I have a pretty even life going on so the idea of seeking sanctuary is a bit odd for me but what promoted this was the idea of a “garden as refuge.” To me that means a place of serenity, tranquility, contemplation.  

My entire home is a sanctuary, a place of nurturing and restoration, a place of creativity and discovery.  And every day in ceremony, I set up protection and raise its vibration.

Sanctuary means a place where you can be alone – with just you and your thoughts and feelings. You might find sanctuary in the ring support of others, but the sanctuary I’m thinking of is where you go to be with yourself. Do you set aside time to do that?

I have a morning ceremony in which I sit and look out at nature and play my flutes and drums and tuning forks and offer my intentions for the day and draw my oracle card.  That is a sacred time for me – a meaningful time –  and it sets the tone for my day.  

Where is your sanctuary and how do you use it?     

===DEEPER SONG  INSIGHTS ===

Dictation

Have you learned to dictate to your computer yet? It is a most freeing and amazing technique to master.  

On a Mac Choose Edit > Start Dictation (from the Edit menu at the top of your screen).

Tip: If dictation is set up, you can also press the Function key (fn) on your keyboard twice to start dictation.

This is super fast.  That function key is in the lower left hand corner so it’s very handy.  When the microphone appears, start talking.  And be sure to speak the punctuation like “period” or you will have one doozy of a run-on sentence….

(Sorry, can’t help you on a PC.)

I’ve begun to dictate a lot and I love it!  It also spells better than I do….

===MY DEEPER SONG  ADVENTURES ===

The Seven Sacred Rays – A New Offering

I am still tingling as I write to share this.  I am taking shamanic class from Puma Fredy Quispe Singona and we are studying the Seven Sacred Rays.  We began with the red and orange ray.  I took a journey to the Red Ray yesterday but today I took a journey to the Orange Ray and I am still tingling all over as I write this. After my journey, I immediately begin to write the first draft of a guided meditation journey I will share with you in a future podcast. I wrote the first Deeper Song Guided Meditation to the Orange Ray.  It is very powerful and I will record a guided journey/meditation for each of the Seven Sacred Rays.  But meanwhile, I have just written a first draft and allowed myself to be deeply guided as I did.  There are many steps to take before I share it with you – journey for guidance, writing the script, recording, editing, but this series is a high priority. So here we go adventuring – together.

More on the Seven Ray Journeys

I have just begun my work with the Seven Sacred Rays but the message I am receiving is that the Seven Rays are portals to the Unseen World. They are our connection, our bridge.  We must simply expand our awareness, raise our sights, and journey on. This is incredibly powerful work and it has just begun.

=== MY BOOKS ON AMAZON===

Author Page

I Want to Sing a Deeper Song

The Art of Wholing: Creative Consciousness for Change

Shape Your Journey, Clarify Your Calling: A Deeper Song

Do  You Need a New Tribe?

How to Read the Signs and Signals that Help You Build Your Business From Your Inside Out

Metaphysics and the Art of Dying

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

I think I even misread the concept.  The post said to rethink our services page from the standpoint of a visitor.  I like the idea of reviewing my website but since I only offer podcasts and newsletters I have no services page and I went to my About page.  I made some major changes that sharpened my focus. 

If you have a website, I suggest you review it yearly to see if it still reflects what you are doing and where you are heading.  

I’m going to do fewer personal growth posts and move more deeply into the Unseen World. I very much need to shorten my newsletter but I get excited and want to share.  

Whether you are an entrepreneur or have a job, write your who-and-do-what statement to get a handle on where you are and where you would like to go.

I help (the people you help)

To do (what you help them to do)

So that (what your work teaches/frees them to do. 

If that is your goal, how are you delivering that result?  Do you need to update your offerings? How do you need to redefine and reposition in today’s new and unfolding energy?

== MESSAGES FOR THE DEEPER SONG COMMUNITY FROM THE SACRED EARTH ORACLE CARDS===

Revision

“Revision” is the oracle card I drew for us. We are constantly revising our direction as we change our choices. We are consciously and constantly revising our conclusions as we gain more information. So does revision mean new information? Does revision mean leaving some things out? I like the idea of revising my thinking. As these new process podcasts emerge, I am  revising my thinking about what they should be like, what they should contain, what the order is. So new information and new viewpoints are some of the qualities that go into making a revision. 

What do you need to revise? What do you need to let go?  Revision can be about a total rearranging and it can also be revising one word. One phrase. What are you going to revise in your life and how are you going to do it? Oh yes, and when are you going to do it???

Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER===

Give Yourself Time

It isn’t that I haven’t been getting the messages, it’s that I hadn’t been heeding the messages.  I thought I had a huge breakthrough.  I re-wrote my who-and-do-what statement and it allowed many ideas to simply drop away and I felt myself rise into my new place of service. 

But in looking back over my notes from both my shamanic journeys and my notes from my daily oracle card drawings, the ideas for this change in direction have been hammering me on the head until I finally got the message.  The clues and suggestions were there – again and again, and again.  And yet the day it all came together for me was like being shot out of a cannon.  Many ideas and possibilities dropped away because they were not included in this new mission statement, this new definition of my purpose. They were no longer a part of my Grand Plan.

And it has taken months.  

And yet the day it all came together, it was like feeling myself rise to the surface ad begin to swim in strong sure strokes.  I knew my new purpose and my destination.  It feels great 

The Universe is talking to you. The Universe is showing you.  And each nudge takes you closer to where you are to do next. 

Notice what you need to free up in order to make room or this new awareness to unfold.  It has been important for me to make space to ask myself what I feel like doing – and then do that.  I was too crowded with have-to’s that I had made up to have time for many feel-like times. 

I also had to accept an idea that has bothered me since I first heard it. Last year Shamanist Ingerman said some of us were going into a new level of consciousness and it was our job to help others find the bridge and cross it or not.  Not everyone would come over and that really bothered me.  And yet, as I do a reality check on what I can and cannot do at 88, there is not much I can do on the physical plane to address physical plane needs, but I can do a lot on the inner planes.  I take a reality check to see where my choices have led me, see how aligned I am with my overarching goal, and chose my next steps that I can and will joyously do. Then I clarify my over-arching purpose. I’m like a helium balloon being let go to soar off into the sky.  

So here’s my updated who-and–do-what statement.  In many ways, it’s not new, except for the final step which allows me to stop doing some of what I was doing and focus on the adventures into the unseen world that I cherish.  

“I help those of us who are aware of our role as vibrational beings
To raise our vibration, elevate our expectations, and move into a higher level of conscious participatio
So that we can cross the bridge to a new dimension and bring others along with us.n
I do that by offering experiences that deepen our awareness of ourselves as pure vibration.”

How has your purpose changed?  What will you let go?  What does that free you to focus on?

A DEEPER SONG

I lift the anchor of beliefs and expectations. 

I lift the anchor of beliefs and expectations that have been holding me back. 

I lift the anchor of beliefs and expectations that have been holding me back and raise my sails to catch the wind!!!!!

I am off on an adventure. 

I am off on an adventure and I trust the winds of change to guide me well.  

I am off on an adventure and I trust the winds of change to guide me well.  I skim the Ocean of Perennial Promise and keep my eye on the emerging horizon. 

Yeah adventuring. 

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

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