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Why We Are Afraid of Change

March 16, 2017 By Cara Lumen

choices

What we’re seeing in the political responses around the world is a reaction to change. People want to go back to the way it was. They’re afraid of change.

That’s helpful to know.

It’s hard to keep up with change

Technology is moving us faster and farther than we ever dreamed of. It’s hard to keep up. It takes determination to keep learning It takes flexibility to change. And although, to those of us who are older, it may seem like today’s world needs an entirely new skill set, our children and grandchildren are being brought up with technology and instant access to information and the answers they seek.

Change is a constant

Here is the core truth — change is constant. Life goes in cycles and that always means change. Even when you think the cycle has returned to a situation you’ve experienced before, you find that you’ve moved forward and are standing in new and unfamiliar surroundings. Change is ever-present. Change moves you forward.

You can’t hang on to the past

It will never be the way it was — and that’s a good thing. I remember when there was no TV. I remember riding in my grandfather’s Model T car. I remember blocks of ice delivered to my grandfather’s home to a real “ice box”. My mother could vote only twelve years before I was born. Very few women my age went to college. It wasn’t expected of us. It wasn’t the norm.

Yet today, 80 years later, women are heading large companies and entering politics and making a huge impact in our world.

All because the world keeps changing.

Our roles change

House-husbands began to happen when the man stayed home and the woman was the bread-winner. Both women and men took a closer look at marriage and the long-term commitment to raising children. People of diverse genders began to define themselves. Women began to stand up for themselves and men were uncomfortable as their roles and power changed.

That’s still the case. Old male power is still in place but it will disappear in a generation. And women will have to change how they see themselves and their role. We will have to change how we participate.

How do you adjust to change?

First you have to accept that change is constant. You can never, ever, go back to the way it was. You change every minute of your existence. So does the world around you. Going back is not an option. There’s only going forward. And that takes increased flexibility, and usually some effort.

Learn from others

If you want to learn how to use your computer or your cell phone, talk to a young person. If you want to understand environmental change, listen to those who study it and reach informed decisions based on your own inquiry. If you want to learn about your own city government, get involved. Become informed. Do your homework. Check the facts.

Know yourself

Look closely at where you stop yourself with your beliefs or opinions. Identify your strengths as well as your weaknesses. Where are you happiest? What do you need to learn in order to expand your path of service? What are your gifts? Your passion? The more self-aware you become, the more aligned are the choices you make. And there will be choices — many of them —often. Knowing yourself well is the foundation upon which you stand and from which you choose. Be flexible. Be accepting. Be willing to change.

Change takes consistent action on your part

It’s very easy to learn new things. The internet gives you instant answers. Videos can show you step by step how to do anything. You now have access to fascinating thinkers online and innovative research and diverse-minded people gathering for a common cause. It’s all there, spread out before you. Don’t hide your head in the sand. Don’t harbor any desire to go back because that’s simply not going to happen. We’re going steadily forward, like it or not.

How to keep up with change

Listen. Listen to what others are saying.

Look. Look at what others are accomplishing.

Absorb and choose. Immerse yourself in possibility, choose ideas and actions that are aligned with your passion and your gifts and take the steps that will help you move forward.

Trust where you are led

When you focus on listening to your inner voice, when you use your emotions and your feelings to determine what calls to you at this moment in time, and when you simply let it unfold, it will find you and call to you clearly.

A recent shift in my own direction took a while to clarify itself. First there was just a wisp of a thought. Then waiting. Then a bit of an idea. I explored how I felt about it. More waiting. Then came a knowing about the general direction. Again waiting. And finally, like a geyser, the specifics and action steps began to flow out and fill my life. I went to work.

Don’t push your calling. Let it emerge. Don’t push change but do welcome it and enjoy the adventure.

After all, change is all there is.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

How to Hold the Space for Things To Change
How to Hold the Space for the New Vision to Emerge
Reserve Space For Yourself in Your Life
How to Design an Unfolding Routine
Mindfulness and the Moment

Filed Under: Positive Change, Self Awareness, Self Transformation, Unfolding Tagged With: personal growth, positive change, self-awareness, Unfolding

The Emergence of Collective Individual Spirituality

January 3, 2017 By Cara Lumen

indiviual light

Spiritualism is engrained in the indigenous cultures. From their shamans to their tribal leaders to their tribal activities, they expressed their spiritual belief and understanding in everything they did. Over time, our spirituality became separated from our lives. We are not comfortable talking about our spiritual values, our understanding of our inner world, and the intimacy of our own spiritual path. If we are wise, we move into like-minded groups to have those personal conversations about our spirituality.

Some 50 years ago, when I first defined myself as a metaphysician, I could only mention it to people who were receptive, perhaps people who were exploring that path themselves. Receptivity has gradually improved but not everywhere…

What if we moved our spirituality, not our religion, back into the guiding light of our life. What would the world look like then?

We would all work for the highest good of all

That would mean looking for core values, identifying our common goals, being willing to compromise as we sought the highest good for all, showing tolerance of different opinions, and energetic conversation along with increasing mutual understanding and awareness.

We can do that, but it’ll take some thoughtful leaders and wise guidance. And it’ll take a willingness on the part of everyone with a concern to move off their position into a mutually beneficial one.

That’ll certainly take some practice

So what do we do today?

“Be the change you want to see in the world,” says Gandhi. Or as Rumi says, “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

Here are some groups that might call to you as you take your spirituality out into our world.

The Shift Network

Gaiafield

Go searching and find ways to being your version of spiritual back into your life.

To Sing a Deeper Song consider:
You Are All-That-Is
The Move From Inner to Outer Work
The Power of Your Personal Path
How to Use our Interconnection to Heal the World

Filed Under: Self Awareness, Spiritual Expansion, Unfolding Tagged With: Deeper Song, self-awareness, Spiritual Expansion

My Three Words for 2017

December 29, 2016 By Cara Lumen

Planet

At the beginning of each new year, I select three words to guide me on my journey. These are qualities or values or concepts that I want to explore, develop, embrace and emphasize during that year.

I learned this from Chris Brogan several years ago. Choosing three meaningful or motivational words allows me to evaluate what I’ve accomplished, notice where I am, and make choices that’ll guide me in a direction that’s aligned with my core purpose.

For 2016, my words were “determination”, “trust” and “explore”. I determinedly explored my connection with nature through Shamanism and expanded my connection with the world through a course in subtle group energy. I deepened my trust by following my instincts that said I needed to venture further online to connect with the people who would nurture and guide me on this next phase of my journey.

As I continue to let my life unfold, I deepen my trust. I trust myself to recognize the nudges and insights that keep coming my way. I trust the universe to offer signs and signals to guide me.

Would you like to choose three words to help shape your experiences in the coming year?

What is your overall objective?

What qualities or values would you like to develop or explore in the coming year? What is your over-arching objective?

For 2017, my overall goal is to immerse myself more deeply in my spiritual exploration, to find meaningful and effective ways to direct energy to the well-being of our universe and share what I discover in a clear, insightful and inspiring manner.

My three words for 2017 are “broaden”, “deepen” and “change”

Broaden. I expand my spirituality and my personal awareness by broadening my participation in the planet, particularly in the form of focused energy. I broaden my personal awareness by questioning all my beliefs to make certain they represent my current values and that they’re based on my truth rather than on the truth of others.

I broaden my empathy and develop the core value of inclusion as I increase my understanding of others by actively listening to the concerns of persons who have a different frame of reference than I do. I broaden my participation in the world by joining with others in meditations for peace and harmony and balance. I open myself to ways to extend the reach of my words into the lives of people who will benefit from them.

Deepen. Deepen relates to my inner work. I deepen my awareness of nature and allow its organic flow to guide me. I deepen my awareness of the natural cycles and allow myself to flow with them. I deepen my knowledge of subtle realms and dimensions and apply concepts that resonate. I deepen my understanding of the concepts in Shamanism and Taoism that call to me. I take what resonates and learn new ways to apply those concepts more consciously in my daily life.

Unfolding is at the core of my life. Increased mindfulness continues to deepen my connection with my inner world. I mindfully move more consciously through my day, seeking to hear the messages of nature, my body, my soul and the invisible world around me.

Change. I feel myself being drawn on a great adventure. It has to do with the exploration of subtle realms and higher dimensions. I’m willing to change. I’m open to new possibilities. I feel myself being pulled to a level of exploration that’s taking me deeper within than I’ve ever gone before. I’m connecting with the “nowhere that we came from”, the great nothingness, the universes beyond the universes. Although I’m human, I’ll explore beyond the limitation of my body suit and report what I find.

Awareness + choice = change.

Broaden
Deepen
Change

I’m certain these three words will take me on great adventures and lead me to awareness I didn’t expect.

What are your three words for the coming year?

TO SING A DEEPER SONG, CONSIDER:

My three words for 2016
My three words for 2015

Filed Under: Self Mastery, Self Transformation, Unfolding Tagged With: Self Mastery, Spiritual Expansion, Unfolding

Change Your Expectations

December 1, 2016 By Cara Lumen

Epect results sign

Allowing your life to unfold is a beautiful way to live because you have no expectations, of yourself, of anyone. Therefore you’re never disappointed – only pleased – and sometimes surprised. What expectations do you have that are actually holding you back?

Expectations of yourself

What would it feel like to simply let yourself love yourself – exactly as your are? No thinner or fatter, no younger or older, no more outgoing or more poised. Just being you and loving yourself for being that.

We are each unique. We are a distinctive combination of our gifts, our passions, our beliefs and our past. Those are all mixed up into what we expect.

But what if we didn’t expect anything of ourselves? Would we be pleasantly and continuously surprised?

Drop your expectations of someone else

If we expect someone to act in a certain way, we have to drop that. It’s their path, their journey. If we want them to do something for us, we have to stop looking outside ourselves and instead do it for ourselves.

You’ve got enough to do for yourself without waiting around for someone else to do something you want them to do. It’s a waste of time and energy.

Expectations of success

We do our work and expect it to succeed. We even have a certain set of measurements for success – sales, completed projects, clicks – whatever we’ve decided will point to success.

But what if you simply put your work out there and trusted? Trusted that it would reach the people who needed to hear it, touch the hearts that were ready to receive it, changed the lives that were ready to be changed? There’s no measurement of “success” when you trust your work to touch the lives it’s supposed to touch.

Let go of expectations

That doesn’t mean you don’t need to have a goal, or move in a thought-out direction; but when you stay open to the doors that open in the process, you may find yourself on a totally different journey than the one you expected.

And that’s a LOT of fun.

To Sing a Deeper Song consider:

Live Like Water
How Being Different Makes You Special
What if You Broke the Mold?
The Many Faces of Your Calling
45-How to Become a Mindful Presence
41 – How to Make Decisions When Your Let Your Life Unfold

Filed Under: Alligned Choices, Self Awareness, Self Transformation, Unfolding Tagged With: positve change, self transformation, Unfolding, vision

Trust the Message of Now

November 8, 2016 By Cara Lumen

Rainbow

There will never be a time when it’ll not be now. Now is now. Not tomorrow. Not yesterday. Now is all we have. We have to trust it.

What is the now telling you?

Since all we have is now, it’s a good idea to learn to interpret it, to get its message, to feel its nudge. We do that by being still within and listening. And feeling. And deciding. Depending on where we are in our life, we’ll hear a different rhythm, a different melody, a different harmony. But it’ll all be part of the same now.

What is the now offering us?

When we remain still enough, we catch the subtle nudges and nuances that line up in a row before us so we may take our pick. What appeals to you right now, in this moment? What feels like it would be a good tool to take with you on your journey? What do you need in your life at this minute? What are good reasons for your choices? What is being offered to you now?

How will “now” affect the “next now”?

It’s not a good idea to think too far ahead, but in this “now” you may have an idea of what you’d like in a now a bit further down the road. You make a choice that will add clarity or direction or a skill that’s needed when that next now shows up.

Are we doing right in this now?

This is the easiest question to answer about a current now. When we know our values, when we know ourselves well – what we need and want, what will nurture and support us – we choose that. There’s no consideration of the future, there’s the choice of exactly what we need right now.

Why if we make a mistake in this now?

The word “mistake” means “miss the mark.” Each time you aim, you get better at the whole “hit-the-mark” process. You aim better, you choose a better target, you send your whole-self arrow off with the choice you make.

There is no mistake – ever. There are, however, choices that became lessons – ones we needed and that improved us by getting them.

Now is exquisite

Take time to live in the now. Hear the now. Feel the now. Understand the messages from the now. Be still. Be aware. Feel. Listen. Choose. Each now is exquisite. Cherish it. Relax into it. Be the now.

To Sing a Deeper Song consider:
The Power of Exploring the Unknown
Can You Control Your Own Destiny?
Why Unfolding Works
The Power of Your Personal Path
The Freedom of Not knowing
35—How to Hold the Space for Change.
32 – How to See Your Work As Art

Filed Under: Mindfulness, Self Awareness, Self Mastery, Spiritual Expansion, Unfolding Tagged With: self transformation, self-awareness, Spiritual Expansion

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