Help Your Inner Voice Speak Louder

Living Our Deeper Song

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

Universe is always talking to us. Are you listening? Do you recognize it as your Inner Voice? What are you doing with the information it gives you? The Inner Voice is a few steps higher than intuition. It goes into greater detail. Intuition is a hunch, a feeling. Your Inner Voice is a statement – often a complete sentence. In my case, often a series of sentences. But then I’ve been listening to my inner voice for quite a while.

A dear friend of mine recently made a decision to move ahead with a business project that she and I have been talking about for years. My mind immediately went crazy with ideas and content for her website and product ideas and I could hardly shut it off. It was my Inner Voice dictating to me as fast as I could type. This happens to me fairly often. I wake up and a thought starts coming so I rush to the computer in the middle of the night to capture it. I might be doing something else when a thought pops in that needs to be captured right away and again, I go immediately and write it down, explore it, and capture the expanded idea. When I do this, I feel like I am simply opening a channel and typing what I’m told at the time. I often just dictate. It’s exciting. It’s relevant. And some great ideas are coming through. Clear ideas, complete ideas. Profound ideas. I trust my Inner Voice.

So how did I get to be such good friends with my Inner Voice? I paid attention. I stop and I listen when it shows up – even with a whisper. I have learned to interpret it through the nudges that it gives me, the phrase that suddenly pops into my mind and the complete sentences and paragraphs it often offers. Sometimes it’s like my Inner Voice is simply dictating and I’m just sitting there in the body vehicle to bring it in.

The more I listen to my inner voice the more I trust it. The inner world speaks to you in hunches, feelings, and sometimes opportunities. You have to notice and respond to what shows up. It’s not enough to receive, one must choose what to pay attention to and then explore it. What form does your inner voice speak to you and are you listening?

Be open to receive.

Practice listening to your Inner Voice and see how detailed it will get for you. Perhaps ask it questions for clarity. Practice following through on the responses that show up and see what great adventures they take you on. Learn to accept a feeling of inner knowing that supports you in making a particular choice. This is you talking to you. The more you listen the more you will hear. Keep listening to your Inner Voice. It has great insights and guidance for you.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I listen to the wisdom and guidance of my Inner Voice.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

Notice the nudges of your Inner Voice. Are they a complete thought? A visualization? A feeling?
Follow through on the nudges and notice how accurate they are. Where do they take you? What do they reveal?
Ask your Inner Voice for guidance and clarity.
See where that leads you.

===INNER WORK===

Create Space Between Doing and Being

When we cultivate and nurture our inner world, our outer world prospers. We must set aside time in our daily life to simply be – to be still, to be present, to be aware. To quiet our mind. To listen to our inner voice. It is in the silence that we can evaluate and explore and choose. We monitor our physical plane thoughts and bring them into order so that we can quietly listen to our inner voice. Find times in your day to be still to listen, and to simply be present in the knowing.

===SELF-HEALING===

Do The Work

The reason I am so immersed in understanding how self-healing works is that whatever is going on in my body is mine to rebalance. The doctors have not identified a “problem.” There are no pills to take or procedures to have because what I think is happening is the gradual realignment of a hip that was tilted. How or when it got tilted I have no idea. But a year ago it un-tilted and my body has been uncomfortably and noticeably realigning ever since.

So what do you do if you have a physical problem for which there is no Western medicine cure? You start working with energy medicine. You learn about the biofields. You work with Qigong and acupressure and herbs and sound healing and visualization. And you shift your belief system into the belief that your mind and your beliefs create your reality so the change that you want is all up to you. That’s why I’ve gone exploring. It is all up to me. I need to walk more in order to get my body stronger. I need to consciously stand up straighter to support my body in retraining itself. I have to change my beliefs, but most of all I have to take responsibility and believe that my choices and my intentions will bring my physical body back into balance. There is no Western medicine procedure to straighten and strengthen my body other than me and the choices I make. What I do or don’t do. Whatever changes my body can manifest are totally up to my actions and my beliefs of what is possible. I’m pretty sure that’s the way it is in all cases. Whatever the symptom that is showing up is a request to change some of the choices you are making or have made and question the beliefs you hold of what is possible.

Now I’m pretty old, so at some point, my body is going to say, “Well we’re through here.’” And that’s OK. But meanwhile, I’m going to take responsibility and do the work to help my body regain some of its strength and flexibility. What do you believe is possible and what are you doing to make it happen? Do the work. You will get the results.

Restorative Self-Care

When was the last time you took a nap? Or a long hot bath? When was the last time you did nothing? Perhaps you sat and looked out the window and were simply present. Self-care is about pauses and choices. It is about meaningful pauses in which you evaluate and question the choices you’ve made and explore new ones. How do you give yourself restorative self-care and how often do you do it?

===OUTER WORK===

Spread Understanding and Awareness

It was a huge shift for me when I realized that all this world changing was about the Divine Feminine coming into prominence. When I did, a lot of what was going on began to make sense. So I’ve been thinking about it and writing about it and sharing my ideas. The more I am aware of how the Divine Feminine is manifesting, the more understanding I have about how it might unfold and what could be expected of me and how I am to change. Share your evolving ideas with others. Find those who are curious and questioning and concerned and together increase your understanding of the energetic changes and your awareness of your role in the unfolding new world view.

Be More Curious

We have to be curious. We have to wonder what we don’t know. We have to look for how we can do things differently. Then we get to go exploring to see what is available for us to examine next, to do next. What new adventure will you have today?

Look It Up

When something needs adjusting in your body look up a Qigong move online for it – Qigong for eyes, Qigong for back, Qigong for shoulders. The exercises are easy to do and powerfully effective.

I have taken several classes from Daisy Lee on The Shift Network but looking it up online is an easy way to add a few powerful Qigong moves to your life and health.

Watch for the Signs

It can be a thought, an insight, an opportunity – all are signs that the universe is ready for you to move. What are people asking of you? What situation is calling to you to heal and balance? What resistance has dropped and what new role is emerging for you to consider? Whether it’s a major bop on the head or a small but potent thought, listen to the nudges of the Universe and let them guide you on your path…

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Intuition and Sacred Knowledge

The oracle card I drew from the SpiritSong Tarot was The High Priestess – Lynx – Intuition and Sacred Knowledge. Wow, do I want to be this. I could live my life around intuition and sacred knowledge. How do I go deeper? How do I learn more? Where do I begin?

Intuition – I listen to my inner voice all the time and the more I listen the clearer the messages become. I listen and I take action. Sometimes that inner voice simply dictates into this newsletter. It is a very busy inner voice.

Sacred Knowledge. For me now that means finding the highest path I can walk and get on it. It means looking for the guidance of the Divine Feminine as she makes herself known and adjusting as rapidly as I can to accommodate the new wisdom and direction.

If you drew the High Priestess – Intuition and Wisdom how would you build on it?

Nested Meditations

Nested meditations first came to my attention in the June 2004 issue of Spirituality and Health magazine in an article called “Surprised by Grace” by Kevin Anderson, PhD.

Writing a nested meditation is like opening a surprise package. Once you write the first line you are open to unexpected revelations on the succeeding lines. You don’t have to stop with three lines either. Just keep going. Each line becomes a meditation. You can write more than three lines. You can use the same start and conclude it differently. You can change the punctuation, or a single word within a line. It is a flowing, living expression of self.

How to Write a Nested Meditation

Sit for a moment and choose a phrase that comes to mind which you then write down on paper. It becomes your first line.

Then you write the first line again and add a second line.

The third time you write lines one and two and add a third line.

It’s the third line that often comes out as a surprise for me. You can change the meaning of the words by changing the punctuation.

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

Turn the Page, Begin a New Chapter

We are not who we were yesterday and we are not who we will be tomorrow. Our life story is constantly changing. So however messed up our past was, we can always start now, in this moment, to make new choices and hold new expectations. You are not your past, you are your potential. Turn and look ahead. Where do you want to go? Take a broad look and then go exploring until you find the path to your new future. The past is over. It is an old story. How would you like your life to unfold next? Perhaps remember the lessons but leave the old story behind. Today is a brand new day – the beginning of a new chapter.

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

Know the Size of Your Sphere of Influence

Some things I can change. Other things are not mine to do. Understand the edges of your responsibility and tend to what is yours to care for.

There are global things that feel like I cannot control. I am not interacting with them on the physical plane but boy, am I busy on the inner plane – holding High Watch, sending energy, staying on the high road. Participate in change by using your thoughts and visualization to change everything. Take specific action in your own sphere of influence and make it count.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Outdated Information

Not long ago I made my living as a Content Development Coach helping people write the copy for their website. I loved it. I am good at it. However, it occurred to me only recently that it is possible that some of the marketing premises that I was basing my work on may no longer applicable. If I were still in business I know where I would turn, to Brian Clark for one and his innovative look at the digital nomad. But boy, is there a lot to learn in order to not only catch up but to keep up – let alone stay ahead. How has your business changed and what do you need to learn in order to adapt it to the unfolding new order of our rapidly changing world?

The Peaceable Kingdom

The Peaceable Kingdom is a painting by minister and painter Edward Hicks. The painting represents a prophecy in the book of Isaiah (11:6): “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.

A Peaceable Kingdom seems a long way off right now. What do we do? How do we change? What do we change?

Picturing a peaceable kingdom might be a good place to start. What if everything we did was about compassion and caring? What if everything we experienced was about inclusiveness and generosity of spirit? That’s exactly what we need to do – visualize it into being.

It begins by monitoring your own actions.

It’s hard for me not to be a bit angry at the people who have ideas and beliefs that are in such opposition to mine. I’m very inclusive in my embracing of different forms of spiritual expression, but I’m having a much harder time with the people in this country who, to me, seem only to care about themselves, not about the higher good for all. But see, that’s judgmental of me. I’m not sure what to do about that, particularly when those who see the world differently than I do seem very intolerant of my viewpoint.

The steps I can think to take are to keep focused on the concept of a Peaceable Kingdom – where everyone exists in harmony. Hard to imagine, isn’t it? What would that feel like? It’s not so much about being in agreement as it is about making room for each person to have their own opinion, their own response, without the need to find affirmation or agreement by bonding with others to force their beliefs onto others and make your way the only way.

Peaceable Kingdom. What would that look like? What would that feel like? How do we get there?

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

What Makes You Feel Inferior?

A lot of the opposing positions that are moving into place are because if someone does not agree with your beliefs you begin to feel inferior. And you turn that into defensive anger. It is not easy to feel you are wrong. It is even harder to know you are wrong. At least in America, there is a group of people who are negatively responding to being outnumbered in their beliefs, and are especially angered at definitely becoming a minority race. And they are angrily fighting those feelings of being less-than. Perhaps they don’t even know it.

Being around differences is challenging. If I can’t eat with chopsticks, for instance, I may feel less than a friend of mine who can when we are in a Chinese restaurant. That’s a small thing and perhaps barely noticeable, but it is those small comparisons that can build into resentment or unexpressed misunderstanding.

I know very little about other cultures. It doesn’t make me feel less than, but I am not as sure of my choices among people of other cultures.

Uncomfortable, less than, different from. What happens if we change that to expressions of diversity and broad cultural knowledge and the fact that there is so much to learn from each other, particularly from other cultures.

Where will you go exploring to expand your understanding of another way of being? Are there people from other cultures in your workplace that you could get to know? What about a friend of a friend who can teach you about his or her culture? I know so little sitting here in the mid-west. The coasts are more diverse and I would have learned more if I had actively gone exploring with the set intentions of getting to understand the beauty and insights and gifts from other cultures.

The human was not meant to be one particular race. We are born into diversity and we must learn to live within the joyous beauty of that diversity. How will you go exploring another culture today?

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Living the Divine Feminine

A friend recently pointed out that I had been living the Divine Feminine for a long time. And I flashed back to 1977 when I moved from the Kansas City area to New York City and lived there for 13 years. I was 45 when I arrived and 58 when I left. I thought I went because my only friend, who happened to be gay, was going to NYC to be with his partner. To this day, I do not know how it happened but suddenly in a single moment, with no debate, I knew it was time for me to go there too. I made a trip to NYC and found an apartment in a former department store with 18’ high ceilings and a loft. It was above a grocery store on the Upper West Side.

My friend was going to help drive the moving truck with our things and helped me load it but then he had to go ahead for the first leg of the journey. So I drove a big moving truck from Kansas City to St. Louis by myself to meet up with him. When we got to NYC a few days later, we unloaded my things at my apartment, then his things at his partner’s apartment, and I was the one who drove the rental truck to lower Manhattan, turned it in and took the subway by myself back to the Upper West Side. I walked alone to my apartment and there I was – a new resident of NYC. On my own. It was the most important shift I made in my life for it was in NYC that I got my metaphysical education. My friend moved back to KC in a few years but I stayed for 13 years, I learned a lot and I loved every minute of it.

The Divine Feminine was strong within me even then and I am very grateful for her presence and her guidance and her great strength.

How long has the Divine Feminine been nudging you and where will you allow her to lead you next?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Heeding the Call

The call was clear and direct. I had no choice but to heed it.

The call was clear and direct. I had no choice but to heed it. The adventure was huge and it changed my life forever.

The call was clear and direct. I had no choice but to heed it. The adventure was huge and it changed my life forever. I am grateful for both the call and the courage….!

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

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