How Do We Expand Our Role In The New Consciousness?

Living Our Deeper Song

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The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

At the time of the recent full moon, I could see it move across my big windows. As I watched its steady journey, I pictured it blessing the planet and her inhabitants. I pictured her role in the universe and her place among many planets and stars and I felt minuscule in comparison.

I saw mankind struggling with wars and prejudices and survival and wondered at its role in the bigger picture, the overarching theme of Universal Energy. Rather than feel small, it made me feel more responsible for making certain that my individual strand in the Web of Light that is our universe is strong and steady. I do that through my intentions and my actions. I try to dwell on the well-being of the entire planet every day and join my heart with other Light Bearers who are holding High Watch for the healing and well-being of our planet and our universe. It helps me not be afraid. It helps me not be caught up in the mundane. It helps me hold a bigger brighter vision for our universe. I am a strand of light and I shine as brightly as I know how. That’s how we expand our role in the new consciousness – working each day to strengthen and expand our individual strand in the web of life.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I find creative ways to strengthen my role as an individual strand in the web of life.

Deeper Song Process

Picture yourself with arms outstretched grasping the hands of others to join our strands in the Web of Life.
Send energy to those who are struggling.
Strengthen your individual strand through meditation and study and opening your heart.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Willingness

I need a lot of physical help and I have a lot of people helping me. Some of them are more willing than others to go out of their way to make sure it happens. And some are reluctant to be proactive and figure out what they don’t know how to do. Where do you fall on the spectrum?

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Do The Work

Use it or lose it. My suite-mate refuses physical therapy and now has to be lifted in and out of bed and her wheelchair by two people and a machine. In fact, of the 18 people on this particular wing more than half have to be lifted in and out of beds and chairs. It’s a choice we make. Use it or lose it.

If some of the physical activities you are undertaking become hard, modify them but keep moving. I can no longer do many yoga poses but I still can do some Qigong and Tai Chi.

Find small places to slip in additional physical activity. For instance, they weigh me every day because they’re watching water retention. The pattern is for me to get in my wheelchair and be wheeled down to a big scan, weighed while sitting in my chair and wheeled back to my room. However, I’ve decided to begin to walk partway there with the Med-Aid following behind with my wheelchair for when I get tired. That small adjustment in my regular pattern will help strengthen my body.

Maybe you park your car further away from the entrance to the grocery store. Maybe you add an extra block to the walk you take your dog on every day. Perhaps you add some stretching or Qigong or even simple yoga poses to your morning meditation.

Start with five minutes and establish the movement pattern you want to use to strengthen your body. Then up it to 10 minutes and simply create and adjust until your find the balance you can maintain every day that will help you keep your body strong and flexible. Do the work. Your body needs you. It depends on you. Do the work.

===OUTER WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Acknowledge Your Progress

I want to establish a way to see how I’m doing and if I’m going in the direction I want to go and design some framework for what I need to do next. This is a work in progress but here is how I’m going to begin.

The categories I will focus on are Spiritual Expansion, Creativity, Physical Well-being and Increasing my Impact In The World.

Spiritual Expansion

I have begun to experience myself as a strong strand in the Web of Life. I experiment with what that looks like and feels like. I am using intention and my imagination to cultivate a healing energy in my physical space so that whoever comes in is touched by it. I am using my intention and my imagination to heal my own body. I’m using my intention and my imagination to heal and restore balance to the planet. My spiritual practice is fluid, consistent and ever expanding.

Creativity

My creativity is founded on my personal learning process. It happens to take the form of this newsletter which gives me an opportunity to examine and explore new ideas and how to apply them. I see this as my major form of learning and applying concepts and changing my own belief systems.

Physical Well-being

I’m working with intention and sound healing to help my body heal as well as trying to actively do physical plane work to help it get strong again.

Impact In The World

I am concerned about the well-being of humanity but mostly I want to focus on how to raise my own vibration and help others to feel our oneness with Source. I continue to expand my awareness of each of us as vital strands in the web of life and we must each learn to keep our strand strong. I’m not sure how to do that but that’s my focus.

Set Your Goals

Because of my categories my goals have to be broad and extensive and flexible.

Spiritual Expansion

I don’t know whether to go backwards or forwards in my search for spiritual expansion. There are some philosophers I would like to re-read and probably anchor some of those resonate concepts more firmly in my life. On the other hand, my search is for new ways to experience my/our oneness. I may have to let that one unfold and trust the universe to guide me to those next steps.

Creativity

I want to continue to deepen my exploration and share what I discover. And how I apply what I learn. This newsletter gives me opportunities to explore new ideas and how to apply them. I will find creative ways to stay creative.

Physical Well-being

This one is easy because there are specific concrete things I can do and specific concrete results that I can see when I do them.

The major adjustment in my physical experience is going to be around my eyesight and what adjustments I have to make because of my dry macular degeneration. I’m just staying flexible and hopeful.

Impact In The World

This is an interesting goal for a 90-year-old in long-term care but I have my mind, my imagination, my determination, and my willingness. I am applying sound healing and intention and I meditate eac day and seek guidance for how to expand my role in the world. I am a work in progress.

Check Your Progress

My first thought was to make a list of what I want to do and then three months down the line see how I’m doing. I seem not to be able to make a very concrete list of objectives in these categories.

That will work on the physical well-being objectives but the creativity category is like one big unfolding experiment so I need to stay flexible and creative.

I don’t have a new creative project in mind but I’m always open to respond when new ideas and opportunities show up.

Spiritual Exploration is a fluid path of insights and discovery. Like creating, I really have to explore and see where it takes me, what new doors and what path I choose to take.

Impact In The World

This is a whole area of fluid exploration… I will try out new concepts and new ways of being and notice how they impact the world for the better.

Check Your Progress

On one hand this idea is a bust because my original thought was to make a list and check it in three months to see how you’re doing. But now I am going to write a philosophical objective. Spiritual Expansion is a little harder to measure as far as progress is concerned, as is how I can impact the world.

Spiritual Expansion As An Objective

I want to focus on our oneness and our path as humanity as a whole. I want to move my consciousness into a higher level of oneness and express that in my life. You know, something easy…

I’m going to stay flexible and curious in all four of these areas and listen to my inner guidance and see where it takes me. How do you set objectives and measure progress in those areas of your life?

Creativity Progress

I might make a list of what I’m doing currently with a date beside it so I can check back in three months to see what has changed. But this is an area of constant change and exploration so who knows where I’ll end up.

Physical Well-Being Progress

What I’m interested in here is what techniques work. I am experimenting with both intention and sound healing and I should probably journal my experiences and discoveries as I go.

Impact In The World

I may not be able to measure this or even see the results of the work I do but it is an ongoing work in progress and I will use my imagination and my determination to contribute to the well-being of our universe.

I hope this helps you begin your “Explore Next” list and how you choose to monitor and apply what you learn and experience. Every three months or so I’m gonna do a check-in and look at where I was and write down where I am and get some ideas for where I want to go. Then of course, I simply let my life unfold and go where it takes me.

How will you set some goals and track your progress so you can make new goals?

Do You Expect Enough?

“If you are short of something, the shortage is in your own consciousness.”

– Eileen Caddy, Opening Doors Within

If your closets are full, your garage is full, your cabinets are full, your house is full, your arms are full, and your life is full, how can you have room for anything else to come into your life?

There is no room. No place for expansion, no room for greater flow. That is why we so often hear the recommendation that to get supply going in your life, clean out your closets, give stuff away, get the flow moving. Make room for bigger and better flow. It’s more than your closets, it’s your awareness. It’s opening up your consciousness.

There is no supply outside of your being. If you want to enjoy the abundance of supply, you must create a flow of giving and receiving.

Two things will happen when you begin to clear out your life:

1. You will activate the Law of Giving and Receiving, and
2. You will create a vacuum for Spirit to fill with the abundance of your choosing.

Take out a pen and paper and create a list like this:

I RELEASE

I ACCEPT

What are some things you can write in your left-hand column that says “I Release?” Begin to make a list.

Under the right-hand column titled “I Accept” write some of the things that could come in to take the place of these things you have released.

My list begins with:

I release:

All sense of helplessness
Notion that my choices are limited
Worry about my eyesight

In its place I put:

I accept:

My increasingly satisfying contribution in the world
Expansion and deepening of my relationships
An expansion of my role as a Light Bearer
Increasingly deepening spiritual practice

Are you expecting enough of yourself?

What Gifts Do You Want To Expand And Repurpose?

First identify a gift that you enjoy and then begin to look for ways to expand how you use it and see if you need to repurpose its focus.

For me, writing is at the core. It holds my creativity, my method of exploration and my sense of contributing to the world. And because of my eyesight I really do have to start getting creative about how I share my writing.

Perhaps you are an outstanding organizer. Perhaps you are a natural leader, a natural nurturer. And perhaps there are gifts you recognized earlier in life that it’s now time to explore and expand and utilize.

Re-visit the dreams you had earlier in life about what you would like to do and see which ones still resonate. Look back over your life and remember the rewarding things you used to do and give some thought to how you could bring that experience into your present life.

The form of this newsletter works very well for my needs and my desire to write and I even get to write my version of a poem each week.

My gift of organization is being called upon as a therapist here is forms a new group with the purpose of connecting like-minded residents and expanding our awareness. I gave her a list of things that I wanted to get out of such a group:

A feeling of still being relevdvmt
A sense of still contributing and making a difference
Personal growth
Mental Stimulation
Personal support around aging
Learning
Hang out with other intelligent people.

Give thought to the form you want your gift to take. I like my short, focused commentaries. I don’t like to go in depth on one subject. That’s good for me to know. I keep looking for fresh insight rather than expanding on one or two.

I love to learn and I have many ways I keep doing that. I love to think philosophically and am always doing that. I don’t like long-term projects so I keep mine short so I can complete and move on.

All of these are simply elements of what I love to do and how I love to do it.

Look closely at your gifts. See how your interests change. And expand and repurpose those that call to you.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

How Do You Cultivate Your Soul’s Growth?

I do not even know where to begin to figure this out. What makes your soul grow? Is it your experiences? Is it your thought process? Is it some magical insight that simply appears?

Experiences expand your soul. Insights expand your soul’s awareness. Interactions with others are always full of lessons and a deepening awareness.

Your mind goes exploring to define ideas and concepts that motivate and inspire and challenge you. Your heart, when you listen, will lead you down new paths of compassion and inclusion.

List three ideas that can open your heart to new paths and start exploring. Throw open the doors to a deeper soul experience.

===DEEPER SONG DISCOVERIES===

Resources to Explore

The Acacia Tree

We were talking about communicating to plants and this story was told to me by the Nurse Manager here who is from Kenya.

Giraffes in Kenya love to eat the leaves of the Acacia tree. But when the giraffes start to overeat and threaten the well-being of the entire group of trees, one tree and one tree only sends out an odor that makes the giraffes leave!

So how does the tree decide when it’s time to do that and how to do that and know that it is the only tree to do that? I have no idea. But the lesson is the power of one tree (person) to rescue an entire grove (humanity).

Do not underestimate the far-reaching effects of your individual participation in the world.

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Set Aside Time To Go Exploring

How do you grow? How do you spend your options? Do you go exploring? Do you find new things that interest you and check them out? Do you talk to people with new ideas and see which ones you like? Do you go exploring?

I have done a modest deep dive into Sound Healing to see how I want to bring it into my life. I have begun to actively design and put a sound healing practice into place.

I would like to add visualization of new possibilities to my spiritual practice. I have begun to talk to the few plants that I have around me and we are beginning to engage in a conversation. I have a strong need for some self-healing on the edema on my legs and I will create and establish a combination of sound and visualization and affirmations to facilitate their healing.

I keep on the lookout for what I am to explore next. Whether it is to deep dive into something that I have already considered or move on to find and explore something new, I will let my intuition guide me as well as the vision I hold for what I want to unfold next. Set aside time to go exploring and see where it leads you.

How Far Reaching Is Your Impact?

I am deeply touched by what I was able to share this week in an unexpected circumstance. There are a lot of people in training to become certified nursing assistant (CNAs) and part of their class is to interview a resident. I have experience and enjoyed several of those interviews but one I gave this week touched my heart deeply. The young woman is from Iran, a country torn apart as males subjugate women who are refusing to have their lives lessened in anyway. She spoke of the relief she felt upon leaving that country and she also spoke of the trauma her five-year-old daughter was having from having lived in that experience.

And then my important share dawned on me. I told her about sound healing and how it helps with trauma. I told her about David Gibson’s book and suggested she look up his practitioner list and see who’s around here and go have a sound healing session. I may have helped to change the course of a child’s life and perhaps even her mother’s. All because I stay curious and go exploring and share what I discover. Talk about one strand in the Web of Life affecting another strand. I did that in an unexpected way.

David Gibson has a list of Sound Healers in his Sound Healing Centre site and I strongly recommend his remarkable book Empower Your Life With Sound Healing, The Complete Guide to Sound Healing.

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations

Actualize Your Gifts

Are you cultivating all of your gifts? Or are there a few subtle ones that could use your attention? It’s pretty easy to put the obvious gifts to work, I’m a good writer, I’m a good organizer, I’m a good talker. I use those skills and gifts all the time. But what more subtle gifts could I begin to cultivate? I’m curious. I love to learn new things. Until I moved to Evergreen long-term care, I thought I was pretty much a loner. I’m having more interaction here than I have had in years.

I’m not a particularly good artist but I have a good time doing pencil drawings of my shamanic journeys for my own pleasure. I could do more of that.

I went to the Resident Council meetings to see how I can participate and perhaps be an advocate for other residents. I’m interacting with 18- to 20-year-olds more than I have since I was raising that age group and I’m learning from them as well as sharing some of my thoughts and awareness.

Curiosity is a major primary gift that I continually cultivate. It takes me on adventures and opens the door to new pathways which I sometimes explore and sometimes don’t. But it always expands my awareness.

Look back at some of the things you enjoy doing in your life and see what needs to be brought to the forefront and encouraged to be part of your path. How will you put your gifts to work in your life?

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Explore New Concepts

The discussion was about what it looks like to be a Light Bearer. I was with a group of on-line friends I call the Rainbow Weavers. I needed their help exploring what being a Light Bearer looks like and how we express that role in life.

My core realization was that I am now focused primarily on feeling and experiencing myself as a strand of light in the web of life. I am to hold my strand in place with strength and determination and flexibility and joy. Holding my place in the Web of Light helps others hold steady in their place in the Web of Light.

This focus on being part of an overall web keeps me above the conflict and eruptions from humanity today and helps me stay focused on the well-being of the whole. It adds a whole new meaning to the concept of holding High Watch for the Universe. I can do that.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

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I am a strong strand in the Web of Life and my steadiness and perseverance and stability contribute to the entire web.

I am a strong strand in the Web of Life and my steadiness and perseverance and stability contribute to the entire web. I keep my light bright. I keep my light strong. I am aware of my surroundings and support other strands in the web around me.

– Cara Lumen, July 2023

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

Namaste,

Cara

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