The Power of Our Aura

Living Our Deeper Song

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

I have been fascinated by the idea of our biofields. They are our energy fields. I first began to hear the word used in relation to working with tuning forks. I thought it was something new until I was on a healing summit and realize that the biofield is the aura I’ve known about for over 50 years. I can feel the edges of a person’s aura. I can interpret the energy of a room, or a person.  I can interpret the energy of a crystal. As can you when you listen. 

Everything is energy. Which means it has an aura, a biofield that we can feel and experience. Have you ever walked into a room and suddenly felt it was a great place to be?  That’s the aura of the room. Or have you been in a situation in which the tension was so great that there was not only negativity but a thickness about the aura? You couldn’t wait to leave the negative energy. Learn to listen to those intuitive nudges. 

Sensing an aura is about teaching yourself to feel subtle differences. Stand 30 feet away from a person and slowly begin to move closer to them. Be aware and tune into any energy change. Sometimes further away but around 6 to 8 feet you will actually feel this field of energy. It is the aura of the person. You just have to practice experiencing it

Why, you ask. Why should I learn to sense the aura of another person? Because it is a profound form of communication. It is energy speaking to energy. Our thoughts have energy but when you start reading the energy of a room or the aura of a person, there is a deeper feeling of understanding and connection.  Use your intuition to interpret the aura, the vibration of another person, animal, plant, rock, or place. Learn to feel, experience, and interpret the biofields around you. 

Remember the last time you came across somebody whose presence immediately made you feel happier and more joyous because of the energy they put forth? That was their aura. Do you ever wonder what kind of aura you put out? I’m not sure that you have many people in your life that you can ask what your aura feels like but if you do, by all means ask.  If not, take a guess. What is the energy you’re putting forth at any given time? 

When I walk down the hall to get my mail, I could purposely send forth positive energy into every apartment door I pass.  When I walk outside to take the trash, I can make certain to pause and feel the energy and aura of nature. When I send out my newsletter, I will more consciously add energy to it even though positive energy goes into every word I write and every step I take in producing it.

When I was writing my small books, I put a book blessing in each book to share my energy with those who read them.  Even today I add a vibrational blessing to this newsletter when I send it out. 

The energy we put into our work stays within what we put out. It is our essence. It is our aura. What kind of message are you sending because of who you are and what you were thinking?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am now aware that my aura extends far beyond my body and I work daily to make certain it is a positive expression of my center. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

• Begin to experience and explore energy fields – the energy of a person, the energy of a situation, the energy of a tree, a rock, or your pets. Learn to feel the edge of an aura.
• Work with your consciousness to raise the vibration of your aura, the energy that emanates from your being. 
• Set the intention to have it always be a positive experience for those who come in contact with it. 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Meditation Practice

The benefits of meditation are so great that perhaps you want to pause and see how you might expand or improve your meditation practice. If you don’t know how to meditate, find a quiet place to sit comfortably and focus on your breathing. In and out. In and out. Keep focused on your breath and continue to teach your mind to be quiet and still. It is in this inner stillness that your inner voice can speak with you and give you guidance and insights and messages.

You can use a mantra if you want – Om, pronounced aum, is often used. You can use a mudra which is a hand position to deepen your mediative experience. For instance, palms up, one hand resting in the other. Work your way up on the length of time you can meditate. 20 minutes might be a goal.

When I learned transcendental meditation in the 80s, it was suggested that we meditate when we come home from work so it made a clear space between work and home. Some people will meditate when they first get up. You’ll find your place. Experiment. Meditate daily so you get in the habit. I have placed a meditation chair in my living room to look out the window at nature. My meditation begins and ends with a connection with Gaia.  

Experiment with when you meditate and where you want to do it. Perhaps bring meaningful objects into that space – crystals, a candle, a plant, a bell. Create a space that allows you to consciously move easily into the stillness within and be present. 

A New Centering Practice

In the recent Shift Network Qigong Summit, I learned a hand movement that is a fabulous way to begin meditation. If you are seated, with your hands facing each other at hip level, bring them up as in drawing up a column of energy from Gaia – deep healing and wholing energy. When you get your hands up beside your head, turn your palms down and take hold of your thumbs, raise your elbows so your arms are parallel to the floor and begin to slowly bring the energy down again. It’s this last move that blew me away. For me there was huge power in lowering my arms with my thumbs folded into my fingers. 

Bring the energy up with the palms open and facing each other on either side of your body, at the top close your fingers over your thumbs, turn your palms down and bring the energy down. There are many powerful qigong moves like that but this one is one of my favorites. Enjoy. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Allow for Natural Reset

To reset is to return to a state of balance. We can learn to do that consciously as we move through our day. Take a conscious pause to reset your physical body. Take a deep breath. Empty your mind. Take another slow inhale and exhale. Relax your shoulders. Look out the window. Empty your mind and be present. You can do this sort of reset wherever you are. It’s as simple as a focused conscious breath, a conscious relaxing of your shoulders and body and a stilling of your mind. Do it often.

Find a place in your day that is a good reminder to pause and reset your focus and your intention. I could use the moment I sit at my computer before I start to log in. I could take a few deep breaths, relax my shoulders and consciously empty my mind with an exhale. I can do that when I walk into my home from the hallway – pause to reset my energy – take another deep breath and consider the energy I am bringing into my home. I definitely want to reset my focus and my consciousness before I go to bed to release all the thoughts and considerations and even the events that I experienced and find a way to move consciously to turn the mundane into rest and restoration and sleep. What kind of reset buttons are you going to use to consciously focus a moment and reset your direction?

Be Patient With the Self-Healing Process

It’s tricky not to get discouraged when the self-healing process seems to be a lot slower than you had in mind. How do you stay strongly optimistic rather than fall into discouragement? It may help to keep track of your progress with an actual date written down somewhere. You may need to journal the smallest of shifts. Noticing change for the positive is one of the easiest steps you can take to keep aware of the progress you are making.  Record your wins – today I did one more step than yesterday. But also stay open to how and what you need to change to continue your self-healing process. What new steps do you need to take? I have added some new Qigong moves to my spiritual practice.  I need to encourage myself to walk more. You are the only game in town. You are the only one that can encourage yourself, or cheer yourself up. We constantly set new goals and set about to achieve them. It’s tough being the only person in charge of this particular process pf self-healing. But that’s how it works. It’s our body. Our responsibility for our life. Our unfolding. Our choices. We create our reality. How are you doing with yours? 

===OUTER  WORK===

What is Your Relationship with Nature?

I love the shape-shifting clouds in the Midwest.  They nurture my imagination.  There were not many clouds in California and who knows what was in the sky above the tall buildings in New York, but here I can raise my gaze and enjoy.  

As a child, I remember that when it rained, I loved to play on the wraparound porch of my grandparent’s house.  I was sheltered from the rain and yet an integral part of it.  It was me, my imagination, and nature. 

When was the last time you stopped to listen to the sound of rain on the window and watch the drops meander their way down the closed window?  Or watch the snow build up on a branch, or pick up an acorn that has fallen to the ground?

I remember sitting at the edge of a sandbox in New York City watching my granddaughter play and I looked down and saw this incredibly beautiful seedling coming out of the sand.  I looked up to see where it had come from and there was a huge oak tree.  I admired the seedling for its tenacity and wished it luck…  

When was the last time you took a meaningful pause in nature and when will you do it again?

One Step At A Time 

After watching Sharon Stone in the Shift Network Qigong Summit offer a standing qigong practice designed to strengthen my body, I decided I would add that to my life. It’s as simple as taking time to pause to stand straight, shift your weight to stand on one leg and rotate your ankle or open your hips.  The whole series was about standing on one leg at a time to let all the muscles do their job and get stronger.

Strengthening my body is as simple as consciously standing straight for a focused period of time, engaging my core, straightening my spine. Sharon has one move in which she hugs a tree while standing on one leg. Her arms are in front of her hugging an imaginary tree. I love that image to stand there and hug a tree. And you are strengthening your shoulders and your arms by holding them in that outstretched position.

Can strengthening my body be as easy as regularly standing consciously in an aligned posture to allow my energy to flow more freely? I can do that. Add more moments of  conscious standing in which  you hold a weight-bearing posting on one leg as you straighten and  strengthen and allow the Qi energy to flow to your body and see what changes. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Conditioned Space

We can condition our space to make it more welcoming, more receptive, more supportive in how we want to live in it. I have a meditation corner. It has a chair that is turned to look outside at nature. My native flutes are within reach and I play them every day. I use my Kalimba Thumb Piano and Spolum Drum – the musical instrument of happiness   (There are much cheaper ones but this explains it well.) There is a flexible structure to my morning meditation and ceremony. My space in that corner of my living room has the intention of being a sacred meditation space. It has a purpose. It is furnished for that activity. And it supports my meditative practice.

What space do you need to condition in your home? Is it your sleeping space? Your food preparation space? Or a meditation corner? Set an intention for the space, set it up so it supports the activity, and condition it to make you welcome.

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

Hold High Watch for Our World

The negative eruptions on our planet are so blatant, it is hard to understand the lessons we are learning and what steps we are to take. I do know that everything is vibration and with our conscious focus we can continue to keep our vibration raised. That doesn’t mean we don’t take action. It doesn’t mean we don’t take steps and help. It simply means that we keep putting out into the planet the higher vibrations so that others can see it and raise their own.

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

The Power of Energy

Everything is energy and we can make changes in our lives and in our world by working with energy. Part of the work is visualization, but most of it is simply raising your own vibration. Before each meditation, I bring energy up from Gaia and energy down from the cosmos to become a pillar of light. (Become a Pillar of Light podcast) I move into my Transcendental Meditation as part of my spiritual practice. I play my native flutes and drums and kalimba and gongs as part of my daily meditation practice. It is easy to connect with nature through the window I face. Take those pauses. Take conscious pauses while walking down the street. Hug a tree and connect with its deep roots and soaring branches. 

When I lived in New York City, I was a block away from Central Park which was great but otherwise, I had to walk five or six blocks to Lincoln Center in order to see the full moon. So I spent a lot of time imagining Mother Earth beneath the concrete. Now I can look out the window at the tree and the earth and the clouds and watch the sun set. That works for me. How are you enriching your meditation practice this week? 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

What Really Matters in Your Life?

I’ve been thinking about the Ukrainians forced to leave everything behind. What really matters in your life? What would you bring with you if you could only bring what you could carry?

I would bring my cat, Sebastian. And then I saw a news clip of a man whose rather large dog was so frightened that he lay down in the road and wouldn’t move. Ultimately the man took him back to his apartment where he felt safe and left him behind. That would be super hard. 

A 17-year-old boy was scared because all the men had to stay behind and fight. A kid, a young person. A male person. Had to learn to fight to protect his country. The women move on alone bringing their children with them. Peaceful people learned how to use guns and are prepared to do so.  One day you were having breakfast and suddenly your life totally changed and you are protecting your life and your homeland. 

Then imagine being in a new country with perhaps a different language, no place to live, no way to earn a living. How do you even begin? It doesn’t matter that you were an executive in a company because the company is gone, the job is gone, the friends are gone, the income is gone, your home is gone, your life is gone. What would you have left to begin again that you would be grateful for?

Your gifts. The things you’ve learned in your life, the skills, the ideas, the beliefs, the wisdom. You are grateful for the Foundation of Self you begin to build on again. Step-by-step. Perhaps in a way you’ve never considered before. Yes, some doors have closed. But others will invariably open. Be receptive and ready to act. We don’t have to be forced from our homes in order to be aware and grateful for the gifts of our talents and our mind and our strength of character. 

Help the Ukrainians any way you can. Some people are providing shelter, some are providing food, others are helping people relocate.  I just know that as an 89-year-old woman who uses a walker, my cat Sebastian and I would simply stay here and do the best we can with what is handed to us.

What are you grateful for? And how are you helping those who are in need? 

Google Ukrainian relief and see how you can help.

Despair In The Young

A friend of mine is a narrative coach in France, and she seems to have attracted a lot of teenage clients which rather surprised her. But she reported there is a lot of suicide among teenagers because they cannot see a path forward.

What keeps us going? What keeps us looking for new paths, new ways through, new solutions? And what makes us give up?

If you cannot see your path forward, that’s a tough one. I’m sort of hoping that as the changes in my body keep happening for the better that my path will become clearer.  But I’m an optimist. So I keep believing.  We get what we believe we deserve and what we believe is possible. What if we don’t see a possibility for ourselves? How do we change that? I don’t have an answer here, I only have a question. How would you turn to help someone who cannot see a path forward?

How do we come to believe in ourselves and our gifts and our potential and our future? 

For me, part of it was the expectation of my parents. They expected me to go to college. Unfortunately, I was in an era that mostly expected women to get married. I did that and didn’t work out so I’ve got to go exploring in wonderful new ways by myself.

There are a lot of new jobs evolving in technology but if you are interested in arts and literature, where do you turn? I have no idea how much fiction is being written today but I know there are a ton of self-help books that people are reading. So how do you evolve your life when you cannot see a future? I don’t have an answer. But I do invite you to turn to the teenage people in your life and see how you can help them move forward. 

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

This Technique Makes a Difference

I have recently experienced a major healing in my body. And I have only added two processes to my self healing curriculum. One of them is this Lower Dantian Breathing Technique with Grandmaster Chunyi Lin.

It has had a positive affect and has created a major physical shift that has been in progress for over a year. I do this simple technique five or six time a day and in 10 days or so it has helped create a major healing shift.  Heal Yourself & Others With the Power of Qigong is the online class I begin next week taught by Master Chunyi Lin, Creator and Founder of Spring Forest Qigong. It is a powerful approach to self-healing. We will be guided through experiential journeys in which we will refine our body’s reservoir of energy — aligning our breath, movement, and awareness — and direct it to facilitate increased energy and the capacity to heal ourselves and others. If you are looking for self-healing, his websites are springforestqigong.com and chunyilin.com At the very least add this breathing technique to your daily practice

===CARA’S CORNER===

Self-Responsibility

We create our life by what we believe we deserve and what we believe is possible. That puts pretty much everything in our own laps. How is your life unfolding?

If I’m lonely, it’s up to me to reach out to someone. If I’m sad, it’s up to me to honor that sadness and yet release it. We are totally responsible for our own well-being in our own life experience. How are you doing with your life?

As I decide to take total self-responsibility for the well-being of my body, I have some work to do. Not so much in the belief that it is my responsibility because I accept that. But I’m now looking for ways to work with energy in order to create those changes. For me, it’s through intention and qigong moves. 

It’s a tad scary to be 89 and feel like you’re the only game in town as far as healing your body. I got lots of ideas in the Qigong Summit. One is as simple as doing standing exercises to strengthen your ability to stand up. I have to do the work. It is my responsibility and if I want results, I have to take the actions that are needed to get those results. Self-responsibility and self-healing – how are you doing with that?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Mine to Do

It is all mine to do – the strengthening, the healing, the expanding – my responsibility. All mine.

It is all mine to do – the strengthening, the healing, the expanding – my responsibility. All mine. I want this. I can do this. I deserve this.

It is all mine to do – the strengthening, the healing, the expanding – my responsibility. All mine. I want this. I can do this. I deserve this. I take one step at a time – with perseverance.  One step – then another. I walk the path to wholeness.

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.

Namaste,

Cara

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Help Your Inner Voice Speak Louder

Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe
(“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?

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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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 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?

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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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