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Abide at the Center of Your Being

June 6, 2018 By Cara Lumen

Abide at the Center of Your Being

“There is no need to run outside
For better seeing.
Nor to peer from a window.
Rather abide
At the center of your being;

For the more you leave it, the less you learn.”
 –Tao Te Ching, Lao-Tzu

There’s a stillness inside that knows all.  Yet too often we persist in looking to the opinions of others for guidance or try to unobtrusively fit into the world around us.

When you sit in silence and observe, the guidance is given, the answers appear.  There’s nothing that exists except you.  Look within for your answers. 

Live at the center of your being.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Call on Your Sacred Space Within 

Do Things from the Soul 

What are the Foundations Stones Upon Which Your Build Your Life

Unleash the power of your Sacred Garden

Does Your Path Have Heart? 

Filed Under: Deep Listening, Mindfulness, Positive Change, Self Awareness Tagged With: self-awareness, Spiritual Expansion, transformational thinking

 Make Work Your Offering 

May 24, 2018 By Cara Lumen

Make Work Your Offering
an Inner-World Exploration

For years, I have blessed my work.  I used to put a book blessing in every book. This filled me with the intention to touch hearts and change lives with what I offered. When I was deeply into Reiki, I energetically put symbols on every piece of paper I passed along in the various offices I worked in. Now I do a physical blessing over each idea I share, whether it’s in the form of an email, a post, a newsletter, a podcast, a video or a book. I add a blessing for deep service to each offering. 

I enter my day mindfully with the intention to serve. However, recently I came across the idea of seeing my work itself as an offering and this expanded both my thinking and my experience of doing the work.

My job is to make the offering. That’s it.  Put it out there.  Share light. Make my ideas and insights as clear as I can and let them sail forth into the web of life, and land where they land.  

I’ll probably never know the lives I touch. My job is just to make the offering.  

What qualities do I put into my work?

If I see my work as an offering, what do I offer?  What do I bring to this work?  What am I giving of myself?

I get excited about what I do and always bring a great deal of passion for the ideas I write about.  I bring my skill as a writer and that gift keeps evolving and improving.  And I bring my best self to my work, the most curious, enthusiastic, exploratory, mind-mapping discoverer self I can provide. 

My job is simply to make the offering. That of my readers, my audience, is to do with it what they will.

I just do the very best I can in the present moment.  Then release it. All I need to do is focus on selecting the concepts to share, decide what form to share it in, and make certain I complete projects so I get them out the door.  My focus is on choosing the most impactful topics to share, and on creating thoughtful offerings.  

If my job is just to share, does that let me off the hook as far as promoting?

I wish it did, but as I have to make it easy for people to find me, I have to make my work readily and effectively available.  I can make certain my words of introduction are inviting and supportive.  And I can trust the energy created in my focused intention to the work to call out to those who need to find it.  

What is the intention of your work?

Spend some time identifying the intention you have for your work. Mine has organically shifted from helping people increase their self-awareness – which I have done for years – into exploring and promoting spiritual expansion in several forms and encouraging people to creatively deepen their spiritual practice.  

I gave myself permission to move into deep philosophical exploration and to trust that those who were called will follow me.  I do the work that calls to me and send it out into the world. My intention is to make people think about their spiritual life, the form of their spiritual expression, in creative ways they can actively and effectively apply to their daily lives. 

What’s the intention of your work? Are you meeting that intention?

Share your offering with a strong heart

The deeper I move into my own spiritual understanding, the more my personal passion deepens, my heart becomes more inclusive, and my need and desire to share what I learn and how I’ve figured out how to apply it expands.  

My calling is so deep and urgent and clear to me even when it shifts and changes directions that all I know to do is to follow the calling, explore it, explain it and put it out there, trusting and knowing it touches the hearts of those who need it and are ready for it. 

Honor your process of creating

Sometimes it feels like I’m re-writing an article forever. There comes a stage when I know I have no more to offer at this point in time from this frame of consciousness, and then I release it.  That effort, that ever-deepening exploration, is simply an integral part of the love in the gift I finally share. Then I surrender my work to the web of life and let it go where it may, and create change where it’s called to do so. My work becomes my offering. 

Be at peace with what happens

Sometimes we can tell how our work impacts others.  For instance, people may buy a lot of what we offer. But for me, as a writer, putting out esoteric ideas, the actual consumption and application of my work is a bit trickier to measure.  So I have to trust.  Trust that the people who need to hear what I offer do find it. That those who read it add the ideas to their lives in ways that are best for them.  

And the primary way I have a clue as to the effect of my work is the open rate on my posts and newsletter, which really only gives me numbers. What people do after they open my post is unknown to me.  Do they read it?  Do they apply it?  Does it change them?  I have to trust that the ideas I share are reaching the hearts that need them. Is your work offering intangibles?  How do you measure it?  How do you know how well it is in service?

In one of my shamanic journeys, I was given the image of a carillon, a bell tower, sending my notes out over the countryside, never knowing who heard my melodies and how it affected their lives.  We just keep playing our songs.  

What heart offerings are you receiving?

One of the ways to measure the effect of an offering is how it affects your heart. Look at the people who touch you and look closely to see why.  It can be a newsletter, a webinar, a video, a personal email, a book, a podcast, a conversation. Who has offered ideas that changed your life? When you receive those ideas, do you put them to work to create a positive shift in your life? How excited were you to ,have those new doors opened for you? Those are heart offerings and you are to offer your heart offering through your work.

What emotion do you consciously put into your work?

I often sprinkle my writing with a sense of humor and a bit of wise-cracking.  I fill my work generously with the passion and excitement I feel for what I’ve discovered or figured out or learned.  Now I’m going to make certain that with every article or book I share, I send it out as an offering with my deepest respect and love.  

There will be a conscious blessing of each offering before I press “publish.”

Bless the work that feels mundane

You may be faced with repetitive tasks in your work, doing the same thing over and over.  It would be easy to dismiss that work, to see it as not interesting or not adding to the overall value. But when you see each task as adding to the sacredness of the whole offering, it makes a difference. What would happen if each Amazon employee blessed every box that crossed their paths!  What would happen if the person mowing the yard blessed every blade of grass and the earth and planet beneath it?  

Bless the small things

I can feel gratitude for the skilled minds and hands that made my computer, which makes so much of my work possible. I can feel gratitude for my typing teacher in high school 70 years ago. I can bless the staff here with gratitude for the care they give this senior center.  

Look around at the small things you can bless and offer your gratitude for their offerings.  They offer support for you on your own journey and have an impact on the offerings you consequently share.  Bless your own work deeply and broadly and be aware of all the support you get in order to make your offering. 

Feel the sacredness of your work

Everything we do sends out a ripple that affects our interconnected web of life. Your thoughts, your actions, your beliefs, your intentions. All affect the whole. 

We have each been given gifts, unique gifts that make everything we do a sacred offering.  Know that.  Feel that.  Experience the sacredness of the offering of everything you do.

Sacred work is when you set about to make an offering, gather your gifts and talents and wrap them in an intention of goodness for others.  

Know your work is sacred.  Know the work of others is sacred. Feel it.  Know it. Experience it.  Absorb the sacred offerings that come to you. Send forth your offering as the sacred gift it is. 

Be at peace with what happens 

Do your work.  Follow your calling. Use your gifts well. And be at peace with what happens.  Your job is to make the offering.

To Sing a Deeper Song, consider:

The Power of Being Different 

How You See Yourself, You Are 

Do Things from the Soul 

Does Your Path Have Heart?

What are the Foundations Stones Upon Which Your Build Your Life

Filed Under: Our Luminous Legacy, Self Transformation, Spiritual Expansion Tagged With: self-awareness, Spiritual Expansion, transformational thinking

Have You Raised Your Sails?

April 17, 2018 By Cara Lumen

Have You Raised Your Sails?

“The winds of grace are always blowing, but we must raise our sails.”
– Sri Ramakrishna.

It’s so simple. Just raise your sails. Catch the winds of change.  Accept the opportunities and lessons that cross your path. Walk through the doors that open. Go exploring. Let the new path expand your awareness of the myriad of possibilities that await. 

Look around. Feel.  What is calling to you?  What tugs at your heart?  Learn to interpret the messages of your intuition.  

Follow them and lift your sails.

More Deep Listening:

Does Your Path Have a Heart? 

What Wave Are You Riding? 

Build on the Distance You Have Come 

Join the Circle of Light Beings 

 How Modern Mysticism Will Save the World 

Foundation For The Journey Within – Create Your Sacred Garden

Filed Under: Deep Listening, Positive Change, Self Transformation, Spiritual Expansion Tagged With: change, Spiritual Expansion, transformational thinking

Discover Your Spiritual Heart

March 14, 2018 By Cara Lumen

OUR LUMINOUS LEGACY

What is your spiritual heart?  Where is it?  What makes it different from your human heart?  Most of all, how do I access it?

Our spiritual heart begins in the Emptiness That Holds Everything. It is our source heart, our universal heart. It’s our collective heart.

It’s our source heart.  Our connected heart, our Universal Heart. We must learn to live from it.  We must learn to think from it. We must learn to be it.

When you leave behind the limitations of your body suit, your physical ego, you become your spiritual heart.

Energy is all there is

Everything is energy – our bodies, our thoughts, our world – they’re all molecules of energy that form different shapes that perform different functions.  Our spiritual heart is at our core.  It’s the radiant light within us, the core of our being, the source of our inner world.

Our physical heart is our ego heart, our body suit heart.  It’s restricted and small and egocentric. It’s not the heart we want to use to guide our life because it limits us.  It limits our vision. It limits our understanding.

When I use my universal heart, my spiritual heart, I see everyone and everything as radiant light. That’s all. Radiant light. There’s no physical plane manifestation of disagreement or anger. Even the separateness created by the positive human emotions of compassion and empathy are absorbed into one radiant energy by the spiritual heart.  The spiritual heart takes us beyond all feelings of being separate, of being individual, of being alone. The spiritual heart sees everything as radiant light. One light. It’s me. It’s you. It’s all there is.

When I use my spiritual heart to see everything as light, all discord disappears. That’s how much power it has when we use it. From our Spiritual Heart, we see others as light. We see only light. We feel and see ourselves as only light. Radiant light is all there is.

When you begin to reach out to another person, do so from your spiritual heart. Not your ego heart, not your human heart. Connect from your spiritual heart where you are light and they are light. Where you see only light.

I picture my spiritual heart behind my body suit heart. It radiates throughout my entire body. It radiates from me, around me. It’s all I am.

It has no ego.  It has no feelings of separateness or being less-than, or unworthy, or any of the human beliefs that seem to crop up. Our spiritual heart sees only perfection. And oneness.

My spiritual heart is not romantic, it’s inclusive – of all.  My spiritual heart is not what makes my body work, my physical heart does that. My spiritual heart is the power behind the beating of my physical heart. It will remain when my physical heart ceases its work.

There’s no “me” in my spiritual heart, there’s only “we,” or better yet, “one”.

My spiritual heart is timeless

My spiritual heart holds my passion, my desire to serve, my feeling of unity with all.  It’s expansive and it’s forever.

When we move from the limitations of our body suit, we see that our spiritual heart never stops.  It does not stop when our body suit does. It’s not an organ, it’s a light center of peace and serenity, of oneness and unconditional love.  It is our Forever Heart.

The spiritual heart is expansive

That spiritual heart is in everything, every animal, every plant, every wisp of air, every mountain, every body of water.  The spiritual heart is a luminous energy that surrounds us, embraces us, that is us.

The spiritual heart is inclusive

The spiritual heart includes all there is. As a human in a body suit, I may have to work at using my spiritual heart because it’s inclusive – inclusive of everyone and everything, a feat I can only occasionally accomplish as a human.  That means I need to practice coming from my spiritual heart. I must shine my inner light brighter and stronger and longer so that anyone who is searching can see my ray of light and bring it into their own heart. What they do with it then is their choice.  But my light, and that of others like me, will always be there for guidance.  And hope.

Live from your spiritual heart

It takes practice to come from your spiritual heart. It takes focus.  It begins with simply being aware that you have a spiritual heart. Then consciously connect with your spiritual heart, every day. Every moment. See the world and the plants and the animals and all the people in your life as light. Because that’s what they are. Radiant light.

Can you do that? Can you move out of your human heart, your body suit heart, into your radiant spiritual heart?  Your life will change when you do.

Spiritual light is formless energy.

Spiritual light is who you are.

Live in your Spiritual Heart.

You are your spiritual heart

Your spiritual heart is not governed by your head or your body suit heart.  Your spiritual heart is simply who you are – light, radiant light, a being of light. All you need to do is to stay conscious of that.

When I come across a physical plane imbalance, I lift it up into my spiritual heart and see it as only light – whether it’s a person or a circumstance or… anything that’s body suit based.  Lift it.  Lift it out of its physical plane and see only its essence, its light, its radiance.

And know that all is one.  There is no separate me or you. We are one with everything.  Only one. Only one light energy. Always.

Live your life from your spiritual heart.

Expand your spiritual heart

In a quiet place, every day, sit with your spiritual heart.  Feel it.  Let it radiate into your body until you are filled with light.  Let it move into the room where you are, to the land around you, the community where you live and … you get the picture – sit there and shine and shine and shine, allowing your light to increase, to become stronger and more far-reaching.  Every day.  Practice radiating.  Practice shining the light of your spiritual heart out into your world.

It will join with other conscious light beings to deepen and broaden the spiritual light that comes from spiritual hearts who are radiating through the world.

Be light.  You are light.  Radiate it out to share with the world.

Our Luminous Legacy

Unleash The Power of Your Inner Garden

How to be Nothing

How Modern Mysticism Will Save the World 

Live in the Center of Your Being

What Is The Foundation Upon Which You Build Your Life? 

We Are Responsible

Filed Under: Our Luminous Legacy, Self Transformation, Spiritual Heart Tagged With: self-awareness, Spiritual Expansion, transformational thinking

Walk with the Wind

August 9, 2020 By Cara Lumen

Walk with the Wind

Deeper Song Insights and Applications

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

It’s much harder to walk against the wind than with it.  As long as it takes you in the direction you want to go.  In sailing, there is a technique called tacking, in which in order to go forward you must zig-zag, tack your sails in order to gradually go forward. Unless of course, you have the wind at your back. Then it is full sails ahead.  

Let’s tale about zig-zagging to catch the wind to keep going in the direction you have chosen.   

I zig and zag a lot because I love to learn, so I eagerly sign up for online class and immerse myself in the learning until I emerge with a new skill level. So learning new skills is part of walking with the wind at my back.  

The wind blows in new insights, a new awareness that makes us have to rethink our beliefs, our values, and our behavior.  In today’s world, we are being asked to raise our sights and raise our vibration and aspire to a higher purpose.  What wind will get you there?  What wind do you need to catch?

The Wind of Opportunity is interesting.  What has shown up to nudge you, to tempt you’ to invite you?

My new emphasis on podcasts is bringing new people into the Deeper Song Community. As much as I want to sail into deeper waters, I need to balance that desire with information that allows people to learn how to figure out there destinations and learn how to set their sails to get there. 

The path to “there” is seldom a straight one.  But we do need to keep an eye on our desired destination. 

What if you are becalmed if no wind seems to be coming your way?

Use that time to change our course, to explore possible new destinations and see how they resonate with where you are and where you want to be.  

You may have veto walk into the wind.  Just do it.  Just lower your shoulders and keep walking with all the determination you can muster.   Periodically check to make certain you are going in the right direction.  Change course slightly or a lot depending on how things are going. 

Walk with the wind.  Raise your sails and enjoy the ride!

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am prepared to allow the wind to move into deeper service.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Where do you have the wind at your back in your life right now?
  • Where in your life are you walking against the wind?
  • Where do you want ho go?
  • Shift your sails to take advantage of the winds of change.

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MY DEEPER SONG THIS WEEK

Stand Steady in Your Own Truth

An Exploration of the Unseen World

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

I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am a  cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

Thank you for being a part of this journey.

In this episode, we consider how we can stand steady in our own truth.

(Listen here)

(With Transcript)

Listen to
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on 

Apple / Spotify /Google

Deeper song.com

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Inner Work

WHAT IS THE HIGHEST CALLING OF YOUR HEART?

John Lewis asked us to “answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe.” 

I  had to stop to look at what the highest calling of my heart is. 

I care deeply about the well-being of animals.  I’m a vegan.  I cannot watch the heart-wrenching ads of mistreated animals that ask us to give money to the shelters. 

The state of negativity in humanity feels overwhelming to me.  I want there to be peace and compassion and I continue to look for energetic ways to help that evolve.  

The highest calling of my heart – what is it.  I know where my head is taking me, I know what experiences make my heart sing.  They are all inner world work, inner wold lessons, inner world guidance.  My heart is calling me within and I wonder at my role in the “without.”

I can hold High Watch for the Planet (How to Hold High Watch for the Planet.) I can send energy to situations and people.  But most of all I can work to raise my vibration and hold my light high so others can see it and recognize it in themselves.  

Finding the highest calling of our hearts requires us to do some introspection.  What is important?  Who is important? What is our role?

On one level I know my highest calling is to explore the Unseen World and bring back the insights I am given. 

All I know to do I to move more deeply within and listen with an open heart.   Perhaps I am in fact, doing the highest calling of my heart

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Outer Work

ARE YOU IN YOUR OWN HUSTLE?

On “The view”, Carrie Washington said she was “In her own hustle.”  She had just won four Emmys for producing and directing.  I had never heard the term hustle used that way but it’s a fun one.  I stopped to think what my hustle was and if by any chance I was in it.

Alignment came to mind as a key component to hustle.  Alignment with what you believe, where your passion is and the skill sets you have to create it.  

That’s a lot of criteria.  

Conscious choices are another important element to a hustle. There are many opportunities to make a difference in this changing world.  What criteria are you using to chart your path?  A year ago I thought I would go more deeply into sound healing.  Raising your vibration is huge but sound healing is just one approach that I incorporate. It is only a step in my overarching goal to explore the Unseen World.

Passion is the fuel of a hustle.  My core passion is to learn.  So my job is to make certain my passion is aligned with what allows me to serve where I am called to serve, with the gifts I am to offer, as well prepared as I can make them. 

What skill sets do you use in your hustle? Begin with the skills you know you have and expand those.  I’m a really good organizer so at the core of what I do is to organize ideas in a meaningful and impactful manner so others can absorb them.  

Hustle means to “move unceremoniously in a specific direction.”  Love that.  Unceremoniously. Just doing it.  Just knowing it is yours to do and going for it.  

What is calling to you that you need to answer?  Listen and you will hear.  Then go do it.  How will you “get into your own hustle”?

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YOUR SACRED LIVELIHOOD

Sacred Livelihood.  It’s a phrase I heard recently and it repositions how I think of “work.”We have each been given unique gifts with which to earn our sacred livelihood.  

“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.” – Kahlil Gibran

Do you work with joy?  Joy at what you do? Joy with the whole world?  Joy for who you serve?

Since we currently seem to be offered an opportunity to rethink our sacred livelihood and reposition ourselves, how do you want to make your love visible?

Creating podcasts instead of posts has upped how I feel about my work. I love my work and I love it even more with the podcast format.  I have a blessing I say before recording, a blessing before editing, and a blessing before posting it, each with the intent of lifting spirits and deepening awareness of those who hear its.  And then I let it go — as vibration into the world. It is freeing and I trust those who are to hear will find it. 

The work is the same, the different form has made a difference in how I feel about its reach. 

Do you simply need to change the form of your work in order to experience it as sacred?

A person with a strong musical background may turn to be a sound healer.  I have turned to my native flutes and drums to heal myself and the world. 

What gifts do you have you might choose to repurpose?

A hobby may turn into a sacred livelihood.  I write really unusual poems but they deeply touch my heart and move me forward. 

I have often found myself far down a path because I want to know more about it for myself. 

Sacred Livelihood.  Think on that.  What is your sacred livelihood?

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THE DEEP COMPLIMENT

A new member of the Deeper Song Community gave me a deep compliment.  In fact, she gave me several.  And they were important in that they give me insights into why my work was valuable to her How it was in service.  That’s what I mean by a Deep Compliment.  

Everyone appreciates a comment on their work because when it is detailed it lets them know what is resonating and helps them do a better job of meeting the needs of the people they serve.  

For instance, this new friend said she was going to keep reading back over my past posts.  So I have added a new Curated Post/Podcast section to this newsletter to bring forward some of the topics I have already explored that are needed when people are in earlier stages of this work.

A few friends sent me specific, positive comments when I started doing podcasts again that not only encouraged me but helped me make podcasts a larger part of my offerings. 

See how this works – a deep compliment tells the recipient why they made a difference or how.  

And even if you think that a well-known person has heard it before, say it anyway.  She/he will look for and listen to growing needs or what is working and do more of that.  You serve as a running fork we/they can tune our offering to.

Who will you offer a deep compliment to this week?

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CHANGE AND THE POWER OF YOUR INNER VOICE

We are constantly changing, constantly needing to make aware choices.  The easiest way to do that is to build up your relationship with your inner voice, that inner guide who sees and knows more than your planetary being does and can guide you.  

It may begin as a knowing, intuition, or even s distinct word. The more you listen the more you hear. 

As I move more deeply into the direction I am going and use podcasts to deliver them my inner voice is practically dancing a jig!  It is flooding me with ideas and insights to explore and share.  

When you are on the right track, all sorts of powerful inner help shows up 

Listen to your inner voice.  It will guide you on what you are to do and what you are to leave behind.  The more you listen the more you hear. 

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NURTURE THE STILLNESS IN YOUR LIFE

That was the message in a shamanic journey I took this week – Nurture the Stillness in your life.  Now I’m a woman with a very active mind so the idea of stillness made me stop – and well – think. When do I experience stillness?  Where do I experience stillness? If I want more stillness how do I make room for that? How do I invite it in?

I had more questions than answers.  But I’ve been thinking about what I can do to cultivate more stillness in my life. 

It has to do with being present.  I play my flutes in response to the moment of the branches on the weeping birch tree outside my window.  I play to the setting sun reflecting on its trunk. Each morning I open my window and play to – the world.  I could surround that with more stillness – before beginning, and after completing it.  I think it is going to ask me to do some deep listening. 

I could create a definite pause for stilling in my spiritual practice I am trying to establish each afternoon.  Tt would include transcendental meditation, perhaps a ceremony or ritual I make up to honor the day so far, or what I have done in the way of creating a new offering or…there are many possibilities  I just need to do it. 

I have a podcast script in progress about the still point. It is a process so perhaps I will record that next. The still point is the gateway to the unseen world.  What kind of ceremony or spiritual time, or meditative practice can I create and put into place that will encourage me to move into stillness for a period each day? 

I know it will be very healing. What will you choose to do? 

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OUR EVOLVING FUTURE

There are 500 people in my flute class from all over the world.  There are 300 people from all over the world in my shamanic circle class.  I don’t know many of them, in fact very few, but we are drawn together in a common pursuit, a common interest. And we cover the planet with our raised vibration.  

That’s how the world is going to change – people of like raised vibration finding each other online and raising our vibration together.  

I have many sacred surfaces in my home.  One of them holds a statue of Quan Yin, pouring the waters of compassion over the wold. At her feet is my soft hug-a-planet. She is in place day and night blessing the world.

I have three Quan Ying statues and five Buddha statues.  It would be good if I gave each of them a purpose, a task if you will, to help heal the world  I’ll have to think about that.  

I continually work to increase my vibration and send it out every day. In a journey I was told to offer a healing ceremony to the land I live on and that it would radiate forward and backward to heal the future and the past.   I am doing that. 

Pick a few actions that appeal to you, that call to you and put them regularly in our life.  Periodically change and rearrange them  Perhaps at the Solstice and Equinox, reevaluate what you are doing and how it’s working.

The key is to notice the changes your actions are creating in your and select what you want to continue.

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DO IT ENOUGH TO OWN IT

Last year when I spent a lot of hours on The Shift Network Sound Healing Summit. I bought tuning forks and I used them for a while.  Then I stopped. I go them from Dr. John Beaulieu biosonics.com and in this year’s summit, he said we only need two tuning forks – the C and the G and we are to use them several times a day. I also had gotten the Otto Tuner to address acupressure positions. I moved my turning forks closer to the chair that I will use them in.  He said intention is very important.  So I have begun a more focused healing effort with my tuning forks. 

I have to find time for all of this.  I keep leaving things behind and I don’t want to lose them. I also want to give myself time to experience the results.  I’m looking at 4 PM to play my drums, dance to some music I found, play my flutes, and do the Transcendental Meditation I want to return to. 

What do you want to bring back into your spiritual practice and where will you put it in your day?

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FOUNDATIONAL INSIGHTS FROM THE PAST

New Feature: A short curation of posts and podcasts from the past:

STAND IN YOUR LIGHT

Follow Your Personal Drumbeat 

Build on the Distance You Have Come 

Does Your Path Have a Heart? 

Start Where You Stand

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CARA’S CORNER

KNOW YOUR CALLING

They all called to me at the time.  But I have so many varieties of instruments that some sit neglected. It would have been good if I had been more discerning. However, they excited me at the time and they all served a purpose.  I got out my small Tibetan Singing Bowl l after hearing a singing bowl master speak on the Healing Sound Summit.  It spoke eloquently to me and I was grateful for its presence.  As did the Tingsha (cymbals) w which I was using each day with the intention to clear and protect my home. 

Now I’m sitting here at my desk surrounded by crystals and flutes and gong and stained glass suncatchers hanging int he window and a whole range of items nearby I used to use more regularly.  I have to make room to explore those wondrous gifts more regular  

Every speaker I heard talked about how vibration affects our bodies.  We are made up of a lot of water, so just as a light breeze makes ripples in the waters and storms make huge waves, we, through the use of vibration, have a way to balance and heal our bodies.  

Is there a sound that calls to you? Is there e rhythm that resonated? How do you feel after singing those tones, those rhythms, those sounds?   Notice and keep exploring the ones that resonate more. 

Notice how our body feels after you use a sound instrument.  Whether it is a drum, or a penny whistle or pan flute, notice where it resonates in your boat and how your body feels when you stop.  I realize that as I write this I am tingling all ower.  Today I had a flute class, I got out my tuning forks again, and I played my Timgsha and my Himalayan bowl.   Tomorrow will be the drums.  

You don’t need to be a full orchestra.  Listen to the sounds of instruments and notice what resonates.  I have a Kalimba Thumb Piano that I use every day.  It is an incredibly soothing way to start m day.   If you have a collection of sound friends, send some time with each one and ask how it wants to be in service.  Then do that.

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A DEEPER SONG

“Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere.”  – Rumi

Keep singing a deeper song.

Namaste,

Cara

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