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Raise Your Consciousness

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Raise Your Consciousness

Creating Conscious Connection

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

What is our role? How do we help? We each have our own expression of self from which to participate in elevating the changes that are going on in the world. It’s not just about intention. We each have a role. 

What do we do with our intention, with our insights, with our understanding, with our focus, with our deeds? How do we serve in the world to raise the collective consciousness?

We can change by changing our focus, by changing our beliefs, and we can change by making choices that continue to align with what we see as our higher purpose. We will serve at different levels. Some people will do the hands-on work. Others will do the introspective, intentional work. I’m one of the latter. I haven’t exactly decided what to do with my role. I can do visualization work, I can journey to the future and ask for guidance, I can send positive energy to all of those who are working to become more aware of their own higher vibration. I can write about it. I can talk about it. I have no idea whose life I might change or how I might change it. I keep listening to my inner voice, my cosmic guidance and move forward from there. My role evolves with  insights from my own introspection.

Introspection is a good place to begin to raise your consciousness. What do you believe is possible? What do you see as your role? What new roles are opening up that you are to consider and perhaps explore? Know your most effective place of service. Know what you can and cannot do and know what you are and are not to do. Listen to your inner voice. 

A long time ago I understood that my role was to work with people who were already flying high and whatever I added to their awareness helped them fly higher and reach more people. That’s who I serve. Who do you serve?

Don’t let the evolving drama pull you off course. This is a time of perpetual change. But it is not a time of giving up. It is the time of repositioning. It is the time of exploring totally new possibilities. And it is the time for making new, conscious, aware choices that elevate the world around us, the world we live in and a time to make choices that elevate our own life experience.

A great deal of movement comes when we examine what we believe is possible. That’s interesting because there are so many unexpected and innovative discoveries and inventions that are opening up pathways we never knew existed because we were not aware of their existence until now. So much more is possible today than it was yesterday. 

So we explore. We try on new choices to see how they feel. We take exploratory forays down the various new pathways that show up and we see what resonates and what is possible. I think we have to stay in exploration mode for quite a while because the change is going to continue to be rapid and dramatic. So don’t picture yourself tucking into your corner of the world quite yet. Picture yourself in a test kitchen tasting all the dishes that are being prepared. To see how you like them. To see what extra flavoring or seasoning should be added. And what should be served on the main menu.

Notice the level of excitement you feel as a new opportunity shows up. It may suddenly feel so in line with all you’ve done in your life that you know this is the right path for now. Or it may feel like you are to explore a bit and take parts and pieces from that path with you on your journey. For certain, this is a time of exploration and choice. What choices are you making to raise your consciousness? 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I explore the many possibilities that are unfolding around me.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Pay attention to your inner voice and how it responds to all the new possibilities that are currently showing up.  It may be a momentary excitement or it may be deep joy at having found a new path to explore. 
  • Explore the idea. Explore the possibility, the potential, and see where or if you would like it in your life.
  • Then do that.

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===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===

The Field of Opportunity

An Exploration of the Unseen World

It was like standing in a garden so filled with organic goodness that I was hard pressed to choose.  This was the Field of Opportunity and I had come here seeking my future.  

Where was I being called? What did I want to do? Had I explored all the opportunities that were being offered? Was I ready for my next step?

My inner voice said, “Be present in the moment and it will be revealed.”

So I stood in my Field of Opportunity and looked at all the possibilities that surrounded me.

In this episode we explore

The Field of Opportunity

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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

The Ongoing Emergence of our Future

Life Lessons from a Spider

Trust Your Inner answers.

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

===INNER WORK===

Redefine Your Place and Depth of Service

Identify a few words that explain how you see your role in the world.  One of my phrases is “Spiritual Philosopher.” But over time, I have come to know it is not only who I want to be but who I am.  

Define yourself beyond your role of parent or spouse or good worker or…  

I consider myself an Explorer of the Unseen World.  I know what my role looks like on the physical plane – that I write newsletters and record podcasts.  But what we are looking for is an over-arching description that raises your sights and your expectations of who you are and who you are becoming. I might consider myself a way-shower, guide, an adventurer, a light being.  You get the idea.  How do you label yourself and is it a broad enough label?  Choose a role that demands that you grow into it.

Do You Go With the Flow?

I have never surfed but as I watch people who do, they skillfully go with the flow. They have to adjust their weight and their position of the board and the direction they are going in order to catch a wave in a certain way so it will carry them forward toward shore. It’s a lesson we need to learn as we move through our lives. We have to become aware of the ebb and flow of the various cycles of our life that are both ongoing and intertwined. So we each have to become aware of where we are on each cycle and what cycle is predominant and is offering urgent choices for the present. There’s a constant sense of being aware of the unfolding situation and a constant awareness of choices to be made in order to get the best “ride” in life. Listen to your inner voice. Be observant of the results of your actions. And constantly reconsider your options. That will help you go with the flow and have a great life journey.

===OUTER WORK===

Does Your Work Make Your Heart Sing?

Your life work is made up of the things you choose to do 

that allow you to express your intelligence, passion, and creativity in accordance with your values, and experience the profound joy of simply being yourself. Unlike traditional work, which may demand more of you than you are willing to give, life’s work demands nothing but your intention and passion for that work.

To identify your life work, you must consider your interests in the present and the passions that moved you in the past. Or there may be a passion you have yet to unfold. If you don’t know where to begin, as your search for purpose, take stock of your strengths, passions, beliefs, and values in your daily meditation. 

 Ask the universe to clarify your life’s work by providing signs. Then be sure to pay attention.  

Since life’s journey is one of evolution, you may need to redefine your direction on multiple occasions throughout your lifetime.  Do what makes your heart sing. Be open.  Be flexible. Be aware. And most of all, be open to change. 

An Absence of Striving

What would it feel like to give up all striving and simply be? Feel that stillness. No striving. Simply being present. I hear more when I quiet my mind. I feel more when I quiet my breath. I go within to my Still Point and listen and experience and simply be. 

There is no staving, no efforting, no concerns.  I exist in simple being-ness.

I will go to my Still Point more often during my days and deepen my sense of tranquility.

Know When You are Full Up

It was tempting. The leader of the class is someone I respect and want to learn from. But I am full up. Full up of learning. Full up at one more step to take. Full of the things I’ve given myself to do. We do this to ourselves. We fill our life, our space, our time and our thoughts all by ourselves. So periodically we need to clean house to stop and sit on the front porch, rock in the swing and listen to the birds singing and the wind blowing. Are you full up? What do you need to let go of? Do that today.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Keep Your Spiritual Practice Fluid

It is very easy to get caught up in routine – even the routine of a spiritual practice.  How can you keep your spiritual practice vital and relevant?

Know when to stop doing something.  I love my Oracle Cards but it is also time to not do them so often.  I have a variety of spiritual practices I can add or modify or adapt. The trick is to make it a choice that is relevant in the moment of the choosing. 

Pay attention to your inner voice, your inner nudges, and act upon them.  I like to play my native flutes to nature but I can be more spontaneous and do it more often – immersing myself in how it feels in the moment. Notice what calls to you to do it differently.  And immerse yourself in the moment.  

Let your spiritual practice be one improvisation after another.  What do you feel like doing?  Do that, how did it feel?  Do more.  Do something else. Explore the new and expand the comfortable.

Change the location.  I found a different location to do my Qigong and it changed how I feel about doing it.  Go out in nature for your spiritual practice. Change chairs.  I have one chair facing toward the window that I sit in each day to greet the day or play the sun down, or watch the storm, or simply be with the day. You may find different times to do to different aspects of your spiritual practice.  Let your body tell you.  Let your inner voice tell you.  Experiment for a while and let your flexible and creative new spiritual practice unfold. 

===MY DEEPER SONG ADVENTURES ===

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===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Stay Open

German Company Makes Concrete to Charge Electric Vehicles From Roads With 95% Efficiency and Low Cost 

Think what that will eliminate – no gas stations, no gas production, no fossil fuel consumption or pollution.  And that’s just one major change from one idea.  We can print 3-D houses in two weeks.  Artificial Intelligence takes over mundane jobs and makes complex jobs easy.  

We have to stay flexible.  We have to stay open to change.  We get to rethink everything we do.  What an opportunity and challenge.  Stay flexible and open to change and new and unexpected opportunities!

What Does It Take to Change Your Mind? 

I watch the world rearrange itself on a dramatic scale. I watch new decisions being made and wonder at the reasoning behind many of them. I watch new discoveries unfold that will change our world. And I begin to think about what it will take to change my mind about anything.

Changing your perspective, changing your mind begins with your focus. What is important to you at this point in your life? As the opportunities unfold, so do the insights. And our position changes.

We have to consider our options. If a person is against taking the Covid virus vaccinations, what does it take for them to change their mind? They have to look closely at the source of their core beliefs. And that’s not always easy to do. Our beliefs can be very sneaky and creep up on us without even knowing that they are anchoring themselves in our lives. We establish our beliefs based on what our parents taught us and what we learn as we respond or react to our life journey.  Our experience contributes to our beliefs. 

What does it take to change your mind? I think we should be in a state of constant questioning. Because the world is changing rapidly. Opportunities are unfolding we never even dreamed of. We need to keep exploring and considering and trying things on for size. We need to be aware of the myriad of inventions and discoveries that make some of our choices obsolete and open ourselves to paths we never dreamed of before. 

Dido you get up every day and ask what direction you are supposed to go in that day? Each day is an opportunity to look closely at what has evolved overnight. What changes have come about in your experience, your thinking, the opportunities that have presented themselves, and how that changes or should change your beliefs and your responses. Stay fluid. Keep observant. And stay open to change.

===CARA’S CORNER===

Be Willing to Change

My recent big lesson is to be willing to change.  That involves a reality check, it involves exploring new options, and it definitely asks you to make new decisions.

Take a reality check.  I have spent a lot of money on my health and now have to ease up on other spending.  My body is shifting for the better but it offers me both new challenges and new choices. I have to actively explore new actions that are now open to me that will support and advance this new strength and flexibility.  Shift your gaze.  Change your options. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Shift

Shift your gaze. 

Shift. Your gaze lands on new perspectives, new possibilities. 

Shift. Your gaze lands on new perspectives, new possibilities. One step forward changes the entire landscape and offers a new view. Explore.

Cara Lumen, September 2021

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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Redefine Yourself in the Changing World

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Redefine Yourself in the Changing World

Creating Conscious Connection

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

How do you prepare  yourself to participate in a world that is changing so rapidly?  There are no guidelines because new paths keep opening up.  What we get to do is go exploring, look closely at what is unfolding, and stay flexible. 

We’ve talked about the who-and-what statement before but because the world is changing so rapidly, it’s time to do it again from a broader perspective. We need to see what new and unexpected opportunities and needs have opened up and how our goals and expectations have changed. Become aware of how your place of service is evolving, see how who you serve has changed, and become aware of what you need to leave behind that is no longer yours to do.  

The operative word here is “change.”  The world is changing.  We need to change too. 

The more chaotic the world, the more I retreat into inner work as my place of service. But what does that look like? What does that do for the world? How do I share it?

In my journey work, I get phrases like: My work is about seeing possibilities, developing potential, and exploring unique combinations.

My current mission is about helping people realize they are higher consciousness, and our mission as Light Bearers is to hold High Watch for the planet and help others recognize the universal light within themselves. 

Our role changes as we change, as we become more aware, more prepared to move forward. And when the time is right, we are shown the next path to take. 

Spend some contemplative time and answer this statement:  I help (people you serve) to do (what you help them do) so that (what they can do because of what you offer/do.)

Start a document on your computer to keep track of the insights you receive about your evolving place of service – how it is unfolding, ideas you are to help it manifest.

I have collected notes from my shamanic journeys that say: 

“My work is about gathering lights together to make a more radiant way of being. My job is to help them realize their own powerful vibration and radiate it out where they are. So we are points of light. We are expanding consciousness.” 

These are simply ideas that have shown up in my own thinking and that call to me. You will find your own messages.  Simply go within and ask for guidance, then listen to the nudges and positive suggestions that show up. Listen and then choose. Our roles are changing. The path grows more specific. The group traveling it are more focused, we are the Circle of Light Beings, the Light Bearers, the guides to the New Humanity.

Do the inner work. Ask what your role is now in this unfolding of the new humanity.  Then go do that.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I listen closely to my inner voice and learn to interpret its messages. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Learn to listen to your inner voice.  It may come as one word, it may come as a feeling, it may come as an unexpected circumstance.  Notice how your inner voice is speaking to you. 
  • Listen.  And learn to interpret. 
  • Take action based upon what you learn and how deeply it calls to you.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Backpack Journey

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

Step Beyond the Limits of Yourself

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

Our Global Deeper Song Community

Our Deeper Song Community extends throughout the planet.  Welcome new Deeper Song Explorers. I’d love to hear of your experiences – caralumen@gmail.com or let’s discuss in the Deeper Song Explorers!

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===

Journey to the Sacred Masculine
and
Journey to the Sacred Feminine

A Deeper Song Adventure

We contain both the sacred masculine and the sacred feminine. It doesn’t make any difference how we have manifested here on earth, they are both within us. And they each play a role. I thought that as an independent woman, I identified more with a sacred masculine, but now I understand that the sacred feminine is creative and inclusive, and eager to share and serve others. We have both the sacred masculine and the sacred feminine within us at all times.

Journey to the Sacred Masculine

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===INNER WORK===

Ode to My Inner Voice 

I love my inner voice. I love how she speaks up. I love how she nudges me. I listen to my inner voice who is within me all the time. Sometimes she gives me just a word but it is a word that I know that I am to build upon and explore and use as an anchor for where I am to go next.

Sometimes my inner voice gives me complete sentences and ideas to share and develop. When I turn to my computer and capture the messages from my inner voice, they can stay floating and etheric or they can get very detailed and instructive.  My inner voice is always inspirational and encouraging. 

My inner voice is very wise.

We are good friends, my inner knowing and I. I am grateful for her guidance. What is your relationship with your inner Voice? How will you deepen it? Be still and listen.  

Heal Your Whole Self

The imbalances that show up in your physical body are signs of an imbalance on two levels, your physical level and your spiritual level. You must work with both in order to bring balance to your human expression – the wholeness that is you. So as I do outward things to balance my physical body, I also have to look within at what beliefs and expectations helped to cause the imbalance. It could be fear. It could be uncertainty. It could be something I brought with me over the channels of time. Do some releasing work around whatever is manifesting out of balance on the physical plane. Release old beliefs. Release old fears. And center yourself in that awareness that we are cosmic consciousness and therefore we are innately whole, perfect, and complete. Make room for your body to align itself with that truth of who you are.

Watch for Emerging New Cycles

We are always somewhere in a cycle. The beginning, the middle, the end. It helps to be aware of that. And it helps to notice when a new cycle has begun. It helps to notice where you are in the changing cycle so you can see the potential and possibilities that are unfolding. A new cycle means it is a time to make new choices. A time to be aware and observant.  It is a time to redirect your path and choose your destination. Do you have a new cycle emerging? Where is it taking you? What are your choices? Are you listening?

Listen with your heart and follow its guidance. 

===OUTER WORK===

Do the Inner Work

As I begin my work to learn Zang Fu Gong from Daily Lee, I am reminded how important intention is. We can use our minds to focus an intention – an intention to release, to clear, to strengthen –  whatever is needed in a particular area of the body.  Directed Intention.  Let’s call it Directed Intention.  I have just finished reviewing one of Daisy’s classes as I write this and my whole body is tingling with Qi energy. Bear in mind, I cannot stand up straight at this point in time but I worked with the Qigon movements I was being shown and as I sit here writing this, my whole body is tingling.  And for all practical purposes I waved my arms around a bit and shifted my weight and my focus but the intentions were powerful.  Images of bringing up energy from the Earth. Images of bringing down energy from our Soul Star, Images to release and clear and increase strength.  Our mind is very powerful. Use your mind to send a specific intention into a specific area of your body.  Have those intentions be to release blockages, clear the energy meridians in that area of your body, strengthen your physical structure – all with the focus of your mind and a few intentional hand movements.  Focus the Qi energy within your body wherever it is needed. However it is to be used. Bring the resources of Gaia and your Soul Star into your body and direct them where they are needed. However they are to be used. Learn to interpret the energy flow of your body and use your intention to direct balancing Qi wherever it is needed.  

You focus energy with intention. Let the Qi do the work. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Ceremony As Mindfulness

I’m working on a podcast script about ceremony because I would like to understand the basic elements and also make some choices about adding more ceremony into my life. I’m looking for simple and easy things to do. Recently I drew “ceremony” in the oracle cards I made for myself and in the course of examining that concept, I realize that ceremony is mindfulness. So even the shortest pause, the shortest aware pause to acknowledge and reflect and accept is ceremony. What does that awareness change for you?

Pause to Listen

If you stop what you’re doing right now and close your eyes and take a relaxing breath and listen, you will hear the heartbeat of the universe. In the stillness is everything. In the stillness are the answers. In the stillness are the insights. In the stillness is a certainty and clarity about next steps. I call it our Still Point. Move to your Still Point to immerse yourself in the sacredness of the moment. Pause to listen and feel and experience and choose. Pause to listen.

===DISCOVERIES ===

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===MY DEEPER SONG  ADVENTURES ===

Self-Healing – Do the Work

I am studying with two sources who are teaching me how we can heal and balance our bodies by moving Qui.  My body is sort of a mess with major realignment going on that makes most of my body muscles hurt.  I am taking Daisy Lee’s Zeng Fu Gong Form of Qigong and it is powerful.  (Qigong to Renew & Rejuvenate Whole-body Health Discover the Zeng Fu Gong Form to Boost Energy and Release Stress for a Balanced, Joyful life.)

These gentle moves began to immediately release and realign my body. I can do it even in my muscularly jumbled state and it is effective.  

I am also taking a free class with Deng, Ming–Dao on The Circle of Qi, The Tao of Energy that is giving me clarity and ideas on the power of Qui and how I can use it to re-balance my body. You can contact him to join the free class at facebook.com/dengmingdao His site is www.Dengmingdao.com

My exploration for ways to self-heal continues. I’m on the right path working with the Chi energy for self -healing and balance.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Get Pro-Active in Creating Your Future

“Intentional change comes from imagining your future,” says Brian Clark in How to Create Your Future Self and I paused to see how I was doing.  

I’m not going to die any time soon but I am 88 and have begun to re-read Michael Harner’s books on life between lives.  

My body is in a process of change and I’m doing things to make it stronger and more aligned but the range of my future activities are pretty much based on how I help my body get back on track. 

But here’s the concept that interested me: “Step one is to accept that you have to proactively create the future self you want.

Just remember that the person on your current path is not the person you were before, and keep your vision for the next version of yourself top of mind.”

What steps am I taking to proactively create my future self?  I listen to my inner wisdom and go exploring where it takes me.  I am conscious of the new understanding that is being taught to me and I build on what I learn.  I am aware of the changing world, concerned about it, and have begun to define my place of service – my work as a transformational leader, holding High Watch for the planet and also holding a light up to show others how to live in their natural state of Cosmic Oneness. And of course, we teach to learn…

This step forward brings me back to the concept that we get what we believe we deserve and what we believe is possible.  I get to work on that – particularly the part of me that is possible physically.  Bummer.

What do you want your future to look like? The pandemic has opened up a whole new world of work-from-home opportunities that offers more freedom. Technology makes things possible that were not even thought of a few years ago.  So part of imagining our future self is limited because the new inventions and discoveries and choices are unfolding. 

I’m going to keep exploring and trying out some of the new ideas and possibilities that keep showing up to see how they feel for this stage of my life and if they will take me where I want to go. 

Stay open. Be curious. And keep exploring. 

Read How to Create Your Future Self by Brian Clark. 

Free Yourself from Habit

I have been playing specific songs each day with my flutes as part of my morning meditation.  They are songs I made up when I was drumming to the elements and other aspects of my life.  

Until one day I didn’t.  I stopped my routine, picked up my double flute, and began to improvise to nature.  And it was and is beautiful. And freeing. And inspiring.  And motivating. 

What have you been doing out of mindless habit that could be changed into a new adventure?

Where Are You Being Called to Serve? 

“These times they a changing” and we need to change with them. (See Bob Dylan’s song of the ’60s ) So what does that mean to the work you do? What are you offering? How do you spend your time? Who you spend your time with? Where are you being called to serve now?

When we look closely at all that we have to offer, we realize some skills we have, some things we offered are no longer needed.  Some of what is no longer relevant or we no longer want to do. And there are new ideas flowing in that need for room to grow. 

We have to choose. Given this new stage and age, given the circumstances of your life, given where you want to go next, what do you want to do create and offer next?

I have a new direction calling me and now I’m watching my focus shift and intensify. There are topics I will no longer address. There are portals I have yet to open. So my work has to be fluid. It has to be flexible and open. And I have to listen to the voice within. 

What do you love to do most at this point in your life? What is the most lucrative thing that you do, and what is the most lucrative and the least time-consuming thing that you do? What do you love to do? What do you want to learn? Who you want to serve? What are you being called upon to do from your inner wisdom? And which of your many gifts do you want to use at this point in time? 

How are you to change? What is your inner world telling you to do next? How are you preparing for it? Listen and choose with awareness. 

=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

Formation 

What is forming in your life right now? How are you assisting it in evolving into its most effective place of service?

Formation is a flowing process. It is an evolutionary process. It is allowing something to unfold and to paying attention as it does. Formation is about noticing the signs and the signals, and the shapes that are forming – pay attention to the gradual and unique formation of your unfolding offerings.

Your work, your focus is constantly forming. It shapes and reshapes itself to accommodate what it encounters. Open your heart and let your “next” form from your center. Let it bring with it all you need to know and all you need to give.  

What is currently forming is the expression of your inner being as it takes shape so you can share it with the world.  What is forming?  Clarity, insights, specific steps, new directions? All the formation of our life to change and support it in its natural ebb and flow. Embrace change and allow your life to move into a new formation. 

Sacred Earth Cards

Motion 

Motion is the movement of constant change.  Be open to the flow. Be aware of the fluidity of opportunities that invite you to change. Listen, feel, observe. Bring all that into your awareness and contemplation of the ongoing motion that is your life.  Conscious thoughtful actions steadily guided by your inner wisdom. Stillness.  Moving to your Still Point before beginning any action.  Life is steady motion, we are to be in thoughtful, mindful awareness of the choices that are offered and the thoughtful, intentional choices we make.  We are aware of the motion of high vibration – of higher consciousness, of higher purpose.  I am in motion today for the higher good.

Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER===

Shift Your Focus – Raise Your Gaze

The more chaotic and self-destructive the planet becomes, the more I retreat.  A higher path has opened up and it is getting wider and more clear.  Not everyone will see it or choose it.  Bu t I’m on the higher path and plan to stay on it. 

In my version of being on a higher path, I work to not be pulled down into the negativity of politics and harmful chaos and negative thinking that is so prevalent on our planet. I can only do that by avoiding it, by not focusing on it or even thinking about it. I’m on a higher path and plan to stay on it.

My focus has changed and I’m working to keep it there.  I’m very aware of those of us who are moving into this role of Light Bearer who, among other things, help others recognize their own light within and step into it as their main path.  Not everyone will see this alternate path and that has to be Ok.  There is so much going on that is negative that I have to make conscious steps not to absorb any of it. I work to keep my sight raised to the unfolding path that leads me to a higher, more positive, more purposeful energy that I can function in and learn from and grow in.  I’m not leaving the planet yet, but I am exploring the unseen world.

Do not be pulled down or sucked in by the negative energy, the discord and wrong-doing that is so prevalent on earth today.  That is not where I am participating.  That is not where I am being called to serve.  My role is to keep my light focused on this higher path and help light the way for those of us who are on this higher journey. I keep my sight raised. And I hold high expectations of what is possible for those of us who are taking this higher road.

=My Deeper Song=

The Higher Path

I step upon the higher path and my footsteps lighten. 

I step upon the higher path. My footsteps lighten. I feel the compelling and supportive harmony that emanates from those on the path beside me.

I step upon the higher path. My footsteps lighten. I feel the compelling and supportive harmony that emanates form those on the path beside me.  I shine.  We shine.  We are Light Bears leading the way to a new reality. 

– Cara Lumen July, 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help spiritual adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and turn to share our discoveries with others.  We are guides and way-showers with our light held high.

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Heart Lessons from a Soul Star

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 Heart Lessons from a Soul Star

An Exploration of the Unseen World

The concept of having your own personal Soul Star is amazing and reassuring. One star, for your soul, watching over you, guiding you, here to answer your questions. 

I asked.  I received answers that apply to any or all of us who walk this path of light and desire to serve our planet as she moves through these dramatic changes.  I share my experience in order to encourage you to go meet your own Soul Star.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is 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. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

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Heart Lessons from a Soul Star

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Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

The Space of Inner Knowing

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What are Your Beliefs about Your Future?

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What ae Your Beliefs about Your Future?

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

Our beliefs create our life experience so it is impotent that you and I look carefully at what we believe is in the process of evolving, where we think we are going to fit in, and what it will look like because of our thinking and our expectation. Our beliefs have the power to change the trajectory of our future.

In my Shamanic Circle with Hank Wesselman he quotes some interesting authors who said that in our “next”, we seem to go where we believe we will go.  Now that’s very inserting. That means if we change our belief here and now, it will change our “next”.

Well, we know that to be true in this lifetime. It makes sense that it is true in the next.

Another point the class offered was that hunters and gatherers did not believe in higher powers, they knew very well the spirit of nature and communicated with those spirits for guidance and insights.  It was a very shamanistic existence – communing with nature.

Religious belief systems seem to reflect back the basic characteristics of the social order in which they appear. The more hierarchal and structured the culture becomes the more hierarchal and structured the region is. 

Now that’s very interesting. I was looking at where my belief system fit in. I’m very drawn to Taoism which recognizes that there is an ongoing flow of energy form to energy form.  There is no higher or lower energy. There is simply Tao.  All that is.  I am dawn to that. In Unity and zen Buddhism, the natural and the supernatural are not different, they are seen as different aspects of the same thing. Ernest Holmes who taught the work of Thomas Troward to form Science of Mind was trained by some of the same people the founders of Unity were.  I immersed myself deeply in the world of Troward and Holmes in what is now called Center for Light Living.

All religions have a system of ethics that is based on the beliefs of their social stratification. Have and have nots or one communal tribe.

When I try to imagine where this group of humanity may be headed as we move into this huge reposition, I begin by looking at our system of conduct.  I realized that we find ourselves separated into two major groups depending on our belief – one group believes in a social hierarchy and another group has an awareness of all being one.

I already know that those of us who are working with vibration and the concept of raising our vibration, understand, and experience each other as one big web of energy. We are also aware that what we do affects the whole. We are in a minority and there is no way I could go have a conversation with people who are not on this individualistic, stand-alone path that would make much sense to them.  I’m sitting here in the conservative Mid-West with not a lot of takers here for this raise your vibration stuff.  However, according to HeartMath.org, every thought in our heart connects 100 thousand hearts around us.  We have work to do.

I find like-minded people all around the world. We find each other on the internet; truly the world wide web. We share with each other.  We bolster each other. We work with each other. We raise our vibration together.

What do I do for our planet right now?  I am to keep raising my own vibration so others see it. I explore the unseen world and share what I find with others so they recognize our collective light in themselves and chose to raise their own vibration.

Not all of us are on this journey together and that is just the way it is supposed to be.

I don’t know what our world and our lives will look like as this new era evolves.  But I know that as I deepen my awareness of my inner world, as I actually explore the 95% that is the Unseen world, I am given new awareness, new ideas for an action show up, and when I act on what I am shown, I will be shown where I am to go next.

We each have our own life expressions to work with.  Our own beliefs, our own actions, our own choices. We are to keep listening to our inner wisdom, keep choosing for our highest good, and stay open to new insights and ideas and realizations that are unfolding in this New Era.

Change is constant.  Change is exciting.  Change is unsettling.  Change is good.

We are evolving into a higher vibration.  Yeah us.
And the adventure has just begun…

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

With consciences focus, I seek to raise my vibration
higher and higher and join with
other Light Vibrations who are doing the same. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Become aware of your own vibration and experiment and explore the ways you choose to raise your vibration to a higher level.
  • Become aware of our vibration of one energy as a field of energy and resonate with others of this same higher vibration. 
  • Make your light, your vibration as high you can, and follow where it takes you.
  • Let others see your light and follow – or not. 
  • Let it be.  
  • And simply be.

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MY DEEPER SONG THIS WEEK

THE PATH WE CHOOSE
An Exploration of the Unseen World

We are responsible for the journey we take.  We are responsible for the path we choose. We choose what we bring in our backpack and we are responsible for how willing we are to keep going.  

We cannot go back. We can only begin from her ewe are and move forward – or sideways  – it is our choice in each moment.  How do you choose?  What do you choose?

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is 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. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore

The Path We Choose
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Inner Work

FIND THE ENERGY POINTS

I have begun to put my drumming back into my spiritual practice.  It was talking up a lot of time first thing and I was eager to get to my creative work so I dropped it for a while.  I needed to find a new energy point for it. Now to begin my day I sit looking out the window and play all there flutes and I have recently begun to sing a song of intention to my day.
When I realized I was ready to put the drumming back in my day, I began to look for the right energy point.  A synergetic meeting of energy and willingness….!

If you have a habit or a practice you want to establish, look at the places in your day where you are energetically willing to put them. 

I have some exercises tied in with the action of making my bed.  I have some stretching moves ties in with being at the kitchen sink while waiting for my tea to brew.  

I want to put Qi Gong back and just discovered that each time I return to my computer I am to look out at nature and do some Qi Gong moves first.  Each time. Several times a day.  It’s a perfect energy point for mindful movement. 

Decide what still point you want to add to your day, what it will look like, how long it will take. Will it change your rhythm and therefore be welcome?  Move from sedentary to action and back to sedentary. Can you combine things or do they need to be separate?  What is their purpose – to stimulate or calm or center or strengthen? What is the reminder prompt for you?

Expand what you are doing now. I walk down the hall to get my mail in the late afternoon.  I’m going to expand that – walkup up and down the hallway several times.  I can also change the rhythm of that walking – mindfully or rapidly or a combination. 

Choose the practices that call to you, that works for you that resonates with you, and begin to add them to your day one at a time until they are security embedded.

I have m daily shamanic journey tucked in at 1230 or so.  What do you want in your spiritual practice and where do you want to put it that you can immerse yourself in it?  I have several mindful sill points in my day. 

Tune in to the energy of your day and identify the energy points that call for you to change your energy.  Then do that/

 
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Outer Work

TRADITION VERSUS CREATIVITY

I currently live in the conservative mid-west.  I have lived on both coasts which is where I truly belong.  But this is an old-age choice because my daughter lives here.  

I was thinking about tradition and how relieved my son-in-law seemed when we established that my time for Christmas with them was breakfast on Christmas Eve morning for – my choice – pancakes and fresh pineapple and real maple syrup. He even pointed out that we now have a tradition established.  He and my daughter have lots of traditions. It is how they want it.  But it occurred to me that by doing something the same way each time you limit your ability to explore and expand and create.  And I love to do all of those. So I am not a fan of tradition. I prefer improvisation – making stuff up in the moment. 

I learned to disregard holidays when I lived alone in New York City.  I bought myself a birthday present and a Christmas present but beyond that, I just lived my life.

I rebel at all the holidays.  I don’t like to be told what to do on a specific day, who to honor, how to celebrate.  So I don’t.  I honor Winter Solstice instead of Christmas.  I honor Sprint Equinox instead of Easter.  You get the picture.  I go back to my pagan roots and take my cues from nature.  

I’m looking at shamanism the same way.  I do not want to go back and learn the details and traditions that have evolved over the generations.  I want to underhand the intention and ask my current spiritual awareness to get me where I need to go.  

Guess I’m still a rebel in my wold – at least a non-conformist, an independent thinker. 

I’m also am not one to dwell on the past, except for the lessons I learned and the changes my choices made in the unfolding of my life’s journey that I can build on now.  I am both eager and content to live in the present moment.  To reposition myself in the now based on my insights and needs.  I live in the moment and respond from an ever-deepening awareness of my inner guidance. 

Perhaps you want to examine the traditions you have and see if and how you want to reframe them.  What do you need to create in your “now?”

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EXERCISE YOUR LUNGS

I woke up in this middle of the night with shortness of breath and it scared me. I’m going to make a really lousy old person because I didn’t like it.  I did some online research to see what it was and I don’t know but it did make me realize that I am not exercising my lungs.  No aerobics, no long walks.  No wonder my lungs woke up grouchy.  So I went online and the first thing I found was 6 Breathing Exercises for Older Adults

Heres’ the one I have begun to work with. 

Breathing from the Chinese practice of Tai Chi. 

This involves taking three short breaths

Breath  One – raise, your arms shoulder height in front of you, 

Breath Two – pull your arms out to shoulder height at your sides 

Breath three raise your arms  above your head.

Then slowly exhale and lower your arms back down to your sides. 

Try 10-12 repetitions. If you get light headed, stop the exercise.

There is a diaphragmatic breathing exercise I learned in Bikram Yoga (Hot yoga) that I really like.  While standing, bend forward to put your hands on your knees and do diaphragmatic breathing. Breath in and contract your diaphragm, breathe out through your open mouth and release your diaphragm. It’s a bit like slow panting. Feel your diaphragm actively and energetically go in and out.   I do 50 repetitions. 

I’m going to put that one back into my day. 

My healer friend Christina Gerber suggested that placing your fingers at the base of your sternum is calming as you breathe.

Also holding your lung points inside your shoulders (at the hollows here) helps give you deeper breaths.

Notice what you have stopped doing as you age and find a version you can still do and then do it.

Beaching is a pretty core activity….!


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HEALING

Healing is about bringing back something that is missing.  I’m not sure where I heard this concept but I made a note of it to explore.

The first missing thing that comes to mind is balance. When things are out of balance everything is affected.

I’ve been working with a tilted right pelvis that got untitled in recent healing so in theory that puts me back in balance.  Now, of course, the muscles in the other leg are hollering loudly because they have to work differently than hey had become accustomed to. And as my hips align my spine is straightening above it.  It too is grouchy. It’s all related as balance continues to come back into place. 

Healing is about bringing back something that is missing.  We have lots of emotional things a bit out of balance with the isolation of the pandemic.  Look closely to see what that is.  I have had three in-person in-depth conversions in the past six months.  Fortunately, I have friends with whom I speak on Zoom on a regular basis.  

What is missing? What is out of balance?  I do not have a good balance between writing and exercise and taking care of my food/home care needs.  
Consider actions.  One of the ways I have learned to rebalance my body is to do leg lifts to the back and knee raises to the front, and standing sit-ups from a chair.  

What do you need to add that is the opposite of what you are doing/feeling too much of?

Healing is about bringing back something that is missing.  What is missing in your life?

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ARE WE RAINBOW WARRIORS?

In my early shamanic journeying years ago one of my first guides was a  young man I called Rayne. He said he was a Rainbow Warrior. I had not heard that term before and I had no idea what it meant so I look it up.  Notice what it says about the world today. I think we are all Rainbow Warriors…. The Warriors of the Rainbow Prophecy

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DEEPER SONGS I HEARD THIS WEEK

Tao and Poetry. I have read a great many of Deng Ming-Daos’ books.  Heres’ an opportune to join him ina free series of Zoom talks about Tao and poetry.  In olden times, friends met often to talk about Tao. They wanted to share its profound wonder. Through a series of informal conversations, Deng Ming-Dao and David Ohanesian will discuss Tao through selected classic poems from sources such as the Daodejing and the great Tang Poets. The passages will be taken from Each Journey Begins With a Single Step, available from Hampton Roads Publishing Company.You’re invited to join us by Zoom every two weeks on Thursdays at 5:00 pm California time, beginning September 24, 2020. There will be nine talks in all. There is no cost to attend. Please messenger or send an eemail todmd@dengmingdao.com to be put on the meeting list.

A teleprompter app that was recommended  to staff at the Mayo Clinic for an iPad i is  Teleprompter Premium – free

Christina Gerber shared this: 10 hours of bioluminescent waves and ocean sounds from Monterey Bay to relax/study/work to https://youtu.be/9p2Egh6K0yc

Grammar and Our Chainging Society  Interesting insights…

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OUR EVOLVING FUTURE  – NEW VARIABLES

New variables are like the wind shifting and we have to adjust our sails. Or the wind comes and you have to take shelter, or the sky clears and you take a nap under a tree. Different “climates” illicit different responses.  We are continually coming across new variables in our life.  We have great choices in what we do with them. 

Here’s the trick.  We get to change but we also get to bring with us what is the most nurturing, the most interesting aspect of what we have going on in our lives.  

For instance, my switch to podcasts brings with it the same exploration and discovery I have in my posts but speaking those words adds a tangible vibration that elevates the experience.  The variable is the format. The message is the same.

In the course of exploring new variables, build on what you love.  
Reframe how you see what you do.  I teach all the time but I teach it once and move on to the next discovery. So while I definitely do not want to teach Life 101 over and over, there are fundamental concepts that I bring forward into all my work.  I teach, but it’s an ongoing discovery process for both of us. 

The variables you embrace are to strengthen your journey.  Learning a new skill comes to mind.  I’m getting better at recording and editing and that may open up some new opportunities for me.  I know I’m going to create some introspective processes in my podcasts. I started a new weekly Meaningful Pause offering because I wanted to add more mindful still points to my own life so I’m teaching and I’m leaning at the same time.  I  always teach what I want to learn.  

Variables could be a physical change. More exercise, better food, finding more friends. Each change you make changes the dynamic of the whole you. 

Evaluate what you leave behind.  What does your new choice replace?  Maybe you have to create some sort of revolving cycle so you keep the things you love in your life. I still have some books to put up on Amazon.  A c couple of days work would make that happen.  I want to add more movement in m life.  Getting the links to the exercise videos I have chosen would be an easy starting place.  I want to cook more for myself, I just have to find the right time of the day to do that. 

If you are lonely, reach out.  If you are bored, learn something.  We have a huge ability to change our lives.  What variables do you want to bring into your life and what will they do for you?  Do that. 


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CARA’S CORNER

OUR ROLE IN THE NEW CONSCIOUSNESS

In a recent journey, I asked why there was so much negativity in the world today.  

The answer was both reassuring and a call to action. 

“This is a time for the establishment of higher group consciousness.  Help shine your light brighter so others can see and make their choice. There are levels the group consciousness must reach. There’s a shift of consciousness that is taking place for those who are willing to change that will lift the vibration of the planet. This is a test of consciousness.  Can this planet rise to the occasion as a collective?  You are being tested. Keep focusing on the greater good.”

On one hand, I feel better.  On the other, there is work to do.  
What I visualize is a field of golden consciousness, a high vibration that is encircling the planet  As people join in it shines brighter and others see it and recognize that light in themselves. Then they raise their consciousness and their vibration and join us. But what I have begun to consider is that we in this Collective Consensus of Raised Vibration may find ourselves separated from the planet or in an alternate reality or –  I don’t know.  I just see a group bonding that will strengthen us and also separate us from lower vibration.  On one hand, we will be safe.  And we have work to do to get there. 

My mind just flashed on he hunters and gathers where each person participates for the good of the collective.  This new change may be a conscious version of that.  Working for the collective, the continuing raised vibration of the collective, the continued awareness of being one energy that the group continues to embrace as their new reality.
I am ready to live in that awareness, that world, that consciousness of our oneness.

It helps me to rise about the chaos of the planet and move into an internal still point and feel and hear and see and experience us all as one high vibration. As we sit here we impact each other and our collective vibration raises.  I am very willing to live in that world with other points of light. 
This is a shift in consignees we are going through.  Raise your thoughts.   Raise your vibration. 

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A DEEPER SONG

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

Keep singing a deeper song.
Namaste,
Cara


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Positioning Your Gifts in the New Consciousness

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Positioning Your Gifts in the New Consciousness

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

\We get to rethink everything we take for granted. We have to get creative and innovative and imaginative. The world will never go back.  We can never go back.  And that is a good thing.  

What do we want to create?  Who do we want to support?  

This is a time for deep introspection. 

This is a time for expansive creative exploration. 

I particularly want to address this to those of us who have the freedom of retirement in the next 20 years.  It is a time of tremendous creativity and adventure. 

We have new tools and techniques to learn to use in order to make the most of this next opportunity. 

First, you choose an area of interest and then you go exploring. A Deeper Song Member who is looking at retirement has powerful gifts to explore.  She is an imaginative and expressive writer and she has a depth of knowledge in both horticulture and music.  She has strong gifts to cultivate. As she pr press for retirement, She gets to go exploring to discover how she might share those gifts.  Ans she will want to explore some of the available technology – like video. Or children’s books, or…

I don’t know which comes first, the idea or the technology.  I think they become intertwined in the doing.  For instance, the podcast format has added an experience of intimate sharing that I do not have with my posts.  And using only my voice, rather than going to video, allows the listener to use his or her own imagination to enrich the listening.  So sometimes the form in which you offer your gifts helps form the content and structure of your offering. 

And you MUSt have an offering, a place of service.  I watch the seniors in this center gradually be allowed to return to well-distanced bingo, but the pot lucks are not allowed for now.  What ARE they doing?  You do want to find a way to feel you are in service. And in this age of the internet, you are guaranteed to find like-minded people with whom to share your passion.

Bring those gifts and hobbies up into the light and see where they fit into your future.  Look at what you always wanted to do but put off and go do that.  

This is an era of change in which we are being asked to step forward with our best self, our most creative, innovative self and offer our gifts to the New Consciousness. 

What is calling you?  What form will you experiment with first?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION
I open myself up to identify a gift I have that is needed in the New Consciousness. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Make a list of things you wish you knew how to do and go exploring.
  • Look at some tutorials on recording a podcast or a video, or posting a book on Amazon. Look at online class formats and how-to videos.  Identify the format you want to learn first. Then learn it enough so the technical part is not in the way of your self-expression ad make an informed decision if you want to use it in your work. 
  • Take one of your passions and the form you like to work in and create something. 
  • You have begun.  Keep going.

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MY DEEPER SONG THIS WEEK
The Unseen World Needs UsAn Exploration of the Unseen World

The Unseen World needs us – it needs us to translate, to pass along their messages and teachings and guidance.  We need to learn to pay attention.  We need to learn to understand. Are you ready to become a messenger, an interpreter for the Unseen World?

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community is 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. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore why
The Unseen World Needs Us
(15:00)
With Transcript

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Inner Work
UNDERSTAND YOUR CALLING

I’ve been speaking to a few Deeper Song members who are in their 60’s and retirement is coming up for them.  I just remember what Chris Brown said to me five years ago when I was 82, -“What are you going to do with the next 30 years?”  

It’s interesting to look at your life in 30-year blocks of time an to get to a point where you get to live the next 30 years in pretty much the way you’d like it to be creatively.

I have two words of advice.  Keep your body in shape and go exploring…

If you don’t have to earn an income,  the whole world is open to you. If you have an entrepreneurial bent, ditto.  
So there are several questions you need to ask yourself.

  • Do I want to work with other people or work alone?
  • Do I want to work with beginner or advanced?
  • Of all the interests I have, what calls to me most right now?
  • What skills do I need to learn and can I begin to learn them now?

That’s just a place to begin.  As you explore you will change your mind.  And the beautiful thing is, if you are not focused on bringing in income, you get to do exactly what you want to do. In my case I get to write about what I want to learn.   And my podcasts are nurturing my soul.

There is one other step.  How do you want to share with others what you are going to do next?

Posts, podcasts, videos, Zoom groups, offering your work online – art, books ,music.  You do want to offer what you create.  You have no idea whose heart you will touch, whose life you will affect when you offer your heart’s message to the world. 

I think it’s important to give away some of what you create in this wonderful, open period of exploration you are undertaking. The response you receive will begin to tell what resonates.  When you know you are touching the lives of others it warms your heart and makes you appreciate your own value in the world.

In retirement, you will be given a gift of time – time to explore and discover and share what you learn.  

Your retirement years are meant to be productive – an acute time of exchanging energy with others on your path.  What are you going to do with your next 30 years?

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Outer Work
MONEY MANAGEMENT

20 years ago in a talk given in my woman’s group in Santa Rosa, California, a financial member suggested we have two savings accounts.  One to save up for large yearly payments and emergencies and a second one not to be touched.  Sort of a hidden asset account.  

As I was rearranging my money this month I realized that the first account that saves up for yearly payments and unexpected expenses represents safety, it is meant to be used for both the planned and the unexpected.  

The second account is for security. I put something in it every month. It may also come to represent  puree self-indulgence at some point…

The first month after my divorce when I alone was responsible for caring for my children, I ran out of food money. We literally put water on our cereal.  From then on I wrote out my weekly food checks in advance and knew that I could only spend that much that week.  

Now I use a spreadsheet to plan or my savings and my spending but the budgeting is the same.  I have a plan for what will be needed and saving goals for yearly bills.  Then I have my “dealer’s choice” savings account.

What kind of a financial handing system do you want to put into place? Give some thought to how your needs have changed and what you need to do to stay safe.

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HOW DO THE GEESE KNOW?

I heard geese flying south this week, honking loudly as they flew over. Going where it is warmer for the winter.  How do they know?  Does their inner clock say this is a new season, time for a change?

How am I to get ready for the winter months? It is a time for shorter days, warmer clothes, and perhaps more contemplating. That works.

When I was a young wife and mother I loved to garden and each winter I would pour over the seed catalogs to see what I wanted to plant in the spring. I even started seeds indoors to get an early start. I loved doing that planning  So what if we each paused right now to look over our personal seed catalog for possibilities to see what we want to plant in the next growing season? What would you order?

I would order a willingness to move my body more. Whether that has to come in some new excise video I discover online or a daily use of my walking sticks, I will have to decide.  But I will put that intention on my pending order. Perhaps I will order several varieties of movement.

I would like to be surprised in the coming season.  It may be something I learn, a new skill I acquire, a new friend I meet.  I will plant a package of surprise seeds and see what I get.

And then there are the old favorites, the perennials if you will.  My writing has matured into podcasts.  My newsletter is now archived on my web site.  I have started a new weekly inspiration note. I have a strong group of friends who nurture and support ad interest me.  I’ll take good care of those. 

The geese know.  They know it is a time for contemplation, for looking at what worked and what didn’t, to know what to leave behind and what to carry with them.   

The geese seem to know it is a change of seasons. What will change for you? 

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OUR GLOBAL DEPER SONG

I am both touched and honored by your presence. You come from all over the planet and as I receive a notice of each new Deeper Song Member and where you are from I wonder how you found me and I am very glad you did.  We are a global community.  As we each work to raise our vibration we are connecting more strongly with each other and we keep deepening the layer of light energy that we are offering our planet. Our collective work is powerful. Our individual work creates change.  I am honored to be a place holder for us to come together in deep, deep service. Together we create change.

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THE POWER OF PERSISTENCE

I needed to figure out how to do one thing – make the control edition screen in Garage Band bigger so I could see to edit my podcast.  I made it bigger before and every thought I have crib sheets for the editing shortcuts, I didn’t have this one on it.  I had no choice but to figure it out because I could not see to edit the waveforms. 

I spent nearly 30 minutes looking at tutorials and reading the help library in GarageBand, and I greatly wished I could remember how to make that portion of the screen bigger.

So I persisted.  I was not angry, or upset, just dogged determined.  

And of course, when I found it, it was very, very, very simple – Command, Control, and Arrow up or down…I know that.  We all know that. I had just not made the connection to use that in GarageBand. 

But this is about persistence – whatever it is within you that makes you keep going, keep looking,  keep trying.  It’s a good quality to have.  It will solve lots of your problems and strengthen your journey.

Don’t give up.

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DEEPER SONGS I HEARD THIS WEEK

Stunning space photos taken from a man’s back yard.

The Shift Summit and Music Festival, September 18-21.
My Qi Gong teacher Daisy Lee has a segment as does my drum and flute teacher Christens Stevens.  Michael  Beckwith is always good –  see what calls to you is always good and… cheek it out and 

Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation is a foundational book for learning to do shamanic journeying.

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OUR EVOLVING FUTURE

We all agreed to come into this lifetime in order to do specific jobs – to be part of the evolving landscape.  I’m not sure any of us expected it to be this dramatic. But we are up to the task.  We are stepping forward. We are raising our vibration and bringing others with us. 

This week I launched a new offering – Mindful Moments – an opportunity for you to pause and go within and simply be.  All our answers lay within – in our most inner knowing.  

As this new era evolves, we will be shown our role and how we are to begin to put those steps into place.   First, we work on our self. Then that change begins to radiate out to the awareness of others and they see in themselves the opportunity to change 

Keep radiating out your highest vibration.  That will change our world. 

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THE REFLECTING POOL
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop” – Rumi

As we move into fall it is a powerful time to connect with nature – how she lets go of what is no longer needed, how she lets seeds drop to the gourd to come alive in the spring.  It is a time for releasing, a time of letting ideas marinate and ripen. 

Look for beliefs you might leave behind.  Look for projects that could use a little distance on them in order to take them to their next level. But most of all, leave behind anything that no longer serves you –  beliefs ideas, grudges, fears, Just put them down., leave them behind  The path will be easier without them.

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CARA’S CORNER
THE POWER OF BEING ECLECTIC

I unexpectedly had an email exchange with a friend about plants and I realized I know a great deal about plants and was once an enthusiastic gardener.  And the world eclectic came to mind. It means a “broad and diverse range of sources.” “Extensive, comprehensive” are other words to describe eclectic.   

It means I’ve been an enthusiastic explorer of many of things all my life. And have had a very good time doing it. 

Curiosity has been a cornerstone of my life accompanied by enthusiasm and a love of learning.  Add to that my gift of seeing the overview and it allows me to make some interesting philosophical connections.  

Pause a moment and perhaps make a list of all the things you have explored in your lifetime.  It’s not about being good at it, it’s about exploring it, experiencing it, trying it out.  

I had a horse of my own during high school.  I have shown a Kerry Blue Terrier to his championship.  I organized a Picture Lady program so well in my school district that the Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City took it on as a project.  I have been a copywriter and a television talent. I have been in plays. And I worked with a lot of men with AIDS in NYC when the epidemic first began.  I learned to make silver jewelry and clay sculptures in NYC. And I taught Reiki to lots of people. 

All of the varied things you have done in your life have contributed to who you are today. 

A story popped into my mind just now.  When I was ten or twelve or so, my mother took m sister and me blackberry picking.  It was NOT fun because the bushes were scratchy.  I complained. My mother said, “It builds character.” So a lot of things we do are simply meant to help build a frame of reference, an experience upon which to base future decisions.  We like it, we don’t like it. It is easy. It is hard.  You don’t know until you go exploring. 

What are you willing to explore this month that you have never tried before but would like to experience?  

Go do that. 

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A DEEPER SONG

Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript of a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. 
The universe it not outside of you
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want, you are already that.”
– Rumi

Keep singing a deeper song.

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song 
I help those seeking to sing a deeper song to expand their relationship with the Unseen world.

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