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How to Self-Heal

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How to Self-Heal

Living Our Deeper Song

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

We are responsible for helping ourselves.  It is our job to change our focus and do the work.  We do that by staying tuned to the vibration of wholeness.  How do we do that?  

We have to believe healing is possible.  We have to imagine ourselves as healed and restored.  We have to believe that we have the ability to self-heal. 

Imagine. We use our imagination to visualize and even experience ourselves as whole. Remember what it felt like to… Use your imagination to create a vision of what is possible, what can be restored and corrected. Rather than focusing on what ability is slipping away, remember what it felt like to be active and strong, whole and healthy.

Focus on the positive. When I feel a positive self-correction in my body posture, I focus on that, I acknowledge my body for that and my spirits are lifted by that success. 

Visualize. Visualization gives your cells permission to change, to repair, to strengthen.  Visualize the way it can be. Visualize the way this positive change will make your body self-correct. Visualize yourself as whole and perfect and complete.  

Trust. Your body knows how to self-correct, to heal itself.  Watch for the small improvements.  Watch for the subtle changes that make new ways of being possible.  

Each day I sit in meditation and draw energy up from the earth and down from my Soul Star.  I imagine those moving in a counter-clockwise spiral within my body that clears and releases and restores and replenishes.  I don’t have to know the details, I trust my body to do its job. I just have to keep the positive intentions coming its way.

Notice the subtle changes.  Let that encourage you to keep imagining wholeness, to keep expecting wholeness, to experience wholeness.  We are responsible for our own self-healing.  Do the work.  Reap the rewards.

Imagination, focus, visualization and trust are our guides to self-healing.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am whole, perfect and complete. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Create a visualization process in which you see what is out of balance return to balance and wholeness.  What does that feel like, look like, be like?
  • Trust the self-healing process and notice the positive results.  Let that encourage you to keep self-healing. 

===INNER WORK===

Honor Your Natural Rhythm

We get so busy and caught up in life that we have no clue what our natural rhythm is – how we would prefer to organically move through life. My daughter has a very big job and works long hours and when I asked her what she did on a day off she said, “Nothing”, she just sat around all day. That was restorative for her because she does not have a job that will allow her to establish and work at her own rhythm. If you are caught up in a demanding situation, how do you find and establish your own rhythm?

In the 80s I worked as a temp at Estée Lauder’s headquarters in New York City.  Of course, Estée was a woman and all of her officers were women. There was one vice president who, every day at 4 o’clock, stopped everything for 20 minutes and had a Perrier and was not disturbed. She regrouped. She grounded. She balanced herself. She changed her rhythm. Where would you put a pause to regroup in your day? And what would you do in that time? You might meditate. You might go for a walk. You may look out the window and take deep breaths. Build some conscious pauses into your life and establish a way for you to re-center yourself. Honor your natural rhythm and stay balanced.

===SELF-HEALING===

Raise Your Vibrational Set Point

We have great control over where we focus our attention and intention. We can focus on what is not working. Or we can focus on what is positive and creative and nurturing. In an instant, we can change our focus and our life experience.

Nurture and raise your vibrational set point.  Focus your thoughts,  your expectations and actions around your life so your experience will always be expansive, inclusive, and rewarding.

You are your higher self, expressing itself through the human form. Know that.  Be that.  Experience that. Remind yourself of that as you move through your day.

Give gratitude to your Higher Self, your Cosmic Self. Give gratitude to your human self, to your heart. Commit to this unfolding and trust you cannot do this wrong. It is your birthright. 

===OUTER  WORK===

Monitor Your Response

This is an incredibly important time to monitor your responses. Do you respond out of fear? Do you respond out of anger?  Or do you focus on the higher positive energy? Somehow, someway, in this unfolding Divine Feminine, we have to build a new path. Each of us has to choose the direction and form of our own path. We must choose it with deepening awareness. And we must stay on as high a road as possible. Each day brings us a variety of circumstances that ask us to question our beliefs. To rethink our position. To re-visualize our future and make new choices. Making those choices, those changes, will get us there.

The old habitual responses are damaging. Many are based on outdated beliefs and no longer useful habits. They no longer have value. Once again we go back to ask what you believe you deserve and what you believe is possible. Thats what you will get and it should keep changing for the better. I can sit here and focus on all the ways and things that can go wrong. Or I can use my imagination and visualize how things could work in entirely new ways, in new structures, new formats, and new interactions. Everything needs to be examined and questioned. Then we must turn to focus on the unfolding possibilities that are being revealed to us in every moment. Are you getting the lessons? Are you changing your viewpoint? Are you free in your thinking to move into this new unfolding incredibly unusual Divine Feminine?

Foresight and Exploration

This is a time of change that is so dramatic that we need great foresight to see the unfolding possibilities. Then we must go exploring and see how we can shape the new ideas we find and utilize them and bring them into being. Be on the lookout for new ways to accomplish what resonates with you. Then explore and experiment and see if it is yours to do. Technical things come to mind, but there is huge philosophical change being called for in today’s changing world. Look ahead, go exploring and participate.

Have You Stopped Exploring?

It had been a very long time since I simply sat outside in nature but this week I did – on my new blue four-wheel walker with a seat.  I call her “Adventurer”. I took my double flute and sat on the patio and played to the world.  Now that I’ve managed to do that, I can do it again – often.  I’m not sure what the neighbors thought about the old lady and her flute but they will figure it out.  So now I have solved the physical challenges of sitting outside.  Yeah for adventuring.  What change do you need to make in your life that will open up new possibilities?  

Preconceptions and Expectation

Preconceptions are limiting beliefs.  They are made up out of our imagination, low expectation, and lack of information. And they can mess us up.  Move into a new situation, a new experience, a new relationship with inner stillness and observe and experience and evaluate as you go.  Let it unfold and choose in the moment. Be present.  Do not anticipate. Immerse yourself in the experience and evaluate from your Still Point. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

How Do You Shift Your Consciousness?

You can intentionally use the power of sound and vibration to shift your own state of consciousness.

Do you find yourself humming when you are happy?  You are using vibration to shift your mood. It is an organic response that helps shift your mood.

Stop what you are doing and notice your mood.  How is your day unfolding?  What has been your response?  You can change your mood by consciously altering your focus.  If I focus on a beautiful sunset it moves me and deepens my connection with the flow of the universe and all my human stuff fades away.  

Perhaps identify a doorway that you pass thorough during you day and each time you move through it, pause to relax your shoulders, take a deep breath, perhaps close your eyes for a moment, and move to your center.  Be fully present and move into your Still Point and simply be in the Center of your Being. 

Pause.  Breathe.  Make a conscious choice. 

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

Explore New Pathways

The first step in understanding where you fit in to this rapidly evolving planetary change in opportunity, is to understand yourself. Understand your gifts. But most of all, understand your calling.  You may have been on your life path for a long time, so you can see the pattern of the choices that you made. But this is a time to not just examine the past. Let’s stand tall right here at the entrance to the future and look around at what has become available. Look at what is now possible. Look at what calls you. Look at what gifts you can offer. Look what you need to learn in order to move forward. And go learn it.

I don’t have to get a job, I don’t have to earn money, but I very much want to remain relevant in our world today. I know many of my gifts, but where are they to be placed in service now, next? I can only ask that question of my inner self and wait patiently for the answer, or the insight, or the actual opportunity. I have given away some really good ideas recently because they’re not mine to do. But they need doing. And I seem to know people that could do them. 

It seems like our next steps are all about change. Changing what we think. Changing what we believe. Changing what we think is possible. Changing our expectations. So I am standing here and looking around at what is evolving in the world around me and noticing what needs doing. Then I am to consider the “doing” part and see if it is mine to do.  

I’m in the waiting stage right now. The nudges I’m getting seem to be ideas for other people which is actually very exciting. And that’s what I’m supposed to be doing right now – getting ideas and passing them on to the people who are ready to do them or whose path it fits.  So my job is not to do the ideas myself, but to allow ideas to fly through me to others for the doing. I can do that. 

Look at new fields of opportunity, look at new pathways leading to them, be very aware of your own gifts in a particular passion. Go exploring, make some choices, do your thing. 

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

Path of Curiosity

This is the time for trying new things. Of course it’s more comfortable to walk the familiar path and do the familiar things but with the world changing so rapidly we will be left behind if we remain on the path that we have been on. I choose the path of curiosity. That means I explore new ideas. I may try them on for size. I may make a different version of them. But I am mostly looking at change –  how to change, ways to change and what to change, because the world is changing very rapidly and we have no idea what is going to look like yet. Our expectations will take us there. Our imagination will take us there. Take the path of curiosity. That’s what’s called for now in this unfolding world. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

World Work

It’s a tad tricky to be an 89 year old woman and still feel like you are contributing to life.  I felt much better when I realized that I am fulfilling an important role – making others think.

As I go exploring wherever my wonderful mind carries me, I write to figure out what I discover, how I might bring the concept into my life.  When I share that with you, I hope it prompts some new insights in you.  

Our impact can be very subtle and it can be very far-reaching.  This idea that I am still relevant by sharing my inner world explorations adds a depth of meaning to my life that is very welcome. 

How are you touching lives in the world?  What is your world work?

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

The Divine Masculine Has to Change

I’ve been so busy wondering what the Divine Feminine will look like that I forgot that the Divine Masculine has a tremendous amount of change to make too. It involves a great deal of letting go of how things have been and expectations for how they can be.  It calls for moving into a place of honoring a new role, a new participation in the group involved in the formation of the new world. The masculine must be a partner, not a dominant force – a collaborator, not a boss. How flexible can Divine Masculine be? It’s going to be a little like pushing and shoving to find space for the feminine self expression as roles grow bigger and smaller. It is time for both male and female to let go of old beliefs and expectations and gradually evolved into what is to be. 

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

Spiritual Practice

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

Self Healing

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Expanding Awareness

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

Listen to my
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify / Google

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===CARA’S CORNER===

 Watch the Signs?

Sometimes the Universe has to bop us on the head to get our attention.  A friend of mine got Co-Vid even though she had two shots and a booster, her boyfriend ended their relationship and she got so many personal clients that she got to cut back on her job!  It was like a helium balloon being freed to fly.  

What is holding you to the ground and how do you let it go?

As I watch my body continue to adjust and strengthen I must ask more of it, expect more of it.  A long time friend is ready to do her website and I get to write all the content for it.  It is wonderful and exciting and rewarding.  My hot-air balloon rose a little too. 

What is releasing in your life that leaves change for expansion?  Pay attention.  The Universe has exciting plans for you. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Nudge

The change was subtle – a shift, a release, a new way of being. 

The change was subtle – a shift, a release, a new way of being. But the vista it opened up was huge – wide and welcoming. 

The change was subtle – a shift, a release, a new way of being. But the vista it opened up was huge – wide and welcoming.  First I will go exploring, then I will choose. A new path is unfolding for me.  I will find it deep within. 

– Cara Lumen, January 2022

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the emerging energy of the Divine Feminine to align their dreams and choices with what is emerging as possible today so that they go beyond their own expectations.

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Self-Healing and Measurable Results – a Winning Combination

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Self-Healing and Measurable Results – a Winning Combination. 

Living Our Deeper Song

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

I had a fascinating experience a few weeks ago, a Narrative Coaching session with Mathilde Taburet in France. She coaches in both French and English. I choose to speak with my body, particularly my hips which are realigning and straightening but are hurting in the process. It was a fascinating session and I basically shut my eyes and talked out loud to my body as Mathilde asked me questions. The next day I woke up and knew there had been an important shift!  Yeah for self-healing. 

Then I wanted to figure out how to work with what I have uncovered in this exploratory inner work adventure. What was the core message and what are my action steps? 

Establish a relationship with the problem

For me, establishing and deepening the partnership with my body is the cornerstone  – listening and giving her what she wants.  How do you create a relationship with a problem?  What kind of questions do you ask? What kind of beliefs do you examine and change? I became aware that addressing belief systems about the inevitable deterioration of the body as we age was a big one to work on. 

I became more aware that I wanted to use intentional vibrational and sound healing more actively in my own self-healing.

Beliefs to Change

Belief, for me, is the cornerstone of all change.  Some belief has brought  you to this place, this juncture.  What is it?  For me, it was a belief about the aging process – the belief in gradual and persistent deterioration. There is no fear of death for me, just apprehension of the discomfort of the deterioration process.  That is not a belief that serves me.

Believe in your ability to change

I also need to have a firm belief that I can self-heal! That may take working with a variety of self-healing techniques or it may be as simple as affirmations that I repeat over and over to change my thinking and thus my life. 

New Choices to make

I had some optional choices come up, more Qigong, more hall-walking, more interaction with nature, more flute-playing and vibrational sound healing, new bitfield work, more intentional healing. I’m having a good time with the new resistance stretches my physical therapist gave me. It feels like a major positive change to add more conscious movement to my self-healing process .

What steps/changes/disciplines do I need to apply in order to make consistent choices that give me the results I seek?  

Frequency and consistency – My cornerstones 

Here’s where you make a plan – specific steps that you take. You observe the changes and then tweak your choices until you get the results you seek.  I just found the perfect place for the resistance training. I interwove it with a little Transcendental Meditation and have a lovely session. I have a selection of affirmations to sprinkle throughout my day. I have a group of posture-correcting movements to do regularly as I move into different rooms.  What can I change that will bring a different result? Going outside even a little would be good. How do I change my beliefs about what is possible? My expectations?  What new choices do I make?

I’m going to do more releasing through journey work. Also more vibrational healing and meditation.  Create a plan, follow it, notice the results and make changes. Keep flexible and encourage change. Create, adjust and create some more.

Beliefs to deepen

This body rearranging is reversible. It will take consistent, aware focus and actions to manifest this change. I can do this. 

Monitor the results of your choices and changes 

What is working?  What is not? The new place I have added the stretch band exercises is perfect – a bit of nature, plus a time for mediation and it is a welcome change in my routine I have added several times in my day.  Experiment, try different combinations and monitor your results. Then make more changes.

Bottom Line: I have work to do to support the strengthening of my body. 

I have work to do to keep my spirits up around my LightPath and the fascinating journey it is inviting me on. 

Keywords: Awareness and Consistent Creative Change.

What is a problem facing you? How do you define it, address it, and create the change you desire?  Get creative.  Get busy!

Self-healing and measuring results are a winning combination!

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I get creative about how I address the problem of ….

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Choose a problem to address in which the changes will be noticeable.  
  • Create your lists of Beliefs to Change,  Choices to Make, and Awareness to Deepen. 
  • Experiment, observe and create change.

Thank You for Your Birthday Wishes

I sit here in my apartment in the suburbs of Kansas City and don’t see very many people. And then I have the audacity to announce my birthday in my newsletter and send it not only to my subscribers, but post it on on Facebook and Twitter and suddenly I am beautifully aware of a planet full of friends. Your response is an extremely awesome and humbling experience. Thank you for taking time to acknowledge me. Thank you for taking time to read what I write and what I record. Thank you for walking this path with me. We are indeed a Circle of Light Beings and our collective light grows stronger. Feel our connection. Feel our collective support of each other in this journey we are taking together. Blessings and gratitude. Namaste – the light within me honors the light within you.

===INNER WORK===

Get Your Answers By Doing Your Inner Work

It’s not enough to be told how to do it, the only way you own something is by doing it – experiencing it for yourself. As I search to increase my use of vibrational healing I have to work on myself.  I have to experiment, practice, experience, explore, discover, and find my own path to the core message.  I have to practice it and experience it and get my own results in order to truly own the wisdom and experience. Then I have something to share and teach.  Find you answers though your own exploration and experimentation. 

Perspective and Self – Empowerment  

The SpiritSong oracle card I drew was “Perspective and Self-Empowerment” and I saw that as a very powerful combination to consider.  Empowering yourself to take action or find a solution is as simple as changing your perspective.  My challenge is my body, so from the perspective of my body it needs strengthening. That need triggers new choices.  Having that need, that focus, empowers my choices.  Rather easy, actually, shift your perspective and find new solutions.

SpiritSong Tarot

===OUTER  WORK===

Habit versus Conscious Choice

I gradually fell into the habit of walking with my head forward.  An instructor in an exercise class noticed it 4-5 years ago.  I let that unconscious habit dictate my posture until I was walking bent over.  Now I have begun to consciously change that. When I walk through a doorway in my home I pause to stand up straight and tall and hold that position for the count of 20.  It turns out that a lot of standing up straight is simply choosing to do so – being aware that one is not standing up straight and then mindfully making the change.  

Changing a habit is a matter of consciousness.  Awareness that you are doing something from habit.  And making a choice that you no longer want to mindlessly do that habit.  Awareness + Choice = Change.  What do you need/want to change?

Weigh the Choices

I’m sort of a just-do-it girl, I get an idea and I do it without a whole lot of thought. That works if you know yourself pretty well and it could get you in a tad of trouble if you were not aligned with your purpose and calling. We need to be aware of the general direction we are going at all times so that when a new choice or opportunity comes up it is easy to identify where it fits into the overall flow and helps us make an aligned decision.

I’m very much an intuition person but I am also very self-aware and know what and where a choice will lead me. Be aware of the consequences of your choices and actions and choose wisely.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Look for the Big Signs

I was seeking a personal answer to a personal problem and I found an answer that was all-encompassing and changed the course of my life. Are you asking questions that are big enough and broad enough to take you on a new journey? To lead you where you are to go next? To open up new doors and show you a new pathway? Don’t look for small answers. Look for the big signs that say “come this way”. And follow that. 

===INTENTION BLESSING===

May we walk the Path of Light with a sure foot. 

May we keep our gaze on the Summit of Light.

May we take this journey with an open heart. 

I entwine my light with yours and we move forward to guide the way.

===DISCOVERIES ===

Energy Healers, Read This Book!

I learned Reiki  in the 80’s – First Degree  on September 19, 1983 in New York City from Dr. Barbara Ray who had learned it from Hawayo Takata who of course learned it from Mikao Usui. I took Second Degree a week later September 25, 1983. I took Third Degree April 29, 1984 and became a Reiki Teacher on February 10, 1985. I was given 4th Degree March 20, 1986.  Reiki has been a part of my life for nearly 40 years, nearly half my life.  So I was fascinated to hear the interview on Sounds True with Dr. Shamini Jain and her experiences with biofields and energy healing, including reiki. 

This is new research of the use of bitfields in healing which has been used in ancient practices like yoga and Qigong that understand and utilize the energy meridians in our body.  This book will deepen your awareness and use of bitfield energy. Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health Her website is The Consciousness and Healing Initiative  You might want to get on her mailing list. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Is it Fear of Change or Fear of Being Irrelevant?

I’ve been thinking about the way people are so adamant about their positions.  Two thoughts came up – fear of change and fear of being irrelevant.  Both would give one pause to consider their options.  

Technology is moving so rapidly that even when we try to keep up we get behind.  It is creating new jobs and eliminating familiar ones.  How do we even learn the new jobs? Are there enough people who know the new technology to teach us?  And what if we’re not technically inclined?  There are a great many reasons to feel unsure.  Yes, every single one of us is going to become outdated and in some way irrelevant if we keep doing things the familiar, comfortable way.  That means I have to question all my choices  and a fair number of my beliefs particularly around what is possible!  It takes some bravery to question, to erase conclusions you have drawn, and begin a new path.  Fear of needing to change and not being able to change is in the minds of a lot of people whenever they are conscious of it or not.  And what if in all this change you become irrelevant – what if your skills are no longer useful?  They are printing houses for heaven’s sake, what does a carpenter do? Gas stations are becoming irrelevant as solar technology emerges.

What is underling the unease you feel about your future and the worlds’ future? The point is – what are you going to do about it?  How are you going to change?  How are you going to adapt?  Or are you?  What is being invented/created now that suits you and your interests and your skills?  How do you learn to do that?  Where are the new jobs to do that?  

This is a time for examining and exploring and trying on new options and opportunities.  Look around at the new doors that are opening and step through one!

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

Spiritual Practice

Create a Transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

Self Healing

Do You Hold the Beat or Play the Melody?

The Space of Inner Knowing

Expanding Awareness

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

Listen to my
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
Apple / Spotify / Google

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Our circle of influence is much larger than we imagine.  Our thoughts, our actions, our beliefs are like a radio tower sending off signals into the world.  What messages are you sending? Are you holding out frequencies of hope, of exploration, of high expectations?  Check your broadcast frequency and see if you need to raise it.

===CARA’S CORNER===

A Winning Combination

I drew two cards from my new SpiritSong tarot deck: Empowerment and Ambition was one,  Mentality and Focus the other.  I can’t think of a better combination for moving forward.  It puts the results squarely in my lap.  My ambition, my desire is empowering and chooses the direction – the desire drives my choices and my  willingness to do the work.  It gets results.  When I add ambition I take off and when I add mentality I find the path.  It creates big results. To ambition add focus, keep making choices in alignment with your goal and off you go – flying high! Your choices.  Your results.

Heres’s my takeaway. Everything is up to me.  What shows up in my life.  How I feel about it.  What I do about it.  I am sitting here creating my life from what I believe I deserve and what I believe is possible.  How am I living my unfolding?

I look at my body as healing and adjusting toward greater alignment even though it is grouchy while doing it.  I trust I will be shown where to go and what to explore on my changing path.  I am getting more insights on what is changing in the world and what some of our choices might be.  My journeys are showing me a higher path and I am taking it. The moment of change is now, in this second, with the beliefs we embrace, the choices we make, and the expectations we hold.  What are you dreaming up for yourself?  

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Creating My Life

What do I want?  What do I want my life to look like?  To feel like?

What do I want?  What do I want my life to look like?  To feel like? I have choices to make in the here and now that will direct the outcome.

What do I want?  What do I want my life to look like?  To feel like? I have choices to make in the here and now that will direct the outcome. It’s totally up to me. I choose thoughtfully.

– Cara Lumen November 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 explorers find powerful and creative ways to connect with and explore their own cosmic consciousness.

Please forward this newsletter to a friend and suggest they
Join the Deeper Song Community

Past Issues of this newsletter are being curated on my site on a page called Insights.

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 on the Deeper Song Explorers!

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

(26 minutes)

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Journey to the Sacred Feminine

(24 Minutes)

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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 ===

The Key to Experiencing Your Desired Future NOW, a fascinating free 4 part series with Dr. Joe Dispense. Important to listen to. Intro to a 7-week online course.

I’ve never seen a dance routine like this: One TEAM that blew dance sport internet away! ~ DueTeam, Perm, Russian Federation Ballroom Dance Tube • http://ballroomdancetube.com

===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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It’s Time to Shift into a New Possibility

By

Creating Conscious Connection

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

A shift is a gradual change.  It is like moving your sail a bit to catch the wind differently and thus steadily directing yourself to an entirely new destination.  I like that way of changing – a shift in focus that takes me to a new destination.   

I also like the idea of new possibilities.  It means that I can make a slight shift and from that new viewpoint, I can see new vistas, new directions, new possibilities – all by simply shifting my gaze. 

A possibility is not a “have-to” place to go.  A possibility is a place to explore, to consider, to try on for size.  You can take all of it or part of it or none of it.  

The idea is to shift – to turn our gaze, to look more closely at new options, to perhaps even explore a bit.  

Shift.  If we keep shifting our weight from one foot to another – we don’t go anywhere, but our view is different and our body is being used differently, all because we changed the emphasis, the focus, the weight from one place to another. 

Shifting can be like moving around furniture in a room or it can be like moving a dish a few inches on a counter to line it up better.   Small changes can make things align differently, open up new vistas, and create new possibilities. 

Shift your gaze. Center your attention in one place and slowly and consciously begin to identify the different energies and the feelings and sensations that viewpoint generates. Immerse yourself in the feeling of the energy, exploring the messages you intuit.  Change your gaze or your compete location to engage in a deeper experience of the messages of the energy you are aware of. The operative concept here is to shift.  Shift your gaze. Shift your thoughts. Shift your attentions.  Shift your intentions.   

How will you shift your gaze today?  Look closely at the new vistas it opens up. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I consciously shift my awareness and go adventuring.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Close your eyes and notice how you feel, what you hear, how the air smells.  Let those experiences soak into you. 
  • Now go deeper, leaving the physical plane behind, and shift your awareness to the Unseen World.  Leave behind all awareness of your body, or all sound, even of your breathing.  
  • Where are you? What do you see?  What do you feel?  
  • See where a gentle shifting of your gaze can take you?

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 have a discussion on the Deeper Song Explorers!

 ===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEEPR SONG====

Step Beyond the Limits of Yourself

An Exploration of the Unseen World

“The Tao is vast and fathomless. You can understand only by stepping beyond the limits of yourself,” says Stephen Mitchell in the Second  book of Tao.

What does that mean? What are the limits of myself?  How do I do that?

The word “Tao” means all-ness, everything that is, everything that exists, seen and unseen.  Tao IS.

And here we sit, all stuffed into our limited bodies, relying on limited resources trying to understand this immense vastest.  Where do we even begin?

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

Step Beyond the Limits of Yourself

(17 Minutes)

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Important Links From This Episode:

Stephen Mitchell Tao te Ching and Second book of Tao

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe  

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

The Power of Your Still Point

The Unseen World Needs Us

The Magical Power of an Affirmation

= ==INNER WORK ===

 The Empty Room

What if your life right now was like an empty room? You could bring into it only the things you like. What would you bring in?

I love the serene energy of a basic Feng Shui arrangement – usually 3-5 pieces. That might be a chair, a lamp and a table, or it may be a dish and plant and candle on a tabletop.  But I could never just choose three of anything for a tabletop or shelf. I am definitely not a minimalist and at the same time I appreciate the serenity of simplicity.

We get to become aware how just one more thing upsets the perfect balance.   

What is the first item you would bring into your inner room?  My computer has to come – for writing and learning and interconnecting. 

I would want my cat, Sebastian, to be with me.  We have a great interactive time. He is a supportive friend.

And then I would like a schefflera plant – a big one. I love those. 

A plant, a cat, and a computer.  Good so far.

I would like a place to rest and a way to feed myself.  

That makes for a fairly simple and clear space – until I bring in my crystals and my flutes and my drums…. 

But what I have established in my own mind is my priorities.  That helps.  

I recently gave away a lot of stuff.  My daughter and her husband helped me by hauling it away.  It was amazing how the energy in my home changed with that major letting go.  And I did gradually rethink and rearrange all the surfaces in my home.  Less crowded a bit, but very meaningful for my current awareness and nurturing to look at. 

If you were to begin with an empty room, what would you bring in and in what order?  And most importantly, when do you stop adding things…

Begin with an empty room…

Listen for the Messages of Your Heart

It’s not that your inner voice and the messages from your heart are different, it’s just that they are presented in a different way to help you interpret them. 

My inner voice picks up words and ideas that trigger a response in me.  I explore them and develop them. Some I keep.  Some I don’t.  I do that so often that I’m getting really good at it. 

I really had to stop to see how I hear the messages of my heart.  My heart spoke to me when I got super excited over helping a new friend find the words for her new website. I had a great time, the results were powerful and I had a marvelous time helping her figure out the positioning of her work.  Yes, it was mental but it made my heart sing. My creativity touches my heart.

Playing my flutes each day resonates to my core.  Sometimes it is simple melodies to nature that show up. Sometimes it is the specific songs I have composed for the directions and elements.  The melodies come from my deepest inner self and resonate throughout my body. They are definitely songs of my heart.

I’m in my mind a lot so I may need to practice listening to the messages of my heart. It will be as simple as looking for them. 

Having said that, my mind unerringly leads me to ideas and actions that make my heart sing.

We are a multi-faceted being and we get to access our actions from both our heart and our inner knowing.  Which is louder for you?  How will you turn up the volume?

Use Your Intention to Transform

We manifest things through our intention.  We set an intuition to do something and we do it.  We sent an intuition to change our focus and we do.  In shamanic journeying, we set an intention for our journey. At my altar, I set an intention for my day.  I set an intention for the energy I offer my work. 

Intentional intention….!

What do you intend for today?  What do you intend for your life?   Intention is purpose.   Intention is a plan.  Intention is a focus. Intention makes things happen. What is your intention? Think big.  Aim high!

The Dreams/Expectations You Were Given

So much of what we manifest for ourselves is based on a dream we were given.  An expectation for our lives from others.  Women my age did not have jobs, we were expected to get married and raise children.  Period. 

A young woman of today does not have that expectation for herself or her future. She has multiple choices and she goes exploring. And her expectations for herself are high. 

Let’s say your entire family is artistic and had managed to make their living as artists.  Not necessarily an easy thing to do.  But what if a member of that family is artistic but can’t follow in the footsteps of the others, even though the longing is great, the skill or know-how or whatever else it takes to succeed is simply not there? What kind of a wound does that make? Does he or she keep pursuing a path that is not theirs to follow?  

What did your parents expect of you? Is that the direction you chose? Did you fail to live up to their expectations?  Or did you far exceed them?

I didn’t realize I expected all my children to go to college until my first child was brain damaged by a forceps delivery at birth and that path was never an option for her.  I had to change my expectations. 

I took a very unique turn in my life that made me who I am today.  If I had not made that unusual and daring choice, my life would be quite different.  I have lived on both coasts and my metaphysical education grew by leaps and bounds. My choice.  My experiences.  My results. 

Pause and examine what your parents expected of you and how that helped or hindered you.  Have you put aside a dream because of someone else’s expectation of who you should be and what you should do?  Not just parents, but friends, spouses, even children have expeditions that you may or may not meet. 

Pause and notice what you expect from yourself and where that expectation came from. Are some adjustments in order?

===OUTER  WORK ===

Rethink Your Routine

Routine means a fixed pattern, a sequence you continuously follow.  It may be what time you go to bed, when you eat or when you walk your dog.  My cat Sebastian, has a very insistent routine that is guid not by a clock but by his stomach.  He reminds me it is time to feed him. There are all types of prompts that create a response or a reaction. It is the thoughtfulness that goes into your choices that determine their ultimate relevance to the present moment.

Question your choices.  Are they a response or a reaction? 

I have more free time than I have created for myself in a while, yet I want that time to be relevant, rich in ideas, fertile in offerings I can share.  And that’s all I need for now. Just keep your eye on your overarching goal, reset your routine and let your daily choices take you in the new direction you have chosen. 

Like Attracts Like

Pause to look at the people you have attracted to you. What are they like? Happy, angry, contemplative, jovial, serious, relaxed? They are a mirror of you.  How do you like your reflection and what would you like to change about yourself?

= ==DEEPEN  YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE ===

The Offering

I bought the Lotus Incense Holder for – incense – but instead I am using it for my personal offering – with my breath.  It has a lid which I lift as if I were letting smoke out and I name what I am offering – “I offer my curiosity, my love of writing, my sense of adventure to my day and its unfolding.”

There are many ways to make an offering. I have some paper I can write on that dissolves in water.  You can light a candle, you can use incense, you can simply use your breath to make the offering.  You can put your hands together and made a small bow. What will you offer to your world today?  How will you offer it?

Spring Equinox, March 20

If you garden, you have begun to look over the seed catalogs to see what you would like to plant for the coming year.  We can do the same for our life in the Spring Equinox. What we plant now is what we will harvest in the fall (or sooner) and what will tide us over in the winter. What will you plant?

I have a foundational planting of alternating podcasts and newsletters that seem to be a very good balance that leaves me time to explore. Now is the time for me to choose other things I want to explore or deepen or learn.

My problem is that I let things unfold and I can’t put them into a list. 

But I can make choices and go exploring.  

For instance, I want to do more shamanic journeying into the unseen world.  It’s hard to figure out any details beyond that.

One of the crops I want to plant is to expand my spiritual practice.  That means more moving meditation like Qi Gong, expanded musical meditation with flutes and drums, and using writing as meditation as I explore my thoughts.

We are plants too, growing in the Garden of Self, but I have a few “Cara” Plants growing that I would like to have less of – some habits of omission (like the need to walk more). Do keep an eye on the unwanted plants that show up. A weed is a plant too, but when it shows where it is not wanted it is considered a weed…

The overarching tone of my Garden of Self this year is exploration.  What crops are you going to plant?

= ==DEEPER SONG  INSIGHTS  ===

Koan

Shenshan was mending clothes with a needle and thread.
Dongshan asked, “What are you doing?”
Shenshan said, “Mending.”
Dongshan asked, “How are you mending?”
Shenshan said, “One stitch is like the next.”
Dongshan exclaimed, “We’ve been traveling together for twenty years now, and you can still say such a thing!
How can you be so dense?”
Shenshan asked, “OK, then, how do you mend?”
Dongshan said, “As if the whole earth were spewing flames.”

If you want to study Koan’s, I highly recommend Illana Berger, PhD

illanaberger@gmail.com, www.illanaberger.com

Formation  

I drew the Oracle card “Formation” after having drawn “Ready But Waiting” a number of times.  So perhaps this period I have gone through of knowing change was forming but not knowing what it would look like is moving forward. 

Formation can be very slow, like centuries of layers of sediment gradually build up layers to become rock.  Or it can be a rapid change, like lava pouring over the hillside to change its shape forever.  Forming is about shaping, evolving.  It is change. It is an emergence.  Like a baby bird working its way out of the shell in its own perfect time, or a caterpillar securely wrapped in its cocoon and gradually changing form.  Formation takes patience and awareness of its subtle changes. 

What is forming in your life and how is it unfolding?

= ==OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

A Path of Your Own 

The future is not about fitting into something that exists, it is about forging your own unique path, using the new technologies and concepts that are available to shape your own future.  

This is a time to celebrate your uniqueness.  To identify what sets you apart and cultivate that into a possible new path. 

This is no longer a time for figuring out how to fit into something that already exists because all that exists is in the process of changing, evolving, repurposing, and retooling. This is the time to make up a new role for yourself. 

I am listening to my inner voice make suggestions for slightly shifting my focus in a way that will both eliminate some of what I am doing and expand others. 

Whatever you develop, your path will be unique, yours alone, paved with choices that match your gifts, your interests, and your desire to serve.

Where you are standing right now is a result of the choices you have made along the line – both choices to do and choices not to do.  Identify what resonates, identify what led you to manifest that outcome, and create a path that is uniquely your own.

A Cosmic Question   

I heard the phrase “cosmic question” from Judge Merck Garland in his confirmation hearing for Attorney General in the US. It not only was an interesting phrase coming from a fact-based federal judge but I had to pause to figure out what it meant to me. 

I think it means to look at the over-arching impact. How far-reaching the answer to the question will be.  It means to look beyond the reason for the question into the potential impact of the possibilities the idea suggests.  What does that mean exactly?

A cosmic question means to look into the far-reaching consequences both for now and in the future and even in future generations.  What will this decision impact? Who will it impact? We are to look beyond the reason for the question into the possible and probable impact of the decision.

The most obvious example is our climate.  It’s not just about dropping our one plastic straw into the ocean, it’s about the zillions of other people who thoughtlessly do the same without any consideration for the future impact of that mindless act. Change is made in our consciousness -our conscious decisions, our conscious choices. 

When we do something, you can bet there are a whole lot of others doing the same.  What will our collective impact be?

Yes, we feel overwhelmed, but I control my own personal universe, as do you.  I am responsible for my own choices and for their impact. 

In essence, we are to ask a cosmic question about everything we do. Who will this impact?  What will it impact?  Is this what I want to do?

===MESSAGES FROM THE SACRED EARTH ORACLE CARDS  ===

Space

We need to give ourselves space to grow.  We need to give ourselves space to move.  We need to give ourselves space to think.  We do that with pauses. We do that with meditation. We give ourselves space when we simply pause to look out the window and connect with nature.  We open up space when we take a deep breath and move to our Still Point. 

Space is also about – well, space – the planets, the galaxy, the unseen world that is 95% of everything.  

Do you give yourself space to think?  To Feel?  To contemplate? To change?  How will you focus on space in the next few weeks?

Sacred Earth Cards

===CARA’S CORNER ===

Allow Time for It to Unfold

After many months of knowing change was coming. I finally and dramatically and totally had the vision come into being.  

I type my journeys as I experience them so when the clarity of this new direction finally kicked in, I went back to see what I had been told in my journeys of the last few months. 

The hints were there. In fact, they were more than hints.  I had just not been in a place to hear them.  Until suddenly I was and this next body of work became incredibly clear.  The Universe had to keep showing me the new direction a whole lot of times until I was ready to hear it.  

Guidance is there all the time. The more you listen, the more you hear. 

Journal, make some lists, gather more information, whatever form you need in order to make some of your ideas visible in the human realm so you can relate to them and consider them.  Write those ideas down in one place and when you are ready, you have a good-sized collection of potential answers.  

What am I going to do?  Process Podcasts.  Guided meditations that can be listened to multiple times that give you a different, individualized experience every time.  I have some processes recorded but not like these.  They are specific. These are about you filling in the experience.  So it will be different for you every time you listen because you will be accessing your inner wisdom. 

It takes time for ideas to unfold but when you are ready, they will be there in order to move you forward! Keep listening…!

===A DEEPER SONG ===

A new path opens, a new journey begins. 

A new path opens. A new journey begins and the road ahead widens.

A new path opens. A new journey begins and the road ahead widens to reveal untold possibilities. Here I go adventuring!!!!!!

-Cara Lumen

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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How to Connect with Those Who are looking in a Different Direction

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How to Connect with Those Who are looking in a Different Direction    

Creating Conscious Connection

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

Our discussion was about how or what to do to communicate with some of the radical, discordant thinking that made itself so blatantly known in the US recently. 

My first thought is that you cannot reach those people on a mental level because that’s also where their rhetoric and motion is coming from.  And if they are following threads of misinformation, words cannot even begin to connect.  

We have all manner of metaphysical things to consider as we respond and/or react to our changing world. 

What you focus on persists.

We have this negative energy coming together.  It is the center of the news and the concern.  To focus on it gives it more strength. We don’t want to focus on it but we do want to protect ourselves from it. 

We get to do all of that, – be aware of the discord, focus on raising the vibration of the collective whole, and set up protection for ourselves from the negativity. 

My major thought is that you cannot connect on the physical level with those who are what – angry, misinformed, building on a negative premise?  We cannot connect mentally or emotionally. But we are all one energy.  And at its heart it is an energy of wholeness – One.  All-That Is. 

Those of us who can, have to help others see and recognize in themselves the energy of Oneness, the core of who we are in the Great Nothingness.  We cannot solve this on the physical plane. We are to heal the negativity on the spiritual plane. 

How do we do that?

The image I keep coming to is a field of golden spiritual consciousness surrounding the earth.  Those of us who are aware of being part of that consciousness shine our lights as brightly as we can.  And some others, who are caught up in the mundane physical plane, look up and see us and say, “Oh, I remember that part of me. I want to go to that place again.”

And they do. The instant they make that choice their vibration raises. The minute they begin to turn inward and nurture their inner light, their vibration raises. As they walk with more awareness of themselves as Light Beings, others begin to see that Light of Oneness in themselves too and they choose that as their new focus. 

What we focus on persists. 

I started to say that I’m going to cut back on my news watching and develop a spiritual practice that sends healing energy to the earth. Lobbing Light Balls comes to mind. But that keeps me focused on the negativity that is abundant in the world.  I have to change my focus. I have to focus on the positive, the good, our wholeness.  

Expand your spiritual practice of Oneness.

I can work to raise my own vibration so I shine brighter and further and others see the light in themselves and pass it forward. I do that through intention. 

Watch where your focus is taking you. Where you allow it to take you. Raise your sights.  Focus on the higher vibration that is shining forth from many of us. Seek out those fellow Light Bearers and support each other in being brighter, more far-reaching lights.

I move now to do my inner world and shift my focus away from the negativity on the physical plane. To change the world I have to change myself so how do I begin?

Monitor your thoughts. 

When you find yourself in a place of anger or judgment or fear, stop those thoughts and immerse yourself in the Oneness that holds us all.  

Monitor your actions.

Rather than try to argue with someone you disagree with, hold your own vibration high and continue to raise it.  The other person may or may not be aware of the choice you are offering – for them to raise their own vibration.  They may feel it but not understand it.  Hold steady in the Light. They will either recognize it in themselves – or they won’t. 

Monitor your chores.

The majority of our work has to be within ourselves.  In my Sacred Garden of Self, I can plant and cultivate and harvest whatever I choose.  If you are looking at a seed catalog to see what to plant in your Inner Garden of Self, notice what you do NOT want to grow as well as what you do want to cultivate.

Spend time comparing varieties of the same plant in order to choose the ones that best adapt to where you have placed your garden. 

You don’t plant everything in the sun, some plants need shade.  Some need more water and some need less water.  Each concept you plant in your Garden of Self has its own rhythm, its own unfolding process and its own growing needs. 

What if some seeds come over from the neighbors garden that I don’t want in mine?  Be aware of the  unwanted seeds that take root.  Weed your Inner Garden regularly and keep an eye out for the seeds you do not want to grow in your Sacred Garden of Self.

Becoming aware of what seeds you are allowing to grow in your Garden of Self is a very powerful step to take.   You can weed out beliefs, misconceptions, ideas you unconsciously picked up from someone whose beliefs are different from yours. You are the gardener here.  It is your job to cultivate and nurture what you want to grow and weed out what is not wanted.

Change your thinking, change your life.  You get what you believe you deserve and what you believe is possible. 

What are you thinking?

What is growing in your Inner Garden of Self?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I monitor my thoughts and raise my vibration even higher as I add to the group consciousness of our planet. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Monitor your thinking. What are you focusing on?
  • Open your heart to experience a greater feeling of inclusiveness. 
  • Focus on being an Agent of Change who is raising your energy higher and higher for the well being of all.

OUR GLOBAL DEEPER SONG COMMUNITY

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DEEPER SONGS I EXPLORED THIS MONTH

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

An Exploration of the Unseen World

There is tremendous and dramatic change in the world around us.  It is the emergence of the feminine, the rise of a New Consciousness.  Not all of us are called to rise to this higher vibration but those that are finding each other and are being bolstered as we gather together on this journey into the New Consciousness. 

I journeyed to ask for insights and guidance around this massive change the world is undergoing.  I was surprised and bolstered by the answer I received.

In this episode we explore

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

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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.  

Important Links & Mentions From This Episode:

How to Create a transformative Energy Shield for Protection

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Gaia Gateway and the Soul Star 

The Space of Inner Knowing

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

How to Align Your Vibration within our Collective Vibrational Core

Your Future Self

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

The Space of Inner Knowing

***INNER WORK***

What Started You on the Path You are On?

Look back over your life and identify the major choices you made that brought you to where you are today. That includes the family you chose to be born into.  Identify the major choices that led you to where you are now. They become guideposts for creating your “next”.

My need to write showed up in High School where I began contributing to the school paper as a sophomore and became editor my senior year.  A comparative religion course I took in college opened up an awareness I had not had before. My choice to not take a news reporting class as part of my Speech and Drama degree left out some valuable information I had to acquire later.  And dropping out of my undergrad play writing class when we were told to write about what we knew – and I did’t think I knew anything. (I made that up in my 40’s when I went back to get my Master’s Degree.)

My first job out of college was as a Radio Continuity editor at KMBC radio in Kansas City.  

A few years later I applied for a job as a copywriter in an Advertising Agency. I was told to write a black and white ad and had to ask what that was.  I finally figured out it was a print ad and wrote one.  I got the job.

I became online talent in television when I was a copywriter and a salesman told me to write myself into a commercial for a client of his.  The opening lines were “Your eyes are your most important possession.”  It was the beginning of a modest career in television. 

The most life-changing choice I made was to move from the mid-west to New York City where my broad and enthusiastic holistic education took place.  It would not have been available to me at that time anyplace else in the world. 

There are choices you have made in your life that opened doors to new adventures and shut the doors to other pathways.   Can you identify some of the major choices you made that brought you to where you are now? How did that work out? What are you choosing in the moment?  Where will that lead you?   

What self-aligned choices can you make today?

Stretch

I have drawn the oracle card “Stretch” four times in the month that I have had my Sacred Earth cards.  Each time I journal what it means to me. The picture shows a woman with both deepening roots and spreading branches so I understand that I am to use my Still Point to move more deeply within to explore the Unseen World and turn and translate that to share with others. 

It is like drawing up nourishment from Gaia, I am to draw in the awareness, the insights, the consciousness of the Unseen World.  Then turn to raise my vibration, to share what I have discovered. “Stretch” means to expand, to reach for.  It means being able to expand without tearing or breaking. What are you reaching for? And are you reaching far enough?  And high enough?

What Are You Breathing In?

There is both negative and positive energy and in each moment we have a choice which one we breathe in. We do that with our intention. 

We are constantly breathing energy in and breathing energy out.  In each moment, we have a choice whether to breathe in positive energy or breathe in negative energy.  We have a choice with each breath.  

Set your intention. Do not breathe in negativity.  Do breathe out inclusive, high vibration.  Be aware of your choices. 

We are self-healing.  Use your breath to consciously bring in energy that heals you. Go to Gaia and the elements and breathe in their power. 

If you don’t breathe in consciously you are not consciously breathing out. We have the power to transform and transmit all energy – with a conscious, intentional breath. 

***OUTER WORK***

Be Flexible in Your Thinking  – It Opens New Doors  

There are many ways to do things.  Think of cooking – you can bake, fry, steam, eat raw – all of those approaches produce edible food.  Think of the many spices one can add to a meal.  That’s the kind of flexible and innovative choices you want to add to your thinking. 

Not just in how you do it but in when you do it and what you choose to do. 

It involves some exploring.  With a goal of sharing what I learn, I can consider posts, newsletters, podcasts, videos, and books.  My choice is based on what I want to do and what reaches the most people.  

Explore your options and possibilities.  I explore.  I experiment.  I discover that one form really pleases me and I’m rather good at it.  I make a choice only after exploring and experimenting and seeing how that form is received. 

Be flexible in your thinking and do a lot of exploring and experimenting before you choose a path. 

Let Go – Make Room

My daughter Cathy and her husband Ron came and helped me make a major change – I got rid of a lot of stuff I was no longer using!  It was my idea to give some stuff away and I worked for three days taking things out of closets and bookcases.  There were moments of sadness as I remembered how I used to be when I used those things.  I pulled out a lot of things to give away.

But Cathy was relentless as she took on my pantry where all manner of things were crowded together.   “When was the last time you used this?”  was her mantra.  And in most cases, I had kept it “just in case” and it had not been used in years. 

We forget why we hang on to things.  

Whether it’s a closet or your cluttered desktop, rethink what you keep around you and be relentless in the choosing.

There comes a time when we cannot reach high places and low places in our home. There comes a time when we can’t reach into the corner to clean. There comes a time when we simply need to give away what we no longer use or need.

If you have an older person in your life, consider offering your strength and flexibility to help them reorganize their space with one intention being to give things away and make the things they use more assessable.  

***DEEPEN  YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE***

Let Your Daily Spiritual Practice Evolve

A daily spiritual practice can be short or long. it can be simple or elaborate.  The purpose, the intention, is to move you from your physical plane limitation into the expanded power and overarching guidance of the Unseen World.  The All That Is. The Nowhere That You Came From. You seek to cultivate the vibration of wholeness.  You want to connect with it, experience it and draw it more fully into your life. 

A deep breath to your Still Point is an easy place to begin. In several breaths, you can drop away from your humanness and go deep within.

Find a way to connect with nature.  She is our guide.  Her seasons, her cycles, her power are lessons and guides for us.  We are part of nature, we are to express ourselves with the same fluidity.   

I sit looking out a window and play my native flutes.  Two squirrels are playing tag there.  I can see the shape-shifting clouds and I have a large weeping birch who is my tree messenger to send positive energy to the world. 

Honor the elements.  I have chosen crystals for each element. I have made up songs for each element.  Elements are powerful teachers.  Take time to connect with the elements each day. 

Set an intention.  Mine often revolves around a blessing for the words I write or share – that they touch hearts and change lives. 

You can have an opening and closing of the day – a moment of contemplation.  I sometimes play down the sun with my flutes.   

I bless my work for the day.  I bless the food that I choose.  I offer gratitude for my body’s support.  

You know how to do this.  Create small focused moments of gratitude and blessing at several points in your day. 

Deeper Listening: 

The Power of Your Still Point

How to Activate a Tree Messenger to Send Your Healing Energy into the Word.

The Role of the Element of Fire in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the Element of Earth in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the Element  Water in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the element of Air in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the Element of Space in Our New Consciousness

What is Your Role in Creating the New Consciousness?

How too Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

Use the Intention of Your Breath for Healing

We can heal and realign and restore through the power of our breath. When you take in a breath consciously, take in the higher vibration, not the lower vibration that is so prevalent in the world today. We do that through the power of our intention.   Through intention, take in your breath from the higher vibration, the Oneness, the All That Is.  Let it heal your body, your thoughts, your intentions, and when you breathe out, breathe out oneness and serenity into the energy of the planet.

Focus the Tone of each Day with an Intention

I have a sequence of spiritual steps I take each morning but I had not thought about programming my day until Shama Puma Fredy Quispe Singona suggested it. What is the purpose of your day?  What focus do you want it to bring to you?  When lessons do you want to receive? What gifts do you want to offer? The Universe will give you all of that but setting an intention for each day will help you recognize the guidance that comes in. 

Use your breath to create a small Ceremony of intention for the focus, outcome, and well-being of your day.

The headline was “Great change only comes with great friction.” I don’t choose to look at change that way. I see myself welcoming change, encouraging change, embracing change.  To make room for change I have to willingly let go – of beliefs that no longer serve, solutions that no longer work.  The more powerful word is unfolding.  Just keep looking closely at what shows up.  Change is all around you. Change is up to you. Focus it.   Embrace it.  

***DEEPER SONG  INSIGHTS ***

How Do You See Change?

The headline was “Great change only comes with great friction.” I don’t choose to look at change that way. I see myself welcoming change, encouraging change, embracing change.  To make room for change I have to willingly let go – of beliefs that no longer serve, solutions that no longer work.  The more powerful word is unfolding.  Just keep looking closely at what shows up.  Change is all around you. Change is up to you. Focus it.   Embrace it.  

Covid-19 Shot

I got my first Covid-19 shot this month.  A pharmacist came to our senior center and gave 100 shots. I am very grateful.

***DEEPER SONG IDEAS ***

Man Hasn’t Been to the Grocery Store in 8 Months Thanks to Tiny Pandemic Garden 

***OUR EVOLVING FUTURE***

Choice 

We are moving through a period of domestic terrorism in the US.  As I watch these citizens of a country built on democracy work to overthrow the government, I also know they have no clue what to do if they were in charge. There is no plan, only the anger which in this case is fueled by major disinformation and decades of white supremacist beliefs. 

They exist.  They are dangerous. And there are many who are undertaking to stop their actions.  

And I choose to shift my focus, to look in a more positive direction.  Not ignoring the evil, just gathering hope and purpose from looking in another direction.  It is a consciences choice I make.

As I watch President Joe Biden put extremely skilled and experienced people in charge of all aspects of government, I see a powerful, opening light at the end of the tunnel.  A new beginning.  A new era.  I have hope and confidence in the unfolding of the future.  That’s where I choose to focus my gaze. 

Ok, that’s my pep talk for those of us in the US.  Now let’s get to what we, as individuals get to do in every moment of our lives that impacts, influences and directs what happens next.  We get to choose.  Over and over and over.  Our choices create our future.  Our choice of reactions, or mindful choices.  Our choice of action or non-action.  Our choice of where we focus, our choice of who we are and what we support, our choice of the steps we take to move ourselves forward. 

Choice is our tool.  Choice is how we change directions.  Choice is how we learn.  

Where have your current choices led you? What choices are you making for yourself and where will it take you next?

Chose your next role. It helps me to understand that I’m an energy worker, not a hands-on worker. That awareness focuses my search for how I am to be in service in this unfolding new world we are experiencing.  The choice of your role focuses your path and guides you to your future. 

Re-think and re-chose the purpose of  your work.  I seek to raise my own vibration and help others do the same.  I do that by exploring the Unseen World for insights and guidance that I interpret and bring back to share. I have developed several platforms through which to share. Focus on your purpose. It helps you make powerful and aligned choices. 

Explore your options. What conscious thoughts are you exploring?  Choose one and walk down the path a bit to see if it takes you in the direction you want to go. How does it feel?  Where will it take you?  Is that where your heart wants you to go next?  Who do you see walking the path beside you, in front of you or right behind you?  Are they the people you want to walk with? To learn from?

Keep exploring until you are walking along the path that will take you in the direction you want to go in this moment. Then get to work. 

Professional Evolution – Stay Relevant

The clever people will keep up with the new discoveries and quickly get the training they need to stay relevant.  We can refuel an airplane with elements found in air while it is flying in mid-air. What kind of jobs does that create that never existed before and which jobs does that new technology make obsolete?

As we move to solar and wind-power, entire industries will be elevated. And new professions will be created.

They can print a 3D house in three weeks.  What does that do for carpenters and electricians and painters?  Do real estate agents turn and help the underprivileged?  Each one of these areas will be impacted and each one will have new job descriptions that need filling. 

How flexible are you?  How curious are you?  Are you keeping up with the new possibilities, the new rapidly unfolding potential?

I’m a writer.  There is now a way to write with the help of Artificial Intelligence!!!!

And there are audiobooks and videos and podcasts – each venue nurtures a separate audience and each venue requires some different talents in my skill set.  

Can you create an online program that teaches bored children and keeps them entertained while their parents work from home?  How does a person who knows about waiting tables repurpose and retrain themselves in order to find employment?  What skills have you overlooked that could be utalized in order to open new forms of employment?

Nothing is the same and we each have to go exploring.  How are you staying relevant?

***MESSAGE FROM THE SACRED EARTH CARDS***

I have been drawing an oracle card for myself every day.  I turn to my computer and journal what ideas come up.  I also put a date on it.  What I am finding is that the same card shows up several times a few days apart and each time I write how I interpret it, I gain new insights. 

I drew an oracle card for us this week and got two cards:

CORE

This is an amazing cad.  It shows a woman with an open heart and her hands on her solar plexus pulling up all she has to radiate out through her third eye.   We make a powerful difference when we come from our hearts.  We make aligned decisions when we come for our inner knowing. 

Whatever you do, do it with your whole self.  Immerse yourself in the doing, then given yourself over to the flow from inner to outer. Live your life from the center of you.  Nurture yourself at your core and feel the power of your core radiate out in all you think and say and do. 

INNOCENCE

“Innocence” is the second card I drew for us this month.  They were “stuck” together and came out as a pair.  It shows a woman holding a dove with great tenderness and care.  Her third eye is open and all-seeing. At the top are the phases of the moon. The natural organic, ongoing cycles of life.  How do we interpret this for us today? 

Look beyond the physical manifestation to the soul, the core, the essence – in yourself and in others.  To care for yourself be aware of the opportunities to make choices – to begin again with a fresh clean start.  Treat those fledging ideas with gentleness and listen to your inner voice, your inner eyes for the fresh insight, the new energy, the purest way to begin from where you are. Innocence – Lay down everything and begin with an open heart. 

We seem to have a message of “core innocence”.

Sacred Earth Cards

CARA’S CORNER

The Discomfort of Healing

There was a large physical shift and I knew that the 90 minutes call I had been on in Zoom with my fellow healers had moved something within me.  I really, really, really hurt.  It hurt to stand, it hurt to sit, it hurt to lie down.  Not that we have to hurt to heal but I am going through an organic process of realigning my spine and posture and the muscles are being cranky as we make the shift. 

I’m not certain what happened, just that something let go and my body rearranged itself.   I stood differently.  

Change does not have to be painful. However, if you suddenly  remove a blockage, all sorts of things are going to get grouchy as they move  back into alignment.  Cranky – my body was really cranky….

You know how one small course correction can take you miles away from your destination?  So a small adjustment on the physical plane can take you on a new adventure.  

How do I know it is a healing? Because change is healing. Because I simply know.  And I am listening and changing my intentions and raising my expectations so my body can adjust and move in the direction it needs to go next.

Beware of change. Be flexible in change.  Welcome change.  Adjust to change. Let change open up new vistas for o to explore. Change means you are can choose a new direction and that is a good thing. 

A DEEPER SONG

Change.  It was a small change.  

Change. 
It was a small change that took me in a new direction. 

Change. 
It was a small change that took me in a new direction. 
I welcome change and invite it to take me adventuring. 

– Cara Lumen

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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