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Where Your Attention Goes Your Energy Goes

Where Your Attention Goes Your Energy Goes

Living Our Deeper Song

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

It’s really so easy – where your attention goes your energy goes. What are you paying attention to? 

When I was getting ready to move to Evergreen long-term care, I spent a fair amount of energy worrying – worrying about whether I would like it, whether I would get the space that I wanted that had enough room.  

First of all, you have to notice that you are worrying. What do you spend your day focusing on? Do you focus on the positive things that are happening? Or do you focus on the scary things you think might not work out so well? That’s the point at which you change your focus and thus change your life experience. It’s as simple as turning your head and redirecting your gaze.

But first we have to notice where we are looking and then decide where we get to shift our gaze. 

Our energy follows our attention. So, if I spend my time worrying, that’s where my energy goes but if I turn the focus on the positive steps I’m taking, that changes where my energy goes. We have great control over what we focus on in every moment of the day. Notice where your mind is leading you.  Begin to make more positive choices.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I focus my attention on the positive aspects of my life and I expect the best

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Notice where your attention is going during the day. If it is less than positive, shift your gaze.
  • Monitor your attention throughout the day to keep your yourself focused on the positive and notice how that changes your life 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Energy Sweeping

I’ve added a new step to my morning routine. It is energy sweeping and it is a time when I release the night and any energy that I might have released during sleep. I sweep my room to clear the dreams. And I turn to look out the window to welcome in the energy of the fresh new day. It is at the time that I welcome the day with a ceremony that I have created for myself. 

A sweeping ceremony each morning clears the ground for the new day. You have a whole new open space in which you can place anything you wish. You might offer gratitude for the clarifying dreams of the night and for the potential of the day to come. 

As we clear the energy in our space, we clear our own energy systems and create a welcoming place for the unfolding day.

Sweeping affects every level – physical, spiritual, emotional and mental. Sometimes sweeping is used to start a ceremony. Are you sleeping in a place you want to clear out?  Create a sweeping ceremony and make room for the new. 

You can use a feather to sweep your area. You can use a wave of your hand.  You can use a song or drumming. Clear the space and set the intention for a new day. Use this time to release anything that needs to be released from the night. That same time is used to clear the way for the new day to unfold in all its potential. What kind of sweeping ceremony will you create to prepare the way for a glorious new day? 

Take Another Look

Sometimes when opportunity presents itself, we are simply not ready. That means that at a later date we might want to give that opportunity a second look to see if we have changed, to see if the opportunity has changed. Perhaps it is a better fit now. Perhaps there is a new version of it that has presented itself.

It might be a good idea to visit some old stuck places to see if it’s possible to unstick yourself. To move forward. To approach it from a different viewpoint so the things that you rejected at one point in your life may present a new and interesting possibility in the present moment. 

What decisions in your life do you need to re-examine? What opportunities might be more in line with where you are right now? Take your time and take another look. See what has changed and what new door has opened. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Cultivate Inner Peace

Begin each day with a deliberate cultivation of inner peace. Look out the window at nature and be at one with its gradual and steady unfolding. Noticed the subtle shapeshifting clouds and add that rhythm to your life. Set an intention for your day of inner peace and deepening awareness. Throughout your day pause before you begin each task to center and ground yourself so that you can move forward in deep serenity. Consciously cultivate inner peace and watch how your day offers you new awareness and opportunities.

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

How to Alter Your Feelings

Our experiences are caused by our thoughts. So if you change your thoughts you change your life experience. 

Begin with the feeling. If you were feeling depressed, identify the reasons for that feeling and then examine it more closely. Look for the mistaken belief. Look for any notion that needs to be clarified or released. 

When you look behind these feelings you will find that your mind is involved. Sometimes our minds make stuff up and we have to get clear about what is so and what is not. 

Sometimes changing our feelings is as easy as changing our gaze. Focus on what is working instead of focusing on what is not working and on what you get to do as opposed to what you don’t get to do. Shifting your gaze is a very powerful way to change your feelings and your experience.

Change your actions. If you keep on doing what you have been doing, you will keep on getting what you have been getting. 

Sometimes it only takes a slight course correction to produce a different outcome. Other times you really need to start from scratch. What method will you use to alter your feelings today? 

Are You Doing Your Best Work?

I haven’t given this much thought, but I don’t know if I’m always doing my best work. I do what I do with enthusiasm. I do what I do with passion. But I’m not one for perfectionism. I’m too eager to find the core lesson, the core message, and build on that. 

So what is my “best work.” Is it this curiosity and enthusiasm and passion with which I do almost everything? Or am I to be more detailed and careful, which is not in my nature at all. I think my curiosity and enthusiasm count for a lot. “Best work” is not about perfection itself, it is about your heart and the passion and commitment and love that you put into whatever you do, however well you do it. Your best work comes from a place within. Keep doing that. 

Share Your Appreciation

What if today you to offer your gratitude to at least three people? Thank them for who they are, or what they do, or how they show up in the world.  In that group of three, thank one person you know well, one person you know casually, and one person that you randomly come across during the day. Make that trifecta of gratitude every day. Thank three people for who they are or what they do or how they show in the world and spread a little joy and appreciation in the world.

Do With Less

Because everything is being provided to me by Medicare at Evergreen, I am left with a monthly allowance of $62. I’ve been an impulsive spender all my life but I have very little room to do that anymore and I also have everything I need right now, so I get to examine why I buy things and see what unfulfilled need or impulse makes me buy things. I do have my priorities which is funding my web page. They are very generous at Christmas here at Evergreen so I can keep up with my clothes. I have never been good with money but I guess I’m going to start now. 

How are your spending habits and why do you buy things? 

Leave A Clear Path

I’m going to begin to do my podcast again and I sure am glad that I have left a very clear path about how to do it because it’s been a while since I’ve done them. I have a very strong outline to work from to both compose, record, edit, and publish each podcast. Because I chose to share my format with some friends a few years ago, I have a template that has a great deal of detail on all the steps to outline a strong talk. Whatever your project, make yourself a strong template so when you come back to a project of a similar type of work, you don’t have to start over.

If you have a detailed process that you do in your work, perhaps take time to write it down so you can pass on to others. 

This particular template even talks about the editing process. It is one basic template for my entire podcast routine. 

Leave process maps along your way.  At some point you’ll be glad you did.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Sing As An Offering To Your Day

I sing to my day every day. I have made up little songs to the four directions and a gratitude song for my life and my day. Singing is an active vibration.  It takes music from your mind and turns it into an experience of emotion and communication.

Singing is a vibration that reaches everywhere. It stimulates all your chakras and nurtures and balances and heals your body. It opens your heart. It raises your spirits. And ultimately your song moves out to heal the world. That’s a lot to get from a song.

How are you going to add music to your spiritual practice? I began by choosing a purpose. Like singing to the four directions. I could sing to nature. I could sing to my day. I could sing to my path.  I have a song I sing at night that is both a blessing for the night to come and protection before I go to sleep. 

Let your song evolve.  Begin with one line and see what organically follows. I have recently added songs to the cycles of ending and the cycles of beginning and I’m still working on the words to those songs. I let them emerge organically. But I sing them every day and the words are coming. 

I happen to drum when I sing. I had a fair-sized collection of drums from my drumming classes but this is a small Celtic drum you hold in your hands. 

Begin by turning and looking out the window and opening your heart to nature and see what melody she wants to offer you. Add singing to your spiritual practice. It will be a positive experience that opens new insights and awareness for you. 

===GUIDANCE FROM OUR COSMIC COUNSELORS ===

Listen Beyond the Voice Within 

Cosmic Counselors: I Seek Guidance On How To Plan For The Coming New Year.

I Journey to The Cosmic Counselors:

I find myself in the planning room at the base of the Blue Broadcast Tower in my Secret Garden. Around the table sit not my usual group of guides, but the three Cosmic Counselors and I. The Planet floats in the center of the table. “How do you wish to help the planet in the coming year?”, one Counselor asks. (They ae all female.)  “I don’t know. It is a big job. There are many aspects in which to participate. It seems that humankind needs to do a great deal of adjusting and accepting of what needs to emerge and how the world needs to change. I don’t know how I am to move forward in a positive manner.”

“Trust,” says the second Comic Counselor.  “I know how to encourage Light Workers to do High Watch for the world but is there something more specific that I can do to help raise the consciousness of humankind? I wish to work with the light workers who are already on the path to awareness.”

“You will use your mind to first envision a world of loving kindness and peaceful interaction into being – in all communities. Visualize peaceful interaction and loving harmony and deep kindness and caring. Visualize that supportive interaction in your own community, that interaction in your city. Visualize that peaceful interaction in your state. Let that peaceful interaction in your country become individualized interaction throughout the world,” says the third Cosmic Counselor.

The revolving planet in the center of the table take on a soft smile of happiness. 

“Is it as easy as that?” I ask.

“It is the beginning. Then it can be multiplied and enhanced by more people visualizing a peaceful planet.” 

I begin to relax. I mentally go into small communities on the planet and visualize kind people loving each other and cohabitating peacefully. A glow of contentment come from the land. It is still evolving in the cities. A slow soft laugh begins until the whole planet is laughing joyously at the changes that are being made energetically. I see people from different countries, laughing together, sharing together in harmony. As I watch, more and more healing places emerge on the surface of the planet. Not just peaceful cohabitation takes place but joyful and loving cohabitation becomes the norm. 

The three Cosmic Counselors hold hands and reach out to include me in their circle. I am honored. We stand surrounding the planet holding hands. Our hearts begin to open and light emerges and begins to surround the planet in Heart Light. I hear a group singing. It is the Light Workers. They sing, “Open your heart and feel the world with an awareness of oneness and love for all humankind. We are one.” 

I watch golden light flow deep within the Earth. It’s not filled yet. But it is spreading gradually throughout the world. I feel my own heart expand and reach out to embrace the entire planet with my love and support and positive thoughts and energy. 

“Keep doing the work,” says one of the Cosmic Counselors. “There are many of you doing the work. Keep doing the work and you will find each other. Then join together and do even greater work.” We sit quietly. 

Surrounding us is the sound of humming coming from all over the planet. I realize it is the Light Workers beginning to find each other and working together to save the planet. I sit quietly and open my heart and expand my consciousness to wrap my arms around the revolving planet. I open my heart more. 

“Planet, where is our work?” 

“Open your heart and join with other Light Workers to continue to raise the consciousness of our planet.”

I sit quietly for a while. I find myself on the bench in my Secret Garden. The Carillon is playing its melody out over the countryside to let all the Light Workers know of this important work we are to do. 

“Your role is to find new ways to touch the hearts of Light Workers, to expand their conscious awareness of our oneness. Think of the whole. Immerse yourself in wholeness.  Be the whole.”

I invite you to join me in this mission.

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

“Make Sure You Know Your Why” – Nancy Pelosi

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has been a powerhouse in the United States Senate for 20 years. One of the statements she is known for is “Make sure you know your why.”  Why do you want to take this particular step? Why do you believe what you believe?  What is your why for making a particular choice? Make certain it is aligned with your purpose and beliefs. 

Remember Their Names

I am in a new environment surrounded by people coming in at all hours offering different services and they are all wearing Covid masks!  The physical therapist and I were joking about how they wouldn’t even recognize their fellow workers without their masks.

There are some titles I am not familiar with. Certified Nurses Assistant and Med Aide may be the same thing.  And then the shift change. I’m outnumbered but I’m working on it. 

I play all sorts of games to help me remember their names. One of my Care Partners is Nathan, and I told him about Nathan Lane who has starred on Broadway.  Care Partner Nathan is very tall, young and dark skinned – Nathan Lane is none of those but that has helped me remember Nathan’s name.  

One night nurse who has long hair extensions that are very beautiful is named Angela and somehow that reminds me of an angel. 

Nancy said she was the only Asian girl named Nancy. Very young blond Lana is paired with the movie star Lana Turner. Everyone is good about helping me remember names but boy, am I outnumbered. 

I have a list going of first names and what they do because writing them down helps me anchor the name and I can also look over it to refresh my memory.

On top of it all there are many shifts which means I cannot identify someone by a day or shift they are working.  

What kind of games do you play to remember the names of new people? It’s a good thing to make an effort to know the names of people in a new environment. It helps to connect and bond with them.

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

What Is Your Potential?

Potential means possibility, what can develop out of a situation. I’m sitting here having just turned 90 wondering what my potential is. There is one, a really good one. 

My new place of service is unfolding very rapidly. It has to do with the young people who are in deep service here at Evergreen long-term care. It turns out Nathan is a writer. So as he was giving me a shower, we talked about his books and writing and got excited about finding each other.  Nathan has helped me hang my sun catchers and dream catchers in my window. He is one of my Care Partners so he sees to my needs, he brings my food and makes my bed in the morning and helps chart my progress. He’s probably in his late 20’s and we discovered that we have a deep bond around writing.  

I have had more interaction with people in the four weeks that I’ve been here than I have in the past several years. So that is a huge and rewarding change for me. 

A great part of the attraction of this new calling is that these young people are still creating their lives and it’s fascinating to encourage them and help them along. This is my new place of service. And it is unfolding. And perhaps in this case the word “potential” applies to what I can help others achieve. And then that becomes my potential too.

What is your potential? What is possible for you? What do you want to achieve? Look around and see if a new path has opened up. And go exploring. What is possible for your “next”?   

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

I’m going to start recording podcasts again. As I looked at my podcast folder, I was surprised to see how many scripts are ready to be recorded. It’s up to me. Recording is fun. Editing takes more time and I’m not sure how my eyesight is going to do that part.

I will be recording at night when others are in bed which happens to be very early. Otherwise, there’s a lot going on around here. I’m not sure when I’ll start doing it because I just decided this week that it would be fun to do again. All things unfold in their right time. 

Expanding Awareness

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

A Fascinating Podcast

Here is a fascinating podcast from my friend Dr. Martha Lacy, a hematologist/oncologist and Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic who is conducting epigenetics and Reiki research projects at the Mayo Clinic, in medical trials. Includes a Guided Reiki Journey to Venus energy. Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reiki-lifestyle-podcast/id972178380?i=1000585561931 and share it with your medical friends. 

===CARA’S CORNER===

 Offer Your Gifts In Service

I have barely been here three weeks and I realized part of my new path is to offered my services as Book Yourself Solid Coach and Content Development Coach to individual staffers who might be interested in creating a website for an entrepreneurial endeavor. I am still really good at both and it would be fun to help someone start a side business and help with their website. I have no idea how that will unfold. 

Some of you wrote that the description of the process, realizations, emotions and decisions that I had to go through to make this move was helpful to them to know what to expect – not just about the letting go process but of becoming willing to make the change.

My new path continues to unfold and I realize that the people I serve are the people who work here. They are kind, compassionate care givers.  What new venue can you offer your services in? 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

A New Place of Service

A new door opens and I step through. The path lies clearly before me. 

A new door opens and I step through. The path lies clearly before me. It is my new calling and it will take me into a new role.

A new door opens and I step through. The path lies clearly before me. It is my new calling and it will take me into a new role. I pick up my traveling stick and step boldly forward.

– Cara Lumen, November 2022

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

Namaste,

Cara

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

Who’s in charge of your life? Are you the one making the decisions and taking the actions that are forming the framework that impacts your life? Or are you just along for the ride, letting things show up and then making your choices and letting it take you wherever it does?

We are in charge here. Everything that happens to us is of our own making – either because of what we believe is possible or what we believe we deserve. How our life unfolds depends on what choices we make and what actions we take. How proactive are you in creating your own life?

Even as circumstances seemed to be moving me in the direction of long-term care, I still had many, many choices to make about my attitude toward going, the choices I made about what I created in my new environment, what I wanted to experience and how I internally approached this major change in my life. Those beliefs, and expectations and choices are driving my decisions and my expectations.

You may think that you are stuck in a situation. You’re not, it’s simply where you find yourself and from where you get to move forward. If you don’t like where you are, turn the wheel, change directions, go faster or slower or get off the bus.

Your mental attitude towards change is cornerstone to how change evolves. If you are excited and willing to learn and see it as an adventure, it will be fun and fruitful. If you see it as a dead end, that’s exactly what it will be. Change your perspective, change your life experience.

As we age, our choices seem less broad. Notice I did not say limited. When we get creative, we can find new ways of doing some version of everything. And anything.

I do the Shaking Qigong movements seated in my chair because I don’t stand up very well. I do it several times a day and it is effective. We get to modify how we do certain things. But we still do them.

Approach your circumstances from a different angle. As my dry macular degeneration continues, it was a game changer for me to have a 21-inch monitor so I can work in large type. Sometimes we simply need to change the mechanics of how we do something. 

Change the situation. You may have outgrown a friend or that friend may take a different path and you choose to go forward. You may find new friends that inspire and motivate you to explore a new path.

Be open to change. Go exploring. Make new choices. Drive your life in the direction you want to go. Do not just go along for the ride. Be creative, adapt, and get busy designing your new life.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I take charge of my life journey and make choices that take me in the direction I want to go 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Look carefully to see where you are. Simply allowing things to happen instead of making choices to go in a direction you want to go.
  • Go exploring.
  • Guide your own path. 
  • Make your own choices.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Value Your Own Wisdom

Over the years we accumulate a wisdom that helps us make informed decisions.  Wisdom is required to make our daily choices. It accumulates with time and experience.  Pay attention to the suggestions the universe offers and see what ideas and plans and actions it suggests. Every experience adds to the depths of our wisdom and adds insights and guidance for our journey. 

Learn to recognize the voice and let it help guide your choices.

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Create Your Own Safe Haven

I have a suite mate here in Evergreen Long Term Care because we are both being covered by Medicare. Her television tastes run to old game shows and Turner classics and pawn shows. I watch a lot of news and now that my bluetooth headphones are hooked up to my computer, I’m on Pandora and will get on Spotify for music and podcasts.  I haven’t tried audiobooks yet as I’m a visual learner. I have some learning and adjusting to do. Be patient with yourself as you continue to change and adapt.  

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Step Back And Observe

The more complicated something is, the harder it is to get distance on the evolution and thrust. The more complex the project, the greater the need to step back and observe. Take a deep breath, quiet your busy mind. Perhaps even go into nature to center yourself and bring your awareness to the natural unfolding that expresses itself in so many forms. When we return to considering our circumstances, we do it slowly, observing the overall picture more than the details, to see that we’re headed in the right direction. Then we adjust, we make corrections, we drop some things and expand others until our next step forward is clear and we are getting results we are looking for. The bigger the project, the more often you should step back and observe. If you are to gain perspective, you see the overview and the progress. See if you are still going in the direction you choose or if an entirely new choice has appeared.

Get The Help You Need

It is with great relief that I am surrounded by Health Care Professionals who are helping to find out what’s going on with my body and creating personalized plans to help me get better. Do not put off asking for the help you need, whether it’s a medical understanding or the positive shift you need to make sure you take charge of your belief system and find the professionals that work with your needs. 

How To Nurture Your Creative Energy?

My suite mate here at Evergreen was a potter. She loved to create, but since that art form is no longer available to her, she needs to find a substitute. How do you downsize creativity and keep it relevant? 

I am using drawing pencils to sketch my shamanic journeys. That helps me remember them when I review the drawings.

I used to play the piano. I used to sing in coral groups. Today I have my native flutes, my Celtic drum and kalimba thumb piano. How do you nurture your creative energy and use your imagination? Keep that creativity going.

How You Fill Your Day

I have an opportunity to re-examine how I fill my days.  Over at Ridgeview I know I was watching too much news, playing too much Spider Solitaire and watching reruns of Murder She Wrote until I could mouth the dialogue. These first two weeks at Evergreen have been filled with new faces and awesome help. Lots of help. Despite having the flow of professionals come in to cheer me on as a new member of the community, who listen and care about my well-being, I am once again faced with long days that I can fill as I choose. It is a clean slate on which I could write anything. Twice I have fallen asleep in my chair. I have yet to take a nap. And daylight savings mixed me up even more. 

A new environment and new opportunities to be explored and some choices to be made. 

How do you choose to fill a new situation? What criteria do you use? What preferences do you discard? 

I will begin with my objectives. 

My body: I’m looking out at a garden with paved walks and handrails, a gazebo and apparently places to grow things in the summertime. So even going to the door every day to breathe in the fresh air would be an activity of sorts. Not a particularly ambitious one but a distance to cover and a goal to achieve. Choose a goal that you will achieve and repeat it. 

I need to have a variety of objectives. Some physical, some mental, and of course my spiritual practice. 

Although I already spend a lot of time at the computer, I want to add a category called mental stimulation. It’s about learning. It will be a podcast. I have to figure out audiobooks. None of that is about moving my body.

This is an opportunity to change my pattern, to identify what no longer serves me. I’m going to begin by adding things to replace some of my less than stellar choices on how to use my time.  

Isn’t it interesting how we can maintain not particularly productive cycles. And sometimes we don’t even notice it.  

What makes you feel productive? What feeds your mind and what stimulates your soul path? Are you just filling your time or are you using your time wisely?

I might actually create a soft schedule to make certain that I alternate mental stimulation and physical stimulation. I have no trouble with the first one and am really pokey about the second level. And I like to be spontaneous.

How are you failing to meet your needs? It’s not that you need a schedule to follow but you could create a schedule of opportunity in which certain activities could be placed.

I have an 18-minute Qigong video from Robert Peng that I would like to learn. I’m starting a new class with Deng Ming-Dao that will give me work to do to expand my Qigong practice.  

Begin by choosing an area you want to establish. I wish I would do more Transcendental Meditation. Where do I put that? I want to expand my Qigong practice. Where do I want to put that in my day? Perhaps identify general times in your day to put one type of activity in order to build your daily practice for both your spiritual life and your physical well-being. First, see which part of your day you want to change and then begin to establish it in the vicinity of a general timeline.

7:30 – daily spiritual practice including Qigong 

8 Breakfast

8:30 -10 Open email, Write on newsletter

10-11 learn something. Listen to a podcast.

11 – News

12 Lunch

Keep it fluid. I’m still having a lot of interruptions so I have to be flexible with when I do things. Experiment and find a pattern you can maintain.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Change Your Clock

In the US we changed our clocks recently to get rid of daylight savings time and return to regular time. That made me pause to think in what ways I needed to change my own clock, my own sense of timing, and make adjustments for the winter season. The days are gradually growing shorter which means I may wake up in the dark and eat my supper in the dark. The changing seasons is a good time to reflect on how you’re doing, what you are doing, and when you are doing it. It’s a good time to make changes. To add or subtract to your spiritual practice and your physical practice. 

Do you have a goal? Since I am in a new environment my goal is to take advantage of all the physical help and establish a routine of healing. Physical therapy is helping a lot. But I’m also eating better. And the things that are hard for me to do are now being done for me. There will come a time when I will not have quite so many people coming to introduce themselves to me and tell me what their area of expertise is for my well-being.

I get to look at how I spend my time. The choices I make. The choices I don’t make. I am in the process of establishing a new rhythm that impacts when I get up (early) when I eat (on schedule), and how I spend my time (on the computer). I have a lot of new patterns to develop and establish. Because there are so many people to help me do everything, I have to create my own physical routine to keep me moving along. 

How are you adapting to the change in seasons? What new plans do you have? What do you want to explore? It’s time to change your clock and create the patterns you want to establish in your life. 

Do Your Thing

I’ve been here 10 days and I have not yet played my flute for my spiritual practice. Part of it is that with arthritis in my fingers, sometimes I don’t play very well. And the door to the hallway is always open and this is the conservative Midwest. So an old woman playing a native flute is an anomaly.

I will do it. Because it’s important to me but this is a conservative population and I have already gone very, very far afield simply because of my eclectic being-ness. I will continue being me, but I may break it to them gently.

Do you simply let the chips fall where they may? It’s important to fully express yourself in all areas of your life.

===THE CHARGING STATION ===

Working As Healers

I knew I was to have a new role before I moved but I am surprised at what it is. Evergreen is full of social workers who are deeply in service. I know my role is to help them expand their holistic inquiry if it calls to them. I am a resource and an encourager.

I had been here about a week when I realized that my new role is about supporting these incredibly kind spiritual people who are in deep service. I decided to make my space a charging station so whoever comes in receives positive, supportive, loving energy. And I will tell you there’s a huge flow of people in and out of this room.  And all of them are motivated by a huge desire to be in service.

On Zoom I have gathered together a group of dear friends. I call us The Rainbow Weavers. We meet monthly on Zoom. This month I have asked for their help in creating my Holistic Charging Station.  I still have quite a few crystals left but I have chosen a Himalayan Salt Lamp with a forest scene that sits on my dresser and it’s on all the time. There are chunks of orange salt rocks surrounding the light and at our next meeting we are going to take the rocks from the Himalayan Salt Lamp and imbue each of them with a quality that will serve those who are in deep service here. That way the lamp is always sitting on the dresser putting out loving, supportive energy to whomever comes by. Based on what we discover I will share some ideas on how you can create a charging station for yourself or your family in your home or your office.

Bo gave me a shower today. He put me in a wheelchair to take me to the shower room and help me take a shower. It turns out he is one of my cornerstone people. He asked me about my flutes and wanted to know more about my holistic work. He will share that with like-minded people and the connectedness will expand. Don’t you love it when the universe opens the door so wide you have no choice but to skip merrily through. I love it. I have had several of the people who work here tell me they are glad I’m here. I am too. 

===GUIDANCE FROM OUR COSMIC COUNSELORS ===

Listen Beyond the Voice Within 

My Journey To The Cosmic Counselors: Talk to me about this new role that is opening up.

Once again I am in my Secret Garden but this time, I have crossed the reflecting pool and I’m sitting in the center of the circle surrounded by the three Cosmic Counselors that have shown themselves to me thus far. 

You are moving into a very deep place of service. When people focus on helping others, the entire dynamic changes. Create your Charging Station and listen to see how you can teach others to do that. You will touch many lives as you continue to expand in your own life and others will see it. And want to emanate it. There are many forms of service and teaching is one of them. Be a light. Be a teaching light. Show others the open path.

I sit on the bench on the other side of the reflecting pool and The Director is there. “A teacher of light ,” I say. “Yes,” he says, “a teacher of light.” 

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Helping Professions

The majority of people in this long-term care facility are social workers. They are very kind, caring people. One young man said he was in the field because his mother was a social worker and he had gone to work with her at times. 

As a social worker you can pick the population with whom you want to work. It could be a particular group or a particular type of problem. The jobs here range from nursing to dietitian to cook, to caregivers for us on many levels, to people doing housekeeping and maintaining the building, and the two girls who do laundry for the entire complex. Noble indeed. And probably more I don’t even know. The shifts are long but the people sure are kind.

Patricia is my life coach. She is my go-to person to answer questions and coordinate everything I do and the care I receive. The physical therapy room has practitioners of physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy.  My favorite is the recumbent bike –  it recently told me her name is Shirley. This week Sarah my PT person watched me get in and out of bed.  The bed is an agile contortionist, the head and foot of the bed go up and down separately with the push of a button and I use that feature as leverage for getting in and out of the bed.  It’s just taken me some time to figure it out but I have a good system now.

There is a standing menu and a daily menu and I can have a snack when I want. The emphasis is that this is our home. People here bring our food, make our beds, and help with anything physical we need. All supplies are provided. We can go to a dining room or eat in our rooms. My life coach who is responsible for overseeing my cara00 also labeled every piece of clothing I brought in because the laundry is done in a central location so without a name tag, they can’t return it to you.

These are very kind, caring people and of course have chosen a profession of caring for others. I am surrounded by deeply dedicated, supportive people in deep service. It is a good place to be. 

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

How Do You Know When You Need A Major Change?

Change comes in all sizes. Sometimes a small change makes a big difference. And sometimes a big change is difficult to do. How do you put change in perspective?

I kept getting nudges where I was living. The first was that I could no longer do the walk back-and-forth to do my own laundry. It was hard to get things off the floor. Then it was hard to move the trash out on the walker. Things just got harder and harder as I refused to take action because of them. 

It can be a gradual and subtle diminishing of power when you continue to make small compromises one on top of the other.  And if you know you have to downsize, that’s a whole challenge within itself.

Play attention to the nudges the universe gives you and begin to look at your options for change.  They may open new doors. Don’t be afraid of big change. Consider it an adventure as well as an opportunity. 

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

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Our Future

I wrote this knowing that the balance of power in the Senate and House have not yet been decided after the US election. It turns out that many people did understand how much is still at stake in this country. Women in particular made themselves heard. It seems like the women and some inclusive men are on one side and a big portion of old men are on the other. That is the Divine Feminine continuing to unfold and gain strength and power in the world. 

How and when will we regain our awareness of our oneness? Is it a generational thing? Why cannot we each take action for the highest good of all? Why are we fighting to have the rules support only our own way of thinking? We must learn how to live in an inclusive and compassionate way. 

So much of this seems wrapped up in the concept of self, not the whole, the collective well-being.  There is no honoring of different viewpoints to see them as valuable and informative, and give them space to exist. Our future is in our hands and we must make our choices wisely and embrace the wholeness of who we are – One Energy.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Wholeness

I am a ripple in the river of life. I am the curve of the rainbow. I am the song of a bird. I am the laughter of a child. I am wholeness.

I am a ripple in the river of life. I am the curve of the rainbow. I am the song of a bird. I am the laughter of a child. I am wholeness. I must live with an ever-present awareness of my interconnectedness with all things and always choose for the greater good of all.

I am a ripple in the river of life. I am the curve of the rainbow. I am the song of a bird. I am the laughter of a child. I am wholeness. I must live with an ever-present awareness of my interconnectedness with all things and always choose for the greater good of all. We are all participants in the Web of Life and must think accordingly. We are One.

– Cara Lumen, November 2022

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

Namaste,

Cara

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How Has Your Spirituality Expanded?

Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe

(“Ah-Shay”)

 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

It has been 60 years since I was in an Episcopal church service. I had been a Presbyterian before that. It was interesting to watch the services for Queen Elizabeth and remember some of those ritual patterns. 

When I was a senior in college, I took a comparative religion course and had never even heard of half of the religions we studied. Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Jews, folk or traditional religions, includingAfrican traditional religions, 

Chinese folk religions, Native American religions, Australian aboriginal religions, Baha’i faith, Judaism, Sikhism, Shintoism, Taoism, Tenrikyo, Wicca and Zoroastrianism. There is a myriad of meaningful approaches to a spiritual life.

My spiritual life has evolved. I discovered philosopher-poets like Rumi and Kahlil Gibran and Tagore who speak deeply to me. In 2000, after five years of study, I became a spiritual practitioner in the Center for Spiritual Living. I love the Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchel’s translation). I have studied and embraced many elements of shamanism. I have explored the energy philosophies of Qigong and Yoga. I do shamanic journeying several times a week and explore the unusual realms I am shown. And I have become aware that my spiritual path is about to take a new and upward and powerful turn. And that is unfolding fairly rapidly. It is indeed an eclectic spiritual path I have followed.  

How are you exploring spiritually now? We usually begin with whatever our parents taught us. Sometimes we stay with that. Do you move through life looking for the concepts that touch your soul and follow wherever they may take you? You may end up following one path. Or you may end up with an eclectic spiritual practice. It’s all perfect. Whatever opens new doors and takes you deeper within is the place to go exploring.

How has your spirituality expanded? What new spiritual path will you explore next?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am open to an expanded and eclectic spiritual path. I go exploring. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

What Is The Foundation For Your Beliefs?

The beliefs we hold have risen from many places. A great many were taught to us by our parents based on their beliefs and their life experience ad their parent’s beliefs. Many beliefs are passed down in cultures. Those are tricky to identify and overcome because they were given to us at such an early age that we don’t think to question them. 

Another set of beliefs develops over our life experiences. We can sometimes identify those that come out of a specific experience or relationship. All of those experiences culminate into a belief of what is possible. 

Question your beliefs. I’m a metaphysician so my beliefs are focused around life, it’s purpose and its process and I continue to find ways to explore the unseen world. It has happened organically as I have come across new ways of going within.

We change our beliefs because we learn something that resonates more deeply. We organically let go of the familiar and establish and embrace a new set of beliefs. That probably means our friends will change as we seek like-minded people who are exploring similar paths to share in our adventure. 

Changing your beliefs will change your trajectory. Identify and question all of the beliefs that are guiding your life and see if they are still relevant to the journey you want to take.

I’m working at changing a lot of my beliefs about age because I’ve never gone through this part of the aging process before. What I believe is possible for me at this stage in my life has changed with the aging process. 

What impactful changes can you make? Do you start something new? Do you stop something you’ve been doing? What changes can you make that will change the trajectory of your life? 

I believe that I can help change the world through my thoughts and intentions. I believe that I have the ability to self-heal. I don’t always know exactly how to do that but I believe it can be done. I have an interesting set of beliefs about what happens when you die based on Michael Newton’s books. And I continue to learn life lessons like when to let go of a concern and simply trust. 

Allow your beliefs to change. Question your beliefs. Discard the beliefs that no longer serve you. 

Explore the new possibilities that open up with the clearing of that space. Look closely at the foundations for the beliefs you hold today. Explore other cultures. Notice what science is opening up as possibilities. And perhaps establish new beliefs to carry you forward. 

You Are Your Own Everything

You are your own lover, your own teacher, your own best friend, your own healer – you are your own everything. Stop looking outside yourself, just do the work yourself.

Wow. That puts it all on you, your choices your thoughts, your inner wisdom. That’s where your guidance is. That’s where your insights come from. That’s where your actions originate – within you.  Whatever you observe in the world around you, it ultimately is up to you what you do with it – accept it, change it, reject it – it’s your choice. There’s no one outside of you to get the job done.  You are the one that makes you feel happy. You are the one to make you feel loved. You are the one who guides your steps and chooses your path. Follow your own inner wisdom. Watch for the nudges the universe provides for you and be your own best friend.

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Overview

We are responsible for our own healing and choices to do or not do things that affects our physical form. How are you doing? What areas of your life need to be strengthened? How would you do that? Will you do that? 

When we look at the overview of our life, it is easier to see the patterns that were established in the areas that are calling out for change.

First, identify what needs to change and then explore and experiment how you would like to change it and what methods you would use to do so.

I am resisting walking more but I am welcoming the Qigong shaking exercise and a Qigong sequel for joints. What will you do? Don’t beat yourself up for what you won’t do. Substitute. Identify what you will do and do it. I’m going to add more stretching moves when I stand at the kitchen sink. I’m going to do more standing and looking out the window. Substitute as you will, but keep the over-arching purpose in mind – to create a change that improves your life on some level. 

It could be more meditation, it could be more movement, it could be different eating, it could be a real shift in attitude. Change is good. 

Pause and take an overview of where you are in life and make some new choices. Is it time you create some changes in your life? Do it!

Where The Mind Goes, The Qi Goes

In my Qigong Yin-Yang course, Robert Penn said, “Where the mind goes the Qi goes.”  I need to get busy. That means that my thoughts can alter a physical condition, a situation, an event – wherever I direct my intention. I already knew that as a Reiki master teacher. But it was good to be reminded. I need to be conscious with that much power. I need to be selective with that much power. I need to be productive with that much power. My thoughts create my reality. We are responsible for what we experience. Oh dear, I have some work to do. 

Know that your mind can send healing Qi energy wherever you send it. What well you heal today? What will you change today? Get to work. There is much power within your mind and your intentions.   Where the mind goes the Qi goes

The Voice of Authority

I have dry macular degeneration for which Western medicine knows no cure. And I have an eye doctor appointment soon so I have to be really careful about what I let the “voice of authority” tell me is possible or not possible. I can hold on to the holistic belief that we can rebalance and self-cure our physical bodies. 

And I am gradually losing my eyesight. So what adjustments do I get to make in order to stay functional? What new skills am I to learn? What things will be out of reach for me? 

I know that I’m going to start listening to more podcasts and audiobooks so that I know how to do that. What about ordering groceries online or accessing my bank account? What creative adjustments will I need to make there? 

What I really have to guard is my belief in what is possible and my belief in what I deserve. I have to really, really stay on top of that in order to have a voice in this particular unfolding physical process.

Who we see as an authority figure or what concepts we believe are hard to overcome requires us to move into our personal belief system in defiance of what appears in our material world. When we search, we can find those seeming miracles. 

Be aware of the power you give those you see as knowledgeable.  Look for some of the miracles that have happened for others.  Whatever you feel, there are always exceptions to everything and you might just as well be one of them. 

Simple Changes

My office chair broke several months ago and I have been sitting on a walker and it hurts my body. I have finally replaced it with a new office chair and it is making tremendous shifts in how I’m able to work at the computer. 

What have you put off replacing that could change your life? With this new chair my posture is different, I can work longer, I can actually lean back. It has been too long since I had a chair that would allow me to do that. Why do we put off the things that we know are good for us for so long? 

Look around at the things you need to change, whether it’s physical or emotional or even spiritual. What have you been putting off and will you do it now? Then notice what happens. Be prepared for positive change. 

===OUTER WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Your Weekly Promise

I thought I was going to write a little segment about setting goals until I realized this is really about making a promise to myself to do some things that I really want to do and have been putting off. I have a podcast I really want to listen to and have been putting off. That’s on my promise to myself list. I really need and want to establish a walking pattern each day. That’s on my self-promise list. I really want to learn that joint healing Qigong series that I shared last week. That’s on my list. I will keep it to those three things because I want to establish the habit of making a promise to myself to do something that I really want to do and do it. What will you promise yourself to do this week just for you? Keep it simple. Keep it small. And make it happen. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

A Focused Eye

Take time to examine your spiritual practice to make certain it is meeting your needs. What is nudging you? What can you do more of? What will you do less of? What new spiritual practice do you want to explore? Make changes in your spiritual practice.

One of the practices I may begin to do again centers around a box in which I have put quotes that are really meaningful to me. The practice is to simply draw one out of the box each day and explore it during the day. I have quotes from the Tai Te Ching, Rumi, Tagore, Deng Ming-Dao, Stephen Mitchell on a range of topics. So drawing out one quote is an interesting way to focus my day. Sometimes it prompts me to take an action. Sometimes it is just something to contemplate. What element can you add to your spiritual practice that will deepen your experience? 

Anchor The Intention With A Talisman

A talisman is any item imbued with a specific power by its bearer to serve a specific intention.

It could be a crystal you hold or wear.  It can be something you write or read aloud.  It can be a plant or a song. A talisman is used to anchor energy on the physical plane.

Traditionally, a talisman anchors energy in the physical plane. That energy may be protective in nature or may be intended to draw abundance, wealth, or a wide variety of blessings to its user. 

A talisman is usually something from nature. Meaning might come with words or symbols or color or shape – whatever calls to you.

I have a lot of crystals. Hand holders, clusters, small stones, tall columns, round stones in all colors. I hold them in my left hand and listen to their message. Then I choose how to use them in my spiritual practice. 

Where you place your talisman may have an impact on its energy so tune in as you place it and experiment. I am aware of the directions when I placed things on my altar. 

It would also be interesting to rearrange your altar at the equinoxes and solstice to honor the seasons.

What objects will you select to guide you and where do they belong in your spiritual practice? What talismans will you choose to use and for what purpose? The physical properties of the talisman are not as important as the intention of its bearer. If you are grounded in your desires, your talisman will give you something that you can concentrate on to help you affirm your intention and achieve your goals. 

===GUIDANCE FROM OUR COSMIC COUNSELORS ===

Listen Beyond The Voice Within 

I go to my secret garden and sit on the bench beside the reflecting pool. Across the pool my three cosmic counselors are dancing. They are dancing in a slow circle and my squirrel guide is beating a drum for the rhythm they dance to. It is a dance of movement and change. It is a dance of moving forward. It is a dance of releasing and moving on. It’s a dance of evolution.

We are to move with the rhythm of unfolding. We are to be aware and flexible and willing to change. And most of all we are to trust that what we will be given, the opportunities that will open up, will be absolutely perfect for where we are in our life right now.

The three Cosmic Counselors end their dance and with their hands in prayer position bow to each other. The squirrel guide puts down her drum. They sit in a circle of serene contemplation – ready, willing, and open to change. 

I sit on the bench beside the reflecting pool and do the same.

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

Expand Your Role In The Rapidly Evolving Universe

How Do You Use Time?

We can spend time, we can lose time, we can waste time, we can value time. How do you view time? How do you value time? How do you use time?

I have some serious soul-searching to do because I waste a lot of time on activities that do not improve any facet of my life. How do I change? 

I’m aware of some choices I would like to make like listening to podcasts and audiobooks. But I haven’t taken those steps yet. It’s way too easy to stay stuck in a mindless game of Spider Solitaire and reruns. What a true waste of my time. 

Now I know I can’t work all the time. I need to have balance. I write often throughout my day as an idea comes up and I dictate a version of what I want to say. But there are huge chunks of time that I spend mindlessly. I would like to stop that.

I want to explore and cultivate alternative options. Which means I have to listen to the podcast on the Akashic records that I know about and have wanted to listen to for three weeks straight. Just do it. I identified at least one book I want to read. I know of one audiobook I want to get. Why do I fall back into the mindless choices that have almost become a habit? How do I, we, get unstuck from non-supportive choices? 

Just do it. One step at a time. I am writing this particular segment on a Sunday. Monday I will listen to that podcast. Tuesday I will order that audiobook and listen for an hour. That’s a start. Just begin.  I will notice my choices and then be selective and purposeful. I will keep myself from falling into the mindless routines that are easy but nonproductive. That doesn’t mean I have to be busy. I just need to keep exploring new options.

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Learn From Other Cultures

My life is rather eclectic. I’ve taken bits and pieces from the spiritual practices of many cultures and have turned them into my own version of spirituality. I like Taoism. I like some of the ceremonies of the Native American cultures. I talk to crystals, I like flower essences. I have studied yoga and Qigong and Shamanism. I learned from Eastern poets like Rumi and Gibran and Tagore. I have absorbed ideas from many cultures into my life. That is a good thing. 

I will always question a new belief to see if it suits me at this stage of my particular path. Sometimes I adapt it. Sometimes I absorb it. Sometimes I only take a small portion of it. 

Examine your own belief system and see if what’s there is what you really truly want to keep. Perhaps do some spiritual practice cleaning. Perhaps do some simple rearranging. Examine the beliefs you hold and see if they are what you want guiding you in your life today. Choose what serves you now. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Fall Cleanup

Depending on where you are on the planet, it is fall. And that means it is time to clean up and put away things for the winter. What in your life do you need to clean up? This might be a good time to look and do the work. 

Pause at this change of seasons to evaluate what you are creating in your life, what you want to release in your life, and what results you want to encourage in your life. Any change of season is a good opportunity to evaluate where you are and plan your future.  

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs   

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is often shown as a pyramid that shows our basic needs. Here are our needs from the wide bottom up: 

  • physiological
  • safety
  • belonging and love
  • esteem
  • cognitive
  • aesthetic
  • self-actualization
  • transcendence.  

Obviously the top gets narrower and that means if you are at a survival level there is no way you can think about self-actualization. Your paramount focus is to survive. So when I hear prospective voters in the US put the economy first, I realize they are more in survival than concerned over the possible loss of democracy in this country. That’s too esoteric for them at this stage of their being-ness. 

If you are reading this you are certainly in the self-actualization category and we’re working our way into transcendence. 

Those of us who are toward the upper point of this pyramid of needs have work to do that only we can do. It is consciousness work. It is visualization work. It is holding High Watch for the planet work. It doesn’t make me happy about the people in the lower, broader base of this pyramid who want to abolish democracy but it helps me understand that they feel threatened on the survival level. You cannot possibly think in terms of self-actualization and transcendence which are at the lower and broader end of the pyramid.

We have work to do, those of us who can. I suggest that what we want to do is to go within and consciously become aware of our own role as a Light Bearer for this planet. How we are to express that is still unfolding. 

I’m going to suggest we begin with our spiritual practice. Perhaps we spend time focused on balancing the entire planet. Perhaps we spend time focused on healing or changing a situation.  If you were going to help create change in the world, what would your focus be?

I send energy to the planet for self-healing, the power to restore its rivers, to cease its destructive weather patterns and forest fires, and begin to self-heal.

I do not understand those who seek to do harm. I don’t want to understand. But I can create a visualization in which I see them encased in a sphere that simply sends back to them the negative energy they send out. They self-destruct. I’m not going to spend a lot of time on the bad guys, I would rather focus my attention on supporting those who are consciously ready to actively heal themselves, raise their consciousness, and participate in the interconnected web of life in a positive, powerful, and collaborative way. 

That would eliminate some worry – if we only focus on the good guys and how we can do more good. 

In my shamanic journeys I set up a transformative sphere around myself. (The Transformative Sphere). It protects me from anything destructive that comes toward me while I am in that inner world. Because it is a transforming sphere it also transforms my own worries and concerns while I’m in it so that I have less fear, less apprehension. I can then spend time encouraging and cultivating a vibration that nourishes and expands my awareness of the wholeness we are. 

=== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument
while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

 – Rabindranath Tagore

Do you spend all your time getting ready rather than doing? Are you so busy preparing that you never step forth and do the work? Are you spending so much time stringing and unstringing your instrument that you get nothing done?

Just begin. Take a step. And then another. Explore. Taken action. Check the result. Made changes. Try something new. Repeat. Start playing your song. It will be perfect. 

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Deeper Song Calendar

I have a new project. I’m not sure if it’s for me or if it’s for us. It’s the Deeper Song Calendar. I am building it on astrology which bases the focus for the days of the week on the planet that is overseeing it. And I am working with my deep love of quotes that have been meaningful in my life. I may just share it as I go along and hopefully get to the point where it’s one big offering but I want to use it to consciously focus my intention each day. It is a work in progress and it is unfolding. 

===DEEPER SONG REFLECTIONS===

Death is not extinguishing the light, 

… it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. 

   – Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

===CARA’S CORNER===

My New Path

I do need to find out from my guides what I am to be doing now and receive any messages of guidance they choose to give me at this point in time. The core messages was: Allow yourself to be taken to new realms of possibility and work from there.

I will stay open to nudges from the universe, unexpected insights that appear in my mind, and stay open to unexpected interpretations of the unfolding of the planet, its population and its existence. The key is to stay open. 

I have no plan. I’m just going to be open to whatever thoughts show up and explore them in whatever direction I am called to take. 

That’s all I know at this point – rise above the chaos of the planet and find serene guidance there that I can share with you. Let’s see where it takes us. Let’s see what kind of adventure unfolds. I’m game. Are you? 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Explorer

I trust. I trust the nudges. I trust the insights. I trust the unexpected circumstances. I allow myself to be guided by the unseen world. 

I trust. I trust the nudges. I trust the insights. I trust the unexpected circumstances. I allow myself to be guided by the unseen world. It is a higher journey I go on now. I’m not even sure what I’m looking for, but I will know it when I experience it. And I will bring it back for us. 

I trust. I trust the nudges. I trust the insights. I trust the unexpected circumstances. I allow myself to be guided by the unseen world. It is a higher journey I go on now. I’m not even sure what I’m looking for, but I will know it when I experience it. And I will bring it back for us. I release all preconceptions of what is possible. I do whatever needs to be done, and I open my heart and my mind to the unexpected. I am guided by what shows up.

Cara Lumen – October 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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How Do You Make A Major Decision?

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How Do You Make A Major Decision?

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

Are you an in-the-moment, impulse person or do you deliberate a long time before making a change? It probably depends on the magnitude of the change you are considering.

The majority of major life-changing moves for me have been instantaneous. An opportunity presents itself and I act upon it. And I’ve never been wrong. Or sorry.

The first step in making wise decisions is to know yourself. The more you know your desires, your passions, your gifts and your levels of curiosity, the more accurate your decisions will be. The first step in decision-making is to know yourself. Then decide where you go exploring. Explore the options. Explore the pathways. Explore the possible outcomes. Journey down a few of the potential paths, wander down a few side trails and see how they feel and what shows up along the way. 

Can you make a decision in an instant because you know what alignment feels like? I can do that for a lot of things. 

One of the ways to make a decision is to do some exploring. Learn more about where the choice leads and what you need to know to get to that level. Sometimes you have to explore a lot in order to figure out if it’s for you. It can be rather disappointing when you realize a certain path is not yours to do. 

What kind of guidelines do you have for yourself? How do you make your choices? Know when you are full up and cannot manage to add another thing. Then pause and release a few things to make room for new possibilities to come in.

Know your preferences. Have some idea of what you need next. Then you can do one thing or several. You can go exploring on the physical plane and try to figure it out or you can trust the Universe to hand you the answer or the insight that makes you know where to look for the answer.

All the concepts in these newsletters come to me with an urgency for me to write them down. They’re usually a question I need to ask myself. But I take time and look ahead to see where my inner voice is guiding me.

I like it when a core realization makes itself known. That helps everything fall into place. Like when I realized I didn’t have to release my larger desk until it was time to move even though I was practicing living in a smaller space. It is not time to make that change. But I did have a solution for the smaller space.

How do you prioritize what shows up? I have a friend who is considering two major steps. And she is intrigued with both of them. I consider the smaller step to be the more exciting and impactful step. But she must rely on her inner voice to guide her. I encouraged her to go exploring and gather more information about where the choices would lead and what they would provide.

How do you make your decisions and are they leading you where you want to go? 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I listen to my inner voice and ask for guidance on the best choices at this particular point in time.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Explore several potential paths in your mind. When you are considering a change, a new option, visualize several ways to get there and several ways those choices could turn out. Notice how you feel about each one.
  • Trust your intuition. Trust your inner voice. And trust your inner knowing. Let them help you make your major changes. 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

How and When to Change a Pattern 

Are you repeating nonproductive choices? How do you change that?

First of all, notice your time-wasters, notice the nonproductive patterns that you keep repeating.

What will you replace them with? 

First you have to identify your time-wasters and then you have to get creative to figure out what to replace them with. I should add more movement to my day. I do some Qigong but there are other forms of movement I can consider. Change the form. A podcast or two would be good. Audiobooks would be good. 

I’ve begun to identify the patterns I would like to change. I’m still experimenting with what to put in there but I’m working on it. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Learn From Your Crystals

I first learned about the Stone Clan from Shaman Hank Wesselman and I knew immediately that was the clan I belong to.

Even though I’ve given away many of my crystals to my daughter Cathy in preparation for this move, I have many left. I have them by a comfortable chair and I will speak to each and every one of them to find out how or if they want to participate in this next phase of my life. 

Our left hand is our receiving hand so we put a crystal in our left hand and notice what we feel, where we feel it, what we think and what thoughts it conveys to us. I often feel energy in a particular chakra but you might also get an idea or thought. I still have 30 or 40 crystals left. I want to figure out how to work with them on a regular basis. 

I gave all but one of my crystal necklaces to my daughter and I kept a blue labradorite. But I have crystal wands and balls and eggs and clusters. I need to work with each one of them to find out how they would like to participate in this next phase of my life. 

Talk to your crystals. Ask them to show you or tell you how they would like to be in service and for what purpose. Then work with them regularly. You can learn a lot from your crystals.

===OUTER WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Trust the Unfolding

A blossom unfolds in its own good time. A butterfly emerges when it is complete. We need to back off and allow for the natural unfolding of our life and our circumstances.

My mind gets excited and keeps me from allowing things to unfold. I push ahead when waiting might be better. But we must learn to trust the universe to open the perfect door when it is time and show us the perfect path. We must trust that we will recognize our perfect next step. 

Where in your life are you forcing the issue? Can you back off and go within and listen to your inner voice and trust that you will recognize the unfolding process and know when to take the next steps and what those steps are? Trust the unfolding and trust yourself to recognize it. 

Walk The Higher Path

In my journey I was told that my job was to continue to explore the highest path I can find and to share with others what I find. It’s like opening doors, exploring what I am shown and inviting others to come on a new adventure.

I am looking for the path that helps those of us who are called to rise above the chaos of the world to hold High Watch and light the way. We are to make this path so bright that when others look up they say, “Oh yes, that’s the direction I am to go, the path I am to follow.” And they raise their intention, they raise their expectations, and most of all they change their choices and actions with intentions and focus that organically affect the entire planet population. 

We are to keep exploring. We are to widen the path and remove the stumbling blocks and invite others to follow us. We are not only to find and explore the path, we are to make it welcoming to those who choose to follow. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Sit In Nature

I don’t go out much but I look out my window a lot. I watch the leaves fall, the clouds change shapes, the birds fly by and the sun set. I play my kalimba and my flute and my drum to the unfolding day. 

Nature is all about unfolding, ongoing change, and expansion through creation, growth, death and decay. It’s all there in nature. 

What part of nature will you commune with today? Perhaps you just go and sit and listen and receive its message. 

===GUIDANCE FROM OUR COSMIC COUNSELORS ===

Listen Beyond the Voice Within 

Work With Your Cosmic Counselors

A friend recently shared the phrase “Cosmic Counselors” with me and it really resonates. She’s deeply into astrology and reads the messages from the planets the universe provides for us. I really like the concept so I wanted to go exploring and talk to my version of Cosmic Counselors and see what they would like me to do.

I took a journey and for me, the entrance is in the Indigo Portal which is where I go all the time. The Cosmic Counselors are there to prompt and guide and counsel me as I embark on a higher level of work than I’ve done so far. They are going to take me out of my physical manifestation concerns and eventually raise me above the chaotic unrest in the world today. They are going to take me and us to a higher level of awareness from which we are to do incredibly powerful wholing work. 

I had no tangible idea what it is going look like but I journeyed and the Cosmic Counselors for me are sitting across a reflecting pond from me and I listen to them, and I can see ideas and images reflected in the pool. 

The Cosmic Counselors will help us develop our work in the world. They will allow us to work from a level beyond the chaos on earth. From beyond the Cosmos we are to bring fresh ideas and practices that will help us rise above the level of unfolding we are experiencing on earth, and show us how to begin to live and manifest from our Cosmic Consciousness. I don’t know any more than that in this point in time. 

Journey and connect with your Cosmic Counselors. See where they are for you and what they look like. Ask them for a message of guidance. 

Let’s go adventuring together and help create our new world. 

Relief at Moving On

It is such a relief to stop focusing on this move that may not take place for many months and start working again with the energy of the universe. I love the concept of the Cosmic Counselors. I love the idea of working at a higher level than I have been. That’s what I’m here for. That’s what I get to do now and next. Come, let’s go exploring together. We have a great adventure awaiting us.

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

Expand Our Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

People in Loving Service to Others 

As I move on to the next phase of downsizing in my life, I need help and I receive it from two strong women. Shelly who loves to clean and takes care of my home, and my daughter Cathy who is helping me make the arrangements for this potential move. I would be unable to do any of this without them.

Shelley loves to clean. She just helped another of her clients downsize to Assisted Living. She not only cleans but does my laundry and puts my two weeks of vitamins in a container. What a loving, kind, supportive person she is. I’m lucky to have her in my life. 

My daughter Cathy is coming with patience and the capacity to haul things away as I let go of and release what I will not take with me. She’s patient. She’s understanding. And she is efficiently persistent. All good things. 

As I become more dependent on others for simple everyday tasks, I am even more grateful for those who step forward to assist. Who are the helpers in your life? Are you one of the helpers or are you one of the receivers? Are you one of those wonderfully kind generous people who are aware of the needs of others and step up to help? 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Like-Minded Friends

When I moved to New York City 40 years ago from Kansas City, I was starved for like-minded friends. I didn’t realize it until I began to meet people who shared similar spiritual interests and were ahead of me on the path I wanted to walk. I was drawn to them like a magnet and I soaked up their insights like a sponge. I was starved for like-minded friends. 

How is your circle of friends? Are they a few steps ahead of you? Are they taking a slightly different path that you can learn from? I can’t find those friends in person anymore because I don’t go any place but I sure can find them online and I consistently go exploring to pick some out and connect with them. 

How do you find your like-minded friends? Reach out. Reach out to people who are podcasting or writing or teaching about pathways that you are drawn to. Reach out to those who you want to learn from, those who are walking paths near yours and go exploring.

===INTENTION BLESSING===

May we hear and heed the call of the Divine Feminine. 

May we expand our hearts and our expectations.

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

May we keep our gaze on the summit.

May we take this journey with a full heart. 

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

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

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Energy Healing

My close friend, Christina Gerber is a powerful intuitive healer. She recently gifted me with an online session and the experience was incredibly stirring and effective. I have so many levels of imbalance going on, I felt energy shift in my physical presence, my chakras, my aura, my whole being. If you need help rebalancing the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual or auric planes, Christina has the depth and breadth of skills to help you. Christina Gerber www.christinagerber.com

===CARA’S CORNER===

I Finally Got It

The answer was so incredibly simple. “Turn off the sound.” Of course, why didn’t I think of that? I mostly play games on my tablet and the sounds gets in my way since I watch TV at the same time. I casually mentioned that to my friend Christina and she said, “Turn off the sound.” It is a life changer and very simple, and yes – obvious 

What is going on in your life that you can either turn off or stop doing or let go of? And what difference would that make in your experience? 

I can turn off the sound of my internal worry and simply allow life to unfold. 

Let go and trust. Trust the universe to provide for you. Just keep sending energy to your highest good, for the highest good for all of us. 

What message do you need to stop giving yourself? Clear your thoughts and change the outcome. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Clear The Path

I clear my thoughts. I release my expectations. I sit in the center of stillness and allow my life to unfold.

I clear my thoughts. I release my expectations. I sit in the center of stillness and allow my life to unfold. Space opens up. Cleared space. Open space. Welcoming space. All because I let go and allow life to unfold.

I clear my thoughts. I release my expectations. I sit in the center of stillness and allow my life to unfold. Space opens up. Cleared space. Open space. Welcoming space. All because I let go and allow life to unfold. It’s a lesson learned today and the lesson I must practice tomorrow. Be present. Let go, be present and listen to and respond to what the universe offers you in each moment.

Cara Lumen, September 2022

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

Namaste,

Cara

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What Is Your Life Passion?

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What Is Your Life Passion?

Living Our Deeper Song

Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)

The Creative in me honors the Creative in youQ!

What is the core passion behind your life choices? There are some aspects of your life that are so necessary to your existence that they are part of everything you undertake – your relationships, your work, your spiritual life. What is that core passion for you and how are you developing it and expanding it?

I thought I had two. I love learning. And I have a strong desire to turn and share what I figure out with others. But now I realize that the need to turn and share is part of my own learning process. It is how I figure out how to apply what I learn. So learning about the spiritual world is a core passion for me and has been a driving force all of my life. What is the core passion for you and how does it manifest? 

The further along you are in your life the more obvious the pattern is. What are the similar choices that you’ve made throughout your lifetime? What was the passion beneath those choices? Maybe it’s a gift that you have developed. Maybe it is similar experiences that you continue to seek out. 

Take a moment to look back over your choices and identify the core passion that has been driving you throughout your life.

Your core passion is something you don’t want to live without. I am faced with failing eyesight.  I use a 30-point font and I dictate. And I can listen. Be creative in how you pursue your core passion.

Nurture it and get creative with how you express it. I do love to write and have written for radio and television and books but still at the core, writing is how I figure things out and deepen my own learning process. When you discover your passion, do a lot more of it.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I identify my core passion and bring it more deeply into my life.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Make a list of the deeply important things that you do. Then look for what is at the core of your passion. What is driving you?
  • Get creative in how you keep that in your life. 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Guilt

Guilt is about feeling you made a wrong choice. That you are totally responsible for a certain outcome. We make our choices based on who we are at the time and the depth of our awareness and the breadth of our understanding of the over-arching situation. 

Sometimes we never reach a point of examining the choices that we make and the reasoning behind them in that particular moment. 

I have made some unaware choices in my life. I did not see the potential path they would lead to very clearly.  I was not aware enough to have a broader view. That’s just part of walking the path. At some point you realize the consequences and results that are created. Sometimes you do well. Sometimes not so much.

There is a tendency to believe our choices are the major factor in where we end up but I know that we are being guided by the Universe through our inner voice, our inner knowing. We respond or react in the moment. 

There are no wrong choices as much as some being not as stellar as they could be. Each choice brings a lesson that you need, that you wanted, that you asked for. And every choice affects where you end up. You need to trust your inner voice so that it can guide you. Every choice you finally make, for whatever reason, is perfect. 

Do you see the lessons and opportunities and outcomes that you need next? Trust that you make the choices that are right for you.  Keep raising your sights. Keep exploring the side roads. Pay attention to what your actions are producing in your life. And make conscious choices based on the results you are getting. Don’t feel guilty about the past or what those choices of the past created. What you have is right now. Listen to your inner voice, then open your heart and choose. It will be perfect. 

Release and Rechoose

I woke up at 6 o’clock in the morning with the entire new floor plan in place. I’ve been concerned because the assisted living space that I am applying for is very small. But what I discovered was if I flip-flopped everything it fit differently and better. What do you need to totally rearrange in your life in order to make it work? 

In this plan in my head, I moved a chair from one end of the room to the other and suddenly everything else had more room. What one big concern or focus in your life needs to be rearranged to free up more space for other things? What basic belief are you holding that is keeping you from rearranging your life? 

I was focused on having a major chair facing a window. When I put the major chair beside the window, the whole room opens up. And there’s more room beside the chair for things I want to keep close at hand. 

What major concern, what major focus is anchored so firmly in a decision or a belief that you cannot rearrange everything around it? I’m going to look at the timing of when I choose to do things throughout my day. I’m going to look very carefully at my belief system of what I think is possible. I’m very grateful to my inner self for totally flip-flopping my floor plan and opening and expanding the possibility and potential. Toss it all up in the air and see where it lands. Rethink, release and rechoose. 

You Have to Have Faith 

I’m writing this pep talk for me and sharing it with you because when we come up against an unknown in our life, we have to trust that we will have the wisdom and fortitude and clarity to move through it. This assisted living space I am to go to is very small. A friend who has been there wasn’t sure there was room for my computer desk. That shook me to the core. I have a 21-inch monitor because my eyesight has dry macular degeneration and I need it to be able to see. And even though I have been giving stuff away I have not apparently begun to give enough away. 

It is hard to give away things that have meaning for you. I have a lovely alternate that is small, but I may have to move it into the shelf of a small bookcase I hope there is room for. My friend who has been there kept telling me that I will not be given anything more than I can handle. I would have room for what I need. But I want too much. So now I’m going to go through the little bit that I have left and see what else I can release or rearrange more effectively. I have to trust that I will have room for everything I need to have with me. 

What are you dreading? What is it you are not sure you can do? We have to trust in the love of the universe that it will give us only what we can handle or need to handle in order to move forward. I think that’s called faith. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Self-Healing

Shaking

It’s a very simple shaking exercise I learned in Robert Penn’s Qigong class. You literally stand with your knees slightly bent and shake everything. You gradually bring your arms up so you shake them over your head as you keep gently shaking your whole body. It’s amazing how rejuvenated you feel when you finish.

===OUTER  WORK===

Exploration of New Potential and Possibilities

Realising

As I continue to downsize for a potential move at an unknown time, it’s very interesting to notice what one hangs onto under those circumstances. My daughter comes over every week and we rearrange and I release some stuff but it’s the things that I’m not releasing yet that I have a chuckle over. Sometimes I release something because I will never use it again. Then there are the things I’m having a hard time with. What do I want to keep around me and why and how do I prioritize that?

My new space will be smarter than what I’m in and my priorities are my altar, my computer, and a chair with room to have crystals and meditation tools beside me to work with.  

Sometimes it’s easy to release things and sometimes it takes quite a few tries. Some things you know you are going to keep with you until the very end.

Notice why you are finding it hard to release a situation or item. What emotion is it nurturing? What feeling it is creating? Simply find something smaller to serve in the same role.

I begin with my altar. My spiritual practice. I made that happen first. Then I’ve organized my computer and workstation. 

What are the priorities in your life? And what can you let go to make more room for those things that are truly important?

Stay Intellectually Curious

I love to learn Qigong and it is not only an intellectual stimulus but it is the source of great learning and adventuring. I am very intellectually curious. It’s important to keep exploring whatever your age. There’s always something new to learn. I’m learning more about energy healing in the form of Qigong even though I began to use energy in the form of Reiki 45 years ago. It is now my healing method of choice. Will you go exploring and look into an area that you’re curious about? Will you look at some videos or listen to some podcasts or take a class or two? 

Five years ago, I got on the Shift Network’s Shamanic Healing summit to learn about Shamanism. As I listened to the speakers, I knew that I wanted to learn it and I found my teachers. It has been an important learning process and journey for me. Now I’m exploring Qigong as a form of self-healing. 

Stay intellectually curious. It makes your life more interesting and it makes you a more interesting person. 

Space Clearing

I stood for a long time and looked at the space that had just been cleared before me. I felt like I could breathe again. My daughter and son-in-law just moved out a lot of things that I had prepared to go. In this process of pre-downsizing before I move into assisted living, I’ve had to give away a whole lot of things. In the evening that my daughter-in-law came and took the last few major pieces away, I rearranged what remained to resemble some sort of form that I’m going to have in the new space. There’s a whole lot of emptiness in the middle of the room and it felt very freeing. I felt as if I could breathe again.

Begin with an empty space and choose carefully what you put in it. Keep it simple. It will be beautiful. Can you truly breathe in your space? What can you remove that will make you feel more serene? 

I’m going to simplify the things I keep on my desk. It’s sort of like wiping the slate clean so I start fresh each day. What part of your life do you need to create open space and carefully re-choose what you bring into it? Keep it simple. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

When Is The Best Time For Your Spiritual Practice?

It’s a good idea to experiment with the time of day that you do your spiritual practice. When I learned Transcendental Meditation 50 years ago it was suggested we meditate when we come home from work so we make a break between work and restorative personal time. Some people meditate first thing in the morning. Explore an experiment to find the right time of day and the right place for your meditation practice. 

I have two times. After I’m dressed in the morning before I really begin my day, I play my flute while looking out the window, then do my transcendental meditation and some Qigong. And I take time again towards the end of the day to offer thanks for what has unfolded and what I have learned and the new pathway that are opening up. Experiment and find your own meditative rhythm.

One of the things I learned in Qigong class is that I don’t have to do the whole sequence every day. I can take one movement and deepen it. The same is true in meditation practice. I may make one whole meditation period about playing my flutes. And once you find out what works, don’t forget to experiment again later on. Because your needs will change. Be creative about the timing and the form of your meditative practice. 

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Passing The Torch

When we pass our wisdom on to others, we become both student and teacher. I have two major reasons for putting out this newsletter. One is to figure these things out for myself and the other is in hopes of changing a life here and there. So I am indeed both student and teacher. I get excited when I get an insight that helps me make clearer choices or newer choices or any choice. I get excited when I go exploring and discover something that changes my own life and I wish very much to turn and share that with others. What are you learning in your life and how do you turn and share it with others?

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

Explore and Expand

I am a spiritual explorer. I am drawn to many modes of spiritual exploration. Shamanism, Buddhism, Qigong, metaphysics – all manner of inner work that defines and deepens my connection to the unseen essence.

Rather than work with just one system I like to explore various topics. I love any opportunity to learn more about the subject and to find potential new teachers. 

As I learn more, I become more discerning. I know what I do want to learn more about and what I need to not pursue at this moment. One of the first thing that I attended was a summit on Shamanism which I knew very little about at the time. That was six years ago. Not only did I begin to understand what it was about but I found the teachers that I needed at that time. And I began my journey into Shamanism. 

Online is a great place to learn, to go exploring. Whether you simply watch a “how-to” video that someone has offered or take a class, there are many ways to expand your knowledge and your experience of a potential area of interest. Go exploring and see what adventures it takes you on. Go down the path less worn and expand your horizon. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Explore Another Culture

One of the ways that we can become more inclusive is to learn more about the beliefs and habits and culture of another country.  My personal spiritual exploration has led me to Buddhism, Shamanism and Indian and Chinese culture. I know a little bit about Irish beliefs. I know about Christianity. I know about the Druids. 

When you take time to look at the cultural traditions of a culture, first you might find something you like and you will begin to understand where the people of that culture are coming from. 

Where would you like to go exploring? And what would you like to explore? See what gifts from another culture you would like to bring into your life.

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

Explore and Interpret the Guidance and Messages of the Divine Feminine

Amazing Lebanese Dance

This is extraordinary:  An all-female Lebanese dance troupe on America’s Got Talent. or Watch in Instagram

The Rise of the Feminine

I have an astrologer friend who says that Venus is coming into play this fall in a way that has not happened in our lifetime. In the US a record number of young people are registering to vote because they will not stand for the cruel and bigoted abolishment of the freedom to control their own bodies. That cruel law is being dictated by old white men. In the US I think the women are going to change the focus and perhaps abolish the Republican Party and its vitriol as we simply vote for those who stand up for the well-being of all. 

Wherever you are in the world, keep standing up for the rights of everyone. Particularly keep an eye on how women are doing in your part of the world. And take action.  

== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

Step Out of the Way

The master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself. 

– Tao teaching 

You must learn to trust. You must learn to observe. Learn to be patient. When you trust the universe to provide exactly what you need you simply accepted it. You trust. You trust the universe to provide and you trust that you make the right choices. Step out of the way and let the Tao do the work.

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

Spiritual Practice

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Letting Go

I am over-thinking again. Possibly over-planning. It’s sort of who I am. But I’m approaching a time when I really have to let go of everything and trust. I have to trust that the right space opens up in assisted living – with a perfect roommate. I have to trust the timing is just right. I have to trust that I will be OK to continue releasing physical things to make room to fit in the smaller space. And that’s just the trust around the letting go part. I get to trust that I find the right things to do to help my body re-stabilize. I have to trust that I write things that are meaningful to those of you who read this newsletter. I have to trust the people who need to hear what I say find me and take action with the parts that resonate with then. I have to trust that this world will figure out this huge change we are facing and we will be able to raise our sights to hold a vibration for the highest good for all.

What do you need to trust? Do you trust the universe to offer your perfect next opportunity? Do you trust your inner voice to make a wise choice for right now? Do you trust you will recognize the next path that opens for you? There is a letting go part of trusting. You don’t manipulate, you don’t plan, and you probably don’t even vote. You just trust that you have the inner wisdom and insight to recognize the next opportunity and to make the right choices around it. How are you at trusting?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Let Go and Trust

My world unfolds in a perfect pattern.

My world unfolds in a perfect pattern. I trust in my ability to see clearly and take the perfect next steps. 

My world unfolds in a perfect pattern. I trust in my ability to see clearly and take the perfect next steps. All is well in my world. 

Cara Lumen, September 2022

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

Namaste,

Cara

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