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The Call of Curiosity

July 9, 2021 By Cara Lumen

The Call of Curiosity

Creating Conscious Connection

Curiosity is your guide. Curiosity is your teacher. The more curious you are, the more expansive will be your life experience. Cultivate curiosity on all levels of your life.

I love the free summits on The Shift Network. Each time I attend, I learn something and often find a new teacher.  I take five or six 7-week classes a year. 

I read books on what happens when we leave the planet according to past-life regression studies. And it gives me ideas about how I want to shape my planetary life. What my purpose is. And how I view “next.”

I listen to my inner voice with great enthusiasm and explore its suggestions. 

Follow your curiosity. See where it takes you. What are you being called to do? How could you do that? What do you need to learn/understand/explore in order to know how to bring it into your life? Particularly in this rapidly changing era, we need to keep exploring, we need to stay curious, and we have to stay open to change.

Curiosity takes me on adventures. It opens new doors. It shows me new possibilities. How do you know what to do next if you don’t go exploring? And how do you go exploring unless you are curious? Would I like to do this? Can I do that? How do I learn to do this? Where will this new idea fit into my life? Where does this unfolding opportunity lead me? Is this step mine to take? Those are some of the questions to ask and then allow curiosity to find the answers that will deepen your life experience and direct your path.

Use the quality of curiosity to expand your options. Then see where it takes you. Curiosity takes me on to new dimensions, it takes me on journeys to the unseen world. Curiosity raises my expectation of what is possible and what my role is. I listen closely to my inner voice. It takes me on adventures I could never have unless I began by being curious. 

What are you curious about that you need to take time to explore? What unexpected thought has shown up recently that made you want to go exploring? To try something new? To change in some way?

Learn to listen to those internal nudges that say “consider this”. “What if you did this? What if you walk on this path for a while, where will it lead you?” How will you let your curiosity guide you today?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I consciously encourage my curiosity to explore all aspects of my life. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Keep an eye out for something you are curious about. 
  • When it shows up, take time to go exploring, dig a little deeper, learn a little more. And try it on for size. 
  • Curiosity will take you on great adventures!

Our Global Deeper Song Community

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

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

We Are Cosmic Consciousness

A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective

It was a giant leap to an unexpected place and it totally altered how I saw things. What I saw was possible.  What I expected was achievable.  It was like going from looking only at the view from my apartment window to suddenly looking out at everything from my soul star. My Infinite self. Which is exactly what this new perspective is. When we begin to look at our life, our human expression, from the standpoint of being cosmic consciousness, everything changes.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore

We Are Cosmic Consciousness

(27 Minutes)

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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Are You a Transformative Leader?

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

The Concept of One and the You as Observer

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe  

===INNER WORK===

The Power of Affirmation

“All is well in my World.”

“Everything I need comes to me with ease.”

“I am whole, perfect, and complete.”

What kind of affirmations do you give yourself – particularly unconsciously. “I can’t do that.”  “I don’t deserve that.” “That will never happen.”  

Look closely at the affirmations you give yourself and make certain they are all positive. 

I am going through a process of letting go and establishing new patterns so I might say “The perfect new opportunities appear to guide me to my next place of service” or “I easily hear and interpret the sacred messages from within.”  Or “Today is a constant blessing” or “My body heals as I sleep.”

Get creative and start actively using positive affirmations in your life and notice what happens.  

Our Role as Transformation Leaders

There are members of the transformational community all over the planet who are holding High Watch for the world.  We sit in sacred silence and radiate out light into the world – to the people, the situations, the environment, our future.  We join with other light beings and begin to cover the planet in healing, wholing, light vibration. We work together to raise the collective consciousness. That’s how we hold High Watch for the World.

To learn more, listen to the podcast: How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

===OUTER  WORK===

What Have You Settled For?

Stop for a minute and look at your life, your work, your health and your relationships, and see what you have settled for. It is so easy to not take the extra step or demand the extra level of excellence of yourself and just settle for what shows up and what is comfortable and what is easy.

Keep working on change. My body is doing odd adjustment things but I keep trying new paths to wholeness and I have periodic breakthroughs that mean I’m on the right track. I have to keep trying or I have to settle. And settling for what was going on in my body is not what I’m gonna do.

Are you doing what you love to do? Are you working with people who excite you and motivate you and challenge you and nurture you? Or have you settled? Falling into a path or a routine that is easy will never lead you to the level of excitement and satisfaction you deserve. Keep questioning your choices.  Keep challenging yourself. What have you settled for? And how are you going to change that?

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

The Two Aspects of Your Spiritual Practice

There are two aspects to our spiritual practice, one is to deepen your own embodiment of your connection with spirit and the other is to deepen our connection with source.  We want to be certain we are addressing both aspects. 

Examining your spiritual practice from both directions may help you become aware of the balance you are or are not creating. 

Building on the Life Mandala I have drawn for my life (How to Create a Mandala for Self Healing), I  have created a separate mandala for the area of my Life Mandala I labeled “Spirituality”. It has two halves –  how I deepen my own embodiment of my connection with spirit and how I  deepen my connection with source.

How do you deepen your connection with Cosmic Source? 

I sit in my Still Point each day and disappear my body as I listen to and absorb the messages of the unseen world. I take shamanic journeys.  I channel messages from the unseen world into a form to share with others.  I take shamanic journeys for my own guidance and clarity and for awareness and insights I am to pass along.  I pay attention to the organic opportunities and nudges and insights that Cosmic Source gives me. 

How do you deepen your own embodiment of your connection with spirit? How do I, here in my humanness, express myself as oneness?  As all-inclusive?  As the highest vibration? What choices do I make to expand my expression as spirit in this human world? Embodiment plays out in my actions and interactions. 

On the physical plane, I continue to cultivate my awareness of the natural vibration of all that is around me. I am expanding my Qigong practice in order to experience a deeper flow of Qi, a deeper awareness of my role as pure energy. I play my flutes and let my expression through their vibration connect me with nature. I make conscious choices that support the well-being of my body.

Give some thought to how you deepen your own embodiment of your connection with spirit and how you deepen your connection with source.

===DISCOVERIES===

New Moon Awareness

I love the new moon. My life always comes to a slow crawl right before the new moon happens and then it noticeably expands as if I was shot out of a cannon as the cycle moved towards a full moon.

The New Moon was Friday, July 9th. What do you need to release, lay aside, leave behind? It’s time to step forward into a new unfolding and expanding month.  What opportunities and insights will you draw to you in the next four week? 

===MY DEEPER SONG  ADVENTURES ===

Free Online Event – Shamanic Wisdom Summit July 19-23, 2021 A great place to go exploring and meet some new teachers. 

=== MY BOOKS ON AMAZON===

Cara Lumen’s Books

I Want to Sing a Deeper Song
The Art of Wholing: Creative Consciousness for Change
Shape Your Journey, Clarify Your Calling: A Deeper Song
Do  You Need a New Tribe?
How to Read the Signs and Signals that Help You Build Your Business From Your Inside Out
Metaphysics and the Art of Dying

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Phoenix Rising

I was working with the oracle cards I made for myself and I drew “Phoenix Rising.” I understood this is a time for me to reposition and rebuild for this next segment of my life.  Those are major steps. 

The phoenix is a sign of re-birth, rising from the ashes to begin anew. 

So here we are with a new era of the Sacred Feminine which is definitely in a period of emergence. We are being called upon to make major changes in how we live on our earth world and how we interact with each other. Even our business opportunities and survival opportunities have changed dramatically and we must adjust.

How are we to reposition ourselves and how are we to rebuild based on this rapid and dramatic evolution that is taking place?

I had already taken major steps to reposition myself when I realized that our job is not to “raise” our vibration, it is to recognize and express the fact that we are already the highest cosmic vibration. (We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective) We have just covered it up in our humanness.  For me that means there is no more striving to raise my vibration, there is only the work of sharing myself as cosmic awareness, cosmic vibration, a reciprocal energy. 

The rebuilding part is an interesting concept at 88.  But I am making some conscoius changes in my physical plane expression.  It has to do with the food I choose to eat and the physical movement I do or do not choose to practice.  It’s totally up to me to make choices to rebuild a bodily expression that has gotten a bit cranky. 

Look at your life.  In what areas do you need to reposition yourself, rethink your options and make different choices?  Once you have examined and chosen, you can begin to rebuild.  This is the time.  Do the work.

Consider Revisiting

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

Magnetism

Energy attracts. What we draw to us in our lives is drawn there by the energy we are putting out. Our being. It is what we are thinking and doing and expecting that acts as a magnet to draw to us our next steps, our next adventures, the people who are to walk beside us on this part of our path. So if you’re not getting what you want, check your own energy. What do you believe you deserve? What do you believe is possible? Those are major questions to consider whenever your life seems stuck. Who are you drawing to you? What opportunities are showing up? What new ideas? What new possibilities? Change your energy, change your life. Change your thinking, change your life.

===CARA’S CORNER===

The Choices We Make

It’s interesting to look back over a long life and notice the choices that you made and where they took you. It’s not about redoing them. It’s not about being regretful. Be glad. They were your choices, your lessons, your adventures. It is about noticing what happened when you made those choices. What the results were. What the lessons still are. It all contributed to who you are today.

Every choice we make changes where we go next, and where we end up. I have made several major choices in my long life that were daring or unusual or odd and very very big. They impacted me. They impacted others. And they certainly led me on a path I did not have access to if I had not made that original huge change.

If I have not left the Midwest for New York City, I would never have gotten the holistic training that is so vital to who I am, what I offer, and how I live my life. If I had not raised my granddaughter by myself, she would not be as successful as she is today. My major choices seem to have been made in the moment, based on a strong sense of knowing it was right.  We make choices in every moment that impacts our own lives and the lives of others, and we may or may not understand how far-reaching and impactful they are. I have no idea how some of my ideas and insights affect the lives of others. But periodically I hear from some of you and know that I am giving you something to think about. To consider. And that’s a perfect way to spend my life.

Don’t have any regrets over the choices that are over and done with. Or the opportunities you did not explore. The choices of the past. The paths you did not choose. Do notice where your choices took you. Do notice what you learned because of those choices. Look back over the friends that you have walked along beside for part of the path and then parted to take separate ways. Cherish the gifts you exchanged along the journey. Look at those who are walking the path beside you today and notice how your own values have changed. Notice how beliefs have changed. And most of all notice your expectations for yourself and the possibilities that lie ahead. For that is the sign of where you were going, the path you are on, the journey you are to take. Choose. Explore. Evaluate. And choose again. Life is an adventure. Enjoy the journey.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

No regrets. 

No regrets about what was done and what was not done, what was chosen and not chosen. 

No regrets about what was done and what was not done, what was chosen and not chosen. Build on what you learned from your choices and let that wisdom be your foundation for “next.” 

Keep moving. Keep choosing. Let life unfold. 

– Cara Lumen July, 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

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

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Filed Under: Cosmic Awareness, New Consciousness, Self Awareness, Transcendent Leadership

How to Create a Mandala for Self Healing

June 26, 2021 By Cara Lumen

How to Create a Mandala for Self Healing

Creating Conscious Connection

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

A mandala represents your universe in Hindu and Buddhist symbolism. I learned about the use of a mandala for self-healing from David Crow in the Shift Network Intuitive Medicine Summit.  He uses the form of a mandela for clarity and decision-making. We can use a mandala as a way to focus and sort out all the busy elements our mind tosses out into our day. It is a very powerful and clarifying practice to add to your personal expansion practice. 

A mandala is a circle.  For me, that means it has cycles within cycles and is constantly changing. The idea is that when you organize your ideas and action choices in the circle of a mandala, you will find them organically clustering in groups that help organize the clutter and create an awareness of priority and next steps. That clarity of purpose and priority helps guide your decision-making and clarifies your next steps.

The mandala uses images to express the energy and focus of a choice or an action. However, I had to begin by organizing my thoughts in words in the form of a mandala. 

This mandala-making practice immediately helped me identify clusters of ideas and actions and choices that were then easy to prioritize. That grouping action alone began to simplify my focus and declutter my mind. 

With the mandala in place, I could see what steps lead to what end result and see where that focus belonged in the over-arching objective. I had a 5 x 8 card handy and I drew a circle. At the top, I put “spiritual” because that’s the most important thing for me to do. I could add things like exploring the unseen world and all these other things I’m doing but the fact is my spiritual practice is at the top of my mandala. 

It was when I created a section for my “body expression” that a lot of things began to lump themselves into one section of the mandala rather than evolving into a long list of things to address.   I’m concerned about my eyesight and I’m concerned about my body posture. 

But immediately all the details of how I was working with both of those physical plane opportunities went by the wayside and I was able to se that section as “self-care” – actually “active self-care.” I’m working on several aspects of my body but being able to lump all those choices and challenges into one category made me feel less overwhelmed. Whether it’s the food I eat or the expansion of my Qigong practice, the whole purpose of those details and choices is to help my body structure and my eyesight. Active Self-Care became the focus for another section of my mandala

Another important segment of my mandala was the experience of connection. I have friends that I talk with online on a regular basis. We are walking the path together and we support each other in our explorations and our insights. Those experiences are very nurturing and nourishing. Connection is another segment in my mandala.

The fourth area of my mandala is Service.  My work in the world.  For me that means a lot of creative internal exploration and finding ways to share what I discover with others. 

To make the separate divisions in my mandala, I drew an “S” through the circle from one side to the other. And then made another “S” from top to bottom so my mandala looks like it is moving in cycles – which it is. For now, I have my mandala divided into four sections – Spiritual, Self-Care, Connection and Service.

As I created these larger categories for all the activities of my life, the details of how to accomplish them was simplified and clarified. I realized that I had four major choices or focuses in my life – My spiritual exploration/expansion, the well-being of my body, my nurturing connection with others who are walking this path beside me and on my path of service. All the details, all the clutter, fit into one of those categories. That realization immediately quieted my mind. It focused my intentions. Everything I do has one of four purposes – the deepening of my spiritual path, the well-being of my body, my connections with others who walk along this same path, and how I serve in the world.  

A mandala eliminates long lists of actions and clusters them into a focus of moving forward in one particular overarching area. It makes your life seem clear and simple and focused. 

I will keep exploring the use of this mandala because I like how it simplifies the details and keeps me from getting mired down in them. I have a feeling that whatever question or intention or problem comes up will go immediately into one of these over-arching categories. And thus be simplified as it is absorbed into a specifically focused direction.

Sort yourself out by using a mandala.  Draw a circle and begin to think in terms of over-arching categories. Your life as a human.  Your life as a spiritual explorer and whatever categories are priorities to you. 

You might have a separate mandala for Service alone.  That would help me focus my choices and prioritize in that area. If you are not clear about how to organize your mandala, cluster the details together until you identify the larger umbrella that will encompass all the detail in that focused outcome.  Or write all the things that you are concerned about on separate small pieces of paper and begin to move them into over-arching groups. My list for body care is fairly long because I am making changes and experimenting. Move these concerns, these worries, these potential choices into the larger picture of your Life Mandela. 

If you are artistic perhaps create a picture for each segment of your mandala.  Or maybe your mandala is just words like mine is. Notice how the simple act of moving the details into larger like-minded clusters eases your mind. If I have a long list under body care, even doing one of them is addressing that larger area of focus.  

How many divisions do you have?

When a new worry or choice or action comes along, look to see what larger category of your mandala it fits into. It will immediately seem less overwhelming.

For instance the podcasts I do go into three categories of my mandala – they nurture my own spiritual path, they are part of my Path of Service and they address my desire for connection.

The mandala helps me see my life as inter-connected. The mandala simplifies my focus – less detail, more overview. And in so doing keeps me deeply focused on each step I take.

The mandela is a visual meant to be observed and considered and absorbed as a meditative practice. I experienced a huge quieting of my mind as I placed the smaller pieces into a larger context that made me feel less overwhelmed, and I began to realize that when I work on one thing it is working on the others. Everything is connected and everything is moving so every action affects the whole.  Keep your eye on the whole…

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I look for the similarities of the details of my life and simplify them in a medulla of my whole life.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Identify the major categories for your life. For the moment make lists. 
  • Under those categories list of all the things that you need or want to do. Notice what overlaps into other categories. 
  • As you gain clarity, begin to group those details in larger groups.  
  • When all the things you are focusing on begin to fall into the larger groups, draw a mandela that incorporates these elements of your life into a larger, more inclusive form.
  • Notice how the details of your life are simplified into a few evolving and gradually shifting cycles that you can focus on one at a time. 
  • Work with that. 

Our Global Deeper Song Community

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

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

The Backpack Journey

A Deeper Song Adventure

This is a journey you will take over and over again. I call it the Backpack Journey because the lighter the load we carry, the further and faster and more energetically we can move forward. 

Come, let’s go adventuring.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore

The Backpack Journey

(20 minutes)

(Listen  Here)

Listen to
Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on

Apple / Spotify /Google

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

Your Role as a Visionary Harp

Trust Your Inner answers.

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

Step Beyond the Limits of Yourself

===INNER WORK===

Work With What You Have

I don’t go anyplace anymore, so I never get to wear the wonderful and numerous crystal necklaces that I collected over the years. After having them in a drawer for a really long time, I took them out and hung them like sun catchers in my window. I sit beside their lovely energy all day. But just as I was about to order a small stone from Etsy, it occurred to me to wonder why I am not wearing all these great crystal necklaces just around my house by myself. So I picked one, vigorously applied my silver polishing cloth and began to wear it. I’m tuning into the great insights and messages and guidance that has been storing up in these crystals for these past 40 or 50 years. It is time for me to listen to them. They are a part of my life journey and it is time to actively invite them to participate in my life. It feels extremely good to honor and work with these stones that have been in my life for so long.  What have you put aside that you could welcome back into your life?

Honor the Process – Let it Unfold

Unfolding takes patience. It cannot be rushed. I got a new insight for my podcasts and I have no idea what to do with it yet. I must let it unfold. 

My body is going through all sorts of uncomfortable adjustments. I think it’s unfolding toward strength. I certainly hope so. It’s a bit cranky in the process. I just keep focused on the forward motion however small the shift. 

Things unfold in their own good time. Be patient and give them room to change.

===OUTER  WORK===

Make Aware Choices

I am becoming more aware that listening to the news of the world is NOT helping my body.  I get to stop.  There is nothing I can do on the physical plane and a lot I can do on the inner plane that does not require knowing the details of the news and the choices that are or are not being made.  

I happen to like the intelligence and expansive vocabulary in the conversations that I hear on CSNBC but my body’s reaction to the topics is saying I need to listen less and dream more…

Monitor your choices and don’t let the non-useful ones have any room in your life. 

Small Choices Can Make a Big Difference 

It’s interesting how a very small choice can bring such deep pleasure. One night as I was preparing my wonderful protein drink, it occurred to me that I would like to have a prettier cup to drink it from. My first thought was to order one online. And then I stopped and thought “look in your own cabinets.” And there was a lovely china cup that I had not been using. It is a pattern I really like. As I drank, I paused to admire and reflect on the beauty of the cup.  So now my nightly protein drink is an even greater treat because of the lovely container I am using.  Interesting how small choices can make such a big difference in a simple experience. What small choices can you make that will bring you pleasure?

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Release Your Limiting Beliefs  

One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself is to get rid of your limiting beliefs. The beliefs that say “I can’t “or “I shouldn’t”. So many of our beliefs come from the fears of others – our parents, the decade in which we were born, where we were born, our siblings.  And then they are the choices we made or did not make….  What beliefs have you picked up that actually belonged to someone else?  

Notice what you learned from your family – how they taught you to experience life, what they believed was possible for themselves and what they believed about you. 

Re-examine every belief that shows up in your life to make certain it is aligned with what you believe you deserve and what you believe is possible. Begin by questioning what was expected of you because of the year you were born. 

For instance, I was born in 1932, in the depression so there were not many babies born during that period. Women of that period were not expected to go to college or have a job. They were supposed to get married and raise babies. 

(I got my BA in 1954 and went back to school in my 40’s for my MBA and I lived in both New York City and the San Francisco area to develop my holistic career. I actively bucked the trend and I’m rather proud of myself for doing all that.)  

A lot of our choices were made in response to the culture of the time we were born in. I still have a hard time dealing with men my age who feel their superiority the way they were simply brought up to see themselves. 

Currently, I have to check out my beliefs around the process of aging. As I sit here in this senior center, there is great evidence of decline. And I have to be careful how I view that as a potential or a possibility for my own path.  What do you want to do? What work do you want to do? What gifts do you want to share? How do you want to impact the world? Start there. See what you can figure out what to do to make it happen.

===DISCOVERIES ===

The Circle of Qi with Ding Ming-Tao is a free 6-part series that started this week. (Videos available)   I have read a great many of his books. Check out the flyer and see if it calls to you. To register, send your email to dmd@dengmingdao.com

Make Your Own Oracle Cards 

I was considering buying a second set of oracle cards when I realized I could make my own version. It’s a form of communicating with my inner self. I can simply place words on separate pieces of paper and then draw them and use them to focus my ideas for the day. Words like creativity, inner peace, laughter, body love. Whatever is meaningful to me. 

I made a long list of words and then I realized from my mandala work that I had four categories, Self Care, Spiritual Path, Connection  and Service.  That helped me expand the list of words that would help focus my attention and move me forward. 

I got some blank index cards and a black marker and made my cards.  And I am free to add words to explore as I am called to do so.  I will put on my “Cara Cards” words that express what I need to explore next.  

I gain great wisdom when I use my Oracle cards.  It’s a powerful form of self-reflection. One word makes me look at all the areas of my life and see where it applies or what new direction it opens up.  Or it might show me what I could focus on next. And it is easy to add a new word.

Here are some of the words I am using: Creativity, Inner Voice, Meditation, Tranquility, Serenity, Nature, Laughter, Rest, Body Care, Inspiration, Next Steps, Fork in Road, Future, New Path, Cosmic Consciousness,  Light Bearer, Intuition, Self-love, Self-appreciation, Vision, Unseen World, Future, Ancestors, Healing, Release, Inner Song, Inspiration, Circle of Light Beings. Phoenix Rising. Individual Harp. Inner Wisdom. Inner Knowing. Laughter. Vision. Cosmic Connection, Fire, Water. Air, Earth, Curiosity.

I use my oracle cards as a form of communication with my inner self and for guidance from the Unseen World. I like this idea of making my own oracle cards.  I can add whatever words I feel will move me forward. 

What will you put on your self-made oracle cards?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

A Vision of “Next”

It’s a bit like we are riding the rapids, things are changing so rapidly.  New doors are open and old paths are being shut off.  It’s a bit hard to keep up. 

We have to stay open and keep visualizing in order to have any clue about wise choices that will help us create our next. The world is changing so rapidly. The opportunities are shifting. We have to question everything. We need to explore or consider or at least experiment with some of these new opportunities that are showing up around our directions and choices and place of service. It is possible that very little of what we have put into our lives has any meaning right now. Unless of course, we’re talking honesty and compassion and inclusiveness. But all those beliefs about what is possible may have to go out the window. Because so much more is possible today that we never imagined a few years ago. Stay open. Stay curious. And go exploring.

=== DEEPER SONG ORACLE MESSAGE===

Laughter

I didn’t get to draw am oracle card for us because the word “Laughter” popped in so loudly. It’s one of the words I chose for my self-made oracle deck.  

Remember the belly-laugh occasion in your life? The problem is that there were not that many but they were always a powerful experience.  

Living alone and staying home does not induce laughter.  So what options are open to me to change that?

I think I will begin with laughing with delight.  Surely I can do that.  I might laugh at delight at the sun on my shoulders, or the wind in my hair.  I might laugh at a successful completion of some step I am taking in my work.  I can sit here by myself laughing in appreciation for the lovely and meaningful objects I have around me.  At the very least, I can make a conscious effort to smile with satisfaction at something I have placed in my home.  I could laugh out-loud with joy when I complete a strong podcast outline.

I could laugh a little as my cat, Sebastian, figures out ways to get my attention.  

Finding reasons to laugh out-loud is a tad challenging.  How can you and how will you add laughter to your life?

===CARA’S CORNER===

Check Your Foundation

It was a simple change. I put a different pillow on the seat of my desk chair and my whole body applauded. And it straightened in response.  I changed my foundation.  I changed my base.  It was a small adjustment and it resonated far afield. 

I began to look at other parts of my foundation to see what needed shaping or repairing or replacing.  

I have changed my eating foundation thanks to my naturopath visit. I am working with the Nikken magnetic sleep system to support my body. But I need to change the foundation of my belief around my life and what is possible. That may require imagination and determination and a great deal of creativity. Examine the foundation you have built upon. Maybe you simply add on to your current foundation. And maybe you have to move your whole self to a new foundation. Give some thought to the ideals and concepts and beliefs that you were building your life upon.

Here’s the miracle.  When I stood up from sitting on that different pillow, my entire body realigned!!!!!!  I have been working toward this for months.  And one change – a change in the foundation I was sitting upon, created a miracle!!!!  What is the foundation you are building upon and how do you need to change it

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

It was a small choice. 

It was a small choice that created a shift in my very foundation.

It was a small choice that created a shift in my very foundation and my entire being grew stronger.

What else can I shift in my life?

– Cara Lumen, June 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

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

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

January 24, 2021 By Cara Lumen

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

Creating Conscious Connection

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

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

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

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

What you focus on persists.

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

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

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

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

How do we do that?

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

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

What we focus on persists. 

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

Expand your spiritual practice of Oneness.

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

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

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

Monitor your thoughts. 

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

Monitor your actions.

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

Monitor your chores.

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

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

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

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

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

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

What are you thinking?

What is growing in your Inner Garden of Self?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

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

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

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

OUR GLOBAL DEEPER SONG COMMUNITY

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

DEEPER SONGS I EXPLORED THIS MONTH

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

An Exploration of the Unseen World

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

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

In this episode we explore

Our Ongoing Journey into the New Consciousness

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Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

Important Links & Mentions From This Episode:

How to Create a transformative Energy Shield for Protection

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Gaia Gateway and the Soul Star 

The Space of Inner Knowing

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

How to Align Your Vibration within our Collective Vibrational Core

Your Future Self

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

The Space of Inner Knowing

***INNER WORK***

What Started You on the Path You are On?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What self-aligned choices can you make today?

Stretch

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

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

What Are You Breathing In?

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

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

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

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

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

***OUTER WORK***

Be Flexible in Your Thinking  – It Opens New Doors  

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

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

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

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

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

Let Go – Make Room

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

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

We forget why we hang on to things.  

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

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

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

***DEEPEN  YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE***

Let Your Daily Spiritual Practice Evolve

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deeper Listening: 

The Power of Your Still Point

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

The Role of the Element of Fire in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the Element of Earth in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the Element  Water in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the element of Air in Our New Consciousness

The Role of the Element of Space in Our New Consciousness

What is Your Role in Creating the New Consciousness?

How too Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

Use the Intention of Your Breath for Healing

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

Focus the Tone of each Day with an Intention

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

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

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

***DEEPER SONG  INSIGHTS ***

How Do You See Change?

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

Covid-19 Shot

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

***DEEPER SONG IDEAS ***

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

***OUR EVOLVING FUTURE***

Choice 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Professional Evolution – Stay Relevant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CORE

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

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

INNOCENCE

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

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

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

Sacred Earth Cards

CARA’S CORNER

The Discomfort of Healing

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

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

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

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

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

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

A DEEPER SONG

Change.  It was a small change.  

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

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

– Cara Lumen

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

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

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How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness

April 3, 2019 By Cara Lumen

How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness
An Inner-world Exploration

All our work is done on the inner plane.  It happens whenever we think and imagine and choose and formulate plans and ideas.  But to do all that we have to develop the skill of stillness. We need to question our mind and emotions in order to examine, feel, absorb and finally choose.  

Awareness and insight require stillness. Inner stillness follows outer stillness.

Quiet your Body

Pause throughout your day, and notice.  Notice how you feel.  Notice what you have drawn into your experience.  Is this the life experience what you want?  What needs to change?

Quiet your Mind

Take a slow deliberate breath in, hold it a few seconds, then allow that breath to emerge through your nostrils or slightly separated lips.  Pause with empty lungs and notice the serenity that begins to form. Repeat.  With each slow, conscious, deliberate, mindful breath, notice how calm and serene you become. 

Repeat this often throughout your day. 

Cultivate a quiet mind

Stillness means quietening our mind.  First, you have to notice how rampant the mind is, then you have to choose to quiet it. Turn to the window and look at nature. Absorb the gentle unfolding, the deep patience, the simple waiting for the perfect time.   That aware and mindful, focused pause will eliminate your mental chatter.

Let nature be your guide

We are nature and a major lesson of nature is that everything unfolds in cycles. We are always at a beginning, middle or end.  Pausing to look out the window puts you in tune with how the day is unfolding with the grace and serenity that is nature. 

Place yourself in tune with the harmony that nature shares with us. 

Stillness is simply being.  Not doing is being  

Simply “being” takes some practice. We are very busy in our body suit lives. As I pause to look out the window at nature, the changes I see are subtle.  The unfolding is minuscule.  But there’s a pulsation that stills and settles my humanness. The experience of serenity can be found in nature.  

Stillness is about being present

When we are still, we don’t daydream or visualize or even meditate.  We simply sit still and feel and embrace and absorb and become present in that stillness. Let yourself be drawn into the minuscule, the detail. Feel yourself as a part of something larger. 

Simply be with the object you’re contemplating.  As you sit in mindful stillness, let the energy of the object touch you, speak to you, offer you insights.  You will hear and understand. Feel yourself become a part of what you’re embracing as you cultivate the art of stillness.   

Stillness allows you to experience your soul

Only in stillness, only with focused mindfulness, can you become aware of your soul, the core of you, the essence of you, the reason for you, the message of you, the purpose of you. Those answers are in the stillness, the knowing, the acceptance of the call from deep inside you.  

Cultivate Stillness

To know Soul You, to hear your inner voice, to figure out what you want/need to do next, you must cultivate inner stillness.  

In that stillness will arise the guidance you seek for the focus of your attention and actions. 

As you learn to maintain that inner stillness throughout your day you will become aware of a powerful innate inner knowing that guides you in selecting from the choices and opportunities that appear. 

Do you heed the voice within?

My inner voice speaks in both subtle nudges and loud shouts.  I have learned to listen and heed them both. 

Sometimes my inner voice is simply a knowing.  Like an instant decision that you know is exactly right.  Are you aware of those unexpected ideas that pop in, and do you examine them? They’re there to guide you. To open new doors. 

Do you notice the unexpected opportunities?

We have to be prepared for surprises, the unexpected ideas or opportunities that nudge us in a new direction.  New opportunities can be subtle or they can stand in front of you and shout.

Not everything that shows up is for you to act upon.  The better you know yourself, the more accurate will be your choices.  Simply notice.  In your stillness, notice the opportunities that present themselves for our examination.  Let your inner voice guide your choices. 

Do you know your purpose?

This path of inner stillness allows you time to explore and examine and cultivate your illumined purpose. Notice the doors that open.  Check out what they offer.  See if it is aligned with what you need and want to do next. Then choose – or not. 

Cultivate mindfulness

When you’re still and give yourself time to become aware and allow your inner self to offer nudges and messages and guiding insights to your life, you’ll organically move more readily into an understanding of your inner world.  What it is saying.  What you want to unfold next in your life. You will experience your oneness with the greater whole and respond with the knowledge of that support that is within you as you express your soul’s purpose.  

Listen. Look. Interpret.

Deeper Song Affirmation
I cultivate stillness.

Deeper Song Process

  • Notice how busy you are.  How you are pulled to do several things at once.
  • Stop where you are and take a slow, deep breath, hold it a moment and slowly release it.  Then pause to notice the emptiness that is left.
  • Repeat.
  • Sprinkle this simple breathing practice throughout your day, noticing how often you do it and what the circumstances are that remind you to do it.
  • Shift something. Make new choices.  Release what you truly don’t need or want in your life.
  • Breathe again and see how you feel. Then turn and look out  the window and immerse yourself in nature.
  • Repeat until you find stillness.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Are You Sacred Space?

The Power of a Releasing Ceremony

Tune Into the Calendar of Nature

Life Messages from a Potter

Can You Let Your Life Unfold?

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

When I See Myself As Light 

January 30, 2019 By Cara Lumen

When I See Myself As Light
An Inner-world Exploration 

On being Light

I sit in stillness
and my body
slowly disappears.

I move to…
A floating feeling,
A boundless feeling,
An all-encompassing feeling. 

And I know myself to be light.
Only light. 

No body suit limitations.
No human experiences,
Only light. 

And I sit here and shine
in contentment.

I am light. Only light.

– Cara Lumen, November 2018

I sit here in my body suit, aware of my individuality, my separateness and I know it is an illusion.  It is not the truth.  It is not who I am. 

I am light.  

Only I don’t always feel it. 

I can disappear myself when I meditate.  

I can disappear myself when I play my flute. 

I can disappear myself when I sleep. 

I can mostly disappear myself when I take a shamanic journey. 

There are doorways that invite me to enter the Invisible World.  I just have to step through. 

When I see myself as light there’s only one of us. No separation, no other-ness. Just one unified glowing energy. 

When I know myself as light, I’m free to be everywhere at once. When we join our lights in focused intention, we have the power to raise the consciousness of the world.  When we know ourselves to be one light, we experience our enormous collaborative power.

When I know myself as light, I balance my body, using energy to restore and heal.  My body is not separate.  It is light.  I am light. I am energy. 

When I know myself to be light, I can explore the invisible realms, the other 95% of our world. When I allow it, I visit other galaxies, other concepts I never imagined.  I can become part of the Void, the All That Is, The Emptiness That Holds Everything.

When I leave my body suit sitting in my chair I can allow my inner being to return to Source, to enter into the Great Mystery and enjoy being light.  Light with no problems. Light with no worry.  Light with one responsibility – to be light.  To be strong, bright, clear light.  

As I move through my life as Light, others notice.  They see themselves reflected in my shining light.  They see their own light and move to explore it, to own it, to be it.  And their light grows brighter.  As does mine. We merge, our light moving into the collective light, shining a bit brighter in welcome and recognition to those who come to join us. We begin to dissolve our individuality and grateful and joyously become one light. One Light.  One All That Is.  

Begin by sitting in your chair and moving inside to your inner self so completely that your body disappears and you know yourself to be light. 

Because you are. 

You are light. 

You don’t have to become it. You are it. 

What you do have to do is become aware that you are.

Deeper Song Practice

  • Sit in a quiet place where there will be no interruptions. 
  • Follow your breath. Inhale, pause, exhale, pause.  Repeat.
  • Allow your body to disappear.
  • Experience yourself as free-floating nothingness. A molecule – a space between the molecules. 
  • Sit and experience yourself as pure vibration.
  • Begin your journey there.

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

Expand Your Spiritual Heart

Do You Practice Self-Transcendence? 

What are You Weaving in Your Reality?

Where Do You Find Your Inner Circle of Light Beings?

Are You Sacred Space?

Filed Under: Self Awareness, Spiritual Expansion, Transformational Community Tagged With: Spiritual Expansion, transformational thinking, world service

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