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Expand Your Spiritual Heart

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Expand Your Spiritual Heart
An Inner World Exploration

Behind our physical-plane heart is our spiritual heart.  It’s who we truly are. When you leave behind the limitations of your body suit, your physical ego, you become your spiritual heart.

Our spiritual heart lives in the Nowhere That We Came From. It is a universal heart. It is our collective heart. We must learn to live there. We must learn to live from there.

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

When I use my universal heart, my spiritual heart, I see everyone and everything as radiant light. That’s all. Radiant light. There’s no physical plane argument or anger. Everything goes beyond even the human plane emotions of compassion and empathy.  The spiritual heart sees everything as radiant light. One light. It’s us. It’s me. It’s you. It’s all there is.

When we learn to see everything as light, the discord will disappear. That’s how much power we have. We see others as light. We see only light. We must learn to see only light. Because radiant light is all there is.

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

It takes practice to come from your spiritual heart. It takes focus to continue to come from your spiritual heart.  We just need to practice it. Every day. Every moment. See the world and the plants and the animals and all the people in your life as light. Because that’s what they are. Radiant light.

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

Spiritual light is formless energy. Spiritual light is who you are.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

 Do You See and Hear and Walk in a Sacred Manner?

Are You Sacred Space?

What Does Spiritual Friendship Look Like?

Where Do You Find Your Inner Circle of Light Beings?

 Live in Your Center 

Honor Your Role

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Honor Your Role

Living Our Deeper Song

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

It’s important to not only understand your role but to honor it and be content with it. For instance, I’m studying a lot of Qigong and I watch these teachers teach the fundamentals over and over and over as they reach out to more and more people. I can’t do that, I can’t repeat the fundamentals. I’m an explorer and I will teach you as long as I am learning but once I own it, I move on. That’s very important to know so I don’t beat myself up for not teaching fundamentals. I’m an explorer. And I stay with a topic until I learn what I need to know in order to move forward. 

Do not compare yourself with anyone else because you are unique. Your role is unique. Your place of service is unique. And your role changes throughout your life as your foundation expands. I can look back and see how my roles changed because I was learning and building on what I knew. My choices and the experiences they brought me created future choices and designed my ever-changing path. I am very grateful for all those who are willing to teach foundational classes in any topic. They reach out and bring in more people and introduce them to a new path. I’m more like a butterfly moving from topic to topic exploring and savoring and moving on to take my version of the message to the next flower. Honor your role. It is as it should be.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I examine my way of serving and honor it as being perfect for me and for those I serve.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • See where you are on the scale of teaching and learning. Do you love to teach people the foundational core concepts? Or do you have a strong need to go exploring on your own and share what you find in the moment? Both are valid. Honor what you discover.

===INNER WORK===

Identify Your Consciousness Group

When we have a passion, when we have a special interest, we gravitate toward people with similar interests. Whether we realize it or not, we have consciousness groups that we continually interact with. It may be one person. It may be a group of people. But we are drawn to like-minded individuals walking a similar path and exploring related options.

Pause and notice where you are. Who are you sharing your ideas with? Who are you listening to? Who are you learning from? What are you learning? 

Periodically pause to look at the pattern of your path. Make certain you are on a path of your choosing. Make certain you are not lost on some detour. Rise above your life and look for what’s calling to you. What has changed and what new ideas and possibilities resonate now and how will you explore them and examine them and judge them to be or not to be for you? Be open to new ideas. When you take time to examine them, be aware of your conscious overall objective. Perhaps you redefine your direction. Perhaps you deepen your direction. Always take time to see the overview and any changes that are calling to you. 

Who is in your consciousness group? Who are you hanging out with? Where are you getting your information? Are you on the right path?

A Zen Approach to Unfolding 

The Zen approach to unfolding is to simply allow things to unfold in their own organic time. You observe. You make choices. You explore the results of that choice. But you don’t push it, you don’t rush it. You stay with the process of unfolding.

A friend of mine is building a new house. She said she’s taking a very Zen approach to how it is unfolding, as in when the plans are ready, when the prices of supplies come down, when whatever steps are to be taken can be taken. She’s just allowing it to happen. I’m not sure I can do that but I think it’s going to be a lot easier for her to move forward from that Zen approach to unfolding since there are so many pieces that need to come together. 

What are you pushing? What are you shoving into place? What can you simply allow to happen? Take a Zen approach and simply allow your life to unfold.

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 Te Ching, Stephen

Reset Button

First you have to notice that you’ve gotten off course and then you have to stop and press the reset button. 

Change can be sneaky. It can be a subtle slide into negativity or a slightly off kilter direction that sends you down the wrong path. First you notice it and then you rethink your overall objective and make new choices. Press the reset button as often as needed during your day. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Notice Small Changes

If you saw me in person you would think nothing has changed for the better. But there is constant change going on in my self-healing process. Notice the small changes. Notice what you are doing that is helping. Do more of that. Notice what you were doing that is not helping. Do less of that. Explore and experiment to find the solutions you need.

My focus is to find things that strengthen my body. I’m always watching for the small nudges the universe gives me that sends me off to explore new directions. I may or may not go very far down the path but at least go take a look. Notice small changes and explore their potential. 

===OUTER WORK===

Repurpose Your Gifts

What are the major gifts you have cultivated in your lifetime? My top gift is that of being able to see the overview. That is leading me on many adventures. I am not a detail person. Another gift is my wonderful mind that creates conscious change out of an incident or circumstance. And I’m a communicator. I have a strong need to share what I learn. I pretty much build what I do around those three gifts.

This is a good time, in this changing world, to look to see how you can repurpose your gifts. See how you’ve been using them and then go exploring to see how you might expand their use and change their impact.

I follow my personal interests. For instance, right now I’m into self-healing. So I keep sharing what I’m discovering on that journey. I’m also carefully watching what I believe I deserve and what I believe is possible. And I am adjusting those beliefs and expectations to create a more positive outcome.

I might be able to undertake larger projects using my gifts differently. I could focus my gifts in a different direction considering the changing world. That might be a good idea. I could look at some neglected gifts and bring those out to play. I am composing new songs for my spiritual work, but that’s for me. I’m behind in reading several books that I really would like to read. Look closely at the gifts you’ve been given and the gifts you enjoy using and see how you can repurpose them in this rapidly changing world to make an even greater impact and create a greater change.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Make Up Songs

A long time ago I made up songs to sing to the directions to begin my daily spiritual practice. I did that by drumming and singing whatever showed up. Ultimately I had songs that I liked. I have some new altar pieces and I’m in the process of making up songs for them. I have a small Bodhran drum (Irish Drum) and I let it set the tone for whatever song I’ve decided to compose. 

Do you have music in your spiritual practice? It’s fun to make up your own songs for your spiritual journey. 

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

Little Helper or Big Helper

I have two kinds of helpers in my life and each are vitally important. And I realized that we play different types of helping roles with different people. For instance, my daughter will help with the big things, like getting to the doctor or helping me clear areas of my home. And then there are the wonderful little helpers. The ones that step in and do one little thing you were having a hard time with that makes such a big difference. I have Shelley every week in some form or another. I pay her, but she puts stuff away that I can’t reach or helps plug in a plug I can’t get to as well as helps me keep my home clean. But I wish I had made a friend here that I could easily ask to step in and help me pick something up off the floor, as an example. Floors are out of reach for me now. I did ask a neighbor to come in and turn on my air conditioning which I have never learned to do. She was very gracious about it. But I have not established a relationship in which I exchange small helping moves with her. But you don’t have to give back to the person you received from. It isn’t really feasible. You get to keep giving forward in some form that you can manage. And trust that giving goes round and round and round and it’s part of what will be returned to you. Keep the circle of giving going. Reach out and support a friend and keep passing it forward. 

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

Adventures in Psychometry

I’ve been talking to rocks for 50 years. It began in New York City when my friend Debbie told me to put a crystal in my left hand and see what shows up. I got feelings in parts of my body and as I learned to interpret then. I learned to talk to crystals. It’s called psychometry.

I talk to my crystals every day. I will pick one up and find it immediately resonates with my eyes while another speaks to my heart. Trust the energy and the images you get. Hold the rock in your left hand and trust what you feel.

Use muscle testing to find out what food you should eat next or what actions you should or should not take. The first time I saw muscle testing was in New York City when a friend held out one arm and said push down and when I did, it was very sturdy.  Then  he put a packet of sugar in his other hand and told me to push down again and his arm collapsed. It was a sign that sugar was not what he needed.

I started to write that I have not ever talked to fabric, but I am currently keeping a shawl around my shoulders for warmth but also for affection. It hugs me. And I didn’t realize that I was talking to fabric until I wrote this. Go exploring. Talk to a plant. See where it wants to be in your house, or if it wants food or water. Tune in to your pets. Trust the images you get when you ask to speak to them. Psychometry – the messages from what we think of as inanimate objects. Go exploring.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

We Create Our Future in the Now

My future is created by what I do today, which means in this moment there is a very large responsibility to make positive choices that create and manifest what I want. Some of it is obvious. One of my arms is a bit sore from playing too much spider solitaire. I get to stop doing that and do something else. My hips are better because I’m sitting in a different chair. It’s good to know what’s working so you can do more of that. What’s not working? What needs to change? Do that. We create our future in the now. What are you creating?

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

Expanding Awareness

Journey to Our Ancestors to Expand Our Consciousness

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Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
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and the 

Deeper Song Website

===CARA’S CORNER===

Do You Leave Room For Change?

In the natural flow of our own unfolding life, we need to leave room for change in both ourselves and those around us. That means we get to question our expectations of ourselves and others. That means we get to examine our choices to make certain that they’re taking us in the direction that we now want to go. 

One of the things that I have learned over the years of being single for most of it is that because I am not in a relationship, I have room to change as I desire. As I watch people who are in relationships, I see a lot of compromise is necessary. There’s a lot of give-and-take that’s necessary in growing yourself and balancing a relationship. It’s about honoring what you need but it’s also about honoring what the other person needs too. When you’re alone you don’t have to compromise. And at the same time, you are alone and totally responsible for yourself. It’s a trade-off.

If you take time to examine your life and pay attention to the nudges and bops on the head from the universe, you will see that you were being asked to change. You have a choice. You can choose to change or not change. You can choose how much to change. You can choose what to change. We are always changing. And hopefully it’s in a direction of positive growth and expanded awareness. Examine your path. Examine your choices. And examine what you ask of your friends and relationships. Adjust for the highest good of all. Leave room for lots of creative change. It will lead you down a positive path.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Room to Change

My Voice Within says “get ready to change”. To where and how I have no idea.

My Voice Within says “get ready to change”. To where and how I have no idea. I sit in silent contemplation and feel and examine the possibilities.

My Voice Within says “get ready to change”. To where and how I have no idea. I sit in silent contemplation and feel and examine the possibilities. From this place of self-awareness I make my choice and choose my path. It takes me in the right direction – for now.

Cara Lumen, June 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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Moments That Changed Your Life

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Moments That Changed Your Life

Living Our Deeper Song

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

Perhaps before you read this, stop and write down eight or nine decisions or choices or experiences that had a huge impact on your life. They changed the way you think or they changed the choices you made. Take a moment.

Moments of monumental shifts are often instantaneous, but they are always memorable. In college I was at a party where there was an ex-priest and I ask him, “If you believe that God is within yourself, when you get in trouble what do you do? And he said, “You dig deeper within yourself, you pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” That led me to a life of self-sufficiency, always depending on myself, always standing alone. It was one sentence shared 70 years ago.

Then there was my gay friend who decided to go to New York to be with his lover and since he was my only friend I suddenly decided to go too. It made a huge difference in my life because that’s where I got my foundational and extensive holistic education. It changed my life. And it broadened the sphere of those I affected during the course of my life. 

I knew nothing about making a living when I moved to New York, having been a suburban housewife for quite a while, but my friend said people make money by working as a temporary office worker. I was a writer and I could type. So I primarily temped my way through New York City. I got to work in a lot of interesting places. I learned about a lot of different businesses. One idea when acted upon, opened up a totally unexpected door.

Sometimes the universe simply provides the insight. I was organically teamed up with a fellow student in an early shamanic class and we have been friends who talk weekly for over five years. 

I loved the coast but I moved to the Midwest because my daughter was here and I was moving into the aging aspect of my life where I would need some family support. She was the one that knew about the wonderful Senior Center I live in now. 

What unexpected nudges or openings did you get along the line that were cornerstones that you built upon for the rest of your life?

It doesn’t have to be a decision, but it usually is at least a new insight or awareness or opportunity that propels you into an entirely different direction. 

What are some of the moments that changed your life and how did they change it? Keep looking for the new nudges.

Living Our Deeper Song

I continue to experience unexpected moments of awareness that change my life. I welcome them

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • What comes to mind when you think in terms of life-changing moments that you experienced? It could be a choice, it could be an awareness, they were perhaps small nudges that made a big difference.
  • Have you had a life-changing awareness recently? Where does it suggest you go?

===INNER WORK===

Trust Your Intuition

Go ahead test it. Test your intuition so you learn to trust it. You get an urge. Follow through on it. How did it work out? That was your intuition talking to you. Sometimes the nudges can be very subtle and sometimes it can be like a bop on the head. Learn to pay attention to both.

I trust my intuition to guide me to what I need now or next. I use my intuition all the time as I write this newsletter. I get a couple of words, or an idea, and I turn and write it. Trusting that what I dictate from my inner voice is useful for me and for you. Do some experimenting and learn to trust your intuition. 

===SELF-HEALING===

The Place of Stillness

The worse the world looks, the more frequently I need and want to go to my place of stillness. It is a place of love. It is a place of inclusion. It is a place of safety. I see my place of inner stillness as an invisible, impenetrable shield that I build around me as I sit in my meditation chair. It is a transformative shield because not only does it deflect any negative energy coming my way, it heals my own energy. Any of the worries or the fears or apprehensions that I have been cultivating because of my daily life experience can be transformed in this transformative shield. Into serenity. Into tranquility. Into peace, inner peace. It doesn’t take very long to move yourself from concern for the world around you into that place of wholeness and serenity. Go to your place of stillness often throughout your day and center yourself.

===OUTER WORK===

Balance Give and Take

I’ve been on the receiving end of a lot of giving recently as I established outside help for taking care of my home space. I’ve had to give up a lot because I can’t do it anymore and I depend very deeply on Shelley to take care of my home. So that’s me receiving, what am I giving?

I give you these newsletters which I add to every day because I’m always thinking of what I would like to learn and what I would like to share. I have a few friends I speak with regularly on Zoom and we are supportive of each other.

I do not have good balance between sitting and moving. I could work on that. I do not have a good balance between working and not working. My not working is more like wasting time with reruns and Spider Solitaire. That’s a huge chunk of time then I could enrich with new choices.

What do you need to change in order to balance the give and take in your life?

The Choices That Got Us Here

Who we are today, where we are today, and what condition we are in today are all the results of choices we made along the path. Some choices might have been better than others. But here’s the beautiful thing about choices, we get to change them. So if you are manifesting a grouchy body for instance, make some changes in how you treat it and what you ask it to do.

A friend of mine who is quite physically active in the work she does has also enrolled in a Pilates class and said that her husband doesn’t even walk. He says he walks around when he is on the phone. They are going to have different consequences with their bodies. Not that you have to go take Pilates but you do need to establish a positive pattern for the care and feeding of your body. And your emotions. And your mind. 

What have you created? What are you harvesting from the choices that you’ve made so far? If you’re not where you want to be in your life, how do you want it to be? Make new choices which result in new change. It’s your call. Take action. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

The Power of Not Knowing 

There is something magnificent about an unplanned day. You look out the window, you take a breath of fresh air and you see how you feel and what you want to do and then you do it. You stay in the moment and make your decision based on how you feel right then and there. Not knowing allows for surprises. You don’t plan ahead. You just are aware and observant and respond in the moment – not react – respond in the moment. How does it feel when I do this? Is this the direction I want to go? There is some contemplation to the change. Perhaps there is some trying on for size with an idea. Perhaps there is a look down the path that is involved in the choosing. But as a general guidance, be in the moment and make your choices based on the insight your inner voice offers you Trust your inner voice.

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

Role Models

One of the ways to change your perspective is to examine the role models you have chosen for yourself. And maybe find some new ones. For instance, Stacey Abrams is a woman with a mission. She is persistent, she is smart, she is determined and she knows what she wants. All good things. For me, Rachel Maddow is a master storyteller. She’s giving the news but she offers deep background that gives you an understanding of how it unfolds as in why it is what it is. A wise woman. A great storyteller. 

Reverend Edward Viljoen, who was my minister in the Center for Spiritual Living in Santa Rosa, California is a role model of a person who loves his work and continually expands his range of exploration. He is now the head of the entire Center for Spiritual Living. He is deeply devoted to his path. Another great role model. 

Michelle Obama is another strong role model as is Barack Obama. They are people committed to the path and doing the work well. And effectively. 

How are you doing on your path? How wide is your sphere of influence? Who are your role models?

I know that I’m a role model to a group of women who are in their 60s. I’m not a role model for my aging process but I am one for my curiosity and inquisitiveness and path. You are a role model for someone. Do you know who? What kind of example are you? Look around for people who are doing their lives the way you want to do yours and learn from them. 

Love Creates Love

I’m having such a hard time with the way people are acting in this world today that I have to work at feeling love. I have to practice putting out love. I have to practice inclusion. I have to – I want to use the word forgiveness but perhaps accept with compassion the choices that people are making out of fear or whatever reason they have. I don’t like those choices. I don’t want to live in a world with those choices and yet here I am.

I have to practice unconditional love. I’m not even sure I can come close. Maybe I start with the things that I can love and build on that. Once I recognize the feeling of unconditional love, perhaps I can cultivate it and apply it to the less likely places. Practice love. Be loved. You are loved. Love creates more love.

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

Nurture Your Followers

If you have a website and a list of followers, you need to make certain to nurture those followers on a regular basis. It could be a blog post or a podcast or story. But make a point to continually support your followers. I write my newsletter for me because those are things that I need to anchor in my life, but I also know that some of it will reach and help others in their life. Everything in it is something I need to know. So maybe you benefit from knowing it too. How are you supporting the people that surround you and could benefit from your wisdom and awareness?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Be a Living Example of Higher Consciousness

What kind of an example are you to others? Do you motivate and inspire them to walk a higher path as you do? Do you show an open heart and an inclusive consciousness? How we live our daily lives moment to moment can greatly influence those around us. They see a quality that they admire. They see an action that they would like to emulate. What kind of an example are you being to those around you? And does it need to shift?

I see so few people anymore that my impact is through the words that I write and the ideas that I share. I don’t always know how those impact others, but I do know how those ideas impact me. And I share what I discover and what I decide to do and how I choose to change. In case someone can see a reflection in themselves that gives them an idea of a turn in their path they would like to take. Be a positive source of inspiration for others. Be a living example of higher consciousness.

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

Our Unfolding Role in the Emerging Feminine

Tale time to read Sandra Ingerman’s June Transmutation News. It is full of explanations and ideas for living in this chaotic and evolving time. It’s a most important read.

As the Divine Feminine grows in power, the Divine Masculine becomes more destructive to the feminine energy. Whether we actively counteract that on the physical plane or move within to continue to strengthen the emergence of the qualities of the Divine Feminine within all of us, is a choice. And we will do both. 

We are moving into a new consciousness and we must not only be aware of that but be active as we encourage that change to happen.

We may even have a new role in the emerging feminine but for certain we have to continue to expand our awareness of its clarion call for us to step forward into the qualities of compassion, inclusiveness, caring for others, and equality, all qualities the masculine is trying to stamp out. Keep expanding the power and reach and guidance of your feminine energy. Be aware of its role in the choices you make, in the actions you take, and the words that you say. This is a time of growth. It is a time of new birth as the feminine comes forward to add balance to our world. Do your part. 

=== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

Our Body

When walking, the gait should be like that of a crane, and the body should move like an immortal floating with the winds.

When sitting, the body should be still as a rock.

When sleeping, it should be curved like a bow.

When standing, it should be like a tall pine.

Your body should be as flexible as a willow in the wind and as relaxed as the petals of a lotus.

— anonymous Taoist

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

Expanding Awareness

Our Destiny and Self Responsibility

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===CARA’S CORNER===

Self-Responsibility

I am deeply into self-healing. And I keep learning new self-healing Qigong moves and practicing them. That’s on the physical plane. But I also have to do self-healing on my mental and emotional plane as I find how I can serve in the bigger emerging picture. The overview. The over-arching change. 

I need to keep walking the highest path I can find. I need to do ceremony or ritual or affirmations or some sort of positive work to send out higher vibrations to strengthen and balance the energy in the world. It could be singing and drumming and playing my finger piano. Could be ceremony. It could be something I write and share. Make certain that any expectations you hold are for the highest level we as humans can possibly reach. Walk that high road. Hold the vision of the highest good for all. Be a helping hand to others who want to walk that high road. We must stay positive and hold our light high. We must. Others will see our light and raise theirs to join us.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Holding My Torch

I hold my torch high. “Here, here is the higher path, here is the way,” I say.

I hold my torch high. “Here, here is the higher path, here is the way,” I say. Some see it and hear its call. Some don’t.

I hold my torch high. “Here, here is the higher path, here’s the way,” I say. Some see it and hear its call. Some don’t. I hold my torch high. “This way”, I say “This way.” Can you hear me?

Cara Lumen, June 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.

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

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

Our Global Deeper Song Community

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

Subscribe to this weekly Deeper Song Newsletter at www.deepersong.com 

Immerse Yourself in the Oneness of the Void

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Immerse Yourself in the of the Void

Living Our Deeper Song


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

When we immerse ourselves into the oneness that is the Void (Rumi calls it the “Nowhere that you came from”) we experience ourselves as whole, perfect and complete. There is no striving. There is no separation. There is only oneness. We enter the void through our inner world. We sit or stand quietly and go within and keep going until our body disappears and we are void.  

In that void is everything. It is wholeness. It is serenity. It is the highest vibration that exists. We don’t connect with it, we are it. When we allow ourselves to move into the silence within, we have the experience of being everything. All that is. All that will be. We are part of a void that includes everything. Wholeness. Unconditional Love. Serenity. Wisdom. It’s all there. In the All-That-Is. In that silence within. 

How do you get there? How do you experience it? By moving within. Closing your mind to the external and moving into the void. The void of wholeness. The void of All-that-is. The Nowhere That We Came From. As we immerse ourselves in the experience of the void, our body responds with healing. Balancing. Restoring. And all we are doing is residing in an awareness of being one with the void. Allow the void to restore balance to your physical body, to expand your spiritual experience. Give yourself over to the void. Trust it. And let go. Let go of anything and everything that no longer serves you and is no longer relevant.

In the void of wholeness, the void of oneness, the void of All That Is, know that you are whole, perfect and complete. Experience that in your life. As you stay in that void, feel your entire being respond and realign and replenish and restore. Then, when you are ready, gradually come back to your experience as a human being and trust the expanded awareness flowing through your life, the void of wholeness. Trust it. And let it bring you into balance.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I make it a practice to move into the void every day and experience the wholeness and unconditional love and inclusiveness that is there.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Perhaps you want to record a guided meditation for yourself that takes you into the void. That lets you return to the vibration of wholeness, the experience of wholeness. Or just do it in meditation.
  • Notice what shifts and self-correct if appropriate. 

===INNER WORK===

How Do You Nurture Your Inner Self?

We mostly know how to take care of our bodies with good diet and exercise, but how do you consciously nurture your inner self? Do you have a meditation practice? If not, maybe you want to establish one. Do you walk in nature? Or at least sit and contemplate as you look out the window at nature every day? Perhaps watch the sunset or the sunrise?

Do you meditate? Do you listen to music? Do you write poetry or make up songs? Do you spend time with a dear friend? Do you hug your pet? Those are ways to nurture your inner self. Perhaps go exploring today to find a new way, a new experience you can create that will deepen your awareness of your inner self and its messages and guidance.

The Healing Power of Solitude

I live alone so solitude is a major part of my life but what I want to talk about here is actually choosing a specific time to be still within. To be alone with your thoughts. To be alone with your feelings. To be alone with your body. To be alone with nature. To let yourself immerse yourself in the ebb and flow of the ongoing cycles of life. To become part of the flow. And be nurtured by the love, be nurtured by the compassion, be nurtured by the peace that resonates in the silence. You can turn it into gratitude for the day or a blessing for the day but find a time in your spiritual practice to be aware of the sound of silence as you sit in solitude and listen to your Inner Self.

Send Love Ahead to Your Day

Vibration is not restricted by time and space so you can send the vibration of love ahead to your day and simply step into it as you move along the way. Isn’t that a nice idea? To send love ahead. Send love ahead to a meeting. Sounds love ahead to a conversation. Send love ahead to something you’re going to work on. And when you get there, love will be waiting for you. Lots of love. Give it a try. And watch the miracles happen.

Surrender Box

I get a lot of good ideas from Daily Om and this is one of them. It is the idea of a Surrender Box. 

There’s a great deal in our life that we need to leave up to the organic flow of the universe. So instead of trying to wrestle something to the ground or manhandle it into place, we let the Universe take care of it. We put it in a Surrender Box and let the universe handle it. Instead of worrying or feeling defeated, we just let go. Perhaps we say something like “please resolve this for the highest good for all” or “I release this to its natural unfolding.”  Then we turn it over to the all-compassing, compassionate universe.  

Have a real box. Write down on paper what you want to release and put it in the box knowing that it will all work out the way it’s supposed to. Let the universe and its all-encompassing all-knowing wisdom provide the next step whether it’s to let it go or to take action. The Surrender Box allows you to let go of any worry and concern and turn it over to the unfolding of the universe which is going to make it happen anyway. You just get to step out of the picture and stop worrying. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Feeling Empowered by Qigong for Self-Healing

I just finished Heal Yourself & Others With the Power of Qigong, with Master Chunyi Lin. on the Shift New and it has completely shifted my belief system and expectations about being able to self-heal. That Qi (energy) knows what to do. You just have to point it in the right direction and trust. You do that with your mind (Yi).

I’ve taken four or five other Qigong classes but I was doing that only as a meditative exercise choice. It wasn’t until I took this class that I realized that everything is changing including my body because I am actively directing Qi with my mind and trusting the Qi to know what to do. I just have to point it in the general direction. That’s huge.

I don’t know what’s going on in my body, I only know what is manifesting and that change and rebalancing continues to happen.  I have an idea of a possible cause of this realignment from a past life. So I sit here and direct Qi energy to the parts of my body that are being grouchy and the Qi energy is restoring balance to my body.

Here’s a link to the class. They have scholarships that are half price. This is his website. springforestqigong.com.  He sends out self-healing topics weekly. A self-healing class is taught there too. I really like what I’m learning in Spring Forest Qigong and what it’s helping me to do to heal myself. 
Grandmaster Chuny Lin, chunyilin.com

Positive Pause

Establish a time every day that you pause to realign. The form could be a nap. But the form could also be a few minutes of deep breathing while looking out the window at nature. Or meditation using a mantra. The point is to find at least one if not more times in your day that you really stop and recenter yourself into that Still Point into an awareness of you as pure vibration. Into a consciousness of releasing the frenetic energy and bringing in peace and calm. And love. And compassion. A pause. Possibly several times a day. It will rebalance you, it will recharge you. And it will keep you going in the right direction

Relief from Lower Back Pain

Qigong Pressure Point to Relieve Lower Back Pain with Master Chuny Lin.  Easy to do. Share it with those who need it.

===OUTER  WORK===

The Power of a Small Change

If I stand here and I turn to my left one step, and then start walking, I will end up in entirely new destinations. One step. One step can change my entire outcome, take me to an entirely different place. What is that one step? How do I recognize it?

Some of it is about experimenting. If I do this differently today how does it feel? What difference does it make in how I feel at the end of the day? Does it lead me to a different outcome? What small shift will you make today that may lead you in an entirely new direction? Go exploring and find new adventures.

Do The Work

In the second Qigong class with David Penn, he taught us some Qigong moves that I can’t even come close to doing. Not because they were hard. Simply because they required me to stand up straight – which I can’t do at this moment in time. But what they motivated me to do was to do my version of it. To try. For instance, he was teaching a standing squat. Well, I can hang on to things and stand up and move more or less, into kind of squat. So it inspired me to do what I can do. And build on that. I’m going to review the class because it is very rich in ideas. But the core shift is to just start doing the work. The best you can. On a consistent basis. And expect your body to respond and get stronger and better and more aligned. What do you need to begin to do even if it seems like you’re pretty far away from being able to achieve it? 

Cultivate Curiosity

Curiosity can take you on great adventures. It takes you into unknown corners and down unexpected panels. Curiosity cultivates new experiences and deeper wisdom. Learn to listen to your inner voice. Learn to notice the nudges in the universe that open new doors of opportunity and learning. Listen to the nudges of curiosity and go explore. Have a great adventure. Find a way to both stretch beyond your usual world and hold a space that is deeply, personally embodied. 

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

The Far Reach of Embodiment

Can you think of someone who has a quality that is so richly embodied that it resonates from something she/he does? It makes you recognize the quality and it encourages a desire within you to embrace that quality in your own life. That’s the far reaches of embodiment.

I am drawing two of my friends into a circle of three because we are all healers. We have mildly different approaches but we are at the core drawn to and interested inour role as healers. One friend I have known for 20 years, the other for six. And now we are three friends walking a similar path.

Who is in your life that is setting an example of qualities and experiences you would like to increase in your life? The wonderful young woman who comes to clean my home calls herself my Gal Friday. And her willingness and creativity and joy in doing the numerous things that keep a home going is inspiring. She loves to clean. Do you have something you love to do that people will notice your joy in doing it?

When we are joyous and enthusiastic about what we are doing that joy radiates out and inspires and motivates others. We are the embodiment of our beliefs. How are you doing with that?

I am a good friend to people that I want to interact with but I’m not so good with people that I’m not particularly drawn to. So I’m not sure how I’m seen in this senior center, but that’s OK. I have connected with friends online who are walking a path similar to mine.

How are you perceived? And is there anything about that you would like to change? Do that.

Self-Responsibility

I don’t know what my living accommodations are as I get older. This is independent living. Which means I have to stay independent. But now I have help with cleaning and taking trash out and picking stuff up off the floor. What do you do when you age and become less self-sufficient and have no family? When you are on your own and are not capable of being on your own? What are your choices? What are your resources?

Yes, I get more and more creative about how to get dressed, how to care for myself, how to feed myself. I’m aware of the type of help that I need. I have Shelly who comes to clean every other week and do my laundry, and this week I hired her to come for 20 minutes on her way home on the opposite week to take out trash and change my sheets and pick up things off the floor that I can’t reach anymore. It was a relief to make that commitment to hire that extra time. Look around for an older person that you might do some small deed for. It will be greatly appreciated.

Support – Giving and Getting

We each have a support system. It may be a big one or a little one. But there is someone we can call upon. And there are others that can call upon us. Support is about both giving it and receiving it. 
I need support in caring for my home as I age. I hope I give support in my newsletter as I explore life and figure out ways to do it thoughtfully. It’s an exchange but it’s not an exchange with the same people. The wonderful person who comes to clean my home does not read my newsletter but she says I am her favorite hippie… So this flow of giving and receiving support is not necessarily an exact exchange. It is a pattern of moving energy in our lives. How is the balance of your giving and getting? Are you getting enough help? Are you giving enough? Do both. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Leadership

How does one lead in this volatile environment of strong and opposing viewpoints? It’s probably not going to be through reasoning. Somehow the communication of inclusion has to come through the heart. It is up to each of us to make room for the individuality of another and respect their choices and not impose ours on them. It’s a live and let live approach. I can show you by example what compassion looks and feels like. I can show you by example what respect for other cultures and beliefs looks like. But words won’t do it. We lead by doing. We lead by example. And those who are aware look at us and say, “Oh, I want to do it that way. I like what that feels like to be receiving that energy inclusion. I like how that affects my awareness.” 

What kind of example are you being in the world today and who are you sharing that example with? And what changes is it making? Lead by example. 

Filter the News – A Choice

I watch way too much news. It is depressing. And as I sit here in my 89-year-old body I don’t know how to help. Perhaps I can’t. It is not mine to do.

But I do have control over how I nurture my body and my soul – by what I think and focus on and consider is true. This is a period of massive self-destruction. There’s so much wrong about thinking that I don’t even know where to begin. What I do know to do is to focus on what is working. The people who are doing good things. The people who are having positive and creative ideas. Change may be as simple as shifting my focus. Not to ignore what’s going on, not to not prepare for it or look for solutions for it, but to hold a vision of a higher energy, a higher belief system. And inclusive, interconnected, loving way of being. What do you look for as you move through life?  How do you expect to change and contribute?  Where are you focused? What do you expect and what are you getting? Look for the positive that exists and support that. It will change the world. 

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===
Expanding Awareness
How to DeepenYour Cosmic Consciousness
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Reflections of a Deeper Song Podcast on
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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.  – Betty Friedan

Here is A Qigong experience of the Void with Master Gadu Doushin.

===CARA’S CORNER===

Next

I have a comforting belief system about dying. It comes from two books where a psychologist hypnotized and interviewed people about their life between lives. Michael Newton did pass life regression with people specifically asking about what their life was between lives. He wrote Journey of Soul and and Destiny of the Souls.

The time between lives is a time of checking in, regrouping, rethinking, replanning and re-choosing. Even re-choosing whether we want to come in for another lifetime. For me that is very comforting. 

At 89, living in a senior center where people literally move on a lot, I am acquiring a philosophy of death and “next” that works for me. We all have to do the same. My vaccinated son-in-law at 75 got Covid. I can’t tell him my philosophy or the joy of a potential “next” because he’s very conservative and not receptive.  Nor would it be any comfort to my daughter who is 12 years younger when there comes a time for him to move on. I’m such a stand alone person, even as I find I have to ask for more help on the physical plane than I used to. I’m not afraid of being dead. I’m not too excited about the process of becoming dead in case it is uncomfortable. So I want my mind to continue to identify and reformulate and share philosophical ideas that help me and others with the concept of death. 

What do you do that gives value to your life right now and are you doing enough of it? Embrace the gifts of each day, each moment, each awareness. And let the rest unfold.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===
Next

My “next” comes from “now”.  How I see it. How I expect it to be. How I use it. 

My “next” comes from “now”.  How I see it. How I expect it to be. How I use it. What is the foundation I am standing on? What is the belief system that moves me forward? Will they serve me well?  Are they what I want?

My “next” comes from “now”.  How I see it. How I expect it to be. How I use it. What is the foundation I am standing on? What is the belief system that moves me forward? Will they serve me well?  Are they what I want? Shifts I now make will make a huge difference in my “next”. I choose thoughtfully.

Cara Lumen, May 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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You Are the Composer of Your Own Song

Living Our Deeper Song


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

It’s an interesting state of affairs when your belief system says you are the one responsible for everything that happens to you and you’re not exactly excited about what is showing up. Do you feel helpless? Do you feel angry? What do you do when you feel that you are totally responsible for every part of your life and things are not going well? Hmmm.

You get busy. You get creative. You try new things. Self-responsibility is an opportunity. It can be challenging and it can be unnerving. But most of all it is creative.

Here’s the problem I want to solve, the situation I want to change. What am I going to do about it? What resources do I have? What do I need to learn? Self-healing is an interesting opportunity to change your belief system. What are the tools that you are going to use in order to create your wholeness? That’s true of every level –  mental, physical, emotional and spiritual. You design your path. You design your journey, you compose your own song. 

That doesn’t mean we can’t look around and see what others are doing. Would that work for me? I would do that differently. Let me try that for a while. A great part of self-healing is being aware of what needs shifting or changing or releasing. And then do that. What’s not working in your life? What choices do you have that might change the outcome? Go exploring. Try them out. Observe what happens. See how you feel. If you don’t get the results you want, try something else.

Yes, we are part of a huge all-encompassing high vibration. We have access to that all the time. We don’t always take advantage of that. So expand your expectation of what is possible. Expand your expectation of what you believe you deserves. Those are game changers as far as creating outcome.

Go exploring. I’ve studied Yoga and Tai Chi and I am into Qigong right now. I’m working with tuning forks and native flutes and drums. I’m into shamanism and Reiki and bio fields. All of these are a part of my personal adventure. How diverse is your path of exploration? What new adventures await you? You are the weaver of your own life. You can pull into it any threads that calls to you. Pay attention. Go exploring. And compose your own song.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I broaden the range of my exploration as I continue to compose my own song of life.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Try one new self-healing technique and see where it takes you. It can be meditation or toning or tuning forks or Qigong or whatever comes to you. Try something new and notice what happens.
  • Continue to explore as your life evolves. 

===INNER WORK===
The Gift

My friend Martha Lacy offered to make an altar piece for me out of clay. She is an accomplished potter. I immediately got an image of an infinity shape representing the cycles of life in the past and in the future and how they intertwined. The images I wanted on each side appeared immediately – a butterfly for the organic changes in the waning cycles and a spider weaving her life from within in the waxing cycles.

In the first on Zoom session Martha shaped the altar piece with me making choices and decisions all along the way. The image of what I wanted was very strong. In the second session we began to put the design on. Again my internal images were very strong. I watched as Martha interpreted what I was seeing. The songs I would sing in ceremony with it began to emerge. It was truly a combining of our imaginations and an extraordinary experience. She also made me a rattle she designed and again I had string images for the decoration of that. We put specific intentions into the clay beads that are inside.

They have now been glazed and fired and I have a unique, one-of-a-kind ceremonial piece for my spiritual practice.

I have never entwined my imagination with someone in this manner before. She was interpreting my vision and I saw my vision take shape through her skill. I’m not sure where you get that kind of experience in life. I’m sure there are other places. Do you have a collaborative relationship with someone in which you nurture each other’s purpose and imagination? This was a first for me and it was very, very special. 

===SELF-HEALING===
Two Powerful Self-Healing Practices

I have added two powerful self-healing practices to my daily life and they are making a difference. I shared them in this newsletter before but they are turning out to be a remarkably effective combination so I thought I would repeat them in some detail. They come from two separate people and I learned them on that Qigong Healing Summit of the Shift Network.

The first one comes from Teja Bell TejaBell.com Rōshi (老師) Teja Fudo Myoo Bell – 84th Zen Ancestry Heir – Roku Dan Aikido. His talk was Integrating Embodied Mindfulness: Qigong and Meditation With Teja Bell. The movement I found so pwerful was a preparation for meditation.

He said that Qigong practice is an integration of your attention with the underlying principles though mindfulness. We are to cultivate a field of presence, a field of being. In our Qigong practice we move the chi and encourage its uninterrupted flow. 

He showed us several movements but the one that resonated with me most dramatically is one I now use many times a day. It feels literally like pumping chi. Begin with your hand in front of your heart to center and balance you. Lower your hands beside your body and with palms facing, gradually bring the qi energy up your body to your head.

At the top, turn your palms to face downward, close your fingers over your thumbs and begin to move your arms down as if bringing that energy back down into your entire body. 

It was the fingers over the thumb in the downward movement that energetically caught my attention so dramatically. I was surprised at how powerfully I felt the energy move. So I began doing that on a regular basis to begin my meditation and before I go to sleep.

The other addition I added to my meditation practice came from Master Chunyi Lin, Creator and Founder of Spring Forest Qigong (springforestqigong.com and chunyilin.com)

The movement is to breathe into the lower Tan Tien which is behind the navel and breathe out all the imbalance and negativity and stuff you don’t want as smoke. I often experience a very large and deep yawn when I do this.

The hand movement seems to simulate the breathing and the breath movement clears the chi. They came from two different people. They are very powerful combination.

I use the hand movement as the foundational movement and inevitably as I bring my hands up, I find myself yawning and taking a deep breath to exhale. I make it a point to bring in everything I don’t want into my lower Tan Tien and release it on the exhale which very often becomes a very large yawn. At that point my hands have reached above my head, my fingers close over my thumbs and as I lower my arms it is a very centering and focused motion that makes me feel like I am filling myself with positive Qi. 

I am making remarkable progress using a combination of two Qigong moves. 

===OUTER  WORK===

In my self-healing Qigong class, Master Chunyi Lin springforestqigong.com,  chunyilin.com taught us that there are six causes of illness: emotions, diet, injuries, change in weather or seasons, wrong medication, and living environment and that all qi blockages can be removed. Then you clear the space and give energy back.

Those are pretty easy to identify. Whatever’s going on in my body is from an injury in a past life. I don’t have any idea why the dry macular degeneration is showing up and Western medicine cannot cure it. They can only describe what happens. So I’m on my own with that one. I’m going to look for it’s cause and release it. 

An easy first look for the cause of illness is your environment. I love my apartment space. But because of my specialized interests I don’t have any friends here. My friends are online. So I’m missing periodic in-person conversations. And I know I fluctuate between boredom and depression. I could work on that.  It’s pretty easy to become more aware of the seasons in your response to health as well as the food you eat. After years of not eating dairy, I seem to be drawn to cheese and yogurt. I get to watch that.

What’s going on in your life that is emerging as imbalance and can you identify the cause of the illness as either emotions, diet, injuries, change in weather or seasons, wrong medication, and living environment? 

Master Lins deep breathing sequence to empty the Lower Tan Tien is a good place to begin. All qi blockages can be removed. Get to work.

What If You Keep Getting the Wrong Results?

Our thoughts create our reality so what shows up is a result of your thoughts and intentions. How are you doing? Do you expect the best? Don’t settle for second best. Do you expect a situation to change, to heal? It won’t if you don’t. What do you think is possible? What needs to change? How willing are you to change? What are you doing to help the change occur? Monitor your thoughts. Notice what shows up and change your thoughts accordingly. 

Test The Market and Your Focus for the Future

Several of my friends are getting ready to retire. That means they have another wonderful 30 years to do nifty stuff in. It’s a good time to test the market. Not only to see what people want from you but what you are excited to give.

One friend is both a healer and an artisan. When you start to build a business, you need to look at time versus income. That needs to be tested. Can you be paid enough to do the work the way you want to in the time you need?  Or do you have to modify it and offer it in chunks that are more affordable? You simply go exploring. You try things out and see how you like doing them and you see how people respond to what you offer. You can go exploring long before you retire. Begin to figure out this second career path. This flexible freedom that also inspires and motivates and stimulates your life experience. You can begin exploring any time. What do you want to create next? 

Do You Organize for Priority?

I’ve got a pretty good system on creating this newsletter. I have a template. I often write something every day, dictating in what I think just to capture the ideas. I often have so much material that I find I’m working ahead on the following week. So the first step in creating anything is to do something. Take some steps, get some ideas and explore them a bit. 

Two days before I want to publish it I begin to read what I wrote and see if it makes sense and see if I like it and edit it for clarity and focus. Sometimes I leave a whole segment out. So the second step is to look what you created and see what you want to work on. The third step is more detailed because it involves things like checking the spelling and the overarching message. And of course, final steps are having it proofed and then putting it in out to the Deeper Song Community and on Facebook and on my website.  Those are all separate steps leading to the outcome I want. 

Can you bring your attention to one step at a time so you don’t feel overwhelmed? Do you know what steps you need to take in order to get the product or idea completed? Break it down into steps. See where you are and perhaps make new choices before you take another step. One step at a time will get you there. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===
Past Life Work and Time Lines

I believe in past lives and I also believe in parallel timelines so that everything is happening all at once. I have no proof. It’s just an idea that resonates with me. Particularly since this physical adjustment in my hips seems to be coming from a past life and has manifested through several dimensions. At least I hope that’s what’s happening. So rather than feel hopeless or helpless, I feel expectant.

I don’t know how these parallel timelines work. I’m pretty sure my choice today goes both forward and backward. As it has always done. But that can feel like a big burden if you consider you have many lifetimes. But when I work with it right now, my energy is now, my choice is in the now and my expectations are formed in the now.

I have looked ahead 10 years and there I am doing jumping jacks which I can’t do right now so something good is happening today. I’m also planning a new garden in that future life. It’s still an experimental garden but there are new crops there to explore. 

As for past lives, I have gone back beyond this injury on my right leg in a past life to see that I was part of a circle of very strong women friends and the injury was an accident, not a battle. And I had a very strong circle of very strong women around me then as I do today.

So what action do I take today to continue self- healing and to bring harmony among my many lives? I don’t know. I’m making stuff up here. But I keep going back to the core belief that I get what I believe I deserve and what I believe is possible. So it all lies here within me. What do I deserve? What is possible? Do I expect to be able to walk without a walker again? Kind of. Do I expect for my eyes to reverse so I see clearly? I have to work on that. Western medicine seems to have no cure and that’s an interesting blockage for my belief system since I am bringing things forward from a past life. Do you think I could just handle the eyes as part of simply affirming “I see clearly within or without.”  I’ll try that. And “I now release anything that no longer serves me from this lifetime and all my past lives.” And maybe I’ll start lobing light balls into the future.

How are you working with your time lines?

===BROADEN YOUR HORIZON – EXPAND YOUR VIEW===
Jupiter/Neptune Conjunction April 12

If I had known about this earlier, I would’ve written you in time to help you celebrate it. This conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune only happens every 154 years! I got some lovely information from Astrology Hub forwarded from a friend about creating a lovely altar as an invitation to your guest. But I kept my ceremony very simple. I focused on two things – self-healing and the next part of my path. I decided to take a dismemberment journey where I put myself back together in the energy of these two powerful planets. It was an interesting journey and I went to the misty circle in the middle of the redwoods and I got help from a whole lot of squirrels. I’m still working on figuring it out. I did not dismember but my team is now bigger!

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===
Where Do You Find Your Answers?

There is only one place to look for the answers you seek – deep within you in the silence. Insight comes from your inner voice. It comes from your intuition. It comes from simply knowing. Be aware that it may not be time for you to have an answer. If I go looking for a solution to the world crisis of today, I may not get a whole lot because it’s unfolding, there are many choices that will take it in a different direction, and my role has not been clarified other than I simply send energy for clarity and knowledge when the time is right. Be patient with unfolding. But bepersistent. Be aware. Be flexible. And go exploring. 

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===
Expanding Awareness
Stand Steady in Your Own Truth
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===CARA’S CORNER===
The Cycles of Life

My friend did the clay work while I watched on Zoom and designed the piece we were making together. It was a powerful experience. The vision of what I wanted was very clear at every stage. We were making an altar bowl and a rattle. The altar bowl concept began with the sign of infinity. The cycles of both past and future that are ongoing and ever connected. So how do I use that concept of connecting cycles in my spiritual practice, my daily life, my expectations?

The first thing is that everything is vibration, the same high vibration so whether I am in a cycle of the past or a cycle of the future or in the moment where cycles begin and end, it’s all the same energy. My choices don’t affect the energy, they affect how I perceive the energy and where I see myself in the energy. Think about that. Where do you see yourself in life? I’m at the end of my physical plane life but I see it as a high point, not a low point. I see that as being at the top of a tall mountain that I’ve climbed with more to go to reach the top. How do you see where you are in your life? Are you going downhill or uphill, racing to higher heights or lower depths? That’s important to know because it’s a viewpoint you can shift and it will make a huge difference.

So here I am building on a lifetime of wonderful adventures with a great deal of wisdom and knowledge and interests and introspection to build upon. And I feel useful as I find ways to share that information. That knowledge. That wisdom. That awareness.

At 89 I’m not exactly planning years in advance but I am holding steady on my path. I’m taking conscious steps to continue to explore and deepen my awareness and my wisdom and my expectation.

You need to be creative as you age. There are always choices to be made and expectations to be changed, not lowered, just changed. It’s part of the cycles of infinity – increasing and decreasing cycles of energy and our place in them.

Be present. Be aware. Explore and experiment. Find what works right now in the here and now of your current life. Be creative. Make changes. Expect positive results. 

Different aspects of your life will be in different parts of the cycle. The waxing, the waning. Just notice and be positive and creative and expect the best. Life is a series of interconnected circles of expansion and contraction. Go with the flow. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===
This Day is Mine.

This day is mine.

This day is mine to spend as I choose. 
I will fill it with peace and serenity and love. 
I will use it to encourage self-healing. 
I will use it to raise my vibration and deepen in my inner wisdom. 

This day is mine.
I use it wisely.

Cara Lumen. April 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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