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The Races Of The World

The Races Of The World

Living Our Deeper Song

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

To follow up on the hatred that is spewing from parts of the white population in the United States, I decided to look up how many races there were in the world. And here is the beautiful and inclusive answer I found: 

“These are now called historical definitions of race or historical race concepts. Today, scientists agree that there is only one human race. Modern genetic research has shown that the idea of three (or four, or five) races was wrong. – Wikipedia.”

What a game changer. Although our skin tone may be different tones and our cultural practices may differ, we are all human and that is where our hearts are and should be joined.

How can you hold anger for someone who is like you?

When we look for our similarities, we find family structure and religious structure and belief structure that may differ, but we are simply humans living together on one planet.

How do I elevate my feelings about those that are harming others or trying to diminish them? 

I think the planet itself is trying to give us a lesson as it reaches record-breaking temperatures. It’s saying, “This is one planet, take care of it or you’ll have no home, any of you.” That’s very sobering and affects us all.

This is not a commentary on the planet, it is a consideration of mankind and its many centuries of evolution. It includes wars and dominations but the planet is trying to tell us we need to change or there will be no planet to live on. How does that change your perspective of your neighbor? 

Deeper Song Affirmation 

I shift my focus to care for the planet to make it a safe home for all humans.

Deeper Song Process

  • Get serious about your role in caring for the planet. That includes fuel consumption and energy consumption and food resources and the air we breathe. 
  • Begin with your own participation on the planet and help make major changes that help preserve our air and our weather.
  • Turn and share what you discover with others. Do the work. 

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Quantum Physics Tells Us We Are Surrounded By Waves Of Possibility

I love that one. We are surrounded by an energy of infinite potential that comes into being when we focus on it! Is that not awesome! Our thoughts determine what the waves of possibility will become. What we think, what we expect—happens.

Joel Goldsmith calls it “Invisible Supply”. He says, “Supply is Spirit, or Life, completely invisible and infinite in nature.”

“Supply is a life force that works through you. There is no such thing as increase or decrease: There is only Infinity expressing Itself. If you are not the recipient of the bounty of Infinity, it is not because Infinity is absent: It is because of your lack of awareness of Infinity.”

We are an integral part of the Infinite. We are an integral part of Source. And through that connection, we are surrounded by waves of possibility. We have only two choices – ignore or accept and work with the possibilities that are presented throughout our day. 

Expect the gifts and opportunities to show up. Expect new doors to open, new paths to be revealed. Expect that you will know which ones to choose for your life path right now. 

Recognize possibility, decide whether or not you want to consider it and then make a choice. Life is an active participation in the ongoing flow of possibilities presented by the Universe. What wave of possibility will you ride next? 

Trust Your Intuition

Our intuition is a level of awareness that we must cultivate and learn to trust. We must learn to interpret it. We must learn to listen to it. We can allow our intuition to be our strongest and most trusted helper. 

Begin by experimenting to prove to yourself that your intuition is powerful. 

I remember being in a grocery store when a woman asked me if I knew where the mustard was. My intuition said it was three shelves down. It was. I have trusted and relied upon my intuition ever since.

Sometimes the message is clear, sometimes very subtle. You have to trust both the timing and the message. 

I had a deep knowing that my role would be changing when I moved into long-term care but that’s all the information I was given. The role gradually and organically emerged. 

Intuition can appear as a full-blown thought, as a nudge in the form of interaction with another person, or a thought that suddenly appears. Listen and learn to trust your intuition.

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Misdeeds, Omissions And Mistakes

It’s not intentional, but our life is bound to be full of misdeeds, omissions, and mistakes. Not all of them are conscious. 

To me a misdeed is done with conscious intervention and probably an awareness of the harm it will cause.  That is not a good choice. 

Omissions can happen by mistake although sometimes it happens on purpose. We can be on guard against that. 

A mistake is an error. Sometimes we know we are making a mistake and sometimes we don’t. Sometimes it is only in retrospect that we realize it was an error.  We can learn by our mistakes. And we must learn to forgive ourselves and others for our mistakes.  

There are things in our life we wish we had done, and things in our life we would rather not have done but they are over and they helped us choose the path we took and they are not to be undone. But we do need to learn from them. 

Become more conscious of what you omit, and learn from your mistakes. 

===OUTER WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Open Yourself Up To Change

How do you open yourself up to new ideas? Do you make it a point to interact with people who have different ideas to share? Do you read articles and explore insights that expand your awareness? How do you open yourself to explore change in your own plans and expectations? 

Spend a day exploring, contemplating, mentally wandering down new paths and developing ideas.  Make notes. Do research. Go more deeply into the possibilities of one option to see where it leads or what new doors it opens. 

Meditate on your options. This is a day for exploring and trying new ideas on for size. See where it leads you.

The CNA Said “I Like Your Vibes!”

Her name is Connie, she’s an agency CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) and had apparently helped me one or two times before but she said to me, “I like your vibes.” And the only thing we were doing was setting up my space for the night so I could go to bed easily in a few hours without help.

Your vibration is at your core. It is the enthusiasm, love, light, and the curiosity that pours from your very being. It is your essence and it is very revealing. 

How do people experience you? Is it how you want them to? Is there anything you need to change? Notice what people say about you and take it to heart and become more conscious of the energy you choose to share and the effect it has on others.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Move To A State Of Stillness Multiple Times A Day

Stillness is soothing. Stillness is healing. Stillness releases tension. We should find ways to move into a state of stillness multiple times a day. 

Sometimes it’s a simple as taking a deep, centering breath and turning to look out the window to be present and join with the active stillness of nature. Sometimes it requires you to step outside and be in the presence of fresh air and sunshine. 

I have found an uninterrupted time to meditate within each day. I also play my drums to nature and sing my songs to the directions each day. I work with the tuning forks and sound instruments on my altar. Above my desk I have a painting that I did in a Chinese brush painting class a long time ago. It is of a graceful tree and a rock. It is a quiet scene to contemplate. Beneath it sit two lightbox crystals and a candle on an all-brass candlestick that symbolizes my role in the world – to be Light.

I have my gray heart-focused river rock on my desk and I pick it up and touch my heart several times throughout my day. I have a small metal planet the size of a marble that I send energy to every day. Although my space is small, there is a plan and a purpose to where things are placed. 

How do you bring yourself to a state of stillness several times throughout your day? 

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Be Open To New Possibilities

How curious are you? Do you stay on the lookout for new directions to explore? New changes to make? New insights that deepen your passion? New possibilities present themselves all the time and it is up to us to examine and consider and choose the ones that resonate most deeply with us. 

New ideas come to us from every angle. It could be something someone says. It could be something we read. It could be a random thought that sparks new ideas. How often are you given nudges from the universe and do you take time to explore their potential and try them on for size?  

Not every idea that shows up is there for us to act on.  However, they are ours to examine and explore and consider as options. That’s how we grow. That’s how we expand our experiences and our knowledge and our world. 

Open yourself up to new possibilities by listening and observing. New ideas will come in the form of thoughts or experiences or something someone says. But you are the one that has to see if it resonates and then make the choice to go exploring – or not. 

We should stay flexible in our responses and in our explorations and in actively listening to the voice of the Universe. 

Stay open to the new possibilities the Universe offers for your consideration and exploration. It will take you on a new adventure.

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

The Wisdom of Young People

They were 18- to 20-year-olds who are studying to become nurses and they stopped in our room to chat.

One young man was a vegetarian who knew about how cow methane harmed the environment which is why he had become a vegetarian. I asked about their view of women’s rights and the need to vote and other philosophical things I’ve been thinking about. 

Most of the young people who come here are part of a training to become nurses so they already know their career path. How wonderful that they get to explore it in some detail before they commit.

When I was in school in the 50s, girls took homemaking and boys took shop. Women were not expected to have careers. Some of us fooled them though. 

What did your generation expect of you? What choices have you made to move beyond that? 

Have you talked to a thoughtful young person lately? They are our future.

====OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

The Power Of Curiosity

“Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge.
Action is the beginning of change.”
– James Clear

How curious are you?  Do you wonder how things work? Do you wonder why things exist? 

I am focusing my attention on the planets and stars to see what adventures they will take me on. And I will allow myself to take tangents off of that and see where my curiosity takes me.  

Exploring change offers many lessons, insights and opportunities.

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Talk To Your Plants

As I read about the experiments in the book The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the Worldby Lynne McTaggart, it talked about experiments that were made with plants in which the plants demonstrated that they sensed danger and responded to affection. I’ve begun talking to my plants. 

For instance, I have a cutting of a heart shape philodendron that I have put in water to root and didn’t realize until this week it actually has two very long roots coming off of it. I have a very sad prayer plant that suffered from being shipped in the cold. There was one leaf and the edges of it were dried from freezing. I very carefully trimmed off the dead part and told it how beautiful it is, which it is and I keep talking to it. It now has the tiniest new leaf beginning to emerge so I keep whispering encouragement to it. 

Our whole body responds to our thoughts and our intentions. I am visualizing the redness of the edema on my legs turning into wonderfully clear and healed skin. That is my intention. It is the images I work with for intentional self-healing. 

The book told of an experience of plants knowing when other plants were going to be cooked. I’m going to add specific gratitude and blessings for the food I eat – before I eat it and as I eat it. Every bite will become a mindful blessing and gratitude for the plant’s support of my well-being. It’s really going to change how I interact with food and how I eat. I no longer prepare my own food but I can sure send blessings down the hall to the food in the kitchen. 

I don’t get outside much but my windows look out over our garden and my bird feeders so I can still talk to the birds. I can watch the clouds and the sun and the moon. Our thoughts have energy. Will you start talking to your plants? And nature?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Plant Talk

I trimmed the dry edges around the patterned leaf and told it how beautiful it was. I praised the two long roots emerging from the philodendron cutting sitting stoically in water.

I trimmed the dry edges around the patterned leaf and told it how beautiful it was. I praised the two long roots emerging from the philodendron cutting sitting stoically in water. I patted the leaves of my schefflera in appreciation.  Plants can hear you know, they can feel. They respond to our praise and kind words.

I trimmed the dry edges around the patterned leaf and told it how beautiful it was. I praised the two long roots emerging from the philodendron cutting sitting stoically in water. I patted the leaves of my schefflera in appreciation.  Plants can hear you know, they can feel. They respond to our praise and kind words. What insights have your plants given you recently? And are you listening? 

– Cara Lumen, July 2023

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 Transformational Leaders
deepen our relationship with the Unseen World
and expand our role in the New Consciousness

Cara Lumen, explorer, spiritual philosopher, teacher, guide, leads us on a journey of self-awareness, spiritual expansion and impactful service. She helps us believe in our value, trust in our gifts, express our passion in a unique manner and build something meaningful around our wisdom and expertise. She helps us sing a deeper song.

Live in the nowhere that you came from, 

even though you have an address here – Rumi

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Living Our Deeper Song

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 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

The Weeping Birch tree outside my window recently began to drop her leaves. How does she know it is time? Is it marked on her calendar? Is it simply the subtle changes in the weather? 

How do we know when it’s time to let go of something, to release it, to let it fall to the ground and be left behind?

I can see more sky as leaves fall to the ground in golden showers. I like that because I like the shape-shifting clouds. Letting go offers a new view. 

If I were a tree with acorns, I would release them and they would be gathered and stored and later used to nourish a squirrel in the middle of winter. By releasing my gift, it would keep on giving. 

When is it a time for withdrawing in order to restore and replenish in preparation for a new season? A great deal happens when we let go of our leaves.

We can let go at any point in our life and at any stage in a cycle. What kind of inner wisdom do you call upon to let you know when it is time to let go – to leave something behind? And when you do, what can you see more clearly? 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I easily and effortlessly let go of patterns that no longer serve me.
I rest and restore and make room for new growth. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Go within and see what you need to let go.
  • Release it and study the new view it reveals.
  • Notice what new insights show up in the space that opens up.
  • Go exploring.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Intuitive Planning

When you listen to your inner guidance, it will lead you to your next step on the path you are to explore. Pay attention to those nudges and hunches. They are your inner voice guiding you. 

Then go exploring. Visualize. Can you imagine walking down that path? See how it feels and notice what opens up for you to consider. Make your decisions based on what you discover. Follow your intuition. It will take you where you need to go next. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

The Healing Power of Music

I have listened to and performed music all my life. I sang alto in the high school girls’ trio and girls’ quartets. I took voice lessons at the local college and sang in the chorus of their production of Bizet’s opera Carmen. I went through periods of liking Carol King and Rob McKuen and Peter, Paul and Mary. For about 10 years I listened to nothing but classical music. 

You can listen to all sorts of music on your television. During my day I often listen to light classical music and take great pleasure in listening to the range of instruments and the power of their individual sounds as well as the incredible harmony and emoting they produce.

Music reaches deep within. It changes our vibration. It changes our intention. It changes our expectations.

Where does sound fit into your life? How does it affect you and how can you go exploring more broadly? 

Optimism and Longevity

Japan recently broke another record for having even more centenarians.

Work ethic, a seafood-rich diet, deep family ties, and now improving medical technology are elongating the lives of the longest-living people on earth who are yet further defying perceived limits on the human body, mind, and spirit.

Optimistic men have a better shot at living a less-stressful, healthy life. Now I’m not a man but I sure can be optimistic. 

Optimistic means to be hopeful and confident about the future. Hopeful is pretty easy, confident may take some practice. How do you feel about your future? Is there a difference between how you feel about your immediate future and your future future? How do you approach each day? Is it with optimism and gratitude and high expectations? Or is it with dread and uncertainty? You are the captain of your emotional vehicle. And you can make those choices. When you move into conscious gratitude, you become more aware of the positive aspects of your life. Begin to be more aware of what is working physically, mentally, and emotionally. Be grateful for the positive forward steps that you take. 

I will tell you from experience it gets a little trickier as you age and stuff starts not working so well. But I am in control of my expectations. So not only do I practice coming from a place of gratitude but I keep looking for the positive aspects that keep showing up in my life. Stay optimistic and enjoy a longer life.

===OUTERWORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Where Do You Find Like-Minded Friends?

The more eclectic your interests, the further afield you have to go to find people who share your excitement. I think we begin with one interest at a time to develop our tribe around it. For instance, when I became a Reiki Master Teacher over three or four years in New York City in the 80’s, other Reiki students were my friends. And the more advanced my studies became, the narrower became the field of people who were interested in the same depth that I was. 

That was also true when I became a practitioner in the Center for Spiritual Living. Again, the more deeply I delved into the work, the more advanced were the people I was drawn to hang out with because our interests were similar. 

 Five years ago in a shamanic class with Sandra Ingerman, I was paired with my friend Martha (Minnesota) and we have talked nearly every week for five years. Even though we each have other interests that we are developing, we have a strong core interest in the metaphysical and our spirituality and we remain close friends. I met another close friend, Thuy, (France) when we were both students in the same class. Christina, (California) another good friend I speak with regularly I actually know in person from when I lived in California. And another friend, PJ, (Colorado) reached out to me because excerpts from one my books “Getting Your Feet Wet in Science of Mind” is on the websites of many Center for Spiritual Living Churches. Noralee (Canada) proofreads this newsletter and always sends me encouraging words along with the corrections. I periodically get emails from other followers of this newsletter.  I love that I am connected with people all over the planet. 

But that’s a very small group of people to interact with on a regular basis to explore my specific interests. I share slightly different interests with each of them.

I have taken a lot of classes on the Shift Network and they have Facebook groups in which I have found like-minded people on a particular topic. My suggestion is to follow a topic that calls to you and see what friends you find with similar interests.

For those of you in the Deeper Song Explorers! perhaps we can each share our favorite topics and teachers along with a link. 

Do You Have A Vision Board?

I haven’t made a vision board in years and as I approach 90, it feels like a strange thing to be doing. But it’s a good idea and now we can do it digitally and have access to some fabulous pictures. 

You can have areas on your vision board like “relationships” and “career” or you can just start with what you want in your life and find graphic representations for your vision board. 

What do you envision in your life? Make a vision board to help it manifest.

Look for A Creative Alternate Solution

One of the most helpful things my daughter Cathy has said to me recently is that I’m not the only one with a particular problem. With that in mind, I put inquiries out to the manager of this senior complex and the Social Security Director to see if there is a transportation company that would bring a wheelchair, put me in it, put me in the back of a van, take me to my eye doctor appointment and bring me back. And I found it. You don’t just stop needing things because you can’t move very well. 

What do you need in your life that you can find creative ways to get help with? Maybe there’s a special need that you want to build a business around that you can offer. Get creative as your needs change. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

An Altar Turns Your Space Into Sacred Space

As I continue to contemplate the pending downsizing, creating altar space has been first on my list. Without it there’s not much point to my life. It could be space in a bookcase or a table. I once had an altar on the floor. It could be an arrangement outside your window. Create sacred space and work with it, mentally be in it, and spend time with it every single day. 

I continue to rethink what I need and want to choose for the smaller space that awaits me. What ceremonies do you perform? Does it involve music or chanting or drumming or movement?

I use instruments to sing and play to the directions every day. I have a collection of special crystals to talk to and hold every day. I might begin to add an intentional element to my alter and work with that to manifest what I want in my life. 

Periodically changing and rearranging the elements of your altar could meaningfully deepen your spiritual practice. It will shift your focus and let you deepen different aspects of your spiritual practice.

Spend some time rethinking and rearranging your alter space and the ceremonies you choose to bring to it. Then notice what changes in your life experience. 

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

Expand Our Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Is There a Past Mistake You Need to Heal?

We all have things in our life that we wish we had done differently. I’m not suggesting you dwell on what choices you made along the line, but are there any past actions you might do differently if they occurred today? 

What comes to mind specifically is a personal interaction with another person that you could’ve handled better. In my case, those mistakes were usually because of my lack of awareness. Maybe you write that person a note and reestablish contact. Maybe you call them up. Maybe you just forgive yourself in your mind. A mistake is not intentional, it is one step taken in a particular moment for a variety of reasons. Sometimes you wish you hadn’t done it. Sometimes it was a happy mistake and worked out well. In your life are there any interactions that you wish to apologize for? Or, as you look at how it played out, you may find out it was not as big a deal to the other person as it was to you and you can actively forgive yourself.

This introspection is not intended to blame, it is to create an awareness that helps us not make the same mistake again. Our choices were made out of what we had to offer in that particular moment. Our awareness in particular, is a foundational cause of our choices. We are either aware of what we’re doing or are in a situation in which we are not very aware. We make our choices based on what we understand in the moment. Sometimes that awareness is more on target than others.

Learn from your less-than-stellar choices of the past. Try not to repeat it. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

What Brings Meaning To Your Life?

We get what we focus on. What aspects of your life are important to you, or nurturing to you and what do you do to encourage them, to cultivate them? 

My mind is important to me. It helps me learn. It helps me experience. I cultivate it in many ways. My spiritual practice is important to me. It has many aspects and I continue to explore there too. 

What aspects of your life do you value and how will you expand them? Identify and explore and find the things that bring meaning to your life and do more of them. 

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

Explore and Interpret the Guidance and Messages of the Divine Feminine

The Masculine In Religion 

It wasn’t until I listened to the Episcopal service for Queen Elizabeth that I remembered how predominate the masculine energy is in man religions. I guess I’m pretty far into this concept of the rising feminine. 

I was brought up in an era when women didn’t go to college, they just got married and had kids. But I did go to college. I even got a Master’s Degree in my 40’s and I did go off and make my own professional life.

When I got divorced, I could not get a credit card in my own name because everything was in my husband’s name. A gas credit card was the break I needed to begin to establish my own credit. But I had no work history to add to it. It’s been a long road.

Women today are brought up to believe they can be independent. And young women are the ones calling for major change today. 

So here we are in an era where women are standing strong and yet we do not earn the same amount of money for the same job as men do.

I’m no longer around any young people but I know one granddaughter has two children and is making major money while working from home. 

“These times they are a changin” (Bob Dylan) and that’s a good thing.

These Times They Are A Changin

Bob Dylan 1964

Come gather ’round people

Wherever you roam

And admit that the waters

Around you have grown

And accept it that soon

You’ll be drenched to the bone

If your time to you is worth savin’

And you better start swimmin’

Or you’ll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin’

Come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide

The chance won’t come again

And don’t speak too soon

For the wheel’s still in spin

And there’s no tellin’ who

That it’s namin’

For the loser now

Will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin’

Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call

Don’t stand in the doorway

Don’t block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

The battle outside ragin’

Will soon shake your windows

And rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin’

Come mothers and fathers

Throughout the land

And don’t criticize

What you can’t understand

Your sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old road is rapidly agin’

Please get out of the new one

If you can’t lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin’

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slow one now

Will later be fast

As the present now

Will later be past

The order is rapidly fadin’

And the first one now

Will later be last

For the times they are a-changin’

That was nearly 60 years ago!

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Simply Being- The Art of Wu Wei

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Make Better Choices

What my life looks like and feels like is because of the choices I have made and continue to make. Therefore, all change is up to me. Some of my choices are very conscious. Some are rather unconscious. I need to check both out to make certain they are what I want and are taking me where I want my life to go.

For instance, I know that I need to add more movement to my life. That’s a given. So my choices becomes what form that takes. Then the choice becomes how willing I am to extend myself, as in do more or do it longer or do it differently. Of what am I willing to let go?  How am I willing to change? 

I need to stop thinking about the future because it’s not here, it is still unfolding, and I’m only guessing at parts of it. That is a waste of my time in this present moment. Be present. Notice what you are creating and what those choices are creating for you to consider. Give long thought to how you would like your life to be different and what steps you could take to make that happen. Then do those.

My choices include staying in the present. Doing physical stretching at my kitchen sink, standing up to do some of the Qigong even if I’m hanging onto my walker. And do Qigong at least three times a day. There are podcasts that I want to listen to. I want to listen to less news and check out at least one audiobook to see how I like listening instead of reading. That’s a pretty good list. 

I can go exploring. I may discover new opportunities that will change the results I’m getting today. What new choices will you make today? And what happens when you do?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Change Your Choices

The choices are mine and I can change them.

The choices are mine and I can change them. I can look up instead of down. I can do it or not do it. When I choose, I must observe the results and let that guide my next choice.

The choices are mine and I can change them. I can lookup instead of down. I can do it or not do it. When I choose, I must observe the results and let that guide my next choice. It’s all up to me in every moment. I make choices that lift me up. 

– Cara Lumen, September 2022 

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

Namaste,

Cara

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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Keep Your Meditation Creative

Living Our Deeper Song

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

Sometimes we get so excited about new ways to meditate or concepts to contemplate or consider that we end up with this huge, bulky obligation that we then cease to do because it’s gotten too big. This is not about streamlining your meditation but it may very well be about changing it up periodically. You might choose to focus on one meditative practice more than another for a while in order to develop your skill and your experience of it.  I’ve had some breathing techniques I have frequently added and I have to watch it doesn’t make my meditation period too long. Perhaps I find a different place in my day that I practice breathing. 

I play my flute sometimes longer than others. I haven’t played my drums much recently. They are fun to do. I could have a whole separate drumming meditation. Like drumming down the sun. 

There are affirmations I used to say at my window altar that I have put off for a while. They are very nurturing strong affirmations. I would like them back in my life. 

So what do you do when you have so many ideas for your spiritual practice that you don’t do any of them? You get creative. You adjust. You modify. You may have a week of one focused type of practice to deepen it and also find the key components to include daily. 

You may have a few days in which you write affirmations on dissolvable paper and put them in water and watch that disappear. You may read a Tarot card for the week rather than one for each day. Do you see where I’m going with this? Have you by any chance overburdened your meditation practice with too much detail? 

The point of meditation is to quiet your mind and bring your attention inward and stay there for a while, allowing that stillness to heal and balance your body and your emotions and your mind. Even a pause for a period of consciously releasing exhales helps to bring you back to center. 

I have some songs I wrote that I play with my drum while looking out the window at nature. That could just be one form of meditation. I am learning more Qigong for self-healing and I might want to make a whole meditation using those practices. I have a singing bowl I haven’t used in a while. See how this goes? And let’s not even discuss the number of crystals that I have not held for quite a while. Those are deepening experiences unto themselves. It’s not a matter of routine, it is a matter of tuning into the moment, the day, the current need, to create a meditation segment that does what you need to have done in that moment. Do you need healing? Do you need centering? Do you need encouragement? What is the purpose of your meditation, the result you want, and what are the best forms of meditation to use?

I’m not doing nearly enough of my Transcendental Meditation. It doesn’t fit if I add in all these other things that I do. So I have to get creative.  New times. More sessions. Different days. Can you see where I’m going with this? Keep your meditation practice flexible and creative.  Create, experiment, explore, be flexible and notice what shifts. Keep your meditation practice fluid and responsive to your life.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION
I examine my meditation practice and find ways to make it more flexible.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • What are your favorite forms of meditation? Begin with one of those and perhaps do only that one in your meditation practice. Then move on to explore another one for a week or so until you deepen the practice and find what the results are.
  • Explore different times of day to do your meditation. I have one after I’m showered and am ready for my day but using meditation as a shift from a workday to an evening of personal time is a good place too. Create a flexible meditation practice.
  • Experiment with length. You’re not going to have a lengthy meditation every day so pick a length that works for you. 20 minutes was the recommended time for Transcendental Meditation. I don’t do that much.
  • Notice what forms of practice speak the most to you. I find my Qigong practices are very soothing. I would like to lengthen my TM practice. I would like to play my drums more frequently. Do the work and make your own meditation practice creative, individualized and perfect for you. 

===INNER WORK===
How to Help People You Don’t Like

I have a problem here. I know that I am supposed to send love and light to everyone but there are some people and situations and actions that are taking place in this world that I can’t bring myself to send light to.  Their deeds are too horrendous. And they are the situations that need it most. What do you do, what do I do when we see people expressing anger and hatred and evil and we’re supposed to send them light. How do we do that?

I have to back off from thinking in terms of individuals and individual actions and send wholing energy to the whole. Send peace to their hearts. In my cynicism I’m not sure it could get in. I can send energy to a situation, holding for the highest good for all of us. I only know to help a situation by sending light and holding my own vibration as high as I can manage. And hope they see it and recognize it in themselves. 

I am not to drop down into human emotions of anger or hatred. That hurts only me. It does not touch those I am focused on. Work on your own vibration. Work on elevating it. Work on keeping it the highest frequency you can manage. And keep on walking the high road. Make sure that your thoughts and your actions and your choices are all on the highest possible level you can manage. Stay on the high road. Shine your light. Show a different way. And know that others will see it. 

===SELF-HEALING===
Learn from the Past

Everything we’ve ever done has contained a lesson for us. Sometimes we get the lesson, sometimes we don’t. But if we pause to reflect and look at the overview of the path we have traversed, we will begin to see a pattern. A pattern of choices. A pattern of responses to those choices. I have a strong pattern of having written all my life starting in high school. I have a strong pattern of being interested in spirituality since my comparative religion class in college. Those are trails that have blazed their way through my life. Look to see what patterns you’ve been drawn to, what choices you have continued to make. And see if you like what you’re doing and where has taken you. Then see how you might change it to have a different outcome. Learn from the past. Use it to create your future. 

===OUTER  WORK===
Partner With the Univers

Letting the universe handle the perfect unfolding of our goals strengthens our confidence and reinforces our belief that anything is possible. We release our need to control and intentionally invite the universe to co-create the perfect outcome.

What are you forcing into being? What are you trying to rearrange that makes you go in the wrong direction? Are you listening? Are you observing the outcomes? Are you continually making positive choices?  

Slow down. See what you are creating in your life. Decide what you would like to create in your life. And partner with the universe to make it happen.

Have You Fulfilled Your Dream?

Did you have a dream as a young person? Gifts you wanted to expand? A path you thought you would follow? And did you do that?

Looking back, it wasn’t so much following a path as honoring my passions and interests in the moment. I did a very good job of that and there has been a pattern of flexible, spontaneous, in-the-moment choices. I seem to have a very strong need to share my discoveries and observations and lessons.  I do that in these newsletters.  But at the core of my path, I think it has been about being an explorer. An explorer of meditation, an explorer of yoga and Qigong and Tai Chi. An explorer of metaphysics. Always learning new concepts, always trying on something new to see how I like it or how I can adapt it to my life. There’s been a strong pattern of exploration. Underneath it may be the simple joy of learning. But as I have grown older, the calling has become a demand that I constantly explore something or learn something or share something or absorb something or apply something to my life. I am an explorer. Which also means I don’t stay with one thing for a particularly long time. I learn what I need and then build on that, rather than become extremely efficient at one particular step. Jack of all trades, master of none. Except in the broader sense of focusing on my spiritual practice.

Two friends in my life are entering into retirement and have the opportunity to structure an entire new 30 year path. It will be interesting to see what they keep and what they let go. 30 years is a long time. Do you know what you’ll move into when it’s time to retire, to stop working your regular job?  

Is there something you want to learn? Something you want to do? Someplace you want to go? What dreams do you still want to fulfill in this lifetime? Do that next.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===
Awareness of Our Cosmic Oneness

We are like musical notes in a cosmic orchestra. Each of us has our own tone and timber to contribute to the overall symphony. So on one hand we want to make sure we’re playing our tune right, and on the other hand, we want to make certain we are enhancing the entire symphonic piece. We wanna play our part right. We want to play our part well. And we want to support the collective effort as we do so.

So part of that work is how we think. The positive thoughts we hold, the positive expectations we have, the positive steps we take. All of those add to the uplifting of the all-encompassing energy. 

Another part of our path is our beliefs in what is possible. That light is fairly dim in the world right now. How do we counterbalance the negativity that is prevalent on so many levels today?

We are guardians of our own light. That’s our job. We are to hold our space with the highest level of awareness and expectation we can possibly manage. We must make our choices out of that centered, focused universal space.

What are you saying? What are you thinking? What are you doing? Make certain your choices are for the highest good of all. And keep holding a vision of oneness.

===HOW TO BE A STRONG CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE DIVERSE CIRCLE OF LIGHT BEINGs===
Let Your Light Shine

Does your inner light need polishing? Is it bright enough to change lives? Show others the way? To guide your own steps? We’re not on this path alone as humans, we are light beings working with the highest vibration that exists which is within all of us, to express ourselves in this life in a meaningful and impactful manner. That means we have to move deeply within ourselves to find out the gifts we are to share, the goals we are to achieve, the way we are to serve.

Is there some gift tucked away that you haven’t thought about for a long time that you would like to share? I’m thinking of something like a love of singing. Are you to sing in the choir, or a quartet or a choral group? I’ve done all of those things along the path of my life. How am I now expressing my love of singing? Get creative when it is time to reposition your gifts.

You never know when or how you will touch the lives of another person. One of the staff here who sweeps the halls on Thursdays told me that every time he hears me play my native flutes he stops and leans up against the wall and simply listens. I didn’t know that. I was just playing my flutes because I need and want to play my flutes.

I write in this newsletter because I need to figure things out and anchor them in my own life. And it is exciting to share what I discover. With you. I don’t always get feedback from you, but sometimes I do and that’s supportive and welcome and encouraging. I have to share in my excitement of what I discover. So you’re going to get this newsletter whether you write me back or not.

What gifts are you neglecting at this point in your life? If you used to be a runner and are kind of old, try walking. My fingers wouldn’t work on the piano anymore and my eyes are not able to read the music but I sure can tune into the classical music channel and hum along and remember melodies I know and listen more deeply. What kind of substitutes for a love or a gift or a talent are you making in your life now? And what gifts have you been neglecting? Do something about that. 

===BROADEN YOUR HORIZON – EXPAND YOUR VIEW===
The Eagle’s Eye

One of my earliest spirit guides is an eagle. His name is Sampson and in my journeys I get on his back and he takes me to see the overview. The beginning, middle, and end. The possibilities.  I can’t see them from my human life. So I get on his back and we go exploring to look for a new potentials, new possibilities, new insights. 

How do you keep an eye on the overview? How do you see it? How do you explore it? Are you constantly looking for new possibilities? Or are you sort of mired down in the detail of whatever you were doing? Keep your eye on the broader possibilities and potentials. Be like the eagle – soar high, look for and plan from the overview. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===
New Opportunities to Live Longer

Every day in science something new is discovered. Things that make us live longer. And better. And more productive. And new ways to extend our lives. It’s not easy to keep up with the dramatic changes.

I haven’t read this, but Brian Clark suggested this. “In the new book The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology, the authors envision a scenario based on today’s current research and advances that has human aging reversed within the next 10 years — just as the eldest Gen Xers cross 65.”

“Which brings to mind some questions:

  • What’s your purpose that keeps you going?
  • What would you like to change going forward?
  • What do you want to do with the rest of your life?”

It may give us an opportunity and a need to rethink our potential and possibilities.

I find out about a lot of new discoveries by subscribing to Good News Network. 

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===
Expanding Awareness
The Vibration behind Your Beliefs

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===CARA’S CORNER===
Do Something You Have Not Done For A While.

I have begun to play my skin drum again recently. And yet I am applying some of the techniques I learned when I learn to play my synthetic Remo drums. I’d like to say I made the skin drum. However, it was a workshop 30 years ago in which what I really did was weave the skin onto the frame. I had nothing to do with obtaining the deer skin or cutting it in a circle or poking holes around the edges of the rawhide. Nor did I make the round frame that it went in but with help, I wove the skin onto the frame to make my drum. And then I didn’t know what to do with it.

I bought a hide beater from the woman who held the workshop. When I started studying shamanism ten years ago, I began to play it more. I have created my own songs to the different directions. I just let them show up and evolve until they are what I want to sing. But I’ve been playing this drum with my hands in the manner I was more recently taught by Christine Stevens in her Shift Network classes. Funny how things come in cycles and you get to revisitg amd reexplore and refame an  experience. Interesting how we combine various phases of our life into the present moment.

What do you need to bring forth into your life today? I have so many crystals I have not held and talked to for a very long time. I have several shelves that have special items on them that could host many ceremonies if I chose to do so. What have you put aside that you want to revive? And when will you do it?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===
My Drum Calls

My drum said, “Pick me up, play me, let me sing again.”

My drum said, “Pick me up, play me, let me sing again.” I lifted her into my hands, turned to look out at nature, and let her speak again.

My drum said, “Pick me up, play me, let me sing again.” I lifted her into my hands, turned to look out at nature, and let her speak again. I play better now. We talked for quite a while. It was good to get to know my friend again. We have both gotten better with age.

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

Come Sing a Deeper Song  
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The Rights of Nature

By

The Rights of Nature

Living Our Deeper Song

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

Nature has rights and it is up to us to make certain she gets them. A river has a right to stay clean and healthy and support the wildlife that lives in and around her. A mountain has the right to stay forested and protective of the wildlife that lives there. The air has a right to be clear and clean and sustaining. Nature doesn’t mess itself up, humans mess it up by our careless thoughtlessness. 

The rights of nature is an interesting concept. How are you doing your part?

I began recycling in New York City in the 80s when, at the first Whole Health Expo, they gave us cloth bags to carry our groceries rather than plastic or worse, paper. I have faithfully recycled for over 40 years. 

I no longer have a car but if I did, I would really work to get an electric one so I would stop adding to the pollution and the consumption of gasoline and oil. I monitor the thermostat in my home to keep my energy consumption low. I would install solar panels in a minute if I owned my space.

And yet I contribute terribly to the pollution of the earth. My food comes in containers that end up in landfill. I’ve been a vegetarian for 50 years so I do not contribute to the killing of any animals.

The rights of nature. How is your community caring for the rights of nature and how will you get involved to raise consciousness?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am more aware of the Rights of Nature and work to honor them.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Take a close look at your community and see how you can stand up for the Rights of Nature. 

===INNER WORK===

Judgment Versus Opinion

Judgment shuts us down. It sets up barriers. It separates us. Opinion, on the other hand, is more open-hearted and willing to change. Curiosity lives within an opinion.

Monitor your thoughts. Notice the depth of your response – is it a reaction or is it inclusive thoughtfulness?

Judgment closes us down and is final, whereas opinion leaves us open-hearted and open to new possibilities and change.

Are you judging or are you trying to understand what lies behind a position you disagree with? It doesn’t mean you have to change your mind, but understanding brings compassion and open-heartedness.

Sometimes your response is based on how the other person presents their opinion as what-is-so versus what you believe. We each monitor facts through our own filters but we also have the ability to change our filters at any time.

How thoughtfully are you developing your beliefs? How are you presenting your beliefs – as an opinion or an unmovable position? Our choice is to live our values and let that example speak for us.

That’s huge. How are you living your values? Do you even think of them as values? Kindness, honesty, compassion, inclusiveness come immediately to mind. Some are easier to express in life than others. 

We must learn to distinguish the inner guidance we cherish and from which we form an opinion, from emotional judgment, which locks us in. Listen to your intuition and allow it to guide you without hardening it into an opinion or judgment of the choices others make. Stay fluid in your examination of the world around you. Make your own choices based on your personal values. And question those choices to make certain they are in alignment with compassion, integrity, and open-mindedness. Judgment contains a strong component of a need to be right. It quickly sets up barriers. 

When a strong opinion shows up within you, pause to see where it is coming from. You may think, “That’s not how I would do it. That’s not my choice.” But make it OK that it’s their choice – unless it is doing harm to others. It doesn’t mean you don’t try to right a wrong, it’s just that you need to know your values within yourself to make room for flexibility in your viewpoints. 

Have an opinion but leave judgment behind.

===SELF-HEALING===

Believe It is Possible

What we believe is possible determines what we experience in our life. That is true in life and that is true in self-healing. 

Recently on a healing seminar on the Shift Network, I heard a woman share that she had healed herself of several major imbalances over the course of her 75-year life working with energy and biofields. So I know that self-healing can happen. Do I believe it can happen for me? I do. And it is – gradually, in small increments, over time. What do you believe is possible for you to self-heal? Change your belief and change your results. 

===OUTER  WORK===

Resourcefulness

Resourcefulness means finding imaginative and unusual ways to overcome difficulties. It sometimes means substituting one tool for another – like using a rock for a hammer or your cupped hands to drink water from a lake. Resourcefulness is shortcuts and workarounds. It often means simply identifying the task to be done and finding a unique way to do it. Like the time I dropped the open gallon of ice cream on the floor and because I can’t reach the floor any more, I turned a large basket with a handle on its side, placed it on the floor and scooted the ice cream into the basket so I could reach the taller edge of the basket and pick it up. You get creative and resourceful as your body defines its limits. 

Workarounds and substitutions all lead you to creative, innovative, and resourceful substitutions. Have fun.

Mindful Walking

I have been so caught up in how I am walking that I have forgotten to walk mindful of the world around me. So for instance, in taking out the trash I begin by simply focusing on taking one step at a time. But as I progress, I am able to feel the breeze on my face and the sun shining on my body and I can even hear the sounds of nature around me. All because I’ve paused to listen. Whether the walk is a short one with a specific purpose or a long meandering one for restoration, walk mindfully and let nature speak to you.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Cleanse Your Space for Healing

I learned a lot on the Science of Healing Summit at the Shift Network. One of the concepts that spoke to me was when they shared that in one experiment that had had a lot of healing going on suddenly it stopped. They realized they had to clean the incubator they were using so it could heal more. It worked.

What does it mean for me to clean my space? We’re not talking housecleaning here, we’re talking energy balancing.

In my meditation practice each day I ring a bell to disperse any negative energy that might have come through the night or still resided here. I have a conscious practice of clearing. 

Clearing out beliefs might be a bit of a challenge, but beliefs can easily get in the way of moving forward, self-healing and discovery. So when you’re stuck, look closely to see what beliefs you need to clear out so you can move forward. It may be as simple as saying, “I now release all beliefs that no longer serve me.”

As my body continues to adjust to whatever this is that’s going on, I get to focus on the steps it takes forward, not what still needs to be corrected. Focus on the positive.

You can have a ceremony of clearing or you can wave your hand with the intention to clear and release. Periodically focus on clearing out your meditation space, your workspace, and your sleep space. And then perhaps turn and see what you can do about shaping up your intentions to keep intentions and beliefs positive and open for rebalancing.

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

New Thinking

I may not be right, but I believe that it is time to move into a new way of communicating our offerings to people. I have a solid understanding of what I was taught 20 years ago as the way to attract people on the web to get them to look at your business and consider what you offer. But my belief system is changing and I have to figure out how and what I’m going do about it.

I am also working with several very strong healer friends on their website content. So the focus becomes more on the depth and broadness of what they do rather than the tools and techniques they use to create positive change in your life. The people they seek to serve will not go online looking for how to cure a cold. They will go online and look for how to restore balance in their physical body or in their life in general. And they will be open to subtle energetic shifts and both gradual and dramatic changes. But the question won’t be for the form that healing and helping is used in the moment, but the focus will be on the fact that change occurs. 

Years ago in New York City, I remember looking online at the site of a young man who was a Buddhist. Positive energy poured off the page. That’s what I think will happen as more and more energy-aware people search for help online. They will go to a site and experience the energy more than the words, and make their choice from the energetic connection they experience. Because they are more deeply attuned to the energy of wholeness, they will be able to make their choice to get the assistance they need to rebalance themselves based on the energy flow they experience from the site.

I seem to be focusing on healing sites and realized that if the web content is focused on the idea that core energy change would take place that would have a far-reaching impact rather than focus on a solution to a  specific problem, it would certainly attract people who were aware of energy, we who are aware of consciousness, or aware of how our thoughts can change our reality. Anyway, that’s my new thought on how to draw people to your business. I shall explore further. 

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Caring for the Next 7 Generations

As a matter of common knowledge, we know that a generation averages about 25 years—from the birth of a parent to the birth of a child—although it varies case by case. We are to make our choices with an awareness of and concern for the next seven generations. I had to look up the list.

  • The Greatest Generation (born 1901–1927)
  • The Silent Generation (born 1928–1945) (that’s me – wonder why we are silent…)
  • Baby Boomers (born 1946–1964)
  • Generation X (born 1965–1980)
  • Millennials (born 1981–1995)
  • Generation Z (born 1996–2010)
  • Generation Alpha (born 2011–2025)

I have great-grandchildren who are just starting their lives. And I’m sitting here with an environment that’s in trouble, humanity that is in trouble, and I’m also sitting here with a whole lot of new ways to do life differently – like solar power and space exploration.

I was reminded recently that I used to use a typewriter and I was in New York City when computers entered the workplace. Now I dictate into my computer and my phone. And I can talk to my TV.

My first tendency is to say I can help by holding High Watch. That means that I hold an energy of wholeness and positiveness and help make it stronger so others see it and rise to that higher vibration.

My choices leave a mark for better or worse. As do yours. Make your choices today as if you were preparing our world for your great-grandchildren and beyond. What would you like for them to have available and what would you like for them not to have to deal with? Build on that.

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

Spiritual Practice

Become a Pillar of Light

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Qigong Summit at the Shift Network, March 14-18. Qigong is easy to do and extremely powerful. The summit is an opportunity to listen to gifted teachers and learn more about how you might want to add it to go onto your life. Highly recommended.

===CARA’S CORNER===

The Catalyst of Change

I experienced a very powerful energy shift in one of the movements I do in my meditation and it is exciting. I get to look at how it happened and what it means and what I’m going to do about it. The movement is based on the spiritual practice of bringing energy up from Gaia, the earth and bringing energy down from the Cosmos. I have done that in various forms. But the form that offered the huge shift for me this week was my left hand reaching down toward the ground to bring up the energy from Gaia and my right hand raised above my head to bring down the energy of the Cosmos to fill my body with those energies for self-healing and balancing. Suddenly the connection was huge. I was filled with healing, wholing, balancing energy and all I was doing was sitting there with one arm down and one arm up. It was a major healing experience. I felt my whole body filled with healing, wholing energy. I was holding a position and the energy was extremely active. It was clearing and relaxing and restoring and rearranging through my whole body. It was a huge shift and an amazing experience. 

So what does that mean? I’ll bet it means I’m getting better at noticing energy changes in my body. But it also means that something has freed up, something is cleared out. There’s more room for rebuilding and self-healing to take place in my body. It also means that my awareness of that subtle shifting energy has deepened. What do I do now? How do I adapt? 

I simply let it unfold. It means that each time I do that meditative, intentional move or any other meditate move, I pay attention to any subtle shifts – what’s happening in my body and what new awarenesses I have. My intention was for healing my body. But perhaps my intention is to shift to broadening my vision and expanding my insights into what I am to do or consider next. My job is to notice the subtle shifts, interpret them, and then open myself up to the opportunities it brings for me to change. Change in my beliefs. Change in my expectations. Change in my choices moving forward. I am to adapt, and be open for more change. 

What shifts in energy have you noticed recently?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Shift

The shift was profound and unexpected. 

The shift was profound and unexpected. It opened a whole new level of expectation and promise.

The shift was profound and unexpected. It opened a whole new level of expectation and promise.

I will build upon that. 

Cara Lumen, March 2022

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song 

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

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How to Self-Heal

By

How to Self-Heal

Living Our Deeper Song

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am whole, perfect and complete. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

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

===INNER WORK===

Honor Your Natural Rhythm

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

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

===SELF-HEALING===

Raise Your Vibrational Set Point

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

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

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

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

===OUTER  WORK===

Monitor Your Response

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

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

Foresight and Exploration

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

Have You Stopped Exploring?

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

Preconceptions and Expectation

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

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

How Do You Shift Your Consciousness?

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

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

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

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

Pause.  Breathe.  Make a conscious choice. 

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

Explore New Pathways

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

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

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

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

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

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

Path of Curiosity

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

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

World Work

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

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

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

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

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

The Divine Masculine Has to Change

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

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

Spiritual Practice

What Do You Need to Leave Behind?

Self Healing

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Expanding Awareness

How to Hold High Watch for the Planet

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===CARA’S CORNER===

 Watch the Signs?

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

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

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

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

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Nudge

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

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

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

– Cara Lumen, January 2022

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

Namaste,

Cara

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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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