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J-1 Foundation For The Journey Within – Create Your Sacred Garden

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REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG
An Inner World Exploration

J-1 – Foundation For The Journey Within –
Create Your Sacred GArden

Within the inner world of your invisible self is a personal place of power and healing. It is a sanctuary for guidance, introspection, and spiritual deepening.  It is available to everyone.

Your Sacred Garden in your personal sanctuary. It is a place of self-healing. It is the starting place for meditation, for shamanic journeys.

It this episode, Cara Lumen, spiritual explorer and founder of the Deeper Song Community, leads you on a guided meditation to create this inner sanctuary for your own spiritual practice.

Using the ancient introspective method of shamanic mediations called “journeying”, Cara guides you to the inner realms where you create your personal place of refuge. Everything you find in your Sacred Garden is an aspect of you, a symbolic, metaphoric message from your inner self.

Whether you want to mediate for self-healing, a deeper understanding of your soul purpose, the well-being of our world, or insights and wisdom for your daily life, you begin your meditative journey in the sanctuary of your Sacred Garden.

In this episode. Cara will guide you in building a transpersonal bridge between the inner and outer world and help you uncover the treasures of your inner self.

In this episode: 

1. Discover the purpose of Your Sacred Garden. What is it, why you want to use it, how to create it.

2, Journey to your invisible worlds to create this sacred inner retreat.

3. Learn how to immediately add the Sacred Garden to your own spiritual practice.

Resources: 

Drumming Recording: For your personal practice, this drumming tape by Shamanist Sandra Ingerman will help you move gently into a receptive state for your journey. Your journey can be as long or as short as it turns out to be.

In this episode Cara use a Tibetan Hand Bell / Meditation & Prayer Bells / Dorje / Vajra – Medium.  There is a variety of these available.

Further Study: If you want to learn more about shamanism I suggest you begin with the book Awakening to the SpiritWorld, the Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation by Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman, both of whom I have studied with.

You can also take courses from both Sandy and Hank at The Shift Network.

THE JOURNEY TO THE INNER WORLD SERIES

The first three podcasts should be listened to in order.  They lay the foundation.

J-1 Foundation For The Journey Within – Create Your Sacred Garden

NEXT: J-2 Connecting with your Power Animal

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Nurture the Garden Of Self

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Nurture the Garden Of Self
An Inner-world Exploration

Our strength comes from within.  Our ideas come from within.  Our entire life expression comes from within. Within you, accessible by your imagination, there’s a Garden of Self and we are each responsible for planning, cultivating, and harvesting our own crops.  

Intention plants the seed

Starting your Garden of Self is as simple as setting an intention.  

Today I plant the seed of Serenity in my Garden of Self and I will water it with patience, nurture it with silence, and harvest it throughout my day. 

Well, wow!  Let’s do more of that.

Today I plant the seed of Wisdom in my Garden of Self.  I nurture it with contemplation and mindfully harvest it throughout my day, picking one succulent berry at a time and savoring it.

More?

In my Garden of Self, I planted an acorn called “Cara” and it immediately grew into a giant oak complete with a bird’s nest, a rainbow parrot, a squirrel and a bunch of acorns that are future Cara trees.  

It’s a mature tree, as I am mature, but it has a lot of life and a great deal still to offer. Insights, wisdom, hope.

What will you plant in your Garden of Self?

The Fountain of Love

In your Garden of Self create a water source.  In the Sacred Garden where I begin each shamanic journey, I have three separate water sources:  a reflecting pond, a bubbling brook, and a waterfall.  So I was surprised to find a different water source in my Garden of Self, which is down the road from my Sacred Garden.  But a fountain showed up, a happy, bumbling, spray-sharing laughing fountain. It is from this Fountain of Love and Joy that I am to nurture the crops I plant.  

Build the support you need

You may need to provide a trellis for some of your crops.  A support system that encourages growth and the space to expand or elevate above the ground.  What in your life needs support?

You may need to prune a plant in your Garden of Self in order to encourage the growth of one strong central plant.  Don’t be afraid to prune and let go. It will make the core stronger. 

My Cara tree has obviously been around for a while. Do I need to prune it?  Support a branch here or there?  Drop a few more acorns of wisdom?

Cultivate, encourage and support whatever you grow in your Garden of Self. 

Share your harvest

In the Garden of Self, you plant the things you need in order to elevate the vibration of your Body Suit.  

At some point, you are going to share your harvest.  Perhaps you will share a little.  Perhaps you will share a lot.  Who will you share it with?  How will you take it to market?  Who needs what you have to offer?

I’m dropping acorns of wisdom like a wild woman. Sometimes the wind helps me and carries them farther afield.  Sometimes they just drop to the ground and take root.  Sometimes they go to feed a bit of nature like a squirrel.  I just keep dropping seeds of Insight and Wisdom and let them fall wherever they may. What seeds are your sharing from the plant that is you?

Allow the cycles to unfold 

Gardens go through cycles.  Their needs change.  Sometimes they take.  Sometimes they give. It’s all part of the process of nature’s cycles.  Know where you are in the cycle and what you need to do/provide next. 

You may need rest in order to restore. You may be harvesting the best crop you ever produced.  You may be simply looking over the seed catalog to see what you want to plant.  Each stage is perfect.  Immerse yourself in it. 

Plant some experimental crops

You won’t know whether you like the crop until you harvest it and put it to use.  You don’t have to grow a lot of an experimental crop, but do plant enough so you can understand its needs, its demands, its preferences and how the final harvest nurtures you.  Even planting one seed and following it through its process can provide the information you need to make a decision on whether or not to plant more. 

Keep the Garden of Self nurtured

What does our Garden of Self need right now?  Where are you in the cycle? Not all crops will be in the same stages of readiness.  Give them what they need.  And remember one cycle leads to the next. So while one field is allowed to lie dormant in order to restore and replenish, another will provide multiple harvests.  Be aware of the difference and honor the process and the cycles.  

Intention provides direction and growth

Each day, pause to consider the intention you have for your Garden of Self.  That pause to balance and gain awareness will help you set an intention that will carry you forward in the most positive and productive manner.  Set an intention and let it unfold. Then follow the path that opens up. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I tend my Garden of Self with conscious intention every day.

Deeper Song Process

  • In a state of meditation, journey to find your Garden of Self and begin to explore.
  • See what crops need to be planted.  What do you want to grow and encourage in your garden of Self?
  • Plant some staples, but perhaps start a few experiments crops.  
  • Tend your Garden of Self every day.
  • Harvest when ready and share what you have grown.
  • Look over the seed catalogs and plant some experimental crops….!

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

Unleash the power of your Sacred Garden

What Seeds Do You Allow to Grow in Your Garden? 

What Seeds Do You Plant for the Future?

What are the Foundations Stones Upon Which Your Build Your Life?

The Power of a Releasing Ceremony

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World. 

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raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively,
can raise the consciousness of our planet.

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The Secret Garden

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As we begin to expand our inner work, this exploration of our Invisible Self, the Great Mystery, we want to create a launch pad, a Secret Garden from which we begin our exploration. It is part of our inner world, our Invisible Self.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher, explorer, map-maker and founder of the Deeper Song Transformational Community help us sing a deeper song.  In this episode she explains how to create and use a secret garden of your imagination as a safe space for contemplation and exploration.

Everything in the universe is within you.  Ask all of yourself.  – Rumi

(7:35) In this episode we consider: 

1 – The Purpose of the Secret Garden

2 – The meaning of the elements in the Secret Garden

3- The Sacred Garden and healing

For Deeper Insights Consider:

Deepening Our Connection

How to Find Your Spirit Guides

Power Journaling

Your Body Suit and Invisible Self

Important Links & Mentions From This Episode

“Awakening to the Spirit World, The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation” Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wasserman

Members of the Deeper Song Transformational Community are Light Holders, Hope Shiners and Gatherers to our heart. Will you join  us?

The Seedling

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The Seedling

Living Our Deeper Song

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

I was sitting at the edge of a sandpile in Central Park in New York City while my granddaughter, Kimberly, played on the slide. I looked down and at the edge of the sandpile was a very straight, very green, very healthy and very small 4-inch seedling. I looked up at its parent and saw an exceedingly tall tree proudly looking down on this tenacious seedling. It was a very brave seedling. But it had chosen the wrong place to grow. It would not be allowed to stay there very long. I greatly admired its tenacity and its beauty. My granddaughter, who was four had just transplanted with a major change into my custody even though I was in my 50s. Her mother was not capable of taking care of her. It was a good move for her to change her environment. It was in fact a very major transplant for her. She now had room and encouragement to grow.

Here’s the point. We get to choose where we plant ourselves. Perhaps not as young children, although I believe we agreed to that particular set of parents and circumstances before we came in. But if we, once mature, find ourselves in an unhealthy environment, we owe it to ourselves to change where we are planted. That could mean beginning or ending a relationship, it could be changing jobs, it could mean moving, it could mean learning a new skill or making new choices in your life. What do you need to change about your environment that will assure you of healthy growth?  

I have made several cross-country moves in my lifetime and I knew in an instant that I was to do them. In an instant, I knew it was time to move from Kansas City to New York City. 13 years later, I knew in an instant that it was time to move from New York City to the San Francisco area of California. 17 years later, I suddenly knew it was time to move to Kansas City so I could be close to my daughter as I age. And recently, I suddenly knew that I needed to move into long term care.

Do you trust your instinct, your intuition, when it comes to major decisions? Are you able to reach your full potential where you are now? Where would you fare better? Will you make that change?

Our world is suggesting we embrace all manner of change in order for it to survive and for us to heal ourselves. We must be flexible and creative and experimental about where and how we choose to live in this chaotic evolving environment. We must continue visioning a positive and inclusive and self-healing planet.

What changes do you need to make and will you make them? If you need a new place to grow, go plant yourself there. We have more work to do.

Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.

-Rumi 

I’d like to think I am a seed, spreading awareness.    – Kahlil Gibran

He is planted in his own integrity, and there he stands, gnarled and knotted, perfectly at ease with himself, his roots deep in truth, his branches held up to let the light in.  

-Stephen Mitchell, Second Book of Tao

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I look closely at my environment to see if there is a need to change. Then I respond to what I discover.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Look closely at where you are planted and see if it’s the best place for you at this point in time. It may be a job, a relationship or a location change. These times are asking for new growth and commitment from us. Are you planted in the right environment?

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Incubate Your Ideas

All things need time to grow, to mature, to reach fruition. And that includes ideas.

For me, what evolves begins with a nudge that I receive. It often comes as a single core concept that I am drawn to and I pause to examine it for myself first in writing.  The writing helps clarify and anchor it for me. 

It’s a little like talking to myself in order to discover new abilities and potentials.

An important part of incubation is to try out your ideas in different scenarios and different forms. And then give yourself time to reflect on the possibilities that emerged.

You can try different versions, different approaches, and different processes to see what and how you want to bring your idea into manifestation. You can actually try on different versions in your imagination and see where they take you.  Go exploring, look at it from different angles and see where it takes you.

Allow yourself to end up in an entirely unexpected place. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

Life Is What You Make Of It 

Here in long term care, some seniors sit and watch television – all Game shows and Turner Classics. But there is a man who sings and leads the karaoke sessions. I also saw two men in wheelchairs going down the hall and one said “If you hold onto the railing, you can go faster.” 

Life is what you make it. Are you living your life in the most productive manner? Are you achieving the goals you set for yourself? And are they good goals? Productive goals? Impactful goals? Life is what you make of it. How are you doing?

The First Step

“A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step”
– Lao Tau

Just begin. Take a step and look around at the new views you have just acquired. New opportunities appear with every new view. Keep exploring. 

This week Occupational Therapy removed the holders for feet from my wheelchair to make me use my feet to move forward, which is a really good exercise. Later that day I was taken down to get a shower and needed to use my feet and the railing along the wall to move forward. There were two young high school girls, Katie and Emily, who are in training and we had a wonderful conversation about everything from my crystal to my flutes and rattles that I have in an altar shelf.  It was great fun to reach out to connect with several generations below me too. When they left, they thanked me for the conversation and I enthusiastically thanked them back.

The bed here is magical in that the top and bottom move up and down separately and the whole thing moves up and down with the press of a button. Occupational therapist Kristy showed me how to get in and out of bed. My previous version has been to throw myself backward into bed and hope the legs followed. Hers was similar but there was a purposeful approach to it which I can now emulate. 

And I love their version of a reclining bicycle which of course is a big machine with pedals and arm movers and I really love how it is freeing up my body.

The Midwest is a very kind part of the world and because they are all social workers who want to help people, it is a lovely environment. I have three extremely tall windows looking out over a Gazebo and a gardening area and I have a bird feeder outside my window. I can watch the sun rise here and I watched the sun set across the street where I moved from.  I wonder if that’s an omen.

My Life Coach Patricia said she had had fearful  dreams and I sent her a link to my podcast  The Transformative Sphere and she tried it and it worked for her.  She forwarded the link to her boss who was excited to explore my website. I knew I had a new path unfolding but I never dreamed it would be here.  You just never know where you will be called into service.  My role is to support these kind people on their deep path of service.                       

===OUTER WORK==

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

What It Means to Be in Service

I get help from a physical therapist, occupational therapist, doctor, dietitian, nurseand I actually had my haircut for the first time in over a year because I didn’t have access to one. She cut off 5 inches. I’m having all sorts of intake experiences. I know it will slow down. Meanwhile I am getting medical help I could not get to because I can no longer get in the car. All my needs are taken care of through Medicaid. I get $62 a month. But they supply everything. This is long term care. The willingness of the staff to help is touching. There is a shortage of service individuals which is going to be hard as the boomers age and need this type of care. Willingness is the corner stone of their service.

We are in service in many ways. Some ways seen so small as to be unnoticeable to others. All acts of kindness have an impact. Up your game and reach out to more people in service.

Where Do You Find A Teacher?

You choose a teacher because they provide an answer to questions you have at this moment in time. You may follow that teacher for a long time or it may be a one-time experience. 

I have recently begun to turn to my teachers of the past. I’m rereading some of their poetry and books. Those words will have a different meaning for me now because I have matured and gained insight and wisdom. The messages will go deeper and resonate more broadly. I attend a lot of free on-line summits and often find wisdom and sometimes teachers I want to experience.

Know when you are on topic. For instance, I’m tempted to take a new Qigong class and I must stop and think about how much I’ve already studied, how much work I need to do to really absorb that into my spiritual practice. Go exploring to put yourself in a position to learn something new. 

It’s also important to be able to know when a certain topic is not what you are to explore right now. I know how to do shamanic journeys and I would like to do those daily again. Look closely at how you spend your time and see what you need right now. Teachers are everywhere. It may be a moment with one of your friends, a statement on the television, or maybe in more formal settings, a podcast or an actual class. Go exploring and see what teachers call to you.

A Life Lesson From A Dramatic Change

I’m on my sixth day without watching television because my television does not work. My daughter and son-in-law are buying me a new one which is not here yet. Meanwhile I have not listened to one piece of news nor have I bothered to go look for it online. What a huge difference that is making. Partially because it’s scary out there. We have a huge election coming up which has the demise of our US democracy at stake. I need to change my focus and particularly my concept of how I spend my time. 

My daughter helped me learn how to use my Bluetooth headphones with Spotify. There is an outstanding classical station and I am humming and singing and loving every minute of it. I want to notice how my personal vibration changes with this withdrawal from dramatic daily news. I also have not played the game Spider Solitaire in seven days. Mainly because I can’t figure out where to put my tablet. But also because that was one of those things I did while I watching the news. 

Sometimes we take vacations to rest and restore and examine our habits and modify them or choose new ones. This is not a vacation, it’s a permanent life change, but it is a perfect opportunity for me to examine the choices I continue to make and have made. I have a feeling that this change from mindless habits to conscious choices will make a huge difference in my life. 

What are you doing too much of? What would you like to do more of? How will you rearrange your choices to accommodate that? 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

Build A Stable Spiritual Practice

A major goal for us in this time of turmoil is to build a stable place within where we can put our roots deep into a spiritual practice that helps us find balance and insight and the right action we make through all the changes we are experiencing.

There are many ways to communicate with and experience the unseen realm where we can receive the guidance we seek. When we listen, we are shown how to live a centered, focused, compassionate life. We must create and explore a path of positive change for ourselves and for the collective. You may choose ceremony, you may choose meditation, you might find yourself writing down ideas – whatever method works that brings you a deeper understanding of how we can work to facilitate positive change. Our meditation practice, our ceremonies, our beliefs and expectations bring us a deeper connection with the unseen world and the guidance that it offers. 

Be aware of what your mind is focusing on. Look at your choices and see which ones have become less than positive for you and stop doing those. 

We are part of nature and nature is always changing and unfolding. It is expanding and contracting. Notice how your life is changing and evolving and make conscious choices to explore your path. 

Notice the dimension of life where you have chosen to spend the most time and move from the 3-D world into the spiritual realms using your imagination and insights to listen to the guiding nudges of the universe. 

We can choose the dimension we live in – fear and suffering or positive expectation. We build that by deepening our awareness of ourselves as a natural part of the unfolding process. We can design our own inner landscape, plant in it what we choose and weed out what we do not want. As we deepen our inner spiritual awareness, the landscape on the physical plane will change to a more positive expression. 

Use your words and thoughts to create your reality. Watch the vibration and frequency of the emotional energy you choose to share.  Ask your helping spirits to show you how to use frequencies to create an interesting landscape that both comforts and elevates your expectations by the thought you think in the words you use. 

===GUIDANCE FROM OUR COSMIC COUNSELORS ===

Listen Beyond the Voice Within 

How To Respond To Turmoil

I have not had a TV for a full week. I came here with my old one which didn’t work here because it’s on satellite not cable. That whole week without news. When I began to see how our world is changing, I went to the Cosmic Counselors for guidance. “What are our next steps? What is our role in this unfolding shift?”

I go to my Sacred Garden. The Cosmic Counselors are once again moving in a circle around the planet which is slowly turning within their sacred circle. “It is unfolding,” says a beautiful butterfly that is flying around the planet in a counter clockwise circle. “For those of you who are aware, you must touch hearts and help to expand the vibration across the cosmic consciousness so others can see it. You can do that with your mind and your intention. And then you listen, listen for guidance for the next step. The next step is fluid and graceful and very creative. It unfolds as you explore your imagination. Give it free rein.  You can discover some of it with obvious choices that you have to make. Look for the unformed energy waiting for direction.  Listen to the signs. Look at the spaces. Be prepared for a new adventure. Hold High  Watch for your own continued balance and the new choices that are making themselves known. Keep your heart focused and expect the best to unfold for the highest good for all. That is your part of it.”

The Director sits beside me on the bench. “Unfolding. Look for your role and trust”.

When I return to my home space, I realize my role continues to be to expect the vibration, to see it and experience it and emanate it. We are Light Beings and we are to show others the higher path.

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

Expand Your Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Listen With Your Heart

Next time you have a conversation, listen with your heart. Listen beyond the words to the core need or emotion and what is not being said in the moment. 

When you listen with openhearted silence, you see beyond the words. You move into the core emotions and needs and beliefs that are being expressed. And you can respond to their core need. When we listen with our hearts, it lets us connect to others on a soul level, taking us beyond mere words into the realm of truest and more honest communication. Use your heart center to listen and see what new dimensions of understanding appear.

Communicate From Your Heart 

Years ago, Chris Brogan interviewed me. I have no idea how he came to choose me and I was so new to the Internet that I could barely get onto Skype. I have followed him in his newsletter ever since. He is now an executive and he recently wrote this in his newsletter which I think is a very powerful consciousness to have, particularly if you are in a position of leadership. 

“An Executive Approach to Business (And Life)

“Before You Communicate – I wrote the next idea first, then added this. Before you reach out to anyone in any part of life, ask yourself the following few questions:

  • How can I co-create the best experience with this interaction?
  • What do I need or want to convey?
  • How do I want this person to receive it?
  • How can I say this briefly? (Remove the garbage, backstory, etc)
  • Does this serve everyone well?

If more people did this step before EVERY communication in ALL parts of their life, verbal or written or otherwise, life would be much more magical!””

=== DEEPER SONG PHILOSOPHIES ===

The Web of Life

“Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” – Chief Seattle

We must be conscious of our role in the universe and keep it in mind as we live our life and make our choices. Everything you do impacts the web which in turn will impact us and how we live our lives, focus our intention, and encourage others to do the same. 

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Free Global Joy Summit, Nov. 13 – 16 

I love to attend free Summits. They teach you about the topic and it is a good place to find a new teacher. Here’s one I’m going to attend this week: Join the Global Joy Summit, Nov. 13 – 16 and be inspired by the contagious Joy and timely message of the Dalai Lama and the late, great Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and learn from 30+ renowned joy scientists, spiritual teachers, changemakers, and artists.

Register now for this FREE event >>

The lived experiences of these two global icons, and self described “mischievous brothers,” serve as a profound example of the power of Joy in the face of adversity.  They teach us that Joy is an essential key to meeting the many ordinary and profound challenges we now face, individually and collectively.

The summit will include a free screening of Mission: JOY — the laugh-out-loud funny documentary that shares the magical friendship, practical wisdom, and historic final in-person meeting of the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu — as well as inspiring and practical sessions with 30+ speakers.

The summit November 13-16, will explore:

●     Practices to transform stress, anxiety, grief, depression, despair, isolation, challenging emotions, and difficulty

●     Practical tools to cultivate well-being, connection, love, compassion, and Joy

●     The relationship between Joy and sorrow (they’re not opposites)

●     Joy as a “clean fuel” to power transformative action

●     Ubuntu, Interconnection, and Compassion as essential keys to healing our planet and creating a good future

●     A special keynote with His Holiness the Dalai Lama

●     Live interactive workshops and musical performances

More than ever, the world needs each of us to tap into the innate love, compassion, and Joy that the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu remind us are at the core of our beings. Come for 1 session or all 20+ and join the celebration and exploration. Register now for this FREE event >>

===REFLECTIONS===

Creative Adjustment

For all my apprehension about moving across the street from where I’ve been living for 13 years, it has all gone very smoothly. And I’m exactly where I am meant to be. Much of what I anticipated did not unfold. There’s more space in my space than I expected. And I’ve never had this much help in my entire life from kind, thoughtful, willing people. When you need to make a major change be flexible, experiment, and expect the best.

===CARA’S CORNER===

Feeling Cared For

I have moved into Evergreen and I’ve never felt so cared for in my life. The first few days were very busy with everyone figuring out their role in my well-being. I will receive Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, access to a medical doctor. And I got my first haircut in 14 months. She took off 5 inches! I’m back to the real me. I’ve had a bath in the Jacuzzi and I will see the doctor here and come under her care. I get to sit beside a window using my computer again, and there is a bird feeder right outside my window. It turns out this is long-term care, not assisted living. But it is the right place for me.  It seemed like there were millions of people to come offer different types of services and all of them are wearing Covid masks so it’s hard to recognize let alone remember them all. They can help you with everything. I am eating better than I ever have, even though I’m the only vegetarian in this entire population, although some of the staff are vegetarian. I get lots of vegetables in a variety that I could not have managed as a single person buying groceries for myself. I get physical therapy. I love their version of a recumbent bike and in three days it’s making a difference. Having both physical and professional help makes a huge difference in how I can take care of myself. 

Patricia, the Life Coach Manager of my wing said her mother lived to be 113. So maybe my 13-year-old cycles of change will hold. Golly gee.

My TV was too old to work here which is on satellite instead of cable so I have been without the news for seven days which is probably a good thing. But I will modify my news watching.  My daughter and her husband are very generously going to buy me a new television with a voice remote.

I voted this week with the help of one of the section managers. That’s one of the things I can do on the physical plane to help to heal the planet.

So here I go on my new adventure.

If you find it’s time for you to receive more help, go exploring and find a place that you can call home for the next phase of your life. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

A new cycle begins. A cycle of change, a cycle of evolution, a cycle of discovery. 

A new cycle begins. A cycle of change, a cycle of evolution, a cycle of discovery. I change my thinking, I change my actions, and I listen to and look for the myriad of nudges and insights the universe gives me. 

A new cycle begins. A cycle of change, a cycle of evolution, a cycle of discovery. I change my thinking, I change my actions, and I listen to and look for the myriad of nudges and insights the universe gives me. I trust the unfolding. All is well in my world. 

– Cara Lumen, October 2022 

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

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

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 The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

We have been living in a patriarchal society for many centuries. No wonder the emerging feminine needs to come on with the strength of a warrior. It has been a world of capitalization, patriarchy and colonization. It is a language the masculine understands. 

It is time to move out of that paradigm. It will be hard for the masculine to accept and challenging for the feminine to define and establish her role. It is about all of us, male and female, releasing the old and creating an inclusive and empowering new world. 

If you are anything other than a prosperous white male, you will feel left out. When I look back at my early formal religious life, I remember that God is perceived as male. That lets me out. When I got divorced, I had no credit rating because all the money was in my husband’s name. I had no employment record even though I ran a big house and raised four children.

It was very freeing when I went off to New York City and followed my own passion and spiritual path. I found my own voice and expressed it with enthusiasm.  

Whatever age we are in, whatever gender we are, this is a time for introspection, releasing, and major change in our belief system, and our expectations of each other, both male and female. 

As we move into this new paradigm, we must open our hearts and change how we perceive our personal role in the unfolding of this new world pattern.  

Our existence is beyond our human expression. Ask yourself, “What is my existence beyond what I see?” Then listen to the feelings and emotions and unspoken concepts that show up. 

We are one energy and when we understand and experience that, there is great power and deep inner peace. We are all one energy – no division, no male, no female, only one. No animal, no land, no ocean, no sky. No separateness. Only one all-encompassing energy.

How do I manifest this shift? By releasing my feelings of separateness, and embracing an awareness of our shared energy, our collective consciousness. Experience yourself as the all-encompassing energy of the universe. 

Everything we do is important. Every thought we think, every act we take, has deep and far-reaching impact because we are all one energy. We must be aware. And we must choose carefully. We have a responsibility as part of this unfolding cycle of oneness to choose for the highest good for all. 

What is possible beyond what we can see right now? What potential is waiting to be recognized and released? In the midst of this chaos, understand that we are one energy and each of us has an impact on the whole. Monitor your beliefs. Aim high. Choose wisely.  Keep your thoughts and actions focused on the greater good for all and travel the higher road with an open heart.

So much is possible that we cannot see. We must trust. We must be observant and aware. And we must respond from the strongest sense of unity and oneness that we can manage.

Release and heal old paradigms of capitalization, patriarchy and colonization. Confront the wounding that has made us see ourselves as separate from Spirit.  Let us work together to create a new world of inclusion, equality and love.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I release my sense of separateness and immerse myself in the universal energy of oneness

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Become more aware of how the belief in the paradigm of capitalization, patriarchy and colonization impacts your thinking, your expectation for yourself and your life.
  • How do you change your beliefs and your spiritual practices to acknowledge and expand your experience that you are an integral part of the all-encompassing web of life? 
  • Share what you discover with those around you and with me…

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Inner Awareness

Find And Honor Your Own Rhythm

It’s hard to find your own rhythm when you are in a relationship or in a job that has specific demands or while raising children who need you. I live alone, I do not work for anyone else, and what I choose to do is totally up to me. I can sleep when I want to, play when I want to, and work when I want to. I just have to tune in to my own rhythm and honor it. I am responsible for my own choices and the outcome they produce.

Do you give yourself space to hear your own nudges? Do you give yourself time to explore what shows up? Do you pay attention to where you are on your own priority list? Your self-care? The exploration of your gifts? Your needs? We are the only ones to truly provide for ourselves and we must continue to be aware of our own intuitive nudges and take time to explore them.

Explore and experiment until you find your own rhythm, then honor it in how you live your life.

Stay In The Present Moment

I’m still spending too much time in the “could be – what if” facet of my life. Now that I have figured out the mechanics of this eventual move, I need to stop thinking about it because I’m only making stuff up about aspects I don’t know yet. 

How much time do you waste thinking about the what-if’s? What is not yet here? What may never happen? We have this beautiful, gorgeous, sacred moment in which to be fully present. 

Whether I sit here and feel my heartbeat or close my eyes and experience the energy around me, those are much better uses of my time than making stuff up about the future that isn’t here yet. How present are you during your day? 

Become aware of those times your mind wanders off and make certain you pull it back into experiencing the sacredness and gift of each moment. Stay present in your life. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Healing Yourself

The Power of Gratitude

I sometimes forget to be grateful for the many blessings I have in my life currently and the many blessings I have received along my path. I want to change that. I’m going to add more moments of gratitude into my spiritual practice, and at the end of my day, and take time to look back over the gifts I received, the doors that opened for me, the new insights that deepened my awareness. I actually have a little song I made up that I sing before sleep: “Day is over, night has come, please watch over me. Renew, restore, replace, refresh, make me a better me.”

Even when something is not working out exactly the way you want it to, look closely at what you can be grateful for. I need to be in gratitude for a safe, caring place to go to in assisted-living even though the space is small and I’m having a hard time adjusting to the idea. And it’s not even time yet. 

Stay in the moment. Look for the small gifts of the day. Thank the universe for them. Gratitude is a very powerful way to deepen your awareness of how you are being supported by the universe.

Heal Yourself

All of our choices have a great impact on our body – our physical body, our emotional body and our spiritual body. Who we spend time with, how we spend time, affects what we experience, what we create for ourselves. Every choice we make affects and impacts some part of our human existence. Self-healing begins with monitoring where you are focusing your attention. And what you believe is possible.

Changing our beliefs around what is possible can be sometimes challenging. According to Western medicine, the dry macular degeneration I have is not curable. I’m not sure what to do with that. 

Maybe I can stand up straight again and maybe I can’t. I’ll never know until I try, until I work at it. It’s like training for a competition. I should be walking the halls more to strengthen my body but it’s a bit challenging, I don’t really like to do it, and I’m not doing it as frequently as I should. But I could practice my Qigong longer because I do like to do that. 

What you decide to do will depend on what you want to accomplish. For instance, I want to keep writing so I’m going to keep exploring how to make that happen. I will get someone to help me with posting this newsletter if I can’t see to do it. I already dictate and work in a very large font. Get creative with the ideas you develop for the problems you perceive. And don’t give up hope.

We’re back to that cornerstone belief that you get what you believe you deserve and what you believe is possible. Check out your belief system and see what you need to change. 

Qigong to Heal All Your Joints

I was actually looking for a video of the Qigong shaking exercise to share with you when I found a lovely video on usingQigong to Heal Your Joints by Steven Washington.  It is easy to do and feels really good. Check it out online and add it to your spiritual practice. 

===OUTER  WORK===

Explore New Potential and Possibilities

Create Your Own Power Circle

Did you ever have an accountability partner? You set some goals and then check in with each other on a regular basis to report how you’re doing. You can create a supportive circle around any objective, any purpose, any task. Your circle can be large or small but the objective is to gather around a topic that everyone wants to explore.

These can take the form of individual conversations or group conversations. They can be structured or organic. You can take turns leading when you get together. You can each offer different lessons and insights. The group helps you expand your understanding of a topic and how to apply it in your life. Do you want or need to form a group around a specific topic? Just do it. It begins with one other person. 

Your Language Shapes Your Life

“I can’t” is one of the biggest saboteurs of a positive life experience. As things get more challenging physically for me, I have to really watch the affirmations I give myself for they are determining my experience and the outcome. 

How are you allowing your body to shut down simply by the affirmation “I can’t” or “It’s hard”? I’m not sure I can go as far as to say “It’s easy” but I can say, “I can do this”.  Even better is “I can do this easily and effortlessly.” I can give myself those affirmations.

Take a close look at your belief system, particularly around your aging process and begin focusing on what you do achieve.  Focus on what you can do and rejoice. Thank your body each day and continue to ask a little more of your physical self.  Your language shapes your life. What are you telling yourself? 

Change Your Learning Style

I’m a visual learner and I’m losing my eyesight. I have to make some adjustments to what I think I can do. I’m a note-taker. Currently I’m writing things down so I will remember what I think I need to remember. But my writing is so bad I can’t read what I have written! 

Audio is a whole new way of learning for me to explore and master. I have to trust I will remember what I need to remember. I still want to write down ideas that I will turn and write about in this newsletter but surely I can make my notes readable when I do choose to write them.

This is nearly 90 years of visual learning that I have to shift. All I know to do is to pick simple things to listen to so I don’t have the urge to take notes. I have to be willing to let go of everything I listen to in case I can’t remember it. This is an experiment. A work in progress. How do you change learning styles? And why do you need to? 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

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

How Thoughtfully Do You Use Time?

I do not use time well. There are huge chunks of time that are spent in mindless activities that do nothing to enhance my life experience. I know we cannot be intensely engaged at all times. My downtime choices are really useless and that’s a waste of time. 

I’m not sure what to do about it. I love to learn but I can’t do that the entire day. That’s too intense. Too demanding. I love writing, but again in moderation. 

There is a huge chunk of time that I am not using well. I use time trying to learn and share or deepen my spiritual experience. And the rest I do not use very well. I seem to move from deep metal stimulation to total numbness in my mind.

How do you use your time? If you have a job, what do you do with the precious moments that are left? If you are home, do you have some projects you enjoy?  Take time to find activities that will make you feel useful and keep you mentally and emotionally and socially engaged. What do you do to bring balance to how you spend time? 

===GUIDANCE FROM OUR COSMIC COUNSELORS ===

Listen Beyond the Voice Within 

Opposing Forces

I seek the Cosmic Counselors because I am distressed over the violent opposing ideology that is emerging in the world. I go to my Sacred Garden and there across the reflecting pool are my three Classic Counselors. They sit in a circle. In the center of the circle, floating in the air, is our planet. They hold their hands facing it as it rotates. They are healing it. 

We are each an inhabitant of this planet. There is one planet and we are responsible for its well-being. If we turn and focus on protecting our planet, we will unite our efforts. If we focus on our own small lives we will self-destruct.

“Choose the overarching good for all” comes the message over the reflecting pond – the over-arching good for all. We are on the same team, working to heal ourselves and our planet. 

Not everyone can shift their gaze away from their own personal issues to focus on the unifying concept of one planet that we must all take care of. There is a growing number of thoughtful humans focusing on the greater good. The majority of the world exists in several levels of survival. Most are focused on their own individual existence. 

“What are we to do?” I ask, because the Cosmic Counselors are still focused on the revolving planet between them. “Do the work” comes to mind.

I understand. The work is to hold High Watch for the planet. It is to energetically support and encourage those who are walking the higher path and working for the highest good for all. My work is energetic. But if I were younger, I might have engaged more on the physical plane.

Are you working for the highest good for our entire planet? We have to think big because it’s a really big planet and it’s in really big trouble. What role has just been identified for you with the Cosmic Counselors? Will you fill it? 

The light begins to glow from the heart of the revolving planet between the three Cosmic Counselors, who are all women by the way, and I understand. I must hold onto the planet in my heart. I am to hold the people on the planet in my heart. Hold all the inhabitants on land and sea and air in my heart. 

The revolving planet between the three Cosmic Counselors begins to light up from within. The emerging light transforms it as a low humming sound emerges.

The healing begins in our hearts. It begins in the experience of the human being living on this planet at this particular time for a particular purpose.  

What is the music of your purpose? What song are you to sing?  How will you know?

I sit on the bench beside my reflecting pool and my carillon, my indigo bell-tower, chimes and send this message to all those who are listening. 

What is your role in preserving our planet and its inhabitants? Get to work.

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

Expand Our Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

What You Focus On You Get

Where are you looking and what is it drawing to you? This is a huge metaphysical principle we need to understand and utilize. We get what we focus on. We get what we expect. Changing our life is as simple as changing our expectations. 

Expect the best. Expect the perfect outcome. Expect it to be easy. Expect it to be perfect. And it will be. 

Notice what you expect and see what you believe you need to shift in order to change what you get. 

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

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations 

The Power of the Collective Conscious

I get overwhelmed sometimes by the sheer number of people on the planet and the variety of approaches and beliefs and insights they bring to the human experience. I feel less than powerful when faced with the huge amount of imbalance in the belief systems in the world today. But we each have tremendous impact, particularly when we choose to consciously focus our attention for the highest good for all. 

Thoughts create our reality. So as we move through our life, as we move through our day, we must monitor our thoughts and our expectations, our impact, and what we think is possible. We must make sure we expect the highest good for all.  We must believe in our own individual power to affect the collective consciousness. In so doing, we join with others who hold the same high vision. Together we have great power. 

Keep the faith. Keep a clear vision and trust the power of keeping ourselves attuned to and immersed in the highest consciousness. 

Collectively we can change the world.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

What If You Lost Everything?

The news is filled with the destruction of hurricanes and stories of people who have lost absolutely everything. Nothing is left. What would you do? How would you feel? 

My very small example is the downsizing that I am moving through as I let things go. Sometimes I have to hold on to something just a little bit longer even though I know I cannot take that particular thing with me. But I’m choosing. And I have time to get used to my options. A hurricane just takes whatever it takes. 

How attached are you to personal possessions? How resilient are you in the face of losing the security of a home or the destruction of your business? We have to know and believe that we can handle whatever we are given. Then we get to become very, very creative in order to walk on the new path that opens up. Just know that you will be capable of handling any challenge that you are given.

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===CARA’S CORNER===

Changing a Habit

I have never been particularly good with money. But I’m going to have to change my ways because this assisted living will take a majority of my Medicare money and give me a small amount. My money will cover my place to live and my food but I will not be able to buy very much. Which is a good thing actually. 

I have begun to monitor my impulses and encourage myself not to buy something that someone who is downsizing a lot really doesn’t need. Buying anything more is a very unwise choice.

Why do we buy things? If you were in the habit of spending a lot of money, you might want to look at the “why” behind that one more closely. 

Do you have a need to change your spending habits and if so what steps will you take?

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Control An Impulse

I will control my impulses by examining what lies behind then.

I will control my impulses by examining what lies behind then. I will find a substitute for what I need among the things I already have.

I will control my impulses by examining what lies behind then. I will find a substitute for what I need among the things I already have.I choose to simplify my needs and desires and find contentment in simplicity. 

– Cara Lumen – October 2022 

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

Namaste,

Cara

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