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Explore The Rewarding Path of Change

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Explore The Rewarding Path of Change

Living Our Deeper Song

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

I’m not exactly in limbo but there is change occurring all around me and I don’t know where it’s leading or what my role is to be. I can’t force it. But I keep looking for ways to help it be revealed to me.

I pulled some tarot cards to get some answers. The first one I drew was “changed and possibilities.”

“Possibilities” is a door opener.  It is a game-changer. What do I need to let go of or do more or change in order to open up new possibilities? Sometimes all we need to do is sit still and contemplate the changes and openings in the new path that show themselves.

We must explore.  We must identify what calls the most to us and walk down that path a bit to see where it might lead. See how it feels. See if it’s a direction we want to go in. We must be willing to change.

We must explore our new interests deeply enough to have a sense of the possibilities it opens up. Their potential. The direction it will lead us. The gifts it will bring. We can’t always identify what opportunities and challenges a new choice will bring so we need to stay alert as we travel the path and keep making changes, keep exploring, keep questioning. We need to know how it feels, what changes would be possible and where they might lead. And with each step, we must reevaluate the new perspective it reveals. Consciously explore each developing new pathway, make your choice, and move forward. We must be persistent in our search, resilient in our exploration, and patient for the path of change to be revealed. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I stay open to change and the new possibilities for me to make a difference. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Keep a lookout for new concepts and choices that open up new possibilities. 
  • Explore those that call to you. 
  • Draw them into your life and go exploring.

===INNER WORK===

Create a Shamanic Ceremony for Guidance

Several things will influence the experience you have creating a ceremony. You will get better with practice over time.

The first is the skill and life experience you bring to the table. 

There are many ways to design a ceremony. It can be short or long it can be elaborate or simple. Explore different forms of ceremony and perhaps identify several that are applicable to different situations you find yourself in. 

My major form of ceremony is a shamanic journey. I journey all the time. My process is very simple. I decide on the purpose of my journey.  It may be guidance, it may be self-healing, usually I have a question and seek clarity. 

Begin your ceremony by centering yourself. I could play my flute or look out at nature. Or close my eyes and focus on my breathing.

In a quiet place, I use my imagination to go to my Sacred Garden and ask for guidance. The images that show up are mine to interpret. They are my spiritual guides speaking directly to me. The first three times I journeyed I saw nothing but a campfire and only sensed others around it. Be patient with yourself as you learn to journey. And don’t be surprised with the form it takes.  Trust what shows up.

The second contributor to your ceremony/ritual is your relationship with the unseen world and the guides that show up which deepens over time. 

I have a resistance to angels and when one started to appear in my journeys, it was only her feet and the tips of her wings that I could see.  It took awhile for me to let her in but now the Angel With The Golden Wings is often present to guide me on my journeys.

Trust the images that appear and trust how you choose to interpret them. All of these images are metaphors for only you to interpret. If you are not clear, ask them for clarity.

What you do with the guidance you receive is also an important influencer on the effectiveness of the rituals and journeys that you take. Do the work. Explore the suggestions. Let your guides help you unravel the question you’ve asked. 

Be willing to believe what you see. Be willing to listen to talking rocks and fly on the backs of big birds and communicate with dolphins. Listen and interpret whatever images and thoughts and ideas show up and trust your interpretation. Keep practicing and you’ll get better at it. This is one of the ways that the inner world speaks to you.

Always give gratitude for all the guidance and awareness that you’ve been given. Your guides are there to be helpful.  Thank them for their insights and wisdom.

Keep a journal. Take notes right after you have your journey or ceremony. And be aware of any changes and ideas that show up in the days and weeks that follow. Record those too. It helps to clarify the overview.

Our shamanic work comes with the obligation to honor the power and spiritual magic and not take it lightly.

Know that you are safe. 

Have a clear intention.

Treat the experience with great respect. 

Add a shamanic journey as one of the forms of ceremony in your spiritual life and gather to you the insights of the inner world.

You are responsible for your own experience.  Keep exploring. 

===SELF-HEALING===

Trust the Stillness

How much time do you spend in silent stillness? There is no better place to heal and regroup than in the silence of our inner world. I don’t mean sleep, I mean meditative stillness.  A time when you go within and create space for your inner wisdom, your inner guidance, to make itself known.  

The form that guidance takes may vary.  Allow it time to evolve.  

I was to lead a segment in a Zoom call.  I had an idea.  As the days progressed, I got ideas for different versions the experience could take.  I explored them as they came up, taking them a step deeper or in a slightly different direction.  I trusted my inner voice to take me in the right direction.  I gave the concept space to evolve and trusted the process. 

Set an intention and then sit with it.  Notice what comes up without judgment.  You will know when to choose and what to choose.  Let the stillness nurture and clarify. 

(It turned out to be a powerful experience for all of us on the call…)

===OUTER  WORK===

What Makes Life Meaningful?

The facets of your life that are meaningful in the moment change over the years as your life changes, as your focus changes, and your expectations change. What is meaningful for you right now? My mind is meaningful. Without it for me there’s nothing because it’s entertaining, it’s informative, it’s creative, it helps me reach out to others. 

Do you have a gift that you particularly enjoy or find meaning in sharing? Do you need to do more of it? Do you need to find a broader audience to share it with? How are you using your gifts? Who are you sharing them with? And how can you widen your reach? 

What Do You Want?

What do you want? What are your priorities? Is it your health? Your relationships? Your work? Your future? Choose one and begin to do some active work on it – both inner and outer. That means visualization. How could it unfold? What does that look like and feel like?  How will the choices you are considering affect others? The world? Your own life? Take a few steps.  See how it feels and where it is leading you.

Perhaps you need to work on not just what you want, but what you need right now in your life. That could help you sort out your priorities. Do you need friendship? Do you need money? Do you need better health? What is your main need right now and what are you doing to make it happen? 

On the physical plane, I want my body to feel better. On the spiritual plane, I want the world to feel better. I can work on both of those. But I need to know that I need them both and I want them both, so I can choose the right steps to take and the right beliefs to hold to help it come into being.

Make a list of a few things that you want and then prioritize them. Pick the first one and design three steps to move you forward in your awareness of its potential and impact. Your future is yours to design. It is yours to create. It is yours to cultivate. Choose in alignment with the highest good of all. And get to work.

Ideas and Discipline

I get tons of ideas. They crowd my head. They crowd my day, they crowd my work. I love them. But I continue to develop criteria by which to choose and measure the usefulness of an idea. 

Not all ideas are yours to do. They may be an idea to give to someone else. They may be an idea to be done at a later time. Don’t let yourself get so crowded with ideas that you don’t act on any of them. Learn to be selective and choose the ideas that take you the furthest in the direction you want to go next.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Above and Below

More and more healing practices that I come across begin by connecting deeply with Gaia and bringing up her powers, then turning and connecting with the cosmos, your Soul Star, Source. We bring both of those energies into our humanness and use them to release, restore, repair, and rebuild. I sometimes feel those energies coming from above and below turning into a counter-clockwise spiral, releasing, repairing, and replacing all throughout the column of my body. Use your imagination and take time to bring the energy from below and from above where you do your self-healing work.

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

Work With Another Light Being

When my daughter retires in a few years she wants to move into animal healing using energy techniques like Reiki. I’ve connected her with a friend of mine who is a very gifted animal healer. She will have an example and a mentor and a guide as she moves into her new field.

I have a small group of women that I interact with regularly and each time I do, I find insights and meaning and often new steps to take to enrich my own life. Do you have that kind of circle of friends? Start with one person. Find a friend that is on a similar track and arrange to talk on a regular basis, to encourage each other, and to share what you have learned.

I have a primary longtime friend that I was paired with when we were in one of Sandra Ingerman’s shamanism classes and we have continued to talk weekly for five years or so. We have grown alongside each other. We have supported each other in that growth. We know each other’s patterns so we can be supportive.

You will have different friends for different facets of your life. Encourage that. Explore that. Expand on that. In my case, I’ve introduced those friends to each other. They have developed their own relationships.

As you grow, your friends will change. Allow that to happen. And seek new friends that will help you move higher on the new path that you’ve chosen.

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

Adventure and Potential

How do we know our potential if we don’t go adventuring? If we don’t try new things? Or explore new venues? How much exploration are you doing currently? Do you go a little way down the path you’re on to check out what else is there? Are you turning and exploring a whole new path? Will it take you on an adventure that will lead you places you cannot imagine? Be aware that you must continue to explore. You must adventure down unexplored paths and look around and see what calls to you.  When you go exploring you will find a new adventure and your greater potential!

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Choice

There sure are a lot of us on this planet making a lot of different decisions, going in a lot of different directions, not at all in harmony with each other. It’s kind of a mess. I suppose it’s a growth stage. Each person trying to expand and find their role. Some are more aware of the consciousness of the earth and some have more compassion and empathy than others. It’s an eclectic collection of people all here on the same planet and we are not working in harmony. 

We must consciously define and follow our own path, our own heart. We must constantly strive to take the higher path – the path of inclusion. Not everybody’s going to be on that path. But we must continue our journey on the highest road we can find and keep making conscious choices for the highest good of the most people.

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

Expanding Awareness

Journey to a Chamber of the Seven Sacred Rays

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===CARA’S CORNER===

Building My Web of Life

As I look around to see how my “next” will unfold, the lesson of the spider calls to me. She weaves her world from within herself and builds on what she finds around her.  She also can’t see so she works only from vibration.  Hummmm. I want to create like a spider.

I am probably forcing my search for what I am to do next. In fact, I’m pretty sure I am. So if I take a lesson from the spider, what do I do? 

I am patient. I pay attention to what is inside of me. My thoughts, my urges, my insights. And I wait patiently to discover where I might apply those ideas. It’s the patient part I’m not too good at. But there is a serenity and surety and resilience about building on what you find around you and building from within you. I will keep practicing.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Nudge

One idea.  One nudge.  I explore.

One idea.  One nudge.  I explore. I experiment, I imagine. I vision.

One idea.  One nudge.  I explore. I experiment, I imagine. I vision. My new path opens up, my new calling unfolds, and I move into a new adventure!

Cara Lumen, February 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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Clear Space for a New Cycle

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Clear Space for a New Cycle

Living Our Deeper Song

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

The Winter Solstice is December 21 and a new calendar year begins soon.  What a perfect time to rethink, regroup and reorganize.

Rethink

Take a long look at what you have gathered to you in your life.  What is still relevant?  What have you outgrown?  What do you want to add? What do you want to accomplish? Pause to make a list.  Give this some thought. You are designing your “next.”

Regroup

There’s nothing like a cleared space to create room to rethink everything. What is now currently important in your life? What do you need to have near you in order to make that happen? Begin to prioritize based on what you know now and what you want to create next. This means you will leave some things behind. It means you may need new tools in order to create this new next or expand on what you are already building. What do you want to create? What do you need to make happen? Where will you get it?

Clear out things you take for granted, or have outgrown, or are simply a habit you have fallen into that no longer serves you. Make room for change.

Reorganize

One of the things about reorganizing is that when you reposition things, you make them more accessible, to give them more time, more energy, more space, and  more predominance in your thinking. What do you want to accomplish in the next year, in the next quarter? Choose just a few things that you can focus on and list some steps you can  actually accomplish. Then begin to structure a plan. Learn the new skills you need. Reorganize your schedule to make room for growth. This is a time of creation. Make room for what you love to do. Let your imagination flow as you design your “next.“

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I celebrate the beginning of a new cycle by rethinking and rechoosing – everything. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Perhaps divide your reorganization into segments like personal and career and relationships. Some areas may need more attention than others. 
  • Set a mission statement for each area.  I want my professional life to… I want my relationships to… I want my health to…
  • Let go, rethink, rechoose, reorganize and prepare to move forward.

===INNER WORK===

Nudge Notes

As a new idea starts to come in I get it in small snippets.  I call them nudges and I started a Nudge document on my computer to capture then, where I can quickly record and expand on my nudges and help them come into being. 

Having a place to write down the one or two word nudges that your intuition gives you may be an interesting way to help your ideas develop and expand. 

Contemplation Brings Wisdom

As I contemplate what the unfolding of the Divine Feminine could look like I am questioning all my beliefs and especially my expectations of what is possible.  Most of these ideas are not mine to live out because of my age, but it is precisely because of my age that I can see the overarching patterns and how they might change. 

When faced with a decision or a need to understand more, contemplate and explore.  Contemplate the possibilities.  Explore the alternatives.  Use  your imagination to create new combinations.  Take one piece and expand it.  Take one piece and remove it and see how the whole is affected. All of these possibilities can be explored in your mind when you simply take time to contemplate the alternatives, visualize the possibilities and let  your expectations soar!

When We Don’t Know That We Don’t know

My friend Christina and I often journey together on our Zoom calls.  On 12/12 she said it was the day of the black madonna, the Virgin of Guadalupe.  I had never given that much thought. She suggested we journey to her. We each took our own journey and at the end of mine I was in my Sacred Garden and looked in the Reflecting Pool and there was the Circle of Light Beings in all manner of ethnic expressions.  It was only then that I realized that I had been thinking of the Circle of Light Beings as more “me’s” not a wonderful variety of “we’s”.  It was a huge realization.  How is your imagination limiting you and can you change it? Where are you unconscious about the narrowness of your vision?

===SELF-HEALING===

Trust

As I proceed to work with the biofields in order to heal and balance my body, I get to trust the choices I make and the nudges I receive.  I get to trust my deep knowing that healing does take place in the energetic fields. Are you listening to your inner voice and hearing its nudges?

We Get What We Expect

Our thoughts create our reality and our possibilities. 

Our thoughts create our experience. How do we  alter both our thoughts and the result?

What do I expect?  If my experience in getting out of a chair is pain, guess what I’ll get.  If I consciously start acknowledging the times I get up that there is no pain then that reinforces that belief. You see where I’m going with this -our mind and beliefs and our expectations create our reality. What we expect we deserve we get. What we expect is possible we get. We have a great deal of control and determination over the flow of our thoughts and the outcomes they produce.

Positive thoughts. A belief that it can happen. No, I’m not going to stand here and imagine myself running down the driveway but I will stand here and envision myself walking tall and straight and effortlessly down the hall even with a walker. That’s progress. That’s a shift in my belief in what is possible. That is a shift in my focus toward the positive rather than on the negative. Our thoughts create our reality. What are you creating for yourself?

===OUTER  WORK===

Are You Stuck Or Are You Purposefully Planted?

There is a difference between being joyfully planted in a nurturing environment that encourages growth and experimentation and being stuck in a non-nourishing environment. Are you stuck or are you planted?

It takes courage to change.  It takes courage to let go and move on, and yet all life is a cycle and that means we must regularly make new choices.  

I can feel cycles ebbing and flowing in my life.  When a new cycle is coming in I know it is coming but that’s all I know.  Then one day there it is – clearly defined.  This exploring of the Divine Feminine was like that.  It burst upon me and demanded my attention and my exploration. It is an idea that deeply excites me and I am eager to explore.  It holds many answers for our “next.”

Pulling up roots can be big or small. I have moved across the US four times and those were really big changes. I have changed my current environment by establishing more online friends than in–person friends so even though I don’t physically go many places, I have a rich world of emotional and intellectual exchange with like-minded people in many parts of the world.

Even if you feel you are planted, check to see if there are some weeds crowding you that need to be removed so you have room to grow wider and taller and deeper.  Bloom where you are planted and have a good time doing it.

What Motivates You?

Motivation is a driving force. What motivates you to do what you do?  My need to explore what my mind offers is so huge that I get up out of bed to go write what is coming in.  And yet I am not doing as much physical work on my body as I could and should and want to.  How do I change my motivation?  I want it to be enticing and encouraging, not scary and full of dire results.  If I don’t do it thus and so will happen.  The motivational change will come from within. I have to want to do it.  I have to feel it is important.  And I probably need to feel satisfied after doing it.  

How do you motivate yourself and what do you need to motivate yourself to do more of?

Simplify Your Schedule – Work in Clumps

Having three things on your To-Do List feels a lot better than having 20.  What if you thought of your work in clumps?  You would have a clump for Self-Care, a clump for Relationships, a clump for Working your Passion.  It would make you feel like you had accomplished more. You can work in time clumps – 90 minutes, 2 hours, a half-hour on one focus.  But then shift to another major focus so each gets some action.  

The first parcel of time after I am dressed for the day is spiritual – meditation, playing my flutes, a little Qigong. It also includes dawning a SpiritSong Tarot card to help me think about my choices and my progress and my potential. 

Then I open my email and tend to wherever that takes me.  

My second time slot is always creative – my favorite time and action.   Since my work is creative it often looks like I am moving projects forward because I am. 

When you focus on the purpose of each period of time it becomes richer and deeper.  Eating is mindful, study is enriching, connecting with others is invigorating. 

Whatever you are doing, immerse yourself in it, give it your full attention, and then pause to acknowledge what you have accomplished. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

All Change Begins Within You

Our old way of life is simply gone.  It does not exist anymore. What we create next is up to us.  It is within our imagination, our expectations, our beliefs in what can happen and the choices we make. What are you dreaming into being?

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

Who We Are

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but rather spiritual beings having a human experience.”—Pierre Teilhard de Charin.

How do we learn to consciously come from our spiritual essence in everything we do? 

===THE UNFOLDING DIVINE FEMININE===

Revolving Friends

Do you have any friends you have had all your life? Probably not. I can think of people who nurtured me during different periods of my life. No one person has walked the entire path with me but there were always gifts of insight and awareness involved in our time together. 

That is the point of life – to go on our specific adventure, walk beside different people on the path who deepen our experience and our expectations. As we move through our journey of life we cultivate change within ourselves – in our beliefs and our expectations of what is possible for us. And thus draw to us new people who are walking that part of the path too.  

As a woman who was married twice and lived the majority of her life alone, I’m a fan of the walk-the-path-alone adventure.  It allows me to stop and fill myself up or move past something that does not resonate.  I chart a path that is mine alone and I do it without accommodating the needs of another. 

We all walk the path on our own, at our own tempo in our own direction.  Allow yourself to be open to new friends and exchange gifts with them that enrich you both.  And let go when your paths need to separate.  There is another adventurer up ahead waiting to walk beside you in encouragement and support and new insights.  Do not be afraid to walk the path alone. 

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Planning for a Future We Cannot Imagine

My daughter and her husband help me with physical things that I need as I grow older. You may not have children. I have Social Security and subsidized housing which makes it possible for me to live comfortably and safely and affordably. Will that be in place for you when the time comes? 

What do you teach your children about the plans for their lives when you have no idea how the future is going to unfold and what dramatic changes it is already bringing to it? 

Flexibility in our willingness to change is the cornerstone for a successful life. Do not go down a paved road that may lead nowhere. Walk an eclectic  path of winding opportunity and go exploring to find what resonates with you.

===INTENTION BLESSING===

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

May we expand our hearts and our expectations.

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

May we keep our gaze on the summit.

May we take this journey with a full heart. 

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

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

Spiritual Practice

The Gaia Gateway and Your Soul Star

Self Healing

The Space of Inner Knowing

Expanding Awareness

Do You Hold the Beat or Play the Melody?

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

==DEEPER SONG BOOK SHELF===

Cornerstone Books

It depends on what you want to learn but there are books to take you adventuring everywhere. Here are a few of my cornerstone books.

The Prophet , Kahlil Gibran.  There is such life wisdom here.  On the last page, in the last paragraph, I found the phrase “I will return and you will sing to me a deeper song.”  I caught my breath.  I wanted to sing a deeper song.  And so I am.

Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman BarksI love Rumi. Deep wisdom and insights I need to expand into my life. 

The Complete Works of Lao Tzu: Tao Teh Ching & Hau Hu Ching by Hua Ching Ni Another cornerstone book for me is Lao-Tzu. It holds the core concepts of Taoism and that path resonates with me.  

==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Winter Solstice is December 21 – Create an Experimental Garden

Winter Solstice is the day I honor in December.  It is a time of deep contemplation and realignment. It is also the beginning of a new year. I’m suggesting that we create an experimental garden of crops we may want to plant in the coming year. Fill it with ideas you want to explore, new directions you want to expand, and qualities you want to develop. And of course you want a compost pile in which to put beliefs and expectations that no longer serve.  

Take pencil to paper and  draw your Experimental Garden to help you see what choices you have made, choices you want to make.  How much of each you want to plant. What’s working, what’s not. Drawing up our “Garden of Next” is as simple as labels for rows, labels for varieties of the same idea and wiggly lines for the rows. More rows of one thing, less of another. As you think about this you may keep making new versions.  It’s a drawing, draw away. Capture your ideas visually.

You may have crops for income, health, personal growth, creativity, exploration – whatever you want to experiment with and develop in the coming year. This is an easy way to explore and clarify your feelings and expectations. 

Give some thought to what you would like to explore next, even just enough to see if it supports the direction you want to go and especially if it will change the direction you think you are headed. What do you want to bring into your life and how much of it do you want? Let us each design an Experimental Garden to guide our “next” and draw it into being. 

===CARA’S CORNER===

Get a Handle On Your Beliefs and Expectations

As I work on creating my Experimental Garden for 2022 I get to examine both my beliefs and my expectations.

The problem is that possibilities are changing very rapidly. Ideas are shape-shifting as rapidly as I can think them up. I need to glide into this – be more like a shape-shifting cloud, constantly changing but with the larger form emerging slowly.

A small change can make a huge difference.  As my body moves through its changes, it makes small shifts that affect the overall structure.  Standing a little straighter realigns the whole body.  Do not underestimate what a small shift will make in your beliefs, your choices, and your opportunities.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

What We Notice

It was a small change, I barely noticed. Like a bud peeking out of a plant.  

It was a small change, I barely noticed. Like a bud peeking out of a plant.  But it grew. It expanded my possibilities.  It extended my expectations. 

It was a small change, I barely noticed. Like a bud peeking out of a plant. But it grew. It expanded my possibilities.  It extended my expectations. And a whole new world opened up. 

– Cara Lumen December 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help adventurers who are ready to explore the new possibilities in the 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 expectation.

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

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

Our Global Deeper Song Community

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

What You Can Imagine You Can Create

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What You Can Imagine You Can Create

Living Your Deeper Song

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

As I try to find my role and my path in this world that is changing so rapidly one of the answers that I am drawn to is found in the book “The Quest of Rose: The Cosmic Keys of Our Future Becoming (Future Humans Trilogy) Book 1 by Anneloes Smithsman and Jean Houson.

Now I have not finished it by any means but I am already blown away by this concept: 

One of the core ideas is that when we understand that was ARE Cosmic Consciousness a whole new world of possibilities opens up – instantaneously.  We immediately drop our human limitations and go soaring into the expansive realms of possibility.

How do we do that?  Is creating a new future as easy as moving into our imaginal powers and making stuff up? And if so, what do I want to make up?

For me, the vast diversity in humanity is daunting.  Each individual has a different need, a different take on how to do something, a different belief system.  It makes sense to use our imaginal powers to manifest the life we live and the world we live in.  If we can imagine it, it can exist.  

I get to shift my focus.  Insisted of noticing what is not working, I get to look for and focus on what is working.  

Now, I observe and am excited by the oppoturnities that keep opening up.  When are aware, when we make choices for the highest good, we have a way to save the planet, to live in peace.  But we have to make those our highest priority.  W cannot put our own needs first.  We must find within us the qualities and form of expression that radiant out the most wholeness, the most tranquility, and we get to reside there.  Others feel that and notice those same serene qualities in their lives and begin to cultivate them more. And the world grows calmer as more and more of us center and focus and calm our oath thoughts, beliefs, and expectations. 

But we have to look for those quitter expectations, we have to want to live in deer serenity.  We have to want to peacefully coexist.  When we recognize what we want, we can take steps to move ourselves toward it. 

If you shut your eyes and picture yourself in a serene place in nature, your whole body responds – your breath calms,  your shoulders relax, your heart rate slows.  All because you shifted your focus onto an image of serene existence.  

We get to do that more often – shift our inner gaze.  Look for those tranquil rhythms within and reside in therm.  

Begin with an open mind.  Monitor your thoughts and particularly monitor your expectations.  Develop a sprite practice that involves slow breaths,  going within, and floating off into your imagination where you look for and find and exist in tranquility – with others and alone. Once you experience it you can begin to bring it into your human expression – let a conscious breath center you, take a long gaze out the window at nature, and tune into that slower tempo.  All of these steps change your rhythm and your expectations.

Use your imagination to explore the way you would like the world to be.  Then stand bak and watch it manifest.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I focus my attention on a positive expectation for our planet and my life expression. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Begin by centering yourself  with long slow  breaths.
  • Go to your Still Pint and allow yourself to merge with cosmic awareness.
  • Go where your guides take you. 

Our Global Deeper Song Community

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

===INNER WORK===

The Power of Encouragement

You don’t know encouragement has been missing in your life until you get it. I have been receiving physical therapy for several weeks now and I realize how powerful the encouragement that I received from my physical therapist is in motivating me to do the work. She doesn’t ask me to do too much. She does encourage me to keep doing what she has taught me. And it is making a huge difference in my willingness to do the exercises that she has assigned me.

So how do I give that to myself? How do I encourage myself? 

First of all, notice where you’re lagging behind and where you need encouragement. Then create your own little cheerleading section – yeah you did this – yeah you did that. Acknowledge the steps you do take and also identify what feels like a stumbling block, and take time to look for a way to walk around it or climb over it or find another path. We are on a continuous journey. Some parts of the path are easier than others. We have to find a way to encourage ourselves to keep going.

Singing while you do a task might help. Putting on music in order to exercise might help. Having a specific purpose like getting the mail that makes you walk down the hall might help. How do you encourage yourself? Who is encouraging you? And who are you encouraging to move forward in their life?

Change Your Narrative, Change Your Life 

Our words have power. They manifest what we say what we see and what we experience. When we change our narrative we change our lives. So as I wrestle with my body I see that I have just made a terrible choice of words. I’m not wrestling with my body I need to think in terms of encouraging it and caring for it. See how much damage my own words almost did? So instead of looking for what is not working, I get to look at what is working. I’m going to have to change my focus a lot. I may even have to go beyond listening to anything human and go to a centered spot by being in  nature. Become more aware of simple cycles – he beginning and middle and end of the ongoing and ever-present cycles. 

What are you telling yourself? What affirmations are you giving yourself? What hurts? What is adjusting? What is working smoothly? Do I focus on what a long way it feels to walk down the hall or do I focus on how good that step was and how good it feels to strengthen my body? What is the narrative you are giving yourself?  Pay attention,  Negative affirmations can be very sneaky. Monitor your thought and speak only in positive terms.

Change your narrative, change your life.  I am safe. I am cared for, the Universe loves me.  Communicate  unity, belonging, and wholeness. 

===OUTER  WORRK===

How Do You Handle Discouragement?

It seems like it’s too much to do. It seems like you don’t have enough skills, energy, talent, time to make it happen. And you sit there in discouragement. What do you do? How do you move yourself out of those moments of down-heartedness? Like feeling that you can’t make it happen? Feeling like you don’t have the skills? Feeling like you’re trying to making this happen all by yourself? Those are discouraging thoughts and feelings. And they happen to all of us. What do you do when you get discouraged?

As I write that I remember Snow White’s seven dwarfs and their song “Whistle While You Work.” I think that may be the answer – to simply be in the moment and do the best you can. Be grateful that you the opportunity was sent to you. And then acknowledge what you’ve accomplished. Not what is still left to do – but what you have already done. Perhaps with your new viewpoint, you divide the steps up into smaller pieces so they don’t feel so daunting. You may have to have some help. You may need to learn some new skills. What preparation steps do you need to take to make yourself more capable of doing this job you set for yourself? Do that. 

Take smaller steps and let the path unfold before you. 

The Length of your Reach

Michelle, my physical therapist, gives me pieces of paper with the exercises drawn on them.  There are three on a page and are not arranged in the order I am given to do them.  I told her I would like to see these exercises on individual cards on a key ring that I could add to and easily use.  I would put them in batches of chair exercise and bed exercises and…  She liked the idea, told her supervisors and they are going to look into doing it.  

Now, here’s the lesson.  I had a need.  I shared an idea.  The idea resonated.  It will get implemented and it will affect physical therapy patients from this office for years to come.  Who knows, it may spread even more.  

All because I had a need and I share a solution. 

What solutions are you sharing and how far-reaching will they go?

Establish a Daily Self-Scanning Practice

When we scan and soothe our energy field our body responds.  You can do this sitting or lying down. Place yourself in silliness and with your focused awarenss move slowly through your body.   Moving in and through the muscles and veins and experiencing light energy moving into every corner and crevice to cleanse and rebalance and restore.  Notice the places the energy is low and breadth energy into it.  Notice the place where energy is stuck or highly concentrated and breathe out while releasing all that stuck-ness. Take deep, slow breaths that fill your body and re-balance it.  Take another breath that moves along your aura and soothe that and balance it. Your aura extends many feet from your body.  Soothe the energy to the edges.   

Be present within and feel yourself radiate out tranquility as your body regains its balance on all levels.  Breathe balance into your body and notice what changes. Breathe centered stillness into your body as  you make conscious choices through your day. 

Try Something Different

Brian Clark thinks It’s Time for a New Adventure. The phrase that caught my eye was “try something different.”  He’s going to South America to the Rain Forest.  What do I, here in my space, in my circumstances, at my age and abilities try out?  What kind of adventure can I create for myself?  

The first thing that comes to mind is – my mind.  I am deep into the latest Jean Houston Book and have another book waiting to take me on a great adventure.  So my mind seems to be a major path to adventure.  

Try something new.  I have been invited to  attend an advanced shamanic ceremony/graduation of a close friend on Zoom. I have meaningful friends I connect with regularly who inspire me with their creative activity.  Where can I go adventuring?  What can I try that’s new?

I have a Qigong class I want to finish.  I want to do some sketching of elements from my journeys.  I am writing some very fascinating podcasts. My mind seems to be my doorway to adventure.  Wonder where it will take me…

Keep looking for change. Keep exploring new pathways. What adventure will you go on next? Where will you go?  Try something different and see what shifts for you. 

Create Change by Changing the Size of the Problem

This was a huge realization for me – to change the size of the problem rather than expand on the size of the solution. It’s fairly simple. Now that I use a walker it is tricky for me to take out my trash which I put in my good-size four-wheel laundry cart and push while walking with a cane. So the problem is a large bag of trash and me on a walker. Not a good match. How do I push-pull any thing and still use the walker? My first thought was to change the frequency I took trash out as in relying on my homemaker every other week and perhaps enlisting my son-in-law the opposite weeks for once a week trash run. But I really would like to do it more often than that and I was at standstill until I got the idea that I can use my walker if I take smaller loads. I changed the problem! I made the problem smaller and found a solution that fit!

That means more frequent trips which are good for my walking but it eliminates the problem of enlisting others to solve my problem.

What problem are you facing that feels too big that if you did it in smaller chunks or more frequently it would change the execution and the result? Create change by changing the size of the problem.

Adjust Your Foundation

When I sat at my desk chair it isn’t long before my hips hurt and I had to stand up.  It is a bit tricky to keep working while standing up, looking through bifocals at a tall 21-inch monitor, and having the keyboard still down at a sitting position.  

I have a solar keyboard so I figured out how to raise that but it suddenly dawned on me to change my foundation – change the size and shape of the pillows I was sitting on.  (I sit on lots of pillows to get the height I need to get out of the chair.)  It is working.  My hips are less cranky. So the lesson is that if the structure is having a problem, begin by changing the foundation. What foundation needs changing in your life?  You’d be surprised what a difference a small adjustment will make.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Combinations for Your Spiritual Practice

I was listening to an introduction to a class on herbalism and David Crow said the ancient formulas put herbs together so they enhance each other’s powers.  

I wondered how I might apply that idea to my spiritual practice. 

For instance, I know that playing a drumming track while I play my flute expands my playing. There is a freeing element to it. It creates more space in the music because of the give and take. I know that singing the songs I made up while drumming deepen my awareness of my connection to nature.  I also know I want silence as I meditate and that wrapping a warm shawl around my shoulders enhances and deepens my experience.   There are a few Qigong breathing exercises I know that change the tension I feel at various points in my day.  I am listening to more and more classical music rather than news or stories.  Those small choices  change my experience of my day.  

I know if I hum to myself as I use my walker to walk correctly down the hall it lifts my spirits and my body and turns it into an adventure rather than a task. If I could walk better I might dance down the hall!

I use my breath to use The Intentional OM Humto parts of my body.  I also use the Intentional Hum to balance circumstances.  

Give some focused thought to the rhythm of your day, what energy shift you need and when and how you will manifest that. 

What elements can you put together in your day that will strengthen an experience?

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST ==

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Spiritual Practice

Create a Releasing Ceremony For Yourself

The Two Vital Sides of Your Spiritual Practice

Self Healing

The Backpack Journey

Journey to a Chamber of the Seven Sacred Rays

Expanding Awareness

Listen For Your Future

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

===DISICOVERIES ===

Here’s a very powerful description of the shamanic practice of dismemberment of thought forms by Sandra Ingerman Transmutation News – November 2021   

===MY DEEPER SONG  ADVENTURES ===

Restorative Sleep

My cat, Sebastian, commandeers my magnetic Kenko Naturest® Custom Pillow the minute I abandon it. Instead of sleeping hidden in the closet he now luxuriates against my magnetic pillow. He knows it is healing.  We are both super silky – his coat, my skin and hair and I think it’s from sleeping under the magnetic KenkoTherm Cocoon.  I have also been sleeping all night with my Kenko Power Sleep Mask.  It may help with my dry macular degeneration.   Oh yes, I’ve been drinking from the PiMag Waterfall® for 20 years. Don’t you love it when you find a healing format that works for you! 

===OUR EVOLVING FUURE===

The Job Of Future Generations

It was my grandson’s birthday recently and one of the things I am aware of is that his generation has their work cut out for them. They have to change their beliefs. They have to explore and learn to apply new technology. They have climate change to halt. This is a time of huge deep consequential change. And his generation and those around him are in charge of making it happen for themselves and for their children.

When we explore change, we have to let go of the familiar and truly go exploring to discover what is now possible. I subscribe to Good News Network and every day there is reporting of a new way to do something or the discovery of an animal that was thought to be extinct or a way to support an idea that had not existed before. It keeps us aware of the positive evolution that is so prevalent today when we look for it.

If you are raising children make certain you teach them flexibility and questioning and the love of change, the adventure of changing, the need to change. We are always outgrowing where we are. Most of what we know is outdated, no longer useful, so what do we teach our children? Concern for the highest good for all,  the inclusion of and respect for nature. What are you teaching those around you and what are you learning for yourself?

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Our Choice 

It wasn’t exactly a dream, but I woke up with a scenario moving through my mind of the angry people that I know of in the US. And where that might lead us. Certainly a divided word – one world of thoughtful, caring, inclusive, people and another of  angry, bitter, defensive, mean-spirited people – that’s a very large division. Of course, there are gradations. But we have a choice.

I was upset a few years ago when a major shamanic teacher said that there was a new path being formed to a higher level of being and even though many of us would use that higher road not everyone would and that we had to be OK with it. And I felt sad that people would be left behind. But now I see people are actively making choices. Sometimes it is an angry choice. For me, it seems to be a misguided choice. An unrealistic choice, the choice based on misinformation. But I pick up my walking stick and continue on my upward sloping path. Always seeking higher ground. Always trying to help those who travel with me along the path. I can only travel one pair. Everyone makes their own choice and crates their own future.  Mine is the high road. 

===CARA’S CORNER===

I have never shared a complete journey before but this was very powerful.  I now dictate as I journey so I get great detail. 

COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS  JOYRNEY

I go to my Still Point in the center of m being and allow myself to step within it.  I dissolve, merge with, become a part of this large sphere of Cosmic Consciousness. I am floating.  And when I move my arms I fly  a little bit.  When I turn my head, I go that direction. I am flying in Cosmic Consciousness. 

There is a stillness here. But there is also a humming vibration. The vibration of aliveness. The vibration of action. I am alert. And I am tingling all over. How am I to use this awareness of the cosmic consciousness in the planetary world now? I hear a whistle. A male walker is coming down the pathway whistling his tune. “You go adventuring,” he says. “You go exploring. You want to set a really high intention,” he says. What am I to help unfold? What awareness am I to share? What am I to explore and experience and bring back to share? “This is a whole new adventure, this move into cosmic consciousness. Let go of your human concepts of things like the web of life, let us give you the experiences to formulate new ways of being – new ways of communicating. New understanding of steps that can be taken. New choices.” I go deeper. I take a breath and feel my body begin to not so much dissolve as merge with the energy around it. I become a floating light of sorts. Or at least a floating glow. And I realize that my awareness has changed. I am no longer looking from my humanness. I am looking from my wholeness. An imbalance over there gets a cuddle, gets to be held and hugged and sheltered. I do the same with an eruption over there. I move in with focused intention and surround the irruption with serenity. Until it calms down.

There is a hum in my heart. A lullaby of sorts – the song of wholeness. A song of resolution. A song of assurance that all is well – all will be well.

I don’t know how, but my human body has become space. I feel it merge with and become part of the greater consciousness, the cosmic consciousness. There is an underlying hum of cosmic energy and yet there is this pinpoint of awareness of my current presence on earth. How will you work with us? I ask. The guide smiles, he tips his hat, turns and walks up the road whistling. He pulls out his flute and plays as he walks. H is the Pied Piper. Nature follows him, people follow him, he is simply being himself and it attracts others. How do I change myself to be that piper? How do I clear myself of my own misgivings in order to hold a belief in wholeness and happiness and infinite well-being? I know that it is possible because the adventurer has gone before me. I know that I am called to go adventuring because I am already on the path. Right now my message is to keep whistling and keep walking and others will hear you and find you and see you and follow you and gradually strengthen their own form of awareness and being present and understand their role of being in the universe. It is unfolding. 

The guide was an example of what I am to be – hat is unfolding for me. “Explore more uses for imagination and your intuition and your inner knowing to interpret and share these universal messages how we as humans are to move into this new unfolding evolution.” 

My journey experience with Stone Woman comes to mind. She lives in a cave behind the waterfall in my Sacred Garden. And one day when I went to meet her she was sitting behind a desk with her arms crossed and her hands on her shoulders. She didn’t move. Didn’t say anything. But I knew it was a greeting. In a later journey, I understood it meant “my heart crosses the earth to your heart and we build a bridge” I invite you to help me build the bridge. To become a path opener. A way-shower. And explorer. Step into the void and ask what you need to know now. Then listen. You will be shown what to do.

The Indigo Library is there with the words of wisdom. Sampson Eagle is there show me the overview. The blue bell tower is there, carrying my words of wisdom into the countryside, my Individual Harp is there, and the Circle Light Beings. I’ve already been given much help much guidance. The word “self-healing” shows up. Balance the energy field. I sit and feel the energy beginning to spiral clockwise and I get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and I move into the space in the cosmos and there is a point of light that I’m headed towards. Yes, I moved your space. My body heals in the cells and strengthens and releases what it no longer needs. My Still Point. I have been going within to begin which is fine but I am to allow myself to experience the Still Point in the cosmos. Go there. Listen from there. Feel from there. Experience from your soul, learn from there. Sit in the middle of the cosmos and learn. 

I hear the adventurer whistling in the distance then I begin to create my own path among the stars and the planets in the universe that is in the void.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

My Inner Gides

My inner guides are always present, always supportive, and always wise.  I just have to listen. 

My inner guides are always present, always supportive, and always wise.  I just have to listen. They point.  They teach. They open new doors. 

My inner guides are always present, always supportive, and always wise.  I just have to listen. They point.  They teach. They open new doors. The journey is totally up to me. My choice.  My journey.  My outcome.

  • Cara Lumen November 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

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The Path We are Taking 

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The Path We are Taking 

Living Your Deeper Song

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

Imagine an unexplored landscape before you.  It has mountains. It has plains. It has valleys.  We are faced with an unfolding new era. There are no main roads yet.  There are many paths of exploration.  Many possibilities to consider.

Here’s how our new landscape will unfold.  People will be drawn to a particular path and as more and more walk on it, it becomes a road. And that road will lead to a particular destination that many people seek.   

We will evolve our unfolding new era by journeying with like-minded seekers who are going in a similar direction and together we will widen the path and open the way for others to follow.  

There will be many paths and many travelers.  

How do we know we are on the path that is right for us? How do we know it is a promising path, that it will lead us to a higher level of existence and collective action? 

Begin with your own values and beliefs and make certain they are founded in truth.  

Choose the level of existence you desire to live in.  I will not live in anger.  I will not live in fear.  I am only focusing on the positive.  I hold my focus on what is supportive and keep walking toward it.  

Those of us who are singing our deeper song live all over the planet.  We may be in groups both large and small and we may be sitting in our homes alone.  But we hold the same vision, the same expectation.  Oneness.  Cosmic Oneness.  

As we journey down various pathways in exploration, we must keep in mind what we are searching for and plan to find that higher level of existence where we can gather together in a collective energy of wholeness and inclusiveness.  Not everyone will be drawn to that, but those of us who are are finding each other.  We are supporting each other in holding the vision and in finding pathways that lead us into the higher awareness that we are all one.  

So as we sit here on the planet watching anger and destructive behavior toward others play out, we must hold High Watch.  We must hold the Vision of Oneness –  the expectation of inclusion and cooperation.  What we look for we see.  What we believe is possible we find. 

Do not drop down into the muck of division.  Keep your focus on the pinnacle, the pinnacle of unity that we hold as our true destination.  

Like any landscape, people will settle all over it – some in the valleys, some at the peak of possibilities.  Wherever you are headed, raise your sights higher.  Look for those who are walking the path toward this higher state of awareness and fall into step beside them.  Hold your light high so others may follow.  Keep walking on the high road.  Together, we are creating our own path toward existing together in a higher collective conciseness. 

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I raise my sights and walk the higher road. 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Look around you at what other people are doing and notice some paths that are aligned with where you want to go.  
  • Begin to walk beside those walking uphill. 
  • Turn and give others who seem open encouragement and a helping hand.  
  • Keep climbing higher.

Our Global Deeper Song Community

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

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

Are You Afraid of Change?

Deepening Our Interaction with Cosmic Consciousness

If I am right, being afraid of change explains a lot of the negativity that is going on on the planet today. Why do you want to keep something the way it is? Because you are afraid of change. Change might make you ineffective or irrelevant.  I’m not sure we are aware of that, but I think fear is one core issue for a lot of what is going on in our world today.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community helps spiritual explorers find powerful and creative ways to connect with and explore their own cosmic consciousness. She helps transformational leaders who are now stepping forward to understand their role and their potential participation so that we can build the bridges and pathways that guide us all into the New Consciousness.

In this episode we explore

 Are You Afraid of Change?

(20 Minutes)

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective

Listen For Your Future

The Two Vital Sides of Your Spiritual Practice

The Field of Opportunity

How to Deepen Your Cosmic Consciousness 

Trust Your Inner answers.

===INNER WORK===

Create a Sanctuary

A private haven. A sanctuary.  A place of refuge. A place to restore and renew and revive. A nurturing place of tranquility. Do you have such a place? Have you assigned one corner of your home as a restorative sanctuary? 

I have a chair turned to look out the window that is part of my sanctuary. My native flutes are nearby. It’s a good chair to meditate in. With the window open I can feel the air and hear the sounds and feel closer to nature.

We’re talking about a chair here. A chair I have designated as my sanctuary. I go there with the purpose of being still. I’m contemplating. Restoring. And simply being. Where is your restorative space in your home and are you going there often enough?

Keep Listening, You Are Being Shown the Way

I journeyed to gain clarity for my next steps.  I saw myself moving steadily upward on a gently tilted path.  I received affirmations about the work I am currently doing, but the main message was to “keep listening, you are being shown the way.”  

Listening is the key to making the right next choice.  Listen to your heart. Listen to your passion.  Experiment with the opportunities that show up – try them on for size, modify them, keep them or discard them.  Just keep listening. You are being shown the path.  You just have to notice it. 

  Introspection and Intuition

Our inner world offers us powerful guidance. We simply have to listen. The first step is introspection – those times of focused thought in which you consider your options, examine your choices and explore the possibilities. Then comes intuition. Knowing what your choice is to be. Not what it needs to be or what it could be but what it is to be.

Sometimes my answers are several months in coming. One day I simply know there is a change to be made. I feel a gradual letting go of what I am currently doing but have no clue what is to take its place. Because it’s not time. First I have to make room for the new to come in. So I let go of my plans, of my expectations. And I simply wait.  I leave room for change.

As I sit in expectation and awareness, I get glimpses of a potential choice. It could be an idea, it could be a path I explore, it could be a completely new direction simply dropped into my lap. This is a time for looking around. Feeling what calls to me. Noticing what new avenues are available. No choice yet, just an observant expectation and thoughtful exploration.

And then one day I know. The door to the next step is open and I step through. Take time for introspection, to go exploring what is possible. Then let your intuition make the final choice. Have a great adventure!

Power Animals

When we journey to our Sacred Garden, everything in it is a metaphor just for us to interpret. So the other day on a journey I got a cat as a spirit guide. I actually live with a cat – Sebastian, but I  have not had a cat spirit guide before. We were actually on my Flying Indigo Rug flying in the Void. There were other guides on the rug with me but here was this cat sitting on my left. Being present. At the time, I simply observed it and did not interact with it much. It seemed content to simply be present. A few days later, I started to look up the meaning of the cat as a power animal on line. Until I realized that it is only mine to interpret, that I am the only one that can understand and interpret the meaning of the presence of a particular power animal. I have since journeyed again to talk to cat. But I have not yet received an answer. She simply sits on the left side of the Flying Indigo Rug as we move around the Void. She is present.  And she has a purpose. And she will reveal herself to me in good time. 

There is a temptation to look up a meaning when you encounter a new spirit guide. But that spirit guide is there just for you. What does it mean to you? Listen to what comes up. You can ask your power animal how you are to work together but you probably know or she/he would not be there. Trust your answers and your intuition. 

At this point, I feel the cat power animal is a guide and it is not yet time for me to be guided where she will take me 

Here we go adventuring.

===OUTER WORK===

Choose Your Own Coordinates

Many paths lead to the same destination. Some of the paths are long and winding and easy to walk on. Other paths take more effort, more energy, more stamina,  but they get there faster.  You may not want to live at the top of the mountain.  You may want to live in the serene rolling low land. Or you may choose to go exploring in the more heavily wooded areas where there are more opportunities and more encounters and more challenges. Maybe you even get a ride to the top of the mountain on a large bird and hang glide off into the valley. There are many paths for us to take to fulfill our destiny.

We each have to choose our own coordinates, our power path, and the timing of our travels. 

There are some things I knew about my own journey early on, and there are other things that I only recognize after being on the path a long time.

Our destination is changing if we choose for it to. There are new portals opening for us to explore and learn from and live in. We may be content where we are. We may be burning with passion to go explore a new frontier. Follow your dream. Follow your passion. Follow your insights and instincts.

Learn from those whom you choose to walk beside. See how they are adjusting to the path. Notice the creative ways they use to journey forward. Copy what you will. Create your own innovative ways to move forward. It’s your path. Your journey. And your choice of a destination. Set your own coordinates and journey on.

Find a Creative Solution

I can no longer reach the floor.  I have a grabber tool in every room,  you know those pinchers on a handle with grabbers that can pick up a dime.   

I also have a tongue drum – an 18” rounded metal drum.  It sits on a plant stand in my meditation corner.  Until one day I backed up my desk chair too vigorously and the tongue drum was suddenly on the floor. A heavy, good-sized piece of metal was on the floor which is not where I wanted it to be.  I had a choice. I could wait nearly two weeks until Shelley came back to clean my apartment, or I could figure out how to get the tongue drum off the floor. I got creative. 

I seem to have lots of baskets in my home and there was one that was big enough that when I lay it on its side, I could simply use my cane to move the tongue drum into it. I used the handle of my cane to pull and scoot the metal drum into the wicker basket.  Then I used my cane to tilt the basket upright so it was taller and I could lift it up. Yea for creative innovation! I immediately rearranged my meditation corner to put the metal drum in a place where it could not be knocked over. I had gotten creative and I had solved the problem.

However, I got to do a similar thing again when I dropped an entire half-gallon of ice cream on the kitchen floor. Once again, grabbers can pick dimes off the floor but not half-gallons of ice cream. There was a definite moment of dismay and panic until I remembered my basket trick. And once again, by using my cane, I was able to scoot that half gallon of ice cream into a basket lying on its side and then right the basket and gain possession of the ice cream. Clever me. Creative me. Innovative me.

When faced with a problem, think outside the box. Work with things that you didn’t expect to work with. Try new ways of doing things that will still get the job done. Find creative solutions to the unexpected challenge that come your way.

Honor Your Resistance

I love to learn and apparently I am full up because every time I start to sign up for a new talk or a new program, I feel great reluctance and resistance.  It is definitely a feeling of being full up.  

This hesitancy to engage is probably an incubation period.  A period of purposeful non-action in which I am to release, repair, make room for, and give time for me to recognize this new next step.  Meanwhile, I do nothing, or very little And that has to be OK.  

I listen to my inner voice.  I honor those instinctual insights that repeatedly show up.  I examine them, consider them, and if called to do so, explore a bit deeper to see how fully they resonate.  

Take your time choosing a new project, or a next step.  Listen to the rhythm of your own evolving awareness. Give your choices time to expand and materialize.  Go slowly. Be patient. And know when to say no. 

Wrap It In Joy

I took a journey to seek advice for my physical state and the main message was to wrap my physical activity in joy – in particular put on some music and dance!!!! That’s much more fun than doing exercise repetitions.  Jazz music channel here I come!

Our Alternate Path

What happens when we come up against a barrier? We find an alternate path. We go around. We go over. We may even back up a bit and start in another direction. A barrier gives us an opportunity to reconsider our options.

We’ve got a problem with the thinking of a lot of people in this world. It is producing fear and negativity. I don’t want that. I don’t believe in that. So how do I create change in order to move around this huge dark energy that is covering the earth?

The opposite of dark is light. I have to embrace this darkness and cover it with light so that it can change. Not by force. But by the recognition that this path of light holds more hope and promise and potential than the path of darkness. Not everyone is going to see that. Some will even fight that. So those of us who know the path of awareness, the path of compassion, the path of inclusion is the way to go, must simply keep walking that path with clarity of purpose and resolution and determination. We turn and help those who are struggling to follow along. But we do not join our energy with those who cannot see or hear the potential of light. All we can do is keep shining a light on the path to higher consciousness. Keep walking. Keep looking higher. Keep shining.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Set Up A Purposeful Day

When you close your eyes at night, bless the day you have just lived.  When you open your eyes in the morning, bless the day ahead.  And take a moment to set an intention. An intention to be more mindful.  An intention to take time for more inner work.  An intention to release a blockage you perceive.  Have a plan, a one-step plan that will raise the expectation of your day.  Choose an inner growth purpose for your day and make it happen.  

===MY CURRENT READING ===

I am reading and being inspired by this Jean Houston book: 

The Quest of Rose: The Cosmic Keys of Our Future Becoming (Future Humans Trilogy) Book 1 by Anneloes Smithsman and Jean Houston. 

UP NEXT: 

I heard Shanini Jain on a Sound True podcast and her ideas on bitfields make great sense.  Her book is up next: 

Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health by Shamini Jain

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Riding the Roller Coaster

It feels like we are being bombarded with anger, with actions that threaten our very existence. And like a roller coaster, we often feel we are simply along for the ride – the scary heights, the sudden drops, the tilted curves.  And all, what we are trying to do here is live our life. 

Bear in mind that this is the emergence of the power of the feminine and the masculine is scared because they know it is no longer their turn.  They know that the dominant qualities of compassion and inclusion and caring are taking over.  

Think about how that is shaping our life. What will it feel like when all choices are made for the highest good of all – not the few dominant males?  What if our guiding principles were compassion and inclusion?  Do we even know how to live that way?  We get to learn. 

As a woman, I say, “You go, girl!”  As I start to put on my warrior outfit to go to battle, I realize that is not how the feminine is to advance – not with masculine ways.  And I get to think long and hard about how a woman does fight, how she does claim authority.  How she guides and leads.  She does it with an awareness of human nature, of the need to feel valued, the need to be heard and heeded.  She listens, she considers and she walks a path that is inclusive while still getting the job done.  Even that path will not make everyone happy.  It’s not about taking the middle road, it is about taking an inclusive road, the road that made the most room for the most participation, the most effect, and the most powerful outcome. That may take some doing… 

Be patient as we figure out how to evolve this next part of our journey.  Allow yourself to consider and experiment with and explore new ways of thinking, new ways of doing things.  We evolve together and we must be very, very flexible and open to change. 

The Highest Good

I live in the US where not enough people are considering the highest good for all. We are mired in selfishness. I’m not sure how we get to move out of it. Except to look closely at our own lives to see where we are making choices that are not for the greater good but are based on our own fears or superstitions or greed or need.

We need to back off to see the greater picture, the over-arching impact of a belief, of choice, in order to see what is the highest good for all is. The greater good. The actions that will positively impact the most people. All people face these kinds of choices – do I choose for me or us? All countries face that. Our world faces that. Me or we.

Next time you start to make a choice or even experience a strong belief, examine it for its over-arching impact and make a choice that will benefit the most people and circumstances. Act for the highest good of all.

Moving Toward the Next Version of You

I continue to explore this idea that we really have two paths to consider – our path of personal expansion and our path of global service.  They may or may not be the same. 

I notice that people are quitting jobs in droves because they want and expect more for themselves, their life expression, their life experience.  So they go searching for it and the hum-drum, non-satisfying jobs go unfilled.  

Or, they could find a way to make a boring job meaningful.  Not sure how to do that.  I’m the moving-on type.  

First, ask “What do I want to change? What is working? What is not working? What is really not working?” Get to work on that first. 

Change can be scary. Change can mean really, really letting go and moving on, moving forward, moving over change. First, you let go. Let go of what is holding you down. Let go of what no longer makes you happy. And that includes relationships. It may include where you live. It may include the job you’ve had for a lot of years. Let go and move on. What do you want in the “next” you are going to experience? Not what you want it to look like or be like, but what do you want it to feel like? 

I would like my body to get strong again but my focus needs to be on what I can do again when it is stronger.  Like walks in nature. Focus on what you will be able to do when the change is complete. Hold that focus as you continue to make changes. 

I’m not sure it’s so much about planning the next version of you as it is about making room and space and time for this next version of you to evolve and emerge.

“The Master allows things to happen. 

She shapes events as they come. 

She steps out of the way and 

lets the Tao speak for itself.”

   -Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell

“The Master lives in the center of the universe,
which turns out to be the center of herself. 
When things seem to be in discord return to the center.” 

Stephen Mitchell 2nd Book of Tao

===OUR UNFOLDING ROLE===

Creating Our Next

In my secret garden is an Indego Carillon, a bell tower, and when it plays its music, the sound goes throughout the countryside. Some pause to listen. Some do not. But it represents my voice and my ideas and it spreads throughout the world. It occurred to me that we are each an instrument of vibration that is sending our song out into the world for others to hear and be touched. Their spirits are lifted. Their expectations are raised. All because we sing our song. We are the instruments ringing out the tones that vibrate and create throughout this other world.

Make certain your melody is joyful and encouraging. Make certain your harmonies raise spirits. Make certain your rhythm is one that motivates people and leads them forward. Play your melody. Sing your song. And raise the vibration of the world.

The Double Path of Unfolding

There are two paths that are unfolding right now for each of us.  Our personal role in our own life and our role in the unfolding and far-reaching change on our planet.  There is probably a third one – the Cosmic Consciousness and our role in its evolution.

I’ve been noticing my personal flow as the topics of my exploration continue to flow into new venues.  I feel those coming and have learned to recognize them.

It’s the unfolding role in the greater picture that I am just beginning to recognize and define.  

I use words like the “Great Transformation” as we move into the power of the Feminine. But where are we going and what is our role there?

Your role will be newly defined.  There will be evolving and unfolding choices that shape our future 

The role of the Light Bearers in the larger shift is only now beginning to define itself.  And I have a feeling that the task at hand is so huge that we will go through many layers of unfolding revelation.  Be alert.  Be aware. Be ready. Creatively embrace change.

How We Walk the Path

I was on a lovely journey and I was getting deep messages.  When suddenly I got: “You do not need to know the destination, it is the path and the way you walk it that counts for now.”  And I abruptly ended the journey.  I have been looking for my next. The goals. The path. And that’s not what I should be looking for. I am to notice and be aware of how I am walking my path. Is it with a broad and inclusive awareness? Is it with a deeper understanding? Is it with a willingness to explore and perhaps change directions if called upon? Am I flexible? This is not a time to make concrete plans. It is it a time to look deeply within to understand why you came onto the planet in this particular bodily expression.  What deep core calling is guiding you and how are you are to be in service, particularly now, in this time of dramatic change. Be still and listen. And you will hear. 

How Meaningful is Your Work?

Does your work make your heart sing? Do you love to go to your place of employment, your place of service, and do your thing? Do you end your day feeling fulfilled and satisfied and rewarded knowing that you have made a difference? You’ve changed a life.  That you have used all your skills and gifts and talents for the highest good?

I get those kinds of feelings when I finally release something to the world. It may be my newsletter or it may be a podcast. It may be an email or Zoom exchange. The act of writing those offerings is my growth process. It is my period of exploration and choosing. But it is the moment of release when I send it out into the world that gives me a sense of completion and accomplishment. Once again the image of the bell tower, the carillon that is in my Sacred Garden comes to mind. Pealing my words, my thoughts, my ideas, my version of life out into the world to be heard or not heard. To be listened to or to or ignored. The point is I play my music. I sing my song. And I send it out into the world. 

I have control over who or how my end product affects others. Perhaps your work is a piece of a greater whole. Focus on the greater whole. The part you help to create. Your role in the over-arching outcome.

Choose work that is meaningful. Find ways to make your contribution meaningful. Bless your work and fill it with the energy of purpose to go with it as it leaves your hands. Perhaps create a blessing for your work as you complete each aspect or bless tour contributions at the end of your day, sending it out with purpose for the highest good. How meaningful is your work and how can you raise your sights?

===EMBRACING CHANGE – WEEKLY NEWSLETTER ===

I know these newsletters are long but I keep learning exciting concepts I want to share and explore with you.  I seem to be entering a particularly exciting stage of discovery right now.  I am going to start sending out a newsletter every week so hopefully, they will not be so long for one sitting and I can keep sharing all the exciting things I am learning. I’m not sure that will solve the length problem but it sure will take us on some exciting adventures! 

===CARA’S CORNER===

Weaving 0ur New Home

Those of us who are aware are weaving a new home, a new way to exist.  Like the spider, we must weave from within ourselves – from the inner work we do, from the visioning we do, from our expanding consciousness of the high level of our vibration. 

We must make internal changes before weaving our new home from within our own vision.  

Give yourself over to the unimaginable – how do you want to exist?  A land of supportive interaction working toward the higher good of all?  We create  that with visioning.  We create that by raising what we believe is possible. 

First, we imagine it.  Then it takes form.  What are you focusing on? What do you believe is possible?

As an older person not in the thick of things, I have to trust others to see the new possibilities and to step into them.  But I can hold the intention.  I can hold the essence of a very high vibration. I can hold an expectation of what is possible.  Visioning counts.  Intention counts.  Expectation counts.  Step upon the high road and become the leader you are and light the way to a higher way of being. 

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Web I Weave

My web is made of silken thoughts, each brought forth from within me with care and deliberate craftsmanship. 

My web is made of silken thoughts, each brought forth from within me with care and deliberate craftsmanship. I breathe love into it.  I breathe inclusion into it.  And the strands grow stronger.  

My web is made of silken thoughts, each brought forth from within me with care and deliberate craftsmanship. I breathe love into it.  I breathe inclusion into it.  And the strands grow stronger.  The web I weave is my home.  I build it with deliberate and caring intention.

-Cara Lumen, October 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

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Expand Your Self-Sufficiency and Self-Determination

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Expand Your Self-Sufficiency and Self-Determination

Live Your Deeper Song 

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

We may surround ourselves with support, but at the core, we have to be self-sufficient. We are the only ones who can determine and manifest the destiny we want. We are self-determining explorers in life. We make our choice. We adjust that choice. We respond to the results of that choice. We learn the lessons. Then we turn and make new choices based on what we have learned. Your self-sufficiency comes from trusting your inner wisdom and relying on yourself. Trusting your inner voice to guide you in the direction you are to go. And have the self-determination to make it all happen.

You may need to learn something new. You may need to partner with someone. You may need to get someone else to do it for you. But the choice is yours. You are the determining factor in how your life unfolds. You are not a victim of circumstances. Each event and experience in your life is full of possibilities and it is your choices that direct the unfolding of your life. Self-sufficiency and self-determination are the cornerstones of moving forward. What do you want? How do you get it? And most importantly, what values do you use to evaluate it after you achieve it? Is it what you expected? Is it what do you want? Create and adjust. You are in charge of your unfolding life.

Go exploring. Expand your self-sufficiency and move forward with self-determination.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I am responsible for the unfolding of my life.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • Take a reality check.  How is your life going?  What areas are successful?  What areas need work?
  • Create a plan.  Make some choices.  Experiment until you find a stronger balance that moves your forward. 
  • Expand your self-sufficiency and move forward through self-determination.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner Work

How to Make Decisions That  Let Your Life Unfold

How to Hold the Space for Change

Why Have You Been Chosen

How Strong is the Foundation You Build On?

Do You Have The Courage to Stand Alone

The Backpack Journey

Our Global Deeper Song Community

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

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

Journey to Gaia’s Misty Circle 

A Deeper Song Adventure

There are many ways to create a self-healing process. I plan to create several journeys using different healing approaches. Intention is key. Belief in change is vital. Belief in your ability to manifest change. Those are a kind of a starting point. 

I can go to the Seven Sacred Rays with my healing request.  I can journey to my ancestors with my healing request.  I can go to Gaia with my healing request.  In my personal Sacred Garden, I have a Healing Hut that has a thatched dome roof.  

This healing journey is to a Circle of Light in an old grown forest in which we reach out to Gaia to restore balance.

In this episode we explore

Journey to Gaia’s Misty Circle 

(20 Minutes)

(Listen Here) 

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

and the 

Deeper Song Website

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

We Are Cosmic Consciousness- A Deeper Song Expanded Perspective

Journey to a Chamber of the Seven Sacred Rays

Become a Pillar of Light

Journey to Our Ancestors to Expand Our Consciousness

Journey to the Sacred Masculine

Journey to the Sacred Feminine

===INNER WORK===

Deepen Your Meditation Practice

I learned Transcendental Meditation 50 years ago. I did it for a lot of years. And then I somehow fell out of the practice. I have revised it periodically. But recently I have put it steadily and strongly into my spiritual practice and it is making a huge difference. It’s as if my mantra is going in and rearranging everything, clearing, clearing, reconfiguring.  I have found which chair to sit in that keeps my back straight and free.  My mudra is thumb to my middle finger with hands resting on my lap close to my body. This meditative practice is now established in the beginning of my day.  

When I learned TM, it was suggested that another good time to meditate was to separate the workday from family time. Meditation is a powerful way to change your energy.  We don’t meditate before sleep since it gives us energy.  It was suggested we meditate 20 minutes twice a day. 

You can use a mantra – or simply be in silence. (TM used a mantra) A mantra is a divine sound that has been received or experienced by an adept in the state of deep spiritual absorption. It is a condensed form of spiritual energy, the sound body of the Cosmos. It can also be thought of as a compact prayer. Meditating with mantras is one of the most powerful ways to quiet the mind. A mantra is a tool that allows our awareness to more easily turn inward. It’s an especially good meditation tool for beginners and a type of sound technology which has profound effects on our brain waves.“Om” is a powerful mantra. Pronounced Aum. 

Place into your spiritual practice a time to quiet your mind and still your body and simply go to your Still Point and be present in the Cosmic Consciousness. 

Change Your Vibration with your Focus

As I struggle with disbelief over the actions of humans, I am comforted by the words of Sister Jenna in her interview at The Shift Network’s Awakening with Spirit Summit in which she said, “Wherever you focus your thoughts manifests as a vibration.”

Now I know that our thoughts create our reality but I had not thought of my thoughts as a powerful vibration.  How do I use that new awareness?  As I work with my body I focus my intention on wholeness and restoration and ease of movement.  As I focus vibration on my spiritual life, I feel my vibration going deeper into the unknown to allow my inner world to guide me more clearly. 

The soul is pure vibration.  I experiment with ways to experience myself as pure spirit, pure vibration and I focus my attention on higher and higher expectations of myself and of the world around me.

Are You a Spiritual Eclectic?

I am a collector of spiritual concepts. I have been an intrepid explorer of many ways to explore, deepen and express one’s spirituality – shamanism, Taoism, metaphysics. I go deeply into the theological and philosophic concepts in the practices. I take from them what works for me, what balances me, what nurtures me. I have a rather eclectic spiritual practice.  When another aspect of a spiritual practice shows up that calls to me, I go exploring and experiencing to find what resonates and bring back and adapt what I find into my practices. Go exploring. Become an eclectic spiritual explorer. 

Make Sure Your Connection is Secure

I had been without my big monitor for four days, I had ordered the wrong cord and I was finally rescued by my son-in-law, Ron, who came over and basically unplugged and re-plugged a connection that I had considered faulty. I had never made a secure connection in the first place. 

We have to make sure our connection is solid.  That it completes the circuit. What parts of your life do you not have plugged in correctly?

===OUTER WORK===

Do You Find Your Work Meaningful?

How do you judge the value of your work?  Is it meaningful?  Is it effective?  How are you in service? 

Begin with self-growth and self-satisfaction.  For me, it is self-growth that brings me self-satisfaction.  I want to keep exploring and leaning and trying new things.  What areas of the work you do bring you self-satisfaction?  How does your work further self-growth?

Observe and acknowledge your impact on the world.  It’s not that it has to be a huge impact but you do want to feel and know and understand that you are making a difference somewhere and somehow. Notice that. And also know your work may be so far-reaching, you will never know how and who it is impacting. 

What Have You Outgrown?

When we were growing up we outgrew our clothes at various times. They no longer fit. As we moved into young adulthood we outgrew certain phases of exploration and even expectation. This pattern of out-growing ideas, beliefs, patterns, and actions continues all our life. What have you outgrown and what are you going to do about it?

As I restructure my spiritual practice, I am taking a very close look at my place of service and it is about continuing to help people be aware of themselves as higher consciousness and to learn to come from that position. Focusing on that allows me to let go of a lot of things I used to write about. You could say I’ve outgrown those ideas. I have moved past them in my own personal development. 

Some changes happened organically. Like when I knew it was time to let go of my car and a lot of independence for myself. 

I go through phases of learning. I see myself explore and absorb and experience. Then I adapt and then move on. Always exploring. Always questioning. Always changing. What is it time for you to let go? Do that.

The Tone of Your Voice

It’s not just the word, it’s the tone of your voice that sends the message. Every time we use our voices, we send our energetic imprint out into the universe and to the people around us. And, like the words we use when we speak to people, our voices can communicate what we are feeling, what we desire, and what we really mean.

Before you speak, center yourself.  Move to your heart to connect with the energy you really want to share.  Take responsibility for the power your voice has to impact the space and the people around you and let your voice be a sound that creates harmony and compassion in the universe.

Use Your Breath to Draw a Line

A sign of relief is a breath that signals change.  A yawn is an intake of breath that signals change.  We can take a deliberate deep breath to draw a line between what we were feeling and the focused calm energy we want to experience and share.

What a powerful tool! Begin to use your breath to change your focus, change your direction, change your intention and use a deliberate breath to move back to your Still Point and move into your life from a different intention. 

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Fall Equinox – September 22

Fall Equinox is a good time to see how you’re doing. You’re about to harvest the crops that you planted in the spring. Did you plant what you needed and wanted? Did the new crops you planted work out? Do you want to plant more of them or less of them next season? How does your garden grow? Does a crop need thinning so the strong plants can mature? What are you harvesting after this year of work? 

This is not a time of planting, it is a time for observing and being grateful for what you have produced this year. Perhaps take a moment to journal about your year so far. What you have accomplished, what worked, what didn’t work. What lessons you have learned. What lessons you did not learn. This is the time for observing and evaluating and contemplating how you would like your life to be different. Nothing to plant yet, this is the time for harvest. How did your Garden of Self grow this year?

Simple Steps

We only take one step at a time. We can only follow one path at a time. All it takes is one step to change the view of the path ahead or the road behind or the side-road beside us. One step. And we have a new viewpoint. We have new choices. We have a new opportunity.

I can stand in one place and take a step to my left or take a step to my right or take a step ahead or even back up a step. I can stand where I am and simply turn in different directions to get a new view of what is possible. It just takes one step one change the direction you are looking ad your whole life will change, new opportunities will appear and new lessons will be learned. 

What one step will you take today to change your view? And what surprises does it bring to you? 

Center of the Cycle

Our life is a series of cycles. Cycles that are intertwined. Our choice lies in what we hold at the center of that cycle. The concept. The decision. The choice we made.

I could look at the cycle of my physical well-being and depending on what I hold in the center, the cycle will change. If it is self-healing and wholeness, the cycle does one thing. If I see the center of the cycle as deterioration and illness, the cycle looks different. And I have choice. I can decide what I hold in the center of each spiral. Look closely at your thinking. What is your expectation of each of the cycles you are in?

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

The Fine Line Between Awareness and Fear 

I understand that it is an emerging era. I understand it is the emerging feminine. And the masculine is scared and thrashing out and trying to stay in control. But it doesn’t help the chaos and destruction and disaster that seems to be manifesting in the world today. How do we straddle the place between awareness and fear? I think many of us are struggling with that one. 

I know my part. I have chosen it. I can do it. And I am doing it. And I have to walk this fine line between staying aware of what is going on in the world and not being traumatized by it. So I am more selective on the news that I watch. I cannot control the choices that others in power make. I can only control my own choices. I choose serenity and tranquility. I choose meditation and thoughtful contemplation. And I work with what I can change. Not what needs to change. but what I can impact – through my choices, in my thinking, through my sending of energy to aspects of the world. 

Am I being responsible? I take responsibility for my thoughts and my actions and my beliefs. I can hold the vision of higher consciousness with an invitation for those who can access it to join in.  Rise above the chaos, center your heart in an awareness of cosmic consciousness and its presence within each if us. Build on that.

===CARA’S CORNER===

The End of a Cycle

It’s interesting to feel a cycle come to the end. There is a sense of completion, there is a sense of letting go, there is a sense of opening a path for a new cycle, a new journey.

As I come to the end of this cycle of my current path of exploration, there is a winding down, there is completion. In this case I feel I am winding down a series of podcasts about a particular topic. That’s the end of the cycle. And there is both expectation and emptiness because I have no idea what the next cycle is about. I don’t know where it will take us adventuring. I think it has to do with creating our Future Self. But that’s the only clue I have right now. So I complete the podcasts that I have written. I reevaluate the scripts I have ideas for. And I move into a period of waiting. I’m waiting to be shown where we’re going to go together next. There are many cycles moving simultaneously and they are different parts of each cycle. But I feel right now this particular cycle of exploration is closing out and a new one will open shortly. Hooray for adventure

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

The Closing Door 

A door is closing. A journey is winding down.

A door is closing. A journey is winding down. A new adventure is on the horizon. 

A door is closing. A journey is winding down. A new adventure is on the horizon. I pick up my pace and eagerly move forward.

– Cara Lumen, September 2021

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

Namaste,

Cara

Come Sing a Deeper Song  

I help spiritual explorers find powerful and creative ways to connect with and explore their own cosmic consciousness.

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