How to Cultivate Deep Listening
An Exploration of the Unseen World
You have access to great wisdom when you cultivate deep listening. It begins with your intuition, your hunches, your nudges, and moves into the deep listening of your inner voice and your imagination.
It’s a journey of learning to trust. It’s a skill of learning to interpret. And it is the open portal to the Unseen World.
Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and Founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.
In this episode we explore
How to Cultivate Deep Listening
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How to Cultivate Deep Listening
An Exploration of the Unseen World
You have access to great wisdom when you cultivate deep listening. It begins with your intuition, your hunches, your nudges, and moves into the deep listening of your inner voice and your imagination.
It’s a journey of learning to trust. It’s the skill of learning to interpret. And it is the open portal to the Unseen World.
95% of the world is Unseen, and even using hunches and visioning and inner voice listening, we’re going to miss a lot of the guidance being offered to us.
We just need to begin and once we cultivate the capacity for Deep Listening, the unseenWorld will find other ways to communicate with us, to offer us its gifts.
But we begin with cultivation Deep Listening.
I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.
Thank you for being a part of this journey.
In this episode of Reflections of a Deeper Song, we discuss How to Cultivate Deep Listening
A number of years ago I became aware that sometimes when I wrung. some really great ideas seem to be coming in from someplace other them me. I pictured a trio of Shakespeare type men with feather pens over my right shoulder telling me what to write. Ultimately I came to understand that it was only be listening to my inner voice and I was just writing some really good stuff.
Give yourself credit for the guidance of your inner voice. I’s you talking to you.
It is important to cultivate the ability to listen deeply because the more we listen the more we hear. We just have to practice more
There seem to be three levels to developing a Deep Listening practice.
– First we have to learn to recognize the Hunches and Urges that seem almost accidental in nature. But they are not.
– Then we begin to do more Intentional Listening. Nut just trusting your intuition but actively calling on it for guidance.
– Ultiantely we begin to Cultivate a Deep Listening Practice and we come to rely on our inner guidance and wisdom That’s the really fun part.
The first step in developing a practice of Deep Listing is to learn to hear your inner voice.
Think of a time when you had a hunch, followed it and it turned out to be right. Were you surprised? Were you pleased? Were you a bit amped?
Intuition is one way you Inner Voice speaks to you.
Think of a hunch you had that turned out to be true. That’s your Inner voice giving your nudge. Notice how many times your intuition or hunches are right and begin to trust them and follow them.
Years ago, I began getting flashes of ideas that I began to immediately write into fleshed-out articles. It would be a phrase on television, a phrase I read. I just suddenly knew I was to expand on that and share it with others. So I did.
Those flashes of inner knowing that I am to expand on a specific topic continue today and I pay attention.
Flashes of Insight are a form of your inner voice speaking to you.
As a writer, I listen to my inner voice and write down what it says. I am at the point that I literally feel myself get out of the way and let the words flow through my typing fingers.
I consciously get my human mind out of the way and let her rip. No human mind in there, only trust and deep listening to my inner voice.
The unexpected flow of phrases and ideas grew until I knew I was generating them from a place of deep awareness – far beyond the limitations of my human self.
Unexpected Inner Nudges are part of Deep Listening
How, then, do you cultivate Intentional Inner Listening? How do you purposefully talk to Your Inner Voice?
You begin to cultivate a habit of Intentional Inner Listening
You can begin with journaling. When you write things down, your mind believes that information is safe and it moves on to access another layer, a deeper layer. So journaling is like peeling layers off to get to the core.
When I learned shamanic journeying, a whole new world of intentional inner listening opened up. It is a form of meditation in which you set an intuition for your journey, go to your Sacred Garden within and wait to be given your answers in the form of metaphors – figures, natural objects. Whatever shows up is a metaphor that only you can interpret. It’s rather imaginative with talking animals and shape-shifting rocks and helping spirits in many shapes.
You begin with an intention and see what shows up.
Once I learned that 94% of our experience is in the Unseen World I began to use shamanic journeying to intentionally go to the unseen world. It is not a rapid process but I am persistent in my quest. I find myself sitting outside portals waiting for an invitation to enter, That may go on for several journeys before I am invited in.
In order to receive guidance from the Unseen World, you wan tot develop a practice of Deep Listening.
When I mediate, my body gradually disappears until I experience myself as pinpoint of consciousness in my third eye I am no longer limited by the physical realm, I am in the unseen world and all things are possible
Listen an you will receive answers.
Begin. Perhaps you journal your thoughts because writing things down allows you access to a deeper layer. Perhaps you draw with an intentional question to be answered and see what shows up. Definitely meditate – use a mantra to quiet your mind. Learn to do shamanic journeying if your like but as part of your spiritual practice is to give yourself space and time to explore the inner unseen world. Listen deeply. There are messages just for you.
I love my Inner voice. I can be watching television and one phrase comes leaping across the room to me and I quickly write it down and later explore it though writing for my newsletter or my podcast.
I have Leonard to go even deeper in my shamanic meditative journeys.
I continue to be amazed at the clarity and wisdom and insight that is offered through my inner voice.
There are more things I am going to do to cultivate a practice of Deep Listening. I play my native flutes every day and have begun to use them to talk to nature, the weeping birch outside my window, and her swaying branches. I use an intentional hum to move vibration throughout my body and listen. When I exercise, I notice what muscles need and compliment hem on the good work they are doing and how much stronger they are dieting.
I journey every day and end up in amazing places in the unseen world.
I am working to cultivate easier access to a Point of Deep Stillness
I listen to my inner voice as I begin to wake up. I try to remember my dreams
The Unseen world has many ways to speak to us. We just have to learn to listen. Speed time each day listening deeply.
- I hope I brought you some new awareness, deeper ways to connect and insights and encouragement for your next steps.
- Pause to be with what we have explored. See what portals have opened up for you. Where you will go exploring next. This is a Journey of Discovery and we walk this part of the path together.
- Ashe, The creative in me honors the creative in you.
- To join me on further explorations I invite you to subscribe to this Reflections of a Deeper song podcast.
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- Until next time, this is Cara Lumen inviting you to Come Sing a Deeper Song.