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How to Cultivate Deep Listening

September 30, 2020 By Cara Lumen

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.
  • I also encourage you to join the Deeper Song community at www.deepersong.comto receive weekly posts or this podcast and the Deeper Song newsletter.
  • Until next time, this is Cara Lumen inviting you to Come Sing a Deeper Song.

Filed Under: Podcast, Self Transformation Tagged With: inner guidance

Profitable Goal Setting for the Winter Solstice

December 28, 2009 By Cara Lumen

Passionately On Purpose Radio with Cara Lumen, Your Idea Optimizer, who keeps you passionately on purpose while you make a difference in your world. As a Business Coach, Content Developer and Educator she talks about how to uncover your passion, define your purpose, identify your path, make money from what you already know and attract the people you are meant to serve. But most of all, she’ll help you believe you can!!!  Join her Mondays on www.blogtalkradio.com/passionatelyonpurpose

This Show

If you don’t know where you are going you’ll definitely end up someplace else. Let’s talk about what you should get rid of, what you should add and how to tell what to keep to make your business flourish in 2010.

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Filed Under: Content Development, Podcasts Tagged With: goal setting, inner guidance, Marketing, Planning

7 Ways to Move from Overwhelm to Success

November 30, 2009 By Cara Lumen

Passionately On Purpose Radio with Cara Lumen, Your Idea Optimizer, who keeps you passionately on purpose while you make a difference in your world. As a Business Coach, Content Developer and Educator she talks about how to uncover your passion, define your purpose, identify your path, make money from what you already know and attract the people you are meant to serve. But most of all, she’ll help you believe you can!!!  Join her Mondays on www.blogtalkradio.com/passionatelyonpurpose

This Show

It’s time to plan for the new year, to create our marketing plan, decide what to change in our business, What new products or services to offer? The ideas are swirling and you may be frozen in place just contemplating them. Here are seven ways to keep from going into overwhelm as you plan for your success

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Filed Under: Content Development, Podcasts, Self Mastery Tagged With: inner guidance, intention, overwhelm, success

Are You Listening?

October 20, 2009 By Cara Lumen

by Cara Lumen

This summer I moved from Santa Rosa, California above San Francisco to Olathe, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City to be nearer my children. That meant I had to release possessions, handle everything I own, focus on moving rather than my business, and then settle into my new apartment and find my way around my new city. Everything was about making choices. With every picture I hung, every drawer I filled I made a conscious choice to keep it or hang it. And that opportunity to make consistently new and thoughtful choices is still overflowing into my business. And I’m listening.

I’ve always been spiritual and I have a strong metaphysical background that is mixed in with everything I do. I have a radio show www.blogtalkradio.com/passionatelyonpurpose and I recently wrote a script for it called “Do You Believe You Can? And Why Not? As I wrote I thought to myself “This is pure metaphysics, not business.” I recorded it and got an enthusiast post from a listener saying “Wow, great show Cara, very inspiring.” Isn’t that what we want to do – touch the hearts of others and make a difference in their lives? I’m listening.

I looked over the number of listens to my various shows and the personal growth ones on stress and exceeding boundaries rated high. But then so did the ones on the sales cycle and energizing your business. I’m listening, but I’m confused.

So here’s the way I figure it. My work is a bit of both – the spiritual and the practical so sometimes I’m going to write about information products and marketing and attracting the people you are meant to serve, and sometimes I’m going to write all about the changes we can make inside. But it will always be about how we can stay Passionately on Purpose.

I love to listen to the messages from the Universe. The unexpected word from someone that triggers a new idea, the door closing in your face so you have to go look for a new one, the swelling of your heart when you get it right and are aligned with your choice. Are you listening? What do you hear? And what are you going to do about it?
 

© 2009 Cara Lumen

Filed Under: Self Mastery Tagged With: change, choice, inner guidance, making change

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