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How Vibration Heals

November 12, 2019 By Cara Lumen Leave a Comment

How Vibration Heals

An Inner-World Exploration

Before there was light there was sound. In the beginning, was the word. Our core existence is vibration. Our bodies are simply denser versions of vibration.

It makes sense that the vibration of sound can be used to alter and support our physical experience.

Although we are one vibration, we are also individual and unique in our expression of that vibration. And we are responsible for how our vibration shows up. What we say and do and think will affect how our vibration expresses itself.

What does your vibration draw to you?

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How to Deflect/Contain Negative Energy

October 9, 2019 By Cara Lumen Leave a Comment

How to Deflect/Contain Negative Energy
An Inner-world Exploration

Take a moment to feel yourself safely tucked into a sphere of energy. It can be any color that shows up. If you’re not certain, try golden or indigo blue. It can be opaque or translucent or transparent. Just notice what shows up for you. Sit a moment and feel the energy surrounding you.

This is your protector/reflector and it’s as easy to call upon as it was to imagine it.

Use it.

If you’re walking into a room of people you don’t know, you may want to feel that protective ball of energy around you. If you’re going into a shamanic meditative journey, you wrap yourself in the protective energy of an envisioned sphere. You can expand a sphere to include an entire group of people – for protection or for amplifying the collective energy.

The protective sphere reflects back to you your own energy

If you’re angry or thinking negative thoughts, those negative responses are reflected right back at you by the shield that’s always around you. If that’s what you want, have at it, but if you’re not happy receiving back your own negative energy, change your thoughts and words and deeds so that positive thoughts and actions reflect back to you from your protective sphere.

How to protect yourself from negative energy

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Another Part of You – The Unseen World

March 20, 2019 By Cara Lumen Leave a Comment

Another Part of You – The Unseen World
An Inner-World Exploration

I am intrigued by the idea that 95% of my “world” is unseen. Particularly when I have found ways to explore that other 95% of me. It’s called my imagination, and the form I use is shamanic journeying. It’s when I purposefully go within to learn from my inner self. I receive insights and guidance. And there is always help.

Our body suit keeps trying to put this inner world experience into body suit terms. That means we use our ego and sense of being just our “self” and we toss in all manner of limitations that occur simply because we see ourselves as humans rather than spiritual light beings. This is very limiting.

So in order to communicate to us in our body suit, the helping spirits assume forms we can understand – metaphorical forms. A symbolic form that suggests the idea they have chosen to communicate.

You’ll find animals, talking rocks and trees, fairies, teachers in human form, scents and flavors, sensations, lessons from the elements, from nature, all simple messages in the symbolic forms the helping spirits use to convey the answer to our inquiry. If we don’t fully understand, we simply journey again and ask for clarity.

We did this easily as children, used our imagination to make up friends and sometime even scary things under the bed. Many of us lose that ability along the line. But it’s there, in that 95% of the unseen world that we can access though our imagination.

What to ask your helping spirits

You can ask for guidance. You can ask for healing. You can ask for clarity. Your helping spirits will not give you a yes or no answer. But if you phrase your question carefully, you’ll receive the guidance you request.

“What is in the way of my self-healing” will give you something to work on. (“Will I be healed of this?” is not something they will answer.) You’re looking for guidance and insights that you can bring back in your body suit world and put to use. It’s your responsibility to change – your choice to put to use the insights you receive.

Your imagination gives you power

We can change our outer world by changing our inner world.

Rather than see the dysfunction of humans in our planetary world, what if we used our imagination to see a world of loving light spirits, all caring for each other and for our planet, all connected, all one light? What a place to live. What a group to be with! But the really interesting fact behind that is that what we imagine comes into being. So we do have the power to imagine this world into a kind, loving place of light beings. Truly we do.

Visit the place within each day

Shamanic journeying is the earliest form of meditation. It offers an active participation in the inner world. You’re not seeking guidance outside yourself. You’re seeking it within yourself. You know you are to make the choices and take the steps. And you are asking for guidance – steps you can take to improve or alter a situation.

It’s not about receiving, it’s about increasing your power, your connection with All That Is, so you can handle whatever shows up. The choices are yours to make. The actions are yours to take.

We’re all one energy

We are all light. One light. One same light. We feel separate because we’re currently in our body suit, which has an ego. But when we go into the world within, the Nowhere That We Came From, we merge into the Great Nothingness and feel and know and understand that we are one energy, one light energy.

And when we know that, when we accept that, when we live that, we change our world.

Learn to come from that all-encompassing place within you, that place of light. That place of oneness. And watch the world around you change!

A Deeper Song Affirmation

I take steps to know the helping spirits in the invisible world.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Unleash the power of your Sacred Garden

How to Be Nothing

When I See Myself As Light

Come Out of the Protective Darkness of the Unconscious

Do You See and Hear and Walk in a Sacred Manner?

How to Interpret the Messages from Within

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How to Find Someone Who Understands You

May 16, 2017 By Cara Lumen Leave a Comment

Who do you have to talk with that understands what you’re talking about and what feedback you need to get? You may have to go searching for such a person.

Who knows what you are talking about?

The deeper I delve into my spiritual realms, the fewer people I know that I can talk to about it. Yes, it’s a personal experience but there are people on similar journeys and it would enrich my own experience to talk with them. But finding those similarly aligned people can be tricky.

I have a few people in my life right now I share with on a regular basis, and with each person I talk about different aspects of my journey. That adds both dimension and clarity to my work.

Who do you learn from?

Learning is a process. It’s about consciously selecting what you need and want to know and bringing it into your life in a way that supports your own journey. The spark make come in a few words you hear or read. It could come from a new way of seeing and arranging what you already do. Teachers are everywhere, in every form, and in every situation. Be receptive and selective. Choose to learn what resonates with you.

Do you have a support community?

According to a book I was reading on shamanic practices, indigenous people usually brought a support community with them to a healing ceremony. Anglos did not bring community and the difference was noticeable. The sentence was “by having a client bring a support person to the session, the effect of the healing is long-lasting, for the client then has someone who was present during the healing ritual who they can continue to talk to about the experience.” – Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman, Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation.

We need close-up and similar-thinking people in our lives

We need a support community. It’s important to find, connect with and cultivate like-minded friends so you can continue to talk about your experiences. My support community is mostly online

Who are your support people for your subtle inner journey?

Who can hear you?

I am a metaphysician living in the Midwest. I’m also vegan. My expansive and eclectic personal spiritual beliefs were cultivated in the liberal, explorational, intellectually inquisitive atmosphere of both coasts. My interests and spiritual pursuits deepen and enrich me but they also isolate me as they’re are a bit uncommon in this part of the country.

There’s absolutely no one in my senior community who believes spiritually the way I do. This is cow country, so a vegan is really out of place. My online connections and activities are vital to my personal expansion.

I’m doing some healing work on myself and I’m seeing results. The only people I can share that with are my Skype friends. Not only do they understand what I’m doing but they often have both support and suggestions to offer.

But most of all they understand what I’m saying and doing.

You may have to look far afield for your support community.

What support do you need?

Look for the people with shared experiences. I can only share my current spiritual journey with people who believe in some of the inner work I’m doing, who perhaps have had similar experiences, or at the very least have room for the idea of them in their own spiritual acceptance.

If I get an insightful message from meditating with a rock I can only share that with someone who also talks to rocks and to nature and holds room in their thoughts for my experiences. I want a safe, supportive understanding, empathetic and insightful listener who can be a valuable reflection for my experience.

The more individualized your journey, the fewer people can hear you. Who can hear you without judgment? Who can hear you with acceptance, support, and love? Who will you listen to? Who do you need in your life right now?

Find them and begin a dialogue.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider

How To Write a New Life Story

What Seeds Do You Allow to Grow in Your Garden

What to Do When You Don’t Know What You Need

Accept Yourself as You Are

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PODCAST: Reflections of a Deeper Song

Abracadabra! I Will Create As I Speak

May 11, 2017 By Cara Lumen Leave a Comment

Did you know that our childhood magic word “abracadabra” is from the Aramaic abruq ad babra, which literally means “I will create as I speak?” The idea was to give voice to a desire, say the magic word, and it would appear.

Apparently that’s how it works. What we say creates our reality. I guess we’d better monitor both our words and our thoughts.

Everything is energy

In our human form we experience and understand very little of the Great Mystery. In many of the world’s spiritual philosophies each person is thought to be collectively dreaming. Therefore each person can, with awareness and an act of will, change the dream.

What kind of dream are you creating with your thoughts and words?

I can. I can’t. I deserve. I don’t deserve. It’s hard. It’s easy. Whatever you tell yourself, that’s what you‘ll get. So a major step to begin to change your life is to become aware of what you’re thinking and saying.

Change your thinking, change your life!

Phrase your affirmation in the present tense

Begin to speak in affirmations. Not “I’m going to…” but rather “I now….”

I learned this practice as I studied to become a practitioner in the Center for Spiritual Living. One time, when I was first learning to speak positively all the time, I was asked my opinion about a carpet that I really didn’t like very much. I knew the owner was pleased with it, but it was far removed from my taste. It took me a long time to offer a comment because I had to sort out all the negatives that were my first response in order to find one positive thing I could say.

As I practice speaking more positively, the positive observations are now the first ones that showed up. And I’ve become sensitive to what people actually want to hear rather than what they ask.

Modify your vocabulary

I don’t like to use the word “compassion” because it makes me feel “pity”. I prefer “empathy”, which means we are equals on a similar plane of understanding.

“Inclusion” is more common in my present vocabulary as the need for it grows more prevalent. What does it mean? How do I practice it? What do I need to change within me to become more inclusive?

Be aware of how your choice of words will be received. The more unusual my exploration into various forms of spiritual philosophy, the more cautious I am about who I share them with. “Metaphysics”, “Shamanism”, “transpersonal” are not part of everyone’s vocabulary or realm of understanding.

Believe it can happen

You need to believe that change/healing/opportunity can happen. I’m working with an age-related eye degeneration for which the world says there’s no cure. Every day I have to work on my belief. With each wholing work I do on myself I also have to send energy to my belief. The spiritual world says it’s all energy and energy can be shifted. So in order to make my “abracadabra” process work, I have to believe what I say with my whole being. “My eyes are perfect and whole. I see clearly, especially on the physical plane”.

Look for any doubt that lies behind your abracadabra “I create as a speak” and rephrase it so you believe is. “My eyes are healing.” “My eyes are healed.” Better still “I see clearly.” Remember to word your affirmation in the present tense. Then believe what you say.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

– “I create as I speak.” Choose something you want to change, something you’ll notice when it does change.

– Create an affirmative statement in the present tense as if it has already happened around what you want to change. “I am whole.”

– Say this affirmation out loud seven times each day.

– In seven days, notice what changes have occurred.

– In 21 days, notice what changes have occurred.

– Repeat as desired.

To Sing a Deeper Song consider:

How Choosing the Right Word will Clarify your Choices

Be the Story you Want to Tell

How do You Put your Spiritual Insights to Work?

How to Manage Your Subtle Energy