What Do You See When You Look Into The Future?
What Do You See When You Look Into The Future?
Living Our Deeper Song
Ashe
(“Ah-Shay”)
The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!
What you see when you look ahead depends on where you are in your life. What age you are, how many years you think you have left, what stage of life experience you are in. Wherever you are is perfect. It’s a perfect place for you to learn. It’s a perfect place for you to act. It’s a perfect place for you to be. Because there is always more for you to do.
It gives me satisfaction to look back over the past and see how I’ve walked my life path so far. As I near 90 and get ready to move into assisted living, I have to work harder at seeing a creative, productive, meaningful future. But I can do it. It just looks different than in other years.
Tune inward and ask your inner wisdom for some guidance, some support, some insights on your journey and what you are to accomplish next.
My next mission has to do with helping those of us who are aware to keep raising our consciousness in order to lift this planet out of the chaos it is in. I have no idea what the New Earth is going to look like. I just know I have the skill set and the energy practices to continue to move into this elevated way of being and share my discoveries.
Joe Dispenza teaches an exercise in which you travel 10 years into the future to see your future dself. When I do that, my Future Self is doing jumping jacks! Now I haven’t done a jumping jack in a lot of years and certainly can’t do them now, so I guess I’m going to learn how to do jumping jacks in the next 10 years. Or be able to. There is an interesting shaking Qigong exercise I know how to do right now that’s a rather odd version of jumping jacks.
I’m not as big on prophesying ahead as much as understanding my current path and making certain that I continue to explore the side trails as well as walk a continually higher path of life. That’s the image I carry. I’m always walking uphill in the light. And raising my awareness as I go. What do you see when you look into the future?
DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION
I continue to expand my vision for my potential and what I expect is possible. I raise my sights and follow that path.
DEEPER SONG PROCESS
- Notice what you expect of your future and see how you would like to elevate it. This is your vision and it will lead you on your higher path.
===INNER WORK===
Deepen Your Inner Awareness
Lessons From the Element of Water
Each of the elements teach us a lesson. For instance, water takes many forms, it is a gifted shapeshifter. It adapts to its environment. That’s a good quality to cultivate. Changing to rise to the occasion and being flexible and adaptable are key to both self-cultivation and making dramatic changes. Water can seep into the ground and bring life back or it can overflow the landscape and take away features forever.
How will you invite water to work with you today? Will you let it gently explore and nurture and replenish? How do the qualities of the element of water need to appear in your life to rearrange things, change the landscape to find entirely new paths? Let the qualities of the element of water nurture you and take you on a new adventure. Explore the element of water in your life and notice the changes that are created. Let it help you create your own unique path.
Trust the Unfolding
You can make all the plans you want, but in the end you simply have to trust the process. Things will show up when they show up. You will respond however you respond in that moment. It may or may not look like what you thought it would.
We get to stay in the moment and choose from where we are in the moment and what opportunity shows up.
How do you prepare for this surprise opportunity? You develop a strong sense of your values. You develop a strong sense of your gifts. And then you stay open and with the help of your inner voice, consider the nudges and opportunities that show up. Trust the Universe to provide much more than you ever dreamed about.
A friend of mine in France was recently contacted by a manager in a company about a job and the match was so wonderful, it opened the doors for both of them. He saw a deep potential in her and he’s actually going to create a project around her skill set. She saw the possibility of being in a new environment and working more from home – all the things she wanted. It showed up and she recognized it as an opportunity she wants and will take.
You never know how the new door will be opened. Stay open to the unexpected and go exploring. Be prepared to change directions in the moment. To try something new, to jump over hurdles and find a brand new path. Trust the universe to point the way.
Let Go
Lay the groundwork and then let go and trust. I apologize for sharing so much of my personal process around this impending downsizing move but it’s been hard for me and I have learned many lessons in the process. It’s time that I let go and trust. I am prepared, I do not know the timing, so now I get to let go, trust the unfolding and move forward.
Are you belaboring an idea of something happening that hasn’t happened yet? Are you wasting time worrying or wondering about it?
The big lesson I’m learning is to stay in the present moment. And trust. Trust you will be provided with what you need. Trust you will never be presented with more than you can handle. And trust that it will unfold in the perfect time in the perfect manner. Let go. Let it unfold. Trust the universe. All is well in your world.
===SELF-HEALING===
Take Responsibility for Self-Healing
All Change Begins Within
Whatever is going on in your mind, change begins within. That impending change can be shaped by going within to make changes in your beliefs and expectations about how it will manifest.
We begin by looking at what we believe we deserve and what we believe is possible. That’s how we create what unfolds. Change takes time or it doesn’t, but we have to allow time for change, make room for change, and see what happens, see what unfolds.
Look at what you would like to change and choose a few shifts in your actions and your expectations and notice what happens. Keep experimenting. Do it until you manifest what you want. All change begins within.
===OUTER WORK===
Exploration of New Potential and Possibilities
How Do You Contribute?
There are many ways we make a difference in our world. Sometimes it is by our actions, often times it is merely by our thoughts and our intentions and the energy we send to unfolding situations and the well-being of others. Make a constant conscious choice to contribute. Spend some time each day sending energy to the world, the well-being of the planet or the healing of a situation – whatever calls to you. Make sending energy to the world part of your daily spiritual practice. Then turn around and do the work.
Fall Equinox was September 22nd – What Are You Harvesting This Year?
I realize it’s not Fall Equinox in all parts of the world but these questions are good to ask yourself anytime.
What would you not change?
What do you love about the situation as it stands now?
How has it challenged you to grow?
Create an Action Plan for one aspect of your life.
Here are my answers:
What would you not change?
My intelligence, my creativity and my spiritual life.
What do you love about the situation as it stands now?
Not too much. I am letting go of a lot of possessions and narrowing it down to the realization that there are two important aspects of my life – my creative learning process and sharing my spiritual exploration. That’s what I get to take with me in this move
How has it challenged you to grow?
I’ve been deeply challenged. I need physical help but the space is super small and I will have a roommate. This has not been a fun process to me.
Action Plan for one aspect of your life.
I will increase my physical activity. Longer Qigong sessions, stretches at the sink and more hall walking. I could do more meditation.
What are your answers?
(Idea from We’Moon News)
===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===
Self-Healing Spiritual Practice and Deepening Awareness of Our Cosmic Oneness
Simple Changes, Large Impact
We periodically need to review our spiritual practice. We need to be willing to explore potential changes and the different outcomes we can create.
Take a close look at your spiritual practice. How would you change it? Are you simply repeating the same steps you always do? Are you staying longer on one aspect based of how you feel in the moment? For instance, I might play my flute longer one morning, then pull out my small djembe drum and play for a while. I might spend longer with one aspect of my Qigong practice to see how I feel when I do it more extensively.
Choose an aspect of your spiritual practice and expand it and experiment with new versions of it. Add, subtract and rearrange each of the elements in your spiritual practice until you find a balance that feels good for right now. Then be willing to change it as you move forward.
When you pay attention, when you allow yourself to deeply experience whatever form your spiritual practice takes, you will automatically choose to do more or less or do it differently. Immerse yourself in the experience, experiment with changes and noticed the results. Simple changes can have a large impact.
===GUIDANCE FROM OUR COSMIC COUNSELORS ===
Listening Beyond the Voice Within
Cosmic Counselors, What Do I Need To Do Right Now?
I go to my Secret Garden and am immediately taken to the Misty Circle in the forest where sunlight shines through the canopy of giant trees. My three Cosmic Counselors are sitting in a circle watching a butterfly emerged from a cocoon. “This is where you are in the process of emerging into the new world. You are dissolving many aspects of your belief system and you are transforming into something new and beautiful with a different purpose. That purpose is to nurture, nurture the planet. Nurture its inhabitants because a new set of awarenesses, a new set of directions, are emerging.”
I feel myself shifting into releasing what concerns me. I expand my awareness and make room for new unexpected change to occur. I am in a state of fluid change. That’s where we are on the planet right now, in a state of fluid change. Releasing. Reforming. Choosing an increasingly higher level of inclusiveness. We are each part of the process. We each have our own role. We each have a different experience. When we focus on the highest good for all, we will take the right steps.
I return to my sacred secret garden. It is alive with butterflies moving to change the world.
===HOW TO BE A STRONG CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE DIVERSE CIRCLE OF LIGHT BEINGs===
Expand Our Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe
We Are Both Seekers and Change Makers
We have work to do as both Seekers and Change Makers. First we have to see the new vision, the new path, the evolving changes. Then we get to turn to show others how to join us. We will each have a different individual version of what we seek and then we will each turn in our own unique way and offer a pathway to change.
Keep exploring. Keep making room for change.
===BROADEN YOUR HORIZON – EXPAND YOUR VIEW===
Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations
Explore the Unfamiliar
How adventurous are you? Do you go exploring very often? Where do you go? In nature? Online to learn something new? Place yourself in a situation to meet new people? There are many ways to go exploring and it is important to keep expanding our boundaries. How else can we grow? How else can we learn? If you were to pick one less-than-familiar topic to explore what would that be? I’ve explored Taoism, Shamanism, Qigong and native flute and drum playing. What topics call to you and where will you go exploring next?
===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===
Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future
Our Choices Today Impact Our Future
In the United States we have an upcoming primary election in which what we choose will impact our future in ways we cannot even imagine. There’s a dark energy at work that can destroy everything around it. There is also an entirely different energy to choose from – the higher good for all. It makes us think beyond ourselves. It makes us think about how our choices impact all around us.
Our choices today will impact our lives and the lives of our descendants – our children and grandchildren and beyond. It’s a major responsibility to make a choice for the future highest good for all of us and for our planet rather than a choice that is only good for us in the present moment. We must raise our sights and take responsibility for the future through the choices we make in the present moment.
Our choices of today have a long-reaching impact. Think beyond the present moment when you choose.
===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===
Expanding Awareness
Our Destiny and Self Responsibility
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===CARA’S CORNER===
Face Your Future with Loving Expectation
Future is an odd concept when you are nearing 90. However long it is, it’s up to me to constructively use every single moment of the time I have been given. I can’t do that if I worry about the future. I need to stay in the present moment. I need to keep exploring both spiritually and mentally. Do you need to release all the fancied expectations and completely live is the present moment? We must make the most of what we have. When we stay in the present moment, the future will unfold perfectly.
===SING A DEEPER SONG ===
All I Have Is Now
There is no tomorrow. There’s only today, the present moment, right now. That’s the gift I have been given – the present moment.
There is no tomorrow. There’s only today, the present moment, right now. That’s the gift I have been given – the present moment. I will not fill it with would-of’s and could-of’s and should-of’s. What I have is the present moment to fill with thoughtful awareness, and heart-felt aware choices.
There is no tomorrow. There’s only today, the present moment, right now. That’s the gift I have been given – the present moment. I will not fill it with would-of ’s and could-of’s and should-of’s. What I have is the present moment to fill with thoughtful awareness, and heart-felt aware choices. I live is the present moment in embrace of wholeness. All is well in my world.
– Cara Lumen, September 2022
We create our future with every thought we think, every action we take. Move forward mindfully as you sing your Deeper Song.
Namaste,
Cara
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