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What Do You See When You Look Into The Future?

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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

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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The River of Time – The Discovery

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The River of Time – The Discovery

An Exploration of the Unseen World

Shamanic journeying is a form of meditation that is filled with metaphors that only we are to interpret.  The River of Time appeared in one of my journeys and has led me on many adventures.  Here is the story of my first encounter and the adventure it took me on. 

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

The River of Time – The Discovery

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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

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The Path We Choose

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The River of Time – The Discovery

An Exploration of the Unseen World

I was on a shamanic journey and I had a very powerful healing experience that opened up great opportunity to return and do more deep healing and discovery.  I want to share that experience with you. 

I have returned a few times to this healing place and each time more has been released.  I am not clear what has been cleared and cleanses, I simply know that it has.

Granted, each metaphor in a shamanic journey is for us to interpret, but this is a powerful concept that I know will guide you into an amazing experience.   

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 I shay my Discovery of The River of Time.  

Shaming journeying is a form of mediation.  We go to our Sacred Garden, which represents aspects of us, and are given metaphors as messages that only we are to interpret. 

The message of the River of Time is for all of us.  

It’s always a powerful experience when we learn to release an unknown blockage – an unknown belief. 

And because you do not know the specifics, you lean to trust – trust the process – trust the healing – trust that the necessary blockages and beliefs will be released – and trust your interpretation of the metaphors.

You become very observant of the sublet changes that manifest from this experience of releasing. 

This particular journey does all of that. 

I did not know this was a healing journey until it simply was.  I don’t ever remember my intention but it turns out this journey was about releasing and clearing and clearing.  Here was my experience.   

I went into the meditate state of a Shamanic Journey. 

I found myself by a river.  It was flowing from my left to my right.  It was not deep. It was clear and I could see the smooth water-worn rocks beneath the gently moving water.  I stepped into the shadow part of the river.  Immediately I saw dark colors move out through the bottom of my feet. I felt nothing, no emotion, no sense of release, I just saw it go.  Something was leaving me, something no longer wanted or needed.   I mentally reached out through the bottom of my feet and content with Gaia, earth, the molten cleansing core, and brought that powerful energy to help continue the exodus of whatever was leaving my body through the soles of my feet, streaming into the shallow water.  I stood there for a long while. The black color I was releasing though my feet became grey, and then a more smoky in color. 

Still standing in the shallow water, I opened myself up to my Soul Star.  Immediately powerful energy came in through my crown and gradually moved from my head through my body and out my feet, Again clearing and cleansing and releasing as it went.  I did not know what it was clearing out I simply stood there and accepting that release of what was no longer needed in m life and in my body.. 

Then I was moved to sit down in the water, up to my neck, my arms around me knees.  Immediately more blackness came out of the right side of my body ,being carted away by the water that was flowing from my left to my right.  I felt nothing.  I just watched it move out of my body and knew I was being cleansed and healed and rebalanced.  The color went form black to dark blue to ever increasing lighter colors until it was iridescent – fun of rainbows.  

Now here’s the part I have not yet interpreted.  A very large fish showed up to my left, she was gold and she simply smiled at me.  I have no idea what that meant.  I have a feeling she is a new helping spirit but I do now know her role.

And at that moment I knew I was in the River of Time and I was releasing stuck energy from the past and the present and was clearing the way for my next, my future.  Clearing cleaning, releasing. All from simply sitting in the River of Time. 

What powerful gift. A way to let go, to make room for.  How extraordinarily freeing.

I have been back to the River of Time several times since, sometimes with a specific request, sometimes just to offer myself for a clearing of whatever needs to be released at this moment.  It is a very powerful journey. This is a very powerful healing metaphor because it lets you release the unknown – the unknown blockages, or wounds or…  It just lets you – let go.

This journey allows you to trust.  To trust that whatever is rebased is what needs to go and you don’t have to know exactly what it is.

I did not have a plan for releasing anything.  It just happened. What I released is still unknown to me but because of its color and how the color gradually lighted in color, I interpreted that to be healing.  A release.  A cleansing.

I have never gone to the River of Time with an intention to heal a particular experience or wound, but I could.  I could set an intention and go to the edge of the river and see what I was invited to do.  I may be invited to toss in what I want to release into the River of Time.  I may simply put my fingertips into the river.  Or I may dive clear in over my head.  Whatever happens, it is a metaphor for change, a metaphor for releasing what is no longer needed or wanted or even releasing blockages that are unknown.  

I still do not know what the big gold fish as about, but she defiantly smiled at me. 

So we have a metaphoric healing process that lets us release the unknown, that encouraged us to trust that what is being released is beneficial. 

Ans we get to trust the process, the experience and notice what changes manifest.

I have been back to the River of Time in a journey several times. I have gone with a specific intention to release a blockage in my body.  It is a welcome place, a soothing place, a clearing place and place of change.  My River of Time has fluffy cumulus clouds reflected in it. There are birds singing in the surrounding forest, there is sun shining on its surface.  When you journey to the River of Time notice the landscape around it, the direction the river flows, what you are called to do.  Let the River of Time lead you into this clearing process that will be unique to you.   

I like the idea of the River of Time. It means I can go back into time and heal from a timeline of the past. It means I can take positive action in the present moment that will clearer the energy for my future timelines.  

Use your imagination. Remember that everything in your journey is a metaphor that only you are to interpret.   Let the River of Time guide you  and heal you and use it often. 

  • 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.com to 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.

Are You a Transcendent Leader?

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Are You a Transcendent Leader?

An Inner Word Exploration

“Transcendent leader” is a new phrase for me, and I wondered if I was one.  I want to be.  But what does that look like? Feel like?  Act like?

Transcendent means spiritual, metaphysical, above the range of normal or physical human experience. 

Leader – well, to me that means a guide, way-shower, path-finder.  

We can do that. 

If we are Transcendent Leaders, it means we are aware of the oneness of everything – of our interconnection with All That Is. It means we are aware of everything as vibration – merged, interactive, one vibration.  It means we have an ever-deepening, ever-evolving spiritual practice that permeates and influences all we do. 

There is no separation in transcendent leadership.  We are all one.

What is my job as a Transcendent Leader?

To me, it means to continue to raise my vibration so that it, in turn, raises the vibration of whatever and whomever it comes in contact with.  

I do that in my spiritual practice, my shamanic journey work, my vibration healing work, my thoughts and beliefs, and actions. My choices.

Not a leader – a way-shower

A way-shower says, “Here’s one way if it calls to you.  Hers’s a path I explored that really resonated that I’d like to share with you.  I learned this way to deepen my spiritual practice, or raise my vibration or….” 

You simply become a living example of the energy you cultivate and embrace.  Others see it, experience it and adapt it or not to their own way of being. 

In my case, I write to figure it all out and share what I discover with others. They in turn resonate or not.  Act of not.  I have simply said, “Here’s one way.”

A Transcendent Leader walks beside others

A Transcendent Leader is always conscious of his or her vibration and its impact  We are also aware when someone comes alongside to walk a similar path beside us.  Then we engage in an exchange of energy.  We listen. We share.  We encourage.  And at some point we part ways.  That’s simply the nature of walking your own path.  For it is the purpose of each of us to cultivate and walk our own unique path.

How can I be a better Transcendent Leader?

First, you have to realize that you are a Transcendent Leader.  Whatever you are doing, however you are doing it, you are also impacting others.  Perhaps by guiding them, perhaps by encouraging them, perhaps simply by showing them by example.  

The cornerstone of  being a Transcendent Leader is to know that you are one.  And accept that responsibility and choose and act accordingly.  

Well, fellow Transcendent Leader,  what shall we do to transform the world today?

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I accept and honor my role as a Transcendent Leader.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS 

  • Sit with the idea of being a Transcendent Leader. What does that mean to you?
  • Think about and identify those whom you consider to be Transcendent Leaders.  What do they do?  How do they act? What are the qualities that draw you to them?
  • It begins by accepting your role as a Transcendent Leader.
  • Do that.

To Sind a Deeper Song Consider

You ARE Vibration and Why it Matters

To Gain Strength, Renew the Root

The Transformative Sphere

Unleash the Power of a Creative Spiritual Practice 

The Power of Being in Intentional Space

Do You Practice Self-Transcendence?

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World. 

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How to Transform Energy Before You Release It

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How to Transform Energy Before You Release It

Adventures in the Unseen World

Energy cannot be destroyed, it can only be repurposed.  So it makes great sense that before you release energy that is blocking you, you must take steps to convert it into a form of energy that will be useful elsewhere. What?! How?

Begin from where you are

I only have one example to share from my own life so far since this is a relatively new idea for me.  I was doing a ceremony to release a blockage, which in my case was my reluctance to exercise (I’m 87 and was never a fan of exercise when I was younger).  Along with this was a reluctance to take better care of my home.  Was that laziness? Or that it’s a bit harder?  Or simply that I don’t care? How can I release what I cannot identify as the cause of the problem?

Actually, I don’t have to know.  I can  use the phrase “I release what no longer serves me.”  Or “I relate what is keeping me from moving forward.”

However, that doesn’t address the idea of transforming the energy into something useful before sending it on its way. 

Change the energy into a positive form before you release it! 

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Your Home Within

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Your Home Within

An Inner World Exploration

The more you go exploring in the Unseen World, the trickier it is to find words to describe it.  All-That-Is, the Emptiness That Holds Everything.  Kahlil Gibran says,  “Live in the Nowhere that you came from even though you have an address here.”  

So what is nowhere like?  How do I relate to the unseen world?  What does it feel like to be part of the Web of Life or the Cosmic Ocean?  

These are all metaphors for things that we cannot describe from our body suits.  We sense this energy.  We know there is something a great deal larger than we are in our body suits.  And we also know that we are part of it.  In fact, we are it. 

So how do we feel that, embrace that, understand that?

The Home Within

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