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How Vibration Heals

November 12, 2019 By Cara Lumen

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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Filed Under: Raise Vibrations, Self Transformation, Spiritual Expansion, Unseen World Tagged With: self transformation, Sing a Deeper Song, Spiritual Expansion, transformational thinking, unseen world

Portals and the Unseen World

October 22, 2019 By Cara Lumen

Portals and the Unseen World
An Inner-world Exploration

I explore the 95% that is the Unseen World through the process of a shamanic journey.  I have established guides and guardians and metaphors that only I am to interpret.  I journey every day.  Sometimes I ask for advice.  Sometimes I ask for guidance and deeper awareness.  Sometimes I just journey to myself for my future path.

Learn to interpret the inner nudges

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Filed Under: Raise Vibrations, Self Transformation, Spiritual Expansion, Unseen World Tagged With: Sing a Deeper Song, Spiritual Expansion, transformational thinking, unseen world

Unleash the Power of a Creative Spiritual Practice  

September 11, 2019 By Cara Lumen

Unleash the Power of a Creative Spiritual Practice
An Inner-world Exploration

Your spiritual practice should be eclectic.  It should reflect you – what you believe in, what you need in your life right now.  However, there are four elements to address as you continue to create and evolve your personal spiritual practice: regular practice, receptive atmosphere, intention and vibrational actions.

Regular practice is the foundation of your spiritual work

The truth is, you can add a bit of spiritual practice anytime, anyplace, but to elevate your awareness and deepen your connection, you need to create and maintain this spiritual practice.  

Begin your day with inner work.  Whether it’s a sitting meditative practice or an active meditative practice like yoga or Qi Gong, or both, you have control over your mornings, you can get up and stay tuned into yourself and to your inner world. 

In the evening, you can add an element of spiritual practice when you move from workday to home. When I learned Transcendental Meditation fifty years ago, it was suggested we meditate 20 minutes upon arriving home in order to make that transition from work to family. 

You can create another spiritual practice at bedtime, in gratitude for the day and in preparation for inner work during the night of rest. 

Create a receptive atmosphere 

For your spiritual practice, choose a place that feels tranquil to you and use it regularly. The energy in that space will build, the vibration will heighten, and the mere space will become a source of serenity and nurturing for you. 

Sit on a chair or cross-legged and use a mudra (hand position) of your choosing to center you. Begin with hands lying palm up on your lap, one hand lying on top of the other, your thumbs touching.  Experiment with mudras to find what calls to you. 

Set an intention for your meditative session

Intention is the most powerful tool we have in all our inner work. It sets our course and is the wind beneath our wings. 

What’s the purpose of your period of inner work?  To heal?  Clarity around a choice or action? To receive guidance from the unseen world? To bless the day or offer gratitude at the day’s end?  Perhaps your intention is to raise your vibration or heighten the impact of your illumined service.   

Consciously set an intention for every meditative session.

Use the power of vibration to heal and balance

We’re all one vibration.  We communicate through vibration. Your spiritual practice can creatively contain many forms of vibration. 

Create vocal vibrational sounds

First, simply sit quietly and breathe. Notice your breathing. As you exhale, release any tension or worry. Empty your mind and sit in silent stillness. 

Then begin to hum.  Whatever note you hum, notice where it vibrates in your body.  Try different pitches and see where they resonate.  Direct the hum to your hands or feet.  Direct the hum to any part of your body that needs balancing. Just hum.  Let the melodies simply appear, and experiment with directing the vibration of the tone.

You can focus sound on your chakras for opening and balancing them.  You can send sound to the world, or a person or a situation.  Take a slow deep breath, set an intention and hum the vibration where you want it to go. 

Experiment with vibrational instruments

Find the vibrational instruments that resonate with you. We’re talking drums, flutes, bells, gongs, rattles, clapping your hands, tapping a rhythm on the arm of your chair, toning, chanting.  This is where you do the most experimenting.  

Create a ceremony that is uniquely yours 

A ceremony anchors your intention.  Create one that works for you. You might honor the seven directions – East, South, West, North, Above, Below and middle world.  I also honor the Stone Clan and Nature. I use a drum and I drum and sing. I see that drum as connecting me to all the worlds. 

I have two rain-sticks.  I use them to welcome in the blue light of power, the green light of healing and the white light of unconditional love. 

I use my small Tibetan gong to send energy to my past, my present and future. I use my Tibetan cymbals to send it to my home, the people of the earth and the planet.  I use my rattle to shake around my home and send positive energy to all the crystals and groupings and to my cats and plants.  

I give an intention to each vibrational creator I use.  Gong, claves, thumb piano, flutes, rattles, bells.  Listen to what you’re using and intuitively find its purpose. 

The Manifestation Box

I have a lidded raffia box with a wonderful dragon on the front that I use for a manifestation box.  On pieces of paper, I write what I want to bring forth. It can be specific physical healing, it can be ideas like wisdom and insight, healing the planet or simply an intention like “raised vibration.” Each day in my spiritual practice I open the box and read the intentions I’ve chosen.  With intention send positive energy to the choices you’ve made. 

Don’t forget the rocks!

Crystals hold a higher vibration and have guiding messages for you. Whether you hold a rock in your hand or place it on your altar, listen to the message it offers. 

My space is a tad full of crystals so I bring a few to the forefront for a week at a time and work with them and listen to their messages and advice and gifts.  Hold crystals in your left hand to receive. You may get a sensation in your body for you to interpret or simply pay attention to the thoughts that show up.  Learn to hear and interpret the messages of the crystals. 

Create vibrational movement

Movement is vibrational. Whether it’s Qi Gong or Yoga or T’ai chi or simply moving in rhythm to a chant, add conscious movement to your spiritual practice. You can also go outside and dance in nature.

Create a sacred altar

In the sacred space you have chosen for your spiritual practice, perhaps you place a simple table or plant stand to hold objects that resonate with you.  My “altars” are all around me.  One grouping is on the shelf in front of the desk that I sit at a lot.  Another altar surface is on a table under the window beside me. I look out the window to play my flute and work with other objects. It also happens to have a great place for some of my drums underneath. There is another low chest near the chair from which I drum and play a lot of my vibrational instruments. And my desk surface itself is full of crystals and sound instruments because this is where I spend most of my time.  This is where I sit to take my shamanic journeys because I change and type them in. 

Journal

Whether you journal by hand or on the computer, when you write down what you remember from your meditation it makes room for the next layer to be made evident.  Journaling also allows you to look back at your progress, or when something major happens, you can identify what you were doing to help that along. 

You can journal at the end of the day in reflection and gratitude.  You can journal to set your intentions for the day.  Record your visions your insights, your inner messages. It brings them more deeply into your awareness. 

Checklist for creating a unique and powerful spiritual practice

  • Regular practice is the foundation of your spiritual work. Pick some times and stick with them.
  • Create a receptive atmosphere of uninterrupted quiet.
  • Create vocal vibrational sounds and direct them for healing.
  • Experiment with vibrational instruments. Create power songs as you play if they offer themselves. 
  • Create a ceremony to begin and end each spiritual session that is uniquely yours. 
  • Don’t forget the rocks!
  • Create vibration movement.
  • Create and evolve your unique sacred altar.
  • Journal for deeper awareness.

Spend your day mindfully

Enter your day with mindfulness. Walk through your day with mindfulness and end your day in mindfulness. Find opportunities to reflect within throughout your day.

Your life is your spiritual practice!!!

Live it mindfully.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I create a spiritual practice that serves the uniqueness of me. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Look at what you do in your spiritual practice now.  What are your favorite things to do?  Begin there. 
  • Explore some of the ideas above – toning, sound instruments, movements and see what suits you. 
  • Add that. 

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

You ARE Vibration and Why it Matters

How to Interpret the Messages from Within

Make Use of Emptiness

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

Why You May Want to Have an Altar

The Power of a Ceremony of Releasing

The Pillar of Light Process 

The Intentional OM HUM

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed 

The Light Vibration of One

Broaden and Deepen
Your Personal Journey
 

I help spiritual adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and learn to share our discoveries with others.   We are guides and way showers with our light held high.

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Filed Under: Raise Vibrations, Spiritual Expansion, Unfolding Tagged With: raise your vibration, spiritual practice, transformational thinking

To Gain Strength, Renew the Root

September 4, 2019 By Cara Lumen

To Gain Strength, Renew the Root
An Inner-world Exploration

What exactly is my root and how do I go about strengthening it? 

A tree grows from the root.  The root expands and the tree grows taller and wider.  So if I, here in my body suit, want to grow stronger and taller and wider, how, exactly do I strengthen my root?

Your root holds your values

Each choice we make reflects our values.  Am I inclusive?  Am I compassionate? Do I look for the positive around me?  Notice how you’re responding to a new situation and examine your values to see if they need adjusting or if you simply need to stay true to the values you choose. 

Your root is your gifts

We’re given certain tools to work with in our lifetime.  Gifts of passion, ability, the calling of our heart.  To grow your root, look past your daily life and use the gifts you’ve been given.  

Your root is your passion

There’s a core passion that calls to you.  It may have gotten lost in the shuffle of life.  Perhaps it was something you used to do.  Perhaps it’s something you’ve just begun to do.  Perhaps it’s a passion you’re using now but are ready to take in another direction. In whatever way you follow your passion, you strengthen your root. 

Your root is in your spiritual practice

We know how to strengthen and care for our bodies, but do we actively take steps to strengthen and care for our inner life, our spiritual life?  Examine new forms of spiritual expression.  Prune out old roots of spirituality-by-rote and send off new shoots of exploration to find resonate ways to nurture and nourish your spiritual life. Expand your spiritual practice. Get creative. 

Your root is your choice

Each moment, we have a choice.  Each moment, we make a choice.  Sometimes they are conscious choices. Sometimes not.  Work to make certain that your choices are “aware” ones, choices that reflect your values, your spiritual path, your passion and your gifts.  The power for growth and the direction you go in is a moment-to-moment conscious choice.  Make wise and thoughtful decisions. 

Growth lies in self-awareness

Listen to your passion, explore your gifts, hold every choice up to your values, and move with increasing awareness through the path of life. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I care for and cultivate my roots.

Deeper Song Process

  • Imagine yourself as a tree.  Are you as tall as you want to be?  Are your branches as strong as you would like them to be?
  • What steps will you take to strengthen the roots that support you?
  • Do that. 

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

Nurture the Garden Of Self 

Create a Releasing Ceremony for Yourself 

Make Use of Emptiness

Individual Curiosity and a Willingness to Change

The Packed Potential Before the Beginning

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

 

Filed Under: Self Awareness, Spiritual Expansion Tagged With: Self Mastery, self-awareness, transformational thinking

Nurture the Garden Of Self

August 21, 2019 By Cara Lumen

Nurture the Garden Of Self
An Inner-world Exploration

Our strength comes from within.  Our ideas come from within.  Our entire life expression comes from within. Within you, accessible by your imagination, there’s a Garden of Self and we are each responsible for planning, cultivating, and harvesting our own crops.  

Intention plants the seed

Starting your Garden of Self is as simple as setting an intention.  

Today I plant the seed of Serenity in my Garden of Self and I will water it with patience, nurture it with silence, and harvest it throughout my day. 

Well, wow!  Let’s do more of that.

Today I plant the seed of Wisdom in my Garden of Self.  I nurture it with contemplation and mindfully harvest it throughout my day, picking one succulent berry at a time and savoring it.

More?

In my Garden of Self, I planted an acorn called “Cara” and it immediately grew into a giant oak complete with a bird’s nest, a rainbow parrot, a squirrel and a bunch of acorns that are future Cara trees.  

It’s a mature tree, as I am mature, but it has a lot of life and a great deal still to offer. Insights, wisdom, hope.

What will you plant in your Garden of Self?

The Fountain of Love

In your Garden of Self create a water source.  In the Sacred Garden where I begin each shamanic journey, I have three separate water sources:  a reflecting pond, a bubbling brook, and a waterfall.  So I was surprised to find a different water source in my Garden of Self, which is down the road from my Sacred Garden.  But a fountain showed up, a happy, bumbling, spray-sharing laughing fountain. It is from this Fountain of Love and Joy that I am to nurture the crops I plant.  

Build the support you need

You may need to provide a trellis for some of your crops.  A support system that encourages growth and the space to expand or elevate above the ground.  What in your life needs support?

You may need to prune a plant in your Garden of Self in order to encourage the growth of one strong central plant.  Don’t be afraid to prune and let go. It will make the core stronger. 

My Cara tree has obviously been around for a while. Do I need to prune it?  Support a branch here or there?  Drop a few more acorns of wisdom?

Cultivate, encourage and support whatever you grow in your Garden of Self. 

Share your harvest

In the Garden of Self, you plant the things you need in order to elevate the vibration of your Body Suit.  

At some point, you are going to share your harvest.  Perhaps you will share a little.  Perhaps you will share a lot.  Who will you share it with?  How will you take it to market?  Who needs what you have to offer?

I’m dropping acorns of wisdom like a wild woman. Sometimes the wind helps me and carries them farther afield.  Sometimes they just drop to the ground and take root.  Sometimes they go to feed a bit of nature like a squirrel.  I just keep dropping seeds of Insight and Wisdom and let them fall wherever they may. What seeds are your sharing from the plant that is you?

Allow the cycles to unfold 

Gardens go through cycles.  Their needs change.  Sometimes they take.  Sometimes they give. It’s all part of the process of nature’s cycles.  Know where you are in the cycle and what you need to do/provide next. 

You may need rest in order to restore. You may be harvesting the best crop you ever produced.  You may be simply looking over the seed catalog to see what you want to plant.  Each stage is perfect.  Immerse yourself in it. 

Plant some experimental crops

You won’t know whether you like the crop until you harvest it and put it to use.  You don’t have to grow a lot of an experimental crop, but do plant enough so you can understand its needs, its demands, its preferences and how the final harvest nurtures you.  Even planting one seed and following it through its process can provide the information you need to make a decision on whether or not to plant more. 

Keep the Garden of Self nurtured

What does our Garden of Self need right now?  Where are you in the cycle? Not all crops will be in the same stages of readiness.  Give them what they need.  And remember one cycle leads to the next. So while one field is allowed to lie dormant in order to restore and replenish, another will provide multiple harvests.  Be aware of the difference and honor the process and the cycles.  

Intention provides direction and growth

Each day, pause to consider the intention you have for your Garden of Self.  That pause to balance and gain awareness will help you set an intention that will carry you forward in the most positive and productive manner.  Set an intention and let it unfold. Then follow the path that opens up. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I tend my Garden of Self with conscious intention every day.

Deeper Song Process

  • In a state of meditation, journey to find your Garden of Self and begin to explore.
  • See what crops need to be planted.  What do you want to grow and encourage in your garden of Self?
  • Plant some staples, but perhaps start a few experiments crops.  
  • Tend your Garden of Self every day.
  • Harvest when ready and share what you have grown.
  • Look over the seed catalogs and plant some experimental crops….!

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

Unleash the power of your Sacred Garden

What Seeds Do You Allow to Grow in Your Garden? 

What Seeds Do You Plant for the Future?

What are the Foundations Stones Upon Which Your Build Your Life?

The Power of a Releasing Ceremony

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World. 

I help transformational thinkers
raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively,
can raise the consciousness of our planet.

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Filed Under: Self Awareness, Self Transformation, Spiritual Expansion Tagged With: Self Mastery, self-awareness, transformational thinking

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