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Feeling Powerless is Not a Reason for Inaction

February 6, 2017 By Cara Lumen Leave a Comment

The situation feels too big. We feel too small. We feel powerless. And yet we long to help. We long to help heal and whole and change. And yet we feel small and ineffective because it all seems too big, too overwhelming.

So we do nothing.

Feeling powerless is NOT a reason for inaction

That feeling of being overwhelmed and being powerless almost stopped in me my tracks. What can I, a woman in her 80’s, do to participate and help heal the world? How can I help the planet, the wildlife, the refugees, the sick, the struggling, and yes, the political divide?

There’s a great imbalance in today’s world. Is it the chaos of positive change or the crumbling of something old or the emergence of a new way of being? I have no idea. I just know there’s a mess out there and I’d like to help heal it.

There are lots of things I’d like to protect or change. It’s overwhelming. Where do I start? What do I do?

Begin with your own focused intention

We can send energy. Every day, for instance, I send out wholing energy into the world. I use meditation, chanting, reiki and my tree messenger to add my intention to address at least one aspect that calls to me.

We can give our gifts

We each have a unique gift that only we can give. What do you need to give more of to the world?

I can expand what I offer. I can trust that what I share is passed along to the people who will benefit most. I can listen well within and follow the guidance I receive. I must be productive and I must expand my reach.

How will you expand and share your unique gifts?

We can join together

Focused energy sent from a group is incredibly powerful. Find people focused on the change you want to see in the world and join with them to visualize, to take action, to send energy.

We can be diligent and persistent

Know that your energy counts. Your intention has impact. There are millions of us all over the world who are sending healing energy to people and places and situations that need our help. Find groups who gather together on the internet to focus energy.

Do your part every day.

Picture us as a group of people, each holding their place on a rope that’s attached to a huge boulder. Our combined energy is steadily and surely pulling that boulder into place or out of the way or up the hill — wherever it needs to go. That steady, sure movement happens because we keep our energy working toward the common goal.

We must expand our connection to our invisible self, our universal oneness

Move more deeply into the wisdom of the collective that lies within you and find your strengths and determination there. Trust that the change that appears to be happening will produce enlightenment and a new vision for everyone. Know that the Wisdom Within is the universe, the originating power, the All-That-Is and that your focused energy is lubricating the forward motion toward wholeness.

Don’t feel powerless. You’re needed. Your participation is vital.

Do your part. Join with others who are focusing their vibration toward your joint goal and be the power in the world that you already are!

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

How to Hold the Space for the New Vision to Emerge
The Power of Positive Purpose
The Emergence of Collective Individual Spirituality
The Move From Inner to Outer Work
Change Your Expectations

Our Work in the World

February 2, 2017 By Cara Lumen Leave a Comment

Those of us who are spiritually active have very specific and powerful work to do. We have steadily worked to develop a highly conscious awareness. We look for spiritual guidance in the lessons of nature and embrace the on-going cycles of change. We understand our interconnection will everything. This inclusive consciousness gives us the ability and responsibility to promote and support positive change and we are greatly needed in the world of today.

At first I didn’t understand how I could help. I watched divisiveness and negativity and hatred erupt, even in countries that seemed more tolerant and accepting of individual expression. It shocked and dismayed me and I felt truly helpless.

Join with others to change the group consciousness

As I began to join groups of people from all over the world who came together to vision and meditate for a common cause, to focus their group energy on a higher outcome, I felt useful. I felt needed. And I did more.

I now understand the power we, as conscious, caring individuals, have to change our world. Those of us who work with the express purpose of helping the world to move into a higher consciousness, are expanders of consciousness, changers of the group energy.

This of us who are using our spirituality to heal and whole, are finding each other online and in person. As we combine our collective energy, we bring peace and harmony to others. Since our work is on the inner plane it may not be readily noticeable, but people will feel it and radiate more wholeness in their lives. Their light will ripple out and touch the hearts of others and the world will change and heal.

We energy workers are a small percentage of the population and there’s much work to do. Collectively we are very impactful.

We hold the vision

As spiritually aware and consciously active participants in our world, we are charged with holding a vision — a vision of inclusiveness, empathy, and active caring for the well-being of the whole planet, not just our own personal life experience.

We learn to move beyond ourselves to think bigger, to see the overview, to pull others up so they can see new possibilities. We believe that we can heal and whole our world by changing the group consciousness around what is possible. And that work begins with each of us and our daily, individual, active spiritual practice, whatever that looks like to you.

What is our purpose?

As healers of the planet, our purpose goes beyond our own lives. We have to hold the light for those who are not yet in the place of understanding that we are all one energy, that we are interconnected, that we are the same. Our purpose is to hold high a light of collective consciousness and show others the path to feeling and knowing and immersing themselves in the oneness that we are. We are leaders and explorers. We are way-showers. We are teachers, and guides. We are consciousness changers.

We do our work by actively and consciously focusing positive energy, both in our individual spiritual practice and in like-minded groups. Our personal energy work makes a major difference in the world, but when we gather together and focus on the same positive purpose, we more greatly affect the group consciousness and that leads to major positive change in our world.

Do your consciousness work – daily

Do some form of purposeful energy work every day. Meditation, prayer, affirmations, visioning, hands-on service. Shift your own consciousness to become more inclusive, more empathetic. Broaden your experience of the glorious diversity around you. Look for the gifts others bring. Learn from them Love them. Send your soul out into the world to heal and whole.

Do the work, daily. Focus on the well-being of the whole world or focus on a specific cause. Work with the knowledge that we are all one energy, one web of life. As you work, watch for change and become more aware of the power of your own focused and purposefully intention.

That’s our work in the world. To shine light in the dark corners and show others a higher path.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider
The New Wave of possibility
The Power of Positive Pursue
How to Hold the Space for the New Vision to Emerge
The Emergence of Collective Individual Spirituality
How to Embrace our Differences
The Core Value of Inclusion
How to Activate a Tree Messenger to Send Your Healing Energy into the Word.

How to Hold the Space for the New Vision to Emerge

January 31, 2017 By Cara Lumen Leave a Comment

Those of us who want the world to be different have serious work to do. We have to hold a vision others cannot see. We have to believe in potentials others cannot even imagine. We’re energy workers. We’re spiritual explorers. We’re called to focus that new vision.

Overcome the limits of your Body Suit

We have to go beyond the limitations of our human minds. We have to do the deep work, the interconnected work, the “we-are-all-one” work. We begin our work individually and then join with other like-minded explorers and visionaries to add more power.

You know you want to change. You have a vague sense of the direction you want to go. The catch is we can only vision what we can think up. So we have to let go of our minds and move with our hearts, our feelings and our urges. We have to quieten our mind, still our expectations and simply hold the space for things to change.

Begin with yourself

Expand your personal spiritual practice. Create an altar, a shelf, a space upon which you place some reminders, some tools to help you deepen your spiritual experience. I have an altar I built in a Shamanism course. It’s includes some of my large collection of crystals and artifacts I found meaningful along my path.

Expand your spiritual practice. This is not a religious practice but a spiritual one. Make it your own. Gather in whatever calls to you regardless of its origin. Increase the time spent in contemplative practice, and consciously and frequently send focused energy to the well-being and healing of our world.

Expand your knowledge

To learn to connect more deeply with nature, I took two courses in Shamanism. And as I also wanted to connect more universally with like-minded people, I took a course in subtle group activism. There are a few like-minded friends with whom I have major conversations that inspire and motivate each of us.

Listen to the inner voice

I have opened myself up to a clearer interpretation of the voice within. I now am comfortable calling it channeling. I’m clear that there’s a deeper wisdom that comes through my writing than I seem to be aware of on the physical plane.

I’m often surprised by what I write. Is that my imagination? My knowing? My guides? Call it what you will, but there’s a knowing within you that will give you guidance and answers and direction. Listen to that inner voice and learn to interpret it. Follow your feeling and your intuition to your most powerful place of service.

Be open

In my inner work I often experience huge releasing yawns. Other times I experience deep sobs of recognition as I go exploring. Your own signals will emerge. Go with what resonates. Go with what calls to you. Be open to a sudden rush of recognition and follow that.

The world is changing and we are an integral element in that change. Do the work on yourself. Be receptive to the light of other consciousness changers and follow your heart. We can change the world. We are the world. We are all that is. Let’s evolve into a whole, inclusive, empathetic state of being.

To Sing a Deeper Song consider:
The New Wave of Positive Purpose
When Change is Hard
Be the Story you Want to Tell
The Emergence of Collective Individual Spirituality
How do You Put your Spiritual Insights to Work?
The Power of Positive Purpose

The Power of Positive Purpose

January 25, 2017 By Cara Lumen Leave a Comment

I have to believe that I can make a difference. I have to believe that my thoughts and focused intentions can actually change the world.
I no longer need proof because my belief in the power of positive purpose is so great that I have now immersed myself in that work.

We are limited by our body suit

It’s very easy to feel constrained by the confines of our human dimension, our Body Suit and our mind. We think that if we can’t imagine it, it can’t happen. But that’s simply not true. Our universe goes back millions of years. Millions. Each day new things are being discovered that we never thought possible a few days earlier. What we have to work with is this one moment. And then this moment. And this one. What we do in this moment has great power.

What do you do with your power now?

If “all there is” is in this moment, what’s the best use of it? I could worry, or be angry. I can make plans or create something. I can be still and listen to my inner voice. The most powerful act any of us can take in the present moment is to be present. Simply be. Stop the human mind. Listen to the voice within.

The unifying message is the voice within

When I shut out the busy-ness of my human mind, I’m steeped in a beautiful wholeness, a feeling of serenity, of connectedness, of floating free. Gradually, I can lose my sense of separateness and merge with this floating feeling as if I were part of a cloud, or fog, or mist. Perfect peace here. No judgment. No conflict. Only peace, serenity and stillness.

I like being here. I feel nurtured and supported and energized
— simply by losing myself in the present moment.

Your answers lie within

I listen. There’s stillness. And there’s simple knowing. There’s connection — not with other separate beings, but with a Great Whole — Tao. That energy that is both within and outside each of us.

As I learn to trust the nudges and nuances that come from deep within, I learn to translate those on the human plane. Even as I begin to interpret those wisps and insights, I move back within to make certain I’m interpreting correctly.

Our positive purpose

We each have a purpose. We have a responsibility to learn what it is and to translate it into our human life, our body suits. We are to walk beside others in service. We are to use our gifts to enlighten and inspire and motivate others. And then we get to work. We take our gifts and our purpose out into the physical plane and make positive stuff happen.

First we use the power of our intention. Then we adjust to what we find in the world, pulling it always toward wholeness and oneness. There is no separation. We are one.

Everything we do affects the whole. Our response to the whole affects everything we do. We must see and feel and be our wholeness.

Take your focused intention into the world

Very few people on the planet are doing this focused inner work. Those who are called are free of all dogma and all religion. They’re spiritually inquisitive metaphysical explorers, ready to examine and experience the unknown. We believe our focused thoughts have the power to heal. We know our focused thoughts, particularly in groups, can change everything and anything and bring it back into wholeness.

Find the group intention that calls to you and join in and do the work.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The New Wave of Positive Purpose
The Emergence of Conscious Individual Spirituality
How Do You Put Your Spiritual lnsights to Work.
The Move From Inner to Outer Work
The Core Value of Inclusion

The New Wave of Positive Purpose

January 16, 2017 By Cara Lumen Leave a Comment

A new wave of energy is forming. It’s going to replace the fear and adversity that’s taken over as we watch the US politics of derision, the inhuman killing of people in other parts of the world, and the mindless destruction of our planet home.

This new wave comes from people like you and me — spiritually oriented, thoughtful, inclusive — who care enough about our future and our children and our planet to take action here and now. The new wave. The new wave of thoughtfulness. The new wave of trading information for knowledge and then making informed decisions based on that new insightfulness.

The discovery of the new wave

This week I participated in a Full Moon meditation with David Nichol on Gaifield.net The idea of a group meditation is to use our spiritual practices for collective change rather than just individual change.

After the meditation we had an opportunity call in to add an individual statement.. One person said she was connecting with the new energy that’s emerging to transform the sense of fear into connection.

I was stunned. There was hope!

New power is emerging from those of us who see a need to turn the tide of negativity and divisiveness.

My eyes teared. My focus shifted. I felt hope. I felt power. I felt determined.

I got on the call to thank the person who pointed out that a new energy was emerging and shared that it gave me a strong new sense of power and purpose —that we are to focus now on the positive possibilities and turn them into probabilities.

Join the New Wave of Positive Purpose

That night, I woke in the early hours before dawn, when the veils are thinnest between the subtle realms, and knew that I was being called. That I was being initiated and welcomed into this new wave of positive purpose. I accepted.

And I got up to add to this post an invitation to you, to make a shift right now, in this moment, from fear and hopelessness and yes, even victimhood, to one of control, of determination, of complete knowing that we have power to create positive change and that we shall prevail.

We, collectively, can change our world. We can heal it. We can shift its path toward good and wholeness. By our intention. By our focused energy. By our belief in the power of the collective focus on good.

Collectively we have great power

We are not helpless in the face of the negativity that seems so prevalent. But we must take conscious action on the inner plane. There are people all over the world who are focusing energy on healing and wholing our planet and its inhabitants. There’s tremendous power when we focus our minds and intentions.

Look for and feel a new quality of wholing and healing power and a great sense of urgency that we, as spiritually focused beings, can bring something new and inclusive and empathetic into the world. Let the challenges we’re facing motivate us to focus our intuition on the positive. This does and will make a difference.

It’s the thought that counts

When you see the negative, stop and look for the positive and focus on that. Send supportive thoughts to those who are expressing the values you hold. Send thoughts of balance and wholeness to situations like Standing Rock, the refugee crisis and climate control. Our thoughts count. Yours. Mine. Our thoughts collectively focused on the positive have great power. Be a part of that. Be generous with your focused, intentional, positive thoughts.

What we focus on, we get. Focus on what is good and fair and positive.

Focus on what we can create together

This new wave comes from people like you and me — spiritually oriented, thoughtful, inclusive and caring — who care enough about our future and our children and our planet to take action here and now. A new wave. A new wave of thoughtfulness. A new wave of inclusiveness.

I’m no longer afraid, or even fearful and I refuse to listen to negativity and derision. I know that particular energy is there but I look for and focus on the positive energy where I can find it.

The people I listen to and hear from and talk to (yes, I am selective) do not condone the negative energy that’s so prevalent in the US today. When so many of us want our government to be inclusive and positive and we see that it is not, we must work energetically to be part of this new wave. A positive focus. Inclusive. Empathetic. Innovation that helps those in need. A focus on positive and constructive change.

Join the subtle group field community

We are energy. We are all one energy in the web of life. You can connect with like-minded people all over the world simply by moving within to meditate or pray or vision, whatever form that calls to you, that moves you to the subtle places where there are millions of people actively holding high watch for the world.

Those of us who are spiritually active can join together on the inner planes from wherever we are. We can connect with fellow visionaries from all over the world, to bring forth a new wave, a new vision, a new way of being.

This is a major world-wide shift. An emerging focus. It exists, this new wave. It’s new. It’s emerging. It’s powerful. And it can change our world into the inclusive energy of loving, kind, mutually supportive people we innately are.

You and I, we’re all a key part of this new wave. May I suggest you join me in creating a daily, spiritual practice focused on the well-being of our world and meet with others on the inner plane who are doing the same.

Welcome to the New Wave of Positive Purpose.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider

The Emergence of Collective Individual Spirituality
The Move From Inner to Outer Work
The Core Value of Inclusion
Hold the Space for Things To Change
You Are All-That-Is