Vision Our World Into Being

Living Our Deeper Song

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(“Ah-Shay”)

The Creative in me honors the Creative in you!

The Mookaitite Jasper crystal tower I held in my left hand clearly said to me, “Dream your future into being.” If this is a dismemberment we are going through in our world today, we get to put together a whole New World unlike anything we have ever experienced before.

Right off the bat I see everything with solar power. There are ways to clear up the plastic waste in the ocean. There are new discoveries in healing every day. What if we just suddenly have this whole new world in place, a new way of doing things, a new way of interacting with each other? No harm to anyone. No harm to anything. Peaceful coexistence. Can we even imagine that? What if we fill every interaction with love and compassion? What if negativity simply dissolves and disappears. Each day is filled with inclusiveness and kindness. We care for each other. We care about each other. All species live in cooperation.

What qualities will you put into this world that we can vision into being together? Begin living that way now.

We must move our gaze. We must look for higher expressions of oneness and place them in our lives. Not only do we have to change what we look for, we have to change how we express ourselves. That means we have to cease being critical and find ways to feel compassionate and inclusive instead. That means we have to notice the small acts of kindness and compassion and moved to incorporate them into our own life expression and look for signs of inclusive self-expression in ourselves and in others. Change what you look for. Raise your gaze and focus on our oneness.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I focus on the positive kindness I see today and help it manifest more.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

Shift your gaze from what is not working and focus on the acts of kindness and inclusiveness that are emerging.
Contribute to that unfolding.

===INNER WORK===

Deepen our Inner Awareness

Downsizing to Redefine Your “Next”

There’s nothing like downsizing to make you redefine your intentions and your direction and your purpose in life. That’s a lot to accomplish by releasing a few possessions. “Is what I’m keeping talking to my heart?” is now the best decision-maker I’ve ever created.

I’ve had to re-define my computer space with a smaller desk but I chose one that goes up instead of out. I am releasing crystals to go to new homes. But I’m talking to each one to make certain it’s ready to go. And I am definitely redefining what I get to keep and where I get to put it. Downsizing makes you keep around you what is important for this next phase of your life. This next step.

Perhaps you create change simply by rearranging what you are keep close at hand. For instance, I have four or five crystals that I want to be able to sit and hold and be with throughout my day. The table beside my main chair is getting pretty crowded. I can’t keep all my drums so I have to play them and bless them and let them go at some point before I move. Most of all downsizing makes you rethink what is truly important to you. In Feng Shui they start with empty space and very carefully choose each item that goes in. There are never very many items in a Feng Shui arrangement. It’s a good lesson. When you start to rearrange your altar or table or your desk, clear it off, put one thing back on at a time and feel how the energy changes. Visualize how you use the space and what you can do without. Releasing is at the core of downsizing. What can you let go of that would leave more space to move in, to be in and grow in?

===SELF-HEALING===

Take Responsibility for Self-Healing

Change the Energy of Your Home

As I begin to downsize my possessions, the energy of my home is also beginning to change. It’s as simple as putting a crystal in a different place. Or moving a chair or giving a few things away. What simple fundamental things can you do in your environment that will change the energy? It may be as simple as a new plant or moving one that you have. It probably is about letting things go. See what you can do to change the energy of your space and enjoy the results.

===OUTER WORK===

Exploration of New Potential and Possibilities

Choose to Create Balance

My day is not in balance. I need to make some adjustments. There are things I need to do less of that would allow me to savor other things more deeply. How are you doing on your allocation of time? What do you consider a poor use of your time? Spider solitaire falls into that category for me. Listening to too much news could also be on that list. So I am beginning to free up chunks of my day and exploring the possibilities I could explore. What do I want to put there? Do I go sit in the sun? Do I make up a poem? What would you do if you suddenly had a chunk of free time that you could fill any way that you wanted to? Do that.

Double Duty

As I continue to downsize, a major thing I get to work on is how one thing can serve two purposes. Perhaps three purposes, it’s a very small space and I have no idea when I will move, it could be a year, there are five people ahead of me on the waiting list so meanwhile I’m practicing. I’m working with less. I’m doing more with it. I’m finding alternate ways to do something. This is a period of exploration and experimentation and I’m still sitting in the home that I’ve been in for 12 years. Work with what you have and perhaps work with less of what you keep around you and see how that frees up your energy and focus.

===DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE===

Self-Healing Spiritual Practice and Deepening Awareness of Our Cosmic Oneness

Create and Adjust

In your spiritual practice what is the most important aspect? Do you play instruments to nature? Do you meditate? Do you do affirmations? Notice which facets of your spiritual practice nurture you more than others and adjust the time you spend doing them. And then go exploring to find other forms of meditation. I have music in my spiritual practice. I consider learning and practicing Qigong part of my spiritual practice. I make up songs and there are rattles and bells and crystals on my altar as part of my spiritual practice. Even if you find something you really, really like, it doesn’t mean you can’t go exploring and find a new place and time to add it to your spiritual practice.

You may find that your spiritual practice changes with the seasons. Or with the time of day. See what new form of spiritual practice you can explore and adapt and absorb into your spiritual practice. Explore, experiment, and change.

===HOW TO BE A STRONG CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE DIVERSE CIRCLE OF LIGHT BEINGS===

Expand Our Role in the Rapidly Evolving Universe

Our Role as Light Bearers

One of the ways Light Bearers are in service is by simply living their life in light. As we do, others see that same potential in themselves.

For instance, Corry, the Social Services Director here has offered help in such a loving compassionate manner that it was beautiful to experience. I commented on it and she told me she was very Christian-based and I told her I was very wu-wu. We laughed at how the compassion and caring was there for both of us. Shine your light. Others will recognize it in you and in themselves

===BROADEN YOUR HORIZON – EXPAND YOUR VIEW===

Raise Your Sights and Your Expectations

Explore The Unknown

Explore the unknown and try it on for size. I had quite a few responses from readers of this newsletter saying how much this conversation about changing and retiring and getting old is resonating with them and their concerns and uncertainties. I’m going to keep sharing this part of my journey because I can share the challenges that I have faced and the lessons that I learn. I’ve had my moments of being unhappy. Note that I was a theater major so they expressed themselves fairly dramatically for me. But I’m changing and rearranging things already in preparation – both physically and mentally. For instance, I’m going to begin listening to more podcasts. Depending on where the garden is from my room, I will go spend more time there and take my flute and play to the flowers. And surprise my neighbors.

I have a funny thing about my flute playing. My arthritis fingers are curved on the last joint so when I press what I think is straight down sometimes the sound is weird because the tips of my fingers are not covering the holes correctly. So maybe I won’t play to the flowers, I’ll just keep that to myself inside. But I can take my Kalimba, the flowers would like that.

I am grateful that I have time to downsize and practice living with fewer things so the change will not be as dramatic as it could be. And the timing is unknown.

What change do you see in your future that you could begin practicing for by trying it on for size and making adjustments to accommodate its unfolding and form? Go exploring and see what creative ways you can find to live your “next”.

===OUR EVOLVING FUTURE===

Support and Encouragement for our Unfolding Role in the Future

Change Is Always a Lesson

As I continue to downsize in preparation for a move into Assisted Living, I continue to get lesson after lesson about what is truly important to me at this point in my life. This move is requiring a lot of releasing of possessions. Is it time for you to re-focus on what is core to you? How many of your possessions would you release? You might consider that.

=== ===THE UNFOLDING DIVINE FEMININE=== ===

Explo re and Interpret the Guidance and Messages of the Divine Feminine

Responsibility

I live in Johnson County, Kansas and I’m very proud to have been part of the record turnout of voters that killed the potential amendment to end abortion in our state.

The Republicans put the abortion law into the primary in a very confusing language so we all had to learn how to turn down the amendment. Hopefully our state is a sign of things to come.

Choose your place of service. Where are you are the most valuable? Where are you the most effective? Where you are the most needed? Do that.

===REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG PODCAST===

Expanding Awareness

Journey to the Sacred Feminine

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==== DEEPER SONG EXPLORATION ===

Akashic Records

I am going to listen to more podcasts, beginning with this one – Sounds True wrote:

“In every moment, you are receiving divine messages to help you align with your soul’s path—a path of spiritual evolution, soulful meaning, and universal love. These messages originate from the vast metaphysical library of your entire soul journey known as the Akashic Records.

Ashley Wood is an author, teacher, and co-creator of A Line Within, a platform dedicated to supporting others in using their Akashic Records for self-understanding and growth. Ashley also hosts The Line Podcast, a weekly show where she shares channeled teachings and tools for living in alignment with your soul. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Ashley joins Sounds True founder Tami Simon to talk about her new book with Sounds True, The Line: A New Way of Living with the Wisdom of Your Akashic Records. Tune in as they discuss:

The prayer or “sound code” required for entering the Records
The Pleiadian energies known as the Pinnacle
Becoming an open conduit for your soul’s wisdom
The Line: an energetic, intuitive frequency that we all hold within us
The connection between intuition and your Akashic Records
Activating your awareness of your own Line
The crown of the head and the bottom of the feet as the bridge between our energetic selves and our physical selves
How to distinguish between discursive thinking and Akashic information
How the feeling of alignment is uniquely personal
Why “the most important thing we can learn in this physical life is how to show ourselves unconditional love”
The evolutionary and revolutionary changes unfolding in our current times and the call to serve through offering your gifts

As Ashley explains to Tami, “You’re receiving guidance all the time. It’s just about being open, patient, trusting, receptive, and following what you have planned for yourself in this life… If this is your first time hearing the language of your soul and really feeling comfortable with that, it will take time and practice and dedication. But in time you will get it.”

We hope today’s podcast opens you to a deeper understanding of your soul and your own sacred path.

With you on the journey,

Your friends at Sounds True

P.S. Discover more about Ashley Wood’s book, The Line: A New Way of Living with the Wisdom of Your Akashic Records.”

===CARA’S CORNER===

Embrace Creative and Innovative Change

My life has gotten smaller over the years as part of my aging and downsizing process. Releasing my wonderful ’83 turquoise Honda Civic with not many miles on it that got 30 miles to the gallon was a huge change and the young woman who bought her is loving having her in her life.

I’m very content with my online life and the friends that I’ve made there that are like-minded. This upcoming change into a smaller space in assisted living is going to take some getting used to. I will probably eat better because they will bring me meals or I can go eat with others. I can get my haircut which would be a good thing. I’m a little like Rapunzel at this point.

There are important fundamental things I can’t do anymore – like taking my trash out on a walker let alone tossing it in the high trash bin. Have you ever tried to balance a trash bag on the walker and then walk?

I will probably see more people in assisted living than I do here because of the people who will bring me my food if I want and do my laundry and help me sort out my vitamins. But it’s a big step in my aging process. And I’m working to make peace with it.

So I’m moving into another season of letting go which I think is what progress is all about anyway. I need to choose what is most valuable to have around me at this point in time. And let the rest go. This aging process is a path of releasing and completion. I want and need to turn this move into a new path of potential. I don’t yet know what that’s going to look like. But it will evolve as I open myself to new experiences and new opportunities. The rooms look out on a large garden tended by master gardeners so I can watch nature’s ever-present journey.

We are thinking up, not out in filling my smaller space. I am taking my computer on a new narrower stand and an elongated bookcase as my “officer” and my daughter is arranging for me to have an automatic lounge chair that pushes me upright and also leans back so I can sleep in my chair. A twin bed is provided as is a low four-drawer dresser to put your TV screen on. I’ve ordered a royal blue headset!! This is being provided me because I am on Medicare so it’s a semi-private room, I have to trust the Universe to provide the right suite-mate. There are people to help me with everything, day and night. But I’m a loner who loves being free to pursue my own calling. My spiritual exploring and my writing and online outreach are at the core. So perhaps the change is only in the size of the room. And the help in the responsibility of self-care.

What can I do at this point in my life that will be more productive and more impactful for those I serve? I stay open and listen and respond.

===SING A DEEPER SONG ===

Preparing for Next

I lay it all aside. I stop where I am in my life and put everything aside in order to create my “next”.

My load must be lighter because I am old but I am full of wisdom to bring with me.

I lay it all aside. I stop where I am in my life and put everything aside in order to create my “next”.

My load must be lighter because I am old but I am full of wisdom to bring with me.

I begin my new adventure with an expanded heart and an ever-deepening vision of what is possible. It is unfolding as it is meant to be.

Cara Lumen, August, 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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