Shakti Sutriasa
Facing Uncertainty like a Champ

SOOO glad that last email was helpful to you. 🙏🏼

I’m gonna keep going!

This week, let’s focus on freedom from uncertainty or maybe a better phrase is managing uncertainty.

I mean, let’s be honest. This is a MAJOR challenge for all of us.

When we face uncertainty, it can often cause doubt, fear, insecurity, unworthiness… and the list goes on.

And yet, life is change. Life is constant change. We see it everywhere. Leaves sprout in the spring, green in the summer, yellow in the autumn, turn brown and fall off in the winter.

We live amidst cyclical change that occurs naturally and it impacts us as well. Yet change can also feel difficult to manage. Especially when it’s unexpected or unwarranted.

So here are a few tips to help you navigate this landscape.

Facing Uncertainty like a Champ
Shakti Sutriasa
How to Manage Your Fear: 4 Exercises to Help

I’m on a roll right now, thinking about freedom, and thought that maybe for the rest of this month we could explore ways to feel more free.

The first one that came up for me (how about you?) is FEAR.

If you’re familiar with the enneagram, you’ll know that at point 6 (which is me 😊), this is our basic challenge.

In truth, it’s all of our basic challenge, maybe the flavor of it differs, yes? Because we ALL experience fear. So, the question then is, what do we do when it arises?

How to Manage Your Fear: 4 Exercises to Help
Shakti Sutriasa
How to Step Into Being the Light More Easily

We’ve spent all of June basking in the light – the light of the solstice, the light within us, the light that is our true inheritance. 🌅

One of the questions I often get asked related to this, is how can I experience more of that light within me?

In previous weeks, we explored the idea of having blocks to the awareness of love’s presence. We also examined what some of those particular blocks might be, depending on our personalities. (Enneagram)

As we continue to remove these, the next step is experiencing the light in ourselves.

How to Step Into Being the Light More Easily
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How to Move From Lack to Abundance

It’s true, we ALL suffer from feeling like there’s something missing, or we aren’t good enough, or that we’re lacking in some way…

Certainly, the human part of us can fall into this kind of thinking. Especially when we feel anxious or fearful.

I think it’s helpful to recognize that we encounter feelings of lack or not enough-ness when we either feel separate from the one-ness and disconnected from the universe, OR we identify and believe we are our self image / personality which comes with, according to Robert Holden’s new book on the Enneagram, a core sense of deficiency.

How to Move From Lack to Abundance
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3 Ways to Connect More Fully with Mother Earth

Having fun connecting with the Divine Feminine? Doesn’t it feel amazing?

Here’s another way to connect to that essence.

It’s our last mothering tool.

Can you guess what it is?

Yes, it’s connecting to the great goddess on which we live and get ALL of our physical sustenance and nourishment, Mother Earth.

During the Covid lockdown, I did a wonderful initiation into seeing the earth as Tara- Tara Gaia. And yet, there are countless first nations who have and continue to honor the earth as our sacred mother.

3 Ways to Connect More Fully with Mother Earth

cultivate inner peace

Experiencing Well-Being Part III

Experiencing Well-Being Part III

We’re already at the 3rd pillar of well-being!

As a quick review, the first two are:

  1. Awareness

Meaning, the ability to be more present, tuned into your here and now as well as to your mind chatter.

Cultivating Well-Being Part II

Cultivating Well-Being Part II

How is your practice of awareness coming along?

Another way to think about awareness, is mindfulness. If you google that word alone, you’ll find loads of practices (in addition to the pause one I gave you) to support you in cultivating more awareness.

Today we’re exploring the 2nd pillar of well-being that Dr Richard Davidson identified with his neuroscience research.

Connection

Cultivating Well-Being Part I

Cultivating Well-Being Part I

Have you heard of a neuroscientist named Richard Davidson?

He’s been doing research on the brain specifically related to mindfulness, meditation and well- being for decades. And his research is fascinating!

One of his key findings is around the idea of well-being. Through extensive study, trials and research, he has identified what he calls 4 pillars of well-being.

The really exciting news is that these so-called pillars aren’t inherent qualities, or even simply acquired knowledge. They are qualities that each and every one of us can cultivate and apply every day of our lives!

10 Ways to Cultivate Inner Peace

10 Ways to Cultivate Inner Peace

Recently, I received an email from a woman who told me she was struggling with life challenges, and yearned for more inner peace.

Can you relate?

It might sound counterintuitive, but the most successful way to experience peace is to cultivate it within our own beings.

We think that our focus needs to be on external strife- on conflicts in our communities, aggression among nations- and while it is important to work for justice and world peace, it is even more critical to develop that quality within ourselves.

So, how do you foster peace within?

Here are 10 Ideas for You