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
Shakti Sutriasa
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
Shakti Sutriasa
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

Asking the Wrong Question?

Asking the Wrong Question?

Do you sometimes have that nagging thought, the one that hounds you and tells you there's something wrong with you?

The thought that says if you were somehow different, life would be easier. You'd get the perfect soul mate, be abundantly wealthy, in great shape, have your perfect career...

Yes, that thought.

You have it too?

But what if it wasn't true?

What Spiritual Stage Are You In?

What Spiritual Stage Are You In?

Wondering where you might be on your spiritual journey?

I recently stumbled on an insightful tool called The 4- Stages of Spiritual Development. It was created by Michael Beckwith. I love his work. He is a profound spiritual presence, thinker and speaker and runs the mega-ministry of Agape in Los Angeles.

Here are his 4 stages:

How to Make the Unconscious Conscious

How to Make the Unconscious Conscious

The Covid-19 crisis and the Black Lives Matter protests, are showing us - up close- that we need to see and acknowledge the pain and suffering people have been experiencing.

And take a stand.

One way we can do this is by making the unconscious conscious.

We can do this both within our own selves, as well as within the larger society, by shedding light on the ways hurt, favoritism, racism and bigotry have been institutionalized.

Experiencing Grief? This Can Help

Experiencing Grief? This Can Help

All of us are experiencing a form of collective grief from this corona virus, mourning the way we once lived – leaving the house without a thought to donning a mask, attending events, visiting friends, traveling, going into the office...

In addition to the weight of this collective grief, many of us have personal tragedies on top of that. Loss of a loved one, a job, financial security, etc.

And whatever happens next, we know it will be different.

Radiate Peace with This Prayer

Radiate Peace with This Prayer

You know when you get a song stuck in your head?

Well, these days instead of a tune, it’s a prayer:

Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu

Maybe you’re familiar with it, from a yoga class?

When we chant these sounds we are saying:

  • May all beings be happy.

  • May all beings know peace.

  • May all beings be free from suffering.

  • And that includes us.

We cannot wish something for another without receiving it for ourselves as well.

Ready for More Resilience? 5 Tips

Ready for More Resilience? 5 Tips

How’s your resilience?

Given the level of uncertainty we are living in, perhaps you are feeling challenged.

Resilience, like most things, is a muscle, and it benefits from strengthening.

If you feel like you want to fortify your resilience, here is my top 5 list:

1. Carry On Regardless

This is the theme of a Van Morrison song off the album Magic Time. In it, Van rants about the hypocrisies of the world , but also reminds us to carry on to “satisfy your soul.”

Ready to Deepen Into Faith?

Ready to Deepen Into Faith?

Are you ready for some faith?

That’s this week’s advent theme.

What exactly is faith?

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, here are the definitions:

1. Allegiance to duty or a person; loyalty (lost faith in someone or something)

2. Fidelity to one’s promises; sincerity of intentions (acted in good faith)

3. Belief and trust in and loyalty to God; Belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion

4. Firm belief in something for which there is no proof

5. Complete trust

6. Something that is believed especially with strong conviction

We bat this word around – especially those of us on a spiritual path.