Shakti Sutriasa
How to Step Into Your Potential (Part 1)

Hope you had a love-filled Valentine’s Day even if you were on your own! Remember, Love is always here… because you are here.

So how can you deepen into that ever-abiding love?

One way is to understand how your ego takes you away from experiencing that love which is your true and essential nature.

This is why I wanted to devote the next few weeks to exploring the ways we can consciously and unconsciously get taken out. Specifically, by diving into the seven (I call them veils) of the ego, that Meggan Watterson outlines in her book, Mary Magdalene Revealed.

How to Step Into Your Potential (Part 1)
Shakti Sutriasa
4 Ways to Actively Co-Create Your Life

Lately I’ve been doing some reflecting. It naturally occurred as a follow up from all the visioning we’ve been doing lately.

The inventory I’ve been conducting is about examining my decisions more closely and looking at my underlying motivations.

In other words, did I make a significant decision because I was adhering to a set of unconscious rules passed down from family or society? Or because it was truly something I felt called to do for my own self growth? Take a moment to look back at your life and ask yourself the same questions.

It turns out we make loads of decisions based on things like: pleasing others, fulfilling expectations, because it’s the "right" thing to do, or it’s what we’re “supposed” to do.

4 Ways to Actively Co-Create Your Life
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One Word to Rule Your Year

Happy New Year!

Feeling ready for 2026?

It’s still pretty new which is why I like to incorporate some anchoring practices as a way to create clarity going forward as well as to feel more grounded into the year.

So, for the next few weeks, as I do EVERY year 😉 I’ll post my personal faves. Things I do each year to set me up for the BEST possible year. These practices will assist you to get clear and dream into your future, so you can move with confidence and ease into the days and months ahead.

One Word to Rule Your Year
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10 Ways to Open and Receive More of What You ...

As we move into the holiday season and a time of gift giving, it’s also the ideal time to explore what it means to receive and how to do this with more intentionality.

With that in mind, I’m going to dive deeply into the concept of receiving and how- especially for those of us (givers) for whom that is difficult- we can allow ourselves to experience even more of it!

If you’re wondering why this is important, let me clarify.

In truth, receiving IS the entire game. What I mean is that God/the universe/universal mind/conscious awareness- or however you think about higher self/spirit is ALWAYS trying to give us more love, goodness, support and help.

10 Ways to Open and Receive More of What You Want
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The Essential Truth of Why You Need a Spiritual ...

I don’t need to tell you that the world situation is, to quote Tom Robbins, “desperate as usual.”

In truth, it feels even worse than usual as systems and structures collapse all around us.

Not to be morbid…but the rate of change is too fast! None of us can keep up, not with technology, with AI, with the news cycle, none of it.

Our nervous systems are simply unequipped to manage this level of change/ chaos/however you define it.

Part of why the rate of change continues to increase, is because we’re in what mystics are calling a “celestial speedup.”

The Essential Truth of Why You Need a Spiritual Practice Right Now

Quan Am, the Goddess of Compassion, is Calling.

Quan Am, the Goddess of Compassion, is Calling.

For a number of years now, I’ve had this connection to the White Goddess. I first identified her as White Tara, Buddhist goddess of healing and compassion. But on my recent trip to Vietnam, I learned of a new white goddess, Quan Am. The Vietnamese version of Kwan Yin, the Boddhisattva of compassion

If you are unfamiliar with the Sanskrit term, bodhisattva, or bo tat in Vietnamese, it refers to a Buddhist concept of devoting your life to easing the suffering of others. A Boddhisattva vows to help release all sentient beings from suffering before being truly liberated.

Celebrate Samhain & Move Between Worlds

Celebrate Samhain & Move Between Worlds

This entire month, I’ve been kinda obsessed with the idea of the veil. Meaning the veil between worlds, or the veil that hides the truth from us.

In Hinduism, the goddess Kali is known to rip this veil from our eyes, to help us see the truth. Another way of thinking about it is that the goddess Maya is cloaked in the veil of illusion, which, in truth is as gauzy as a wispy cloud.

While I appreciate the imagery of both of these, the visual that has always, always, always speaks to me is the mists of Avalon. There the priestess stands in the prow of her boat and parts the mists, thus allowing her to enter the island of Avalon. Whereas, the others who are incapable of this feat wander forever lost in the gloam. 

The Power of Maybe

The Power of Maybe

I was having a conversation the other day about how there are 2 types of people: YES people and NO people.

I realize this sounds incredibly generalizing, but hear me out.

Think about yourself. When you’re asked to attend something or hear about a new idea, what’s your initial response? 

Is it a resounding and quick, YES!

Or a NO?

Responding like this is automatic. There may be judgment around one way being better than the other, but I don’t think that’s true. in essence, it’s simply a way we’re oriented towards the world. 

A Great Exercise to Activate Trust

A Great Exercise to Activate Trust

You know when someone shares a technique or exercise they do with you, and as soon as you hear it, your brain says YES!

That happened to me the other day. A woman shared something that a coach she had years ago told her to do. It goes like this:

Imagine that trust is leading the way, guiding you and clearing the path ahead.

I was really struck with this notion, of envisioning trust blanketing everything and everyone, as opposed to feeling guarded or on alert.

Do You Have Permission?

Do You Have Permission?

The other day I was talking to a friend of mine who, after 40+ years of marriage, is now single! As part of her healing journey, she told me that she never felt like she had permission to be in a reciprocally loving relationship.

Not only was this a huge A-HA for her, but also led to a discussion about this idea of permission, how unconsciously we believe we can or cannot act in specific ways, do certain tasks, or take on specific roles.

Make sense?

Why Rejection Is Actually Good For You!

Why Rejection Is Actually Good For You!

Rejection can definitely feel painful, but have you ever considered that it isn’t necessarily the enemy? Could you perhaps see rejection as a helpful guide?

I say this because we might not always know what’s in our best interest.

WHAT?!?

Think about it this way, perhaps you're convinced that working for a specific corporation is your dream job, only they don’t hire you. Instead, a smaller organization does, and it turns out to be exactly where you fit and what you needed to build your skills and open new doors. 

Rejection offers a chance to re-think your plans, to realign or challenge your initial beliefs, and ensure that where you think you want to go is indeed in your highest and best good.

Anchoring Into Benediction

Anchoring Into Benediction

The other day, I was looking through a book of poems called The Gifts of God. It’s a compilation of writings by Helen Schucman. She’s the scribe who for nearly a decade received the words that became the mystic Christian book, A Course in Miracles (ACIM).

During that time, mostly in the 1970s, she also wrote poetry. She was pretty adamant that they not be published and so they were not until after she died. That was when the not for profit organization that publishes ACIM put the book together to honor what Helen had gifted to the world.

A New Way to Explore Creativity

A New Way to Explore Creativity

When you think about creativity, or being a creative person, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind?

I’d be willing to bet that you’ve never thought about creativity like the legendary jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal who died recently at the age of 92.

In an interview he did with Karen Michel on National Public Radio, he said: “People get after me… because I say there's no such thing as a creative person… we don't create a fly or a raindrop or a snowflake, but we can reflect creativity. And when we reflect creativity, we discover. And that's the whole thing about life - discovery. And that's what I live for - discovery.”

Are You A Tortoise or a Hare?

Are You A Tortoise or a Hare?

Recently, I’ve been thinking about the moral of Aesop’s fable, The Tortoise and the Hare.

You read it when you were a child. Yes?

So you know the tortoise wins the race because of his deliberate pace, while the rabbit- although faster moving- often stops to rest.

The implicit message being that “slow and steady wins the race.”

When I first got together with my husband, I would joke that he was the tortoise and I was the hare. It just fit our personality styles and ways of working.

He is deliberate and takes his time. I, on the other hand, want everything done yesterday, am more impulsive, and quick.

For years I thought that I should be more like him. Well, more like the tortoise. Actually, for my entire working life I felt that. Until recently.

Step into Your Holiness

Step into Your Holiness

I worked with a shaman a while back, and one of the ideas that’s really stuck with me is the notion that I (and by extension, you) are the temple, the sacred space, the church, the seat of power.

It lives in you.

I know it sounds weird, and it’s taken me a bit to get it. But the idea is that there isn’t any holy place outside of you that you need to visit in order to experience something transcendental.

THAT SPACE IS ACTUALLY WITHIN YOU.

I was reminded of this the other day, that I/we are the temple, and that wherever I/we go, there is peace, love, holy presence.

But how, then, do we remember this?