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

How to Use the Centering Prayer Throughout Your Day

How to Use the Centering Prayer Throughout Your Day

Last blog I shared a meditation/prayer practice with you called the centering prayer. If you missed it, here’s a link to the post.

As a quick review, here’s the basic idea:

1. Choose a word (or phrase) to focus on during your meditation.

2. Ensure that you’re sitting comfortably with your eyes closed.

Begin repeating the word or phrase silently to yourself over and over again slowly. Deepen into the phrase, slowly and intentionally, giving your thought-mind something to focus on. If your phrase is: “I rest in God,” begin by saying that phrase. Eventually it may become “I rest,” or “God” that gets repeated as you slow down and deepen into the words.

How to Have a Centering Prayer Practice

How to Have a Centering Prayer Practice

Today I have a cool meditation/prayer for you.

It’s called the Centering Prayer.

The Christian contemplative, Cynthia Bourgeault, has written extensively about this practice and teaches this technique around the world! It’s a way of praying that allows us to loosen our minds from thought and enter that transcendental space that can often feel elusive.

She shares that this practice was popularized by Father Thomas Keating, a Trappist priest. He was one of the first people to promote the Centering Prayer which is based on a 14th century Christian mystical text called The Cloud of Unknowing.

Accessing the Deep Levels of Gratitude

Accessing the Deep Levels of Gratitude

Ready for the final installment about using gratitude to live the life you’ve come here to have?

Let’s do a quick review first.

First we covered exploring gratitude as a REACTION. In other words, cultivating gratitude for what you have in your life right now. Are you still doing your list every day?

Second, we dove into the idea of adopting a PHILOSOPHY of gratitude. The invitation being to experience life through the lens of gratitude.

Today we’re going to the deepest level, IDENTITY.

Deepening into Gratitude

Deepening into Gratitude

Last week we explored the basic definition of gratitude and how to cultivate an attitude of appreciation. Today let’s dive into what life might look like if you adopted a PHILOSOPHY of gratitude.

It isn’t just about a response to what you have in your life right now. It's taking gratitude to the next level and applying it directly to your life!

It’s choosing to be grateful that you are alive.

Cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude

Cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude

As we move into the end of the year, it can be a wonderful time to pause and reflect. Whenever I think about that, it immediately drops me into gratitude.

So, for the next few weeks, I thought it’d be fun to do a deep dive into gratitude.

Use This Mindful Practice to Feel More Grounded

Use This Mindful Practice to Feel More Grounded

Recently I learned a mindful practice that I’ve been using a lot so I thought I’d share it with you. It’s especially helpful if/when you feel dis-regulated, anxious, or ungrounded. Find a seat and follow the steps! Here’s how to do it:

9 Thoughts on Forgiveness That Will Set You Free

9 Thoughts on Forgiveness That Will Set You Free

As you know, I’m a fan of the enneagram. Why? Mostly because it helps me understand my personality, and when I’m operating from my limited perspective, as opposed to feeling connected to the universal mind. In an email, Dr. Robert Holden took all 9 enneagram types, identified them, as well as a specific way each can get stuck or blocked from receiving all the good that wants to come into our lives.

Cultivate Compassion & Loving Kindness -A Practice

Cultivate Compassion & Loving Kindness -A Practice

As you know, I’m all about giving you tools to feel better, and truthfully, this one is a serious game changer!

It’s a Buddhist practice to help you cultivate compassion or loving kindness.

Loving kindness can be defined as feeling empathy, compassion, and kindness towards yourself and others.

Neuroscience research supports that these practices have tremendous benefits including to:

Fostering and Living Your Values

Fostering and Living Your Values

Last week I was at a summer party.

You know the kind, casual and filled with loads of people you don’t know personally, though you all share common friends. Naturally, I was introduced to a man, and once we’d figured out our mutual connections, we began to chat.

At one point he made a reference to politics, or managing current events, or something along those lines, and the strangest thing happened.

I began speaking to him -and at the same time that eloquent words were flowing from my mouth- I was simultaneously wondering, who is saying this? Because the ideas were spot on but were not something I’d previously even considered! Yet here they were, pouring out of me clear, concise, actionable.