Featured topic: Inner peace:
The foundation of self-transformation

People often ask me why I have chosen to make the development of inner peace the basis of our first level course in soul potential. Would it not be sexier to focus on life passions or true love or how to win the Lottery? Well I guess that is true, but none of those things are sustainable without the ability to maintain inner peace. In fact if we were to promise success in any other field without providing our students with the skills to promote inner peace first, we would be offering information without real guarantee.

Inner peace is the foundation of lasting power. Imagine how better contained the current world financial and economic crisis would have been if those directly affected by it had been able to maintain inner peace! The panic, the terrifying illusions, and the hasty decisions would all have been minimised. We would already be on a sure road to recovery.

We all know of lovely moments of peace. But few people know (or believe) that inner peace is possible as a way of life, and even fewer remain in the flow of it most of the time. Generally they have to remain content to experience the joy of being at peace maybe once a year, once a weekend, or once a day for those who meditate or pray.

And that is just so frustrating! Deep inside ourselves we know that peace is more natural and healthy than adrenaline buzzing in the blood. We yearn to capture it and do not know how. And so we doubt that it can be made a steady reality.

But the sense that inner peace is more natural than distress and disturbance is accurate. Every time you feel a sense of being at one with yourself, of being in a state of comfort or natural pleasure or confidence or pride in the self then you are aligned with your true spiritual nature. It is this experience of inner peace in everyday situations that tells you that you are standing on a steppingstone along the path to an enlightened and abundant life.

And that is why you find yourself treasuring those key visualizations of disentangling and anchoring. They remind you that this is so. However the maintenance of such peace is impossible without practice. The default mechanism of the survival brain is to revert to anxiety whenever there is a challenge. Steady practice of the basic visualizations to embody inner peace until it becomes a way of life is essential to your transformation.

Author: Suzie St George coordinates the online self-transformation courses at www.reachpotential.com.au . If you are not a regular member, You can purchase the e-book, Finding Inner peace in everyday life, which provides details of the key visualizations mentioned in the article.

2008 Workshops

Keys to Inner Peace evening: November 13th.
1 High street , Beaumaris: 7.30 – 9.30 p.m.
Bookings essential. $35.
Topic: How you can be part of building peace in your world.

Siramus Group meeting: November 27th .
1 High street, Beaumaris: 7.30 – 9.30 p.m.
Topic: to be advised. No vacancies.

Daylesford group: November 3rd
48 West street , Daylesford: 10.30 am –12.30 pm. Readings and topic related to energy of the month. You must advise Suzie of your intention to come.

Contact Fiona on 0425 752 183 or email her for all bookings except Daylesford. fiona@reachpotential.com.au

November 2008 Energies Report

Siramus is a master energy that works specifically with unfolding the unique soul potential of individuals. His comments are for those who are engaged in this type of self-transformation wherever they may be in the world. By working with the month's energy in your own life you promote your soul's expression in this life (your greatest potential) and also assist the healing of the planet. For details of our foundation courses, see our web site: www.reachpotential.com.au .

The focus of November is on the experience of peace. The energy of peace is physically tangible this month: you can taste it, smell it, roll in it and wrap it around you. We want you to gorge on peace this month.

Peace is a collection of forms of love including pleasure, comfort, ease and grace that are in embodied form. The emphasis this month is on how you create and allow peace by methods other than exhausting your adrenals through mental effort and falling into sleep at the end of the day! To create peace consciously you need to pay close attention to daily management and to self-loving responses that ask, “How can I do this as peacefully as possible.” Developing peace means choosing to think and feel peace until it is an experience.

In doing this, you are also seeking a balanced understanding of peace. You are cementing your understanding of how to create balanced peace. Balanced peace is not to be considered a noble ideal (Sky) nor is it the achievement of a physical reality (Earth). Your discovering of peace is an active state that involves building it, and in doing so using compassion, and acceptance.

There are no negativities associated with this months energy of peace, but those who have not addressed their internal fears and find greater pleasure in drama, will make meals of conflict. To ensure that this is minimized, clear your negative ego's desire to create conflict.

Recommended visualizations

Apart from clearing the negative ego, use any visualization that will help you learn new systems to bring comfort to yourself and others.

Recommended resources

Suzie St George online mentoring: suzie@reachpotential.com.au

Fiona McDougall Soul Diagnostic: www.spiritualmetamorphosis.com/soul_diagnostic.html

Reach Potential site : www.reachpotential.com.au

Advanced members: www.spiritualmetamorphosis.com

Enjoy breathing in the energy of peace by listening to the three- minute musical expression of it on the Reach Potential home page. It's great. And our thanks to Randal Newton-John and Shakira Searle.

Silver library

Silver visualizations 

Gold visualizations

Featured topic: Harry Potter magic for self-developers

This morning I woke up and thought of my day ahead. And as usual I wanted it to be magical, meaning fun, wondrously easy and more successful than happens by normal plodding logic.

I planned to do some cooking for a family get-together. And, in accordance with my usual magical methods, I spent a few moments on inner work routines, dreaming of what I wanted, anchoring, centring myself and so on. I set forth my intention to have a fun day cooking food that everyone, myself included, would enjoy. I even started on a mental shopping list.

Then suddenly it occurred to me. Despite this tried and tested inner routine, I was already worrying! Doesn't the meat I stew have a weird tendency to turn into bits of tasteless leather? Was I sure that my son's partner liked spices? Did I dare try out a recipe I hadn't tested before?

In that moment I was reminded vividly of a fundamental principle for making dreams come true magically. Not only do you have to make the dream happen in the Now, you have to keep your self-awareness sharp, remembering that consciousness changes moment by moment. The positive mental intention transmutes unconsciously into emotional negativity. The Now slips into another Now and a low-grade grumpiness, rising to quickly to outright misery, slips in to cast a nasty spell over your plans for Heaven on Earth.

Fortunately, in this case, I had activated my own Hogwarts education. My self-awareness had been sharp enough to catch my Dementor and to counter its schemes for despair instantly with a few magic tricks from the toolkit of my own SM Harry Potter Workbook. I used the SM Expelliarmus spell for banishing bad cooking - more prosaically named the Change Belief visualization- and followed it quickly with a Patronus charm.

For those of you unfamiliar with Harry Potter, Patronus charms conjure an incarnation of the caster's innermost positive feelings, such as joy, hope, or the desire to survive. I therefore started the day by making a Patronus cake: an apple cake that entirely dissolves any complaints I have about life, and whose batter my inner child finds delicious to lick from the bowl. I ended up with a great day and lots of compliments at dinner. Thank God for the magic of self-awareness and the tools to change my consciousness.

Author: Suzie St George coordinates the online self-transformation courses at www.reachpotential.com.au .

2008 Workshops

Keys to Inner Peace evening:
There is no Keys to Inner Peace workshop this month. Instead we are holding an Introductory Evening. If you normally like to come to KIP, you might like to bring a friend to this evening and enjoy a Siramus reading for the month. Bookings essential of course.

Introductory workshop:
August 14, 1 High street , Beaumaris: 7.30 – 9.30 p.m.
Topic: Finding happiness through new ways of self-transformation

Siramus Group meeting:
August 28, 1 High street , Beaumaris: 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. Topic: to be advised

Daylesford group:
August 4: 48 West street , Daylesford:10.30 am –12.30pm
Readings and topic TBA.
You must advise Suzie of your intention to come.

Contact Fiona on 0425 752 183 or email her for all bookings except Daylesford. fiona@spiritualmetamorphosis.com

August 2008 Energies Report

Siramus is a master energy that works specifically with unfolding the unique soul potential (or core self) of individuals. In offering these comments, he is supplying information for those who are engaged in such processes wherever they may be in the world so that they can work with the month's energy in a way that is conducive to their own soul expansion. First level education to develop inner peace, as stage 1 of soul integration is now available through our sister web site: www.reachpotential.com.au .

The dreaming of late July has created energetic expansion across the planet and in each person, whether or not they are conscious of this.

This expansion is unsettling because as you move into your expanded self, the old ways of doing things, the old answers will often not be congruent with the new self. When this happens you may feel uncomfortable. There will be a sense that mentally and emotionally you are not secure.
It will activate “old stuff”. Mentally you will feel that you should know what to do or should have what you want. Like a student beginning to learn a new instrument, you may feel that you are inadequate and will never be able to play like the master. Release your fear.
Do not become impatient and anxious.

But in fact all in your life is as it should be. A new perspective is necessary.
The old is not to be processed or understood. Allow this expansion rather than trying to force it.
Be accepting of the fact that you are adjusting to your new self and its methods of working. This expansion will occur across the Wheel of your Life and integrate slowly, bringing enhanced awareness and joy.

For students of the Reach Potential and Spiritual Metamorphosis process, it is recommended that you work discomfort creatively by bringing the whole self, the four aspects of being, together to discuss how you might work to relieve a difficulty in a way that is different from the past. You will need to renegotiate with your team members (see Recommended resources).  So for example you might discover you need to exercise physically to release stress rather than processing it emotionally, or you might reassure your mental self that you are about to learn new things rather than asking it to dig deeper into the past.
Each person will need to find creative answers in his or her own gentle way.

Recommended visualizations

The Visualizations The Tent of Self Acceptance and Releasing fear of change are recommended. Silver e-book on Reach Potential site has visualization for observing the selves: Developing awareness of the whole self in action.

Student Resources

Reach Potential site: www.reachpotential.com.au

Silver library

Using Reach Potential material for relationship enhancement: overview
Sensing heart connection to your decisions: a technique

Silver e-books

Developing awareness of the whole self in action

Gold e-books

Healing your nervous system and energy fields: a series of visualizations for healing the unseen energetic weaknesses.

Featured topic: Wishing for what you want – and getting it without regrets

If you are to create the reality you truly want, you must use the creativity of both hemispheres of the brain: you must utilise imagination (right brain) as well as taking contained, practical steps towards fulfilling your dreams (left brain).

But fulfilling a dream is more than manifesting a tangible goal. Dreams imply the delightful state of consciousness that will go with reaching a particular goal abundantly. Dreams are not luxuries, but pointers to the joy your soul self wants you to have. Having dreams supplies a wonderful stream of energy from the unconscious to the conscious mind, which ultimately is made available for concrete manifestation.

However, dreams depend on “in the body” imagination if they are to manifest satisfactorily. Imagination is commonly thought of as the capacity to visualise, but it is more than this: it is the capacity to feel the emotions that will accompany the manifestation, and to let your body join in the process of creation. Embodied imagination draws energy into heart felt action.

Suppose that you desire to open a little café. To make sure that this goal is fired by the power of dreaming, you will need to write out what it is you imagine it will be like in “whole of self” detail.

Here is an example:

I dream of having a little café in the country. It is a place that people who love beauty come to because it is so aesthetically pleasing. I have friends who supply my café with beautiful rustic pottery, simple furniture, a wonderful wood-fired pizza oven. Part of the café opens on to a charming small garden with a fishpond. I have a couple of staff who are like friends to me and they enjoy cooking as much as I do. Their talents complement my skills: one actually likes bookkeeping! And they are willing to do little extras to make things run smoothly. I like my customers who are appreciative and happy to pay a little more for the excellent service they get.

You will notice that this example - which could go on a lot longer! – has visual and sensory detail to define the dreamer's ideas, but it also has emotional information and deals with the human realities of having a café. It is written in the present tense so that the writer can step into the realism of a lived experience, and sense what she might need besides material details to make it delightful: the kind of staff and customers she wants.

This is an example of a dream: it is quite different from the business plan that will later be needed to bring it to fruition! A business plan is like the framework that builds a house: a dream tells you the quality of the home you are yearning to live in.

You might think that dreams to manifest concrete objects, like houses or cars or a trip overseas, smack too much of consumerism to be generated from your soul needs. But this will not be so if you use embodied imagination. The café itself is not really so important as the experiences that would go with having it. By embodying the experience of a form, you will be able to adjust the details of that form so they aligned with the soul joy you want.

The more you take the time to know precisely the emotional beauty of your dreams, the more the vibrations of that joy are aligned with the deepest parts of your being. All parts of you join in this joy to bring it into being.

Author: Suzie St George coordinates the online self-transformation courses at www.reachpotential.com.au

2008 Workshops

Keys to Inner Peace evening: Thursday July 17th, 1 High street ,
Beaumaris:7.30 – 9.30 p.m.
Topic: Exploring your dreams for life

Siramus Group meeting: Thursday July 31st. 1 High Street, Beaumaris: 7.30 – 9.30 p.m.
Topic: Creating effective partnerships continued (No vacancies.)

Daylesford group: Monday July 7th,: 48 West Street , Daylesford: 10.30 am–12.30 pm.
Readings plus effective partnerships.
You must advise Suzie of your intention to come.

Contact Fiona on 0425 752 183 or email her for all bookings except Daylesford. fiona@spiritualmetamorphosis.com

July 2008 Energies Report

Siramus is a master energy that works specifically with unfolding the unique soul potential (or core self) of individuals. In offering these comments, he is supplying information for those who are engaged in such processes wherever they may be in the world so that they can work with the month's energy in a way that is conducive to soul expansion. First level education to develop soul integration is now available through our sister web site: www.reachpotential.com.au

As described in the latter month's report June news, the difficult energy of June will continue into the first two weeks of July. However, on July 15, those of you who are sensitive to planetary energy will become aware of a big change. Mentally it will be experienced as if a cycle has come to completion and that everything is coming together; the jigsaw pieces will seem to be falling into place. This mid-month energy will last for a little over two weeks. There will be two types of responses to this phase,

For those who like to work with change will feel liberated. Achievement will be clear and there will be a sense that “Yes, the Universe does support me!” The pudding that proves it will be eaten. There will be quiet contemplation and joy as the cycle completes itself.

For those who dislike change or fear life this period will feel as if everything has come to an end with nowhere to go. These ones will experience a whirlpool of emotional energy sucking them into despair. They will feel lost, asking themselves where shall I go, what are my dreams? Their sense of their place in life will disappear, and this will happen on many levels.

In the case of both responses, however, our advice is the same: this is the time when dreaming is essential. Return to dreaming processes. Review the past ones. Recognise those that have been completed and remind yourself of ones you might have let slide. Decide if you wish to renew these, or create new dreams and goals, a new vision as a e foundation of the future. This period is not for doing but for reflection. Cram as much dreaming into your life as you can, inviting your higher self to join in. Gorge yourself on dreams for this short period. If you are in despair, put aside your victimhood, and with discipline create those dreams.

The later period of July is also a time for caring for the body. Physical exercise is important. Enjoy it, exercise it, stretch it and plan for how you will take care of it in your new future.

Finally, the latter half of July is excellent for working with your dreams for warm, loving and harmonious relationships of every kind. It's a time for get-togethers and dinner parties. There is much fun and laughter available as you move towards August. Bring your heart love in and send it out to the world.

With love and light
Fiona and Siramus

Recommended visualizations

Continue the protection techniques recommended last month. Use disentangling visualizations regularly. Practise the Room of interpersonal connection.

Student Resources

SM Members' selected updates

Visualizations

The log cabin. The room of interpersonal connection.

Reach Potential site: www.reachpotential.com.au

E-books

An e-book, Protection strategies, covering many different forms of protection, is available free of charge from the Reach Potential site for Gold level members and members of the Spiritual Metamorphosis Network registered on the site.

Silver members may purchase it on request ($10.95) from Fiona.

The room of interpersonal connection is available for Silver members in Silver e-books for this month only.

Featured topic: The power of self-acceptance 

Despite balancing and strengthening during whole-self transformation, there will inevitably be times when the limitations you face seem overwhelming and insurmountable. Unfortunately, no amount of processing, inner work or insight will necessarily change this fact. Sometimes a passage of time is required to integrate unconsciously what you have already done before it manifests. At others you have to accept that external conditions or timing are just not in your favour, but this does not reflect on your personal capacity to bring what you want to fruition.

However, when limitations squeeze you hard, it is easy to slip into hopelessness, or to despair at the amount of “more work” that apparently needs to be done. Pushing forward or giving up is not the way out, nor is relapsing into old habits of self-destructiveness. The answer rests in developing the art of self-acceptance. It is time to “let go and let God” within yourself.

Self-acceptance has a positive effect on your attitude to others. The more self-accepting you become, the more you will be able to tolerate where others are at in their lives: an invaluable asset for good relationships. The greater your self-acceptance, the more you will be willing to invest in your core strengths and shine your light in the world without putting yourself under pressure, or allowing others to drive you.

Self-acceptance also helps to create general acceptance for external issues beyond your control. As you expand your projects, you will become less frustrated by the gap between what you want to achieve, and your current ability to achieve it. You will appreciate that you do have the necessary inner capacity, but it will take more time, energy and maybe money than you have at your disposal. When this happens, self-acceptance will stop you blaming yourself. You will realize you have done all that you can do for the time being, and the solution does not actually rest with you as a person . You will be able to forgive your apparent lack of progress and allow the Universe to slip you into the zone of success once again.

Author: Suzie St George coordinates the online self-transformation courses at www.reachpotential.com.au

Love and Light
Fiona, Siramus and Suzie

Workshops

Keys to Inner Peace evening: Thursday June 12th, 1 High street, Beaumaris: 7.30pm – 9.30 p.m.
Topic: Getting the best out of what you've got.
Booking is essential.

Siramus Group meeting: Thursday June 26th, 1 High street, Beaumaris: 7.30pm – 9.30 p.m.
Topic: Creating effective partnerships (No vacancies.)

Daylesford group: Monday June 2nd: 48 West street, Daylesford: 10.30 am–12.30 pm.
Readings and topic TBA.
You must advise Suzie of your intention to come.

Contact Fiona on 0425 752 183 or email her for all bookings except Daylesford. fiona@spiritualmetamorphosis.com

June Energies Report

Siramus is a master energy that works specifically with unfolding the unique soul potential (or core self) of individuals. In offering these comments, he is supplying information for those who are engaged in such processes wherever they may be in the world so that they can work with the month's energy in a way that is conducive to soul expansion. First level education to develop soul integration is now available through our sister web site: www.reachpotential.com.au

By the time you read this article, you will be likely to be well aware of the disruptive nature of June energies. This disturbance, arising from mass consciousness response to choice and change, is rippling over the earth and will be felt energetically throughout June and into early July. It may be experienced as emotional “bombs” or physically as storms and high winds. Mentally it can be overwhelming because there will seem to be no rhyme or reason for your discomfort and no mental framework to make it easier. It is not an experience that insight or mental solutions can alleviate.

It is not a time for pushing forward but for battening down the hatches. Take responsibility for your own wellbeing and, in particular, for your decisions and responses. Make sure you are energetically and practically protected.

As most of humanity is operating from the unconscious creation of reality, the leadership of conscious individuals who choose to respond from love is needed here.

However, if you find yourself slipping into fear, anger or hate, do not berate yourself. Be self-accepting, forgive yourself if need be, and then choose to move back to inner peace by disentangling and sending love to the world. This does not have to be a grand operation: find opportunities in small things to give love and to help those who need love. Take time to think about what love really is.

Recommended visualizations

All disentangling visualizations; Anchoring the Light with a particular emphasis on radiating pure energy through emotional pollution; The log cabin. Taking responsibility for your own wellbeing. Cleanse, and harmonize your chakras using the appropriate visuals.

Student Resources

SM Members'
Advanced Visualisations

The log cabin

Reach Potential site: www.reachpotential.com.au
Silver library

Core article: Strengthening your whole self capacity to feel safe and protected in the world

Gold e-books

Protection strategies

Self-acceptance