L E T T E R from Jac – No Need For Hero’s
Often when we are in a crisis, we have no idea what to do. There’s not exactly a handbook on what […]
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L E T T E R from Jac – Harvesting Joy
Can you hold your sorrow more loosely? Could it be easily blown away with the wind, the seasons? How do you ensure […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Why Meditate?
The Buddha was once asked, “What have you gained from meditation?” He replied, “Nothing!” Then he continued, “However, let me tell you what I […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Sometimes We Will Win And Sometimes We Will Learn
Have you ever waited for just the right moment, just the right words, just the right look, just the right […]
L E T T E R from Jac – All Waves Shift and Change
Wisdom is knowledge put into action, refined over many seasons, carved out through many storms. Wisdom is acceptance of what […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Relating To Oneself and Others, and some important notes for you to close off 2020
Being a human can be challenging stuff, we’re an intricate web of thoughts, bias, prejudice, conditioning and the expressing of […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Life Is Beautiful
Sifu Shi Yan Ming is RZA from Wu Tang Clan’s teacher (sifu) in kung-fu, and I really like this simple […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Forever Unfolding
At any given point in time, we never really know what’s actually going on. We have the experience, the moment, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – One Single Thing
Today choose one single thing that can elevate you to your highest grade self. Is it… – drinking two litres […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Learn From That Darkness
Thanks to my friend Jen, I have discovered the wonderful writing of Edward Abbey, who I am diving into. I’m […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Engaging With The Tao
The Tao Te Ching for me highlights the eternal mystery and connection to everything we have in the world. We […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Resistance Is Real
“Hello, my name is Jo and I’m a Starter not a Finisher, please help”. How many projects, ideas, practices, dreams, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What Are We Really Afraid Of?
Isn’t this brilliant. How can we be afraid of that which we don’t know? What we are really afraid of is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Sticking with Uncertainty
Is that two days straight of Pema Chodron quotes you ask? Yes, yes it is. Because for me she is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Getting Caught In The Web Of Our Own Drama
Have you ever gotten so caught up in a story that you couldn’t see the forest for the trees? This […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Be Kind
A victim mentality can really block us from a whole lot of connection with other people. The ego bleating that […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Yes, And…
Viewing our world, our lives, our experiences from a lens of abundance versus a lens of lack is something very […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Confidence In Our Compassion Part 2
Following on from yesterday’s Letter – compassion isn’t trying to promote or defend ourselves, which is the opposite of compassion, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Confidence In Our Compassion Part 1
I think we are all at times confused about the essence of compassion because we think it’s just for others and […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Creative Abundance
How do I do so many creative things and put them into the world? It’s a question I am asked […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Calling Future Self
Try this, Get some paper and pen. Sit down some place comfortable, slow your breathing, relax into your body. Imagine […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Harmonising over Balance
Balance is tricky, as it doesn’t take into account our forever shifting psychology, neurology and physiology. What might seem like […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Finding Your Creative Calling
I’ve been getting lots of emailed questions from students and I put a call out on Instagram for questions recently […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Energetic Boundaries
Energetic boundaries are fascinating, not just on social media, but also within workplaces, and families. With the work I do […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Where Is Your Attention?
One of the most powerful choices we have is where we put our attention. This is always within our control, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Accepting The Best
The leading quote for our book on High Grade Living is by Guru Dev, one of the key teachers in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Little Help Aligning
I included this prayer within our book High Grade Living, because sometimes we need a little prompt, a reminder. We […]
L E T T E R from Jac – This Is It
What if this was it? You standing in your kitchen, in your underpants, holding your phone, reading this? Kettle is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Creating Sacred Space
Are you waking up and first thing in the morning checking your phone? Or are you creating sacred space in […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Life Is A Roller Coaster
Life is like riding a roller coaster, there will be times of great fun and joy and times of white-knuckling […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Serenity Prayer
I hope these three key things stay with you all day, like little planted seeds – accepting things that are […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Today A New Day Dawns
If you missed yesterday’s Letter and intention for the next coming Letters, you can catch up HERE. Today’s Letter will […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Fill Thy Cup
I am doing a lot of private mentoring at the moment, with students around the world, and the same themes […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Forgiveness Is A Continual Act
Forgiveness. Bring to mind someone that you can’t seem to forgive about something. It might be old, or fresh. What […]
L E T T E R from Jo – There You Are
One thing I really appreciate about my meditation practice is that I get an amplified awareness of not just the […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Accepting Change
This year as it comes closer to change, we can begin to reconcile all the change that has occurred. Change none of us […]
L E T T E R from Jac – This Is Your Life
The complete quote by Charles Bukowski is; “Your life is your life. Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the watch. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Being The Witness
As Ram Dass once said, “One part of getting free, free into the soul or into the witness, is the […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Being Okay
I think this Zen concept is brilliant, ‘Half of happiness is being okay with what you don’t get, the other […]
L E T T E R from Jo – A Very Important Job
I have grand aspirations of becoming an astute gardener, of knowing the plants, the vegetables, the flowers so intimately that […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Falling Apart, Coming Together
We are going through some problems at the moment, nothing serious, just an endless series of things that seem to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Reframing
On Saturday we had the amazing Workshop for September’s The DOJO. Each month it is 90 minutes of philosophy and […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Imperfect Meditation
One of the key things I am literally hammering into our Integrated Meditation students is to not chase perfection. You cannot be a perfect […]
L E T T E R from Jo – The Power Of Our Rituals
It is believed that ancient cultures used rituals to counter the fears they had of the unknown. Primarily created to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Productivity Is Not What You Think
I hear so often that productivity is about time management, or motivation, or how to get things done. Productivity is the output of your […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Nature Is My Temple
I went camping the other day with two girlfriends. It can seem like a lot of work for one night […]
‘Free Live Talk on Gaining Clarity Under Emotional Stress’
With Melbourne extending their lockdown and our Integrated Meditation students reporting increasing emotional stress all over the world, Jac has […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Vow On How We Speak
Have you ever noticed that when you’re feeling a bit insecure, or cranky, you’re more prone to speaking negatively? I […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Living In The Now
The wiring of the brain, the mind, the ego is such that it’s very challenging for us to see things […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Living Through Creative Values
I have been exploring recently the way creativity in its broadest sense, beyond simply artistic talents, can offer a blueprint […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Falling Flat
To say ‘It’s a weird time’ is to wildly understate the state of the world. Perhaps you are stuck in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Cultivating Wisdom
Wisdom is not something we can ‘get’, instead it’s something that comes to us, over time. However we can also […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Mountaineering
I received this lovely email from a reader, ‘Hey Jac, a question related to this. I’ve sometimes felt like a […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Broadness
When we operate from fear, we view everything as a threat. It’s simply the way we are wired. If we […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Who’s In Charge?
In everyday life I subscribe to the motto “self as cause” which means I believe that ultimately I always have […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Antidote To Resistance
I first came across the teachings of Buddhist teacher Christina Feldman staying in a monastery in England of which she […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Life As A Mandala
The CEO of Patagonia has stepped down, and her very lovely goodbye note was, “I’ve been thinking a lot about […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Finding Peace, Truth, Happiness
This Zen saying is often repeated replacing Peace or Happiness, instead of Truth. The only peace you will find on […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Polishing Body and Mind
In the martial arts Dojo, the object is to learn, so that you can then take the teachings into your […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Remind Me Again
Inspiration is important to me. I love that feeling of being inspired, the energy flowing through my veins, the possibilities […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Integrating It All
There is a famous story of karate master Budoken, who had a disciple who infamously walked by a horse that […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Decisions We Make, and Those Made For Us
One of the other lines within this chapter of the Tao Te Ching is ‘those who know when they have […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Being Sunshine
One joyful thing about penning the Letters is receiving correspondence from readers. One response last week was, that a reader […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Not Chasing
A student went to his meditation teacher and said, “My meditation is horrible! I feel so distracted, or my legs […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Use It Or Lose It
We are all familiar with how when we stop exercising our bodies and muscles can quickly lose their strength, endurance, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Getting To The Other Side
One day a young Buddhist on his journey home came to the banks of a wide river. Staring hopelessly at […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Whole Menu
I cannot even list the amount of failures I have had, for, there are so many. I truly don’t even […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Quiet Corners
When we did as a family our two week hotel quarantine, returning from London to Sydney, on about Day 8 […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Micro Decisions
Right now it’s a freaking challenging time. Even if you’re not being immediately challenged, it’s likely someone you love is. […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Creativity As An Antidote
I have been contemplating how aligned Creativity is with juicing the most out of life. Now, whilst the word Creativity […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What Do You Truly Call Success?
When I am mentoring people, a huge theme that always comes up is success, a craving for it, or a […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Finding Balance
It’s much harder not to be moved by praise than it is by blame at times. We sometimes desire finding […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Surrendered Presence
At times, with all the noise of the external world raining down on us, the technology and the news and […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Go On And Give The Gift
We are so excited to announce we are soon to release the First Edition of our Letters, in a self-published […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Your Wild
Have you lately been recognising that you have lost your wild? Have you felt a little caged, either from within […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Creating Space
I was talking with a dear friend Maryanne, about how creative people need space, to time, to ponder, to hone […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Your One Precious Life
Dear reader, What will YOU do with your one wild and precious life? What are we all learning right now […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Prices We Pay
Firstly, thank you so much for subscribing to these Daily Letters. I’m feeling extra grateful to have you here, to share ideas and […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Future Projecting
I’m not talking about planning, planning is important, but future projecting, we must reign in. I think it’s a major […]
L E T T E R from Jo – The Illusion Of Limitation
Consider the sheer number of “norms” we face. The rules and regulations that our society endorses, enforces, and places upon […]
L E T T E R from Jac – We’re Not In Control
This quote is brilliant, as our ego truly thinks we are GM of the universe. Whenever we are resisting what’s […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Judging Ourselves and Others
Something we touched on the other night at our Workshop at Lilium, is that if we want to let go […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Cloudy Minds
How often do we have one thing tip in a direction, run with it, and then spiral downwards. I had […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Our Personal GPS
I love a lot of things, but ask me my purpose, my passion I couldn’t tell you with absolute certainty […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Opening Our Hearts
How many people drive you a bit or a lot nuts? If you wrote a list, would there be mostly […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Here and Now, Not Here and Then
This could be sliced so many ways, and therefore is the kind of nugget of wisdom I really like. We cannot […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Pause And Ask
Before every decision, pause and ask, is this decision pointing me in the direction I want to be going or moving […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Why We All Need A Hand
When COVID hit, we had such a challenging time, and every area of our life was in some sort of […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Most Creative Of Times
The thing I am loving about the current time is the lack of small talk. It feels like we can […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Why We Practice
Elizabeth Gilbert is speaking on her spiritual practices in regards to COVID in the above quote. It’s beautiful wording isn’t […]
L E T T E R from Jo – The Art Of Going With The Flow
Just like surfing waves, improv, free styling, jamming, going with the flow can be seen as an exercise in co-creation. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Rewiring Ourselves
A daily meditation practice is like taking a huge tangled ball of wool (our minds) and slowly, piece by piece untangling it. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Letting The Storm Pass
I want you to think back to a really bad funk you have been in of late. One where you […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Being Love
Ram Dass speaks, “You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do […]
L E T T E R from Jac – From The Archives
I am moving through over 1000 Letters and hand choosing which ones make it to the Letters Edition 1 collection […]
L E T T E R from Jac – And A Gold Star For You
Last week felt like a big Letter writing week of motivation and productivity. Which is nice and I hope for […]
L E T T E R from Jo – The Magical Power Of Encouragement
In all the hustle and bustle of life and trying to do our best and be our best we sometimes […]