L E T T E R from Jo – Being Right isn’t All That
On the surface, being right seems like, well, the right thing to do, the right thing to focus on, the […]
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L E T T E R – EDIT Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
Today before journaling I want you to sit for a moment with your eyes closed and ask, what does the […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Opportunity Cost of Being Scared
As a creative in my early twenties, rejection was just part of the game. Trained as an Interior Architect, and […]
L E T T E R from Jo – How We Act is the Most Important Thing
Once upon a time, I was all about collecting knowledge, being smart, knowing things, knowing lots of different things, more […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Evolution Of The Broad Place
I am deep in work on refining how we offer The Broad Place to the world!! Our commitment is to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Cultivating Qualities Through The Trivial
‘I was having team with Master Han in his office when the mailman arrived with a letter from the master’s […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Workings of Consciousness
Moving into higher states of consciousness means that we can have deeper relationships, are calmer and centered, are less involved […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Thinking Patterns and the Power of Choice
Here are some examples of common low grade thinking patterns that you might recognise; “God, bad things always seem to […]
L E T T E R – CLARITY Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
Ohhh Clarity is one of the pillars of The Broad Place and a deeply laden intention to hold this week. […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Deserve it, Expect it, Claim it!
How easy is it for you to ask for what you really want? How easy is it for you to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Asking For Help
Frequently, we are very good at giving help. Generous, unbounded in our ability to help others. Why? Because helping someone […]
L E T T E R – Are You Joining Jacqui on our February/March Australian Tour?
In 6-7 weeks I board the vverrry long flight from London to Australia and I am so excited to connect […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Training in The Art of Peace
My homeland of Australia is in a turbulent time. It’s not unique to Australia, many, many countries are in a turbulent time. It brings […]
L E T T E R – DEPTH Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This week’s intention is DEPTH. I know this sounds strange at first reading, but I feel for it so strongly. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Our Passport To Freedom and Love
I’m not sure exactly what happened a long time back, it was likely having a small child, being a single […]
L E T T E R from Jo – You Are Always Worth It
Ultimately we all want to feel connected and loved and sometimes in our pursuit of these very things, we get […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Repeating Things
Pema Chodron speaks of this with such clarity, ‘Life’s work is to wake you up, to let the things that […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Zen Wednesday; How Can I Help?
‘The perfume of sandalwood,Rosebay or jasmineCannot travel against the wind. But the fragrance of virtueTravels even against the wind,As far as […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Do Not Fear This Time
Let’s read this second quote, “Once more we are in a period of uncertainty, of danger, in which not only […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows
Years back, I had to really ask myself why the less important things and people in my life are getting […]
L E T T E R – COMPASSION Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
It’s a volatile time on the planet right now. As we scroll through horrific images one after another, anger brews […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Choosing A Direction
When we experience extreme stress or trauma, the fight-flight response is triggered. When this happens, our brain tells us we […]
L E T T E R from Jo – We Have The Power
We don’t get to choose the emotions we feel but we are in charge of the responses we have to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Moving Through the Drama of our Lives
I mean is this not a brilliant quote? I have this little pocket book of notes from Pema Chodron, and […]
L E T T E R from Jac – At What Cost
I scrawled this sentence down in a notebook in India when my friend Jeff was doing a lecture, and just […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Working With Emptiness
‘We join spokes together in a wheel,but it is the centre holethat makes the wagon move. We shape clay into […]
L E T T E R – The Tiny Teachers In Their Hundreds
Each of us has a unique set of codes within us, that are our little teachings, a personal gift from […]
L E T T E R – ENERGY Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
Energy is a huge focus for me always, through my meditation, yoga, karate, and qi-gong training as well as understanding […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Are you Ready to Shift your Energy Throughout January?
In 10 days time with hundreds of people from all over the world, we launch into the January 2020 High […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Open Up
I fully subscribe to the philosophy that the quality of your mind determines the quality of your life. It is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Honeyed Reinstating Of Ones Soul
Being a big fan of Nick Cave and his immensely creative processes, as well as his raw vulnerability and sharing […]
L E T T E R from Jac – BOOM and it’s 2020!!!
Welcome to 2020, what a freaking amazing day it is! Whatever happened until the very moment you read this, is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Your Doctor Called And Asked Me To Share This With You…
Let’s get really clear on what 2020 is going to be for you. What will you introduce, what will you […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Remembering Ram Dass
One of the greatest spiritual teachers of our time, Ram Dass, passed away last week. Ram Dass has been a huge […]
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I cannot explain how excited I am to launch our highly evolved High Vibrational Challenge into the world!! It has […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Finding Strength
I don’t know about you, but my thoughts at times can be utterly awful. A doomsday riot of negativity, doubt, […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Checking In With Your Life
This might be a bit harsh, Seth, but I get the idea. Holidays are great circuit breakers to check in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Gifts Not Under The Tree
Have you ever received a present and thought, ‘weird, and certainly not what I want’ yet it’s gone onto be […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Happy Day To You From Us
Christmas is a funny time, isn’t it? Sometimes it’s joy-filled and fun. Other years it’s a time to get together […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Getting on with the Living and the Loving
I want us all to ponder, how often has holding onto my resentments paid off? How many moments have I […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Redefining Luxury
I read a brilliant article in the FT Weekend by Lucia Van Der Post. She says that luxury is shifted […]
L E T T E R – CLARITY Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This weeks intention is HUGE. We are finishing a year as well as a decade. So you might want a […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What Is It You’re Really Looking For?
I know when I feel anxious, challenged or I feel I have lost sense of the deep inner trust that […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Do Your Right Thing
I don’t know if this is a sign of aging but every year that passes feels faster and faster. This […]
L E T T E R from Jac – How To Take Accountability For Your Emotions
It can be a really emotional time at the moment, can’t it? Family situations, work coming to a crunch period […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Giving Freely That Which Counts
Our daughter had a huge upset of late within her football team (soccer for all the Australians) that was a […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Do You Really Want To Transform?
“Most of us don’t want to change, really. What we do want is sort of modifications on the original model. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – ACCEPTANCE Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
Someone sent me a link to a very high profile guy on Instagram, who was literally SCREAMING at millions of […]
L E T T E R from Jac – How To Communicate Boundaries With Family At Christmas
I felt this was timely, as it’s something that students ask me about SO OFTEN, how do we set boundaries […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Change Can Be A Superpower
Over the last few weeks, I have been in the thick of an extraordinary amount of difficult change, not just […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Nature Is Whispering Your Name
In most spiritual lineages, nature is considered an extension of people, and something to be nurtured and cared for, loved […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Lonely Mountain Path
But not many people can be bothered with walking up the mountain to see that path. Down in the valley […]
L E T T E R – Gift One, Receive One; An Education of Clarity, Creativity, and Consciousness this Christmas
We take education and experiences very seriously here at The Broad Place. Arran and I have always gifted each other […]
L E T T E R from Jac – All The Parts Of Us
In December, we all get pretty full up in our Calendars. The other day I was trying to find time […]
L E T T E R – COSMIC Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
Do you sometimes feel life is moving so fast you are losing your connection to the whole? That daily we […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Just Being Trees
This quote in full by Ram Dass is, “When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, […]
L E T T E R from Jo – But First, We Edit
I don’t know about you but when I’m looking to change something, a situation, aspects of my life, relationships, projects, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Limited Bandwidth
Your brain and your attention have limited bandwidth. A certain download of data each day. Only so much you can upload […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Zen Wednesday; Your Truth is Within
There’s so much preaching in spirituality and self-development, and far too much ego. We can use people as little points […]
L E T T E R from Jac – When To Speak
I am someone who could talk under wet cement. We joke that I literally popped out of the womb chatting […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Cultivating Space
I looked at my Calendar yesterday (you may or may not know how much I live by my Calendar!) and there were […]
L E T T E R from Jac – You’re Invited; AUSTRALIA EVENTS FEB/MARCH 2020
I am so excited to be heading to Australia late February and early March to host a series of Full […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Choose Fun
When did life get so serious? When did we take ourselves so seriously? One of my core values and something […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Working With An Angry Person
Yesterday, I wrote about a very recent incident where I dealt with someone who was incredibly difficult, and very angry, in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Braid Of Our Life
A rope is braided together to strengthen it, without the multiple pieces threaded together it is weak and can break […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Zen Wednesday; Accepting We Know Nothing
It is easy for us to think ‘aaahhh, this is it’ when evolving. To joyously think we have found some […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Acting On Intuition
If there were one thing I think meditation has gifted me over all the other things, it’s a tuned in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – But, From Where I Stand…
Some people got into a heated argument about different religions and philosophies and which was, in fact, true and right. […]
L E T T E R – WONDER Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
Wonder is such an important part of life, and with so much on we rarely take time to engage with […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Removing All The Barriers
Isn’t this beautiful? Instead of an exterior search for love – an internal archaeological dig to remove all that is not […]
L E T T E R from Jo – The Ripples We Make
Many times a day as we go about our lives we are having an impact, of course on ourselves, but […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What Our Pain Teaches Us
I used to sprint from anything too painful. Mostly disempowering myself, I would always assume blame, and carry the burden […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Zen Wednesday; Avoiding Disappointment
In Buddhism, everything is seen as impermanent, so grasping and holding onto things, like money is useless, as is craving […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What Is It You Want?
Tim Ferris says “Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely asking […]
L E T T E R from Jac – How To Sail
I come back to the essence of this quote a lot in my life. Questioning, am I truly working with […]
L E T T E R – REST Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This week’s intention is a big one for me, and I am going to guess, for all of us. Maybe […]
L E T T E R from Jo – We’re All On A Treasure Hunt
Do you remember the last time you went searching for something that was hidden, on purpose, designed for you to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Feeling All The Feels
I forgot to write yesterday’s Letter. I clean forgot the day before. With so much happening at the moment, I […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Zen Wednesday; Meals As More Than Body Nourishment
There is a Pali chant, a Buddhist chant that is often used with meals; ‘Sabe lokami Ye satah, Jivanta hara […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Everything, Everyone, Is Our Teacher
What would this week look like, if you fully anchored yourself in this? How would you respond in every moment? […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Start. Now. However you can.
We don’t need to wait until we feel better about ourselves to start meditating. Or wait until we are in […]
L E T T E R – FUN Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
I don’t know about you guys, but it’s been such an intense year to date, that it’s time to have […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Defining What’s Important
I have found time and time again, with our students that have had life pulled out from under them that […]
L E T T E R from Jo – The Unchanging Truth
When we meditate, we begin to understand and become aware of the layers of ideas and thoughts we have about […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What We Seek
There is so much reference to what we seek being within. ‘The kingdom of God is within you.’ Luke 17.21 […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Zen Wednesday
‘You have to go further. You have to demonstrate the answer. You have to embody the answer. You have to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Compassion That Big
Compassion is normally an outward energy isn’t it, we focus our energy in trying to ‘be’ compassionate to others. Which […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Just Do It, Say No
There are so many ways in which self-sabotage presents, and I could literally spend a year’s worth of Letters writing […]
L E T T E R – KINDNESS Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
Spotting hypocrisy is a sport these days, and I get it, it’s everrrryywhere so is an enticing pastime with plenty […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Obstacles
A huge part of any creative process is moving through obstacles. One of my interior architecture mentors used to say […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Trying It On For Size
When I was 7 years old, I was obsessed with a book series about a girl, her best friend, their […]
L E T T E R from Jac – To Return
In Mahayana Buddhism, to take refuge in the Buddha’s teaching means to return to one’s original nature. In Judaism, ‘Teshuva’ […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Zen Wednesday; Enthralling Solitude
Zen meditation teacher Susan Murphy writes in her brilliant book Upside Down Zen, “Meditation is lonely as any practice is lonely […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Deepest Relationship
The longest-standing relationship we will ever have, the most intimate, the most defining, is the one we have with ourselves. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Efficiency Of Social Relationships
Efficiency is where anything immediately irrelevant is trimmed out. Keywords around efficiency are force, computation, intelligence, knowledge. The problem with […]
L E T T E R – UNCOVER Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
I think I have seen the phrase ‘I’m so triggered by this!!!!!’ on social media lately more than any other, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Big Secret to Creativity
Creativity, and any expression of it, involves a deep relationship with fear. Creativity is not just being an artist. It’s […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Using The Clues
When something great happens, I sometimes want to hold on to it just that little bit longer. I want to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Dissolving Ego Structures
Ram Dass here points out something students talk about so often with me, “We have built a whole ego structure about […]