L E T T E R – What Will You Think
There is so much talk of the power of positive thinking, so much science to back it up, yet I […]
Inspiration
L E T T E R – Clean, Simple, Distilled Thinking
I used to have a terrible aversion to saying no to people. I had, (and still do) a big fear […]
L E T T E R – A Commitment To Adventuring
My Dad was a very renowned chef, winning best restaurant in Australia as well as three hats. His brother, my […]
L E T T E R – The Ways Of The Mind
This quote is for me literally something to live by ‘Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything […]
L E T T E R – Excuses Keep Us Small
I had a catch up the other day with someone and it was like I was in overdrive. I left […]
L E T T E R – Some Thoughts On Overwhelm
Wow, this weeks’ Letters seem to have really triggered a lot of thought and reflection from many of you!! So, […]
L E T T E R – Working With Fear Part 3; Overwhelm
If you haven’t read the first and second part of this Letter series, you can check Part 1 and Part […]
L E T T E R – Working With Fear Part 2; Bravery
If you haven’t read the first part of this Letter series you can do so here. Continuing on from yesterday! […]
L E T T E R – Working With Fear Part 1; Adopted Fears
Arran, Emily and I get so exhausted by all the ‘Be Fearless’s self-improvement mush that is shoved down everyone’s throats […]
L E T T E R – It’s So Bothersome Being Bothered
In Buddhism, Dukkha, which is originally a Pali word, is translated most frequently as suffering. Specifically the suffering of the […]
W E E K E N D E D I T I O N 21
Photo from our India Retreat in Rishikesh Oh my lord is it excellent to be home! So emotional! So wonderful! […]
L E T T E R – Truth Telling
Having a teenage daughter, the essence of telling the truth is really up in our grill at the moment. And […]
L E T T E R – Working with True Knowing and Dealing With Disappointment. Part 2
If you missed yesterday’s Letter, Part 1, you can see it here. After changing my flights and wrapping up the […]
L E T T E R – Working with True Knowing and Dealing With Disappointment. Part 1
Our recent trip to India took a year to plan. The major component was our Broad Place Retreat which had […]
L E T T E R – A Net Free Bird
The only thing we are really trapped by is our thinking mind, with its limitations and prejudices and biases that […]
L E T T E R – Revelling in Beauty
Beauty can be so underrated in our modern way of life. Tiny moments of beauty can light me up for hours […]
L E T T E R – We Are All Judgemental Assholes
We can’t help it a lot of the time. It’s automatic. Our egos are constantly sizing everything up against that […]
L E T T E R – There’s Always Something Better Happening
For our recent India Retreat, I had it all mapped out. Tightly organised, planned to within an inch of its […]
L E T T E R – The Material World
A student messaged me last week saying she felt disgusted with herself and angry, as she still longed to buy […]
L E T T E R – Thinking Kills Creativity
If you’ve ever been working on something and loved it, then over thought it, then doubted it, then felt ill […]
L E T T E R – What Spirituality Means Part 2
Yesterday, I wrote in the Letter about re-framing spirituality and you can read it HERE. It’s a big topic and […]
L E T T E R – What Spirituality Means Part 1
There is so much confusion when we decide to live ‘spiritually’. It’s really a nonsense idea because everyone is trying […]
L E T T E R – Real Power
Being a recovering control freak and perfectionist, OCD, a Virgo and aaaall the other labels I could apply to my […]
L E T T E R – Building Stillness and Acceptance
In the Vedic view, there are three things present at all times. Creation, maintenance and destruction. The Vedic view of […]
L E T T E R – Self Acceptance
This Letter today stems from the Letter I wrote to you a few days back, What Might You Be If […]
L E T T E R – Committing To The Important
Years back I had to really ask myself why were the unimportant things and people in my life getting so […]
L E T T E R – Gaining Clarity On The Lack Of Clarity
Educating ourselves is fascinating and frustrating at times, as the more you learn, the more you realise you don’t know. […]
L E T T E R – Expanding Curiosity
I couldn’t agree more that curiosity in all aspects of life is needed for creativity and flow. Arran told me […]
L E T T E R – What Might You Be If You Just Let Go
Before I left for India, I sat with my friend and student, Uyen, in Whale Beach drinking tea and we […]
L E T T E R – Celebrating 200 Letters!!!
There are days when I sit to write these Letters to you and I feel physically ill. I am overcome […]
L E T T E R – Choosing Your Path
Well, this week’s letter’s have certainly taken on a slightly serious tone! I didn’t mean them to, but they do […]
L E T T E R – How Will We Choose To Really Live?
There is so much programming involved, in how we think we should be living. Paradigms created by so many people […]
W E E K E N D E D I T I O N 20
READ I adore this book by our friend Josh, his approach to creativity and consciousness continually inspires me. I interviewed Josh […]
L E T T E R – Can We Embody What Nature Knows?
We have a huge tree in our garden, and when we moved in became very fond of it as throughout […]
L E T T E R – The Wild Fevers
I have so many interests and creative outlets I sometimes can’t breath for the joy of it all, and I […]
L E T T E R – We Are All Going To Be Dead, Sooner, Later, Who Knows
Some people come to learn meditation because they are keen to be their best selves, they feel unreal and want […]
W E E K E N D E D I T I O N 19 – Restore and Renew
For you to try . . . EAT We are eating mostly plant-based at the moment, and 75% of the […]
L E T T E R – The Creation of Time
Time is something that expands and contracts, as it’s all a perception. Stay with me, I know it sounds a […]
L E T T E R – Knowing Our True Nature
Sometimes people think spirituality is all mung beans and hand holding and unicorns. Sometimes people think spirituality is a word […]
L E T T E R – The Freedom To Make Mistakes
As a recovering perfectionist, I have had intense experiences around making mistakes. It makes no sense as part of the […]
L E T T E R – Fluidity
I was once taught an analogy that I have carried around with me since from Taoism. It is that when […]
L E T T E R – Getting Off Our Arses
The Buddhists say the root cause of suffering is our attachment to desires. It’s not our actual desires. But our […]
L E T T E R – Dissolving That Which Divides Us
Long lasting change doesn’t come in a silver bullet, a bandaid or a quick fix. I was interviewed by our […]
L E T T E R – The Privilege Of A Life
Life is so fragile. We never know when it will come to a close. As humans, we can be bitter […]
L E T T E R – Creating Space For Creativity
I don’t mean physical space here. But emotional space. Conscious space. Creative space. Working stuff out space. A sacred space […]
L E T T E R – To Create And Be Of Service
Over the weekend we put out a survey, which was answered by SO many which make me SO very pleased […]
L E T T E R – You Choose; One Leaf Or The Whole Tree?
Picture a large majestical tree. We could just acknowledge a single leaf, and fixate on it, cooing over the leaf, […]
L E T T E R – Savouring The Little Success and a Key To Presence
As soon as I return from a holiday as I have this week, I can feel myself slightly panicking about […]
L E T T E R – The Art Of Directed Attention and Stopping The Stewing
Something happens to us that causes upset. We stew and sulk and can’t help but tell people about it. With […]
L E T T E R – Why Indeed, Yes You Can
At the karate tournament last week, I saw a man with one leg compete. He stood on the side of […]
L E T T E R – Fear and Freedom
This is a little game I play with myself, ‘what’s my greatest fear in this’. I’ve found in every situation […]
L E T T E R – Gratitude
I was ordering my coffee the other day, and our lovely friend who makes coffee Andre asked how I was […]
L E T T E R – There Is A Big Difference
There is a big difference between being productive and getting lots done, and simply overworking. There is being social, and […]
L E T T E R – What The Heck Is The Lesson In That??
Have you ever had an experience where you just cannot fathom in the moment what the lesson is? Or why […]
L E T T E R – Tips For Fitting In Your Daily Meditation Practice
There is no cookie cutter approach for your Vedic Meditation practice. A twice-daily practice is ideal, and there are some […]
L E T T E R – Judgement
When we are building something, a business, a relationship, our spiritual development, our education, our parenting, it’s so easy to […]
L E T T E R – Peacefulness
As someone that used to work in advertising, marketing and PR, our whole purpose was to make people believe that […]
L E T T E R – Every Small Act
I’m heading this morning from Sydney to a karate tournament in Okinawa. It has been a dream of mine since […]
L E T T E R – An Abundance
This stands true not just for creativity, but for love, gratitude, compassion, kindness. Additionally for anger, resentment, shame, guilt. So […]
L E T T E R – For The Pros
Inspiration comes to us through a channel of creativity. It’s not out there ‘waiting for us’ it’s flowing from within […]
L E T T E R – Collaborate For Clarity
Sometimes one of the challenges of being self-employed is that you are always working to a degree. Even if you’re […]
L E T T E R – The Crazy Ones
I’ve done some seriously crazy things and some seriously dumb things in my time. I created a huge design and […]
L E T T E R – The Unknown
We recently got our daughters school report back. There are lots of columns marking all the different areas, how she […]
L E T T E R – The Voyeur
Pinterest and Instagram and all the other platforms I don’t even know about are such an incredible source of inspiration. […]
L E T T E R – Inner Force
I’ve been meditating for a very long time, and this inner force is the most powerful tool I know for […]
L E T T E R – Some Notes
I have sat on this quote for some time. There seemed to be so many moving parts to it, each […]
L E T T E R – Everyone Is Creative
I get upset when I hear people say ‘oh I am not creative’ or exclaim ‘so and so doesn’t have […]
L E T T E R – A Different Daily Grind
Clarity is an interesting concept when it comes to learning, as the more we learn, the more we realise there […]
L E T T E R – Nature Within
I really love Jane Goodall and I really love this quote. I also believe in a spiritual power higher than ourselves […]
L E T T E R – The Tests
In essence, this quote means to surrender to what is, with full acceptance. One of the most challenging things to […]
L E T T E R – Remember to Breathe
When I was young, I had the utmost confidence in my creativity. Arran and I were laughing on the way […]
L E T T E R – Stay In Your Corner
There’s something so wonderful about discovering things about yourself, having realisations and seeing tangible results from doing self-development or spiritual […]
L E T T E R – The Two Wings
There is a beautiful concept with our meditation technique, about the purpose of twice-daily practice. In a nutshell, it’s that […]
L E T T E R – The Old Creative Paradigm
I love it when slightly delusional ‘creative’ people or artists claim they don’t need order, they fly by the seat […]
L E T T E R – Resilience
No human is born with resilience. Babies are small, vulnerable and incapable of doing anything at all for themselves, unlike […]
L E T T E R – Meditation and Our Thinking
This is one of the greatest gifts of transcendence that our meditation technique gifts us – moving beyond one’s thoughts. […]
L E T T E R – Conscious Experiences
It’s hard to believe at times, that nothing happens to anybody which he is not fit by nature to bear, […]
L E T T E R – Ceativityr, Love and Hate
I love this quote. Because the ego will tell us otherwise all the time, and ensure we are terrified of […]
L E T T E R – Being Disturbed
Today I wanted us to all gain clarity around this essential truth. Have you ever felt rested, calm and full […]
L E T T E R – Flux and Meditation
Meditation teaches us so much, and in particular Vedic meditation, where we are taught so many amazing things that become […]
L E T T E R – Vitality At What Cost
Fear drains vitality. There’s always some lurking fear around everything – that is getting the wrong diagnosis. I have had […]
L E T T E R – Our Ideas Of Truth
Authentic and inspired educational teachers, spiritual teachers, coaches, and mentors have so much to offer us. Yet they are not […]
L E T T E R – What To Nurse Then
There is an old Zen story that I really like, with many versions of it, rendered slightly differently, but I […]
L E T T E R – What’s Really Attacking Us
What if we viewed every challenge right now as something to be learned? The universe hand delivering us our own […]
L E T T E R – Our Real Work
I heard Ram Dass once tell a wonderful story. I’m hazy on the details of country and religion, but it […]
L E T T E R – Don’t Think
Instinctive living can be challenging when we are bombarded with opposing opinions backed by scientific studies that say exactly the […]
L E T T E R – That Flat Spot
The idea that we are going to always be in the flow, thriving and creative is ludicrous, yet we catch […]
L E T T E R – Sadhana
Sadhana is the sanskrit term for daily practice or ritual. Defined by one of my favourite authors Maya Triwari as […]
L E T T E R – What’s It All About
I love Maurice and I love this quote, and it can be interpreted in so many ways. If we dissect […]
L E T T E R – Your Heart In Your Work
Dharma means purpose in Sanskrit, and it’s so frequently mistaken as ‘something spiritual as your work’. Especially in the modern […]
L E T T E R – To End Comparison
I think we intellectually know this. That copying others is futile in the quest for happiness. That authenticity is key […]
L E T T E R – You Never Know
I love dearly wise tales with messages especially this one, ancient Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked […]
L E T T E R – Meaningfulness
I spent the weekend with Jeff Kober teaching about understanding our humanity, our spirituality, our dharma and how to enliven […]
L E T T E R - Move Your Arse
I think this quote is such a great follow on from yesterday and I believe it so much. I had […]
L E T T E R – To Be Breath Taken
I’m clearly having an emotional week as represented in all the Letters! I feel so positive and taken with the […]
L E T T E R – Granted or Gratitude
The other week I was cooking dinner because I always cook dinner, and I started getting a little huff on. […]
L E T T E R – The Way
Firstly I would like to thank all of you that send me the most heartfelt and beautiful notes of gratitude […]
L E T T E R – Courage Counts
The writing of the Letters has taught me I think far more than I can ever share and teach through […]
L E T T E R – Attitudes Do Make a Difference
Has there been a truer sentence written? Do we already know it? Why are we not embracing this every single […]