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Letter from Jac – A simple profound tool that will enhance your sleep by 30%
High stress levels, fatigue and emotional overwhelm are in abundance these days and on the downside, these things affect our […]
Letter from Jac – The art of slowing down to ramp up
I love this quote, for I really agree with the why settle for less BUT I would also highlight, the […]
Letter from Jo – Consciously Challenging Our Stories and Beliefs
We all hold stories about ourselves, what we can do what we can’t do; our preferences, things we love and […]
Letter from Jac – A powerful exercise for you to engage with
Today I want you to undertake a little exercise. Carve out 30-60 minutes and sit down and write out how […]
Letter from Jac – Which road will you pick at the fork?
There’s a path of tension, doubt, overwhelm and frenzy you can take with this pandemic. Or a path of creativity […]
Letter from Jac – What season are you in right now?
I often teach about our personal seasons. Summer being hot, full, lengthy and abundant, but also with the chance of burnout. Autumn being […]
Letter from Jac – How constant change is changing you…and what it might present
We must abandon the idea that stability exists. Change is the only thing that is constantly happening. It’s the only thing that […]
Letter from Jac – The inner critic
There is very little that I do without my ego chiming in about what a bad job I am doing […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Just begin, with whatever you have
Today I want to ask you, what is the thing that you’re putting off? Not ’the big dream’, but the small […]
L E T T E R from Jac – How are you taking care of your mental fitness?
The brain and mind we tend to flog, relentlessly. If we want to be brain and mind fit, we need […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Power Down Hour
One of the simplest and most effective tools I am ALWAYS banging on about, aside from Integrated Meditation, is powering down […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Resilience is a full embrace
Often resilience is viewing as a strength, a tough as nails approach, unwavering attitude after so much endurance. But, resilience […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Who are you to you?
Our relationship to ourselves is the most important relationship we have. Yet it is often shelved due the demands placed […]
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 – Inner Stillness
I think we all know we’re probably pushing it a little hard. We all have past experience with burnout, having lit ourselves alight […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Where does the happiness come from?
‘Happiness is your natural state. You don’t have to do anything to acquire it, because you have it already’ says […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Intentional living
When we began to work with the term High Grade Living, it really meant intentional living, elevated to enjoy life […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Find your own path
The challenge we have with a lot of modern spirituality and modern meditation is all the spiritual bypass and nonsense […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Suffering is optional
It’s so desirable to make the ‘right decision’ and so challenging in knowing what the heck that is without all […]
L E T T E R from Jac – How To Live A Life In Flow
This is really a follow on from yesterday, which was a Letter to you about the challenges that expectations bring […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Remember To Breathe
In truth I found this little Letter sitting on my desktop, and now I am unsure if I have already […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Know Thy Self
I would also add to power, is the education about oneself. To know oneself is to understand our conditioning and […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Feeling Overwhelmed?
Can you even fathom this?? In one century, we’ve added 28 years to our average life span – a change so […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Your Brain On Tech
This week I really, really felt drawn to working with our emotional landscape, neuroscience and relationship to technology and social […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Fake News That Is The Ego
How the ego LOVES to welcome an imagined persecution and prepare an attack? Have you ever noticed how much time […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Just Pick One
I work with so many creatives, and frequently the biggest block to building anything in this world, is the idea […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Crossing Over
I have of late been diving more deeply into studying the Tao Te Ching and the Heart Sutra. The wisdom […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Don’t Wait, Just Start
Hello lovely reader, I have fallen into a haphazard matter of writing these Letters to you. Without the self imposed […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Dropping The Intellect
I love this story, for it demonstrates how quickly we can get caught up in concepts, and delusional about where […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Getting Back To The Intention
As a follow on from the last Letter, I thought it would be helpful to return to our intentions behind […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What We Cannot Control
We cannot control our lives. Read it again. It took me way too long to grasp this and I still […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Ahhh, so
Spend one day, but make it the entire day, in being acutely aware of how many preferences you lug around, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Discomfort Of Boundaries
One of the very common pitfalls of self development and spirituality is spiritual bypass. Spiritual bypass is where spiritual practice […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Becoming Who We Are
Nearly all our automated responses to situations were formed before we turned 7 years of age. So tiny! When we […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Don’t Chase Experiences
I am often teaching students, don’t sweat your actual seated meditation, do it, and see the results in your daily […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Go Kindly
I don’t know about you, but I have been experiencing huge waves of grief, sadness and anger. It might be […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Take Care Of Yourself
Our bodies are the host for our consciousness, and when we are fatigued, physically have overdone it, or unwell, consciousness […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Time Is Now
This week marks a year since we went into lockdown in the UK. Many countries were ahead of this, or […]
L E T T E R from Jac – No Such Thing As A Perfect Moment
If you wait for the perfect moment to create, you’ll be waiting a lifetime. Our job is to get our body […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What You Can’t Unsee
One of the often unnerving things that come with wisdom, is seeing parts of ourselves, that once recognised, cannot be […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Getting Cooked
When we prepare a recipe, there’s much that goes into it before the moment of eating. The creative process, the […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What To Choose
If you had all the money in the world, how would you spend your time?If you had no one to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Love Everything
If you have been a student of mine for awhile, or reader of these Letters, you will have at some […]
L E T T E R from Jac- The Passing Weather Storms
I know, yet six weeks into this year, there is much weariness. A fatigue, that became like a heavy coat […]
Letter from Jac – Some Days
There are some days when we find this impossibly hard. The idea that everything can speak to us of passion […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Love Is The Answer
Whatever the question, Love is always a good answer. So simple, right? Nonetheless, I find it sometimes hard to remember, […]
L E T T E R from Jo – The Magic Of Yet
“Yet”, a powerful word, brimming with potential and possibilities, the perfect finisher to many sentences, the opener of doors, the […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Mystery
Before technology and modern times, people used to be far more attuned to nature, to the rhythms of the universe, […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Laughing Is A High Priority
Humour is one of my core values, it gives me energy, inspiration, connection. It has the ability to reset me, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Frog In The Well
This is a lovely way of describing that we have no idea of our enormous potential as humans, the gigantic […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Our Vibe Is Contagious
Have you ever sat and eaten a meal with someone who on that occasion was rushing through their food, barely […]
L E T T E R from Jac – 2020 Learnings
As we close off for the year, and I come to enter into a gorgeous little sabbatical that I will be […]
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 – 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 – Do Not Burn Yourself Out
I have been doing a lot of Workplace Program work, and the fatigue and burn out is real right now. […]
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 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 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 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 – 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 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 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 – 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 – 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 […]