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 […]
I know, yet six weeks into this year, there is much weariness. A fatigue, that became like a heavy coat […]
“Where is that place where all of our intuitive ideas bubble up from? What does it mean to have expanded consciousness?” […]
I am so grateful for my lowest of lows. They formed and shaped me in ways I couldn’t ever possibly […]
“The oak sleeps in the acornThe giant sequoia tree sleeps in its tiny seedThe bird waits in the eggGod waits […]
The Buddha spoke that every being has the capacity for enlightenment and as everything is connected, every single being has […]
Today is Letter 300. There are so many Letters behind these when I wasn’t tallying them up. But 300 feels […]
This reminds me of something my friend Sam from Cloud Hidden Tea told me about tea ceremonies; work with the […]
The other day in London, we discovered a street cart outside a mosque, where Kaz the owner makes some of […]
Okay ‘huge news’, we have moved our quotes to a neutral colour palette. I share this not because it’s going […]
What if taught all our kids that normal was beige, nothing to aspire to, and to totally and utterly embrace […]
The brighter you shine the more blinding it will become for those not attuned to it. I was recently chatting […]
Our brains wire in ways of doing things for efficiencies sake. It’s to make the whole system flow more, things […]
As we round out January, there comes a sense of the year looming ahead. Will it be everything we want […]
In Zen, the tensho is the monastery cook. Every moment, every meal is seen as an opportunity to experience truth, […]
I think writing yesterday’s Letter stirred up a lot for me. I pondered about all the (necessary) distractions I experienced […]
When I was young, I was a strange little kid. I didn’t fit in at all. Eccentric, hyperactive, skinny and […]
David Whyte said,’ How easily the thread is broken between this life and the next’. It’s a beautiful line, isn’t […]
Why is our personal purpose so hard to define for most of us? It took me decades to figure it […]
I had a conversation with a dear friend and meditation student on the weekend about the never-ending list of ‘All […]
I had soooo many people respond to the letter (What Would You Create) about what would you do if you couldn’t […]
Brene always delivers the pithy statements, doesn’t she? I love thinking about authenticity this way, a series of tiny commitments. […]
This is that tricky time of year I find when we bound in with full enthusiasm, transformed by new possibility […]
I’ve never met anyone like Arran, he literally doesn’t ever consider what anyone thinks of him. He’s incredibly neat and […]
One of my favourite questions as part of long-term workshops that I host, is ‘if you knew you couldn’t fail, […]
A little list of things I would recommend if you’re stuck making choices at the moment. It’s a big time […]
It’s the first day of 2019. If you woke today bright and alive, brilliant. If you woke hungover as hell […]
My absolute goodness what a year. For Arran and I, it was beyond what we imagined. I travelled to London, […]
I spent most of Friday emailing back students who had applied for the scholarship of Be Your Best Self. We […]
The Letter I wrote the other day about the need for planning and our common misunderstanding that planning depletes our […]
I had a really interesting conversation the other day with a long term meditator who had become disillusioned with spirituality, […]
I find this one of the most challenging of all the opposites we experience, the balance between simplicity and happiness […]
Being only a few short days to Christmas, I thought this quote was utterly perfect, as soon most of us […]
Conscious and Patient are not two words I have always been excellent at embodying in my life. I have been […]
This quote has been playing around in my mind like a Zen koan for some time. It can be viewed […]
I was standing on the shore of the beach the other day chatting to Gabriel. Gabriel is Argentinean and I […]
I absolutely adore this quote and have had it pinned above my desk for years. When I am stuck, feeling […]
When Emily or I teach Integrated Meditation, we both drill into our students to not chase perfection. You will never […]
This is the time of year we all sit back and start to either feel incredible gratitude for the year […]
My wonderful friend Jeff Kober included this in his daily newsletter last week and I loved it so much I […]
It’s so much easier to look at someone close to us and see their flaws. Their unrealistic nature in certain […]
There is a downside to living a full and abundant life. I mean at first you’re like, seriously, could there be […]
I really wish to use The Broad Place to share important messages. Erin Lovell Verinder who was recently interviewed at […]
Last weekend, I hosted with my insanely talented friend Kim Amos a Creativity and Consciousness Workshop at her property, River […]
I am trying hard to help my daughter be empowered to make the choices that are right by her. To […]
When we are constantly moving, it’s so hard to be still. Not still in meditation, still in life. When we […]
As an enthusiast (someone with obsessive tendencies coupled with deep excitement), Arran is always nervous when I start getting into […]
I looked after our friends’ little boy called Sonny the other night, the whole night and morning while they went […]
I am up in glorious Byron Bay on the east coast of Australia preparing for our Retreat, studying tea, spending […]
Consciousness is defined in so many different ways, sometimes as a state of awareness, or the quality of that awareness. Sometimes as […]
Bodha was created by one of our very loved friends Emily, and her partner in everything Fred. It’s the true […]
One of the examples I use when teaching in workplaces is this: Last day of work before a holiday; everyone […]
Charles and Ray Eames have been an endless inspiration to me. When I was 19 and studying interior architecture, one […]
I meet a lot of people who comment they’re too scared to learn meditation because of what they might discover […]
When living a conscious life, it’s not all unicorns and rainbows. People sometimes think that they can walk a conscious […]
I used to play a game many years back, that I nicknamed Ram Dass Roulette. I listened ferociously to Ram […]
Around this time of year, Arran and I start formulating our ideas for the following year. 2018 was massive for […]
We have been preaching this from the rooftops for years, it’s a tool within our 7 Day Mind Cleanse and […]
Today we are going to gift you something special, because trust me, you need it. Everyone, especially at this time of the […]
Grounding is about being connected to within, to the earth, and to nature and taking our heads out of the […]
We are so good most of the time at looking back, and admitting, sometimes admiringly, that everything was for the […]
Frequently people think ‘creativity = art’ and it’s time for us to broaden our horizons around this. Creativity is at […]
I often ponder why it’s so hard to follow our hearts and even harder sometimes to hear what they have […]
There is so much talk of the power of positive thinking, so much science to back it up, yet I […]
I used to have a terrible aversion to saying no to people. I had, (and still do) a big fear […]
My Dad was a very renowned chef, winning best restaurant in Australia as well as three hats. His brother, my […]
I had a catch up the other day with someone and it was like I was in overdrive. I left […]
Wow, this weeks’ Letters seem to have really triggered a lot of thought and reflection from many of you!! So, […]
If you haven’t read the first and second part of this Letter series, you can check Part 1 and Part […]
If you haven’t read the first part of this Letter series you can do so here. Continuing on from yesterday! […]
Arran, Emily and I get so exhausted by all the ‘Be Fearless’s self-improvement mush that is shoved down everyone’s throats […]
In Buddhism, Dukkha, which is originally a Pali word, is translated most frequently as suffering. Specifically the suffering of the […]
Having a teenage daughter, the essence of telling the truth is really up in our grill at the moment. And […]
If you missed yesterday’s Letter, Part 1, you can see it here. After changing my flights and wrapping up the […]
Our recent trip to India took a year to plan. The major component was our Broad Place Retreat which had […]
The only thing we are really trapped by is our thinking mind, with its limitations and prejudices and biases that […]
Beauty can be so underrated in our modern way of life. Tiny moments of beauty can light me up for hours […]
We can’t help it a lot of the time. It’s automatic. Our egos are constantly sizing everything up against that […]
If you’ve ever been working on something and loved it, then over thought it, then doubted it, then felt ill […]
Yesterday, I wrote in the Letter about re-framing spirituality and you can read it HERE. It’s a big topic and […]
There is so much confusion when we decide to live ‘spiritually’. It’s really a nonsense idea because everyone is trying […]
Being a recovering control freak and perfectionist, OCD, a Virgo and aaaall the other labels I could apply to my […]
In the Vedic view, there are three things present at all times. Creation, maintenance and destruction. The Vedic view of […]
This Letter today stems from the Letter I wrote to you a few days back, What Might You Be If […]
Years back I had to really ask myself why were the unimportant things and people in my life getting so […]
I couldn’t agree more that curiosity in all aspects of life is needed for creativity and flow. Arran told me […]
Join The Broad Place Co-Founder, Jac Lewis and author of the recently released, Mothers Mind Cleanse on Tuesday February 16th from […]
“Every time you’re tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of […]
The only people we can hold accountable for our happiness is ourselves. Annoying sometimes isn’t it. At times it’s just […]
The 7 Day Mind Cleanse is a revolutionary e-book that will shift and change the way in which you live, […]
This could also be titled Stop To Smell The Roses or Celebrate The Wins. It’s a concept that has been […]
‘Be The Change You Want To See In The World’ Ghandi We need to make change right now, not tomorrow, […]
So why meditate? People learn this technique for a large range of personal reasons. Some want to be more creative […]
And what does evening ‘having a need’ mean? We can all get caught up in the idea that our needs […]
Something we recently read by the talented Leo Babula of Zen Habits, we agree wholeheartedly. “This is the only response […]
Something happens to us that causes upset. We stew and sulk and can’t help but tell people about it. With […]