L E T T E R – Perfectionists Anonymous
Hi, my name is Jacqui, and I am a recovering perfectionist. If you are not a perfectionist I can almost […]
Philosophy
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 – Concepts
When we are learning anything, there are usually concepts involved. We want to be sure to understand them, to test them and to find our truth within them. When we become governed by the concept over the truth though, we are bound by it. Our learning will […]
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 […]
L E T T E R – When Two Waves Collide
When you stand on a sandbank in the ocean, on certain tides, the waves wash in from the breakers and […]
L E T T E R – What Will You Choose?
The glass half empty mentality we all know, but do we actually live glass half full. Every moment. Is everything […]
L E T T E R – Zen Walking
Kin Hin is a very beautiful practice of walking with presence, sometimes called Zen Walking. I remember still when first […]
L E T T E R & a G I F T – A Mothers Gift
I adore this piece by Kahlil Gibran On Children. For it’s so easy to get caught in the grit of […]
L E T T E R – Anxiety
I have one rule for our meditation students and that is that they never apologise for not meditating. Being […]
L E T T E R – Choices
When we were in Los Angeles we went to a small, lesser-known private art gallery, and the gentleman working there […]
L E T T E R – The Disturbing Truth
This took me a LONG time to get my head around when it came to spirituality and creativity. I enjoyed […]
L E T T E R – A Fractured Dance
When I was teaching meditation in Silverlake, we spoke collectively about the current frenzy and uptake of spiritual practices and […]
L E T T E R – Y O U R H E L P
As a school, we are here for our students. Everything we do, is about helping you live your highest grade […]
L E T T E R – R E C O V E R Y
We are all recovering from something, whether it be grief, the ego’s grip, addiction, perfectionism, heartbreak. There’s deep recovery, and […]
L E T T E R – An Exploration
I love this quote by Bruce Lee. He was profound, inspiring, motivated and disciplined. Today have a look into […]
L E T T E R – The Journey
Sometimes the most frequently referenced quotes and lines that are by now cheesy, are the most true, such as the […]
L E T T E R – To Tread Lightly
I like to think of this not just as treading the earth lightly, but whilst treading, being ultra aware of […]
L E T T E R – Continuous Growth
There’s nowhere to ‘get to’ in our spiritual, physical and mental endeavours. Just continual growth. It’s a hard pill to […]
L E T T E R – Squeamish
When I am traveling, I really dislike airports. I wish I was more cool and Zen and what not, and […]
L E T T E R – Soul Search
Not often are we encouraged in the West to renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking. I’m writing this from […]
L E T T E R – The Power Of Water
Water, the incredibly dynamic and flexible qualities that can shift it from ice to fluid, to steam. Imagine if we […]
L E T T E R – Our Last Act
What if today was the very last day of our lives? If tomorrow we never woke up. I like entertaining this line […]
L E T T E R – Inside Out
It’s tempting to think that all the answers lie outside of us. It allows us to hold others responsible. To […]
L E T T E R – Empathy
We get mean when we feel scared. It’s pretty simple yet we forget this all the time. The difference in […]
L E T T E R – Just Now
Future Projecting is something I teach and talk about a lot, as it’s a huge rut we get stuck in. […]
L E T T E R – Oneness
In Vedanta, an ancient body of knowledge from where our meditation practice originates, there is the concept that duality, separateness […]
L E T T E R – Present Moment Awareness
Have you ever been driving your car and thought to yourself, I can’t remember driving through the last 2 suburbs? […]
L E T T E R – Defining Success
I loved reading the bravery, anguish, creative processes and determination of Bill Strickland in his autobiographical book Making The Impossible […]
L E T T E R – F*#k The Fear
Rest is undervalued in today’s frenetic society. I know it for myself. I burnt the candles at both ends for […]
L E T T E R – A Cat On A Leash
I hear too often nonsense about ‘taming the mind’ and references to a monkey and wild horses. The mind isn’t […]
L E T T E R – What Is Happy?
If you’ve had an upbringing remotely similar to mine, you may have found yourself with an ingrained belief that you […]
L E T T E R – Perfecting The Fundamentals
Continuing on from yesterday’s letter, I wanted to talk further about commitment. I study karate and it’s mind-blowingly frustrating because […]
L E T T E R – There Are No Shortcuts
I first learnt to officially meditate when I was in my late teens. It was a funny little course held […]
L E T T E R – A Learning Nonetheless
On Sunday evening, I very excitedly went to see one of my favourite teachers Sri M who is out from […]
L E T T E R – What Is Compassion Actually
As I referenced the Dalai Lama yesterday, I thought it might be nice to kick off today’s letter with a […]
L E T T E R – Recovery Time
I had an experience years and years ago, where I went to see a friend of mine who is a […]
L E T T E R – Oh Ego
Chogyam Tungpa Rinpoche was asked by a student, “Why do you think that people are so protective of their egos? Why […]
L E T T E R – The Force Within Us
I love this commitment. That we can be changed by what occurs to us, and we can determine not to […]
L E T T E R – The Universe Whispers
Underneath all the noise; our intellect, thinking mind, egos, the exterior machinations of society, other peoples opinions, there is a […]
L E T T E R – Commitment
Have you ever found your self ‘sitting by the door’ in life, always having one eye on your nearest exit? […]
L E T T E R – Never Burn
In today’s society, which is riddled with muddled messaging, knowing how to hold oneself is becoming increasingly challenging. Sayings such […]
L E T T E R – Our 10,000 Teachers
Just for today, imagine that every single person in your life, is there to teach you something. Something small, something […]
The Human Condition
Most of us spend a large amount of time questioning our own actions, motives, worrying, fretting and stressing, about the […]
Wishing Won’t Work
Sometimes the intellect can be so defined, that we forget we must apply it. Like a tool that sits in […]
So Much Opportunity
Such a simple shift in mindset occurs when reading this. I like the word opportunity. It means gift, which sometimes […]
The Real Miracle
I honestly am not sure I can contribute any more to this beautiful quote, except to provide it as a […]
The 4% Rule
I have had the pleasure of meeting many talented people in my life, as well as many deeply conscious spiritual […]
All The Damn Thoughts
Have you ever listened to all the thoughts going on in your head? I sat in the most beautiful garden […]
A Recalibration
Oh, how this quote resonates with me. The accompanying vulnerability, the incapacity to hold it or when an emotion breaches […]
Help Without Judgement
Years back I read the most fabulous book called The Art Of Asking By Amanda Palmer. Yes she did a […]
The Never Ending Jigsaw
We are so good most of the time at looking back, and admitting, sometimes admiringly, that everything was for the […]
No BS Gratitude
Gratitude is a buzz word right now and almost everyone in one way or another has had some involvement with […]
And This
One of my all times favourites. We can look back at painful times and reflect on how important they were, how much […]
The Roar of The Universe
The ego, so loud, so insistent, so annoying, so abrupt. The heart, so gentle, so mild, so curious. If we continue to honour […]
Down That Chute
I love Tina Fey, and I love this quote. Overthinking jams up the whole system. We just have to get […]
The Besieged Everydayness Of Life
Remember that episode of The Simpsons were Marge blew a mind gasket and froze up on the bridge, windows up, refusing to […]
Shhh Now, Ego
Oh man doesn’t the ego like to stink up a tantrum when we are wondering, or worse KNOW someone else […]
The First Time Should Be Enough
Recently I watched Oprah Winfrey being interviewed after her Cecil B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes. She said, “The […]
Where Are You Now?
We all seem to know this, that being present reaps the greatest rewards as a human,but very little do we […]
Fear
Hi everyone, This is Emily, I am a meditation teacher here at The Broad Place. I have been working with Jac […]
Serious Trouble
Have you picked up a copy of our The Broad Place Book Club book The Untethered Soul yet? You can […]
A Daily Commitment
What if it you made it this simple. What if you distilled all the self help and self development and […]
What Will You Think
There is so much talk of the power of positive thinking, so much science to back it up, yet I […]
When Things Go Wrong
This week, let’s actively make choices to either gently flow in the direction of what is going right, and if […]
The Heart
I often ponder why it’s so hard to follow our hearts and even harder sometimes to hear what they have […]
What Would It Look Like
What would it look like if you had a year to live? What would you read? What would you stop […]
Staying Afloat
Makes sense doesn’t it? Why do we encourage our ego to engage with that which in our heart of hearts […]
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 […]
Selective Feedback
This is such a huge topic that I might visit it a few times more!!To begin with, ensuring we only […]
What Other People Think
Dealing with the fear of ‘what other people think’ affects so many of our students, and myself. I hear about […]
The Danger of The Majority
When it comes to spiritual growth, self development and our actively evolving, it can get tricky at times. Sometimes what […]
Time To Trim
So for today’s tools on how to experience a higher grade life, the key thing is to EDIT. When something […]
Combatting Overwhelm
This time of year is supposed to be all about fresh starts, and new beginnings and a ‘wealth of opportunity’ […]
A Daily Commitment
As we begin to dive into into 2018, I wanted to share a mantra, a daily commitment to move beyond […]
Why Create A Morning Routine in 2018
Mornings for me are sacred. A time to contemplate, to be a human being. To stretch, meditate, exercise, be near […]
Resolutions vs Intention Setting
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas/Festivus/Whatever You Celebrate and time to nourish and renew. Emily spent the time settling […]
When Did It Get So Hard To Say Sorry
Yesterday Arran and Marley were arguing over something small, and I stepped in with an opinion and completely overrode what […]
Being Kind Under Pressure
This week I woke to the micro pressures of teaching meditation, a tonne of mentoring, many many meetings, workshops, talks […]
Hell Is Just Resistance To Life
On the weekend just been I had too much to juggle and responsibilities I didn’t want to fulfill and I […]
The Perfection Of It All
“Thus, this supremely perfect order of the Universe goes on all around us. But the structure is so vast, and […]
All Those Thoughts – Which To Choose
In a sea of 80,000-90,000 thoughts a day it’s challenging to know which are helpful, real, genuine, creative and which are crap. […]
The Futility Of Plans – What Choice Will You Make?
We have been soaking in life in India with its every detail since we arrived. Literally soaking, as it hasn […]
Diwali Evening at The Broad Place
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that” Martin Luther King, Jr. […]
Q. What Will The Future Look Like?
A. The Best Parts Of The Present I read this moving article over the weekend. My little brother is seriously disabled, and […]
Falling Into Line With The Cosmos
There is a word I love, ‘Sympathaiea’ which means a connection with the cosmos. Isn’t it wonderful? Our connection with […]