Letter from Jac – Thanking you, for so very much
Hello and thank you for your patience. It’s been a few weeks since I penned a Letter to you. I initially took a week off to recalibrate, and reconsider what […]
Spirituality
Letter from Jo – Tuning in to Love
Occasionally, when I am going about my day, not necessarily doing anything that interesting, simply out of the blue, I can experience an overwhelming sense of love. It shifts me […]
Letter from Jac – When stressed, we tend to…
When we are stressed, or a little anxious at work, or perhaps exhausted with schooling in isolation (I refuse to call it homeschooling, which is an entirely different education), or […]
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 world is often working against us when it comes to […]
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 things we don’t like at all. These nifty shortcuts help […]
Letter from Jac – It’s never too late to learn
Often people wait awhile to learn to meditate. It feels like something that can be learnt later, or when life gets really challenging, people tend to engage then. Thankfully it’s […]
Letter from Jac – A reminder for dealing with immense stress
When in times of immense stress and pressure, it’s so good to just come back to the basics. Today the sun dawned. Today I woke up. Today I get to […]
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 you hope your life will look like in 20 years. […]
Letter from Jo – Everyday, Let’s Encourage Our Joy
I’m not sure about you but sometimes I feel joy is very close by, popping in and out of my day, saying hello, smiling inside, draping a lightness over all […]
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 and expansion. It demands a lighter touch. It’s uncertain, and […]
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 a time to pare back, and prepare for battening down […]
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 ever existed, we simply engaged in denial of it. We can […]
Letter from Jac – Feeling into the contours of this strange new world
The Mushroom At The End Of The World, is a fascinating and rich read into capitalism and nature and diversity that I am diving into after this book sat on my bedside table […]
Letter from Jac – Do your glasses need a clean?
We see too often not what’s there, but what we are conditioned to see. Our brains override new possibility to take shortcuts that previously made sense. Passages like this; it deson’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers […]
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 of it. It took quite a while for me to stop engaging […]
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 thing you know you should do, the thing you know deep […]
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 rest periods. In the same way that if we want […]
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 all tech before bed. If we look at any device, […]
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 is the result of facing and embracing our humanity over […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Wishful thinking
I always laugh with my really fit friends, about my constantly wanting a short cut. Any shortcut. But it’s just a continual commitment and accumulative effect that creates transformation. On every level. And meditation is […]
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 upon us by our relationships to others. I want you […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What does running away create?
How will you hold your awareness this week? Scattered or as something sacred? Fractured, or utterly focussed on the present? When we feel overwhelmed, or fatigued, or frankly, flat as […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Your personal daily dip dye
Every day, we saturate ourselves in thoughts, unchosen, not always well meaning, often chaotic. We must reconcile this is the case. We can’t choose our thoughts, but we can choose […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The real disturbance
What conditioning of your mind might you recognise is robbing you of reality? What reactions are taking you out of your body and driving your mind wild? Are these reactions […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Everything is fleeting
When in those perfect, clear moments when we are cleavered away from our overthinking, and we are just absolutely present to life, we understand how fleeting life is. I teach […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Whose life?
One of our beloved students Juana, introduced me to the writings of Richard Rohr. ‘Just This’ is a beautiful collection of his works for when you want a little shot […]
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 – no one can make it easier for you, no […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Which side did you place your umbrella?
One of my favourite Zen fables, that I will alter for more colour, goes like this. A very young monk wished to study and reside with a prestigious older monk. The […]
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 for others needs, our work, our expectations, others expectations. That smouldering […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Little Choices
My friend Jen told her son, it’s not so much about the big decisions in your life, it’s about the tiny, micro decisions you make continuously that matter. I loved […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Paying attention
I spent the weekend studying with the phenomenal Rose Baudin, and the amount of rapid scrawl notes I took is going to take some time to dissect BUT this one […]
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 Anthony De Mello (one of my favourite spiritual teachers). So […]
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 at its best. That gorgeous sky as the sun sets, […]
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 that goes with it. It becomes not about Self, (alignment […]
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 the information available in that moment. I seem to have […]
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 into our life, which you can read HERE if you […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Expectations Are Appointments With Disappointments
I find it personally really challenging to not have expectations. My mind is always working away ferociously, painting vivid imagery and so the actions of surrender and letting go have […]
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 sent it to you. I work like this, little snippets […]
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 personality, and our habitual ways, our nuanced approach of being […]
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 rapid that our brains couldn’t possibly have evolved to accommodate […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Finding Better Ways To Increase Happy Hormones
Our Integrated Meditation students report that they tend to engage with technology differently once meditating regularly, and they frequently question why? There’s suddenly more discipline and a natural propensity to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Where Are You Overflowing Your Bowl?
When we are over engaging with social media or technology in general, it can have the opposite of our original intention – which is usually connection and inspiration. So taking […]
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 you have spent wishing you said something else, dreaming up […]
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 infused within these texts is a soothing balm for a […]
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 we are at. Striving to be better, at all costs, […]
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 our actions. I had a student I am privately mentoring […]
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, and how attached to them you are. How many opinions […]
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 lives. Too often new students can become obsessed with having […]
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 the womens march, sometimes it’s hearing from a friend still […]
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 swiftly followed suit. And what a year it’s been. Part […]
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 tuned up like the tuning fork it is; rested, well-fed, […]
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 unseen. Growth, isn’t always fluid. It can be at times […]
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 sourcing of ingredients, the setting out of all that is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Gaining Perspective
Let’s talk about perspective. What does it really mean and how do we get it? Everyone says think ‘big picture’, but how do we do this when we’re flailing around […]
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 answer to, what would you be doing? If no one ever […]
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 stage encountered my love for the teacher Ram Dass. I […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Dear Little Screw
This is such a beautiful way to describe the limitations of the human mind. Often we get so caught up in our ‘little screw’ state that we forget about the […]
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 last year, ill-fitting and musty is being worn past its […]
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 and invites us to cherish it. Yet it’s happening, it’s […]
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, to remember that love is in fact a good answer. […]
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 cheerleader of growth, it’s tiny and jam packed with promise. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Just The Weather
It’s so important to remember this. The other day flying to Sydney, I had an old friend visit with force, anxiety. It was a combination of factors that brought my anxiety in, […]
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, but we have fallen out of these rhythms as a […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Growing Into Wisdom
I want you to think of how many books you have read this year. How many online articles? How many magazines? How many instagram posts and Facebook posts have you […]
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, remind me and change my perspective – its power is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Renovating Our Mind Architecture
If you can imagine an architecture that your mind has constructed, like a matrix or 3D rendering, and we mentally live within that architecture. It has been built up over […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What Does Meaning Our Best Mean?
I think we all use the language ‘just do your best’ a lot when going through something challenging. Sometimes it’s ‘well I am sure they meant their best’ and is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Be Kind To Yourself
I wanted to take a moment today to invite you to be kind to yourself. A lot of the time we are focused on being kind to others, sometimes at […]
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 chewing, barely finishing their mouthful, hastily getting through until their […]
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 taking from teaching, and penning these Letters, I wanted to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – No Need For Hero’s
Often when we are in a crisis, we have no idea what to do. There’s not exactly a handbook on what to do when your friend says their partner is leaving them, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Why Meditate?
The Buddha was once asked, “What have you gained from meditation?” He replied, “Nothing!” Then he continued, “However, let me tell you what I have lost: anger, anxiety, depression, insecurity, and fear of old age […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Sometimes We Will Win And Sometimes We Will Learn
Have you ever waited for just the right moment, just the right words, just the right look, just the right time, you know when all the stars are in perfect […]
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 is whilst also putting our boots on the ground to […]
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 all of that, our ability to give and receive love, […]
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 breakdown of what he called ‘basic messages’ to his disciples […]
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, the situation but the bigger picture, the full story, the […]
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 of filtered water– moving your body for 30 or more […]
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. A lot of people are taking a day a week […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Learn From That Darkness
Thanks to my friend Jen, I have discovered the wonderful writing of Edward Abbey, who I am diving into. I’m sure I will share more of his words soon. Shadow […]
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 can only kid ourselves so much that we are completely […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Resistance Is Real
“Hello, my name is Jo and I’m a Starter not a Finisher, please help”. How many projects, ideas, practices, dreams, tasks have I started and never finished? (a lot). Grand […]
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 the thing we know, might not continue and instead launch […]
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 is embarrassing to admit, but I go so caught in […]
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 no one understands and that we have it harder. I […]
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 appealing. I love the idea that it is all there […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Confidence In Our Compassion Part 2
Following on from yesterday’s Letter – compassion isn’t trying to promote or defend ourselves, which is the opposite of compassion, but is actually tapping into our basic goodness, AND additionally […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Confidence In Our Compassion Part 1
I think we are all at times confused about the essence of compassion because we think it’s just for others and not ourselves. So I have dug up some older writings […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Creative Abundance
How do I do so many creative things and put them into the world? It’s a question I am asked a bit so it seemed worthwhile taking a moment to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Calling Future Self
Try this, Get some paper and pen. Sit down some place comfortable, slow your breathing, relax into your body. Imagine it’s six months from now. Really dive into this experience. […]
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 balance one day, won’t continue on others, and trust me, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Finding Your Creative Calling
I’ve been getting lots of emailed questions from students and I put a call out on Instagram for questions recently and wanted to answer some of them here, as they […]
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 setting boundaries is incredibly important, and also I am an […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Where Is Your Attention?
One of the most powerful choices we have is where we put our attention. This is always within our control, it is always available to us and the flow from […]