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 […]
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 […]
Photo from our India Retreat in Rishikesh Oh my lord is it excellent to be home! So emotional! So wonderful! […]
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 […]
For our recent India Retreat, I had it all mapped out. Tightly organised, planned to within an inch of its […]
A student messaged me last week saying she felt disgusted with herself and angry, as she still longed to buy […]
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 […]
Educating ourselves is fascinating and frustrating at times, as the more you learn, the more you realise you don’t know. […]
I couldn’t agree more that curiosity in all aspects of life is needed for creativity and flow. Arran told me […]
Before I left for India, I sat with my friend and student, Uyen, in Whale Beach drinking tea and we […]
There are days when I sit to write these Letters to you and I feel physically ill. I am overcome […]
Well, this week’s letter’s have certainly taken on a slightly serious tone! I didn’t mean them to, but they do […]
There is so much programming involved, in how we think we should be living. Paradigms created by so many people […]
I got a text from a friend the other day, reporting something insignificant on another friend that I had a […]
There is feedback, and there is criticism. There is moaning, and then there are witch hunts. I posted last week […]
READ I adore this book by our friend Josh, his approach to creativity and consciousness continually inspires me. I interviewed Josh […]
We have a huge tree in our garden, and when we moved in became very fond of it as throughout […]
I have so many interests and creative outlets I sometimes can’t breath for the joy of it all, and I […]
Some people come to learn meditation because they are keen to be their best selves, they feel unreal and want […]
When did we lost the art of saying, ‘you know what, I don’t know’ or ‘wouldn’t have a clue’. When […]
For you to try . . . EAT We are eating mostly plant-based at the moment, and 75% of the […]
Time is something that expands and contracts, as it’s all a perception. Stay with me, I know it sounds a […]
Our daughter is doing a speech for school and had to incorporate a bunch of keywords including resilience and respect. […]
My dear friend Jen was recently telling me a story about a conversation she had with her teenage son. He […]
Sometimes people think spirituality is all mung beans and hand holding and unicorns. Sometimes people think spirituality is a word […]
As a recovering perfectionist, I have had intense experiences around making mistakes. It makes no sense as part of the […]
I was once taught an analogy that I have carried around with me since from Taoism. It is that when […]
The Buddhists say the root cause of suffering is our attachment to desires. It’s not our actual desires. But our […]
Long lasting change doesn’t come in a silver bullet, a bandaid or a quick fix. I was interviewed by our […]
Life is so fragile. We never know when it will come to a close. As humans, we can be bitter […]
I don’t mean physical space here. But emotional space. Conscious space. Creative space. Working stuff out space. A sacred space […]
Over the weekend we put out a survey, which was answered by SO many which make me SO very pleased […]
Picture a large majestical tree. We could just acknowledge a single leaf, and fixate on it, cooing over the leaf, […]
As soon as I return from a holiday as I have this week, I can feel myself slightly panicking about […]
Something happens to us that causes upset. We stew and sulk and can’t help but tell people about it. With […]
At the karate tournament last week, I saw a man with one leg compete. He stood on the side of […]
This is a little game I play with myself, ‘what’s my greatest fear in this’. I’ve found in every situation […]
I was ordering my coffee the other day, and our lovely friend who makes coffee Andre asked how I was […]
There is a big difference between being productive and getting lots done, and simply overworking. There is being social, and […]
Have you ever had an experience where you just cannot fathom in the moment what the lesson is? Or why […]
There is no cookie cutter approach for your Vedic Meditation practice. A twice-daily practice is ideal, and there are some […]
When we are building something, a business, a relationship, our spiritual development, our education, our parenting, it’s so easy to […]
As someone that used to work in advertising, marketing and PR, our whole purpose was to make people believe that […]
I’m heading this morning from Sydney to a karate tournament in Okinawa. It has been a dream of mine since […]
We have wired into our brains and bodies most of our reactions, thoughts, prejudices, and biases. We did so a […]
This stands true not just for creativity, but for love, gratitude, compassion, kindness. Additionally for anger, resentment, shame, guilt. So […]
Inspiration comes to us through a channel of creativity. It’s not out there ‘waiting for us’ it’s flowing from within […]
Sometimes one of the challenges of being self-employed is that you are always working to a degree. Even if you’re […]
‘Something, somewhere incredible is waiting to be known’; where is that somewhere? Inside of you. Every external experience we define […]
I’ve done some seriously crazy things and some seriously dumb things in my time. I created a huge design and […]
We recently got our daughters school report back. There are lots of columns marking all the different areas, how she […]
Pinterest and Instagram and all the other platforms I don’t even know about are such an incredible source of inspiration. […]
I’ve been meditating for a very long time, and this inner force is the most powerful tool I know for […]
I have sat on this quote for some time. There seemed to be so many moving parts to it, each […]
I get upset when I hear people say ‘oh I am not creative’ or exclaim ‘so and so doesn’t have […]
Clarity is an interesting concept when it comes to learning, as the more we learn, the more we realise there […]
I really love Jane Goodall and I really love this quote. I also believe in a spiritual power higher than ourselves […]
In essence, this quote means to surrender to what is, with full acceptance. One of the most challenging things to […]
When I was young, I had the utmost confidence in my creativity. Arran and I were laughing on the way […]
There’s something so wonderful about discovering things about yourself, having realisations and seeing tangible results from doing self-development or spiritual […]
I still remember many years back, over a decade ago, standing in a bookstore in New York, and picking up […]
There is a beautiful concept with our meditation technique, about the purpose of twice-daily practice. In a nutshell, it’s that […]
I love it when slightly delusional ‘creative’ people or artists claim they don’t need order, they fly by the seat […]
No human is born with resilience. Babies are small, vulnerable and incapable of doing anything at all for themselves, unlike […]
This is one of the greatest gifts of transcendence that our meditation technique gifts us – moving beyond one’s thoughts. […]
It’s hard to believe at times, that nothing happens to anybody which he is not fit by nature to bear, […]
I love this quote. Because the ego will tell us otherwise all the time, and ensure we are terrified of […]
Today I wanted us to all gain clarity around this essential truth. Have you ever felt rested, calm and full […]
Meditation teaches us so much, and in particular Vedic meditation, where we are taught so many amazing things that become […]
Fear drains vitality. There’s always some lurking fear around everything – that is getting the wrong diagnosis. I have had […]
Authentic and inspired educational teachers, spiritual teachers, coaches, and mentors have so much to offer us. Yet they are not […]
There is an old Zen story that I really like, with many versions of it, rendered slightly differently, but I […]
Hi, my name is Jacqui, and I am a recovering perfectionist. If you are not a perfectionist I can almost […]
I hope this is how life feels for you, I really do. Arran and I have spent some time recently […]
What if we viewed every challenge right now as something to be learned? The universe hand delivering us our own […]
I heard Ram Dass once tell a wonderful story. I’m hazy on the details of country and religion, but it […]
Instinctive living can be challenging when we are bombarded with opposing opinions backed by scientific studies that say exactly the […]
The idea that we are going to always be in the flow, thriving and creative is ludicrous, yet we catch […]
Sadhana is the sanskrit term for daily practice or ritual. Defined by one of my favourite authors Maya Triwari as […]
I love Maurice and I love this quote, and it can be interpreted in so many ways. If we dissect […]
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 […]
Dharma means purpose in Sanskrit, and it’s so frequently mistaken as ‘something spiritual as your work’. Especially in the modern […]
I think we intellectually know this. That copying others is futile in the quest for happiness. That authenticity is key […]
I love dearly wise tales with messages especially this one, ancient Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked […]
With our meditation practice, with our spiritual quests, our creative endeavors, there is nowhere to get, nothing to gain. Frustrating […]
I spent the weekend with Jeff Kober teaching about understanding our humanity, our spirituality, our dharma and how to enliven […]
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