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 […]
The glass half empty mentality we all know, but do we actually live glass half full. Every moment. Is everything […]
I adore this piece by Kahlil Gibran On Children. For it’s so easy to get caught in the grit of […]
I have one rule for our meditation students and that is that they never apologise for not meditating. Being […]
When we were in Los Angeles we went to a small, lesser-known private art gallery, and the gentleman working there […]
This took me a LONG time to get my head around when it came to spirituality and creativity. I enjoyed […]
We are all recovering from something, whether it be grief, the ego’s grip, addiction, perfectionism, heartbreak. There’s deep recovery, and […]
I like to think of this not just as treading the earth lightly, but whilst treading, being ultra aware of […]
Not often are we encouraged in the West to renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking. I’m writing this from […]
Water, the incredibly dynamic and flexible qualities that can shift it from ice to fluid, to steam. Imagine if we […]
What if today was the very last day of our lives? If tomorrow we never woke up. I like entertaining this line […]
It’s tempting to think that all the answers lie outside of us. It allows us to hold others responsible. To […]
We get mean when we feel scared. It’s pretty simple yet we forget this all the time. The difference in […]
Future Projecting is something I teach and talk about a lot, as it’s a huge rut we get stuck in. […]
I loved reading the bravery, anguish, creative processes and determination of Bill Strickland in his autobiographical book Making The Impossible […]
Rest is undervalued in today’s frenetic society. I know it for myself. I burnt the candles at both ends for […]
If you’ve had an upbringing remotely similar to mine, you may have found yourself with an ingrained belief that you […]
As I referenced the Dalai Lama yesterday, I thought it might be nice to kick off today’s letter with a […]
Have you ever found your self ‘sitting by the door’ in life, always having one eye on your nearest exit? […]
In today’s society, which is riddled with muddled messaging, knowing how to hold oneself is becoming increasingly challenging. Sayings such […]
Just for today, imagine that every single person in your life, is there to teach you something. Something small, something […]
Sometimes the intellect can be so defined, that we forget we must apply it. Like a tool that sits in […]
Such a simple shift in mindset occurs when reading this. I like the word opportunity. It means gift, which sometimes […]
I honestly am not sure I can contribute any more to this beautiful quote, except to provide it as a […]
I was terribly bullied as a little kid and again as a teenager. And now teaching meditation to lots of […]
Have you ever listened to all the thoughts going on in your head? I sat in the most beautiful garden […]
Beginners Mind is a Buddhist concept that I love and try to implement as much as possible. It’s not about […]
Years back I read the most fabulous book called The Art Of Asking By Amanda Palmer. Yes she did a […]
One of my all times favourites. We can look back at painful times and reflect on how important they were, how much […]
What happens when a bigger ‘problem’ comes along? All the big problems before it are suddenly relegated to little problems […]
As avid readers and meditators here at The Broad Place, we know how transformational both these things are. We call it the […]
Recently I watched Oprah Winfrey being interviewed after her Cecil B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes. She said, “The […]
We all seem to know this, that being present reaps the greatest rewards as a human,but very little do we […]
What if it you made it this simple. What if you distilled all the self help and self development and […]
There is so much talk of the power of positive thinking, so much science to back it up, yet I […]
This week, let’s actively make choices to either gently flow in the direction of what is going right, and if […]
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 if you had a year to live? What would you read? What would you stop […]
This is such a huge topic that I might visit it a few times more!!To begin with, ensuring we only […]
I really am so blown away by all the kind and encouraging messages I have been receiving to these little […]
Years back I had to really ask myself why were the unimportant things and people in my life getting so […]
The other day, I wrote about the concept of letting something go, in order to invite something in. To empty […]
This time of year is supposed to be all about fresh starts, and new beginnings and a ‘wealth of opportunity’ […]
Mornings for me are sacred. A time to contemplate, to be a human being. To stretch, meditate, exercise, be near […]
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas/Festivus/Whatever You Celebrate and time to nourish and renew. Emily spent the time settling […]
Yesterday Arran and Marley were arguing over something small, and I stepped in with an opinion and completely overrode what […]
This week I woke to the micro pressures of teaching meditation, a tonne of mentoring, many many meetings, workshops, talks […]
It’s the time of year when I am at my most engaged. We have all our meditation courses before the […]
Seth Godin popped into my inbox with “Are there places do you feel like you’re falling behind where there’s actually […]
When I first started writing these little letters to our students, I felt the deepest shame. Who the hell was […]
On the weekend just been I had too much to juggle and responsibilities I didn’t want to fulfill and I […]
“Thus, this supremely perfect order of the Universe goes on all around us. But the structure is so vast, and […]
We have returned from India, the place of chaos and calm, inspired, refreshed and thrilled to be home. I can’t […]
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. […]
We have been soaking in life in India with its every detail since we arrived. Literally soaking, as it hasn […]
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that” Martin Luther King, Jr. […]
A. The Best Parts Of The Present I read this moving article over the weekend. My little brother is seriously disabled, and […]
Yesterday Jeff arrived from LA, and we had a Group Meditation Meeting and spoke of how nature is at all […]
‘Living a Non Monastic Life (with emails and other dreaded tasks)’ Memories back to my recent time in the redwood […]
Hello my friend, I have only just 36 hours ago returned from the most incredible 6 weeks away. I can […]
Marley and I sat in a Parisian cafe this morning. We had orange juice, coffee (well for me), baguettes and […]
Today I feel like having a little bit of a rant. And then suggesting something to follow that I hope […]
We just landed yesterday from Los Angeles, and I’m only home for a few rich days before I head to […]
We know this to be true; where we place our attention, energy will flow. So awareness of where we place […]
Comfort zones would have to be one of the most boring places to hang out in for extended periods of […]
I love this quote. So many woes we all have, so many of them imagined. The mind is a pretty […]
Arran and I are right now in Tokyo, leaving this evening after our last minute, very fulfilling trip here. We […]
I am a huge consumer these days. No longer of stuff, products and things, but of information, knowledge and experiences. […]
Travel is my spiritual work. I detest car travel and air travel. I find it pushes all my buttons. The […]
This week I am including some juicy bits and pieces to keep your mind trained on expanding, staying creative and […]
There is a a Zen Buddhist fable I have heard a few times that goes along the line of this. […]
Oh my have I had my battles with indignation. It’s a tricky emotion. Essentially it’s a response of anger or […]
Arran bought me a bonsai for Christmas. I love it so. We chose a tiny Japanese maple together, and the […]
I was listening to the Tim Ferriss Podcast as he was listing the ‘Impossible 17 Questions That Changed My Life’ […]
This year I was dedicated to refining the difference between judgement and discernment. They really are poles apart. It’s a […]
Diving back into my Zen studies this year (a hilarious concept really as you can ‘study Zen’ you just need […]