L E T T E R from Jo – The Distraction of Other People’s Lives
With our fellow humans, there’s a line that can easily blur, crossing from inspiration, support, and connection to distraction, over-involvement, […]
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L E T T E R from Jac – Boosting For Needed Times and Travel
I try to eat well, exercise, and meditate and do all the high-grade living things I can to keep myself […]
L E T T E R – EDIT Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
Today before journaling I want you to sit for a moment with your eyes closed and ask, what does the […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Opportunity Cost of Being Scared
As a creative in my early twenties, rejection was just part of the game. Trained as an Interior Architect, and […]
L E T T E R from Jo – How We Act is the Most Important Thing
Once upon a time, I was all about collecting knowledge, being smart, knowing things, knowing lots of different things, more […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Cultivating Qualities Through The Trivial
‘I was having team with Master Han in his office when the mailman arrived with a letter from the master’s […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Workings of Consciousness
Moving into higher states of consciousness means that we can have deeper relationships, are calmer and centered, are less involved […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Thinking Patterns and the Power of Choice
Here are some examples of common low grade thinking patterns that you might recognise; “God, bad things always seem to […]
L E T T E R – CLARITY Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
Ohhh Clarity is one of the pillars of The Broad Place and a deeply laden intention to hold this week. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Backing Yourself
The High Vibe Challenge is kicking along and I love getting all the feedback from students within the Private Facebook […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Deserve it, Expect it, Claim it!
How easy is it for you to ask for what you really want? How easy is it for you to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Asking For Help
Frequently, we are very good at giving help. Generous, unbounded in our ability to help others. Why? Because helping someone […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Training in The Art of Peace
My homeland of Australia is in a turbulent time. It’s not unique to Australia, many, many countries are in a turbulent time. It brings […]
L E T T E R – DEPTH Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This week’s intention is DEPTH. I know this sounds strange at first reading, but I feel for it so strongly. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Our Passport To Freedom and Love
I’m not sure exactly what happened a long time back, it was likely having a small child, being a single […]
L E T T E R from Jo – You Are Always Worth It
Ultimately we all want to feel connected and loved and sometimes in our pursuit of these very things, we get […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Repeating Things
Pema Chodron speaks of this with such clarity, ‘Life’s work is to wake you up, to let the things that […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Zen Wednesday; How Can I Help?
‘The perfume of sandalwood,Rosebay or jasmineCannot travel against the wind. But the fragrance of virtueTravels even against the wind,As far as […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Do Not Fear This Time
Let’s read this second quote, “Once more we are in a period of uncertainty, of danger, in which not only […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows
Years back, I had to really ask myself why the less important things and people in my life are getting […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Choosing A Direction
When we experience extreme stress or trauma, the fight-flight response is triggered. When this happens, our brain tells us we […]
L E T T E R from Jo – We Have The Power
We don’t get to choose the emotions we feel but we are in charge of the responses we have to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Moving Through the Drama of our Lives
I mean is this not a brilliant quote? I have this little pocket book of notes from Pema Chodron, and […]
L E T T E R from Jac – At What Cost
I scrawled this sentence down in a notebook in India when my friend Jeff was doing a lecture, and just […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Working With Emptiness
‘We join spokes together in a wheel,but it is the centre holethat makes the wagon move. We shape clay into […]
L E T T E R – The Tiny Teachers In Their Hundreds
Each of us has a unique set of codes within us, that are our little teachings, a personal gift from […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Open Up
I fully subscribe to the philosophy that the quality of your mind determines the quality of your life. It is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Honeyed Reinstating Of Ones Soul
Being a big fan of Nick Cave and his immensely creative processes, as well as his raw vulnerability and sharing […]
L E T T E R from Jac – BOOM and it’s 2020!!!
Welcome to 2020, what a freaking amazing day it is! Whatever happened until the very moment you read this, is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Remembering Ram Dass
One of the greatest spiritual teachers of our time, Ram Dass, passed away last week. Ram Dass has been a huge […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Finding Strength
I don’t know about you, but my thoughts at times can be utterly awful. A doomsday riot of negativity, doubt, […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Checking In With Your Life
This might be a bit harsh, Seth, but I get the idea. Holidays are great circuit breakers to check in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Gifts Not Under The Tree
Have you ever received a present and thought, ‘weird, and certainly not what I want’ yet it’s gone onto be […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Happy Day To You From Us
Christmas is a funny time, isn’t it? Sometimes it’s joy-filled and fun. Other years it’s a time to get together […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Getting on with the Living and the Loving
I want us all to ponder, how often has holding onto my resentments paid off? How many moments have I […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Redefining Luxury
I read a brilliant article in the FT Weekend by Lucia Van Der Post. She says that luxury is shifted […]
L E T T E R – CLARITY Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This weeks intention is HUGE. We are finishing a year as well as a decade. So you might want a […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What Is It You’re Really Looking For?
I know when I feel anxious, challenged or I feel I have lost sense of the deep inner trust that […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Do Your Right Thing
I don’t know if this is a sign of aging but every year that passes feels faster and faster. This […]
L E T T E R from Jac – How To Take Accountability For Your Emotions
It can be a really emotional time at the moment, can’t it? Family situations, work coming to a crunch period […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Giving Freely That Which Counts
Our daughter had a huge upset of late within her football team (soccer for all the Australians) that was a […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Do You Really Want To Transform?
“Most of us don’t want to change, really. What we do want is sort of modifications on the original model. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – ACCEPTANCE Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
Someone sent me a link to a very high profile guy on Instagram, who was literally SCREAMING at millions of […]
L E T T E R from Jac – How To Communicate Boundaries With Family At Christmas
I felt this was timely, as it’s something that students ask me about SO OFTEN, how do we set boundaries […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Change Can Be A Superpower
Over the last few weeks, I have been in the thick of an extraordinary amount of difficult change, not just […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Nature Is Whispering Your Name
In most spiritual lineages, nature is considered an extension of people, and something to be nurtured and cared for, loved […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Lonely Mountain Path
But not many people can be bothered with walking up the mountain to see that path. Down in the valley […]
L E T T E R from Jac – All The Parts Of Us
In December, we all get pretty full up in our Calendars. The other day I was trying to find time […]
L E T T E R – COSMIC Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
Do you sometimes feel life is moving so fast you are losing your connection to the whole? That daily we […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Just Being Trees
This quote in full by Ram Dass is, “When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, […]
L E T T E R from Jo – But First, We Edit
I don’t know about you but when I’m looking to change something, a situation, aspects of my life, relationships, projects, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Limited Bandwidth
Your brain and your attention have limited bandwidth. A certain download of data each day. Only so much you can upload […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Zen Wednesday; Your Truth is Within
There’s so much preaching in spirituality and self-development, and far too much ego. We can use people as little points […]
L E T T E R from Jac – When To Speak
I am someone who could talk under wet cement. We joke that I literally popped out of the womb chatting […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Cultivating Space
I looked at my Calendar yesterday (you may or may not know how much I live by my Calendar!) and there were […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Choose Fun
When did life get so serious? When did we take ourselves so seriously? One of my core values and something […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Working With An Angry Person
Yesterday, I wrote about a very recent incident where I dealt with someone who was incredibly difficult, and very angry, in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Zen Wednesday; Accepting We Know Nothing
It is easy for us to think ‘aaahhh, this is it’ when evolving. To joyously think we have found some […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Acting On Intuition
If there were one thing I think meditation has gifted me over all the other things, it’s a tuned in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – But, From Where I Stand…
Some people got into a heated argument about different religions and philosophies and which was, in fact, true and right. […]
L E T T E R – WONDER Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
Wonder is such an important part of life, and with so much on we rarely take time to engage with […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Removing All The Barriers
Isn’t this beautiful? Instead of an exterior search for love – an internal archaeological dig to remove all that is not […]
L E T T E R from Jo – The Ripples We Make
Many times a day as we go about our lives we are having an impact, of course on ourselves, but […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What Our Pain Teaches Us
I used to sprint from anything too painful. Mostly disempowering myself, I would always assume blame, and carry the burden […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Zen Wednesday; Avoiding Disappointment
In Buddhism, everything is seen as impermanent, so grasping and holding onto things, like money is useless, as is craving […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What Is It You Want?
Tim Ferris says “Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely asking […]
L E T T E R from Jac – How To Sail
I come back to the essence of this quote a lot in my life. Questioning, am I truly working with […]
L E T T E R – REST Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This week’s intention is a big one for me, and I am going to guess, for all of us. Maybe […]
L E T T E R from Jo – We’re All On A Treasure Hunt
Do you remember the last time you went searching for something that was hidden, on purpose, designed for you to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Feeling All The Feels
I forgot to write yesterday’s Letter. I clean forgot the day before. With so much happening at the moment, I […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Zen Wednesday; Meals As More Than Body Nourishment
There is a Pali chant, a Buddhist chant that is often used with meals; ‘Sabe lokami Ye satah, Jivanta hara […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Everything, Everyone, Is Our Teacher
What would this week look like, if you fully anchored yourself in this? How would you respond in every moment? […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Start. Now. However you can.
We don’t need to wait until we feel better about ourselves to start meditating. Or wait until we are in […]
L E T T E R – FUN Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
I don’t know about you guys, but it’s been such an intense year to date, that it’s time to have […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Defining What’s Important
I have found time and time again, with our students that have had life pulled out from under them that […]
L E T T E R from Jo – The Unchanging Truth
When we meditate, we begin to understand and become aware of the layers of ideas and thoughts we have about […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What We Seek
There is so much reference to what we seek being within. ‘The kingdom of God is within you.’ Luke 17.21 […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Zen Wednesday
‘You have to go further. You have to demonstrate the answer. You have to embody the answer. You have to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Compassion That Big
Compassion is normally an outward energy isn’t it, we focus our energy in trying to ‘be’ compassionate to others. Which […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Just Do It, Say No
There are so many ways in which self-sabotage presents, and I could literally spend a year’s worth of Letters writing […]
L E T T E R – KINDNESS Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
Spotting hypocrisy is a sport these days, and I get it, it’s everrrryywhere so is an enticing pastime with plenty […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Obstacles
A huge part of any creative process is moving through obstacles. One of my interior architecture mentors used to say […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Trying It On For Size
When I was 7 years old, I was obsessed with a book series about a girl, her best friend, their […]
L E T T E R from Jac – To Return
In Mahayana Buddhism, to take refuge in the Buddha’s teaching means to return to one’s original nature. In Judaism, ‘Teshuva’ […]
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 […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Deepest Relationship
The longest-standing relationship we will ever have, the most intimate, the most defining, is the one we have with ourselves. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Efficiency Of Social Relationships
Efficiency is where anything immediately irrelevant is trimmed out. Keywords around efficiency are force, computation, intelligence, knowledge. The problem with […]
L E T T E R – UNCOVER Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
I think I have seen the phrase ‘I’m so triggered by this!!!!!’ on social media lately more than any other, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Big Secret to Creativity
Creativity, and any expression of it, involves a deep relationship with fear. Creativity is not just being an artist. It’s […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Using The Clues
When something great happens, I sometimes want to hold on to it just that little bit longer. I want to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Dissolving Ego Structures
Ram Dass here points out something students talk about so often with me, “We have built a whole ego structure about […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Zen Wednesday; Creating Space for Mushin
‘Mushin’ is a Japanese term referring to no-mind. It’s embraced in martial arts, meditation and various creative arts. Mushin is […]
