L E T T E R – Treading Our Path Without Distraction
I think writing yesterday’s Letter stirred up a lot for me. I pondered about all the (necessary) distractions I experienced […]
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L E T T E R – The Courage We Once Had
When I was young, I was a strange little kid. I didn’t fit in at all. Eccentric, hyperactive, skinny and […]
L E T T E R – Creativity Is The Only Thing That Matters
What if instead of considering creativity just as artistic ways of going about things, we widened the scope to include: […]
L E T T E R – The Thin Thread Between This Life and The Next
David Whyte said,’ How easily the thread is broken between this life and the next’. It’s a beautiful line, isn’t […]
L E T T E R – Purpose
Why is our personal purpose so hard to define for most of us? It took me decades to figure it […]
L E T T E R – Creating Space And Pause Before Action
I had a conversation with a dear friend and meditation student on the weekend about the never-ending list of ‘All […]
L E T T E R – The Most Expensive Price Tag In The World
I had soooo many people respond to the letter (What Would You Create) about what would you do if you couldn’t […]
L E T T E R – A Series Of Little Choices
Brene always delivers the pithy statements, doesn’t she? I love thinking about authenticity this way, a series of tiny commitments. […]
L E T T E R – Dark Nights Of The Soul
This is that tricky time of year I find when we bound in with full enthusiasm, transformed by new possibility […]
L E T T E R – Let’s Not Be Lunatics
I’ve never met anyone like Arran, he literally doesn’t ever consider what anyone thinks of him. He’s incredibly neat and […]
L E T T E R – What Would You Create
One of my favourite questions as part of long-term workshops that I host, is ‘if you knew you couldn’t fail, […]
L E T T E R – Wise Choices
A little list of things I would recommend if you’re stuck making choices at the moment. It’s a big time […]
L E T T E R – The First Day Of 2019
It’s the first day of 2019. If you woke today bright and alive, brilliant. If you woke hungover as hell […]
L E T T E R – Happy New Year!!!
My absolute goodness what a year. For Arran and I, it was beyond what we imagined. I travelled to London, […]
L E T T E R – Humility and Service
I spent most of Friday emailing back students who had applied for the scholarship of Be Your Best Self. We […]
L E T T E R – The Difference Between Planning And Surrender
The Letter I wrote the other day about the need for planning and our common misunderstanding that planning depletes our […]
L E T T E R – Being What’s Right Over Concerned With Who Is Right
I had a really interesting conversation the other day with a long term meditator who had become disillusioned with spirituality, […]
L E T T E R – The Balance Between Desire and Satisfaction
I find this one of the most challenging of all the opposites we experience, the balance between simplicity and happiness […]
L E T T E R – Conditions on Behaviours
Being only a few short days to Christmas, I thought this quote was utterly perfect, as soon most of us […]
L E T T E R – Pouring Out Patience
Conscious and Patient are not two words I have always been excellent at embodying in my life. I have been […]
L E T T E R – Which Would You Choose
This quote has been playing around in my mind like a Zen koan for some time. It can be viewed […]
L E T T E R – The Privilege Of A Life
I was standing on the shore of the beach the other day chatting to Gabriel. Gabriel is Argentinean and I […]
L E T T E R – Pioneering Your Future
I absolutely adore this quote and have had it pinned above my desk for years. When I am stuck, feeling […]
W E E K E N D E D I T I O N – With Kate Pascoe Squires
This Weekend Edition we are proudly introducing you to Kate Pascoe Squires, who has been making some significant and inspiring […]
L E T T E R – The Chasing of Perfection
When Emily or I teach Integrated Meditation, we both drill into our students to not chase perfection. You will never […]
L E T T E R – Planning Means Presence
This is the time of year we all sit back and start to either feel incredible gratitude for the year […]
L E T T E R – The Monk and The Boat
My wonderful friend Jeff Kober included this in his daily newsletter last week and I loved it so much I […]
L E T T E R – Inwards Honesty First
It’s so much easier to look at someone close to us and see their flaws. Their unrealistic nature in certain […]
L E T T E R – Say No, Immediately
There is a downside to living a full and abundant life. I mean at first you’re like, seriously, could there be […]
L E T T E R – Conscious Conversation
I really wish to use The Broad Place to share important messages. Erin Lovell Verinder who was recently interviewed at […]
L E T T E R – The Unending Creative Process
Last weekend, I hosted with my insanely talented friend Kim Amos a Creativity and Consciousness Workshop at her property, River […]
L E T T E R – Your Choosing
I am trying hard to help my daughter be empowered to make the choices that are right by her. To […]
L E T T E R – The Two Wings
As an enthusiast (someone with obsessive tendencies coupled with deep excitement), Arran is always nervous when I start getting into […]
L E T T E R – Constant Failure
I looked after our friends’ little boy called Sonny the other night, the whole night and morning while they went […]
L E T T E R – Constant Clinging
I am up in glorious Byron Bay on the east coast of Australia preparing for our Retreat, studying tea, spending […]
L E T T E R – The Simplicity of Meditation
Meditation these days is a name for a lot of different things, a lot of which is not meditation. Something […]
L E T T E R – Expanding Our Consciousness
Consciousness is defined in so many different ways, sometimes as a state of awareness, or the quality of that awareness. Sometimes as […]
WEEKEND EDITION with Emily L’ami – Bodha Modern Wellness
Bodha was created by one of our very loved friends Emily, and her partner in everything Fred. It’s the true […]
L E T T E R – Burn Bright vs Burn Out
One of the examples I use when teaching in workplaces is this: Last day of work before a holiday; everyone […]
L E T T E R – The Creative Path
Charles and Ray Eames have been an endless inspiration to me. When I was 19 and studying interior architecture, one […]
L E T T E R – New Beginnings
I meet a lot of people who comment they’re too scared to learn meditation because of what they might discover […]
L E T T E R – Shadow and Light
When living a conscious life, it’s not all unicorns and rainbows. People sometimes think that they can walk a conscious […]
L E T T E R – How To Proceed
I used to play a game many years back, that I nicknamed Ram Dass Roulette. I listened ferociously to Ram […]
L E T T E R – No Really, Who
I still remember reading The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand’s pivotal book. I was maybe 21 at the time and it fried […]
L E T T E R – The Bigger Questions
Around this time of year, Arran and I start formulating our ideas for the following year. 2018 was massive for […]
L E T T E R – Your New Vital Daily Tool; Power Down Hour
We have been preaching this from the rooftops for years, it’s a tool within our 7 Day Mind Cleanse and […]
L E T T E R – A Gift For You Of Our Key Clarity Tool
Today we are going to gift you something special, because trust me, you need it. Everyone, especially at this time of the […]
L E T T E R – Smoking In A Zen Monastery
Grounding is about being connected to within, to the earth, and to nature and taking our heads out of the […]
L E T T E R – The Broad Aspect to Consciousness
What’s fascinating about consciousness is that it’s hard to describe, hard to quantify and yet everyone wants more of it. […]
L E T T E R – The Never Ending Jigsaw
We are so good most of the time at looking back, and admitting, sometimes admiringly, that everything was for the […]
L E T T E R – Our Creative Capacity
Frequently people think ‘creativity = art’ and it’s time for us to broaden our horizons around this. Creativity is at […]
L E T T E R – The Heart
I often ponder why it’s so hard to follow our hearts and even harder sometimes to hear what they have […]
L E T T E R – Clean, Simple, Distilled Thinking
I used to have a terrible aversion to saying no to people. I had, (and still do) a big fear […]
L E T T E R – A Commitment To Adventuring
My Dad was a very renowned chef, winning best restaurant in Australia as well as three hats. His brother, my […]
L E T T E R – The Ways Of The Mind
This quote is for me literally something to live by ‘Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything […]
L E T T E R – Excuses Keep Us Small
I had a catch up the other day with someone and it was like I was in overdrive. I left […]
L E T T E R – Some Thoughts On Overwhelm
Wow, this weeks’ Letters seem to have really triggered a lot of thought and reflection from many of you!! So, […]
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 […]
L E T T E R – Working With Fear Part 2; Bravery
If you haven’t read the first part of this Letter series you can do so here. Continuing on from yesterday! […]
L E T T E R – Working With Fear Part 1; Adopted Fears
Arran, Emily and I get so exhausted by all the ‘Be Fearless’s self-improvement mush that is shoved down everyone’s throats […]
W E E K E N D E D I T I O N 21
Photo from our India Retreat in Rishikesh Oh my lord is it excellent to be home! So emotional! So wonderful! […]
L E T T E R – Truth Telling
Having a teenage daughter, the essence of telling the truth is really up in our grill at the moment. And […]
L E T T E R – Working with True Knowing and Dealing With Disappointment. Part 2
If you missed yesterday’s Letter, Part 1, you can see it here. After changing my flights and wrapping up the […]
L E T T E R – Working with True Knowing and Dealing With Disappointment. Part 1
Our recent trip to India took a year to plan. The major component was our Broad Place Retreat which had […]
L E T T E R – A Net Free Bird
The only thing we are really trapped by is our thinking mind, with its limitations and prejudices and biases that […]
L E T T E R – Revelling in Beauty
Beauty can be so underrated in our modern way of life. Tiny moments of beauty can light me up for hours […]
L E T T E R – We Are All Judgemental Assholes
We can’t help it a lot of the time. It’s automatic. Our egos are constantly sizing everything up against that […]
L E T T E R – There’s Always Something Better Happening
For our recent India Retreat, I had it all mapped out. Tightly organised, planned to within an inch of its […]
L E T T E R – The Material World
A student messaged me last week saying she felt disgusted with herself and angry, as she still longed to buy […]
L E T T E R – Thinking Kills Creativity
If you’ve ever been working on something and loved it, then over thought it, then doubted it, then felt ill […]
L E T T E R – What Spirituality Means Part 2
Yesterday, I wrote in the Letter about re-framing spirituality and you can read it HERE. It’s a big topic and […]
L E T T E R – What Spirituality Means Part 1
There is so much confusion when we decide to live ‘spiritually’. It’s really a nonsense idea because everyone is trying […]
L E T T E R – Real Power
Being a recovering control freak and perfectionist, OCD, a Virgo and aaaall the other labels I could apply to my […]
L E T T E R – Building Stillness and Acceptance
In the Vedic view, there are three things present at all times. Creation, maintenance and destruction. The Vedic view of […]
L E T T E R – Gaining Clarity On The Lack Of Clarity
Educating ourselves is fascinating and frustrating at times, as the more you learn, the more you realise you don’t know. […]
L E T T E R – What Might You Be If You Just Let Go
Before I left for India, I sat with my friend and student, Uyen, in Whale Beach drinking tea and we […]
L E T T E R – Celebrating 200 Letters!!!
There are days when I sit to write these Letters to you and I feel physically ill. I am overcome […]
L E T T E R – It’s All Just Grist For The Mill
I got a text from a friend the other day, reporting something insignificant on another friend that I had a […]
W E E K E N D E D I T I O N 20
READ I adore this book by our friend Josh, his approach to creativity and consciousness continually inspires me. I interviewed Josh […]
L E T T E R – Can We Embody What Nature Knows?
We have a huge tree in our garden, and when we moved in became very fond of it as throughout […]
W E E K E N D E D I T I O N 19 – Restore and Renew
For you to try . . . EAT We are eating mostly plant-based at the moment, and 75% of the […]
L E T T E R – The Privilege Of A Life
Life is so fragile. We never know when it will come to a close. As humans, we can be bitter […]
L E T T E R – To Create And Be Of Service
Over the weekend we put out a survey, which was answered by SO many which make me SO very pleased […]
L E T T E R – You Choose; One Leaf Or The Whole Tree?
Picture a large majestical tree. We could just acknowledge a single leaf, and fixate on it, cooing over the leaf, […]
L E T T E R – Gratitude
I was ordering my coffee the other day, and our lovely friend who makes coffee Andre asked how I was […]
L E T T E R – Judgement
When we are building something, a business, a relationship, our spiritual development, our education, our parenting, it’s so easy to […]
L E T T E R – An Abundance
This stands true not just for creativity, but for love, gratitude, compassion, kindness. Additionally for anger, resentment, shame, guilt. So […]
L E T T E R – For The Pros
Inspiration comes to us through a channel of creativity. It’s not out there ‘waiting for us’ it’s flowing from within […]
L E T T E R – The Crazy Ones
I’ve done some seriously crazy things and some seriously dumb things in my time. I created a huge design and […]
L E T T E R – Some Notes
I have sat on this quote for some time. There seemed to be so many moving parts to it, each […]
L E T T E R – The Tests
In essence, this quote means to surrender to what is, with full acceptance. One of the most challenging things to […]
L E T T E R – Stay In Your Corner
There’s something so wonderful about discovering things about yourself, having realisations and seeing tangible results from doing self-development or spiritual […]
L E T T E R – Conscious Experiences
It’s hard to believe at times, that nothing happens to anybody which he is not fit by nature to bear, […]
L E T T E R – Being Disturbed
Today I wanted us to all gain clarity around this essential truth. Have you ever felt rested, calm and full […]
L E T T E R – Vitality At What Cost
Fear drains vitality. There’s always some lurking fear around everything – that is getting the wrong diagnosis. I have had […]
L E T T E R – What To Nurse Then
There is an old Zen story that I really like, with many versions of it, rendered slightly differently, but I […]
L E T T E R – Is The Future Bright?
I hope this is how life feels for you, I really do. Arran and I have spent some time recently […]
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 […]