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 […]
There are so many layers to this, and I’ll map out today a few key things to consider when wondering […]
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 […]
I think this quote is such a great follow on from yesterday and I believe it so much. I had […]
I’m clearly having an emotional week as represented in all the Letters! I feel so positive and taken with the […]
The other week I was cooking dinner because I always cook dinner, and I started getting a little huff on. […]
Firstly I would like to thank all of you that send me the most heartfelt and beautiful notes of gratitude […]
The writing of the Letters has taught me I think far more than I can ever share and teach through […]
Has there been a truer sentence written? Do we already know it? Why are we not embracing this every single […]
Letting Go is a concept most of my students are familiar with. And confused or frustrated about. I used to […]
When you stand on a sandbank in the ocean, on certain tides, the waves wash in from the breakers and […]
The glass half empty mentality we all know, but do we actually live glass half full. Every moment. Is everything […]
Kin Hin is a very beautiful practice of walking with presence, sometimes called Zen Walking. I remember still when first […]
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 […]
When I was teaching meditation in Silverlake, we spoke collectively about the current frenzy and uptake of spiritual practices and […]
I love this quote by Bruce Lee. He was profound, inspiring, motivated and disciplined. Today have a look into […]
Sometimes the most frequently referenced quotes and lines that are by now cheesy, are the most true, such as the […]
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 […]
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 […]
I hear too often nonsense about ‘taming the mind’ and references to a monkey and wild horses. The mind isn’t […]
Continuing on from yesterday’s letter, I wanted to talk further about commitment. I study karate and it’s mind-blowingly frustrating because […]
I first learnt to officially meditate when I was in my late teens. It was a funny little course held […]
As I referenced the Dalai Lama yesterday, I thought it might be nice to kick off today’s letter with a […]
I had an experience years and years ago, where I went to see a friend of mine who is a […]
Chogyam Tungpa Rinpoche was asked by a student, “Why do you think that people are so protective of their egos? Why […]
I love this commitment. That we can be changed by what occurs to us, and we can determine not to […]
Underneath all the noise; our intellect, thinking mind, egos, the exterior machinations of society, other peoples opinions, there is 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 […]
Most of us spend a large amount of time questioning our own actions, motives, worrying, fretting and stressing, about the […]
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 have had the pleasure of meeting many talented people in my life, as well as many deeply conscious spiritual […]
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 […]
Oh, how this quote resonates with me. The accompanying vulnerability, the incapacity to hold it or when an emotion breaches […]
Rumi passed away 700 years ago and is still the best selling poet in America. His ecstasy filled complications of […]
Years back I read the most fabulous book called The Art Of Asking By Amanda Palmer. Yes she did a […]
We are so good most of the time at looking back, and admitting, sometimes admiringly, that everything was for the […]
Gratitude is a buzz word right now and almost everyone in one way or another has had some involvement with […]
High Grade Living is a commitment to living our highest vibrational selves. To audit our lives, and then edit, and […]
The ego, so loud, so insistent, so annoying, so abrupt. The heart, so gentle, so mild, so curious. If we continue to honour […]
I love Tina Fey, and I love this quote. Overthinking jams up the whole system. We just have to get […]
Remember that episode of The Simpsons were Marge blew a mind gasket and froze up on the bridge, windows up, refusing to […]
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 […]
Oh man doesn’t the ego like to stink up a tantrum when we are wondering, or worse KNOW someone else […]
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 […]
Hi everyone, This is Emily, I am a meditation teacher here at The Broad Place. I have been working with Jac […]
Have you picked up a copy of our The Broad Place Book Club book The Untethered Soul yet? You can […]
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 […]
Makes sense doesn’t it? Why do we encourage our ego to engage with that which in our heart of hearts […]
In Buddhism, Dukkha, which is originally a Pali word, is translated most frequently as suffering. Specifically the suffering of the […]
This is such a huge topic that I might visit it a few times more!!To begin with, ensuring we only […]
I heard Pema Chödrön, one of my favorite authors/speakers/teachers of all time recently speak of ‘small grievances’ and how we […]
I am fascinated by the Mind Body Connection. So much so that within our Integrated Meditation Enhanced Education Program we […]
I have so many conversations about things falling apart, and yesterday’s letter sparked some of those. I think when we […]
I’ve had a few recent experiences that really made me sit up and re-evaluate some relationships. Usually I think most […]
Dealing with the fear of ‘what other people think’ affects so many of our students, and myself. I hear about […]
When it comes to spiritual growth, self development and our actively evolving, it can get tricky at times. Sometimes what […]
Years back I had to really ask myself why were the unimportant things and people in my life getting so […]
So for today’s tools on how to experience a higher grade life, the key thing is to EDIT. When something […]
High Grade Living is about living the best life we can, with the tools and knowledge to grant us access […]
This time of year is supposed to be all about fresh starts, and new beginnings and a ‘wealth of opportunity’ […]
As we begin to dive into into 2018, I wanted to share a mantra, a daily commitment to move beyond […]
At The Broad Place we became rather obsessed with Bodha’s elegant product and connected with the creator Emily to strike […]
I have had the pleasure of not only being friends with Ness, but to also work with her on her […]
I had the pleasure of initiating Melissa Ambrosini into the art of Vedic Meditation this year. Mel had practiced many […]
