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 […]
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L E T T E R from Jac – The Secret Wish
We all wish there was a silver bullet, that will miraculously transform us. Preferably one without much time invested from […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Move Thy Arse
Over the High Vibe Challenge, in order to raise your vibration, we are going to focus on getting your endorphins rocking! […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Letting Go Of The Rope
Since coming to London, there has been so much joy and discovery and excitement. And fear and terror and doubt. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Meditation; The Mystery and the Sometimes The Misery Part 2
I wrote last Monday about some ways in which to reframe and approach your meditation practice, whatever the lineage and […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Doing It From The Heart
I’m a recipe follower – I need that recipe to tell me exactly what I’m meant to be doing, at […]
L E T T E R from Jac – You Can Practice Integrated Meditation Anywhere
Not all meditation techniques are the same, so I want to preface this with saying if you practice a technique […]
L E T T E R from Emily – The Garden of Sanity
When you have a technique that allows the mind to gently settle and guide you to deep restful transcendence, your […]
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 – 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 – How Will We Choose To Really Live?
There is so much programming involved, in how we think we should be living. Paradigms created by so many people […]
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 […]
L E T T E R – Dealing With The Criticism of Others
There is feedback, and there is criticism. There is moaning, and then there are witch hunts. I posted last week […]
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 […]
L E T T E R – We Are All Going To Be Dead, Sooner, Later, Who Knows
Some people come to learn meditation because they are keen to be their best selves, they feel unreal and want […]
L E T T E R – The Creation of Time
Time is something that expands and contracts, as it’s all a perception. Stay with me, I know it sounds a […]
L E T T E R – A Path To Authenticity
Our daughter is doing a speech for school and had to incorporate a bunch of keywords including resilience and respect. […]
L E T T E R – A Sequence Of Small Choices
My dear friend Jen was recently telling me a story about a conversation she had with her teenage son. He […]
L E T T E R – The Freedom To Make Mistakes
As a recovering perfectionist, I have had intense experiences around making mistakes. It makes no sense as part of the […]
L E T T E R – Fluidity
I was once taught an analogy that I have carried around with me since from Taoism. It is that when […]
L E T T E R – Getting Off Our Arses
The Buddhists say the root cause of suffering is our attachment to desires. It’s not our actual desires. But our […]
L E T T E R – Dissolving That Which Divides Us
Long lasting change doesn’t come in a silver bullet, a bandaid or a quick fix. I was interviewed by our […]
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 – The Art Of Directed Attention and Stopping The Stewing
Something happens to us that causes upset. We stew and sulk and can’t help but tell people about it. With […]
L E T T E R – Why Indeed, Yes You Can
At the karate tournament last week, I saw a man with one leg compete. He stood on the side of […]
L E T T E R – Fear and Freedom
This is a little game I play with myself, ‘what’s my greatest fear in this’. I’ve found in every situation […]
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 – There Is A Big Difference
There is a big difference between being productive and getting lots done, and simply overworking. There is being social, and […]
L E T T E R – What The Heck Is The Lesson In That??
Have you ever had an experience where you just cannot fathom in the moment what the lesson is? Or why […]
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 – Peacefulness
As someone that used to work in advertising, marketing and PR, our whole purpose was to make people believe that […]
L E T T E R – Progressive Change
We have wired into our brains and bodies most of our reactions, thoughts, prejudices, and biases. We did so a […]
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 – Collaborate For Clarity
Sometimes one of the challenges of being self-employed is that you are always working to a degree. Even if you’re […]
L E T T E R – Where is That Somewhere?
‘Something, somewhere incredible is waiting to be known’; where is that somewhere? Inside of you. Every external experience we define […]
L E T T E R – The Voyeur
Pinterest and Instagram and all the other platforms I don’t even know about are such an incredible source of inspiration. […]
L E T T E R – Inner Force
I’ve been meditating for a very long time, and this inner force is the most powerful tool I know for […]
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 – Nature Within
I really love Jane Goodall and I really love this quote. I also believe in a spiritual power higher than ourselves […]
L E T T E R – Remember to Breathe
When I was young, I had the utmost confidence in my creativity. Arran and I were laughing on the way […]
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 – The Path
I still remember many years back, over a decade ago, standing in a bookstore in New York, and picking up […]
L E T T E R – The Two Wings
There is a beautiful concept with our meditation technique, about the purpose of twice-daily practice. In a nutshell, it’s that […]
L E T T E R – Ceativityr, Love and Hate
I love this quote. Because the ego will tell us otherwise all the time, and ensure we are terrified of […]
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 – Our Ideas Of Truth
Authentic and inspired educational teachers, spiritual teachers, coaches, and mentors have so much to offer us. Yet they are not […]
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 – What’s Really Attacking Us
What if we viewed every challenge right now as something to be learned? The universe hand delivering us our own […]
L E T T E R – Our Real Work
I heard Ram Dass once tell a wonderful story. I’m hazy on the details of country and religion, but it […]
L E T T E R – Don’t Think
Instinctive living can be challenging when we are bombarded with opposing opinions backed by scientific studies that say exactly the […]
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 […]
L E T T E R – Do It
There are so many layers to this, and I’ll map out today a few key things to consider when wondering […]
L E T T E R – Nowhere To Get
With our meditation practice, with our spiritual quests, our creative endeavors, there is nowhere to get, nothing to gain. Frustrating […]
L E T T E R – Meaningfulness
I spent the weekend with Jeff Kober teaching about understanding our humanity, our spirituality, our dharma and how to enliven […]
L E T T E R - Move Your Arse
I think this quote is such a great follow on from yesterday and I believe it so much. I had […]
L E T T E R – To Be Breath Taken
I’m clearly having an emotional week as represented in all the Letters! I feel so positive and taken with the […]
L E T T E R – The Way
Firstly I would like to thank all of you that send me the most heartfelt and beautiful notes of gratitude […]
L E T T E R – Courage Counts
The writing of the Letters has taught me I think far more than I can ever share and teach through […]
L E T T E R – Attitudes Do Make a Difference
Has there been a truer sentence written? Do we already know it? Why are we not embracing this every single […]
L E T T E R – Letting Go and Expanding Consciousness
Letting Go is a concept most of my students are familiar with. And confused or frustrated about. I used to […]
L E T T E R – When Two Waves Collide
When you stand on a sandbank in the ocean, on certain tides, the waves wash in from the breakers and […]
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 […]
L E T T E R – Zen Walking
Kin Hin is a very beautiful practice of walking with presence, sometimes called Zen Walking. I remember still when first […]
L E T T E R – Anxiety
I have one rule for our meditation students and that is that they never apologise for not meditating. Being […]
L E T T E R – Choices
When we were in Los Angeles we went to a small, lesser-known private art gallery, and the gentleman working there […]
L E T T E R – A Fractured Dance
When I was teaching meditation in Silverlake, we spoke collectively about the current frenzy and uptake of spiritual practices and […]
L E T T E R – The Journey
Sometimes the most frequently referenced quotes and lines that are by now cheesy, are the most true, such as the […]
L E T T E R – Squeamish
When I am traveling, I really dislike airports. I wish I was more cool and Zen and what not, and […]
L E T T E R – Soul Search
Not often are we encouraged in the West to renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking. I’m writing this from […]
L E T T E R – Inside Out
It’s tempting to think that all the answers lie outside of us. It allows us to hold others responsible. To […]
L E T T E R – F*#k The Fear
Rest is undervalued in today’s frenetic society. I know it for myself. I burnt the candles at both ends for […]
L E T T E R – A Cat On A Leash
I hear too often nonsense about ‘taming the mind’ and references to a monkey and wild horses. The mind isn’t […]
L E T T E R – Perfecting The Fundamentals
Continuing on from yesterday’s letter, I wanted to talk further about commitment. I study karate and it’s mind-blowingly frustrating because […]
L E T T E R – There Are No Shortcuts
I first learnt to officially meditate when I was in my late teens. It was a funny little course held […]
L E T T E R – What Is Compassion Actually
As I referenced the Dalai Lama yesterday, I thought it might be nice to kick off today’s letter with a […]
L E T T E R – Recovery Time
I had an experience years and years ago, where I went to see a friend of mine who is a […]
L E T T E R – The Force Within Us
I love this commitment. That we can be changed by what occurs to us, and we can determine not to […]
L E T T E R – Impeccable Word
Last year, I repeated something that someone else said, and I knew I shouldn’t have.I immediately corrected myself and ask […]
L E T T E R – The Universe Whispers
Underneath all the noise; our intellect, thinking mind, egos, the exterior machinations of society, other peoples opinions, there is a […]
Wishing Won’t Work
Sometimes the intellect can be so defined, that we forget we must apply it. Like a tool that sits in […]
The 4% Rule
I have had the pleasure of meeting many talented people in my life, as well as many deeply conscious spiritual […]
All The Damn Thoughts
Have you ever listened to all the thoughts going on in your head? I sat in the most beautiful garden […]
Meditation Or Meditative?
Lately I’ve found there is so much confusion around what meditation is, what makes it different to some other relaxation […]
Meeting Yourself
Rumi passed away 700 years ago and is still the best selling poet in America. His ecstasy filled complications of […]
No BS Gratitude
Gratitude is a buzz word right now and almost everyone in one way or another has had some involvement with […]
Down That Chute
I love Tina Fey, and I love this quote. Overthinking jams up the whole system. We just have to get […]
The Besieged Everydayness Of Life
Remember that episode of The Simpsons were Marge blew a mind gasket and froze up on the bridge, windows up, refusing to […]
The Constant Reminder
What happens when a bigger ‘problem’ comes along? All the big problems before it are suddenly relegated to little problems […]
Shhh Now, Ego
Oh man doesn’t the ego like to stink up a tantrum when we are wondering, or worse KNOW someone else […]
The First Time Should Be Enough
Recently I watched Oprah Winfrey being interviewed after her Cecil B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes. She said, “The […]
Fear
Hi everyone, This is Emily, I am a meditation teacher here at The Broad Place. I have been working with Jac […]
What Would It Look Like
What would it look like if you had a year to live? What would you read? What would you stop […]
Staying Afloat
Makes sense doesn’t it? Why do we encourage our ego to engage with that which in our heart of hearts […]