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 […]
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – COMPASSION Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
It’s a volatile time on the planet right now. As we scroll through horrific images one after another, anger brews […]
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 – Are you Ready to Shift your Energy Throughout January?
In 10 days time with hundreds of people from all over the world, we launch into the January 2020 High […]
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 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 – 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 – 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 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 – 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 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 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 – What Will You Lead With
Once there was a very particular snake that lived in a jungle. One day, the snake’s tail said to the […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Finding My Courage
Tomorrow marks the day that I go away for 11 days on a self-led silent meditation Retreat. We are going […]
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 Emily – Set in Stone
Chances are you’ve probably heard of the notion of “beginners mind”, a Zen teaching of entering into every situation with […]
L E T T E R from Jac – When Did We Forget How To Rest?
I sometimes look at my dogs, sleeping away in the sun and think; nice for some. It can be nice […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Memory, The Veil To Truth
Our memories fail us all the time. Layer in that we miss things all the time also. We have deep attention […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Our Primal Rhythms
In nearly all ancient lineages of wisdom, being aligned with natural rhythms is the key. Harmony is created from being […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Remembering What We Forget
I mean we all know this right? I love beautiful things, there’s no doubt. I also recognise that experiences shape […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Act According To Your Uniqueness
You. There’s only one. In all of the time, forever in the whole universe, only one you. The Population Reference […]
L E T T E R from Emily – Things Seen
A few weeks back I joined a 10-day Breathwork Retreat, with no idea what I was getting myself into or […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Impress Thy Self
When was the last time you set out to impress yourself? I mean as the main event, the sole objective, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Meditation; The Mystery and the Sometimes The Misery Part 1
Yes, I agree with this quote and inspiring words like bliss and divinity and beauty are often used in conjunction […]
L E T T E R – GENEROSITY Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
What a lovely intention to set for the week ahead! Generosity. I would like us all to look at in […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Tell It To Me Straight
I have a preference for direct and honest communication. I don’t have time to beat around the bush or make […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Put Down Your Books
At The Broad Place, we advocate study and reading all the time. However, if the study is not taken into […]
L E T T E R – AUTHENTICITY Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This week, we will place our awareness and our attention on Authenticity. Ooooh this is such a juicy one. I […]
L E T T E R from Jac – True Bravery
I was chatting with a special friend of ours who is in his late teens, as he is trying to […]
L E T T E R from Emily – Someone Like You
We are living in a very interesting time, on one hand, we are seeing the rise of ethical and morally […]
L E T T E R from Jac – This Too Shall Pass
I have found personally, and for many of our students, that we are all too happy to let go of […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Unfolding Mystery
We kind of feel like we have control of our life most of the time, like we are the ones […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Skin in the Right Game
I was kindly asked the other day, are you committed to this or are you just involved? Yikes, I had […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Modern Day Rushing
I was recently reading Alan Watts stating how in times of overwhelm, he would find solace in the ocean and […]
L E T T E R – Tuesday Tip; Build Your Morning Routine
A Morning Routine is a vital step in setting yourself up for success for the day. I have found it […]
L E T T E R – SERVICE Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This week, we will place our awareness and our attention on Service. How do you define being of service?What tasks […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Everything Changes
There is a story told about Suzuki Roshi, a great Buddhist teacher. “Suzuki Roshi, I’ve been listening to your lectures […]
L E T T E R – Tuesday Tips; Taking Time To Retreat
Easter is this weekend, and I’m personally taking time out to heal and nourish myself. My dear friend and fellow […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Life Is Speaking To Us, Are We Listening?
I wrote this whilst sitting in a tiny cabin, on a river in Big Sur California. There is no one […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Bringing A Little Love To It
An important question I ask myself when I am feeling very contracted is how can I bring more love to this. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Not Of This Earth
There are over 100 billion stars and there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all […]
L E T T E R from Emily – The Person I Am
How many of us have tried to be shapeshifters, fitting some kind of mould to be more liked, loved, and […]
L E T T E R from Jac – When Is The Right Moment?
The question I get asked from students often is ‘How will I know if it’s the right moment to do […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Redefining Success
I would like to spend some time this week (within the gift to me, that is these Letters, as I […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Yes And A No
For every yes there simply has to be a no. Compromise means everyone gets half or less. If you’re a […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Nature Is My Religion
I don’t have an official religion, but my temple is the ocean. My altars are the trees. Animals are my […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The No That Comes Before A Yes
I frequently do this, write a YES list. What do I want in my life. It’s a very full life, so there has to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Our Practices
Too often we think, myself included, ‘I don’t have time for this’, surrounding anything that is nourishing, rewarding, spiritual and […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Little Buddha’s
The Buddha spoke that every being has the capacity for enlightenment and as everything is connected, every single being has […]
L E T T E R – What’s Really Stopping Us
I get this kind of question/pondering all the time, along the lines of…‘So I really really feel that meditation would […]
L E T T E R – A Commitment To Change
Our brains wire in ways of doing things for efficiencies sake. It’s to make the whole system flow more, things […]
L E T T E R – A Time For Everything
As we round out January, there comes a sense of the year looming ahead. Will it be everything we want […]
L E T T E R – No Former Just Present
I love this quote by Condoleeza, for its many layers. What if we let go of former everything. Former anxiety.Former […]
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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – R E C O V E R Y
We are all recovering from something, whether it be grief, the ego’s grip, addiction, perfectionism, heartbreak. There’s deep recovery, and […]
Create Your Morning Routine
A morning routine is a beautiful way to set up the day, to encourage calmness and clarity, and allow the […]
Do You Have Needs?
And what does evening ‘having a need’ mean? We can all get caught up in the idea that our needs […]