Why reset when you can change your altitude?

Your Natural Being Score

Zero is your centre

Your Natural Being Score shows where your answers sit around the centre—a reflection on today, not a judgment about how well you are doing.

For each question, 5 represents the natural sweet spot: present, steady and able to respond. Answers below 5 may suggest that you feel depleted, withdrawn or disconnected. Answers above 5 may suggest that you feel overloaded, stretched or unable to slow down.

Both directions matter.

We calculate Self from your first five answers and Health from the next five, with Overall combining all ten. All three bars run from −100 to +100, with zero in the middle. Lower and higher answers can offset one another; your score is a starting point for noticing, not a complete description of your life.

Zero does not mean nothing.

It is the middle of the range. Your answers may be near the centre or may include a mixture of low and high responses.

The aim is not to force your score to zero or turn wellbeing into another achievement. It is to notice what may be drawing you away from your centre—and discover what helps you return.

Returning to centre is not an arrival. It is a change in altitude—a little more space from which to see your life, your patterns and your possibilities.

Your score is a private point of reflection, not a diagnosis or medical assessment. You can take it again after ten days and see what, if anything, has shifted.

“Beyond zero lies infinity.”John Elkington

What if zero is not the end of the scale, but the beginning?

What if connecting with nature—and allowing yourself simply to be—gave you access to the clarity, energy, creativity and natural power that were within you all along?

What if those qualities are not something you have to earn, but part of your birthright—your natural altitude?

My Journey to Being

Despite many years of spiritual practice, things in my life still felt as though they were going wrong—and I wasn’t coping with them as well as I wanted to.

So I did what I had always done: I reshaped everything around me.

Again.

Even though I understood intellectually that the work was inside, I kept trying to solve it from the outside. The bigger things improved, but the pendulum swing was brutal.

I began studying Ayurvedic medicine, looking for a way to bring the different parts of my life into alignment: my inner and spiritual life, my health, and my professional world in investment and wealth.

I thought that if I could organise everything correctly, life would finally begin.

I had completed high-performance coaching. I had assessed the different parts of my life. Some were a seven out of ten; some were higher. Instead of waiting until every part was perfect, I decided my life was a 10 out of 10 (funny, right?).

There were many unintended consequences.

One of them began with a move to Bangalow, near Byron Bay.

I had uprooted my life and moved to an idyllic place, still believing that changing the outside might help fix what I felt inside.

And, in a way, it did—but not for the reason I expected.

Yes, a move to an idyllic location and a major life reset can do wonders. Don’t get me wrong: the move created the space in which I accidentally discovered this. I found it because of the move—but it wasn’t the move.

It was nature. And nature had been there all along.

You do not need to uproot your life to find it. This little programme is nature’s takeaway: five minutes, wherever you are, to begin returning to what is already within you.

Nature did not remove my life or solve it for me. It changed my altitude.

Did I need to move to the top of a hill to do this? Perhaps not. But the move helped me see that what I had really been doing was shifting my altitude. From there, I could see the outside and the inside differently.

And I began to feel better.

Not because I had finally perfected myself. Not because every external circumstance had changed. I simply began returning to something I had forgotten.

My own nature.

There is a quiet power in nature that we can learn to access regardless of our external circumstances. It is not somewhere outside us. We are made from the same living world we are observing.

The wonder and awe of nature are not separate from you.

They are inside you.

You are literally awesome.

It is the journey, not the destination.

I am still on that journey. I am still a work in progress. There is no final “there” waiting for me to arrive.

I am simply learning to enjoy this nature journey—and to meet myself wherever I am.

Natural Being grew from my desire to share that experience without prescribing what someone else should feel, believe or become. It is an invitation to pause, notice and discover something for yourself.

Perhaps you will connect through stillness. Perhaps through music, movement, creativity, service or something entirely your own.

We all resonate differently.

The programme begins with five minutes in nature because five minutes is possible. You do not need special equipment, spiritual experience or another complicated routine. You need only somewhere to be and something living to notice—even if that is one flower, one bird, the air on your skin or a patch of sky.

Over ten days, you will move through Shine, Listen, Observe, Feel, Breathe, Let go, Open, Connect and Play—before arriving at the final invitation:

As above, so below.
As within, so without.

A Different Relationship With Abundance

For many years, I thought about abundance as something I hoped to receive.

Nature helped me reverse the question:

What can I contribute to abundance today?

A good friend introduced me to the Andean principle of ayni: sacred reciprocity—the understanding that life is sustained through a continuing relationship of giving and receiving.

Natural Being is my exploration of a kind of digital ayni.

You receive a private experience designed to help you reconnect with yourself and nature. What you discover belongs to you. Your answers become the beginning of a self-sovereign SelfHealthWealth agent that can grow with you—but only with your permission.

There will be trillions of agents operating across commerce and everyday life. They will be powered by data. I believe we can use this technology for good, beginning with a simple principle:

Every person should own and control their own data.

Your information should be as personal and protected as anything stored on your own hard drive. It should never leave your device without your express permission.

In Green Yoga, Georg and Brenda Feuerstein describe a universal law of nature. Like nature itself, it is open to interpretation. I find meaning in two expressions:

As above, so below.
As within, so without.

What is inside us is what we bring to and create in the world around us. And the living world around us can guide us back to what is inside.

Together, they are my north star.

Nature does not ask you to become anything. It invites you to shift altitude, so you can be—and live—unbound.

It is not my destination, nor the direction I choose to travel. It is, in a way, both: a change in altitude.

I hope you enjoy the journey, meet yourself within it and discover what you want to bring into the world.