We lead with our thoughts, ‘we think therefore we are’. We like to believe that our conscious portion, that bit that floats above and looks out across the water, is the greater part of who we are. After all, it remembers us from the past, it imagines us into the... Continue reading

Memento Mori; 'Remember you will die'… Sobering but helpful. Bringing to our attention the understanding that, from a universal perspective, death is our default state. Life is an instant of opportunity in an endless eternity. A parenthesis of potential, bound by death. Daily comfort, indulgence, and manufactured distractions make this... Continue reading

Have you noticed the world is more reactive at the moment? Like, maybe just a bit... You get that when the order is pulled from under our collective feet. After all, there's this scary 'new normal' going on, and we're all cocooning ourselves trying to hang onto some safety. But... Continue reading

Searching on google to ascertain what ‘generation’ my 2 year old nephew would be assigned to, revealed lists of named ‘generations’ going back quite a way. We all know about, ‘Millennials’, ‘Gen Y’, ‘Gen X’. And we’ve had Late Baby Boomers, Early Baby Boomers and before them the Silent Generation...... Continue reading

The PM’s coronavirus update on the ABC news last night indicated that 'the curve' actually seems to be flattening. Our collective massive reaction to the current situation has helped improve the statistics. Or have they. The only thing that is certain is it's not over yet. Is there anything else... Continue reading

The purpose of your immune system is to fight. Fight pathogens, poisons, and things that you don’t want in your body. To do this it must differentiate between self and non-self. The self is safe, the non-self, the other, is a potential threat. It’s a complex system to say the... Continue reading

Dirty. That's what the swim was. Dirty. That is all... Stats: Water temp: 22°... And dirrrrty. Swimmers: 122 Newbies: 4 With love, Andrew Maher. Foundation, Neuro-Structural Optimisation. Collaroy (mention you swim with B&B) The Monthly Dinner – 10th March 2020 – Wine Tasting The next B&B monthly dinner will be... Continue reading

We seem to focus on external indicators of worth. Many of us are beguiled ourselves with the acquisition of such external indicators... Possessions, awards, 'likes', even access to an experience from which others are deprived. Imagine if none of that really mattered. Instead there was a single indicator of value.... Continue reading

Quite possibly the worst lie you could ever be told is that you're perfect just the way you are. You might be beautiful, in the eye old the beholder. Maybe even invaluable, to those who keep a score. But, 'Perfect'... 'Just the way you are'..? That sentence is quicksand for... Continue reading

Why is it we’d rather our better selves be shackled away by reassuring lies than face the truth that, just beyond the veneer of your imagined limitations, there’s someone you’d wait in a queue to see, pay for a ticket to listen to and journey a lifetime just to be... Continue reading

You, your body, is classed as a self organising system. This means it has the ability to continually interact with subtle changes (perturbations) in the environment and use those as an opportunity to reorganise itself to greater levels of complexity and efficiency. You're constantly adapting, learning, changing and evolving. Your... Continue reading

Good intentions... They’re important right? We all hope to possess good intentions. No one likes bad intentions... "What’s your intention?" "To do good!" Well then, that's virtuous. Right? It's easy to do good, to be intentionally good, when you're paying attention. And especially when everyone's paying attention. But what about... Continue reading

We arrive in a moment, then in another we are gone. In that first moment, all is awe and wonder. Infinite potential. Then we make it so complicated, we forget why we are here. And we forget how that moment, like every moment until the last, is always the time... Continue reading