Being In Service To Your Inner Compass - April 09

Rather than trying hard to find your purpose, why not ask yourself the question, what am I in service to? In today's 5 Minutes in Nature, Liz reflects that when she brings her awareness back to her Inner Compass, then she can feel her purpose flow through her. When she asks, what am I in service of, then the power of universal energy shows her the way.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott, Sitting on a granite boulder here on Dartmoor, Sheltering behind another granite boulder from quite a cool southwesterly wind and I'm just sort of looking at the sky which has got quite a bit of blue in it at the moment but a few grey ominous clouds and I didn't check the forecast before I came out so I do hope that I'm going to get rained upon and today as I look across the moorland I can see a couple of crows on the ground a couple of crows in the air I've seen a stone chap bobbing around as well I wonder if he's got a nest nearby and I'm just reflecting today on something I read recently and I want to share with you and this piece that I read was in a book by a voice coach and she helps actors on the stage and there was a line in the book that really struck me she said that one of the things that people don't realize and sometimes actors don't realize is that they are not in support of the lead actor they are all the whole ensemble is in support of the play they're not in support of the lead actor they are in support of the play and I really like that actually it reminded me I saw my niece-in-law in a pantomime over the Christmas period if you don't know what a pantomime is it's probably easier that you look it up rather than me try and explain it here and she had a non-speaking part and I realized the significance of this quote or this piece I read in the book she had a non-speaking part in the ensemble and she was really clear that she was in service of the pantomime and when I said to her don't you wish you had a few words she said no because my role is deliberately without any speech in it because if anybody else is ill or can't turn up then I get absorbed and will take on one of the speaking parts so it was almost like she knew understood that she was really important to the whole and she had an important role even though she was the only one that didn't say anything in the pantomime and it got me really thinking about me and life and purpose and I really found that idea that not being in service of a person or a thing but being in service of the play translated really well into the way that I see things happening for me and I don't feel as though I am in service of me Liz I don't feel as though I'm in service of me and the business that I run but what I began to really see is that I'm actually in service of life I'm in service of the creative energy behind life that energy universal energy that's taking form through me that is what I am in service of and when I saw that it just made everything feel easier it felt truer it felt as though it wasn't on me Liz to make things happen I am listening in to that intuitive wisdom that inner compass and as I listen in to that I am turning up in the world and allowing that energy to flow through me and how was it turned up well as you know I walked that pilgrimage made no sense 630 miles across England I walked a pilgrimage last year and that was the energy turning up through me I'm currently writing a book and every time I put the book down as I'm trying to write it I can feel the energy of life nudging me to write the book it's not Liz writing the book sure it's coming through my fingers there is something else though urging me to write it and I am listening to it and when I reflect on my draw to work with old women women who maybe feel that their voices aren't being heard in the world I realize that again that's not me Liz doing this I'm listening to something deeper that wants to be expressed through me so I really love that idea of an actor on a stage not being in service to the lead actor but being in service to the play because I can see that in my life I am not in service of Liz I'm not in service of my business I'm not in service of my family I am in service to the energy behind life and listening to how that turns up and how it wants to play through me that is what it is all about so I guess the question for you to reflect on today is when you reflect inward and you listen to your intuitive wisdom do you have a sense of what it is you are in service of just let me know I'd love to hear from you and of course don't forget to join me again tomorrow for another five minutes in nature

Reviews

Thank you for your service Liz.
Sending you peace and love.
"Open your heart, here I am. Let that serve you."