Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott and it is a beautiful evening here in Devon a spring evening and I'm just slowly walking up the hill with my elderly dog to get on to Dartmoor and to just kind of breathe in the view and today my reflection is all about trust for those of you that have followed me on my pilgrimage you might remember that towards the end of my pilgrimage I got a really really clear message about trust and when I was on my pilgrimage that landed for me it sort of resonated quite deeply like a bell,
It really resonated and I've come back and I've been back now for nearly a week and the pace of life,
Just the different pace of life that I've been experiencing has been discombobulating there's no other way to put it really I've lost that sort of gentle rhythm and routine to life and it feels as though I'm being forced to move at a faster pace than I really want to and alongside all of this I knew that the pilgrimage was going to be so helpful for me moving forward because there were things shifting in my life.
There were life transitions my dad died last year business transitions,
I've just closed down a not-for-profit business and I'm looking now to shape my business in a different way but I don't know how.
I kind of trusted that the pilgrimage would help me come up with some ideas,
Would help some creativity come to light,
I would come back with some ideas of what I might do moving forward and then last night was the first night where my body wasn't tired,
So it's obviously completely recovered now physically from walking and I woke up three o'clock in the morning,
Have you ever done that?
Where that chattery mind was going da-da-da-da-da-da like really busy and it was telling me that I was no good and I'd done this pilgrimage and what was it for and I didn't know what to do next and I need to earn some money and I need to have a business and I need to do this and I need to do that and I was lying in bed with this very revved up thinking just not able to sleep now one of the things I absolutely know and this is what I'm passionate about and why I am a teacher on Insight Timer one of the things I absolutely know is that there is no answer in trying to out-think my thinking there's no answer in trying to analyse my thinking there is no answer in trying to think positively or change my thinking you see what I absolutely know and it has been transformative in my life is that I am not the identity and the worry and the concern and the rushing and the anxious Liz,
That's not me who I truly am who I truly am,
Who we all truly are is the energy of life itself so how does that all relate to this message of trust well last night I eventually went to sleep I didn't engage with my thinking,
It did eventually just settle on its own,
It always does and I did get a little bit of sleep but today I am pretty tired and one of the things as I reflect on the message of trust and just bear with me as I go past this stream,
You can probably hear there's a beautiful stream gushing down over green mossy rocks let me just pass over that a minute and one of the things when I woke up this morning and have been reflecting today and have been quite tired is this message on trust and I think what I'm seeing is that I just have to trust at the moment I don't know what my next step is in life and I have got to trust that it will come clear to me,
I don't know what success looks like for me,
I don't know what income I'm supposed to earn,
I don't know the answer to so many things so for me on my journey,
The message is trust,
The message is trust the process trust what arises,
Trust what is the right step forward for me and in the same way that the pilgrimage became very clear as the right step forward so it will emerge what the next step is for me and just at the minute I can't see it exactly
