Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
It's a beautiful day,
Blue sky and far-reaching views.
I've climbed up to a hawthorn tree on Dartmoor up a hill and I can see down towards the agricultural land,
The green fields partitioned off with dark green hedgerows and the view goes all the way down to the ocean and it's a little bit hazy today so I can't quite see the sea at the moment.
You can probably hear the call of new lambs bleating in the fields.
Dartmoor has got sheep all over it,
It's a wide expansive space and the sheep graze freely here and I've just been called to come up here,
It's so strange.
My intention was to walk a little way just to get a bit of fresh air and I've got a route that's about a mile long that takes me up onto Dartmoor and then back down a lane back home and I got through the gate onto Dartmoor and I realised unexpectedly that I was being called to walk on,
To carry on and that's what I'm doing,
I'm walking on.
Today I felt a little bit lost.
Have you ever had one of those days where that sense of direction feels a bit unclear?
With my work in particular at the moment I'm so strongly drawn to write and to consolidate my learning from the pilgrimage that I took during March and April and that's such a strong draw for me to consolidate and assimilate something from that pilgrimage for me and to write about it and that feeling of writing draws me in the same way that the voice,
And it wasn't a voice,
The feeling I guess is a better way to put it,
Drew me as I came out of the gate onto Dartmoor today,
Drew me up the hill,
Drew me on a longer walk,
Drew me further on and I absolutely know deep in my soul that feelings of lostness arise,
They arise and they fall.
This is how it works as I see it.
A feeling of lostness is a thought that I should be somewhere else.
A feeling of lostness tells me I should know my direction of travel,
I should know where I'm heading to.
In particular for me this is around my business and my work.
But ultimately a feeling of lostness is just a reminder that I've lost track of listening in,
Trusting that deeper draw of wisdom and this walk on the moor today has been a fantastic reminder for me for that.
I don't need to get things lined up before I write,
I don't need to know the shape of my business before it's clear to me.
All I need to do is trust,
Trust and keep looking within to that inner core.
That's what I'm taking from today as I walk with you up on on Dartmoor.
It's that sense of trusting,
Of listening,
Of not having things mapped out exactly as I think they should be before I start.
It's about taking the next step as that next step arises in me and I know which direction to go in.
So that for me is what's clear about feeling lost today.
That feeling of lostness is just a reminder that I'm looking for my peace of mind in the wrong direction.
A hundred percent of the time peace of mind lies within me.
It lies within me and lies within me looking within to that deeper natural wisdom.
