Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
I'm out on a moonlit night.
I'm actually looking after a dog.
We're just going to try looking after him overnight with the view that if he settles and he's quite quiet then we'll have him for a few more nights when the owners go away.
But it's not usual for me to be out at nighttime.
Ever since my dear old dog died I tend not to come out at night but this is rather nice.
We've had squally rain all day,
The wind has now dropped,
The moon is out,
The stars are out and it's a very still night.
I'm walking along a road so you might just hear the occasional car go by but I'm walking back home now having just had a bit of fresh air.
I do like getting out at night I've got to say.
I miss it actually but you need a dog to get out at night that's for sure.
And today I want to reflect on intuition and wisdom.
If you follow me on Insight Timer you'll know that intuition and wisdom are really important parts of my world and my life.
Intuitive wisdom or my inner compass guided me when it came to walking the pilgrimage that I walked in March.
It was a real strong call within me to walk and made no logical sense but I walked it and I walked it for seven weeks following the energy lines and I knew every day I got up and I continued walking and every day I just knew that I was doing the right thing.
It felt right.
I couldn't explain it logically but it felt right.
And then since walking the pilgrimage I've found myself really drawn to working with older women and finding ways I might do that.
And then more recently I've realized that the blogs that I wrote as part of my daily ritual of walking for seven weeks,
So I've walked for 48 days I think it was in total,
I wrote 48 blogs and these blog posts are now going to form part of a book which I had no idea was going to be written and then suddenly about two weeks ago I felt this really strong nudge to look into writing them up as a book,
Once again following my inner compass.
And as I was talking to a friend today I was reflecting on this feeling of being drawn to write the book and I explained to her that it really felt a similar feeling as it did with the pilgrimage.
It felt like the pilgrimage was still talking to me,
Still nudging me along,
Still calling me into action.
And for me writing this book feels like it doesn't make any logical sense.
I don't think it's going to be a particularly popular book.
It's such a niche book.
It's a very personal book.
It's something that is about my reflections.
I'm not sort of drawing out themes or rewriting it in any clever way.
I'm just going to write it as it were the blogs that I wrote and just tidy them up and make them into a book and yet it feels as though that is what wants to be done.
And again as I talk to you I am requesting that you look into your inner compass.
What does it feel like,
Look like to you?
There have been times since the pilgrimage where I felt a little bit lost,
When I didn't quite know what to do.
And in those moments I just sat in the confusion,
In the not knowing.
And I wasn't too bothered about it.
It was like I just kind of understood that sometimes you need to just allow things to be.
And yet I also feel quite reassured once again to feel that calling,
To feel the draw.
It feels as though I'm back being connected to the pilgrimage,
To the thread that pulled me along,
That drew me along to walk the pilgrimage is now asking me to do something else.
And for me that feels reassuring,
It feels simple.
I know I can take one step at a time.
I would love to know what your reflections are on your inner compass,
Whether you feel drawn in a particular direction.
Often you'll find that your intellect and logic won't understand why you're being drawn in a direction.
But my request is you look within and get a sense of where your inner compass is pointing you and take steps in that direction.
I'd love to know what resonates for you and where you feel that you are being pointed with your inner compass.
