Just Trust - May 31

When you feel unsettled, these two words might help. In today's 5 Minutes in Nature, Liz shares a moment from her pilgrimage last year when she felt wobbly about what the future held. In that moment, she heard a quiet internal voice reminding her to just trust. Those two words had her pause and reconnect with the universal, ever-present energy behind life.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me, Liz Scott, Out and about on Dartmoor, Sheltering at the moment in a valley of a stream. Beside me are some wonderful oak trees, All of them now out, Full in leaf, And just a few weeks earlier when I passed this way I noticed that the branches and twigs were bare, So it's really wonderful to see them literally, Quite literally, Unfurl in front of my eyes. And as I was walking here and it's a very blustery day with the wind gusting. I noticed in the valleys below me, Dartmoor's quite elevated, So I noticed in the valleys below me and out towards the coastline that the rain was coming down. So it's a rainy day and I'm just going to have a little look up in the sky. Yeah, Grey clouds but I don't think any imminent rain clouds as I'm speaking to you today, Fingers crossed. And today is a reflection on the unfolding nature of life and trusting it. A bit like I trust that spring will bring forth oak leaves, It will bring forth the bracken and the ferns and the hedgerow plants. Spring brings forth that which is ready to grow. There's a trusting in nature. I don't have to make it happen. I don't have to remember to make it happen. Nature makes it happen. And I really like this phrase, Just trust, Because it was something that was given to me on my pilgrimage. I walked 630 miles across England last year following energy currents. And on the final day of my pilgrimage, In unsettled thinking I'd had nearly seven weeks of relaxing and slowing down and walking and being in my own company and I was just about to move back into the reality of life and there was a little bit of unsettled thinking as I was feeling a bit lost and at loss because I was going to be leaving behind this life that I'd become so accustomed to, The walking, The daily walking and the reflecting. And I remember as I was crossing a field on the final day and I had this unsettled thinking in my mind, I paused and out of nowhere, A voice, An internal voice, It wasn't like I could hear it with my ears, But I could sense it inside of me. The voice said to me, Just trust, Just trust. And it was exactly what I needed to hear at that time. A phrase, Just trust, That keeps coming back to me. It's almost like when I fall back into that, I feel this sense of security and safety and rightness at what I'm doing in life. So yesterday, I was feeling very unsettled. I was working on my website, I was changing the text and I was getting frustrated at myself and it felt like I had opened a hive of unhelpful Habitual negative thoughts. These are the ones that often fly in my head. You'll have different ones, But I bet you've got some habitual ones too. So around the website, It was like, Oh, This is written badly. I don't know what I'm offering. I'm no good at business. I'm no good at making money. I'm no good at putting out into the world what I'm about. I'm just not very good at this kind of thing. You get the message. And so I'd fallen into this really bumpy, Negative thought loop of unhelpful limiting beliefs. And it just occurred to me to close the computer and go to bed. When I went to bed, I just thought, You know what, I just want to process some of this, This unsettledness. So I opened up a notebook, Which is on my bedside locker. And it's somewhere I often go when I just want to process some thoughts. And I looked at the last entry that I'd written, No recollection of writing it, But it must have been a few weeks earlier when probably I had been unsettled once again. And there was a paragraph which was all about just trust. And I reread it and read the words, Just trust in it. And I immediately fell into that place of settledness. And it was like, Oh yeah. Yes, I forgot. It's just about trusting. So today is a reflection on that. For me, As I fell back into that just trust, In the same way that I trust nature will bring forth spring, Will grow plants. It's like I can trust nature to do its thing and equally, I can just trust the energy behind life that flows through me. When I fall into that place, Just trust. I feel a sense of freedom and aliveness. So I'd love to know whether this resonates for you, Just trust. And if so, What resonates for you around this? Let me know. And of course, Don't forget to join me again tomorrow for another five minutes in nature.

Reviews

“Just Trust” - what a wonderful Mantra this is Liz to drown out those self-defeating thoughts! I will try it the next time they creep in, which is more often than I would like. Fortunately, thanks to meditation, yoga, spiritual practice, and the power of being in nature, I am building the skills to let them go.

Thank you for sharing your own vulnerabilities and empowering others through your 5 minutes in nature
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Thank you Liz 🙏🏽
About 10 years ago, I’d hit rock bottom and the only thing I could do was to surrender and trust the universe would show me the way up and out. Of course it did, and I’m loving my life again 💖

I love how human you are Liz! And wise – you always remind me of something I know, but need to remember. Just trust. It is enough! 💜🙏🏻

Thank you Liz. No need for those habitual thoughts. Your work reaches us and makes a difference. Just trust. It will all fall into place. ✌️❤️

This feels true and real for me. I believe that what is meant to be will come about- without my striving or adding worried thought to the process. So all that is left is trust. Thank you Liz.