Listening To Your Heart - January 21

What would it feel like to connect with your "heart intelligence," also known as your intuition? In today’s "5 Minutes In Nature," Liz Scott takes a reflective walk across the moorland, exploring the limitations of the intellectual mind and the often-underestimated strength of heart intelligence.

Join her as she shares insights on how to tune into the subtle nudges of your intuition—a powerful guide to keeping you healthy and nourished.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott and it's a beautiful day in January and every day in January I'm taking you out walking with me for some reflections on the wisdom of nature and yesterday we had a little bit of snowfall so I've come up on to Dartmoor which is the moors behind my home and there is still a little bit of snow on the ground it's quite crunchy underfoot the temperature is probably one two three degrees but the Sun is out so where the Sun is falling there is a lot of wetness the snow is melting it's very muddy I was just walking along and I put my foot on what I thought was a muddy patch and it went right up to the top of my Wellington boot so I was very lucky that I actually stepped in a bog and it didn't get my feet wet and it's quite deceptive as you walk along some of the ground is hard and icy and dangerous and other bits of the ground are mushy and wet and muddy and boggy and up here on Dartmoor in this cool crisp day where the Sun is shining and the sky is blue I'm walking up beside the Ludbrook and really enjoying this sense of being outside and breathing in this cool crisp air and I had the choice this afternoon I could sit at home doing endless bits of admin I work from home I'm self-employed and working my own hours means that often I get a chance to do things that if I was being employed by someone I would find it hard to do but the bonus is that when I employ myself if I feel the nudge and urge to do something I can do it and that's what I did today the Sun was shining my whole body ached telling me to get outdoors and I followed that nudge to get out into the sunshine and I'm so glad I did it and following nudges is something I keep coming back to in these reflections because I find it really important and fundamental really in the way that we operate as human beings but in our regular everyday lives and the busyness of planning and of doing things and of looking after other people and doing work and making sure the family is okay and driving to the shops and doing the cooking and the shopping and the cleaning and they all the different bits and pieces that we need to get by in today's society we tend to put a lot of emphasis on our intellect on our ability to plan on our conceptual mind I don't know if this is the same for you but many people admire someone who is organized who seems to keep on top of tasks and chores and yet the thing that I've realized over the last few years in particular is that whilst my intellectual conceptual mind is really useful it it's only useful for some tasks and it's not useful when it comes to listening into it and listening into that deeper wisdom or intuition there's there's another intelligence at work so there's my my mind my head intelligence and then I guess I could call it my heart intelligence does that make sense and my encouragement to you is to listen more and more to your heart intelligence it's the most nourishing bit to listen out for it's the thing that will be nudging you to look after yourself both physically and mentally and we overlook it because the noise of our intellectual conceptual mind can be so noisy and busy and overtake us it's like a child that is pulling on your hand saying I want an ice cream I want an ice cream I want an ice cream I want an ice cream the persistent noise of our intellectual mind can feel quite wearing and that's why it's so important to know that there's another deeper intelligence to listen out for and it was that intelligence that had me come out today my mind reared up when I thought I'm gonna go for a walk today and said no you can't you've got to write these emails you've got to send these messages but I could feel more deeply that the thing that would do me the most good was to come out to raise my face as I am at the moment to the warmth of the sunshine and just to get out in nature and that's what I listen to so today I'm reminding you are you listening to your head intelligence or are you listening to your heart intelligence that deeper intelligence that pulls you and draws you rather than nags you into doing things my request of you is to become more curious about your heart intelligence listen into it and see what it's telling you throughout the day and as much as possible see if you can listen and take action on what it's pointing you to do

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I’m a little behind on the days, but really, really enjoying these daily messages. Today was a piece of needed advice 🙏