Living Without Fear - May 19

What would your life feel like if fear simply… wasn't there? In today's 5 Minutes In Nature, Liz invites you to pause and imagine a life shaped by freedom and peace rather than fear — and to sit with one simple, powerful question: What would living without fear look like for you?

Transcript

Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott. Up on Dartmoor early evening it's a slightly cool breeze but it's dry and just as I walked over a little bridge over the stream here a swallow came right down out of the sky and flew low across the grassland obviously looking for flies and insects hunting and it's flown off again now I hope I hope it got something to eat very special to see it and I walked up the hill today walked up onto Dartmoor from my home and felt just a little bit squashed I don't know if ever you feel that when I spend quite a bit of the time on the computer and today I was trying to learn how to use a particular computer system and it I'm a bit slow and I find it not it's not my favorite thing to do so I kind of feel as though I'm getting squashed more and more internally and it's like I have to get out to feel the air breathe in the air walk smartly up a hill feel my lungs fill up and it just helps me settle and feel more connected and grounded again and I was reflecting today on what to talk to you about and something came to me which felt really important as I was walking up the hill up onto Dartmoor today and it was a question that I heard last night I was on a call with a few people from all around the world and we were talking about the inside out understanding and working in communities and one of the things that came up was somebody talked about living without fear and it landed for me and that was the question that arose in me as I was walking today is what would it be like to live without fear and I was speaking to a client today and a different version of that question arose but it's similar where she was a bit confused with an important decision that she needs to make and was feeling a little bit stuck and confused and unclear about what was the right direction we spent some time just reflecting on looking inwards on feeling that inner compass that inner wisdom speaking and she had some clarity it was after the call but she let me know after the call that she had had some real clarity about moving forward and the insight that had emerged for her around how she turns up and makes decisions in her life and another way of putting it I was reflecting as I was walking today is that she's really reflecting on what it is to live without fear and I think about that myself if I wasn't fearful about what other people thought if I wasn't fearful about getting something wrong if I wasn't fearful about failing if I wasn't fearful what would be present in my life what would be present in your life the thing with asking a question like this is you don't have to actually do anything with it other than allow yourself to reflect and bathe in the answer that arises as you consider the question what would it be to live without fear and I'm going to ask you that question and I'm going to tell you what came up for me and it's just the beginnings of what's coming up for me and I'm going to just percolate in this for a few hours to come but I realized that if I was to live without fear I would experience intense freedom I would experience a loving energy that flowed through me in a creative way finding expression it wouldn't need to tailor itself to anything in particular it wouldn't need to try and be liked or try and do something worthy this creative energy would just flow through and would be expressed in whatever way it needed expression in that moment so living without fear for me is around being in the flow being in this creative energy allowing it the space to come through so that's the question for you today as well what would it be to live without fear in your life what would show up for you and just play lightly with it and see what emerges and let me know and don't forget I'll be back again tomorrow with another five minutes in nature

Reviews

I have pondered this question before Liz, and it is one that deserves being revisited from time to time. Thank you for the reminder!

Living without fear. I have over time begun to release the need of striving. Fearful if I don't keep doing my future wouldn't turn out how I want it.

Fortunately I am more about being, "let go and let God." This is a more peaceful existence and not needing to know what the future will bring.

This moment it feels alive with the wind on my face in the park where I am listening to your track.

Thanks Liz. ✌️❤️😊

That’s such a huge question for me that I can’t answer it straight away, I’ll try & have a think about it today. So much of my life is bounded by anxiety and fear of what might happen and I am so finely tuned to the potential disasters that I can barely imagine that not beigg by present. Thank you for this ponderance Liz 🙏🏻

To live without fear is to be free. Free of past, free of future and to be here now. Moment by moment living. To live without fear is to be authentically courageous..to live without fear is an act of courage and acceptance. Thanks Liz 🙏

My fears revolve around health issues, my own, and my husband‘s. I can’t imagine not having those fears, but I’d love to try to live without the smaller fears. Like failing at a project, not being liked, etc. Thank you for giving me something to think about .