Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott on a glorious,
Beautiful day.
This is an autumnal day that is my favorite kind of weather.
There's a bit of a breeze,
There's blue sky,
There is sunshine,
There's a sense of a shift in the seasons,
A shift in the pace of life,
And I'm perched on a pile of rocks.
I'll take a photo of them so you can see them because I'm about to go on a little walk and on this walk I'm going to record a series of pieces for you which I'll play for you over the next few days.
And this is all about change,
Intuition and self-expression or expressing yourself in the world.
And it's something that feels very,
Very strong in my world at the moment,
Which is why I want to share it with you.
And it starts off really by looking at moving through a particular transition and change in life.
And for me as an older woman,
I've been through the menopause,
I felt as though as I went through this change in life that something fundamentally was different.
Today is a reflection for you to say,
Am I going through a stage in life like this,
A transition?
So when I'm talking about a change,
I'm not talking about a little tweak.
It's not like you're rearranging the furniture in your room.
It's like you are shifting into a completely different phase of your life.
It's like a snake that sheds its skin,
Old skin,
The old life is gone and something new is coming through.
Or another way of putting it,
This is how it felt for me anyway,
Is that I had moved from being a caterpillar to being a butterfly.
As a caterpillar I had to cling on to leaves and munch my way to nourishment.
As a butterfly I am flying around feeding on nectar.
I am in a completely different phase of my life.
And it's taken a little while for that to really come clear in the way it is coming clear to me as I speak to you now.
I want to share with you this exploration about recognizing when you realize you are going through a significant transition in life.
Like I say,
This isn't about just moving the furniture around.
This is about a completely different place that you are in your world and in your life.
And with it comes uncertainty because you feel as though you are in a new place and you don't know what is next.
So there is a sense that the old ways are no longer going to serve you,
The old ways that you used to do things,
The old life that you used to inhabit and walk through and engage with.
It just doesn't feel as though that is the life for you.
You have shifted and transformed.
Transitioned and moved into a different phase of life,
Completely different.
Does this relate to you?
Do you resonate with this in any way,
Shape or form?
This exploration over the next few days is going to look at other aspects as well.
Tomorrow we're going to look at the way that intuition seems to rise and how from that intuition creative expression wants to take place.
Today is just a reflection on where you are in life.
Do you feel as though life has shifted in a completely different way?
Maybe circumstances are different in your life.
And maybe it's just a time of your life.
Maybe you're moving from looking after children to looking after and caring for elderly parents.
It feels as though life is at a different stage.
And it feels with it,
Although there's an unknown,
An excitement and a curiosity about what this means.
Does this relate to you?
At the moment,
I just want to know whether you feel this,
Whether you relate to it in your life.
You can see it happening in your life,
Or it's happened in your life,
Or maybe you can see it in the lives of others.
Let me know your reflections.
What is it like for you to go through a change,
To really feel as though your core and essence,
Whilst you're Aliveness and sense of being hasn't changed.
Everything else has changed around you.
You are a different person.
You are moving into a different phase.
There's a bit of uncertainty about what next,
But also with it maybe a curiosity.
Is that you?
Let me know.
And don't forget to join me again tomorrow because I want to reflect more on intuition and how,
As an older woman,
Intuition and wisdom seems to be taking up so much more space in my life and that feels as though it's a natural progression from the shift and change I've gone through as I've transitioned into this elderhood stage of my life.
Join me again tomorrow.
