Nature Doesn't Rush - May 12

When did life get so fast? The pressure to be busy, productive, and constantly moving can leave us feeling depleted — yet nature offers a quiet reminder that there is another way. In today's 5 Minutes In Nature, Liz explores a simple but profound truth: nature doesn't rush, yet everything gets done. Sitting with this idea, even briefly, can help dissolve the habitual urgency we carry and invite us back to a more natural rhythm.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott and it's still a blowy easterly wind up here on Dartmoor. I've come to a part of the moor which is usually muddy and gloopy and there's like a set of little stepping stones across what is usually a muddy mucky patch of ground but I didn't need to use them today because the ground is really dry. This easterly wind is what's known as a drying wind and it just means that everything is very very dusty at the moment. Now we're used to southwesterlies here and particularly here on Dartmoor when a southwesterly comes along we often get a weather system off the Atlantic Ocean and that weather system is usually wet and rainy but when the wind is easterly as it is at the moment it's much much drier. And today is a reflection on nature and on a conversation I had with the women's group that I run. We were just reflecting on nature on understanding the inside out understanding of life so understanding the nature of what it is to be human and what that has offered up to each of us individually in having this as an understanding. And the inside out understanding is very helpful because it points to the formless creative energy behind life that divine God energy universal energy from which everything arises. And the inside out understanding also explains that as human beings we are part of that energy and we forget it and get lost in thought and thinking and sensations and feelings. And so understanding it having an understanding of how life works just makes life more easeful that's how it is for me anyway. And one of the comments that came up from our group as we reflected on this very topic of how blessed we are to understand the nature of life and to have an understanding that we are connected and and at our essence are this energy life-giving universal energy like knowing that is a game-changer. And the conversation moved on to that realization that when you live from this space that the sense of rush and needing to be busy and hurrying along just seems to fall away. And someone came up with a lovely comment and the comment was this is that nature doesn't rush and yet everything gets done. Nature doesn't rush and yet everything gets done. And I really see that at this time of year because there are changes all around me daily and yet they are imperceptibly moving and shifting as the plants grow as these ferns unfurl and grow and the leaves emerge from the trees and the blossoms start to come out and the different flowers start to blossom. The change is constant and yet it is not a rush and everything gets done. Nature doesn't rush and yet everything gets done. And I wonder what it's like to translate this to our lives that idea of not needing to rush and yet everything getting done. I mean what difference would that make for you in your life if you were to see that and trust it in your life. Nature doesn't rush and yet everything gets done. For me this sense of trust is what feels very present at the moment. This sense of trusting this intuitive wise intelligence behind life which moves at the pace that it moves at and trusting that pace and going with it and aligning with it feels like the only thing I'm able to do at the moment. So I'd love your reflections on that for yourself. Nature doesn't rush and yet everything gets done. How does that land for you? What does it look like for you in your life and is there something that you see is for you to learn and to see for yourself around not rushing, Aligning with the energy behind life and realizing that everything gets done but at the pace of life rather than at the pace of your busy, Active, Agitated mind. Let me know your reflections and don't forget to join me again tomorrow for another Five Minutes in Nature.

Reviews

Profound. Nature doesn’t rush yet everything gets done. Thank you.

Much needed reminder for me today. Thank you. 🙏🏻

Nature doesn't rush but everything gets done. I am sitting outside my sister in laws place located in the Canadian prairies. I have left two days ago from where I live in the west. Here the trees and plants are just beginning to bud whereas we have gone through many blooms back home.

Yet in a few weeks all will be beginning the new cycle of growth and the trees and plants here don't feel jealous or lacking for they are doing their own thing in there own time.

Your Five Minutes in Nature is similar Liz. You just don't rush out and record 365 days of them. They unfold naturally over space and time. Don't rush them the messages you convey are perfectly aligned. Thank you. ✌️❤️🌳🌺

So true, how can one give this understanding to those around us who don’t yet have it…? 🙏🏼