Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me,
Liz Scott,
Out and about in the evening once again because it's been another unbelievably hot day.
I spent most of the day indoors and I ventured outside now it's nine o'clock at night and me along with people walking their dogs have also come out just to get some fresh air but it's not really that fresh because it's so hot and humid but it is air and it's not as hot as it was earlier on today.
And my reflections today are about this sense of really speaking from a sense of groundedness and authenticity.
I was with a client today and we were talking about this very aspect for her.
She was really questioning whether she was speaking out enough in her role,
She's a manager,
And she wanted to reflect on how she might be able to find her voice and articulate what she wants to say and be heard.
And one of the things that I know for sure with all of those particular aspects is that the most important thing is to bring awareness back to that sense of settled grounding.
That's the way I describe it in myself,
And you might have got different language for you,
But let me explain a bit more so it makes sense.
You see,
When you're in that place of being grounded and settled,
And you haven't got a lot of thinking and you're not questioning yourself,
But you feel yourself with your roots planted firmly in the ground,
Then when you respond and interact from that place and you build relationships from that place.
People sense there's something about you.
You've got bearing.
You've got a sense of presence.
There's an energy about you that is attractive.
It has a sense of you being respected.
And it's elusive in so much as you can't make that happen through thought.
You can't try and be grounded.
You can't try and have respect.
Because when you try the very thing that you're hoping to project and to be,
Well,
It's the opposite.
And I always think that a really good way of seeing this is when you recall some of the teachers you might have had at school.
Client.
So she was wanting to go into meetings and to express what she thought was important and to be as clear about what she wanted to communicate so that it had the best possible chance of landing.
And we were talking about teachers at school and I said,
You know,
Do you remember being at school and there were teachers that you just respected as a class?
The whole class seemed to settle and listen and want to hear that teacher communicate.
It didn't matter what they said,
Whether they were articulate or not.
They had a presence about them and that presence was magnetic and it drew people's attention towards them.
Well,
That teacher is somebody who is grounded.
They are grounded.
They are grounded.
Standing in what they know for sure and they're not lost in their thinking noisy mind.
They can hear a deeper truth come through.
That for me is grounding.
And then the opposite is true as well.
There were teachers that would flap around and threaten and tell people off and they would lose respect to the classroom and people would be noisy and disrespectful,
Would play up.
And the teacher would get more and more frustrated,
And the more frustrated they got,
It was sadly that the class responded by becoming more and more disruptive.
A teacher that spouts discipline and tries hard to be respected,
They're destined to fail.
Because they are not coming from that place of groundedness,
Of peace of mind,
Of natural confidence.
So today is a reflection on that.
It's about communicating from that place of natural groundedness,
Where you feel rock solid in your foundations.
And when you communicate from that place,
And for me another way of putting this is communicating from a place of love.
When I communicate from a place of love,
Then I know that whatever I say,
However people hear it or whatever is understood by what I say,
I know that whatever I say is coming from exactly the right place.
Let me know your reflections on this,
Communicating from groundedness.
And don't forget to join me again tomorrow for another five minutes in nature.
