Talking About The Inside Out Understanding - May 24

How do you share something that has changed everything for you? In today's 5 Minutes In Nature, Liz reflects on the Inside-Out understanding — the most transformational philosophy she has come across — and how she finds words to share it with others.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott up here on Dartmoor in a beautiful evening. The sun is shining, A bit windy and blowy so I've got my back to the southwesterly wind and all around me the sheep and lambs are grazing and they just seem completely unfazed that I'm here. Often they sort of wander away or the ewes will collect up their lambs and move away but tonight they all seem very happy to be around me which is very lovely. And today's insight timer is all about a question that was posed by Muriel and I wanted to reflect on it. It's going to take a couple of days to reflect on it and Muriel asked about the inside out understanding or the three principles. How can you give this understanding to those around us who don't yet have it? Now for those of you that have been following me on five minutes in nature you'll probably know that my philosophy is founded on the inside out understanding or the three principles. I often refer to it and even if I don't articulate the language of the inside out understanding or the three principles I am always sharing from that place of understanding and for me that understanding has two key points to it. Firstly is that everybody is deeply okay like at our spiritual level we are made of peace love and wisdom that is the foundation of every single person in the world. It looks like we're all individual separate entities we are all sharing the same spiritual energy coming from a place of unconditional love that's what I see to be true. So that's the first premise of the inside out understanding and the second is that we're human and as humans we get lost in thought. So the second area I see is that thought comes and goes thought is the power to have us ruminate on the past or project into the future and feel fear and anxiety. Thought comes up in so many different ways in the stories or limiting beliefs we might tell ourselves. So both can be true that we are peace love and wisdom and we also get lost in the thought. So how do you give this understanding to those around who don't yet have it? That was the question from Muriel and I want to share today how you might share with others who are curious and then tomorrow I'll talk about sharing this understanding with those people who maybe are not curious and who are not open. But if someone is curious and open it's a really good place to start a conversation and I find the most important thing is being grounded in my own knowing and understanding. I deeply know to be true that I am made of the source of everything love flows through me there is unconditional love at the source of everything. I absolutely know that to be true that is what I stand in and when people feel that in you they become more curious and what I find is that when someone is curious and open to know more than rather than tell them about the three principles or the inside out understanding I look for things within their lives that might have them curious about maybe how they thought life worked and how it actually works. So for example people might attribute a boss or a job or a relationship to them feeling stressed and if they're curious and open I can gently challenge that because of course there is no such thing as stress on the outside. Stress is what we feel internally. Stress is stories about how life should be and how upset we are that life isn't turning up how we thought it was. So for example that might just be a way that I share it is I point out the people things that they thought were true and I just question whether that might be actually the way life works but ultimately I'm always coming from a place of love and I'm always wanting people to see something for themselves not to learn something by rote. So that's the first part and I'm going to return tomorrow and tell you how you might share this understanding with people that aren't curious and they aren't open but I'll tell you more about that tomorrow. Don't forget to join me daily and of course if you want me to answer one of your questions I'd be delighted to do so.