The Quiet Guide Within - July 23rd

In the third part of this conversation on the Three Principles, Liz shares a simple metaphor she often returns to. For her, one of the most accessible ways to understand the 3Ps is through the experience of our intuitive wisdom—what she refers to as the "Inner Compass." The most powerful insight, she suggests, is recognizing the value of looking within.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott and I'm out walking again early in the morning still quite warm at the moment and this is the lovely time of day there's a freshness in the air and probably in just two hours time the sun will have risen so high it will be warm and hot and a bit unpleasant well I'm one of these people that finds the heat quite hard so I like to keep in the shade when it's hot but this is a beautiful time of day and I'm just walking in a little wooded area in Exeter on the outskirts of Exeter making my way into the town for my morning coffee as you know I do like to do that and it's interesting because it seems as though I've created this conversation about the three principles which I hadn't intended to do but it just seems to me that it might be a good idea to continue it because obviously it wants to be spoken and said so if you remember two days ago we just explored this idea that there's something that's more fundamental and useful than techniques and tools and then yesterday we looked more deeply at what that thing was and that thing is an understanding so the three principles is not a tool or technique it's an understanding it's an understanding into how life works and today I'm going to share my sort of go-to simplicity of this understanding which is the bit that I come back to time and time again and then I thought it might be fun over the next few days to explore what the three principles actually are so I will take you through the the three principles in turn mind consciousness and thought not necessarily in that order and just give you an overview of them because coming across this understanding has really impacted my life so this is turning into a slightly longer conversation than I had originally envisaged so today is all about me explaining the the key aspect of what I've learned so I kind of stumbled across the three principles well over 10 years ago now and it's the thing that's made the biggest difference in my life because it made sense of things things I didn't understand before made sense and if you remember yesterday we talked about an understanding and how when I went kayaking having an understanding of the tides is really helpful when you go kayaking because it means that when you understand if you're paddling against the tide it's hard work and if you're paddling with the tide it's easy and then often what you might do is just a chap out running with his dogs here hello doggies so if you go against the tide it's hard work and so what you tend to do is if you understand the tides you align yourself with the tides so for example if I want to have an easy kayaking trip I'll look and see what the tides are doing and then take my kayak out with the appropriate tide whether it's going in or out so that's what we were talking about yesterday the power of understanding and the three principles is an understanding and not a tool or technique so that's really important to understand and then today I just thought I would give you a really brief synopsis of what I find most useful and I think the most useful thing I've learned is that I was constantly looking to change my experience I was constantly looking to change my experience of life and my thoughts my thinking but actually the thing that makes biggest difference is to look within it's to look to that deeper wisdom as I look towards my inner compass I understand the next steps to take much of our culture and world is focusing on the experience we're in physical experience our mental experience but it misses something fundamental and that is there is a truth of who you actually are and who I actually am which is way beyond the identity way beyond the character of Liz that I play in the world underneath the character and identity of Liz there is a an energy and connection and an awareness that is not individual to me but is shared I share it with everybody because we are all made of it so the most important thing I want to share with you today is look within look within and over the next few days I'm going to tell you a little bit more about the three principles and see if they land for you in the same way that they landed for me you

Reviews

Thankyou Liz 🙏🏼
The early morning is definitely the best part of the day, when the air is quiet and senses of Nature are heightened.
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I am so glad you are sharing this Liz! Looking forward to the coming days…