Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott and the sky is blue today with little white fluffy clouds in it.
Another lovely spring day where the hedgerows are absolutely burgeoning with green leaves.
It's a cool damp feel in the lane itself,
The lane I'm walking along at the moment and now the leaves are completely out on the trees and I can just spy little pockets of blue sky and white clouds in between the branches as I wander down the lane.
And today is very much about a reflection on who you truly are.
It's a reflection I come back to time and time again because for me it's the,
I guess it's the reflection that has the most nourishment and meaning in my life.
And I always find that the clouds and the sky are such a great reminder when it comes to me reflecting on who I truly am.
You see the clouds as I look up now,
Little white puffy clouds,
They change shape.
Sometimes they might be shaped as little round balls or they might be flat or they might look like a face or a hand or a monster or a dog or a cat.
The clouds are constantly changing shape and the clouds remind me of my thinking and my thoughts because in the same way that the clouds change shape,
So my thoughts and thinking changes shape.
Sometimes I remember the past and it feels frightening or scary or I feel guilty or regretful of something that's happened.
And sometimes I think about the future and I imagine something that's scary or something that's exciting or something that's going to be fun.
In the same way that the clouds change shape,
So my thinking changes shape.
And the one thing that the clouds and my thinking have in common is that both are made from the same stuff.
What I mean by that is that clouds are made from the same stuff and my thinking is made of the same stuff.
Clouds are made from water vapour.
It doesn't matter what they look like,
Whether they look frightening or beautiful or ugly.
Clouds are all made from water vapour and clouds keep shifting and changing.
The shapes never stay the same.
My thinking is made of the same stuff,
Not of water vapour.
My thinking is made of the power of thought,
The principle of thought.
My thoughts,
Like the clouds,
Shift and change shape,
Create stories and make up scenarios.
But ultimately they are made of the same stuff.
My thinking and moods are made of thought and like water vapour,
Thought shifts and changes.
But like the blue sky that the clouds appear in,
Well the blue sky is constant and like the blue sky there is a constant part of me too.
There is an ever-present settled knowingness,
The knowingness of who I truly am.
That place of awareness within and that never changes,
Regardless of my thinking and thoughts,
Memories and projections into the future.
It's like the blue sky,
It's always there.
It might get covered over by clouds,
It might get covered over by thinking,
But the blue sky is always there and who I truly am is always there.
So today's reflection is a reminder to shift your attention away from the clouds of your thoughts and thinking.
Find that blue sky space within you,
That awareness,
That ever-present space and bring your attention there.
I know for sure that when I feel unsettled,
All that has happened is that I've got lost into my thinking.
I've got lost into believing my thinking,
Believing that it's true.
And rather than change my thinking,
The best thing I can do a hundred percent of the time,
All the time,
The best thing I can do is shift my thinking away from the clouds of my thoughts and rest them on the awareness of the blue sky.
