The Spark Behind The Technique - August 16

What if it wasn't a tool or technique that made you feel better? What if you were to recognise your own beautiful essence that is ever present? In today's 5 Minutes In Nature, Liz gently invites you to realise your true nature and the way it nudges you in life. When you are inspired to go for a walk, or to meditate, do you ever pause to consider where that initial spark of inspiration came from? This is the place Liz is inviting you to look today.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott on a lovely fresh evening here on Dartmoor. The sun has just set behind the hill behind me. It's quite a clear evening. I can see the sea, The ocean, About 10 miles away and around me are gorse bushes unsheltered from a southwesterly wind. A few grey and white clouds are peppered in the sky which is a blue colour. We had a bit of rain yesterday but it's gone and we aren't due to have any more rain for over a week and the land is just gasping for some water. And today's reflection comes from reading and connecting with you here on Insight Time. I so love getting responses and reflections and comments to what I talk about. And one of the things I want to share today is something I've been trying to find a way of articulating it. And I'm going to see how it comes out and let me know, Obviously, When you hear it, What it feels like for you. And this is all around tools and techniques. And one of the things with the three principles or the inside out understanding, Don't forget there is a course on the three principles here on Insight Timer if you want to understand more about them. But one of the things about the inside out understanding is that it isn't advocating a tool or technique. So pretty much everything I've done in the past and when I was training as a coach and a counsellor. I took on lots of different kinds of training like neurolinguistic programming. I went on the Landmark Forum and I just accumulated lots of tools, Techniques, Theories as I went along. I loved it. It was a very nourishing part of my journey. So when I came across the Inside Out Understanding, And it was not offering any tools or techniques, But was instead saying to me, Look to see how life works. And what I've come to see in the simplest of forms with the Inside Out Understanding is the way that life works. Is that we are at our core are the awareness and universal energy, The universal love energy that infuses everything. Everything comes from this energy. That's who we are at our core. And we're human, And part of the human experience is we get distracted with thoughts. We get distracted with emotions. We get distracted with the identity of who we think we are. The small Liz, The small me. And we get distracted in this world so much that we lose sight of this deeper awareness of who we are. So that's in summary how I see the inside-out understanding. Are deeply okay at our core and we're human and we get lost in thoughts, Feelings and emotions. And one of the things I've noticed here on Insight Timer is that people often hold on to tools and techniques and things that they feel are important to practice in their lives. And I always thought something about tools and techniques and practices is that I thought it was these things that created my peace of mind. These were the things that gave me access to who I truly was. So I needed to do something, An activity like, I don't know, Meditation, Or for me, I need to go walking in nature, In order to feel who I truly am, To get that clarity, That peace of mind, That sense and essence of true self. It doesn't work like that. It's not the tool or technique that has you feel your true nature. It is your true nature. That nudges you to engage in that tool or technique. Because it wants to be seen and witnessed again. And that tool or technique is a catalyst enabling you to see yourself more clearly again. But it isn't the tool or technique that does it. You are already whole. You are already created from love and the universal energy of life. You are awareness and consciousness taking form as a human being. The tool or technique comes as a nudge from the universe in order for the universe to see itself again. So what do you make of that? It's not the tool or technique that gives you access to who you truly are. It's who you truly are that nudges you to engage in the tool or technique, And that is the place to put your attention, Is on the creative, Inspiring energy and life force that nudged you to take action in the first place. Let me know your reflections on this. Does that make sense to you? What do you hear in that? And of course, Don't forget to join me again tomorrow for another five minutes in nature.

Reviews

This makes perfect sense…and is very profound. I’ve never thought of it this way-the universe is nudging me to use the tools and techniques. Thank you Liz. ✨

It does make sense to me. Who we really are, our being the essence of love, that is still pointing the way through nudges towards tools or paths to help us remember who we really are: Love ♥️

Thoughts From My Deck.
i am...

Beautifully said Liz. Peel it all back and you find your "self."

Until tomorrow. ✌️❤️

I like that. It makes sense 😁 When I notice my thinking is agitated, I stop, then often I feel drawn to stand up, do something else, or the opposite, rest, be still and do a meditation... What is right for the moment comes up, naturally. Thank you for sharing and yes we're all so desperate for rain... 🙏🏼

Thank you for that explanation - it makes sense to me. It would seem then that when I was drowning in work stress and overwhelm that my inner voice led me to try meditation, knowing that for me, that was what I needed to get back to equilibrium. And since then I have slowly been learning to trust that inner voice more and more.