Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
I am leaning up against one of the grey granite stones that makes up the remains of a burial cairn here on Dartmoor.
It's called Cuckoo Ball and it's several thousand years old,
Probably four or five thousand years old.
What's left of it is not what the original structure would have looked like,
But these two granite stones that remain resolutely in the ground,
Seemed to stand almost like guardians of this spot.
And I felt very drawn to come here today.
It's a wonderful,
Beautiful day.
There's a great outlook from where I'm standing.
And you probably just hear there's ponies.
I can see on the hillside,
On the other side of the valley from me,
A dog walker with two,
What looks like,
I think they're probably sheep dogs,
Black and white dogs walking along a footpath.
And I'm here today to reflect on the magnificence of who you are,
Like at your core.
And I was listening to someone today and they gave a quote from someone called Robert Holden.
And the quote was this,
It was a prayer.
And the prayer goes like this,
God,
Show me the truth about myself,
No matter how beautiful it is.
God,
Show me the truth about myself,
No matter how beautiful it is.
And it stopped me,
This quote,
And this idea of a prayer,
Because for me,
This is so resonant in the direction that I'm looking in at the moment for myself.
I feel this energy arise in me,
An energy that comes from not myself,
Not the little Liz that is eating and breathing and walking on the moorland,
But an energy that is from the essence,
God energy,
Divine energy,
The energy of life itself.
And I feel this energy and I recognize it in me.
It's as though I am seeing myself,
Not myself as the identity of Liz,
But my true self,
This true energy arising.
It feels as though it's arising in me and bubbling over with its enthusiasm to find its way into the world.
And that really resonates for me in the prayer that was suggested where I'm looking for this magnificence in myself and the beauty in myself and to see it and not be afraid of seeing it in myself.
And I wonder how that shows up for you,
The truth about yourself,
No matter how beautiful you are.
When I experience that energy within me,
I realize it is rising.
And wants expression and there is beauty in it.
I am not the owner of that beauty.
It's not Liz who owns this beautiful energy.
It is the energy that is the creative energy,
The God energy,
The sacred energy of life itself.
And I find that as I bring my awareness and attention to that,
I get a sense of the wonder and beauty that feels as though it is wanting expression through me,
Through this human identity of Liz.
And that beauty is more than I,
As a human being,
Can fathom.
It is an intense beauty.
So for me,
This reflection is about you asking yourself that question,
Looking at the beauty in yourself.
And I'm going to remind you here,
This isn't about looking at the beauty of you,
An individual person.
Is looking beyond that.
To this connecting energy that is infused in all of us.
It is that which we are all made of and come from.
It is a creative energy.
That is at the heart of everything.
And I wonder when you see that in yourself,
Does that prayer resonate for you?
So I'm gonna say the prayer once again,
And I'd love your reflections on what arises for you as you hear this.
God,
Show me the truth about myself,
No matter how beautiful it is.
God,
Show me the truth about myself,
No matter how beautiful it is.
I'd love to hear your reflections.
And of course,
Don't forget to join me again tomorrow for another five minutes in nature.
