Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
It's day seven of my pilgrimage and I'm just a couple of miles into walking today and it's been glorious.
I feel so subtle,
I just wanted to connect with you now.
I've been following the River Fowl from Tregony upstream and I've got to a place as far as Creed and the path has been mainly through flat fields,
Obviously floodplain fields and sometimes through wooded areas.
There's been rain overnight so it's claggy thick mud as I walk.
I've got my Wellington boots on today and at times I've had to go very slowly and actually physically pull each boot out so I don't lose it as I've been walking through some of the mud on the paths.
Not many people I've seen today,
Just a dog walker near Tregony and otherwise it's just me and the birds and the river and the Mary current and you know I'm following on this pilgrimage the Mary energy current and the Michael energy current.
They weave across England and the Mary energy current follows the River Fowl so I've imagined that I've actually been walking in the energy current itself.
I know I'm not physically paddling through the river but my sense is I'm close enough and I've just had this extraordinary settled experience of walking,
Just gently walking one step in front of the other and feeling my mind settle.
It's almost more than my mind,
My whole body has settled and I feel this sense of peace and spaciousness within me and as I walk I reflect on different things.
I reflect on some of the news stories that I've been kind of on the periphery of my attention.
I'm not really observing news at the moment on the pilgrimage but just keeping an eye on it,
Noticing some of the feelings I have about the unsettledness of the world and how things are shifting in the world.
It seems at very big global and political levels and knowing that there is the propensity for me to have a sense of helplessness and that's not what this pilgrimage is about.
This pilgrimage is about settling within myself and of course when I say settling within myself I don't really mean settling within this body of Liz.
I mean settling to connect with the spirit of everything,
The energy of everything.
We are not separate entities walking through the world,
We are forms and creations of an energy that is connected.
So this pilgrimage for me,
My contribution to what I'm seeing and reading right at this moment is to walk,
Is to walk and to settle,
Is to feel that place of spaciousness and love within me as I walk and just to gently reflect on some of the stories that come into my mind.
Maybe they are big stories about war and global allegiances,
Maybe they are stories about friends in my life or reflections on my dog and hoping he's okay and just reflections on my gratitude that my husband is supporting me so kindly and compassionately on this journey and just feeling that sense of gratitude.
You see I know that I am resourced when I fall back into and reflect on and connect with that deeper energetic space within me and as I walk through these extensive open fields,
Muddy puddles and damp rain at the moment,
I've just come through a gateway and I can see ahead of me the looming tower of Creed Church and the energy,
Mary energy current actually goes through the church.
That's going to be my next stop on my pilgrimage today but there's almost a sense of this gentle reflection.
Does the church,
Was the church built on the energy current or was the church built beside the energy current and then the energy current was attracted to the reverence and the spirituality of the people that went to the church so it's deviated up there before it comes back to the river again.
As you know I don't really know much about energy currents,
I don't even know if I can feel them but I love to imagine the sense of them and that gives me incredible strength.
So my reflection today for me is just to continue walking,
That's my contribution to the world at the moment and it's about keeping myself grounded and being in relationship and being connected and compassionate to those I meet along the way.
