Trusting The Whisper Within - October 17

When you follow an inner nudge, don’t be surprised if it’s joined by a wave of insecure thoughts. In today’s 5 Minutes In Nature, Liz shares the story of a friend who kept feeling prompted to take her campervan out and create a spontaneous listening space for anyone who wandered by. Even though doubts and uneasy thoughts arose, she chose to trust that nudge—and was so glad she did.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott. I'm perched on a granite boulder up here on Dartmoor just looking up closer to actually looking at the lichens or do you say lichens? I never know if it's lichen or lichens. These are a sort of browny colour then there's the green of the moss that's clinging on and then the rock itself has got these I think it's quartz white quartz in amongst the granite it's actually quite a colourful colourful rock when you see it up close there's a lot going on when you're from a distance it just looks like a grey blob but this is a really beautiful almost like a sculpture with these different white quartz parts sticking out and then you've got some yellowy lichens and brown lichens and green moss and what looks like a red I don't know what that is some sort of red plant sort of maybe it's another moss plant coming off the rocks beautiful and today my reflection is about what happens when you follow nudges or what can happen when you follow nudges and I was listening to a friend today I really love listening to her she's someone that is very inspired by the three principles or the inside out understanding and she is someone a bit like me that is drawn to follow nudges and I just wanted to share something that she did and also to explain something about nudges because you see when you follow a nudge and I'm going to explain what it is to me and it might feel different to you but when you follow a nudge you're following a feeling or a sense that is deeper than your intellectual logical mind it comes from a different place it's a sort of knowing that's how it turns up for me and it doesn't tell me much I just get a feeling that oh this is this is the thing for me to do or this is the direction to travel in or this is not the direction to travel in and she was explaining that she had a nudge to take her camper van down to the coast sit in a car park with a sign outside the camper van saying something to this effect like if you've got a problem and you want to talk it through let me show you another way to look at your problems something it was something like that and she felt this nudge for her to take her camper van down to the seafront to do this and here's the thing with a nudge what often happens is you have a nudge it feels clear it feels right and then what crowds in is a load of thinking well this is a stupid idea why would I do that what a daft thing to do and she explained that she had the nudge she then had this raft of uncomfortable feeling and she decided to follow her nudge so she took the van down to the seafront put a note outside the van saying if anybody wants to talk about their problems they're welcome to nobody turned up so she packed up and went home and the next day the nudge came again and she was like oh no I really why am I doing this again I just don't want to follow this I don't want to do this but again she followed the nudge she packed up the van went down to the seafront put up the notice sat there again nobody nobody came through a few sort of quizzical looks but nobody actually came to speak to her so she thought okay well I've done it again went back home and you guess it the next day she has a nudge go down to the seafront take your van take your van put up this notice and see who comes now on this occasion and she did go despite all the thinking she went on this occasion a couple came and spoke with her and they came and spoke with her for a couple of hours they'd been through a really difficult experience themselves and she listened to them and at the end of the day they she gave them some information and pointed them in the direction of where they might go to find out more information they left they were more settled she went home and the next morning she got up there was no nudge it was almost like okay whatever she needed to do was done so I'm telling you this and I'm going to can't continue this story tomorrow because there's something else I learned from it when she was telling me but today I just want to explain that following a nudge is it's really hard to logically explain a nudge because it often it will make no sense it might be to phone up somebody it might be to do something it might be to go on a trip it might be to say no to something but one thing for sure that often follows a nudge is a flood of insecure thinking insecure thinking trying to talk you out of that nudge so today I just wanted to tell you about nudges and how they work and tomorrow I'm going to complete this story because I want to explain something else about the power of following nudges

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