Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
This is a daily walk out in nature where I just reflect on something that feels quite important for me in the moment and tonight as I am walking back home it occurred to me and I can just see the sparkle of water on the the grass under my torch light as I'm walking.
It's not cold at the moment because otherwise this would turn to frost overnight but it occurred to me as I was walking to follow on a little bit from what I was talking about yesterday and yesterday was all about the power of thought the loud thought that comes through that might feel quite insistent and yet it's to doubt it even though it might feel loud even though it might feel like it's true you my advice is if it's loud don't trust it and then it occurred to me that maybe it would be interesting to reflect on the wisdom part because whilst the loud thought comes through what's really useful is that one you don't trust it but secondly that you look within to your inner compass that's what I was talking about at the end of yesterday's track and the question then arises is well what is your inner compass what do you mean by that the inner compass as I see it and it's something I've been exploring for the last 10 years and it's something that feels to me so intuitive so deeply intelligent something that is kind of beyond my ability to describe it in a clear way but I will do my best here because it is really important because I found that my inner compass is the thing to trust 100% of the time all the time I'm not talking about a gut instinct that is a rush of feeling of like I need to do this as sort of a knee-jerk reaction I'm talking about this sort of sense of a quiet feeling a draw for me it's not usually a voice it's just a quiet sense of what feels right and what doesn't feel right and often I get a real sense of what doesn't feel right that for me is often the clear I often get a clear no rather than a clear yes so I often will look within and see is this the right thing to do and if it's a no well that's kind of easy to listen into but this quiet intuitive wisdom it's really helpful because it really supports me in day-to-day life and just recently for example I was working with a friend and we were trying and experimenting different ideas for a podcast and we'd connected at the end of last year and it just felt not quite right we'd recorded a couple of experimental episodes and something just wasn't quite right with me and I expressed that to her I listened to my inner compass and I said that this just doesn't feel quite right and we had what I would say was quite a frank conversation that I guess was a bit uncomfortable in some in some ways but it was absolutely right for me to have expressed what I thought and I had trusted my inner compass in that moment so that's what I mean about trusting my inner compass it's the same thing when those unsettling thoughts hurry in telling me I'm no good or I'm not good enough well I know enough now to realize that those loud elbowing thoughts are not to be trusted they sound convincing they sound real they sound like they're giving me true information but they're not what I can absolutely trust is that quieter wisdom beneath the noise of thought and the other day when I was talking to you one of the things that felt really powerful for me is a good example of my intuition my wisdom my inner compass when I talk about this real sense of making a stand for love or another way of putting it is holding the line for love I can really feel that in my whole being this sense of it's it's easy to have opinions and ideas and to spout them and to sound convincing but actually holding a line for love or making a stand for love that has such deep foundations and feels so true at the level of soul and the feeling I have when I say making a stand for love or holding the line for love I can feel that in my very being that I can trust that I can trust that as a principle a guiding principle throughout my life so trusting your inner compass is such a beautiful way of living and being expressed and I'd love you to look within yourself see what your inner compass looks like and feels like to you and see if you can really trust it as you navigate your way through life
