Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
It's another thick mist up here on Dartmoor.
I can't see far,
I'm right beside my favourite hawthorn tree,
Having walked up the hill to get here.
And I can't see beyond probably,
Oh I don't know,
Maybe a hundred foot away,
Something like that.
Around me there are sheep grazing,
Quite fat now,
These are sheep that are going to be lambing in the next few weeks.
And there's a little bit of a drizzle of the rain,
Which is probably just the rain from the cloud that I'm standing in here on Dartmoor.
But you know what,
It's wonderful to get out,
It really is,
I can't recommend it enough.
And today I want to reflect on that which draws us,
That which draws you.
The thing that had me get out today,
Despite the weather,
Was something within me I listened to that drew me out,
Drew me out for a walk.
I just had a conversation with a client and she and I talked about this whole area of being drawn to something.
So on my way up here as I was walking I bumped into someone who has actually become a friend.
We've bumped into each other over the past 10 years on different walks and we've had little chats but never ever really connected,
Not for me anyway in any deep meaningful way.
And sometimes it seems to me that when I'm drawn to something I feel it inside,
It's like a tug or a pull.
But other times,
And this is what I'm going to describe to you now,
It's like the universe keeps nudging me in the right direction,
Pushing me in the right direction.
So this lady I kept bumping into on walks just said out of the blue one day,
Do you fancy coming and having a cup of tea?
And I said yeah that'd be nice I'll come down and have a cup of tea with you.
I heard nothing back or nothing was said so I didn't really think much more of it and if I'm honest I just thought well you know I say hello to her on a walk but I don't know what I'd say to her if I was sat down with a cup of tea,
Would we run out of things to say?
Anyway I let it go and a couple of days later I was up walking on the moor and I went to go home down the lane and ahead of me walked a dog walker and I thought you know what I'm not going to go that way because I don't really want to catch them up and overtake them and possibly talk I much prefer just to go at my own pace.
I think I'll go a different direction so I changed the direction I was going to go and lo and behold I bumped into this lady again and we had another conversation but this time I kind of knew the universe wanted me to connect with her.
I didn't have a strong pull from within but it was almost like the universe was nudging me in this direction shutting off one path and having me go down another path to have this connection and conversation so I followed it through this time and I was the one that made sure it happened and we met for coffee and it was really lovely it was a really lovely experience I learned about her I found out more about her life and we connected and talked about things which we both are inspired by older women and it was a really rich conversation so that's what I mean by being drawn sometimes it's a pull but other times it's like you're you just keep finding yourself in the same situation it's like something there is something here for me to see and then with a client today she talked about the kind of feeling of being drawn that I relate to most which is that feeling inside and she described a trip that she went on to see her son who was living abroad and it involved her catching a plane on her own and working out to go and see him but she felt deeply drawn to go and see him the call of her family of the love she felt for her family that superseded everything she could really feel that she was going to go on this trip regardless and that kind of drawing is something I relate to it was the thing that had me walk my pilgrimage it made no sense at all but something within me drew me to make the steps towards walking a pilgrimage so those are the two things I want to talk about today and I just wonder if either of them or both of them relate to you do you sometimes find the universe is nudging you or pushing you or trying to engineer you in a particular direction and if so do you listen to it and also do you also feel the draw where the universe sort of tugging you pulling you nudging you along internally I'd love to know what makes sense for you out of today's five minutes in nature and don't forget I'll be back again tomorrow
