Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
I'm right beside a Dartmoor brook and you might be able to hear it gushing in the background.
I'm just turning my back to it and gently walking up a hill heading west towards the sun.
It's late afternoon and we've had the most extraordinary spring day.
It's blue skies,
White clouds,
That sense of warmth in the air that you get from the the sun as it warms up in late March early April just feels as though spring is starting to take over from winter.
And I was actually very reluctant to come out for a walk today which is surprising for me if you know me.
I just absolutely love getting out for a walk but I've actually been out this morning into the city to meet some friends and we've been to an art exhibition and we'd had some lunch and then I came back.
I hadn't slept very well the previous night and I just felt so sleepy and the sun was streaming in the window on the sofa in our living room and I could feel the temptation to close my eyes and go to sleep in the warmth of the sun and yet something else,
Something deeper within me,
Something nudged me to get up and get outside.
I just knew that getting outside,
Feeling the sun on my face,
The coolness of the air and just watching the birds,
The trees,
The wildlife around me,
I knew that that is what I was being called to do and that's why you find me out now.
I listened into that intuition,
That inner wisdom,
That deeper intelligence and it's got a different quality of feeling to it than my nagging voice,
That urging voice which is like,
Oh go on,
Have a sleep,
You know it'll be good,
That's the thing you need to do.
No,
That's not the voice I listen to.
I notice it in my world but I don't listen to it.
I listen to something deeper,
Something that feels truer and quieter and I listen to that and let that guide me and that's what today is all about,
Is listening into that inner guidance system.
I'll give you another example.
My dear elderly aunt passed away and her funeral is coming up in the next few weeks and she lives or her family live a long way away and a funeral is going to be a long way away and it actually falls in the middle of a walking trip that I'm planning with a friend and so there was nothing about this going to this funeral that made sense.
My elder brother said,
Look I'm going to go and represent the family so we're going to be represented and I knew that that was the right thing and I knew that to rearrange this trip which we had been planning for such a long time,
Well that would be too complicated and yet despite logic and reason saying it's fine,
Your brother's going to this funeral,
You don't need to go,
There was something in me that was wanting me,
Nudging me,
Drawing me towards going to this family funeral and I've been listening to it and it's not sort fully complete yet because the plans are still in progress but I'm finding my way now to take a day out of this walking trip to make my way to the train to get a train to London to stay at my brother's house and then to get a lift up to where my aunt is being buried and spend some time with the extended family.
It feels as though that is something I am looking into and I realise it's it doesn't make sense,
Logical,
Rational sense but intuitively I know it's the right thing to do.
So today is just a reminder,
Listen into that inner wisdom,
Listen into that intuition and wisdom within you that's nudging you along,
Give that space and time in your life,
Listen into it and you listen into it by slowing down,
Stilling your mind and allowing its wisdom to be heard.
When you listen into that intuitive wisdom it gives you good information,
It feels different to the nagging thoughts that intrude in your mind,
That intuition is what I'm asking you to listen out for and that is what today is all about,
Listening to your intuitive wisdom.
Let me know your reflections on this and do join me again tomorrow,
I'll be back with another five minutes in nature.
