Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me,
Liz Scott.
Wow,
It's a super blustery old day here on Dartmoor.
I'm in a little gully trying to shelter from very windy conditions.
We've had a storm come through.
A storm storm through would be the right way to put it,
With heavy rain,
Dark clouds.
And now the rain has passed,
But the winds are still with us.
And I've had to find shelter here on Dartmoor but I'm loving the blue sky above my head even though it's very windy and autumnal all around me.
And today's reflection comes from a conversation I was having with a friend.
And the reflection today for you is about listening to what feels like it needs to be said in this moment.
And I'm only talking about what needs to be said to yourself,
Not to another person.
So listen to what feels like it needs to be said in this moment.
And I'm going to tell you a story from my friend,
Which is where I was inspired by.
This reflection.
She was telling me about a recent wedding.
It was her son's wedding and she was giving a speech at the wedding.
And my friend over the years,
I've seen her transform as she's become more in tune to her inner wisdom,
Her intuition.
It used to be that we would share some training and facilitation together and she would get PowerPoints out and make sure she had a strong structure that she wanted to stick to.
And over the years,
She's learned to trust an inner wisdom,
An inner intelligence,
A deeper intelligence within her.
So when she said that she was going to speak at her son's wedding,
I was really curious.
And I said,
Well,
What was that like?
She said,
Well,
It was really interesting.
She said,
I was going to just stand up and speak spontaneously.
She said,
But then I thought,
No,
I will make a little note.
And the note that she made was this.
She wrote down on a bit of paper to remind herself,
Listen to what feels like it needs to be said in this moment.
And that was it.
That was the only note that she had.
And she explained that by the time the speeches came around to her,
She would have heard from all the other speakers.
And she knew that in that moment,
If she could ground herself and be present,
She would know what to say.
It would come through her rather than be something that she had scripted and prepared.
And that is indeed what she did.
She allowed the speech to come through her.
She listened to what felt like it needed to be said in that moment and that's what she spoke.
Now I am not here telling you that that's how you should live your life,
That we shouldn't plan and we shouldn't make notes and we shouldn't ever have a structure or a framework for things we're going to do.
That's not what this is about.
The bit I'm inspired by is that she listened to wisdom and she had a sense of listening to what felt like it needed to be said in that moment and she trusted that.
And that's the bit I'm curious that you maybe trust in yourself.
Listen to what feels like it needs to be said in the moment and to say it to yourself,
Not necessarily to anybody else.
As I was walking up here onto the mall and reflecting on the topic I'm going to be sharing with you,
I was mulling it over for myself what needs to be what feels like it needs to be said in the moment for me and As I've been launching my book and you can find out more in my profile I've been putting myself forward for interviews and asking if I might be guests on podcasts and I've been feeling a bit scrunched up about it.
That's the best way I could put it I've been you know reaching out to people asking to be guest asking to be interviewed,
Kind of putting myself out and about.
And I,
As I reflected on,
Listen to what feels like it needs to be said in this moment.
And of course,
I'm talking about what needs to be said to myself.
I realized it was about letting it go.
The stop trying,
The stop pushing,
The being present.
When I am present to myself,
That's when I feel most free.
That doesn't mean I won't put myself out for interviews.
I won't put myself forward for podcasts.
It just means that I'm forcing it at the moment.
I could feel that I was pushing something rather than going with a flow.
So for me what needed to be said to myself in this moment was let that go.
Be present.
Be moved when you're moved to put yourself forward but don't push it.
So let me know what comes up for you when you ask yourself,
Listen to what feels like it needs to be said in this moment.
What is it you need to say to yourself?
What needs to be expressed?
Let me know your reflections.
And of course,
Don't forget to join me again tomorrow for another five minutes in nature.
