Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott.
We've moved on from North Berwick.
We're still in Scotland and we're about 10 miles outside of Stirling.
We found a campsite and I am exploring the area.
It's early morning.
This is one of the favorite things I love doing on a new place.
I get out my map and just to start to explore to see whether there are footpaths or places I might explore when I've got a bit more time.
And I've come down to a surprise really.
It's a place called,
It made me smile,
It's called the Devon Way.
And for those of you that are aware of where I live,
I live in a place that is called Devon,
Which is hundreds of miles away.
It's the county of Devon in the southwest of England.
So I'm kind of curious as I walk along the Devon Way to see what I might see.
And it's a cycle route as well and we've got our bicycles and we want to cycle into Stirling today and it's about 10 miles away and I see that there's a cycle route here that we can follow so I love this sense of exploration and piecing things together and getting curious about different paths where they might go and what I might explore in the future.
It's just wonderful,
Wonderful to do.
And you know over the past few days we've been exploring thought,
The power of thought.
By looking at this idea that experiences can't make you feel anything,
It's thought.
If you want to explore this series in more details,
It's been over the past three days.
And then we looked at you don't see the world as it is,
You see the world through thought.
So if you're unsettled,
You'll see an unsettled world,
And if you're settled,
You'll see a settled world.
And we then,
Yesterday,
Explored this idea of coming back to that place of centered,
And I thought I'd give you a little update today because what I've noticed,
And this isn't a how-to and this isn't a technique,
But it's just a noticing of what happens,
Is I've noticed that as I brought my awareness back to groundedness,
As I felt that again,
As I felt myself on solid ground internally,
That that niggle has lost its energy and power.
And it's almost as though my whole being has slowed down,
My mind has slowed down.
And the niggle that I had that was kind of badgering me to do something about it,
It subsided.
I'm in a settled,
Settled space.
And in this state of spaciousness,
I no longer feel that urgent edge to address the problem straight away.
You know that feeling that you get sometimes,
I need to sort this out.
So we've been talking about the nature of feelings,
So my feelings are letting me know now that from this place,
From a place that isn't urgent and nagging and insistent.
From this place of calm,
If something arises that I feel needs to be addressed,
I will do it.
It's a very different feeling and I'll do it with love.
So I want you to be really clear that when we talk about thoughts,
Particularly in the context of what I'm talking about,
I'm not talking about,
Oh,
It's just thought,
So just don't pay attention to it,
It's not real.
I'm explaining that the whole way we create the world around us,
Whether it's the physical reality or our internal reality,
It's created from thought.
And it's just really helpful to know.
Nagging,
Insistent thinking is telling me to do something,
I know that that is not the right place for me to address something.
When I'm settled and when I feel myself on solid ground internally,
When I feel like I'm coming from a place of love,
Well that is the right place.
And so that's what this conversation has been all about,
Is just exploring the nature of thought.
And coming back to centre and coming back to a place of love.
It doesn't mean you're a doormat.
It doesn't mean that you don't have boundaries.
It doesn't mean that you don't address things that need to be addressed.
It means that you address them from a place of love.
And that's what's been important for me today.
So let me know your reflections on this sequence of tracks on thought.
And don't forget to join me again tomorrow for another five minutes in nature.
