Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott and I'm just having a little stroll in my garden.
It's a tiny garden so to say I'm having a stroll is quite an exaggeration.
I've just been walking on the moorland with my friend and I've just come back and refilled the bird feeders.
I'm just buying the primroses that are poking up through the garden,
The daffodils that are starting to bloom and flower and I can see that the honeysuckle fresh leaves are starting to come out on the honeysuckle.
It really is beautiful.
I saw my first lamb this morning,
Spring lamb,
Absolutely newly born wobbly on its feet with its mum and I couldn't help but wonder gosh what is it like to come out of the warmth of your mother and then land in the damp wetness of the moorland.
It must be a little bit of a shock to the system.
And today's reflection is really prompted by a conversation I had with a client.
She works as a teacher and the purpose for today or the theme for today is shining a light on the fact that we are not broken.
We're not broken,
You're not broken,
I'm not broken.
We are deeply okay at the level of soul and for me this is the whole focus of my work.
It's reminding people and helping people see that in themselves.
The inside out understanding or the three principles as it's also known and there's a course on the three principles on Insight Timer if you want to be introduced to it.
But the whole crux of the inside out understanding and the three principles is a reminder that rather than see ourselves as individuals,
Flawed individuals with problems and things that will never get fixed,
Rather than seeing it from that perspective,
Seeing that we are always trying to make ourselves a better version of ourselves,
That's what self-help or the positive thinking paradigms point to,
Rather than that is to see that we are actually perfect.
Why are we perfect?
What do I mean we're perfect?
Well we are the energy of life,
We are that loving creative energy taking form as a human being and that energy takes form as me,
It takes form as you or the animals and plants,
Everything that we see is made from this energy and when you start to see that you and me and we are all part of this energy,
Having a human experience,
It just turns everything on its head.
So let me take you back to this teacher,
She was talking to me about a student,
A student that's a very troubled student and she was saying that you know he sometimes he's so difficult they think they might need to exclude him and she was saying about this occasion where she came across him at school,
He was settled down doing a little bit of artwork and she came down and sat beside him and started to do some artwork alongside him and he was pointing out how she could maybe improve the technique of what she was doing and she was learning from him and in that space she said,
I just felt so connected,
It felt as though this young lad and I were one.
I pointed out that that was because it was true,
She was one with that young lad,
She was connecting,
Feeling that energy behind life.
You see he gets distracted by all the thoughts of who he's not,
He gets concerned about the stories that he believes in himself about how bad he is,
How he's not good enough,
How he's not strong enough or whatever the stories are for him,
You know we all have that experience ourselves but what she saw in that moment is as thinking and thought fell away from him and from her,
All that was left was love and it just got me thinking as she described this beautiful story,
She got quite touched as she was telling me and I felt quite teary as I was listening to it.
It just reminded that we see the world in a topsy-turvy way,
We see the world,
We see everything as a problem that needs to be fixed.
What would it be like if we turned it around completely in the opposite direction?
What if we instead seeing people as flawed and needing to be made better,
We saw their beauty,
Their inner soul and from that place what we did is just reminded them of who they were rather than getting lost in the thinking and thoughts of who they weren't.
Reminding people who they are,
That is the best gift we can give anybody.
So today is just a little reminder about who we truly are,
Seeing that in each other and realising that that is who we truly are,
That loving energy and when we see that in ourselves and see it in others that really is life-changing.
Join me again tomorrow for another five minutes in nature.
I look forward to connecting with you again then.
