Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
It's a bit of a blowy day here as I wander down off the moorland of Dartmoor.
The sun is shining,
There's quite a strong,
It's a bit of northerly wind I think actually,
Blowing.
I've got my back to it.
It's a gorgeous spring evening where the sun is still shining.
I'm just going to cross over this stream so you might hear me cross the bridge and hear the stream below me.
There we go,
Just crossed that bridge.
There are cattle grazing around me,
There are sheep and lambs.
It's been a lovely time of day to come up onto Dartmoor.
I'm actually responding to a question that was asked by Muriel.
I responded yesterday and I'm responding today and the question was about how can you give the inside out understanding to those around you who don't yet have it?
How do you give this understanding to those who don't yet have it?
It's a great question and it was one I spoke about yesterday with people that maybe are open and curious and today I want to talk about how you respond to those who are not open and are not curious.
But first let me just remind you about the inside out understanding or the three principles and you can find out more with an introduction to the three principles here on Insight Timer if you want to know more.
But ultimately this is the foundation of my life.
It's the bedrock of what I stand on,
What I share and all of my Insight Timer five minutes in nature's are from this place and understanding.
The understanding as I see it is quite simple.
It ultimately points to the fact that we are created from and made from the essence of universal energy.
We are made of peace,
Love and wisdom.
We are of that energy taking shape as human beings.
So we're all connected.
Deeply we are okay.
That's the first thing to know about the inside out understanding because we are made from the spiritual essence of all things.
And the second thing about the inside out understanding is that we are human and we get lost in thought and thinking and that happens as well.
So we are both peace,
Love and wisdom and we get lost in thought and thinking because we're humans.
And yesterday I explored how you share this understanding with those people who are curious and open.
And today I want to talk about those who aren't curious and they aren't open.
Because often the feeling is that those are the people I know for me I would love to get this understanding more than anyone because often they are the ones that are really suffering.
They're the ones that are burdened with thought,
Thinking,
Stress,
Anxiety,
Worry,
Guilt that find life really hard.
And they believe their thinking to be true,
They believe the thoughts that they think and they find it very hard to navigate through life.
If somebody is curious,
As I said yesterday,
It's easier in a way to start conversations,
You've got permission.
But if someone isn't curious,
Then I often find I don't feel I've got permission to try and tell them about the inside out understanding.
So rather than that,
What I do is I stand in my grounding and I listen from a place of love.
That's ultimately what I find I do time and time again.
And as I listen from love,
I'm listening to the wholeness and the wellness and the wisdom in them that they don't see in themselves.
And I'm listening to it from my wholeness and wisdom.
Now sometimes what happens is that people become curious,
They kind of think there's something about you that they're curious about and want to know more,
You don't get riled like other people,
You seem to be fairly rock solid in life.
So sometimes people become curious just because of the way you are around them.
But most of the time,
I find that people just feel better having spoken with you.
So actually,
At the end of a conversation,
They came to you feeling agitated and stressed.
And then they go away feeling settled and resourced.
And they don't actually know what's gone on.
But you know that you've been listening to them from a place of love,
Listening to their well being and resilience.
And in doing so you've woken that up within them.
So for me,
I would say that when somebody isn't curious or isn't open about the inside out understanding,
I don't try and convince them.
Instead,
What I do is I just listen from a place of love.
So that's what I would say about sharing the inside out understanding.
I do hope you found that interesting to listen to today and yesterday's all about how you might share the inside out understanding.
And of course,
I'm always curious to hear from you.
So let me know your reflections on this.
And I'll be back,
Of course,
Again tomorrow with another five minutes in nature.
So please do join me then.
