Hello and welcome to day 24 of my 30-day experiment,
Living from love rather than fear.
My name is Liz Scott and for 30 days I am bringing my awareness back to a place of love every time I get lost in unsettled or fearful or insecure thinking.
When I remember,
When I notice what's going on,
I take my awareness away from that unsettled thinking and I bring it back to that intuitive wisdom within me.
And then I see what I see and learn what I need to learn from the day.
And so far each and every day I am learning valuable lessons.
So this is day 24 and today's lesson has been very much around listening to my body and how listening to my body is an act of love.
Let me explain.
As you know we're away in our camper van and one of the things I love about going away in the camper van is I just love exploring by walking.
I love finding footpaths and lanes that I can walk along and just seeing new things.
Today was no exception.
I was really keen to go out and explore so I arranged to meet my husband.
I was going to go on a five mile walk and after three miles,
It was a circular walk,
I would come to a cafe,
I would meet him there and we'd have a cup of tea and then I would walk back to the campsite.
My back,
Which I hurt a few days ago if you remember I was moving some furniture,
My back began to complain.
I've been looking after it and it has been improving but going out on this walk today I just began to notice it after the second mile.
It was beginning to ache.
My whole body felt really tired.
When I got to the cafe to meet my husband for a cup of tea I was really feeling exhausted.
He offered to give me a lift.
He said would you like a lift back to the campsite and my immediate answer was no thank you I can do this.
We sat down and had a cup of tea and I realised that that immediate answer was not coming from a place of love.
It was just an automatic thing that I say.
As we drank tea and I reflected and I just sent some loving thoughts to my back I realised that the answer to the question do you want a lift back to the campsite was actually a yes.
From a place of love,
From a place of compassion,
From a place of listening to my body it made absolute sense that to go any further was going to put a bit of strain on my back which I really didn't want to do.
So after the cup of tea I said is it okay if I have a lift back to the campsite and I got in the car and I got back to the campsite and it was fine.
You might see this as something really simple and maybe not even worth commenting on but for me it's a big thing and you'll probably have your own things that are big things for you that maybe other people think are quite small.
For me it's rare,
I rarely ever ever quit a walk.
I love walking so much.
For me there's something about stretching out the physicality of it and the challenge when the terrain is tough of just keeping going.
So for me to say yes to a lift back to the campsite was massive.
The old me,
The me that came from a place of fear or anxiety or worry or stressful thinking might have seen this as defeatism,
As though I didn't have the resilience to carry on but from a place of love I realised absolutely that this wasn't about being defeatist,
That the resilience that I was feeling was actually telling me,
Showing me that I needed to rest my back.
I needed to say yes to a lift back home and that for me is so helpful.
When you start to see that resilience is not about your ability to keep on going in a dogged way but resilience is actually listening into your intuitive wisdom and realising from that space what feels healthy,
Nourishing and right and what doesn't.
So I listened into my intuitive wisdom,
I listened into resilience.
Resilience helped me see,
Love helped me see what was the right thing to do.
So today when I was living from a place of love rather than fear I realised the importance of listening to my body in a compassionate way and doing things that were maybe against my habitual way of doing things,
Taking a lift home when normally I would say no and I would just walk and enjoy the challenge but going against what I would normally do because listening to love I realised there was a different way I wanted to respond.
Let me know how you're getting on with this experiment.
I'm really enjoying learning something new every day and I hope you are too.
So let me know how you're getting on as you live from a place of love rather than fear.
What's showing up for you?
