Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
I'm sitting on top of Ugbera Beacon.
There's a couple of piles of rock,
They look like tours,
These sort of granite boulders that are etched on the landscape,
Almost look like they're sculptures that have been man-made and I'm sheltering behind one of them,
Sitting in the sun,
Sheltering from the wind with a view out northwards across the moorland and as I look out I just imagine that this landscape,
With its sort of greens and beiges and browns,
This landscape is pretty untouched,
Probably been like this for hundreds and hundreds of years.
Today's reflection as I walk through lanes and I see the leaves falling from the trees,
Today's reflection is related to autumn.
It's related to letting go and what I noticed in the autumn cycle is that trees,
Plants,
They give way,
They make way,
They die back,
The leaves fall from the tree and what this does is the leaves fall and the plants die back and the ferns up here on the moorland they go golden orange and sink back to the ground,
Is it ultimately they are making space for something new.
You need space for something new to grow.
You might have heard of snakes that when they grow they quite literally shed their skin,
The old skin,
Not like our skin stretches,
The snake skin can't stretch so a new skin grows and as it grows the old skin falls away and that in a sense is how I see my spiritual growth,
Is that it's not about adding to what I thought I understood anew.
My spiritual growth has been very much about making space for something new to take root,
It's a clearing out.
I remember when I first came across the three principles also known as the inside out understanding,
I was really enthusiastic about tools and techniques and I used to work with clients and teach tools and techniques and share tools and techniques always wanting to make people feel better and I came across the three principles,
I was introduced to it by a friend and she,
As we were talking,
She was also a coach,
She explained that in the three principles there's a different starting point and the different starting point is that you are starting with people being whole and unbroken,
Like that's your starting point.
So where in the past I saw people as broken and need mending actually with the three principles it showed me something different about the human condition.
I'm talking about human beings at the level of spirit and soul,
At that level you,
Me,
We cannot be damaged or broken and I remember her saying to me you don't need tools and techniques to heal people,
You just help them re-experience what it is to feel their wholeness again and so what happened on my journey as I became interested in the three principles and inside out understanding,
Which is a spiritual understanding,
Is I found myself shedding lots of tools and techniques that at one time seemed really important but now they made no sense at all.
So today as I watch the leaves in autumn fall to the ground and there is this place of hiatus,
This regeneration,
This sense of quietitude as the trees wait for the new growth to emerge in the spring,
I feel that it is really useful for us to also realise that we need to make space if we want to be filled with something new and see something new.
So today's reflection is all about making space for something new,
For questioning those beliefs that you've held on for so long to and questioning whether now,
Like the leaves falling from the trees,
Maybe now is time to let those beliefs go.
