Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott.
I'm out and about on Dartmoor at the end of a day.
It's been a very wet day again and this is now in the evening light so everything is going grey.
The day has been grey anyway,
There's been rain and as I look across this little stream valley up towards the hillside I can see a white pony grazing on the hillside and some sheep dotted up the hillside itself.
I'm going to turn my back to the wind and as I do that I'm now looking over a fence into a field,
A green pasture land field and today is just to let you know that I'm feeling quite unsettled.
I feel as unsettled as the weather and I've had a conversation with my sister and I'll tell you the story and the wisdom that she gave me has really given me a bit more of a sense of ballast,
A bit more of a sense of balance in my world.
The story is this,
Is that tomorrow I am being interviewed by our local television and they're curious about the pilgrimage I walked last year.
I walked across England following energy currents and it took me nearly seven weeks of walking and a local reporter asked if I would be up for giving an interview about it and I was delighted.
We're going to go to some of the places I walked through Devon and Cornwall which is where I live.
I live in Devon and Cornwall is a neighbouring county and we're going to go up to Glastonbury and Somerset as well to just engage with a little bit of filming and I've been feeling quite unsettled about this.
As I say to my husband I've got a lot of thinking about this which is kind of strange in a way.
I've got a background as a BBC reporter,
I kind of understand the nature of interviews and talking and all of that kind of stuff but for some reason I feel unsettled and I want to share this with you because it's not about for me getting to the why of why I'm unsettled it's like that for me if I start to investigate my thinking and work out and analyse my thinking and the whys and wherefores of why I'm unsettled well that for me is is the equivalent of becoming more unsettled because I know absolutely a hundred percent I will not settle my thinking with more thinking.
It just doesn't work like that.
What I know though deeply deeply know is that as I bring my awareness within to my wisdom and I listen to that then I feel this sense of balance of groundedness and I know that from this place of groundedness I can speak and say what needs to be said and as I was talking to my sister and I was saying oh I just wonder I've you know I feel as though what I learned on my pilgrimage was really important and I want to share the message as best as I can and what if I don't get it across and I was sort of giving her the story of the unsettled thinking.
She in her very wise way said to me look she said this is just like the pilgrimage she said along the route you came across things that you hadn't planned for and you just took the next step and you can do that that's what life is like you come up against things that you haven't planned for and you take the next step and I just loved that wisdom it resonated so deeply for me and in it I felt an insight a clearing and my thinking which was unsettled started to dissolve to dissipate and just now as I'm speaking to you I've just finished talking to my sister I feel this sense of this clarity and I realized deeply that I can feel unsettled thinking I can experience unsettled thinking and I'm sure it will creep up again with me that can happen and at the same time I can be absolutely deeply rooted and connected to my inner wisdom and one of the things that I feel is important to share and would like to express with the interview tomorrow is that as my mind settles and that's what happened on the pilgrimage I started to hear the wisdom of the land the ancient wisdom of the land as my mind settled it felt as though I could experience that when I say hear it I don't really mean hear it with my ears I felt it I could feel it I could sense it and that is part of the message I want to share as I speak with the TV reporter tomorrow so I'll let you know how it goes and I just wanted to give you this real-time example of what it's like for me when I get a little bit lost and unsettled thinking it's just human I don't really give it a lot of attention and in this instance I knew my wisdom knew to phone up my sister and she gave me some wonderful grounding encouraging words that have settled and landed with me that have helped me go okay I'm back listening to wisdom again and it's okay if I get lost in my thinking because I know I can come back again and that's all I need to know as I walk my way through life join me again tomorrow and I'll let you know how it went with the TV reporter for the next five minutes in nature I look forward to connecting again with you then
