Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
I'm up here on Dartmoor,
Just pausing.
Occasionally I can hear the chirrup of a bird and you might be able to hear that too.
Above my head there's some grey clouds but there's not many.
There's a lot of blue sky as well and if I turn around I can see the sun dipping in the sky.
I love moments like this.
They're almost surreal in their serenity and I love it because I feel this deeper sense of settledness as I allow myself to connect here with the land on Dartmoor,
Knowing that for generations,
Hundreds,
Thousands of years people have been here,
Lived here and honoured this land.
I know that because Dartmoor is so well known for its stone rows and stone circles and although we've now forgotten why they were built,
They are still in the landscape,
A legacy from a different era and I swear I feel at the corner of my mind a whisper,
A kind of knowing that they're still significant.
I've just forgotten what their significance is and as I feel the wind on my cheek and as I breathe in this air and as I turn and look at the miles and miles of arable fields that are down below me heading out towards the sea and the ocean,
I feel this extraordinary sense of privilege and gratitude.
It's in moments like this,
Away from my car,
My computer,
My email,
When I'm away from the temptation of checking on who's trying to communicate with me,
When I'm away from those conversations and that nagging feeling that I need to be doing something,
It's in moments like this that I feel most real.
I feel most myself,
Most authentic.
I feel as though I am touching the energy within me.
Today is just a reflection on that and an invitation for you.
Do you have moments where you too touch that energy?
It often happens for me when I get out in nature and I'll be curious when it happens for you.
Maybe it's playing music,
Maybe it's works of art,
Maybe it's creativity or gardening,
Cooking.
When do you feel that sense of connecting with something deeper,
That expansiveness of being rooted in the land?
I sometimes wonder when I look at the stone roads or the stone circles up here on Dartmoor,
I kind of wonder what are we leaving behind?
What are we leaving in the landscape?
What legacy are we leaving to the world for future generations?
And as you can tell as I just breathe in this air and I feel myself and I feel a gratitude glowing within me,
I just know that being here,
Being here now and talking to you is such a privilege.
I am so,
So lucky.
So my request to you is that you explore what it is for you to fall out of that busyness of life,
To find those moments of simplicity and flow and connection,
And to give yourself absolute permission to experience them.
The more you experience those moments of flow,
The more you will remember to look for them.
I'd be very curious to know what you get from listening to today's Five Minutes in Nature.
Just write me a comment,
I always love to connect with you.
And don't forget to join me again tomorrow where I'll be back with another Five Minutes in Nature.
