Listening To The Land - March 10

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Listening To The Land - March 10

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Today is a gentle reminder of the power of the land and its longing to connect with us. In this 5 Minutes in Nature, Liz reflects on a recent interview with a TV reporter who asked her about last year’s pilgrimage. As she recalls some of the powerful landmarks along the way, she finds herself reconnecting with — and once again feeling — the deep energy of the land.

Nature Energy Pilgrimage Reflection Grounded Historical Sites Weather Historical Wisdom Energy Currents Nature Connection Weather Conditions Personal Reflection

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Ivybridge PL21, UK

Meet your Teacher

Ivybridge PL21, UK

Transcript

Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott and I'm back home after a day out and about filming. If you were with me yesterday you'll know that I had a quite a bit of thinking about a local reporter who had asked to film me for a piece that they were doing on the pilgrimage that I'd walked. Last year I walked 630 miles across England following the Michael and Mary energy currents and the reporter said can I meet you at some of the locations that you passed through in Devon and Cornwall and we arranged to go to Bodmin Moor which is where we went today. Bodmin Moor is quite well known a bit like Dartmoor. Bodmin Moor is a moorland in Cornwall and it like Dartmoor often is covered in mist and rain and today it was exactly like that. We went up to a place where there are three stone circles called the Hurley's and a bit further on from that there's a rock formation called the Cheese Ring. It's a very distinct pile of rocks on the landscape and it was misty and it was rainy and it was cold and it was windy and as I walked with the reporter in this mist and this rain ahead of us we could see this rock formation the Cheese Ring sort of sometimes you could see it and then it would disappear behind a veil of mist and we stood in the Hurley's and this is the stone circles and stood at the midpoint of the Michael and Mary energy currents where they cross called the Node Point and then we walked up to the Cheese Ring and I recalled and told her the story of how when I'd walked my pilgrimage and I had actually walked up towards the Cheese Ring on one of the days of walking I was very tired and had done a lot of uphill climbing up up up onto the moorland of Bodmin Moor that I looked at the Cheese Ring which was on another hill that I needed to climb and my mind said no no don't climb that you're too tired and yet there was some force energy something that had my feet walk up the hill to the Cheese Ring and I remember walking up on the pilgrimage and touching the rock and feeling this sense of energy and connection as though the land were trying to communicate with me and I was really thrilled to go back to that again today very different circumstances the weather was so much wilder and colder today and we walked up to the rock climbed up the hill where it's on and both of us myself and the reporter took off our gloves and put our hands on this slab of granite rock that was towering like a giant above us and once again I felt that thrill that thrill of the energy is it the Michael energy current it's good certainly it goes through that rock was that what I was feeling I don't know but I felt something and it felt delicious and all of that thinking that I had yesterday the concern about whether I was going to be able to articulate myself well or explain as I thought it needed to be explained in a way that felt so important in the particular days that we're living through with the turbulence in our political affairs and across the world because the message I really wanted to share was that there was a connection that our ancestors had with the land that we have with the land if only we listen and walking and pilgrimage is a way of settling the mind feeling and experiencing that wisdom within and somehow finding a settledness and a groundedness of walking through the world so that's what I wanted to share today with the reporter and I certainly managed to share that and tomorrow we go towards Somerset and Glastonbury and we're going to talk more about the role of women in the world today so it went it went well I felt like I was honoring what wanted to be said through me and also I felt as though I was reconnecting with the pilgrimage once again and somehow the weather the wildness the wetness the coldness the wind the mist all of it it kind of conspired to make it feel magical so tomorrow I'll let you know how I get on as I make my way to Glastonbury and meet the reporter there and I'll let you know what reignites for me around the pilgrimage tomorrow so join me again for another five minutes in nature when I tell you what it's like to revisit Glastonbury a year on from my pilgrimage