Stop Rushing, Start Living - April 28

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05:29

Stop Rushing, Start Living - April 28

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When you slow down, life has a way of revealing itself in ways you never expected. In today's 5 Minutes In Nature, Liz reflects on a quote that stopped her in her tracks: 'Once she stopped rushing through life, she was amazed how much more life she had time for.' It's a simple idea — but one that can shift everything. What opens up for you when you stop rushing?

Mindfulness Nature Slow Down Gratitude Perspective Relaxation Birdsong Mindful Observation

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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. Well I'm just walking on my morning walk on a little back path past a woodland and I had to stop because the sound of the birds is so loud you can probably hear it it's like they're competing with who could be the loudest I've got the the crows above me and then there's another little bird I don't know if you can hear it in the background I'm not sure I'm not sure what that one is and they are full blast and as I was walking I could hear the little chirrup of young birds obviously asking for food and I tried to look up in the trees to see the nest but couldn't quite spot it and I actually walked this path with my mum's friend yesterday I'm in Exeter and I helped look after my mum and my mum's friend came to visit her and the friend said I really want to walk back to the bus stop to go home and I said well do you know this little back path because I knew she loved nature and doesn't particularly like the busyness of the city and it's a quite a busy road that she was planning to walk down and she said no so I said well let me take you on it so that you can you can know it for next time and it was really lovely seeing her come down this path and be delighted as she came away from the houses and into this tiny little woodland area which has got a cycle path going through it in the footpath and she kept stopping and she said look there's bluebells down there and she stopped and said I can hear a blackbird singing above me and we were looking at the the different plants and then the path comes out into some houses which were in a quieter part of the city and she paused she said look this this house has got an orchard I mean it was a tiny tiny trees and a tiny patch of land she was absolutely delighted and it was wonderful walking her this way because I began to see it through her eyes those fresh eyes and began to appreciate it so this morning as I walked down the path and I heard the cacophony of birdsong I thought I have got to share this with you guys because I know that you love it when I get out in nature and it reminded me of a quote that someone here on insight time I left it's Sandra so thank you Sandra for leaving this and she was responding to something that I was talking about with regards to slowing down and she said I really like this quote and I'm going to read it out to you and I'll read it out a couple of times and the quote is not attributed it's not attributed so I don't know who wrote it here's the quote once she stopped rushing through life she was amazed at how much more life she had time for so let me do that again once she stopped rushing through life she was amazed at how much more life she had time for and you know the truth is that that is what I see in life I sometimes find myself putting the accelerator pedal down and I'm going faster and faster but actually in my bid to go faster in order to have time to do less I just seem to fill my time with more and more things and I've noticed for me that when I deliberately take time like I am today just walking down this path talking to you can see the celandines beside me on the hedgerow ferns are unfolding the blue bells in the wood in the woodland below me and the freshness of nettles growing there's something here called lords lord and ladies coming through when I see this and actually take time to see it I no longer have to rush through life when I'm seeing this I am living life at the right speed so today is just a reminder that when I slow down and probably I guess when you slow down and you take time to appreciate nature you start to see it with fresh eyes a bit like my mum's friend as I walked her down this path yesterday began to show me this path with fresh eyes and I enjoy it all over again so let me read you that quote once again once she stopped rushing through life she was amazed at how much more life she had time for once she stopped rushing through life she was amazed at how much more life she had time for let me know your reflections on slowing down and what that means in your life and don't forget to join me tomorrow for another five minutes in nature