Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott.
It's kind of late in the evening.
The sun has set.
I've just been down doing a little bit of watering and weeding in my vegetable plot in a neighbor's garden.
She's very kindly let me have a corner of a garden to grow some vegetables.
The blackberries are coming out so I've been picking blackberries.
I've probably had more success picking blackberries in the wild hedgerows and I have picking vegetables for my vegetable plot this year,
But I persevere.
And yes,
And today is just a reflection really on wisdom.
And we've been talking about wisdom a little bit.
And do you remember yesterday I was talking about wisdom when it came to that dog that ran away and how wisdom turns up in different ways.
The dog found his way to the safety of a farmer's barn and then growled at anyone who came near him.
Until his owners rescued him.
And he was a friendly dog,
But he was scared and his wisdom showed up in having him growl to protect himself and make him look aggressive in order to keep himself safe.
That is wisdom.
And yesterday we were just reflecting on,
Well,
That's interesting.
Wisdom turns up in different ways in animals.
It turns up in different ways in us too.
And the conversation about wisdom today has been prompted by a client I spoke to.
She's a leader in an organization.
She was quite low,
If I'm honest.
She was quite flat.
She'd come across a dilemma,
And it was a dilemma that was really playing on her conscience.
And she was being asked to do something that she just felt wasn't right or fair.
And that's what she brought to the conversation.
And it's a really interesting place to be as a coach because when you're coaching and when you're listening in the way that I listen,
I've got to put all my judgments to one side,
All my advice to one side,
And just be a listening space.
But I've reflected since speaking with her,
And I've reflected on the day-to-day dilemma that you have,
I have,
We all have at times.
Where we are doing things that feel like it's against what our conscience is telling us to do.
Maybe that sense of feeling guilty that this isn't something we should be doing.
And today's my reflection is to really listen in to what your wisdom is telling you.
Like really listen in.
And I,
So a really simple example is,
For example,
I use AI and I use it.
Sometimes I use it a lot and sometimes I don't use it very much at all.
Sometimes I don't want to use it at all,
But I use AI in particularly when it comes to checking my grammar and my literacy and giving suggestions on how to improve text.
And sometimes I just ask it to write an email for me because it's much easier.
It does a much better job than I could.
And there's a part of me that feels uncomfortable with that use of technology.
That sort of inner tangle of guilt.
It's a little bit the same,
I think,
As my client felt today,
Where she was being asked to do something that didn't feel quite right.
And I'm curious about this for me,
Is how much I dampen down what feels right,
Because there's a stronger sense of what the culture thinks is right,
Or what other people think is right,
That overrules what my inner guidance system is telling me.
So today I just want to talk about that.
I just want you to reflect on that.
And as always,
Not here telling you what to do.
I'm sharing with you my journey in life as a human being that knows something deeply helpful,
True and life-changing and transformational about being a human,
And that is that I am part of the universal energy taking form as Liz,
And I get lost in thoughts.
Like,
I know that to be absolutely true.
And as I trundle along this journey of being human,
I come up against stuff.
And for me today,
My reflection is about that inner tangle sometimes,
About trusting that intuition and wisdom when it's up against what other people are saying or what the culture is saying is right,
When something within me knows that it's not quite right.
And I'm just curious whether that resonates for you.
This isn't to make you right or wrong.
It's just to be curious.
So let me know your reflections on that.
Do you ever come up against that yourself,
That little inner tangle about what is right or wrong.
And let me know your reflections.
And of course,
Don't forget to join me again tomorrow for another five minutes in nature.
