Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
Ah,
This is lovely,
Just sitting,
Having a little bit of a break,
Overlooking the moorland.
I'm actually looking down towards South Brent,
Which is the village nestled in the hill.
It's about three miles from my home and it looks very snug and comfortable as though it's kind of in its bed in the valley below me.
And I'm going to be heading on back soon,
Just getting a bit of air whilst the sun is out and it's not too cold.
And do you remember yesterday I told you about my friend who took her camper van out and she went down to the seafront with a camper van and a note.
And she put a note outside her camper van for three days,
Which the note outside the camper van said something along the lines of,
You know,
If you're feeling like you've got problems and you want to be shown a different way to look at your problems,
Come in for a chat.
And yesterday we were talking about the way that nudges come.
She was given a nudge to do this and when the nudge comes,
Often it comes with a lot of insecure thinking as well and she had a lot of unsettled thinking,
Questioning what she was doing.
And it didn't help that for the first two days nobody came to talk to her.
So on the third day,
As I explained yesterday,
There was a couple that came and had a conversation with her and it seemed to really help them.
And when they left,
She went home and she didn't have a nudge then to go back with the camper van to the seafront again.
And one of the things that I find really interesting about the stories is if you had a logical mind,
You might go,
Well,
If she was meant to speak to those two people,
Why didn't the nudge just come on the one day when the two people were there and why wasn't anyone going to come to the van?
Like,
Was she misinterpreting the nudge?
Is the nudge not working properly that she went on three occasions and it was only on one day she spoke to somebody?
Like,
What's going on?
I mean,
I can understand that.
But you see,
I think if you apply logic to nudges,
Then you're in the wrong starting place because it's not down to the intellect and logic as to how and why we do things,
Like follow nudges.
There's something else going on energetically and there's a lot that we don't even understand.
And I know for sure that when she told the story of how she went down to the seafront with her camper van to listen to people,
It was the story that she went on two occasions before the final occasion when someone came and talked with her that for me has the biggest impact.
Because she was following her nudges and she followed them anyway.
And in a way,
She didn't have an idea of the outcome.
She didn't know what the outcome was.
And the truth is we don't know.
We don't know whether part of the nudge was that she would then relate this story,
I would listen into this story and be inspired and tell you.
And it might be that there were people that passed the sign that she had outside her van at the seafront who didn't go in to see her but were inspired by what she was doing.
We just don't know why someone follows nudges and what those nudges are for.
And one of the dangers of following a nudge is that you think you know what the outcome is.
I followed this nudge,
Therefore this happened.
But we're not looking at cause and effect in the way that we look at it in the physical world.
Nudges work in a different way.
They're an experiential knowing to do something.
They don't come from the busyness of the mind.
They come from some other place.
And what I'd love you to reflect on today is the power of following a nudge even though you don't even know why you followed it in the first place.
Maybe it was a nudge to turn left rather than right.
Maybe it was a nudge to smile at somebody walking on the street.
Maybe it was a nudge to send a text to someone.
Maybe it was a nudge to walk into a particular shop.
We do not know why we follow the nudge.
And I just want to say that nudges come from a different place than agitated thinking.
If you're in an agitated space where you think I should do something,
I must do this,
This is what I should do,
This is my job,
That's not a nudge.
A nudge is an inexplicable feeling knowing that seems to come from within.
So I hope that helps you when it comes to understanding a bit more about nudges.
And really what I want you to learn from this is that just because you follow a nudge doesn't mean that a certain outcome is going to occur.
You don't know,
We don't know what is the purpose of following a nudge.
All we need do is trust it and follow it.
