What Doesn't Change - May 14

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What Doesn't Change - May 14

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Beneath every shifting mood, there's something in us that never changes. In today's 5 Minutes In Nature, Liz sits in her garden watching flowers bloom and fade, and finds a gentle reminder of the steady, ever-present space within us all..

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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 out and about in my back garden. It's a bit of a drizzly rainy old day and in a little while I'm going to go out for a walk taking a neighbor's dog out which I'm really looking forward to but when I go out I'm going to wrap myself up in waterproofs and make sure I stay completely dry and I'm not going to take my microphone with me because it'll be too wet but I thought I would just pop out into the garden just to share five minutes with you today and today's reflection is all about the consistency of inconsistency and another way to put it is about looking for that which is constant beneath that which is inconsistent that which is wavering that which is changeable what is unchanging amongst that which changes and there's no better place to look for this than in nature and here in my back garden I've got it's a tiny little garden but I've got a mixture of flowers and plants and herbs and lettuces growing and coming up at the back of the garden are some very striking white arum lilies and they're just coming through now and dying back in the garden are the tulips and the primroses that have been absolutely a burst of color during spring nature is a place to look when you're looking for that which is ever-changing looking at what's growing what's flourishing what's blooming and what's dying back that nothing stays the same in nature there's always growth there's always things dying back and yet if you look beneath all that to nature to the energy of life you find consistency because there is an energy of nature that is the creative force from which everything emerges and then falls back so whilst there is on the surface great inconsistency beneath the surface there is constancy and it's the same with our emotions and our states of mind they are ever-changing they are like the garden here sometimes there are flowers blooming and sometimes there are petals falling sometimes there are plants growing sometimes they are dying back and that's the same with our our emotions one day I might feel frustrated or angry and the next day I'm feeling excited and elated and even from hour to hour if I look back on an hour sometimes I'm feeling as though nobody loves me and other times I feel as though I'm in the flow and I'm a creative force always there are changes in my state of mind always even the intensity of one moment of feeling sad or low might change in the intensity of the feeling my state of mind is in a place and state of constant change and so if I want to look for consistency or that which is unchangeable I don't look for it in my state of mind I look beyond it I look beneath it I look within and it is within within that space of the energy behind life that divine energy it's in that space that I find something that is unchanging and for me that unchanging space is hard to put into words it's the awareness of who I am that awareness of being and when I bring my awareness to that space of being aware of being I feel a sense of peacefulness of eternity a space of something that's unchanging of something that's constant something that is innately nourishing so today is just a reminder that in a world that is ever changing there is a space beneath it that is constant and for me it is bringing my awareness to that space of that which is constant who I truly am that inner space that is ever-present awareness that is the most nourishing place to put my attention let me know your reflections on this and don't forget to join me again tomorrow for another five minutes in nature