Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
Well I haven't gone far,
I'm actually in my back garden.
I'm not even fully in my back garden,
I'm sheltering.
There's a very soft misty rain that's come in.
It sounds really strange but I call it wet rain.
It's tiny tiny little drizzly bits of rain that get right into your clothes.
But I'm hoping that this rain is perfect for what's needed in the gardens because everything has been pretty dry this year.
So soft rain rather than heavy short sharp showers of rain I think is what the ground needs.
And that's why I'm not gone far.
I'm sort of half sheltering as I speak to you and I just wanted to follow on really from yesterday because do you remember we were talking about that metaphor of the cinema and I want to expand on that and share a quote with you that really helps me.
The cinema yesterday we looked at was to say you know when you realize that your life is going to be full of ups and downs,
Highs and lows,
Lots of different emotions.
Emotions you might think are positive like happiness and excitement and ones you might think of as negative like sadness or depression.
When you actually realize that you're not meant to be given any one particular emotion to experience all the time.
We're not meant to be happy,
Happy,
Happy,
Happy all the time.
When you realize that it makes such a difference.
It means you step into the emotions that you feel and you just realize that they're part of what it is to be human.
Like today is a bit of a old wet day.
I might prefer it drier so I can go walking but actually the weather just does its thing.
It's just good to realize that and yesterday we explored this idea that when you realize as a human being it's a bit like when you go to a cinema.
When you realize you're meant to experience all the feelings that you feel.
That's the nature of what it is to be human.
That you're meant to have challenges in life.
It's metaphorically a bit like going to watch a film.
When you watch a film you want to experience a range of emotions.
You want to lose yourself in the film.
You want to forget that you are a person watching the film and yet a part of you always knows that you're safe.
You are the one watching the film in the cinema.
Isn't that good to know?
And there's a quote which I'd love to share which takes this on.
It's from a chap called Sidney Banks and Sidney Banks was the man who articulated the three principles.
It's also known as the inside out understanding and it's something that's really supported me in my development.
If you're interested I've got a course on insight timer called an introduction to the three principles.
You might find that interesting to take a look at.
But Sidney Banks had this quote which is one of his best known quotes and it goes something like this.
If the only thing that people realized was not to be afraid of their own experience that alone would change the world.
Let me repeat it.
If the only thing that people realized was not to be afraid of their own experience then that alone would change the world.
Certainly for me this is the difference I have experienced when it comes to living my life.
The three principles is not a technique or tool.
It's not it doesn't offer you anything to do or to believe in or to take on board.
The three principles is just another way of pointing you towards the truth of who you are and as far as I'm aware every religion and philosopher that I've come across is pointing to the same thing.
It's pointing you back to you being part of the energy,
The loving,
Wise energy of life itself,
Consciousness itself,
The root source of all things,
All potential.
Some people might call it God but at the heart and core of who you are you are made of the stuff of God.
Now if you are made of this stuff,
If you are made of the energy of consciousness itself then and you see that and feel it not just believe it as an idea or concept but you you get a sense of it.
You see that there is something unchanging in you.
If you experience that yourself,
If you get a feel for it then life ceases to be frightening because you realize it's a bit like being at the cinema,
You're watching a film.
That's why I keep pointing you within,
Point you towards your inner compass.
Keep looking within,
Keep looking for that settled space of awareness within you and when you stand in that and see that and experience that for yourself you will see the truth in the quote.
If the only thing that people realized was not to be afraid of their own experience that alone would change the world.
