Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott up on Dartmoor in a mist.
A mist has come down and it reminds me a little bit of a sea mist.
There's a real cold edge to it and there's wetness in it as well and the hillside above me is draped in this cloud of white so it's very hard to see through it and I can't see the top of the hill at all and it feels so different from some of the warmer weather we've had recently where the sun has broken through and spring feels like it's on the verge of breaking out.
Today it feels like everything has retreated and I know the feeling I want to go home and light a fire.
It's got an edge of winter still holding on and today's reflection is about the power of looking within.
Looking within to your inner diamond.
That's a metaphor I use when I work with people to explain that within us all there is a diamond of love,
Peace,
Wisdom,
Compassion.
In fact it's not just within us it's within everybody and it's not that everybody has got their own little diamond.
We are all part of the same energy that takes form through us.
We are made of peace,
Love and wisdom and what I've realized is the power of looking towards that part of me rather than trying to fix things and it's the same with the clients that I work with or the friends that I speak to.
Helping them see that part of them that is constant,
Is ever-present,
Is love itself.
That is the most powerful place to look and many people are looking for fixes.
They're looking to change themselves.
They're looking to get a tool or technique to manage life and yet when you look within that can sometimes just completely dissolve the problem in front of you.
There's a coaching client I'm speaking to at the moment who expressed this very thing that she had this problem or this thing that she had going on with her partner and she didn't even mention it in the coaching and as she looked within,
Looked towards her inner diamond,
Her true nature,
Her true self,
She came to the next session and said you know what everything seems so much better with my partner at the moment and I haven't done anything specifically to make it better.
It just feels better and that is the nature of what happens as we look to the truth of who we are.
Well that actually dissolves the thoughts and the fears and the stories that we have.
It's almost like the warmth of who we truly are can dissolve those stories.
A bit like if the sun came out now it would dissolve the mist.
I remember years ago my experience of this was when we went traveling with our dog.
One year we were keen cyclists and we decided to get a dog carrier so the dog could come with us on a cycling trip and he was being pulled along in a chariot.
We used to call it his chariot.
We used to you know take him with us because we loved him so much and he just loved being with us.
But I remember before we went in previous years when I'd gone on a cycling trip with my husband I had spent weeks worrying,
In deep worry about what might go wrong,
What accident might befall us and for two weeks before we went cycling I would wake up in the night and worry about the problems ahead and started to question whether we should go at all.
And so on this particular year when we decided to take our dog with us I kind of braced myself for the same experience.
I was expecting to feel really worried and concerned about going on a cycling trip and also having the added concern of taking our dog with us.
But this time there was no worry and it was almost strange because there was an absence of worry in the run-up to the trip and the difference was that I was exploring the three principles and what I was doing as I looked within,
As I found a presence of true nature within me that it was dissolving some of the stories that I just thought were part and parcel of who I was and this was one of them.
And that's why it's so important to look within because what I found is that as I look towards my true nature and see and feel who I truly am,
Stories seem to spontaneously dissolve and I have no power over which ones go and which ones don't but they just seem to go.
So my request to you is that you look within.
You start to really feel a sense of who you truly are and then see what seems to change in your life.
Let me know your thoughts and join me again tomorrow for another Five Minutes in Nature.
