Hi and welcome to the Three Cups Full
blog. I'm Sharanya Naidoo and I'm a life coach. At Three Cups Full we talk
about love, acceptance, and respect and when those three cups are full we gain
access to a dimension of fullness that allows us to live life in accordance
with the path of our soul. The path of our soul unfolds before us as we
step-by-step follow the guidance from our inner voice. And our inner voice is
best heard when we have trained our mind to be our own best friend so today we're
talking about I'm talking about nature and the relationship it has to our intuition
and the role that nature plays in that relationship. So Sunday in Melbourne was
the most beautiful day that a Melbourne person can experience. The weather was
just perfect, it was really warm it was just so still and the outdoors
was pulling us out to finally play with nature. It's been a freezing winter in
Melbourne and finally the sun has come out. So my husband and I found
ourselves by a local reserve and there's a river there and we just
kind of parked our picnic blanket and rested while we're sitting there reading
our books and eating some food. Everyone was out and about. There were people
walking their dogs and little children playing and families having barbecues. It
was just a beautiful beautiful day. What we experienced was this, as we
always do when we're in nature, just this peace that just washes over us and it
almost washes away the stress of the week. And we've found lately that this is
not just something that we need to do once in a while or when we have time
it's become something that we
have to do. We have to go out and spend time in nature. We have to just reset, we
have to commune with ourselves whilst in nature. This is this is new to us because
we would just go out into nature once in a while and it was beautiful and we'd
have a wonderful experience and then we'd come back home. And what we would
normally do to connect and to communicate without inner self
is meditate and meditating is just part of our life but it was always
indoors. It was always on a cushion indoors and lately as I said nature's
just been pulling us out. It's not just the weather because since we got back
from Costa Rica we've been going out into nature even on a rainy day
miserable cold wet rainy day we just take the car and park it in the middle
of a reserve surrounded by trees and just read in the car and that's enough
to just bring us back into a place of stillness and peace. So a few weeks ago I
shared some some thoughts in a blog post that was just written it wasn't a video
and I was sharing a few experiences that I've had in nature that were really
profound, simple but profound. And the one that I wanted to talk more about today
happened a few years ago when I was at a writer's retreat in the mountains near
near Melbourne and it was a nature writing retreat. So we were learning how
to use nature as the portal to our own creative expression. It was a beautiful
course and one of the days we found ourselves out walking amongst the trees
and surrounded with this beautiful wildlife. And our teacher said find a
place, find a tree actually, and sit by that tree.
Just tune in and just be still and be quiet and just listen and then just
write without stopping. I found this
beautiful beautiful large tree sat by it and from me just came this this gorgeous
poem. It just flowed through me and it was it was so beautiful that I can't
take credit for it. It just flew through me onto the page and after I'd written
the poem I was just being with the tree. Just in stillness. And I place my hand on
the trunk and I I just felt this what I can only describe as a portal where I
just got pulled into this space of stillness. And it's what Eckhart Tolle
talks about experiencing, an experience that you can have a nature is that it is
a portal into stillness. And that's what I experienced, I think it was the
first time ever I can't remember ever having that kind of experience before.
And what happened was I entered this place of stillness that was so full
every part of my being felt full of love, pure love, unconditional love. And any
part of me that felt like I needed to work on it or
improve upon it any part of my personality or character that needed
attention and transforming it it just dissolved. I just recognised it as -
that's just a creation of my own ego needing to be better and do better. And
this fullness was so overpowering and and at the same time quite gentle
that I remember thinking to myself when I was experiencing this- I don't even
need food. I don't need to eat. I don't even need to talk to people. I don't need
people. I don't need anything like it was just this expansive feeling of oneness
that there is nothing incomplete about the very existence that I was
experiencing. It was it was so simple but so profound and I I was there for a few
minutes. It wasn't long. It was just a few minutes and I actively pulled
myself out of it. I could have stayed there forever
and then I'd just be speaking from a mountaintop forever but I actively
pulled myself out of it because it scared the crap out of me. I was like
- what do you mean you can't eat anymore? Like my mind just kicked in I was like -
what do you mean you can't eat anymore? You don't want to talk to people? - you're
married to a person you need to go talk to him once in a while. It just scared me.
This feeling of, it wasn't the fullness that scared me but it was the
feeling of the idea of not needing anything in society anymore.
Like not needing anything anymore. I just was like how do I exist from that
place? I had no strategy, no idea how to keep that feeling and then continue
living my life. it was just such a jarring experience, or thought, that I
couldn't reconcile it and so I pulled myself out. I was like okay I'm back to
normal let's go get lunch. I have remembered that feeling. I remember it
like it was just a moment ago. It was everything that I think all of us seek,
and in that moment I stopped being a seeker but I I felt found. I felt full. I
felt like instead of continually transforming,
transformed. It was done. And nature has that power if we meet it. If
we allow it. It has that power to bring us back to our soul, back to our
stillness. It is so so powerful and it can be the simplest thing of just
looking at a flower that's in a garden that's in even in our house. It can be the
the smallest little touch of nature that can pull us back into that space of
stillness. And so actually I practised it from from that moment on. Whenever I'd
have flowers in the house and just sitting outside I've got a beautiful
vista here of beautiful lime green trees and purple flowers so just sitting
outside in nature and just connecting with these beautiful creations of
consciousness can pull me back into that space and over time because this is
about I think was two years ago or three years ago that this happened I've found
ways to bring that fullness and stillness into my life so that I can be
with it. But that first moment was like a jolt. It was a shock to the system of
have a taste, just a taste, and then figure out how to allow it to stay. So
this week I invite you to connect with nature in a way that allows you to feel
the space within you that connects to nature. Not the conceptual
dialogue that we normally have when we're with nature, "that's a beautiful
tree, that's a gorgeous flower". You know those are just labels, those are just
words, the name of the tree an oak tree or
the rose flower. They're just the conceptual ideas of how we make sense of what we're
looking at. But when we just get rid of all those words and thoughts and just
sit there with the presence of that beautiful burst of consciousness. Allow
it if you can to just be a portal for you to feel the stillness within you
that's already there. Nature, in whatever form is in front of you, just gives you
that string that pulls you back into that place - out of your
mind - and into the stillness within you. It's not giving you anything it's just
allowing you to experience yourself as part of nature, as part of a beautiful
burst of consciousness, you are that as well. And so nature, trees, flowers, grass,
the river, all these all these beautiful expressions that we find in nature allow
us to find the stillness within ourselves by connecting to what we're looking at.
And from looking at it we then go into a deeper experience of it and we can feel
the presence of the essence that's inside that tree, that's inside that
flower, that's within the waters, and we can feel that part of ourselves awakened
within us. It is the most beautiful feeling. It can be terrifying as I
said it can be really terrifying but that fullness is home. It's what we
come back to, it's what we're all seeking for really with that
incompleteness that that pushes us to to want more and more and more is the
creation of the mind and the ego but when we step out of that and into the
space of where our soul exists, everything is complete. And from there,
growth and expansion are a natural occurrence.
It's an unfolding, the impulse has come, we step forward on to the next step
in the path and it unfolds in front of us. It's not a struggle, it's not difficult.
It's challenging because we're doing things we haven't done before but it's
not painful. It's just an adventure. So that's my invitation
this week: connect to nature in a way that pulls you into a portal, into a
dimension of stillness, and just notice what arises within you. Notice what you
experience. That's all for this week. I will see you all next week
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