JC guides a morning reflection on choosing presence, explaining how being where you are becomes a source of power and opportunity, and revisits tools like thin space, enoughness, and simple metaphors to notice change.
JC opens the video with a warm morning greeting, asks how viewers are doing, and notes that people may be joining live or later in the weekend. He also reassures returning members that they’re exactly where they should be.
JC explains that being where you are is neither platitude nor passive positivity but a real source of power and opportunity. He introduces himself for new viewers and affirms that choosing to be present is part of seeking wellness.
He connects the idea of 'this moment' to Katy Perry’s song, uses metaphors like fish and frogs to illustrate noticing change, and reviews concepts he’s shared before such as thin space and enoughness as tools to anchor into the present.
Hey, good morning cadre. How are we doing? It is a sunny Saturday where I am and I'm itching my leg. That's why I'm a little bit closer to the screen. OK, done itching my leg. How are we doing? I hope you're doing great. It is maybe early for you on a Saturday if you have time to go ahead and be softer or Stiller. Then maybe on other mornings, maybe you've already been up and going and you're not even watching this in real time, but you're watching it in replay sometime later in the weekend. The good news is, is everybody does what they do and the way that they do it.
Andy Mack, how are you, dear friend? Nice to see you. It's been a little while. The cool thing is, even if it's been a little while since you've jumped into the cadre sphere, you're always exactly where you're supposed to be. And you've always been exactly where you're supposed to be in the interim since you've been here last. And that's not a pat on the head. That's not a glass half full. It's you're always where you are in this life. And that's where you got power. That's where you have opportunity.
That's where you're going to be nourished. If you've never shared time and space together before, my name's JC. I'm here every single darn day doing exactly this, reminding you that there's lots of ways to be well and that that you walking into this space is great evidence that you are seeking that to be well. Mel, nice to see you. It is quite amazing. It's quite amazing to go ahead and get to jump into this space again and again and again and go, this is where we are. This is what we're doing. There's a lovely, lovely song by Katy Perry called This Moment.
And it's one of the first time I heard it, I was like, oh yeah, this is another way of saying the same thing. That this is the moment, this is the moment that we're in, which whenever anybody has the power to remind others that, Hey, we're doing it. This moment. This is the moment that we're doing. It feels good. Because all of a sudden you realize that we're doing this moment together. We're doing this moment with the sunshine that we're seeing and the air that we're breathing. But also there's something powerful about You know, it's like, does the fish know they're in the water in a more tumultuous way?
Does the frog who's sitting in the pot of boiling water and then it heats up, you know, they don't sense the change of temperature. Like, how could they know that? What do they need? What's the little tap on the shoulder that that works right now that maybe it wouldn't work the next time you tap them on their shoulder? But there is great, great power. in continuing to figure out the puzzle of placing yourself in the moment that you're in. So often on Sunday mornings for a long time here in Cadre today, I would talk about this idea of thin space, this idea of being in between all the things that have been and all the things that will be.
And, you know, quite often on Saturdays, I talk about this idea of enoughness that, you know, you saying right now in this moment, I am indeed enough. These are different ways that I've figured out throughout the years of going, Huh, these are little tools that I can use, and sometimes they work and sometimes they don't, to do the same thing. And that is to go, I'm going to be right here. So right now, me talking about being right here with the people I'm with, hopefully is inviting you to go, You know what, I'm right here too.
this moment I have... I have this day. I have this moment. I have the blanket or the cup of coffee or the fur baby or the family member. That place is right here. I have this cough. Right now I have this cough and I probably won't have this cough forever so I better appreciate this cough because it'll sooner or later leave. Hopefully sooner rather than later. But give a listen to that Katy Perry song called This Moment and see if it brings you to a place. I used that song 10 years ago this October to kick off this big movement of movement experiences that I created.
Our first one was in right field at Target Field where the Minnesota Twins play. We had a thousand people gather, a thousand strangers who did not know each other. And that was the song that played as I started to lead people through movement. And every time I hear that song, I go back to that. Not back to ten years ago, but back to the feeling of like, we are all right here right now. And so I tell you, you are right here, right now. And that's pretty great. Y'all have a good one. We'll see you tomorrow.
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