The Power Of Now

Hey, folks, how you doing today? My name is Nick the poet. Welcome to my live stream. I hope that you are having a very good week. Can't believe it's already Thursday. And, yeah, so I just wanted to talk today about the power of now. And if you're anything like me, it's difficult to stay in the now. I am sometimes a fearful and anxious person, and so that can take me out of the now. You know, sometimes I feel like that deer that's on, you know, like the side of the forest. There's a big field. They're about to run out there, but they're looking around, you know, should I do it?

Should I not? Hey, Dan, how's it going? Just talking about the. The power of now. And definitely check out Dan's lives if you want the power of now in the kitchen. m. Central every day, Sunday dinner with Dan. So Dan and everybody else who's listening, I'm just talking about the power of now and how difficult it can sometimes be to stay there. And so I wanted to open today with a poem that I wrote a while ago that helps me to get in the now. And it goes like this. One in 4 trillion chance of being alive.

I thought this as I gazed at the sunrise in the sky. What a miracle. My mind and its buckets of lost times and fears about the future can distract from the fact that life is amazing. I've learned that all is well in the heart from the start. The unconditional path of happiness lays before us all. Sometimes we survive, sometimes we strive, sometimes we thrive. Bird by bird we go and embrace the flow. Let go of your perfectionism and become one with the loving ways of the universe. Bless a thing and it becomes a blessing.

Curse a thing and it becomes a curse. Reimburse your doubt and invest in faith. Take a bath in bliss and kiss the sky and cry tears of joy at the ecstasy of being alive. Strive, survive, strive, thrive together. Okay, so that's my poem for you today. And it is a little dramatic, but I sometimes need that, you know, drama to remind me that it is, you know, really a great blessing to be alive, no matter what is going on. And I. And, you know, in the difficult times, it's much more difficult to do that.

And I have a friend who says, is there anything that you can't handle right now? Is there anything you can't handle right now? And it's important for me to ask that question, you know, keep bringing it back to the present moment, because we're living in a time and a world where there's a lot of uncertainty. And it's so easy to get catapulted into the future and worry, and it's equally easy to get caught in the past, you know, and it's buckets of lost time and worry about this, worry about that. But if we can just keep bringing it back to the present moment, and that seems to be what a lot of the great, you know, teachers have, have taught about.

And Eckhart Tolle obviously has an amazing book called the power of now that I would check out. And I really like the writings and teachings of Wayne Dyer as well. But anywhere you look, it kind of keeps saying, like, take it easy, bring it back to the moment, you know? And so just a couple ways that you can, that you can practice this. I'm just going to throw these out there for you. You know, one is meditation. You know, spend a few times in the morning meditating, spend a few minutes in the afternoon, and it doesn't have to look like, necessarily like you sitting down and being totally silent.

That could be, that could be very good. It could be, you know, going on the Cadre app and listening to a great meditation from Evan the counselor or J. Brennan Matu. Both of those guys have awesome, awesome meditations right on here that have helped me, you know, much. Number two is exercise often, right? If you want to change a thought, sometimes you have to move a muscle. So if you're caught in that loop of thinking, you might need to just go outside and take a walk. Maybe you need to stand up at your desk and do ten squats, do a few push ups.

Whatever it takes to kind of change that mode of thinking that's taking us out, because I know with the fear, for me, it can become like a tunnel. And I get trapped in this fear tunnel, and I'm only. And I'm, and I'm. And I'm stuck there, right. But what can get me out of that and expand my awareness are some of these tools. You know, these tools that we can use. Number three is make time for hobbies and activities that you enjoy. You know, whether that's cooking, you know, maybe it's playing golf, maybe it's going for a walk with friends, maybe it's going fishing.

And it can be tough, you know, to, to decompress like that and to unplug. But I think it's absolutely crucial to being able to come back and bring that renewed presence to our work and to our life and to our family and to our loved ones and our friends. So these are just a few tips and I would also say like don't beat yourself up if you're anything like me. It's really difficult to stay in the present moment a lot of the time. So if we can just get a tiny bit better at it, if we can just make a little bit of progress on it, that's going to have a really an exponential lift you know, to our day.

So don't get caught in that quicksand. Go lightly. Don't get caught in the undertow of thoughts. It's so easy to do. I do it every day but just gently pull yourself back up, you know, and keep going. You've got this. You've got this. Let's all be peaceful, positive and prosperous together while remembering that we have a lot of work to do but we're going to do it together. That's what Cadre does. Okay. Bye guys. It.