Take A Walk With Nick

Hi, folks, how you doing? My name is Nick the poet. Thank you so much for taking a walk with me today. I got a poem that I wrote sometime last year, and it goes like this. Nowhere to go, nothing to figure out. That's not what life is about, nor is it about gathering clout or the fastest route to the top. I feel heavy today. The ray of sun missed my soul or I blocked it or something got stuck. But the key is to not try too hard to get it back. Just give it a way to get it back. As Lao Tzu says, stop thinking and end your problems.

And so I had this interesting thought about thinking based on a video I was watching earlier today that explained it. Luke, thank you so much for joining and getting some steps in. I hope it's sunny where you are at as well. I just shared a poem, a little bit about thinking. And so Lao Tzu was a guy who basically wrote this book thousands of years ago called the Tao Day Qing. And I may be pronouncing that wrong, but it's basically this amazing text that has all kinds of cool quotes in it. And one of them is stop thinking and end your problems.

And I've always liked that quote because it's like, we know that our thoughts can, you know, create problems in our lives, but I never thought about the difference between thoughts and thinking. Right. So thoughts we really don't have a lot of control over. We all have thoughts that pop into our head all day. Oftentimes they're the same thoughts. Oftentimes they're negative thoughts. Right. And so, and I have this, this line of poetry from a long time ago that goes, Carrie, thank you for joining as well.

And the poem went like this and said, the thing about the mind is that when it's on the grind, it might never stop. And I think we can all relate to that feeling where our thoughts are available to us. We can use meditation. We can have conversation with a friend. We can make art. We can do all these different things to stop that repetitive thinking process. Yeah, the bind of the grind. Carrie, that's never a fun thing. Hey, junk food junkie, greetings from Orioles park at the Camden yard. Oh, baseball sees it.

Let's go. If you haven't checked out the Reggie Jackson documentary on Amazon prime, check that out. Mister October. So amazing learning about him. But I'm going to try to stay generally on top of here. So let me know if you have any thoughts about thoughts, you know, because that's a lot of what, what wellness is, is learning how to manage our thoughts. And it's like, there's so many different ways to do it. There's so many different tools out there. And I think it's just important to. To practice these and see, you know, what we can get better at.

You know, one thing that helps me, too, is like, just going for a walk like this, right, is going to get me out of that repetitive thinking habit and not thinking about myself as much, because that's a lot of times the problem, you know, is we're thinking about ourselves too much and we get stuck in that repetitive thinking. So do anything you can. Like Carrie asks, how do you stop the negative thoughts? That's such a great, great thing. You know, I think that it's difficult to think your way out of your thinking.

So I think some kind of action needs to be taken. So maybe it's taking a walk. One of the greatest things is that we can try to think of someone else and be of service to them. And, you know, as soon as I do that, then it pulls me out of that negative thinking, you know, exercise. And then it can also be, I think, important not to deny the negative thinking. You know, there's such thing as what's called toxic positivity, where we want to be really positive. But if we're having these negative thoughts, if we just jam them down, then I think they come up in some way.

So I have that other expression of lack of expression can lead to depression. So we need to express those thoughts in some way. For me, I love doing poetry. Alec, welcome to the live stream. How you doing, brother? Just building on some of last week's content. We're talking about thinking and how to stop negative thoughts. Junk food junkie. Good call out. No hot dogs today. Okay, guys, so that's a little bit about thinking. I'd love to hear your thoughts about how you stop thinking. You could email me nhansonadre IO.

How do you stop that negative thinking? Or how do you transform your negative thinking into positive thinking? So, okay, moving on to the next topic. Last week, I talked a little bit about this book called the Untethered Soul by Michael Singer about opening your heart space up. And this was a concept that I ran into about three years ago and was really amazed with, is this like. And it's tied into the thinking. We're always thinking these thoughts with our mind, but we have this whole other center, and that's in our heart, right.

And if we can tap into that, we get a whole new set of thoughts. So I'm always asking you know, naturally, what does my mind think about it? But just try asking yourself, you know, about a situation, about a problem. You know, you can put your hand on your heart and just ask, you know, what do you think about it, heart? And it feels funny, you know, it feels really funny to do at first, but just try breathing into that heart space. And the heart chakra is green, so if you're into chakras at all, you can picture it spinning a green kind of orb, spinning counterclockwise or clockwise and just feel that heart space and just.

And just ask, what do you think about this, you know? Yeah, it's like, do we make the decisions with our heart or head? And I think it's like, it's both. You know? It's like, how can we combine that thinking? I just know that if I'm acting from that open heart space, then things just work out. But if I'm thinking too much about it, then it doesn't. But it can be scary because we're so used to using our thoughts to make decisions. It's like, can I give, you know, some control to my heart to lead in making decisions?

And I think it's about starting really small. We don't have to be like, we're gonna just, you know, just totally live from the heart all the time. You know, that would be amazing. And I think it's possible and something to aim for, but as soon as we find ourselves going back into that fearful thinking, take a moment, pause, and just tap into that heart space. And I need my science people to confirm this, but apparently the heart is 60 times stronger than the mind. And I think there's. There's some truth that on next week's take a walk, I will, I will.

I will get that back to you. Give the heart some control. Yeah, that's. That's. And it's also like, how can we bring the heart, you know, to the mind? They say the longest walk is from the head to the heart. And so it's like, yeah, and then we got the gut, too, which is. This is. Guys, this is a really big topic. I think that needs to be expanded on. Have to ask some of the other Cadre creators about, because then there is the gut, too. There's that intuition that we have. And, you know, for me, it's like the gut sometimes that's where a lot of the fear and anxiety resides, you know, as well.

And so it's like, for me, you know, I. The heart space seems to be, you know, the most comfortable space to operate from. So let's talk to some of the other creators about this because this is a massive topic. And Jungfoo junkie says sometimes we need to get out of our head of overthinking and listen to our heart. That's going to simplify. It always helps me to simplify things because I'm looking at some trees up here with a bunch of branches. That's my mind. It goes from all these different things that are popping up, and I have to just bring it back to the moment and just ask, what would someone who loves themselves do next?

You know, I think is another great question. Keep coming back to the moment. Back to the moment. And it's a practice. And you know what? It's kind of a pain in the b*** when we know that we're dealing with negative thinking or our minds are bothering us. But, like, in my experience, it is just about that. Getting a little bit better with it every day. You know, it's hard to make, like, a massive, massive leap in one moment, you know, to a totally positive way thinking. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I'm just saying my experience has been this kind of slowly getting better with it.

And you know what? I'm okay with that. I'm okay with it because sometimes we're only ready for a certain, you know, amount of growth. And, and so that's, that's another interesting question I'd love to get people's thoughts on. Do you believe in the kind of Tony Robbins method where everything can shift, you know, right now, or do you believe in the, is slower progress better? And I think it's different for everyone in different realms. So we're getting all kinds of good stuff going today. So I just wanted to close with a couple more poems about this.

And so this is a poem I wrote a while ago, and it says, don't view it from your mind with its buckets of lost time. View it with your heart, which always looks at things like a fresh start. So our slow stage, okay. Kerry says slow change sticks more. I think there's, there's something to that, like that, that slow progress. And it's also like, when we're making that progress together, right? We might go slower, but it's gonna have more of a resonant effect. So anyways, I got one more poem to close the day for you, and this is a good one for us because we had a lot of questions come up and I think they're amazing questions.

And so it goes like this. Live the question and you will grab grow into the answer. That's a poet named Rilke who said that. Let go of your perfectionism and become one with the loving ways of the universe. That's a poet called Nick who said that one freedom is a blessing or a curse based on what you put your attention on before ending up in a hearse. Every time I sought to gain for myself I endured a slow drop of energy until my spirit dripped to a halt and I had to make a roundabout and walk down to the river and begin to float.

Catching blackberries from the trees in my mouth, I looked at the sky and said thank you. Right? And so that poem to me is just saying when I'm trying too hard and I'm stuck in my head and you know, maybe feeling that dread that I've got to just hop out of bed and say thank you, right? Because gratitude always, always is is the answer, right? Gratitude and love is always is what's going to propel us to the next thing. And I can't do it all the time. And I think like Kerry said, it's the slow change, right?

So like let's just maybe start like the movie. What about Bob with Bill Murray? We're just take baby steps with this, you know. Don't feel like you have to live the rest of the day. Just say like, okay, what is my heart feeling right now? What, what little shift can I make? What can I notice that I wouldn't ordinarily notice? So take that and run with it. I hope you have an awesome rest of the day. Let's keep going. Let's be peaceful, positive and prosperous together while always remembering that we still have a lot of work to do, but we're gonna do it together.

Okay? Let's go. Bye, everybody.