Take A Walk With Nick

Hi folks, how you doing? Nick the poet here. Welcome to my live stream. Take a walk with Nick. Thank you so much for taking the time to be with me today. And maybe you want to pick the phone up and go for a little walk as well. Maybe you want to do a loop around your kitchen. Maybe you want to do a few jumping jack. Jumping jacks, not jumping jackets. Because we move a muscle sometimes we change our emotions. Beautiful sunny day here today, which is amazing. And just wanted to share some thoughts and poems that I've been thinking about for the past couple of weeks.

Some of these poems are older, some of these thoughts are newer. So yeah, one thing to think about is reach for a better thought. So oftentimes our first thought is not the greatest. It might be filled with fear, it might be filled with anxiety. Yes, Doctor Carey, the beautiful blue sky is definitely popping today. The trees are blooming as well. So just talking about reaching for a better thought, that first one can be fearful and anxious. So it's great to see, you know, can we find a better thought?

And then also just asking ourselves like what if things went amazing? You know, our minds, I think, are geared towards seeing the negative, seeing the possibilities of fear and negativity. But what if we just asked ourselves, what if it all just turned out amazing? What if everything is totally okay? What if all is well? And these are empowering questions that we can ask ourselves and begin just kind of shifting that state a little bit. I heard another Cadre collaborator, I can't remember his name.

He's a newer collaborator, so. Good. And he said a great affirmation for him is I expect an outstanding result here. You know, how often do we go into situations with trepidation and he's saying I expect an amazing result, I expect an outstanding result. And I've been using that and it's been really, really helpful. So, yeah, and then when this fear and anxiety does come up, you know, sometimes we need to invite it in and we need to see what it has to teach us. You know, I'm oftentimes running from them, but sometimes we need to listen, you know, and oftentimes what we're fearful about, you know, that thought that's arising, you know, maybe we need to investigate it and see what's at the root of it, you know, and see what it has to teach us and how we can grow from it.

So another thought is that there's no need to hurry and there's no need to worry. Right. I'm always hurried and worried, but there's really no need to do it. If we just tackle the next task that we have, the next thing we have to do and bring as much of an open heart and love to it, we're going to be okay. We're going to be taken care of. We can trust that. And then between expansiveness and despair, there's a middle road that I walk. So it's better for me if I stay calm and take it easy and try to take that middle road.

It's very easy to, you know, get really high or to get, you know, really low. But if we could just kind of keep it, you know, right in the middle, keep it level, you know, keep it chill, at least for me, that's good. And that doesn't mean we don't want to live with enthusiasm and with excitement. But I think there's that kind of middle ground that we can trudge. That, at least for me, works really well. And then we can ask ourselves, what would my higher self do next? Right? What would that positive, radiant version of myself do next?

You know, my fearful little guy inside, he'd say, oh, hide, run. You know, but what would that positive, radiant version of yourself do? How would, how would they act? Sometimes we do need to. You act as if, and it's not being inauthentic, it's just trying a new thing and seeing how it feels. So, yeah, you know, I had that poem. The thing about the mind is that when it's on the grind, it might never stop. But the truth is it can stop. We can live from our heart. We can live from our higher selves.

And you know what? It's just a practice, so you can keep going back to it. Thanks so much, Doctor Carey. I know it's a great insight, and it's one that I've learned from reading and listening to others and practicing. And I think we find that as we're on this, this healing journey, you know, we start hearing similar things over and over in different ways. And I think that's really good because once we intellectually understand it, it can take a long time to really practice it. It can take a lifetime, you know, and that is.

Okay. Okay, so I've got some sheets of paper here. I've got a go to the next one. Uh oh, my poem's blown away. So I wrote this poem in April, but I think it was last April or the April before. And it goes like this. Oh, more of them are blown away. Okay, here we go. It's early April in the north country. Every moment is beautiful. If we can see, but that's okay if we miss it most of the time, it almost seems impossible not to. We're taking care of this and making that happen. I did hear an interesting piece of advice this week.

If you try to solve it with your ego, you don't give the universe the pleasure of helping you out. Now, that doesn't mean we don't need to take actions and we don't need to do things, but, you know, let that universe help you out, you know, let it come, you know, to your aid. And many of us seem good at helping and bad at asking for help. We're oftentimes better givers than receivers. I bet you're a great giver, but why don't you practice receiving as well? And when I'm telling you this stuff, I'm also saying it to myself.

I need to remember all of these same things. Uh oh, another poem blown away. It's not even that windy out. So this one goes. Mismanagement is okay. Don't hold on so tight. Let your life float like a kite. Bold, beautiful, no strife. It flies high. Cause it's so light, right? Elvis Huxley said, go lightly. It's so easy to get caught in the quicksand, and that quicksand, you know, can really be our thoughts and our emotions, and we need to process them. And we also need to realize that we don't want to get stuck, you know, in them and get stuck in that kind of negative loop.

So it's a balancing act. And if you go down the negative rabbit hole, which I do just about every day in some way, shape or form, it's okay. Just brush yourself off, you know, go for a little walk. Do something that makes you feel good. Take care of yourself, and just keep on, keep on going. You. You've got this. So I really appreciate you taking a walk with me today. I wish you positivity, peace and prosperity. And always remember, we have a lot of work to do, but we could do it together. Okay.

Have an awesome day. Bye. Oh, and email me nhansonadre IO if any of this resonated with you or you're able to put into practice any of these thoughts. Or you could comment below. You can also share Cadre with a friend using my handle in the poet, and they get full access to the app. So that's what I got for you today. Bye bye. It.