Take A Walk With Nick

Hey, folks. How you doing? Nick the poet here. It's take a walk with Nick. It's Thursday. I hope your day is off to a great start. And, yeah, just wanted to share a couple of thoughts that I've been thinking about this week. You know, some ideas, as a friend says, I'm gonna kind of send these your way and catch what you can and see if you can put it into practice, because we're all just practicing, and we're all just figuring things out one moment at a time. So the first idea I want to put to you is following the unconditional path of happiness.

And I heard this idea from Michael Singer, who wrote this awesome book called the Untethered Soul. And so the idea is that no matter what's happening, we can choose happiness. And this is not to discount difficult situations or to practice what's called toxic positivity, but it's just a shift in mindset and realizing, hey, Risa, how you doing? It's a shift in mindset to just realize that we can practice this unconditional happiness at any moment. Right. And that's a really, really powerful concept, and it could really help to do this, like Michael Singer talks about, by keeping an open heart.

So if we keep our heart open, then we can practice this. But if we live too much in our minds, it can be much more difficult to practice. Good to see you, too, Risa. And so, yeah, the other thing that we can practice is self compassion and self kindness. And so, when different things come up, you know, it's really easy for us to be hard on ourselves, to get down on ourselves, but we can practice this self compassion and self kindness and just say, it's okay, you know, there's no need to be so hard on the self.

Just let it go as much as possible, and much easier said than done at many different moments. The next is, you know, set some new intentions for June. It's June 1. What do you want this month to be? You know, I want this month to be to give the universe, you know, the opportunity to help me out, to say, okay, universe, you know, I don't have it all figured out. What can you figure out for me? You know? And maybe that's because I could be a little lazy, but maybe it's a good mindset. You know, I'll practice it.

And see, the next is to encourage yourself, you know, and this is kind of building on these same principles. Keep encouraging yourself. Keep telling yourself, you know, hey, you're doing a good job. You're doing a good job. Like Mel Robbins says, give yourself a high five in the mirror. The next is the power of humor. You know, I think the universe really enjoys humor and enjoys the synchronicities, you know? So just laugh, you know, laugh your way through whatever you're going through and realize that there's humor in absolutely everything that we do, you know, and we can be serious and also laugh at the same time.

The next is the power of now. And so right now, really is all that we have. And when I'm sharing all this with you, everybody, these are things that I do not practice perfectly. I am constantly finding myself overthinking, not in the now, you know, all these different things. So these are just ideas to practice. And I believe it does take a lifetime to practice them, but I do believe that slowly making progress on them is really the way to go. So the next is the magic of letting go. And so you're noticing a theme here about all these different things.

You know, the more that we can let go of those thoughts and things that don't serve us, the better off we're gonna be. And you know what? We can only let go of them right now, you know, and sometimes going on a moment to moment basis like that, really, really powerful. The next thing to realize or a thought that might, you know, float your boat, is that you can't make everybody happy, but you can be happy with everybody. You know, in this modern world. We all have a lot going on, so we're probably, you know, gonna make mistakes.

We're probably going to drop some balls. You know what? And that's okay, because we just have to make sure that we're taking care of ourselves and trying to be the best that we can be. So, finally, I was listening to this meditation yesterday, and it was like saying, when the thoughts come up, a way of practicing this thought means nothing. And so when the thought comes up, that's saying, this thought means nothing. And I thought that was really interesting, because if you're anything like me and like to overthink, you know, like my old poem says, the thing about the mind is that when it's on the grind, it might never stop.

Then we can realize that, you know, the thoughts are not everything. The thoughts are just another sensation, like seeing, breathing, smelling. And if we take them less seriously, you know, it's a lot easier. So we don't create problems that don't yet exist, because I love to create problems and then solve them, and a lot of times, they're not even real problems. What a waste of time. Well, like I said earlier, we can just laugh at ourselves about this and keep on putting 1ft in front of the other.

So that's my message for you this week. I hope you have an awesome day. I'll catch you on the flip side. Goodbye.