Wellness Rewrite

Well, hey, everybody happy? What do we got? Tuesday. My name is JC Lippold. This is wellness rewrite. m. Central standard time or whatever time it is, wherever you are, I hop on to invite you and me to rethink the way we speak about specific ideas or words in wellness, in mental health, in the way we take care of ourselves. So tonight I want us to think about things that we may see beauty in outside of ourselves, that in ourselves we often hey, junk food junkie. Nice to see you, my friend. Happy new year.

What are some things that when we see somewhere else we go, that's beautiful, or that's interesting, or that is inspiring? In ourselves we may go, nope, that's not good. I'm going to share two ideas. First is a kaleidoscope, maybe a slightly. Hey, Chris. Nice to see you, my friend. Maybe a slightly dated toy, right? We don't see a lot of kaleidoscopes nowadays, but kaleidoscope, that toy where you hold it up to the sun and as you turn it, all the little broken glass pieces turn to create beautiful pictures.

Broken glass looked at with a different perspective, creating beauty. So kaleidoscope is derived from the greek and what it means loosely in translation is beautiful form seer. Beautiful form seer amidst the brokenness. It is the human eye that invites us to see beauty. Hey, Alec. Nice to see you, my friend. Happy Denver. Time for you. m. How often do we look at our own brokenness and we don't see the beauty that we may see in something as simple as a child's toy, like a kaleidoscope. The next time you see something broken or unique.

Hi, Mel. Exactly. Broken beauty. It may even be worthwhile right now when you get home or when you get a moment to sit down at the desk at the computer or pick up your phone. Google image search kaleidoscope and see for yourself your ability to see beauty within the broken. Jungfujunky says, like the sunrise and the sunset on bodies of water creates beautiful reflections. Yeah. Beautiful refractions and reflections. So number one, reframing the idea of brokenness that we see in other elements of the world that we go, there is beauty, there's uniqueness, there is art, there's inspiration.

So that's maybe something we can see. Here's something we can feel. You know, I'm a yoga teacher, too. And you know, I became a yoga teacher not because I practice yoga for a long time. I actually broke my back about twelve years ago, and then as a part of my rehab, I walked into a yoga studio on a Monday. I was like, oh, I kind of like this. Signed up for teachers training four days later on a Friday. And very, very quickly I started sharing the idea and the concept and the philosophy and the posture practice of yoga.

And I did so not because I was in any way an expert of the practice, but because I was an expert of understanding why there is beauty within what the practice of being in evolution teaches us. In other words. Hey, Luke. Nice to see you, my friend. The practice of yoga is not one of nouns. It's not one of creating shapes. It's one of being an evolution. It's one of being a verb as opposed to like, red light, green light, the childhood game. We're talking about kaleidoscopes and red light, green light.

Tonight, apparently I'm feeling very, very childlike. But in red light, green light, we want to go in green light. From being in evolution and being in action and being in verb into being in now, to losing our liveliness until it's the moment again to go. Yoga is the opposite. We are always in evolution. We are never attempting to create a stagnant shape, but to be aware of our liveliness amidst what we are currently experiencing. So with all that being said, so often, it's a popular thing to do in the world, to share pictures of yoga postures in inspiring places, to do mountain pose standing next to a mountain, or to do tree pose standing next to a tree.

But you never see someone attempting to post an inspiring photo of them doing chair pose next to a chair. We're doing locust pose, laying in a field of locusts. You've never seen that? Why? Because I think the idea is that there's beauty in certain things within our own lives and not within others. Think about that tree pose. We'll stand next to a tree and go stand on 1ft tree pose. But we'll never show ourselves falling down or being a state of angst in that tree pose. We need to show ourselves being Zen.

Yet how often do we walk through the woods and we see the wind blowing through the leaves and the branches and we go, wow, that's peaceful, that's beautiful. That is worthy of song lyrics and poems. Yet if we stand on 1ft and we start to wobble and catch ourselves, we're trained to feel humiliated. We're to feel bad or to feel like we aren't doing it right. Why does the tree get to rustle in the wind and to be called beautiful. Why does the kaleidoscope get to be the beautiful form seen by the beautiful form?

Seer? Yet when we are broken, we're not beautiful. When we are stumbling and struggling, we need to be silent. So for your wellness rewrite this evening, see the beautiful form when you look into the mirror and when you stumble and sway from side to side, see the same beauty that you see within the leaves and the branches of the trees as you walk through the woods to find some peace. Because how wonderful if you are the beautiful form to be seen in that rooted tree, worthy of poems and melodies for everybody to sing.

There's a good crew here tonight, so I'm going to wait for a moment. How are you doing, junk food junkie? I knew something was coming. I sensed it. Junk food junkie says, speaking about trees, there's another example. They are alive in the spring, in summer, and as they start to become dormant in the fall, the beauty of the leaves become then winter, they are dormant and not so alive. And yet. And yet. Junk food junkie, we sing songs about all of those trees, I think Eva Cassidy, autumn leaves. Right?

I think Tracy Chapman, spring, I think, oh, Christmas tree, winter. And how many songs do we sing about the palm trees in the summer? Right. We see beauty in all stages of the tree's existence. Maybe that's a challenge for ourselves, too. Junk food junkie I'm glad I'm not the only one who says yuppers. Mel says yes. Here's maybe one more thought in how we rewrite wellness. Here at Cadre. There's a lot of heat given to social media, to technology, as if it doesn't have the capacity to connect, the capacity to help and to heal.

And yet, right now, across state lines, across generations and genders, socioeconomic and races, different realities, different walks of life, we can, right here, do exactly what we're doing. For Mel to be able to say yes. I like to interpret yes as saying, I see you, I hear you, I connect with you, I honor you, Mel. You are being the beautiful form seer. You are being the kaleidoscope right here for junk food junkies thought, it's pretty amazing. Culturally speaking, it shouldn't be amazing. We should do this.

As we walk down the street, anytime we seek or need connection, we need ideas, we need support, it should be the most accessible thing yet. Maybe we need to rewrite this wellness thing first. Maybe we need to open the doors and build the bridges to mental health first. Cadre Sphere. That's what we're doing right? Here. So know that we're here. And we know you are, too. My invitation. My challenge. Exercise your influence. You are the most influential person in the lives of the people who know you, who love you the best.

Do they need Cadre? I think so. I don't know anyone who doesn't. Everybody needs a special group of people with a special intention. This is that special group of people. That special intention is to provide people the lifeblood, the connection, the content, to remembering that they are everything that they need. I hope you have a great night. I hope you have a great rest of the week. By golly, I hope you have a great year. Happy 2024, y'all. We'll see you later. Bye.