As Lumiere invites us in Beauty and the Beast, “Try the gray stuff, it’s delicious”, JC will invite us into the midst of black & white wellness culture to consider the gray.
JC: On Sunday morning, wherever you are, I hope it's a easy start to the morning. This is try the gray stuff. Bringing a little quote from my friend Lumiere from Beauty and the beast. This Sunday morning Livestream is all about trying the great stuff.
There are more people who find healthiness when they seek happiness. In that moment, the joy, the happiness, the contentment, the rest, and digest the giving your body what you need is asking for something different.
Well, hey there, Cadre. Happy Sunday, JC. That's me. If we've never shared space and time together before, thanks for letting me have the opportunity to do so. m. On Sunday morning, wherever you are, I hope it's a easy start to the morning. And if it's not, that's okay, too. So this is try the gray stuff. It's delicious. Bringing a little quote from my friend Lumiere from Beauty and the beast. But speaking to the fact that in the mental health and wellness world and in culture in general, in our species in general, we get very good on black and whiting most stuff.
We do that for a really good reason, because we get excited about an idea, right? We find something that brings us joy or clarity or growth or healing, and it makes a lot of sense that we go, this is the thing you need to do. Because our heart and our head are saying, yeah, it made sense for us. So I need to let people know that. But of course, in reality, we know that you are so incredibly unique Cadre member that your pathway may be similar to at best, but there's always going to be differences.
So this Sunday morning Livestream is all about trying the great stuff, finding an idea that challenges maybe something you ah, this is what is right, this is what is wrong. So I'm going to offer you this thought today. I haven't done the specific research, but I believe from as I look at the world of people that I know that there are more people who find healthiness when they seek happiness. Then there are people who find happiness when they seek healthiness. I'll say it again, I know more people who find healthiness when they're seeking happiness than I know people who find happiness when they're seeking healthiness.
How often do we go, I need to start doing the right thing. And the thing we never let go of is doing the eating what we think is the right food, or sleeping the right amount of hours, or thinking the right thoughts, or practicing the right practice that we give up on being happy, or listening to ourselves or giving ourselves a break. And of course, what ends up happening is our body, our mind, our spirit starts to wilt and we give up on the healthiness because we aren't actually taking care of ourselves.
What if we lead with happiness? What if we lead with filling those moments where our body says, hey, do this, and the next moment, like a kid running around Disney world is saying, ooh, now I want to do this. And now I want to do this, and now I want to fall asleep and take a nap. And now I'm ready to go again. Can we go get a turkey leg? Ah. Let's go on. Let's go on Thunder Canyon. Can we go see Peter Pan? Mmm. Now I want to hug my mom. Now I need to cry because I am overtired. But now I'm okay again.
Within that journey of listening to what the body needs notice, very rarely, very rarely did the body go, oh, I need to do this maybe unhealthy thing. A million times in a row, I've had people say to me, when I go, eat the donut. People go, yeah, but, JC, it's dangerous, because if you tell people it's okay to eat the donut, they're gonna eat a million donuts. And I go, I never met the person who, when they're in a happy, calm state, that they sit down and they eat 1 million donuts. Why? Because 1 million donuts isn't healthy.
And a happy person, a grounded person, a rest and digest person, isn't going to do things that are chaotic, that are in response to the body going, we don't know if we're safe. So just as my friend Luke here says, good morning. Just about to hop in the sauna and the lake this morning. Enjoy your day. Luke is finding some happiness, and that happiness is going to bring some healthiness. But I bet if all of a sudden, in the moment this morning that Luke had a thought, it's like, you know what I think today I need to sleep in.
I need to spend time with the kids. I need to go for a walk, I need to snuggle up in a blanket rather than stripping down to jump in a hole in lake. Because in that moment, the joy, the happiness, the contentment, the rest, and digest the giving your body what you need is asking for something different. And that's where the healthiness lives. My friend Nikki just said, good morning. I need to listen. Cool thing is, you're gonna start seeing Nikki, sharing content and jumping onto live streams, as I've had the opportunity to talk with Nikki about where the joy, the bliss, the vocation, the call in Nikki's life is going to, yeah, there's some opportunity right here.
And I'll tell you, every time I talk with Nikki, there's great happiness and joy within the dream, within the creating a sustainable pathway to sharing the good stuff you got with this world. Isn't it cool that people who just pop into the comments can make me go, ah, here are great examples of people who are seeking happiness, finding healthiness rather than a world that tells us no matter what. Do the thing that the world has told you is healthy no matter what. I've never met the person who's followed that pathway and has found joy and openness and connection.
Maybe that's just me. But think about the people you see who are vibrant, who are bright. Where are they starting the journey? Are they seeking joy, happiness, contentment? Or are they seeking healthiness? Something to consider today in that beautiful gray. We'll talk to you later. Bye.
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