An Interruption In Your Day

Well, hey there, Cadre. I hope you are having a wonderful day. It is Wednesday, middle of the week. It's noon, where I am in Minnesota. And wherever you are, I'm assuming if you're watching live, it's kind of in the middle of all the buzz of the day, of the week, of all the thoughts, of all the things you have to do, of all the things you get to do. And that's why this livestream is here right now, to serve as an interruption to all the things that you have to do. You get to do you want to do the things that are filling your cup, the things that are slowing you down, as a reminder that we always have the ability to hit the pause button, to look a different direction, to turn around, to take a breath, to say hello to your friend, Jopa Joy.

Hey, friend. How are you, my friend? Isn't it weird how we get into the routine of doing life and all of a sudden life happens to us rather than through us? Hey, Marisa. Nice to see you, my friend. Now, again, sometimes we have to blaze through. We have to keep going. We have to nose to the grindstone. Yeah. That is part of the choices we get to make to effectively and fully do life. But what a great reminder it is. I'm saying this to myself, and maybe this resonates with you, too, but a great reminder that we can always, for a smidgen, for a minute, for a moment, for an hour, for a day, for a year, say, I'm going to stop, I'm going to consider, I'm going to imagine, I'm going to challenge, I'm going to do something on purpose and see what presents.

So in this interruption today, I'm going to offer you this thought and a little exercise. So we have a little part of our brain called our medulla oblongata. I feel like our brain has the best names for its parts. Your medulla oblongata is the part of your brain that does all the automated. Like right now, your heart's beating. I'm grateful for that. You're not having to say, hey, beat heart. All of a sudden, there's an itch on your skin. It's gonna say to your brain, oh, I need to scratch. Hey, jungfu junkie.

How are you, my friend? Your medulla oblongata blinks your eyes for you, and it also regulates your breathing. So let's say you started jumping up and down right now, your breath would get faster, choppier. You would support your life with the oxygen that it needs. If all of a sudden you got really calm and started listening to some relaxing music or maybe you laid down or take a nap, your breath would slow down, it would deepen. But the cool thing about your medulla oblongata. Yes, junk food junkie.

Right on. It also deals with all the automated systems of our sensory system. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Here's the fun thing about the human experience. All of those things are happening whether you want to or not. Except your breath. Like right now. Yeah. You're breathing without you telling yourself to breathe. But if together right now. And how cool that we can do this. Everybody, will you take a deep breath in with me? And a deep breath out. Everybody take a deep breath in together. And everybody say, hi, Rachel havocost.

As you exhale, hi, Rachel Havocost. You can hold your breath. You can go. Your breath is the one part of all of these automated systems that you have some influence over. What a great gift. Because, yeah, right now I am the one who's risking to interrupt your day. But you can interrupt your day for the days of those people around you that you care about, that you have influence over whenever you see fit. So maybe you're going to be in that meeting later on today and all of a sudden you see everybody being stressed and going into their fight or their flight or their freeze.

You can say, hey, everybody, I know I'm kind of going into my defense mechanism right now. Maybe you are too. Can we take a breath together or can we take a break or can we for a few moments talk about something else? You have the powerful gift of being able to interrupt the moments that are not serving and encourage you to do so when you see fail because the world needs your influence and your impact and your insight. So risk to do that today. Give the gift of interruption to one another. Everybody, I appreciate you.

Rachel, I will be flying to Seattle to see see you and hold space for a wonderful group of people who do not know each other yet on Saturday. And junk food junkie Marisa, Jopa, wherever you are, I hope you are well and I hope to see you soon. Have a good one.