JC introduces the Franciscan-derived thin space practice, guiding listeners to notice where they are instead of where they were and to make present-moment statements. He frames it as a self-care habit for staying in the now.
JC: On Sundays, we talk about self care. The thin space is a practice derived from franciscan monks. JC: It's about feeling where you are as opposed to where you were. Self care is all about doing the things that allow us to not break in ways that we could prevent.
My invitation for you today is make some statements. Make some statements about what is going on right now. It's the only moment you have any power in. No matter where you are, I invite you to be now and here and this.
Well, hey there, Cadre. I'm gonna take my seatbelt off. How are you? I hope you are great. What's going on? What's going on today? I hope when you have Cadre contributors like myself ask you questions like that, you know that you can type in the chat answers. So if you know how you're doing, if there's something you want to share. 71 victorious beezle bits. How are you? Nice to see you, my friends. Marisa. Good Sunday. Or if it's not a good Sunday, that's okay, too. If you are in a space where you are not doing all that great, you are in the right place.
And if you're doing great, you're in the right place. If you've never been here before, you're in the right place. And if you are here all of the time and you have found a good habit of jumping into the cadres sphere to remind yourself that there are many pathways to wellness, you're in the right place. My name is JC, and if we've never shared time and space together before, thank you. Thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you. Say, hey, introduce yourself. Let me know where you're from.
Because all of a sudden, this Cadre thing galvanizes into its potency. Right? This is a space where hopefully it doesn't happen to you, but it happens through you. Meaning you may come here and find something valuable, but I. You may also be the person who comes here and offers something valuable to someone else, like connection. Like a hello. Like a. Like a little sun emoji with a good morning. Those are the things that we are acknowledging the value of in a world that often says that they aren't, um.
They aren't the answers. But connection galvanizes your ability to be well into reality. On Sundays, we talk about self care. So later on today, you're going to see my buddies, Jean and Seth and Tiffany and Jason and Beverly and Daryl. Just a really good crew of people saying, hey, here's how you take care of yourself. Which is something we don't necessarily ever get taught how to do. Taking care of ourself is often something we do in secret. We live in more of a triage culture than a preventative culture, meaning rather than taking care of ourselves, we wait till s*** falls apart before we go, oh, now I need to fix something because something's broken.
Self care is all about doing the things that allow us to not break in ways that we could prevent. So if you saw the title of this livestream, it says, the thin space. The thin space is a. Is a practice derived from franciscan monks. It's a kind of a meditation practice that they would do where they would find themselves in between beginnings and ends, mornings and nights, good stuff and bad stuff, seasons changing. They would find themselves in that thin space in between and in that moment. That's when they would go, ah, this is the moment.
Now, it's a really colorful way of saying maybe the present moment, but I think it's more than that because it's not just about time. It's about feeling. It's about feeling where you are as opposed to where you were or where you're going to be feeling the current state of goodness badness that you're in, rather than being like, oh, well, things are going to get good. I know this needs to be the moment where you feel the bad and saying like, nah, here is what is. There's a great song from a musical that no one's ever going to hear of.
And the song brings the title of the show into the lyrics. So the title of the show is, now hear this. But it's not. Now hear this exclamation point. It's now, period. Here. Like, here we are here period this. Period. Now here this. Now is the only time. Here is the only place. This is all that you need. That's a little mantra that I kind of always keep in my head, like a lyric that's so sticky that it just never goes away. Now hear this. You hear how like, say it out loud. If you're in a space where you can, like, first say, like the.
Now hear this. As if you're going to say something really important. Now hear this. Now say it the other way with periods in between each of those three words. Now hear this. It forces you to put space. Now hear this. You can't say it fast because statements take time. My invitation for you today is make some statements. Make some statements about what is going on right now. I am sitting in my car in a speedway gas station parking lot, and it's really green out. Like, I know very soon leaves are going to start changing, but right now they're not.
It's just green. It's really sticky. It's super humid today. Like, so humid that I have to turn on my windshield wipers every 3 seconds to get the humidity off the windshield. I hear some truck or something buzzing. Maybe you hear it, too. It's really quiet, so I can hear that. Those are all really, really great examples of now here, this and again, not here, but now here. Taking in all of your senses, what is going on right now? Now you may be asking the question. I love people who ask questions.
Well, why is being in the. Why is the thin space a good place to be in? Like, cool. I get it. I get what you're asking me to do. Why? Here's the blunt answer. It's the only moment you have any power in. You don't have power in the future. You don't have power in the past. And again, you can go ahead and say yes, but I could learn from the past. I go, absolutely. And even more so, you could say no. I definitely can impact my future. I go, I hope so. But also, the future kind of does what the future wants to do sometimes.
We've all been there where we plan x and Y happens. Jewel says, I am sitting on my deck. I would invite you, Jules, to. Rather than going, comma, comma, I would go period. Period. Because I could read this. I'm sitting on my deck, drinking my coffee, watching the boats go out and listening to you. Or it could say, I'm sitting on my deck, I'm drinking my coffee, I'm watching the boats go out. You hear how it's different. Each of those things is enough. So, y'all, no matter where you are, I invite you to be now and here and this whenever you feel like you are not now and here in this because it is enough, my friends.
And the reason why it's enough is because it's all you got. You know, I am now here seven days a week throughout the week. At 730 in the morning, central standard time, you can find me doing Cadre today, which is a bite sized livestream where I offer a little bit of, hey, here's what's coming up today. But also it's an opportunity for you to learn a little bit about what's happening in the Cadre world. So if you're like, okay, I kind of get Cadre, but I don't really get Cadre. I'll tell you, I'm there most of the time now.
I'm in the middle of it. So it's a chance for you to get a little bit more understanding about this opportunity you have to be a part of this wonderful community that's happening through you, not to. You have a great rest of your Sunday, y'all, and we will see you soon.
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