Cadre Today and A Breathing Exercise To Put In Your Back Pocket

Well, hey, good morning, Cadre. How are you doing? I hope you are doing great. I'll let a moment pass here for people to go ahead and show on up. We got a couple of special guests today. This is Jefferson. Jefferson is the middle child. Yep. Jefferson is the supervisor. He keeps everybody safe. He's a Jack Russell. Hey, hey. H. Warden. 70 beezy bits. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. All right, Jeffy's going away. There's Robert. Got one more person to introduce you to. Willow. Come on. Oh, Willow's shining.

Okay. Willow's. Willow's gonna walk away. Hey, everybody. Nice crew showing up this morning for Cadre Today to kick off your Thursday. Shannon, nice to see you. My friend. Robert, nice to see you, too. No matter where you are, no matter what's going on, I hope that you are doing well. I hope you're great. But if you're not, know that that's pretty okay, too. It may not feel like it, but one of the things that we always remind you of, like a. Like a squeaky door, that voice that sticks in your mind is that life goes like this.

So if you're here. Yeah. Take from that moment what can fill you, what can nourish you, what can ground you? And if you're here or here, Here, here, here. Take what you can that will nourish you and ground you and remind you that you are doing this thing called life. Life is a verb. It's not a noun. So when you think about the question, how are you really? Go, huh? Where am I? What do I need? Then tap in right here to the Cadre sphere, where you're gonna see a lot of people. Professionals and peers and friends and people you don't know yet.

That's what I like to call strangers that are weaving together resources and fostering a community to show you that there are so many ways to be. Well, you know, on Thursdays, we so often talk about being in the space of caregiver, right? So whether you are parent, whether you are a child, whether you are a neighbor, whether you are friend, whether you're a co worker, whether you are civic citizen, living in society, all of these things offer you the opportunity to be in care of those people around you.

I got a little tactic for you today because we know so often, caring for others. What do they say? Put your mask on before you help others, put their masks on. That mentality, I think, is one of the squeaky doors that caregivers always benefit from hearing it's not always possible to go and care for yourself. When you have to care for others around you. But you need to remind yourself to be looking for those moments. So as it says in the title for this live stream Cadre, today, we are here every single day.

But it also says and a little breath exercise to put in your back pocket. So I'll teach it to you and then I'll let you know what's coming up for the rest of the day. Everybody get your peace fingers out and have them ready. One of the cool things about how our bodies operate is that our breath mimics and works and supports our nervous system. Our nervous system has kind of two big halves. Has our parasympathetic state. That's our rest and digest. That's our kind of parts of life. And then it has the sympathetic state.

That's the fight flight. That's the something's happening and I need to respond to it. I need to protect myself. I need to make sure that I am safe. And our breath helps fuel, foster and support those two parts of our nervous system. Did you know that you only breathe in and out of one nostril at a time? And every once in a while your body goes and then it switches to the other and then after some time it switches back again and it keeps doing that. It saturates one part of your brain, one part of your nervous system that is dealing with one of those states.

So I want to ask you a question right now. If you could pick up one of these two magical gems, this one would help you rest and this one would help you level up and be energized in chat right now. Go ahead and type. Do you need to rest or do you need to level up? I know it's 7:30 in the morning, so maybe you're like, oh, I'm really tired. I haven't woken up yet. I need to level up. Or maybe you're in a space of like, gosh, this week has been so long. This month has been so long, this decade has been so long.

I really need to rest. So feel free as we move through this exercise to consider, do I need to rest or do I need to level up? Here's the exercise. If you need to rest, I invite you to plug your right nostril. Right rest. Right rest. Right rest. Right rest. A little alliteration there. If you need to level up, if you need to be energized, I'm going to invite you to plug your left nostril. Left level up. Left level up. Left level up alliteration. Okay? So go ahead and Pick what you need. If you need to rest, plug your right nostril right now.

If you need to level up, plug your left nostril right now. I have a big, big, big long day that I'm kind of stressed out about. So I'm going to hit my rest for the next 15 seconds. Breathe through that one nostril. Go. You may become aware that you have some congestion. That is okay. You may be like, wow, JC looks really weird with his nose kind of over to the left hand side of his face. You may realize that JC is not a very funny person. So you just laughed uncomfortably at JC saying that his nose is on the left hand side of his face.

Take one more breath. Return to breathing normally. Maybe you need to go and take some mouth breaths now to go ahead and get a full dose of oxygen back into your holistic self. But that little tactic, if you're like, oh, is this magic? No, it's biology. It's physiology. It's the way that we're designed. Your bodies are actually created to be wonderful communicators of what you need and where you are and how do we survive and how do we succeed and how do we thrive and all of these things. But so often the world, and not pointing any finger at any specific part of the world, right?

But the world collectively can send us messages that say, ah, you don't know anything about yourself. Your body's not going to tell you anything that's. That's good or nourishing or right. In reality, that's. That's not true. Your body will say, just like you said, ah, I need to rest or I need to level up. Don't overthink that. If you went, here's what I need. Give yourself that thing. 15, 30 seconds before a meeting, before a moment will allow you to go ahead and go, huh? Allow you to go. So as you get on with your day, you're going to see a wonderful lineup of people coming into the live streams in about 25 minutes from Savannah, Georgia.

You're going to see Steph jumping on in. Depending on where you are in the country, we're going to be heading to the east coast again to Lake Erie where you can see Speak Wonder put into chat today at 11:00am Eastern Standard Time, 10:00am Central Standard Time. I'll be talking about harbor pilots in calm waters. Speak Wonder uses this analogy of harbor pilots in the big bodies of water to go ahead and guide us and to move us around and this connectivity with others and connectivity with self. So harbor pilots and Calm Waters is going to be your topic at 11:00am Eastern Standard Time.

And then autism. Dad, Rob Gorski's coming into the Cadre Sphere just after midday. Then the day continues on. It continues on. Continues on. Right? There's always those breadcrumbs moving you forward. And guess what? You're driving the Cadre Sphere. You're impacting the Cadre Sphere. Each of you, like, literally who I'm speaking to, who's here right now. If you're hearing my voice, you are influencing what's happening here. So what do you need? Let us know. Put it in the community feed. Send us a message.

Check out prerecorded content and know that I will always be back nice and early in the morning. We'll see you tomorrow, 7:30am Central Standard Time. In the meantime, plug an astral, get some energy or calm down. We'll see you later.