The Thin Space

Hey there. Good morning, Cadre. How are we doing on this Sunday? I hope that you are doing great, and I hope that you have the energy that you think you need to do the day and the way you want to do the day. But if you're not great, if you don't have the energy to do what you think you want to do today, I got a tip for you. You know, what do I normally say? I hope you're great, but if you're not, that's okay too. I still mean that. But today I'm changing it up a little bit. I hope you're great, and I hope you have the energy that you think you need today to do things you want to do today.

But if you're not great, and if you don't have the energy to do the things that you need to do today, here's a little tactic for you, Jules. Bezel bits. Good morning. Speak. Wonder. Good morning. So on Sundays, I always talk about this concept of the thin space. The thin space is a good practice exercise. You know, it's not something we master, but it's something we come back to and we tweak with it, we play with it. It's a practice exercise. But it's also a practice exercise about being present.

And we may go and say, yeah, being present is good. Yeah. But sometimes being present is really, really, really necessary. Present moment is the only moment you have any energy or power in. Right. You, like. Like you can't accomplish anything in the past. You can't accomplish anything in the future. You can accomplish things now. And I don't mean that in like a. Like a hyper figurative way. I mean that literally. Like, you can't do anything tomorrow. Once tomorrow's today. Yeah. Then you can. For right now.

Now's the moment. Now's the moment you can do something. Speak. Wonder says that there's a bright blue canopy over the still frozen Lake Erie. Gosh, if it's warming up out there like it is back here, ice is gonna melt fast. And Jules is singing a little Beatles in their head. Here comes the sun. I think the Beatles more than any other band. Good morning Becky's. I think the Beatles use the. The non. The non word sound better than most bands. Right. You can sing do, do, do, do, and everybody goes, oh, yeah, or oh, bloody.

All of the made up, made up sounds that create so much stickiness for us. Love some music on a Sunday morning. Okay, so here's. Here's that. Here's that little tactic. If you're like me, I Don't got a lot of energy right now. I am tapped. Especially when you wake up in the morning and you go, okay, it's a new day. And you go, I already feel like I've been going. Rubber ball keeps a bouncing back to you. I got all of them y'all throw song titles. They're all in my head. So this thin space exercise, yeah, it's a be in the present exercise.

But when the present is the only time that we have any power. Energy, space. This presence exercise of thin space also is the. How do we find energy? It's right now. So take a deep breath in, hold it until you think of something that is true right now. And let your breath out. Try that five times. So the exercises, you're gonna take a deep breath in. You have hold your breath, hold that oxygen in, let it saturate your body as you go. I am sitting in a Wendy's parking lot. And then I would exhale.

And then I would inhale again. And I would notice that there's a pine tree right in front of me that is glowing. Cause the sun is rising behind it. And then I would exhale. And I'll do that five times. So your task, once you breathe in, it's like red light, green light, right? Your red light. You're holding your breath, and you think of something that is true right now. Then you exhale. Let me do it again. All right, here we go. Deep breath in. Hold your breath. Think of something that is true right now.

And exhale. Do it again. Breathe in. Hold your breath. What is true right now? What do you see? What do you feel? What is happening? Exhale. Cool. Breathe in. Hold your breath. I'm looking at this truck that's driving by that just got its car washed. And exhale. Then breathe in. Hold your breath. There's a little electrical utility flag that's stuck in the ground that's just peeking out above the snow. Exhale. You got one more. Breathe in. And hold your breath. What is true? What do you know to be true right now?

And exhale. You see, oxygen is kind of this sticky. It's. It's the glue, right? It's the tape. It's the. It's the staple that ties us in the moment that we are in. It says, here's the energy that you have to do, the things you need to do. So allowing that breath to be held. And also the oxygen goes, ooh, I'm going to go into cells, and I'm going to travel around the body. Then all of a sudden, when you attach that to something that you know to be true right now, all of a sudden, you're doing both of those things.

You're giving yourself the energy, and you're attaching it to the moment that that energy has some value. And that's right now. Y'all have a great Sunday ahead. And if you're like, I don't got it in me, take a deep breath in, acknowledge something that's true right now, exhale, and then do the next moment and then the next moment and then the next moment, y'all. Colleen and I will be back on Tuesday, 3:30pm for our next edition of you can't say that on Social Media, Civil discourse on Social Media.

So join us on Wednesday on Tuesday, 3:30pm Otherwise, you know, I'll be here every morning. Have a good one. Bye.