Host explores enoughness and the thin space between past and future, leading a brief guided silence to notice present sounds and reflect on small acts of self-care and being present for oneself and others.
Every day I hope that you are doing great. But if you're not, that's okay too. How often do we attempt to do the good things, the great things, and if we can't, we don't do anything. That's where enoughness comes in.
For the next one minute, get really, really quiet and listen. The pressure of silence pushes us into the past or into the future. If you allow yourself to root down into that pressure, that silence, you end up becoming aware of a lot of great things that are happening right now.
Hey there. Good morning, Cadre. How are we doing? I hope that you are doing great. I really, really do. You may wonder, how does it change someone who literally tells the world through a screen every day that they hope that they're doing great? I'll tell you, it strengthens that muscle of hope. And considering how one can influence other people's well being, every day I come here and I say, hey, I hope you're doing great. Vis a bits. I hope you're doing great. Jules, I hope you're doing great. Cadre Sphere, all y'all who watch live, tune in or watch later when you have time or need.
I really do hope you're doing great. And then I spend my whole day going, huh? What can I do to help ensure that other people may be in the right atmosphere to be doing great? And it leads you to think about the little things that one can do for self and for others. But of course, the other half of that sentence is, I hope you're doing great. But if you're not, that's okay too. That's a really, really big liberating force. How often do we attempt to do the good things, the great things, and if we can't, we don't do anything.
That's where enoughness comes in. If you can't do it all, which sometimes you can, but a lot of times you can't if you're trained to go, if I can't do it all, then I'm going to do nothing. You miss out on so much life, so I hope you're doing great. But if you're not, that's okay too. Let that be something that you think about and how you live your life and how you help others live theirs. Hey, on Sundays we talk about self care. A really good segue, right? Doing those little things for you that allow you to do those little things for others.
And I talk about this idea of thin space, about really getting into that space in between everything that has been and everything that will be. That's now. So for the next one minute, I invite you to do, and I'm gonna do it with you, get really, really quiet and listen. All right, so listen to what's going on around you. Starting, three, two, one. Now it. And stop. Now, it wasn't a minute. That was probably about 40 seconds. How long did that minute feel like? If you're gonna say that, that one minute, did it feel longer or shorter than what you thought it was?
Share that in the chat. And then what did you hear? I'll tell you first. I didn't think I was hearing anything. And all of a sudden, I could hear the traffic. And, like, the traffic of the. Like, the traffic, as in, like, it's going with no tension, nothing stopping it. And all of a sudden, I could hear some. You know, I just heard it again. There's a big semi truck over there that just went over kind of one of those bridge connectors where you hear. You know what I'm talking about? I just heard that.
Then at one moment, I heard what sounded like that. That what it really was was. It was the wind gusting. But outside of that, I heard opportunity. I heard space. Like, have you ever taken time to listen to not sound? It almost makes your ears go like this. It feels like there's this pressure. Silence is pressure. And the pressure of silence pushes us into the past or pushes us into the future. But if you allow yourself to root down into that pressure, that silence, you end up becoming aware of a lot of really great things that are happening right now.
That's a good place to be, because that's where the thoughts and the feelings and the perspectives are the juiciest, the freshest. So my invitation for you today is to do that, to place yourself within the silence that exists right now and see what you find there. Y'all, I got two Cadre today interviews coming up this week. C. but one of our former Minnesota greats will be chatting on Tuesday, top of the midday, and then on Wednesday, my great friend Sayer Keely, who is one of our panelists at World Teen Mental Wellness Day last month.
We're gonna recap that event on Wednesday. So Jules says it felt shorter than a minute, but only because my pager went off and grabbed my attention. That only noises of my house. Yeah, right. In those moments, we often think it's like we're trying to block out the other sounds. Right? It's like when we attempt to be in the sound of now, we feel like we shouldn't be attempting to have our attention pulled. But that's exactly what we want to have happen in the thin space. The thin space should pull us in.
Because, Jules, that pager was going off right now. That pager was saying, hey, Jules, be in the right now. Here is your opportunity right now. And rather than what we normally do, that's react to it, because our minds are thinking about something else, and all of a sudden, we react. We go up. Here's the. But we aren't really in the moment of being there. And then only noises of my house. Not only, Jules, the noises of your house are the gifts of the moment. How wonderful to hear the creak of the floor, the furnace turning on, the bodies moving or whining or groaning.
Like those are those things that won't be there in the future. Maybe. Or won't be there in the same way. Or maybe there are sounds now that are replacing sounds of the past. So Jules, response there is so powerful. Cause we often devalue the thing that's saying, hey, this is the now, like the pager or the things that are always of the now, like the familiarity of home. Jules, you just got a whole extra minute out of the live stream. Cause you lit me up, right? That was me responding to the moment.
And that's what the thin space allows you to do. Y'all go respond to the thin space of the moment and I'll see you tomorrow.
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