Cadre Today: Enoughness 101

Well, hey there, Cadre. How are we doing this morning? Are we doing good? I hope we're doing good. I hope we're doing great. But if we're not doing great, I have a lot of evidence that shows that that is okay too. Okay or not great may not feel as good as great, but you are still capable, you are still worthy. You still got it going on, y'all. C. if we've never shared time together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right now, every day. I'm the host of Cadre Today, which is this an opportunity for you to come in, have a familiar check in point, learn about what's going on in the Cadre sphere, and, and to go.

Okay, so, so what's what's today about? Well, quite often on Saturdays, a lot of the things we talk about are everything to do with, with us as, as, as who we are. Like personal development stuff. So you're going to see a lot of people like that today. Or if you're going, gosh, but I don't have time to catch a live stream. You either catch it in replay or forget about the live streams. Go ahead and type in, hit the little magnifying glass up in the corner, type in a topic, type in a person, and all of a sudden you can find what you're craving, what you're looking for.

And if you go, I don't know what I'm looking for. Think about when you take time to go, huh? I really want a cheeseburger or I really want some pasta. Right? That craving, your mental health works the same way. You may have the moment where you go, gosh, I really want to study this topic, or I wanna do some exercises, either physical or mental or breath or whatever. Listen to that craving. Well, enough. What do I often talk about on Saturday mornings? The idea of enoughness. The idea that you in this moment are capable of doing something that has worth, that has inertia and momentum ready for you to tap into.

It may be kind of the cut. Enoughness may be the cousin of like presence or mindfulness or like, like self work. But the nice thing is, is all of our thoughts, all of our ideas are born of our experiences and our lives and our thoughts and our imagination. And I've spent the majority of my life building this idea of enoughness. So today I invite us to physicalize enoughness a little bit. So what do I mean by that? Well, I mean this. You know how many ways that your spine moves? The answer is lots but there's six kind of big movements, and then you can use different pairings of them to create more movements.

So you. You have kind of neutral spine. And everybody's spine is very unique and wonderful. You have flexion. So it's like when you fold forward, you have flexion when you lean back, right? What is that? You have extension. So now we've just gone neutral forward, backwards. You have axial extension. So if you squeeze everything in, your spine can get longer. So if anyone ever says, okay, stand really, really tall, guess what you can do? You can do that axial extension. So axial bottom to top, getting longer.

You can also rotate, right? What did you say? Hey, what did you say? Where are you at? Oh, let me look over here. So you have rotation, and that kind of sets up the big three chucks, right? Flexion, extension, and rotation. But then you also have lateral extension so many different ways that your spine will dance and move. Oh, and then there's even one more, right? Your ability to. To move from top to bottom almost as if head and base of spine are not moving, but everything else in the middle can move in that 360 degrees as well.

You may be like, okay, cool. JC My spine moves a lot. So what? Well, if you were playing with me and moving, you may have gone, wow, I don't move as much this way as I move this way, or, wow, I can't touch my toes, but I can look at the sun and do a backbend. You understanding how you work is the physicalization of enoughness. Whenever I'm working with athletes or people who have kind of a physical mindset and in the way that they do the things they do, I always say this. The best athletes in the world very, very rarely are the strongest, hardest, fastest, deepest, most skilled doer of the thing that they do.

That's not what brings success. What brings success is people's awareness of what they can and what they can't do in the second that they're in. So, you know, I always often think, like, Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan wasn't the best basketball player. Or even if he was, that's not what made him good at what he did. It was, here's the ball, there's the hoop. In this millisecond, here's my opportunity. He was always aware of, you know what? My axial rotation to the right is less deep than my axial rotation to the left.

So knowing that rather than doing X, I'm going to do Y. Knowing yourself is really, really important because knowing yourself is the hard work that we do to understand the magic that we have in this world. So move your spine today, y'all, and see what you learn. And then come on back. You'll see Kristin Grimes in a couple of hours. You'll see Dan Griffin coming to us from the west coast this afternoon, y'all. We're always right here for you. I'll be back tomorrow morning, 8:00am Central Standard Time for a little thin space.

And then this week, we got a double scoop of Cadre Today interviews coming up, Betsy Hodges on Tuesday, and then my friend Sayer Keeley, who is one of our panelists at World Teen Mental Wellness Day. Sayre and I will be recapping that wonderful event. So if you weren't able to be there, give you a little lowdown. All right. Have a good Saturday. Talk to you later. Bye.