Cadre Today - Metta Meditation

Satun. Good morning, Matthew. I'll hit pause there, everybody. Good morning, Steph. Good morning, Maffy. That was a Little Leslie Odom Jr. Au Francais Autumn leaves version. I know most is the Eva Cassidy version, but in English. The falling leaves drift by my window Falling leaves of red and gold I see your lips, the summer kisses Sunburned hands I used to hold since you went away so I'll hear Old winter song But I'll miss you most of all, my darling when autumn leaves start to fall. There's something about the change of seasons that make music come into season.

Right, Andrea? Don't you like. Like. Like a good piece of fruit or, you know, a. A certain flavor, like, like pumpkin in the fall or maybe like, like apple in the early fall. Or maybe you go, ooh, I really get a taste for. For chili at a. At a certain time of the year. Or lemonade in the. In the summer. That song, autumn Leaves, no matter who's singing it, no matter what language, it's one of those songs that feels right. Just like scarfs feel right this time of year. What feels right to you this time of year?

Go and throw it into chat if you think, here's what feels right right now. That maybe didn't feel right yesterday. Hi, buddy. I got a new friend down here. Let me see if I can get him to come up. He's kind of shy, so let me see. Hey, Frankie. Hi. Come here, come here. Come here, buddy. Come here. Come. Here's my new buddy. This is Franklin. Franklin joined the family about one month ago yesterday, but he. He's our new puppy after Hamilton passed away a few months ago. How you doing, Franklin? He says, I was found in Houston on the side of the highway.

I don't know how I feel about this weather getting colder. And I keep hearing about snow, but, yeah, T. Norris says hot chocolate feels right this time of year. Yeah, keep throwing a chat. What feels right this time of year that maybe doesn't feel right other times a year, what all of a sudden is starting to go ahead and come into play? 1% better says, welcome to the Cadre sphere. Franklin. Steph Irwin says your puppy's adorable. That's you. Still doesn't know how to give kisses. Plus, I think he's deaf.

So we got a deaf little puppy here, but he's doing good. He wanted to say good morning. All right, back down the floor. Go potty. Go outside. Go potty. Okay, so I wanted to go ahead and chat this morning. Ooh, cozy blankets. Yes, cozy anything, Steph. First I wanted to say that I'm glad that I'm here. I'm glad that you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. Second thing I wanted to say is it's amazing how when the days get a little bit shorter, the world maybe gets a little bit colder.

How it's easy to have the voices inside your head and your heart get a little bit louder and the voices outside maybe get a little bit quieter. So bravo on jumping in right here to the Cadre sphere, where there's other voices, voices that are speaking to you, speaking through you, speaking in response to you, and consider them, because here's why. There's a meditation practice called meta meditation, and there's three parts to it. The first part is you wish yourself really good energy, really good wishes, really good things.

That's part one. Second part is you wish all the people that you're sharing space with really good energy and really good stuff. It's like right now, I would say, hey, Steph t north, 1% better. Scrolling up tny mafi all y'. All. I wish y' all really good stuff today. I hope you're doing well. That's step two of meta meditation. Step three is you wish every single being in the universe really good energy. You say, hey, I hope that everything's doing okay today. It's a really, really great kind of format.

If you're like, I don't know how to get still. I don't know how to kind of do the things that people say I'm supposed to be doing that feel kind of weird to me. I like there being pathways in routine or like liturgy, things that you can follow. And then, because here in the country sphere, it's always many ways of being well and you making things make sense to you. So rather than being like, here's how it has to be done, it's like, no, here's a pathway that you can consider and mess up and change and make make sense to you.

So do that. But here's the passing shot today, this meditation flow. When scientists study what happens to humans when they're engaging in it, all the stress juices, all of the heavy vibes that exist within the anatomy and the physiology of the human experience, like the cortisol and the fight flights and all these things that kind of show that we're in a space of feeling heavy and small and tight. As you participate in this meditation practice, right when you think about yourself, those energies kind of stay around.

Then as you focus on the people around you, those energies get a little bit softer. And then as you focus on sending good energy to the whole darn world, guess what? All of a sudden those energies even get softer. So it goes to show, sometimes the best thing you can do for yourself is to go ahead and I'll say it in a way that maybe is a little too strong. Go ahead and shift all that energy from you to everybody else for your own sake, right? I always talk about the relationship between being selfish and being selfless.

And one of the best things you can do for yourself is to go ahead and forget about yourself for a moment, ignore yourself for a moment, not deal with yourself head on for the moment, and go ahead and spend some time thinking about other people all of a sudden. What do we end up finding? Right? Science shows that taking some time to put good energy towards other things is really good for you. So no matter what's making you feel like the world's getting a little bit more needed, all of a sudden you're feeling a little bit more the hot chocolate weather, a little bit more of the cozy blanket, chilly, hot dish sweater football weather.

Maybe a little meta meditation needs to be woven in there too, from Franklin, myself, and the whole Cadre sphere. Have a good day everybody. We'll talk to you tomor soon. I'll hear most of all my darling autumn leave.