Light Is True, Heavy Is False

Hi, folks. How you doing this morning? My name is Nick the poet. Welcome to my live stream today. How has your week been going? How are you feeling? Let's drop in and check in a little bit. I'm going to try some of this box breathing that I learned from j bred. And matthew, if you haven't checked out his lives on here, I highly, highly recommend them. So we're gonna go breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 4 seconds, release for 4 seconds, and then hold on the out for 4 seconds. So let's give it a try.

Hey, dad, how's it going? We're doing a little box breathing and out for 41234. Hold for four. And hold for four. Box it out. Exactly. So I'm not very good about that. I've been working on the breath work. It's really difficult. I also recently learned that you're supposed to breathe through your nose. I don't know how true this is, but they actually sell mouth tape, where you can put tape over your mouth at night. And apparently, if you breathe through your nose when you're sleeping, it cuts down on everything from bad breath to mouth, bacteria to sleep apnea, all this stuff.

So if anyone knows the actual facts on that, please let me know. I almost spent $30 buying some the other night. I'm very gullible and open to gimmick, so I need to do research before doing that. But I just wanted to talk today. You know, the about light is heavy and true is false. And so that is the name of my live stream today and a really great reminder for me. I've had some work stresses going on this week and haven't been feeling the greatest. I haven't been sleeping well, and that always creates that.

That heaviness for me, you know? And so I need to remember that light is heavy, our light is true, and heavy is false. And so, you know, when I was going through some really challenging times with my mental health in my early twenties, I had a couple of counselors who shared some quotes with me that I wouldn't trade for several million dollars, really, because we know that that piece that comes from, you know, different understandings can really change our lives. And so I wanted to share those quotes with you.

And I know there's so much, so much stuff going on in the world, so much heaviness around the world. There could be heaviness in your life in all kinds of different ways. And so this is a quote from Aldous Huxley. And it goes like this. It says light. It says, lightly, child, lightly learn to do everything lightly. Yes. Feel lightly, even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. And I absolutely love this quote because it just reminds me to take it easy.

You know, I think in the modern world, our nervous systems are so wound up, and we've got slack messages coming in, and we got text messages, we've got emails. We've got to hop on this Zoom call, you know? And I think if we could just take that time to just, hey, it's all good, you know? And there's a time to go to a time to, you know, make things happen. But for me, I usually need to err on the side of taking it easy. And that lightness, you know, really, really reminds me of that. And so the other quote is this.

It's from Anthony Demello. And it says, we all think we need more self improvement, but what we really need is more self acceptance. And that one always just hits me, because I do like to achieve. I like to be recognized. I like to be validated. I like to make things happen. I like people to say, there's Nick. He's amazing. He's doing awesome stuff, which is, I think, is a good thing. Right? And I think we want to have that constant growth mindset, unquestionably. You know, I just think that at times, we can get lost in the shuffle when we're trying so hard, you know, to manage and trying so hard to make things happen that.

That we might forget that the self acceptance is where we're really gonna. You know, we're really gonna learn to be with ourselves, and we're gonna learn how to just be okay sometimes and how to be at peace, right? And so I think that's one of the greatest life hacks, is, you know, how can we be a better friend to ourselves? You know? What is that voice in our head telling us, check in with it, because our relationship with the present moment is our relationship with life. And for me, this week, with some of the work stresses, it was, you know, that internal dialogue was, go.

Go make things happen. You're not doing enough, you know, and that's okay to feel that, but it's okay to just say, hey, Nick, you know, you're doing a good job. You know, I see you fighting and trying to make things happen and doing the best you can, you know, good work. But it's okay to just take it easy, too. It's okay to take it easy even when we're working hard. And I don't know who's listening so to this. But if you, if you just give yourself the permission today to say, it's okay, I'm just okay being okay, Dan, if you're still listening, it's just okay being okay.

So those are just a couple of quotes that have really stayed with me through, you know, about 15 years. And, and that's another thing, is that I, with these lessons that come up, you know, I think it's often, it's a lifetime of learning that dad is still with me. Dad is still with me. Dad, thank you. It is a lifetime of learning, and that can be frustrating. It's like, oh, I thought I had that figured out. I thought I knew how to go lightly. I thought I knew how to practice self acceptance. But life has always changed and we're always having to learn new things.

And that's why I'm so, you know, impressed and excited to be a part of the Cadre platform, because it's like, we don't have to do this on our own, right? We have this crew, you know, who we could do it together with. And that's really where the great results come from, is when we, when we go together. If I go off on Nick island and I'm trying to make things happen, you know, by myself, it's, it's no good. But when I stay a part of the group, I'm gold. I'm gold, you know? And so that's what I'm gonna do today.

I hope you have an awesome Friday TGIF. And we have another awesome live coming up on Risa. We'll talk about making your dreams come true. That's coming on in about an hour. Always amazing lives from Risa. And then over the weekend, we have Jay, Bren, and Matt is going to have an awesome live on Saturday. I think he's going to talk about being like water. I don't know if there's going to be a Bruce Lee reference or not, but I'm super stoked for that one. And then on Sunday, we have Sunday dinner with Dan Cunningham and we got Dave ready to.

Your lives on Saturdays have been so great. We had self massage a couple weeks ago and the increasing the lung capacity this week, these are the things that are just helping me. And it's all right here on the Cadre app. m. We got Sunday dinner with coach Dan. You can get in there and get some tips on how to make dinner, which I definitely, definitely need. And Dan's been doing an amazing job on his live, so please check those out. And then, of course, on Monday, we have Luke Wendlett with Monday motivation always just helping us get that week started on the right foot.

And that's all off the top of my head. That's as far as I go in the week. But I know. Doctor Carrie Mankey. Doctor David Everett. Evan the counselor, Katie Donovan. Chris Edrington. I know I'm going to be forgetting people, but there's so many great creators on here and new ones are joining every day. So, you know, just keep being peaceful, positive, and while remembering. We all have a lot of work to do, but we're going to do it together. Okay? Peace. Have a great day. Bye.