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Season 4 - Episode 97 - How do you define stress? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset, coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. Question of the day, how do you
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  define stress? I mean, it's a pretty simple
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  question and most of us don't necessarily answer it well.
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  So think about, just take a second and pause and think about
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  this. How many times in a day do you
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  experience stress? Probably endless if you're like
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  the average human that walks on this planet, you just, you
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  suffer from having stress a lot. Because we take it all in.
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  We experience it regularly. We allow ourselves to tell these
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  stories that cause us stress and therefore we are constantly
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  pacing. And when I say pacing, I really
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  do mean it. We pace stress, we think about
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  stress, we add stress. We do this to ourselves all the
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  time. So when I say how many times in
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  a day do you think you are, you know, experiencing stress, it's
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  quite a bit. And what does it do to you?
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  I mean, we all know. We've all heard the stories
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  about how physiologically it bothers your body in endless
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  numbers of way, in ways it takes, you know, I mean, high
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  blood pressure, it opens up all kinds of problems
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  psychologically, it opens up all kinds of problems physically,
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  heart attack, stroke, you can take your pick there across the
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  board. So when you start thinking about
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  it physically and you understand, OK, this is actually
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  really something that I am, I, I need to pay attention to this.
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  This is a, this is a bad scenario for me.
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  Well, guess what? It's it's not just that it's
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  something that's bad for you. This is something that you're
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  doing to yourself because ultimately no one can help you
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  control those, that emotion except you.
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  So when we, when stress shows up, just like any other emotion,
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  they all knock. They're all there.
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  They all have an option to come in.
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  We don't have to allow the stress to come in.
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  We can choose which ones we want to show up, but first and
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  foremost we have to know. Like, you know, how do we define
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  stress? If we don't understand how we
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  define it, then we don't know where it's going to potentially
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  come from, which means it can blind side us, which means that
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  OK, I'm going to get thrown off, which means, which means, which
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  means and all of a sudden everything starts to snowball
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  and we have a massive overwhelm. And most of the time, stress and
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  the word overwhelm are best friends.
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  We know that. We understand that these two go
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  hand in hand. So the the pause and checking in
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  and saying, how do I define stress?
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  Like as you hear that, you might think, first and foremost, my
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  boss, that might be the picture that comes into your head
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  immediately without question. OK, I define stress as this
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  person. I define stress as this
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  building. I define stress as this job, the
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  this thought, this situation. I, you know, I can sit there and
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  say I have things in my life that I know are immediate
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  pressure cookers. It's like the phone rings and we
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  all know that there are sometimes that people call and
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  as soon as the phone rings, it, it's one of those.
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  Oh no, Oh no. We all have that wave of stress
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  immediately that comes over us. And it's so crazy because it
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  doesn't have to be that way. It does not have to be that way,
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  yet here we are and it is that way.
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  So we have to visualize it ahead of time.
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  We have to think about it ahead of time in order to avoid it.
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  That's how it works. We must take our our our
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  cognitive awareness and put it into that one thing.
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  How do we define stress? And it can be everything.
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  For some people, this is grocery shopping.
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  They can't stand grocery shopping.
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  Other people, it's laundry. Every time they look at laundry,
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  it's such small triggers, my friends.
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  And if you don't know them all for the scope from the big to
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  the small. Now the bigs are what's going to
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  show up right away. It they always just bombard in
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  like, oh, it's the the biggest one of all.
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  Like I said, the phone call, the boss, the building, working on a
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  project, whatever it might be. Those are obvious.
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  We're also looking for the ones that are less obvious.
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  We're looking for the ones that are more insidious, the ones
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  that are just hidden behind the scenes.
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  The ones that it's, they eroded us.
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  They're like little tiny termites that eat away at our
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  psyche every single day. So that that's what I'm talking
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  about the full picture. How do you define stress?
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  Because going into this time of the year can be very stressful
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  for lots of people. Spring is very busy.
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  We know it encompasses holidays, tax time, all kinds of things.
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  People visiting, you've got to get outside and do your yard
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  work. You've got to make sure the pool
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  is open. You've got to do all kinds of
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  crazy things. Not to mention the world itself
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  is hyper sensitive right now to everything.
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  So question of the day, how do you define stress?
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  Write it all down so that you know where those hiccups could
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  be. And then you can decide and
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  choose which ones you want to let in, if any.
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  Because remember, all emotions are a choice.
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  I just can't say that enough. All emotions are a choice.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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  all tomorrow. Bye.