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Season 4 - Episode 169 - The rip currents of emotion · 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 from the chicken coop.
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  So tell me what you do when things get too hectic, when you
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  feel like there is just so much coming at you and you can't
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  breathe. You feel like it's all rushing
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  at you. Do you partake in the rush or do
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  you step outside of yourself and say I just need to pause for 5
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  minutes? Even if you walk into a
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  bathroom, do you? Do you actually do that for
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  yourself? Because I have had multiple
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  people this week talk to me about how everything is coming
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  at them so fast and they can't think and that's, that can't
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  breathe, they're having panic attacks, all this stuff.
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  I mean, it's the, it's the middle of the middle of the
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  year. It's heading into summer.
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  People feeling like they're behind the political climate,
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  the emotional climate, the religious climate, take your
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  pick. There's always a reason.
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  And it doesn't. It's not just this time in
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  history. It's there's always a reason and
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  we all have the opportunity to feel this way.
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  Our job in the best of conditions is to recognize
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  what's happening, step outside of it.
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  And sometimes those conditions don't show up until we feel like
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  crap. And then when it shows up, it's
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  like, oh, right, I feel like crap.
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  And you don't notice it until it's too late.
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  So the, the essence of, of fixing it has already gone by.
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  By the time you feel like crap, it's already gone by.
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  It's that theory of like when you're dehydrated, by the time
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  you're thirsty, it's already too late.
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  So you have to drink throughout the day to know that you are
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  hydrated. And if you're not peeing, then
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  you know you're not hydrated. And it's, it's a very simple
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  procedure. But what do we have for the, the
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  mental state of that? What do we have for the
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  emotional state of that? Like, how do you know and what
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  do you do when it's coming at you?
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  Do you recognize it? So most of us are very attuned
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  to feeling overwhelmed. We're pretty good at picking up
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  on it. We're pretty good at saying, oh,
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  well, overwhelm, yes, I recognize overwhelm.
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  And we just don't stop ourselves.
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  We just keep in the overwhelm. Oh my God, I just got to eat
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  this down. And we go down a rabbit hole and
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  the the point is you can feel it.
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  It's totally fine to feel overwhelmed.
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  You just don't want to stay in it.
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  You got to get yourself out of it.
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  And a great example and a metaphor to remember is RIP
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  tides. We, if you live near the ocean
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  or you've ever gone to the ocean, you'll often see signs as
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  you're walking out to the beach and say be careful of RIP tides
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  and RIP currents. And the essence of that is there
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  is this motion that takes place near the beach where it swirls.
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  And it will when you get into a RIP tide, it will pull you out
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  and it will take you further. And if you fight it, you will
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  actually can drown pretty easily because of the way it pulls on
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  you. So the, the, the key to it is
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  the key to success with it is to just go with the flow.
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  Like you just relax and you let it take you out and you're the,
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  the, which is crazy when you think about it, because it's
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  pulling you further away from shore.
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  It's like really pulling you away from the shore.
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  And when it's pulling you away from the shore, you're thinking,
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  I'm never going to get back. I'm, I can't swim that far back.
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  I, I, you're the panic sets in because it defies logic to say,
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  let me just go out with it. And then here's the key.
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  Once you're out with it, the current, the beach current will
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  then pull you back down further down the beach and you will get
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  pushed on to the beach by the regular waves just outside the
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  current. But we have to surrender to the
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  process and we often resist. And as human beings, we panic
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  and we try to outswim the current and it doesn't work
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  because they're very strong and they can pull you under.
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  That's what they do. That's why they say caution.
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  Watch out for the RIP currents and where we are, we get a lot
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  of red flags on those currents because it happens and it
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  happens quickly. So this is very much like what
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  the emotions do. We get hooked.
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  We get that feeling of overwhelm.
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  It's like you see the RIP current, you're caught in the
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  RIP current, the overwhelms there and it's pulling you down,
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  pulling you down, pulling you down.
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  And rather than stepping aside and just letting go and being
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  like, I'm just going to ride this out and not have the
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  emotion with it, we fight it. And when we fight it, we get
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  more filled with anxiety, more filled with in whatever,
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  whatever emotion we're in. And we get tugged under and
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  before, you know, we're drowning and then we're in tears or we're
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  off to the side just up in a puddle.
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  So the point is, try to go with the flow, work towards going
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  with the flow, work towards stepping outside of it.
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  Go wash your hands, go wash your face.
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  You, if you're a regular listener, you've heard me say
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  that a million times. Step out into the world.
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  That's more natural. Get out of the artificial human
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  created environments and go into nature.
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  It always works. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.