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Season 2 - Episode 230 - Being silent can heal you · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and master mindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
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  Hey, everybody. Good morning from the chicken
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  coop. So today we're talking about
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  silence, which is funny because we're talking about silence,
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  right? But there was a reason for it.
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  Silence is something that is an incredibly powerful tool.
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  And when you own it and you kind of are comfortable with it, even
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  when you're talking to people and you just let silence happen,
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  you say something and then you don't try to fill the space.
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  There's power in that and. Throughout my life I have had to
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  learn that being silent and not taking up the need to fill all
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  the air in the you know with sound and talk and try to talk
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  things through is very powerful and just being in silence can be
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  the best way to heal yourself in situations.
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  Not something I have been terribly good at and have had to
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  practice multiple times and continue to have to practice in
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  my life because I always have a need to understand, and in my
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  need to understand I want to talk about things and quite
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  honestly it doesn't always work. So the concept of sitting in
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  silence and allowing just that space to take place is so
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  powerful because as you sit in it and you allow it to just take
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  place. You actually start healing from
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  whatever is irritating you, frustrating you, making you sad,
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  and just being quiet is healing. It's just powerful.
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  It's kind of like if you've ever been in traffic or you're lost
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  and you're trying to figure out how to get somewhere.
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  How many times have you shut the music off in the car and just
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  said I needed to be quiet? So I can think it's it's such a
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  telling strong metaphor, but. How many times have we done
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  that? I can't think with the music on
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  and you shut it off and you just want it to be quiet.
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  Or when you get into, you're in a loud environment, like if
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  you're at a mall or you're with big crowds, you just want to get
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  in the car and have it be quiet so you can claim yourself back.
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  And that's how it really feels. It's like claiming yourself so
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  when you're in a frustrating moment with somebody, or you've
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  been in an argument or you're hurt from a situation.
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  The desire to heal the situation sometimes, maybe to go and talk
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  about it, but honestly, the silence collectively is powerful
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  when you just sit with it and you're like, OK, I'm just going
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  to let it go. Because if you don't talk to the
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  person for a bit of time and you don't do it out of spite, you
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  just like, OK, I just, you know, chilling out, not talking.
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  It gives you that time and that grace to diffuse and make
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  decisions better. Because remember, you've heard
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  me say this before. When emotions go up,
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  intelligence goes down and it is handedly one of the quickest
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  things to recalibrate yourself to recognize that and the power
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  in the silence, even engaging in people's drama or they want to
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  talk about drama and you just don't.
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  You won't do it. You just sit there.
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  I mean, that's one of the things that I have to say is my.
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  That that is one of my really hard rules.
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  I just don't want to engage in drama.
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  So if people want to talk about stuff, if they want to talk
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  politics or about their spouses or their partners and they just
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  want to complain, I don't want to hear.
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  It's okay if you want to talk about it and look for solutions.
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  But if you want to talk about it just to complain, yeah, I'm.
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  I'm so not your person because it doesn't do any good.
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  It only adds to the energy that's the problem.
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  And the energy that's the problem needs to be corrected or
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  you'll start attracting more of it.
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  So when you're in silence, it's like being a neutral.
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  It's like actually saying okay, I'm just going to like stay in
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  this nice, cool state right now where it's like, it's neutral
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  like Switzerland. No opinions, no engaging, just
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  chilling out. So I'm going to challenge you
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  guys to find your silence, do something that allows you to
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  just relax. Put yourself in that position of
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  just being like, I don't need to talk.
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  Even if you just choose to say, I'm not going to talk a lot
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  today, Whatever you're doing, you just try to let it be and.
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  Chill down. Just like bring the bring the
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  temperature way down. Cool yourself down emotionally
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  and you will be surprised at how much more power you feel, how
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  much more empowered your your senses feel when, and you just.
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  Legitimately. Just calm right down.
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  It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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  And it's so worth the effort. Every little bit of it is worth
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  the effort. Is it always easy?
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  No, because we're conditioned to just talk and talk and talk and
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  talk and talk. And I know I am.
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  And doing the silent thing is hard, but it is wonderful.
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  So go find your silence. Go find your power.
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  Reclaim yourself, heal yourself and enjoy that.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.
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  I'm a.