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Season 4 - Episode 160 - Chickens and emotional contagion · 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 happened 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 evening from the chicken coop.
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  So I'm shooting this right now because there's an unusual thing
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  going on, like it's bedtime. They should be going to bed and
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  you can hear them. They're all flipping out and
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  screaming. And I really, honestly have no
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  idea why and it is cracking me up.
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  At first I thought there was something wrong in the coop and
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  the chickens are the most curious creatures and you just
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  sometimes have to like, stop and pause and go.
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  What is happening? They're all lined up at the
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  front. Some of them are inside and
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  everybody has got something happening.
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  Nothing's here. I don't know why they're so
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  worked up. I'm looking around.
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  I'm like, maybe there's a snake in the coop, maybe there's
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  something else. I don't see anything.
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  I mean, there's nothing unusual. I'm walking around, I'm checking
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  everything. Nothing unusual.
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  And they're just worked up. You know, sometimes it happens.
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  I just haven't seen it like this in a very long time.
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  Most of them are up in the rafters already.
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  We'll go up their little ladders and go ready to sleep.
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  But but there are some like Sabrina, who you can hear
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  screeching, very worked up. No idea why.
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  But in any event, it's funny to me because this is exactly what
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  happens to humans sometimes We don't know what we're panicking
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  about, but there's panic happening and there and we get
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  worked up and we're like, really?
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  Do we need to be this worked up about it?
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  And the answer is no, we don't probably need to be this worked
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  up. But right now there is a handful
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  of them that are very worked up. And it just always makes me
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  laugh when I can draw those parallels to, you know, how we
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  react, how we show up when we do things and how we get so worked
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  up about something. And do we need to be that worked
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  up about it? Like, all of a sudden, they're
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  calming down. Sabrina, shut up.
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  And everybody else stopped panicking too.
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  So see how contagious emotions can be.
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  Doesn't matter if they're in an animal, doesn't matter if
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  they're in a person, they are contagious.
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  So when something happens and one goes off, they all go off.
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  And I feel as though if we did a better job looking at the the
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  level of contagion we're walking in, we wouldn't necessarily.
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  And that's not just like walking into, it's walking in ourselves.
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  Like, what are we holding on ourselves at that point in time
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  so that we don't have to to carry that with us and infect
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  other people with it? You know, emotions are
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  contagious. And there's no question in my
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  mind that is a real thing. It is a very real situation.
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  So we have to stop and pause and say to ourselves, am I really
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  needing to feel this amped up where I'm going to pass my
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  contagion on to someone else? It's an interesting question.
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  Should I bring myself back a few octaves before I engage in
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  anything? Another interesting question.
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  And more importantly, through all of this, when you are in the
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  process of working through it and trying to pull yourself back
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  and you look at what the others around you are doing, just like
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  what happened here in the chicken coop a few minutes ago.
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  They're all looking at her and she's worked up and they're all
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  joining in, but they have no clue why she's doing it.
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  And they're just doing it to be part of what she's doing.
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  And it's crazy how it works. And it doesn't matter if it's a
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  chicken or a human, that's what happens.
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  So I'm going to encourage everybody to take us a moment
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  and say, hmm, the next time this shows up, do I want to engage in
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  this? And it doesn't matter if
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  someone's trying to engage you in eating things you don't want
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  or drinking things you don't want, or, you know, bringing you
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  into drama and you say, I don't want to gossip.
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  And then all of a sudden someone shows up and they're gossiping
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  and everybody's engaged in it. And you're just like, I know I
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  shouldn't be doing this. It doesn't feel good.
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  I don't want to do it. And yet we do it anyway.
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  Well, because we're buying into it.
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  And the truth is we shouldn't be buying into it.
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  We should be changing our approach with it and we should
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  be saying, Nope, that's not how I want to pass myself on and I'm
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  not going to partake in that level of contagion.
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  I'm not going to put it out there.
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  I don't want to be part of the problem.
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  I want to be part of the solution.
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  So I refuse to allow that to happen and put the brakes on it
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  so that you don't add fuel to the fire.
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  It is an extremely important thing to do not to add fuel to
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  the fire. You can be observant.
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  You can watch what other people are doing, but you can't add
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  fuel to the fire because if you do, then then you're not
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  elevating yourself where you want to go.
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  You're just being part of the fray and you're getting all
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  worked up all over again. So don't be blind.
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  Don't put a blind eye to it, really.
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  Hunker down and see because it will make a massive difference.
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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.