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Season 3 - Episode 216 - Creating sacred spaces · 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 mastermindset
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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 coop.
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  Today, in our continuation of our spirituality practice, I'm
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  going to talk about sacred spaces.
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  So what exactly is a sacred space?
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  So for me, that happens to be any place that I'm going to
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  dwell for a period of time, whether it's my farm, my home,
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  my studio, the chicken coop, any area that I spend an inordinate
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  amount of time, I'm going to make sure it's a sacred space.
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  Now, for some of you, this might be a room, this might be a
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  portion of a room, this might be your vehicle.
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  The reason I'm framing it this way is because I want you to
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  realize there is no right way to think of this.
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  So if you're thinking I have to have this, you know, elaborate
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  spiritual space in order to, you know, tap into my spirituality,
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  No, absolutely not. I just like that.
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  I do not think that sacred spaces, while we say, you know,
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  a sacred space is maybe a church, a temple, a synagogue,
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  all of that. Yes, they are.
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  But it doesn't have to be the only place you go to tap into
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  these things and you can create them.
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  So for instance, I will tell you I feel this way about the
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  chicken coop because, you know, sacred spaces are supposed to
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  provide you a surrounding where they foster your belief in that
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  energy. Walk in and it makes you feel a
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  certain way. And that's why I spent have
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  spent so much time cultivating my space here on the farm, here
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  in the house. The moment you drive into the
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  gate, I want you to feel a certain way and I have just
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  worked really hard and very much intentionally created that space
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  because I want it to feel a certain way.
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  That's why, you know, I believe all my animals can get along.
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  That's why I believe that we have the space that we have for
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  blending groups of chickens when you're not supposed to be able
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  to do that. That's why I have the, you know,
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  the nature that we have around us that all show up here, why we
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  have animals that show up or birds say that show up here at
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  the bird feeders that are unlike what my neighbors have because
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  I've set the space up with intention, with intention.
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  That is the key with intention. So what's important in this is
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  the sacred spaces can be any place that you really want them
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  to be. There is no right or wrong in
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  doing this. There's just having this ability
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  to look at it and say, ah, OK, I I want this to be a sacred space
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  or this is a sacred space. Whatever it might be.
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  It, it, it can be any, anything that you want it to be.
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  It's just about getting clear on what you want it to be.
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  Now it can be a lot of energy can come from a place that has
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  nature in it. So it can be a very nurturing
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  place if it's outside, at least for me, that's what I find.
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  Outside is always that place. I would prefer to be outside any
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  day of the week than to be trapped inside.
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  I just like it. It feels very connected to me.
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  So it is by its nature, it is a spiritual place and I tried to
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  incorporate that into everything.
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  When we were creating the farm and getting ready to build the
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  farmhouse, one of the things that I said was I want to feel
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  like the outside is in and the inside is out.
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  I have to be able to blend the world's and while I drove the
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  builder crazy with that, I, I really meant it.
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  I really meant it. I had worked my whole life to
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  get to the spot where I could do this.
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  And I, when I say I worked my whole life, I really mean that.
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  And it was not an easy task to get to this place and I was not
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  going to sacrifice that. And we achieved it.
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  So you have to be aware first of all of what that space means to
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  you. And the more aware you are of
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  what the space means to you, the more likely you are to be able
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  to make it happen. So sit down and figure out where
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  is the space that I want that to be?
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  Is it multiple places like I have or is it just one, the
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  studio that I have to actually record classes and things like
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  that. And I feel like that is a very
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  sacred space for me because I have all my favorite things in
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  there, Plants. And I have a lot of favorite
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  plants. I can't say they're all in
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  there, but I have things, cards from my daughter, clients, gifts
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  that I've been given over the years for working with people.
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  I save everything because it's so magical to me.
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  And think of it that way. Maybe create the space.
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  That's magic. Figure it out.
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  I don't care if it's a closet. It can be magical if you decide
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  it's going to be. And that's the point of this.
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  Make the decision and find the magic.
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  All right, my friends, I will see you tomorrow.
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  Have a blessed day. Bye.