Latest / Good Morning From The Chicken Coop! / Understanding practice

Transcript

Understanding practice · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

• 0:02
  Welcome to the good morning from the chicken coop, podcast with
• 0:04
  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and master mindset.
• 0:08
  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
• 0:11
  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
• 0:14
  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
• 0:17
  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
• 0:20
  Favorite happy places her chicken coop along with all her
• 0:23
  chickens. Hey good morning from the
• 0:28
  chicken coop so today I want to talk to you about lessons from
• 0:33
  the Buddha, and I think it's important to whatever religion,
• 0:38
  you are, wherever you are in the process to all, look at what
• 0:42
  everybody's learning and kind of pull the best and have all the
• 0:45
  little gold and gems that you can from all the different
• 0:49
  practices. So, over time, I will be
• 0:52
  bringing you a little gold and gems from all the great thought
• 0:55
  leaders religious philosophers, all of them.
• 0:58
  Because I think that all contribute to our well-being.
• 1:00
  But today, I want to give you some thoughts from Buddhism and
• 1:04
  Buddha. And I want to remind everybody
• 1:08
  that Buddhism is not necessarily a religion.
• 1:12
  A lot of people believe it's a religion, but it's not a
• 1:14
  religion as much as it is, a practice, a true.
• 1:17
  Buddhist will tell you. Buddhism is a practice.
• 1:20
  We practice, we do not, it's not a religion, but it is a way of
• 1:24
  thinking. It's a mindset.
• 1:26
  It is basically a practice, And why do they call it a practice?
• 1:32
  Well, because they don't believe that anything is ever Master.
• 1:36
  Quite honestly, all the great people that I have ever studied
• 1:39
  under have all said the same thing.
• 1:41
  This is not about me getting somewhere and saying I'm a
• 1:44
  master at something. It says, I practice, you know, I
• 1:47
  love that when the Dalai Lama was questioned once about
• 1:50
  meditating, because it's such a Buddhist thing to do and how
• 1:54
  hard it is. He said, well, I think the
• 1:57
  greatest form of meditation is sleep and Everybody in the room
• 2:00
  was like, what? And he, yes.
• 2:03
  I think the greatest meditation is sleep because it's one that's
• 2:06
  designed for everybody to tap into right away, very
• 2:09
  organically in our life. And I think we forget and we
• 2:12
  take sleep as like a, you know, unless you can't sleep.
• 2:16
  And then you realize how important sleep is.
• 2:17
  We take sleep for granted, and it's really a beautiful way to
• 2:23
  rest your mind, and go into a place of Peace.
• 2:28
  As long as you're setting yourself up.
• 2:29
  To win, not watching the news first and doing all those
• 2:32
  things. However, let me back to this
• 2:33
  practice so Buddhism really teaches us that we practice
• 2:40
  mindfulness throughout our life. Meaning how we conduct ourselves
• 2:45
  being very aware of our actions, our speech?
• 2:50
  Our Our intentions, throughout the way, even how we conduct
• 2:55
  ourselves in our work, what we do are we aligned with what we
• 2:59
  think of ourselves as on a higher level, it's all part of a
• 3:03
  practice, the effort we put into things everything about it,
• 3:07
  teaches that we should do things thoughtfully and in alignment,
• 3:12
  thoughtfully and in alignment. So why I wanted to bring this up
• 3:15
  today is I think that a lot of us are feel fractured right now.
• 3:20
  And we don't feel like we're alive.
• 3:22
  With a lot of the stuff that we want to be, and we want to have
• 3:25
  as an outcome and we feel like we're behind.
• 3:27
  We feel like gosh, so far behind them so far behind.
• 3:31
  I'm never going to get caught up, blah, blah, blah.
• 3:34
  This ideal of being in a state of practice has saved me.
• 3:40
  So many nights of Heartache. I can't even express to you.
• 3:44
  Just doing this podcast. When I started it off, I got
• 3:48
  into my certainty girl. And I was just like, oh, I can't
• 3:51
  Launch it till this and I can't do this and I done it at.
• 3:54
  I had all these stories and my coach, who happens to be
• 3:59
  Buddhist said, was talking to me about the fact that, well, this
• 4:04
  is just practice right now. Let's just stop and pause.
• 4:06
  And remember. And I was like, no, he's right.
• 4:08
  And I have many different resources that I go to, but why
• 4:12
  I choose that particular one and him is because I need to have
• 4:17
  this settling voice of just knowing there is no perfection.
• 4:21
  Everything is practice. We are all on a road of an
• 4:25
  alignment and Enlightenment to our higher selves.
• 4:28
  How we get, there is different for every one of us, and we have
• 4:31
  to make space and have Grace for everyone in the process of how
• 4:34
  they're doing it. And sometimes we look at it, we
• 4:36
  go, oh my God. What the hell is this person
• 4:38
  doing? But we have to say, Okay, that's
• 4:42
  where that soul is. I've offered help.
• 4:44
  I've offered guidance, they choose not to take it.
• 4:46
  I can't force that and when we release that and love them
• 4:50
  anyway, As Wayne Dyer, always gracefully said you can say
• 4:56
  thank you for sharing. I understand.
• 4:58
  I love you anyway and I'm still going to move on to this
• 5:01
  direction which I just, I just love the fact that I can let go
• 5:06
  of people in my life. I can send them love.
• 5:09
  I don't have to be angry with them, but I don't have to put
• 5:12
  energy to it. And this is part of the
• 5:14
  practice. This is part of accepting things
• 5:18
  where it is and not feeling behind, not feeling Rush, not
• 5:20
  feeling pressure, Because that's not going to help us get
• 5:23
  anywhere. So, today, I want you to start
• 5:25
  thinking really pointed thoughts about am I being aligned with
• 5:31
  what my bigger outcomes are. Am I allowing myself to practice
• 5:35
  and take that thought in practice, practice practice,
• 5:38
  which is the essence of what? Everything that Buddhism teaches
• 5:42
  the foundational piece of it. Is, it is a practice and we
• 5:46
  never get to our destination. We are because we're and
• 5:49
  truthfully, we're always refining our a nation because
• 5:52
  what we think we want along the way, always shifts.
• 5:54
  And then we have to move a little bit, and we have to move
• 5:56
  a little bit. So it's always alignment and
• 5:58
  practice alignment and practice alignment in practice.
• 6:01
  And I want you to take that with your debt into your day, and
• 6:03
  into your week and see how that can affect your outcome.
• 6:06
  See how that can make you feel better about things immediately?
• 6:09
  Because I know it sure does for me and this is all about me,
• 6:12
  giving you tools that work for me and my clients and giving
• 6:17
  them out to the world and letting them see him.
• 6:18
  So, today have fun looking at this.
• 6:21
  And remember, And this is a practice of how you see
• 6:23
  yourself, how you speak, how you look at the world?
• 6:27
  How you put your effort out there, everything is a practice
• 6:30
  and there's always room to get better and there's always room
• 6:32
  to identify more. I hope you have a great day, my
• 6:36
  friends and I will see you tomorrow.