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Season 3 - Episode 212 - Making sense of WHY things happen · 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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  So today I'm going to go down a little bit of a philosophical
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  Rd. because sometimes you just have to reckon with the fact
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  that you do not understand why things happen.
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  And it frustrates us, it hurts us.
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  It leaves us heartbroken, sad, miserable sometimes, sometimes
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  elated because we don't know how something showed up and it just,
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  you know, fell into our lap. And then there are other times
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  where we look at something and when we say, you know, gosh,
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  this is such a tragedy. This is the worst thing in the
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  whole world. But the truth is we just don't
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  know why. Sometimes things happen and and
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  we'll never know. Sometimes we just can't know.
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  And no matter how hard we try to put the pieces together, they
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  just don't seem to come together.
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  And we struggle and we wonder and we wonder and it takes up
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  and consumes our mind, our space, our creativity, because
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  we're trying to solve a problem that it is humanly impossible to
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  solve. And I genuinely mean that
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  sometimes it's humanly impossible to solve something
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  like this. Now, part of the challenge is
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  that I, I personally believe we just don't have the capacity to
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  understand some of these things sometimes.
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  Sometimes it's just that in our nature to want to do something
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  and solve it, but we just can't because there's just parts of
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  the universe that are mysteries and we will never know.
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  And then there are other times where we can put some thoughts
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  into our head that can help us in the process of things and
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  allow us to let you know the the events pass without holding on
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  to them in the same way. And that's where we go to the
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  guides of spirituality and trying to figure out, you know,
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  in prayer, in faith, religion, spirituality, of what something
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  means and how we're going to make it mean something from that
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  vantage point. So today talking about that and
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  saying, you know, if you have to, if you've had something
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  happen and you have to make something of it to give yourself
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  peace and you start thinking about it, Do you lean on your
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  religion? Do you lean on your
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  spirituality? Do you lean on your logic?
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  Really doesn't matter. You can actually lean on all
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  three of them. And sometimes that's what's
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  necessary. I know for myself it is for
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  sure. But there is one belief that I
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  carry around with me that I learned many years ago, and it
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  is the fact that we just don't understand the mission souls are
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  on. Whether it's our own or, you
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  know, other people, every soul has a mission that it's on.
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  And we are not Privy to that. We don't have a guide book that
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  comes with us. We are very much like an iPhone.
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  We don't get an instruction book and we don't know, oh, this is
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  what's going to take place. Or these are large events that
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  you're going to experience or these are emotions that you need
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  to go through in your lifetime. And because of that, we have,
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  you know, this need to say, oh, I, I have to figure this out or
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  whatever it is because we don't have the guidebook.
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  And then we struggle. Well, if we recognize that we
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  don't understand the mission our soul is on or someone else's,
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  then it helps us to let go and say, well, I can see their
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  actions. I can see they're in a state
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  that's taking them in a certain direction.
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  And maybe that's just the mission their soul is on.
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  I used to say that in reference to one of my aunts all the time
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  because she was so grumpy and she was always the antagonist in
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  the group. And I would say, you know, she's
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  her, her soul just has to be on this mission of being the
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  antagonist so the rest of us can reach a different level of
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  greatness by moving and, and recognizing I don't want to be
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  that way. Whatever it is true or not, that
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  belief has helped and served so many times in my life.
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  Is it true for me? Yes, that's what I believe.
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  It might not be true for everybody, but I definitely will
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  tell you it's true for me because I can look at somebody
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  and then I can have compassion for the fact that they are the
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  way they are because I can say, wow, you know what?
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  Their soul is on quite the mission.
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  And it lets me pull back and not be judgmental in a negative way.
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  It just lets me be observant. And it also lets me have grace
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  for the things that I don't like about what's going on in some
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  way, shape or form. So if you work towards that
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  belief in one way or another in whatever's going on in your
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  life, and you start thinking to yourself, I have to believe
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  there are things I don't understand and therefore I can
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  let it go. It's just, it eases the, the,
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  the suffering. And that's what this is all
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  about, easing suffering. So I hope that this brings you
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  peace, whatever is going on in your world.
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  And I hope that you guys have a very blessed, blessed day and I
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  will see you all tomorrow. Bye.