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Season 4 - Episode 125 - Morning sensory experience · 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 morning from the porch.
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  So if you can hear off in the background, you may hear the
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  chickens very far away because the house is pretty far from the
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  chicken coop. However, can hear all the other
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  sounds can hear the birds can hear the frogs going off, You
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  can hear bugs going off. You can hear all kinds of things
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  right now and this is a happy place for me.
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  This is a place where I love to come out here in the morning
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  before it's even time to go out to the chicken coop because it's
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  still too dark. You can hear the Roosters going
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  off in the distance, but it's still a little too dark that
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  they're not ready to open the doors yet.
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  And I'm on the porch and I'll come out here for, you know,
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  even 5 minutes, 10 minutes, typically around 10 to 15
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  minutes. I'm out here and I just sit here
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  and one of the things that I love to do when I'm out here is
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  do the work for the morning. That gets me centered because
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  when you hear how? Peaceful this place is.
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  You just take a different energy into.
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  Your day. And we have.
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  Worked very very hard to. Cultivate more and more.
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  Life here, if you will. Bringing things back, putting
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  things together, whether it's the fish in the pond.
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  Or I. Mean we just found out we have
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  an amphuma in the pond, which I didn't.
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  Even know. What it was, but it's an aquatic
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  salamander and I'm like beyond thrilled that we found it so
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  cool but we've got so much I mean like the hummingbirds I.
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  Think so far this year? I've already seen that we have
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  about 7 to 10 different hummingbirds.
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  Here. And I can tell because I've got
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  one that will. Guard the.
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  Bird feeders for him. I've got 3 bird feeders, but
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  apparently this little 1 needs all three of them, so we see
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  them. With their dive bombing, but.
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  But that's not the point of this.
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  The point is this. Early morning.
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  And they're already buzzing around and it's.
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  Barely Twilight. Like it's just two.
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  It's just a little bit right now.
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  And. That's the point of this, is
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  that starting the day? Off in this area to me is a.
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  Spiritual experience. It it.
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  Makes me feel like I'm going into my day in a.
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  Different headspace a different. Feeling.
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  If I miss out on it, I feel it. It's not just that I recognize
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  that, I feel it in my bones. It feels differently.
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  The whole day feels like I I wasn't.
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  Set so. Coming out here with a hot
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  drink, whatever that might be it, it's something that makes me
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  happy and it's something that centers.
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  It brings out the happiness. Can't really make me happy.
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  I choose to be happy, but it brings out the happiness and it
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  amplifies it. And for me, watching that sun
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  just start to come up a little tiny bit, feeling the air,
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  hearing the sounds, it's a sensory experience.
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  And that's the point of this is finding a way to put sensory
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  experiences into your day now. And there's a sometimes, not
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  often, but sometimes if I've got a lot of time in the morning, I
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  will come out here and I will bring my coloring book.
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  And yes, I have those adult coloring books and I like to
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  color them. I like the ocean pictures and
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  the flower pictures, but I have this nice set of pencils and
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  I'll bring my drink out. We sit down.
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  Lucy's always with me and we sit down.
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  Lucy's the dog and one of the dogs.
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  And I. I'll just sit down and I'll just
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  start coloring. And now I'm in an immersion
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  experience, like I'm already immersed into the nature part of
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  it and paying attention. But when I get out here and I do
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  that. It takes it to a different
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  level. So the point of the story is.
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  That we have. Opportunities around us all the
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  time. Like as I'm sitting here talking
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  to you Cardinals, I can see them flying up to the bird feeder.
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  I've got Bluebirds coming down. They're waiting for me to bring
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  out freeze dried mealworms for them.
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  But it takes me out of all the chaos that I might have already
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  been dealing with, thinking about what my day is going to
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  be, how am I going to show up? And it allows me to have that
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  peace, just that little centered piece that makes you feel so
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  good beforehand, before everything else takes place.
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  So I'm going to encourage you to figure out what is that sensory
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  experience that centers you, that brings you back to help you
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  find that place every morning before you do something, before
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  you take off, whatever you're doing, find that place because I
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  will tell you it makes a massive difference.
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  And if it can engage all of your senses like that, you see, you
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  hear, you feel, you've got touch, all of that, it brings
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  you into a different space. So.
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  Give it a. Try.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.