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Season 3 - Episode 47 - Look up at the sunshine! · 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 mastermind set
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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 if you were in a place where you're down and you're not
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  feeling your best and you're thinking that things just suck,
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  there's something that's hard wired into us.
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  That's a very unique notion when you start to think about it and
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  come up with it. And when I first, I don't know
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  if I heard this, made this up, I can't figure out how it got into
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  my head. But it has always, always helped
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  me. And we've always talked about,
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  you know, oh, when you're feeling, you know, off
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  depressed, something's not right.
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  People will tell you to go for a walk, clear your head.
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  And that's true, because getting out into nature just clears your
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  head. And it's such a great asset to
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  us. But there's one thing that has a
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  spiritual connection besides being in the trees and
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  everything. That always seems to work for me
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  and I don't even know if I've ever talked about this before.
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  But you just go sit in the sunshine.
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  You talk about it and say sit in the sunshine and what is
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  something that happens every single time that you walk out in
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  the sunshine? Typically you put your face up
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  and you just stop and you put your face up and you say, ah, it
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  feels so good. We've all had those moments.
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  At least I believe we have all had those moments.
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  I know I have many of them, and I always feel that when I put my
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  face up to the sun that it's filling me up.
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  It feels like I have evidence that this universe is alive in a
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  big way besides just what's around me right here on the
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  ground. I mean, think about with the awe
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  of what it is, the sun being where it is, So many billions of
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  miles away, and yet we feel the heat from it, Yet it nourishes
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  us, it grows us. It gives us the possibility to
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  all be here. And it makes when you put your
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  face up and you feel that sunshine on you and you
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  recognize that that's just filling you up with energy, I
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  mean, that's exactly what's happening.
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  It's filling you up with energy. It's giving you something from
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  it and it's nourishing you and it's amazing when you stop and
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  you think about the fact that it's that far away and it has so
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  much power and look at what it's doing and we would not exist in
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  the way we do without it. We couldn't, we couldn't grow
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  the food, we couldn't have the trees.
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  We couldn't have all the stuff that we have without this
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  amazing entity that's sitting out there doing what it's doing.
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  And that's the part that takes you to that space of what?
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  Like, you know, it's connected. It has this spiritual meaning
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  because we all feel this if from a spiritual side of things, it's
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  like, look up. We use it in phrases.
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  We say, oh, you know, you got to look on the bright side.
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  You got to look up. Well, that all comes back to the
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  sun. That all comes back to this one
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  thing that's somehow hardwired into us for so many generations
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  of people where we say these little things and they just go
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  by us and they blow right over our heads.
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  So I wanted to share this with you because I think sometimes we
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  get so sucked into the muck and the mire and we don't recognize
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  that we have these little tiny tools all around us that can
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  help us and nurture us and put us into a better headspace.
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  Because we get so stuck in our square boxes, stuck with our
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  computers, stuck in our houses that we forget we have this
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  unbelievable tool that fills us up right with us now.
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  And it's even it's it's kind of funny when you think about it,
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  because something like seasonal affective disorder, this takes
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  place. And I have clients that live in
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  places that it stays dark for an extended period of time in the
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  winter. And it does affect people and
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  they do have to go get treatment because the sun is part of us.
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  We are part of it. Everything is connected, just
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  like I talked about the other day, everything is connected.
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  And so we have, we have to make sure we're doing a good job
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  tapping into those things. So if you have not walked
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  outside and put your face up to the sun and felt that energy and
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  you have not stopped and thought for a second about how so small
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  we are in this gigantic universe and that there's so many things
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  we don't, you know, it really does adjust and help you think,
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  wow. You know what?
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  I these little problems that seem to be nagging me and stuck
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  with me, they too shall pass. The sun will come up.
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  The sun will go down and it will happen and everything will pass.
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  So I'm going to give you the challenge of thinking about this
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  differently. Because once you start doing
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  this, I promise you, if you put your face up to that sun and you
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  think about it in that way, that it is such a spiritual reminder
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  of who you are and what you're looking up to and what you're
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  filling up with, gosh, your day changes.
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  So go put your face up to the sun.
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  And I hope you have a blessed filled day and I'll see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.