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Season 2 - Episode 322 - Creating peaceful practices · 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
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  coop. OK, let's talk about best
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  practices today, and let's talk about having peaceful practices
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  as part of our routine. So myself, like many of you,
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  don't sit still. I don't sit still.
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  And sometimes it's really hard to say, do I have peaceful
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  practices? Years ago when this question was
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  asked of me, I was like, hmm, that's interesting.
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  Do I have peaceful practices? And I couldn't.
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  I actually couldn't sort it out. I actually had to start like,
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  you know, put myself into that little vault and start thinking
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  about this because I'm like, well, I don't know, I really
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  don't sit still. And to me, peaceful practices
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  were a lot of maybe reading, which I do, but I don't feel
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  like my reading is so peaceful. Because I only read books that
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  I'm learning from. I don't like to read books that
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  are just stories. I gave those up a long time ago
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  because I felt like, yeah, they're cool and I like it for a
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  period of time. But then I feel like, oh, if I
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  had invested all that time into something I could have learned,
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  it just takes me down a different Rd.
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  So peaceful practices with reading wasn't something that
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  was there. I was doing it actively to
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  learn, so I had to figure out well.
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  You know what is it even walking like, you know, any of my
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  regular listeners know I walk a ton all the time while I'm
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  coaching. And so walking to me is head
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  clearing. Is it peaceful?
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  I And that word kept tripping me up and tripping me up.
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  And I was like, well, I don't know.
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  Is it peaceful? I mean, it can be peaceful if
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  I'm just not working while I'm doing it.
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  But no, when I'm doing it and I'm working, it's something
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  completely different. So it kept.
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  Like driving me in a different direction.
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  It kept weirding me out, like I couldn't figure it out.
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  And then I got a handle on the fact that the peaceful practice
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  is whatever I decide to label it as.
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  I could come in and I could say, well, planting the garden could
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  be peaceful. This could be something that
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  it's like I'm in that energy and I could say, yes, I'm in
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  creation, but that's peaceful for me.
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  That's a place where I bring it in.
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  I could attach this to other things.
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  And then I realized there are also some things that are
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  genuinely like we could all agree are peaceful, where if I'm
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  meditating and again, not a good meditator.
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  I've said this before, not a good meditator.
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  I like doing things that are. I consider mindful meditations
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  where I'm doing something and just focusing on that one task
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  like cleaning, doing dishes, gardening.
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  Those, to me, are much more. Active in the sense that I can
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  keep my mind steady, whereas if I just sit still, my brain is
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  just all over the place. And through the years I've just
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  learned that's not probably the most peaceful thing for me.
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  But I still can keep working on it because it's something that I
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  intend to get to conquer at some point in time.
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  And every day I believe I get a little bit better and a little
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  bit better. However, saying that, did I
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  consider it peaceful? No, it was chaos in my head.
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  So I I started to really work on creating peaceful things for
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  myself. Peaceful little moments that I
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  could bring in and have these peaceful practices where I just
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  sit, close my eyes and I focus on something and calm my head
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  back down. Now one of the biggest assets in
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  this is being able to record yourself, saying something to
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  yourself and then listening back to it.
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  So you're just sitting. You're completely in a peaceful
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  state. You put your ear.
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  Buds in and you listen to something that you've recorded
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  to yourself. Boy, does that work quickly in
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  bringing you back. So I have a bunch of different
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  voice memos that I keep for myself.
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  And if I'm off base, I can just sit, I can close my eyes, I can
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  listen to myself and it brings me right back because when I
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  recorded them, I was in a very, very, you know, directed state
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  for whatever they're for. So if I'm going into creativity,
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  I have one for that. If I'm going into wanting to sit
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  down and write, I have one for that.
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  I've got a bunch of different ones, including one That's when
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  I'm mad at my husband. Listen to this because it
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  reminds me of the fact that he's a good person, not just the
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  person I am irritated with in that moment.
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  But it takes effort to set these up.
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  So peaceful practices. It is imperative to have these
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  going into the holiday season because you need to be
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  surrounded by the fact that you have control over this, nobody
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  else. And if you allow others to
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  control it, then you are giving up your power.
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  And we don't want to do that because ultimately we have the
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  power for what goes on in our head.
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  So I'm going to tell you, get your peaceful practices
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  together. Figure out what they are.
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  Have one for the car that works quickly so that when you're
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  going to somebody'd house or going to an event, you can get
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  yourself collected while you're in the car, and then by the time
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  you get there you're in a way better state of mind.
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  And you can just get out of the car and you're ready to go.
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  But set yourself up to win, my friends.
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  Get those peaceful practices now.
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  Put them in play. Because I promise you, they are
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  the handiest things that you could ever have around.
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  OK, my friends, I will see you tomorrow.
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  Have a blessed day. Bye.