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Season 4 - Episode 70 - From Jon Kabat Zinn · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to.
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  Teach distinctions. Possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking and just bring some joy into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning. Actually from my desk because I
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  was just reading something and I wanted to share it with all of
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  you from John Kabat Zinn and his name, in case any of you want to
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  look him up is spelled Jon and then Kabat KABAT and then Zinn
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  Zinn. And he is a mentor for me on
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  mindfulness. And this time of year, I always
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  have to get into that really deep state of mindfulness and
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  being very present in the moment because I have a huge tendency
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  to future pace the everything that I'm doing on the farm.
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  And I'm thinking in the future, thinking in the future, thinking
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  in the future. And then I'm remembering all the
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  things that happened last year, looking at my notes going back,
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  which is great because I need to see what worked and what didn't
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  work. But it as always, this farm
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  provides me with a vast sense of reality checks and just having
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  to be in the present moment. So let me share something from
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  his book. Wherever you go, there you are.
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  And this is just, it's such a profound little summary of this.
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  The popular view is that we have plenty of time ahead.
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  There are so many opportunities and chances come with this idea.
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  However, neither the past nor the future exists.
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  All we have is the present moment.
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  Yet we dream about the future or look back into the past.
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  We expect our fate, self fated self to advance over our
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  history, including mistakes and regrets.
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  Bearing this in our minds, we often stand still and think now
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  what without realizing There doesn't necessarily have to be a
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  plan. You can quickly lose touch with
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  your inner self without connecting with your present.
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  As a result, you end up living in inertia.
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  The later. The latter strangles the
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  possibility of creativity, the ability to learn new things, and
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  the growth and your growth as a person.
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  If you allow this to continue for long periods of time, your
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  life will pass seemingly instantly.
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  Living in the present moment helps us appreciate what we
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  have, making us happier. Wow.
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  When you really think about this and you really focus on the fact
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  that that one line, it's like the future is isn't not here yet
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  and the past is gone. And when you pay attention to
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  the fact that neither of them exists anymore, only this
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  present moment exists. What makes something exist to us
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  is our memory and our creativity and imagination for the future,
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  which is powerful stuff. And I live and use that all the
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  time. But when we start to really pay
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  attention to this and how the present moment helps us and just
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  staying focused on this particular piece, this moment.
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  Now he, he's a big proponent of meditation.
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  And while I try it, I really suck at it.
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  And I've confessed this before. I do much better with being in
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  the moment because it's, you know, it's easier for me to stay
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  in this moment because I'm so visual and I can see things and
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  feel things and touch things and that's good.
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  And that's my, sometimes my form of active meditation, mindful
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  meditation, being out and, you know, touching things,
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  photographing things and whatnot.
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  So you have to find your way of doing it.
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  But really it, it, it does when you start to control this and
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  you start to stay focused on this, the beautiful effects it
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  has on us is profound. I mean, it has taken away so
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  much of my inner anxiety over the years.
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  And really just saying 1 moment at the time, 1 moment a step at
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  a time and just staying focused on that gives you a powerful
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  stance and it gives you a powerful way to be able to, you
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  know, recognize where you're going off the rails.
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  For me, that's always what's important.
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  Where am I going off the rails? And we just have to move forward
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  and we have to say, OK, I'm in this moment, I'm in this moment
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  and, and get it done. That doesn't mean that you don't
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  sit down and make your list of things you have to do and know
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  what you have to do for the day. But with each one of those
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  particular tasks that you're doing, you have already planned
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  it. You don't need to keep thinking
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  about it when it comes up. You do it and you stay present
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  with it. And ironically, it will take you
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  less time to do those tasks because your head is not
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  somewhere else. Your thoughts are not somewhere
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  else. Your focus is on the here and
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  now. And that's what's so important.
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  A consciousness really requires us to be in the present moment,
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  to do it fully and to gain everything from it.
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  So is this something that you master?
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  I don't know. I, I don't have it mastered, but
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  what I do is practice it every day because I love the idea of
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  practicing something every single day.
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  And for me, this was a huge solution to calm, inner calm,
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  inner peace. So I hope you give it a try.
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  I hope you grab Mr. Zinn's book and listen to him because he's
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  brilliant and his voice is very soothing when you listen to him.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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  all tomorrow. Bye.