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Season 3 - Episode 215 - Practicing your form of meditation · 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 we're talking about meditation today.
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  And the reason we're talking about this is because, you know,
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  you've noticed the past couple days we've been talking about a
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  spiritual based dialogue here. I don't want to put it into
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  something that we're trying to create it into being something
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  bigger than it is, but it's just a more spiritual based dialogue
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  this week and or at least it has been.
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  Who knows if I'll continue it. I kind of am spontaneous with
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  these, but today we're talking about meditation.
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  And the reason that we're talking about meditation is
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  because for many people, that is not just a a small part of their
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  life. It's a big spiritual part of it.
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  It's the way they tap into what their version of God, the
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  universe, however you want to label it, is, and they meditate
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  to tap into it. And I do not think that that is
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  a bad thing at all. I think if that's, if that's
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  what you are attempting to do with it, then I say it's a
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  really good thing to go and try. I have.
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  And then the reason I'm framing it that way is because I don't
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  love meditating. I'm going to be the first one to
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  tell you I find it to be really hard in the traditional manner
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  of meditating. So if someone said to me, do you
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  sit down? Do you close your eyes?
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  Do you do this? Sure.
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  I've tried it many, many, many times and still continue to try
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  it. Do I really tap into it?
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  Do I really love it? It's really hard for me because
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  the moment I slow down my brain kicks into gear and I know
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  that's the whole point of meditation.
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  For those of you who will send me a message and say that's that
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  is the point of it. You work to slow your brain
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  down, Yes, I understand. But for some quirky reason mine
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  doesn't work well under those conditions to slow down.
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  Mine does much better when I am in the midst of doing other
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  things. My meditative practice comes in
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  for me when I am making art or I'm gardening or I'm just
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  sitting out with my chickens and watching them.
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  I go into a zone where I'm I lose track of time.
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  There are no thoughts in my head.
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  I'm just watching them and being very present with them and it
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  becomes that meditative process for me.
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  And I didn't really realize that for a very long time.
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  I spent a good chunk of time judging myself from my inability
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  to be able to sit like my friends were.
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  Because you know, when you run in a circle of the people that I
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  run in in, in the professional world, the coaches and you know,
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  everybody that I worked with for many years at Tony Robbins, they
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  have these intense practices, whether it's physical, their
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  workouts, that spiritual, I mean, they shoot for the moon
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  and I love that. I love being in that.
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  But some of them with their spiritual practices and
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  meditative practices, Oy, it was, I felt very inadequate with
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  it because I, I couldn't catch it.
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  It, it was, it reminded me of like, you know, if any of you
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  remember those pictures that you used to be able to look at and
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  it was just, it looked like a bunch of chaos on the picture,
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  just as weird graphic. And when you focus your eyes a
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  certain way, you could see the hidden picture.
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  And I always struggled with those me, the hyper visual girl
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  couldn't see it. And it took me a long time to
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  cultivate something that I could use in my eyes and say, OK, yes,
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  I can shift and, and actually see something.
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  And it's, and to this day, it's still not something that I can
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  just walk up and do. If I see one of them.
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  I have to really get into this weird headspace to, to shift my
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  brain to see it that way. And it, and it just reminds me
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  of that where I would get so super frustrated when I couldn't
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  do it. And I would have all of these
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  reactions to it. And they were all like, oh,
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  yeah, it's so easy. It's so easy.
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  And I just couldn't. And I had to find a different
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  way to do it. And it's the same with this.
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  So there is no right way. There is no wrong way.
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  There's just a way of saying, OK, if I'm going to work on a
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  practice like this in my life and I'm going to own this
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  practice of meditation, I have to be open to the different ways
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  it shows up for me. So yes, develop a spiritual
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  practice, but recognize that it doesn't have to be the way
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  everybody else tells you it has to be.
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  It just has to be the way that it's right for you.
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  I mean, I certainly can't tell you that there's ever any way
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  that it's, you know, like that I could sit down and scribble on a
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  piece of paper and have more luck being in a meditative state
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  than I do sometimes sitting there trying to force myself to
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  be able to do it with the overall, you know, standard
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  sitting there. Now I will say this, I do like
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  using have having a video that I can sit and it plays in the
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  background. So I say video, but it's just
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  sound. It's monks, literally monks
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  chanting. And it's this part of this
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  Nietzsche Ren Buddhism. And they have these monks that
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  chant and you can listen to the chants.
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  And that will work for me, but not all the time.
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  I have to sometimes try different things.
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  So don't be so rigid with yourself.
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  Be patient, try it, but just develop something.
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  So practice that meditative state where you can disconnect
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  from things and tap into something else because it's
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  hugely helpful. All right, my friends, I will
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.