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Season 2 - Episode 290 - The science behind happiness · 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 master mindset
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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 very noisy chicken
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  coop. So today we're gonna talk a
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  little bit about some recent studies that have come out that
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  are reinforcing some beliefs that I teach on here all the
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  time. And I just wanna make sure that
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  I bang it into your head a little bit more because you know
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  what the truth of the matter is? We all need reminders.
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  So in the science of happiness, when we start to study how we as
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  human beings cultivate happiness.
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  These neurotransmitters in our brain that produce serotonin and
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  dopamine, they get triggered every single time.
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  You do small things that help you along the way, such as
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  mindfulness and meditation and art and doing the things that
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  make you happy, reading, knitting, whatever it might be,
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  cooking, whatever your thing is, working on cars and playing with
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  Legos. I have a client who said to me a
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  couple months ago, how come you don't mention the Legos on the
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  podcast? You know, a lot of guys like to
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  play with Legos. I yes.
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  So let me make sure I reinforce that if you are a person who
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  likes to play with Legos, please that is part of it.
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  But these are all considered to be the the the steps, the little
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  tiny pieces that help our brain chemistry change based on our
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  activities and our thoughts. Really hear what I just said.
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  You can change your brain chemistry based on your
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  activities and your thoughts. So this might be.
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  Part of the the the shocking factor, but you can shift it
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  very quickly by doing something like that.
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  So I, you know, but talked about this before how I keep Play DoH
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  in my office. But I can promise you when I
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  have Play DoH out that as soon as I open the container I feel
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  different. As soon as I start to play with
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  the Play DoH, I feel different. It just takes me right back to a
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  place when I was a kid that was very peaceful for me, very art
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  driven, very creative, very loving in my world because it
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  was something that I could. Would not stop doing.
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  I absolutely loved doing it. So it to me it is natural to do
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  that. So that's why I have so many
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  containers of it. It's why I have all my crayons
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  out. It's like I like the smell of
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  them that those are dopamine hits.
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  Those are things that make you feel the serotonin go off.
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  It's like boom, OK, I I'm rewiring myself every day.
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  So as I'm doing a big push to create all these courses and get
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  all this stuff out, I'm in the process of doing that.
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  Those hits constantly coming out to the chicken coop yesterday,
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  big, huge like flood of thoughts that I wanted to get out.
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  And I was so intense in my thoughts, I was getting clogged
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  up. So what's the first thing that I
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  did? I didn't sit there and say, oh,
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  this is so frustrating. I was just, I felt myself
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  starting to shift. I felt myself having an issue.
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  And so I said, you know what, I'm just going to go sit with
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  the chickens for 20 minutes or so.
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  I came out. I sat down.
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  On the steps of the coop and I just, you know, of course Dottie
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  ran, ran up, sits on my lap, and I'm like, you know what?
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  That was all I needed. I needed a chicken to sit on my
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  lap. And this sounds crazy, but the
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  second I did it, my whole world shifted and I could settle back
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  down and I could just talk to myself in a better way.
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  I could say okay, now I'm in my happy place.
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  Now I can go back. And So what if I'm thinking of
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  it in a deeper way than the team and I had talked about?
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  So what if I'm doing it in a different direction?
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  Big deal. Let me just put it all out there
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  and we'll sort it out afterwards, because sometimes
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  that's what happens. And then I regained my
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  happiness. I didn't.
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  And not that I didn't have it, but I I put it back at the
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  hierarchy because sometimes that's what it is like.
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  I can be happy no matter what's going on.
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  I can find a way or something to be happy about.
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  I may have sadness in a moment. I may be upset in a moment.
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  I may be annoyed in a moment. That doesn't mean underneath I'm
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  not happy. So it's just tapping back into
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  that and saying what's going to help me elevate that happiness
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  back up to the top where it needs to be in order for me to
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  feel my best to proceed forward. And that's what this is about,
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  so. Check in with yourself because
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  the science backs this up. The science tells us this all
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  the time. Taking a walk and clearing your
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  head matters. It's why I walk so much while I
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  do my coaching sessions. It it makes you focus, it gives
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  you more clarity at when the body is in motion, there's a
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  release. So give yourself the gift.
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  Do the favor for yourself and say you know what?
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  This is going to be something that's part of my regular
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  routine. I'm going to take this
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  information. And I'm going to cultivate
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  habits into my every single day, just like I do about how I'm
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  going to find these little things.
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  I'm not just going to go and live a life of drudgery because
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  that's not what this is all about.
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  It's it's about way more than that.
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  It's about way more than that. And it's about something that
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  comes to the fact down to the fact that you have to want
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  yourself to excel in these areas in order for everything else to
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  excel. Because when you take care of
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  this, everything else is fixed. It's like the foundation of the
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  house. If the foundation of the house
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  is sturdy and the bones of the house is sturdy, everything else
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  can be redone. But you've got to work on those
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  things first. So I hope you guys have a
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  blessed day. Go find your little Nuggets, get
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  your hits, dopamine and serotonin.
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  Focus on that piece and we will see you tomorrow.
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  Have a blessed day everybody. Bye.