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Contrast is a gift · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So I'd like to talk to you about contrast and how contrast
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  affects us as human beings, you know, having crappy things
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  happen, having things that are not what we want show up in our
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  life, not even just crappy, but just things that we don't
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  necessarily want. Show up in our life is actually
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  a powerful tool that's given to us so that we can recognize
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  contrast and You know, I often will hear people talk to me
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  about how the most painful experiences have shaped them the
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  most and in the best ways and I myself can say that is the
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  truth. You know, losing my father, he
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  was so young, he was 57. When he passed away, was the
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  most difficult experience I have ever gone through in my life.
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  And something words can't explain when you lose.
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  Choose a parent. That's also your best friend.
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  And I can say without question that it was the hardest thing
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  that I've ever gone through. And at the same time, it was one
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  of the most profound experiences that shaped my life in positive
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  ways and the contrast of life with him and without him and the
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  contrast of recognizing, how valuable Life is has definitely
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  without a question shaped my entire life because it changed
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  the way I functioned. It changed.
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  What I was willing to do. It changed how I showed up the
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  roles, I took the jobs, I took it took everything because I had
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  a different point of reference to go from and when you use
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  contrast to your benefit and you start to say, okay, this is here
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  to help me. Instead of hurting me, it's kind
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  of like the Difference between night and day.
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  You know, if we just had night all the time, we'd be miserable.
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  How many of us even realize that when we think about, oh yeah, I
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  could never live in Alaska or I could never live in countries
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  where it's dark for half the year.
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  Like that would make me crazy. Well, of course it would,
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  because the contrast of, you know, thinking of it all the
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  time shifts you into a deep awareness.
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  Yet we go through this every day night day night day and because
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  we're used to it and the Contrast is not grand for us.
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  We don't even notice it. We just go through our lives,
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  not even noticing it, but think about what happens when it rains
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  every day for, you know, two weeks straight.
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  We just went through one of those phases.
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  When it rained every day for two weeks straight, you kind of
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  become like, oh my gosh, where's the sun?
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  We're on a normal day. You know, we may appreciate the
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  Sun but we don't even notice it. We just go about our day.
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  Oh, it's a nice day. Well, whatever.
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  But it's a quick, it's it's not even, you know, thought of or
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  appreciated until it's gone. You know, you don't appreciate
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  what you have until it's gone is the old saying, well, isn't that
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  the truth? But that's really the root of
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  that comes from understanding contrast and how it shows up in
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  your life or you look at yourself and you say my
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  relationship sucks and I don't like how this person treats me
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  or my boss is this way and then you meet somebody that actually
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  has a problem. That's really out of control and
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  you say, wow, I guess my situation is not so bad at all.
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  But we become accustomed to sitting in this swill of like,
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  you know, complaining about it and we don't use contrast to our
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  benefit. We don't say okay if this is
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  going to be painful, then I'm going to do everything I can to
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  work through and around this. I'm going to get to the other
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  side of this. This is here to teach me.
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  So when you think of the situations as if they're
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  teaching you something giving you information, which they
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  Helping u-shaped and move, then all of a sudden you become a
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  much better person. You become much more much more
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  beneficial to yourself. You don't react, you're not in a
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  high reactive mode. All you're doing at that point
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  is is you know, taking in the information and shifting and not
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  being reactive. So I think that When you start
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  to look for a contrast in your day, start with the most simple,
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  things start to look for. The things that say, you know,
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  where is the showing up to teach me something?
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  Where can I look at outside of myself and say, okay, this is
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  something that I recognize, I hear other people talk about
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  this and for sure, I know this is a place where I can look at
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  my own life and be grateful. I know, I can look at my own
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  life and say, okay, I can learn from this other person's
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  experience and I can A, wow, that's happened for them.
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  I definitely don't want that to happen for me.
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  So I'm going to benefit from their experience, their
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  contrast. I'm going to look and I'm going
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  to say, okay, I know this isn't something I want to entertain
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  and use it to your benefit. Don't be the person that has to
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  run into every wall in order to learn something.
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  And understand, contrast is here to teach us.
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  So you can learn from yourself in your own situations.
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  With contrast, you can learn from others but just look and
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  learn And I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow.