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Season 2 - Episode 243 - Collecting ourselves · 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 porch, the very dark porch.
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  It's early and I am shooting out here today.
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  Birds are just coming up, can hear my neighbors ducks walking
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  around, but my girls are not out yet because of the hurricane we
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  had. Well, it turned out to be a
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  tropical storm strong one by the time it got here.
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  But they're still locked in. And they're they have some.
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  Shades that cover their their doors.
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  Normally they're out to make shades like a covered entrance,
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  but they're locked down right now.
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  So we as soon as the sun is up, we'll go out and we will open
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  those up. But I was not going to mess with
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  it in order to do the podcast early early, so I figured we'll
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  do it from the porch anyway. So today we are talking about
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  the fact that. You know when things, when
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  you're what do you do when your head gets away with you?
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  I had, I was on a call yesterday and I was teaching a group of
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  women. I was invited to come on and
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  talk to them about their mindset and about how your emotions.
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  That are always there with you and how to manage them.
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  And one of the questions that I got was what do you do when your
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  head just gets away with you? And I started to like really
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  hone in on that question because what that person was really
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  saying, if you really listen to the question, was that she felt.
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  Like the core of who she was, the person she was, was not in
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  control, and that her head was a separate entity and running away
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  with her. And you know, we as human beings
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  have lots of little phrases that we organically use that give us
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  these clues that we actually believe that there are separate
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  parts of ourselves. For instance, if someone says Oh
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  my God, something terrible happens, to think, Oh my God,
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  I'm beside myself. Well, how can you be beside
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  yourself? And you know, I I need to have a
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  conversation with myself. Well, who's having the
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  conversation? So to me, the way I've always
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  broken this down for myself is that.
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  And I'll explain it to you exactly the way I explained it
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  to her yesterday. There are parts of ourselves as
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  we we know we have our heart. Our mind and our soul is how
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  human beings will like to describe it sometimes, but we
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  think of ourselves as one entity when we think of ourselves.
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  Myself, my name is Kim, but ultimately we really do believe
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  there are different parts. Like my gut.
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  My gut just says, well, my gut to me is my soul talking to me.
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  That is, to me, it's like when it's in my gut.
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  When it's you know it, it it's intrinsically tied.
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  It's my soul speaking to me. It's the me that's me, not the
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  head. The head is just what's here as
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  as the guide to get me through life that processes information.
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  But that intuitive piece that's inside of me is something
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  different. So.
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  We have to work in unison. We have to bring them all
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  together. And when you start to recognize
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  that the one that's quiet, the one that's steady, the one that
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  doesn't get rocked by emotion, the one that you know doesn't
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  run away with you, my head has run away with me.
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  Now I'm guilty of the head running away.
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  Yesterday is a perfect example. The hurricane is here or turned
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  out to be a tropical storm by the time it got here, but that
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  didn't deaden my panic for what would happen with the girls.
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  Honestly, that's what I think about all the time because.
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  What do I do with them? OK, do I lock keep them locked
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  up all day? Because that's so unhealthy for
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  them to be in all day? And I know it because that whole
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  thing about being cooped up all day, it sucks and they show it.
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  They have stress immediately. And if I let them out, just into
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  the chicken yard, OK, some of them can fly over the fence, but
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  you know, one would think, can you fly over?
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  You could fly back, but would they?
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  And then I would get nervous so my head runs away with me.
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  All of a sudden, panic is driving my bus right next to
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  anxiety and my creativity, which never leaves the front of the
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  bus just makes everything way worse.
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  My imaginations up there thinking, Oh well, what if that
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  tree in the back of the coop, which has nothing wrong with it,
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  by the way, would fall on the coop and crush it?
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  You know, I didn't even think about that.
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  I started going crazy yesterday thinking about it.
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  Normally. I don't even think about that,
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  so. It is imperative that you
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  recognize that because you technically think of yourself in
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  these different ways and you don't realize it on a regular
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  basis, you can do something about it.
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  You can bring your pieces together, but you can only do it
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  if you're conscious of it. You can only do it if you start
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  to say to yourself, you know what, I'm going to center
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  myself, I'm going to pull all the pieces of myself back
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  together. And then?
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  I'm going to make a decision moving forward.
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  I'm going to choose the emotion I want to be in and I'm going to
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  step forward with that in my place.
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  So can't do anything until you recenter yourself.
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  So if that means you have to go wash your hands to contain
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  yourself, just get up and move. If it means that you have to
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  stand up and shake your body out, shake your body out, that
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  works. Just stand and jump a little
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  bit. My trick personally is the hand
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  washing. That really, really works
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  because your nerves and your hands are so sensitive and as
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  soon as you wash your hands with warm water or hot water and
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  soap, it just feels so good to wash off that negative energy.
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  So those are just a couple of little tips.
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  But remember, pull all the parts of yourself back together
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  collectively and realize that they all work in unison.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a very blessed day
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  while I go clean up all the mess from this and I will see you all
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  tomorrow. Bye.