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Season 4 - Episode 262 - A Moon Bathing Moment · 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 mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey, good early morning my friends.
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  So I know you can hear the background noise usually, but
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  take a second and listen to how still it is out here.
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  I mean, yes, there are a few bugs, frogs, but listen to how
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  still it's remarkable. And the moon, if it's not full
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  moon right now, it's I didn't check the calendar, but it's
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  mostly full moon. And it's so bright and you walk
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  outside and you feel like there is a very ethereal experience
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  going on. And it's this moment for me
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  feels so holy, like I haven't even heard the rooster go off
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  yet. It's so early when I'm recording
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  this and I walked out, I was doing a chore and I walked out
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  here and I was like, wow, Oh my gosh, this is like on being on
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  holy ground. So I stopped myself and said,
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  all right, we're going to record here right now today.
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  And it's based on the fact that when I see these things and I'm
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  in the moment, I always try to condition myself to stop and
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  just take it all in. Like you can hear this dog way
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  off in the background, possibly 1-2 barks.
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  That was it. It's so quiet and it's so
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  spiritual to me to have these feelings to just sit and moon
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  bathe, just sit on the steps and take in the moonlight, take in
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  the sounds. It's it's such a way to start
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  your day. It's a way to end your day as
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  well. But for me, often when this
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  shows up, I just go, ah, it's like a holy moment.
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  And I have these experiences only because I stop and pause.
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  Nothing else. Just because I stop and pause,
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  just because I, I should be doing something else.
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  I've got 45,000 things to do this morning before I start
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  coaching and I'm like holy cow, I have to stop and I sit and I
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  take the time. So I decided to sit and take
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  that 5 minutes with you this morning because I thought this
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  is such a great thing to remember even in the midst of
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  having a whirling dervish of a morning that this is, this is
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  like the time to pause. This is the time to take it all
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  in. This is the time to listen and
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  moon bathe and just stare at it and look at it and say, holy
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  cow, Can you believe how lucky we are to see this beautiful
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  shining thing in the sky that just, I mean, we, we sit and
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  look at it and it, it seems so, so big right at this moment, but
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  it's so, so far away. And just when you fathom that
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  and you see it and you know, hey, somebody's walked on that
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  somebody has gone there. And I just, I can't get over
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  these moments where it just blows my mind.
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  So this is a mind blowing moment.
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  This is the the stop, pause, take it all in moment.
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  This is the what can you hear moment.
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  I can make 100 different things out of this if I chose to.
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  It's all about how you're going to approach it.
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  And it's always about how you're going to approach things.
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  It's always about your curiosity.
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  It's always about taking that. Now, I know when I finish this,
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  instead of feeling like I'm going to be penalized for it,
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  I'm not going to be penalized. I'm going to be energized.
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  You know, think about that for a second.
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  Will this penalize me or will this energize me?
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  And the truth is this will energize me.
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  And by the time I walk in and I, you know, finish this and I go
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  to put it up, I will feel like 1,000,000 bucks.
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  And I have not had coffee. I have not had anything.
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  I have just been caring for all the stuff that needed to be
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  cared for first before I even sit and take care of myself
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  because then I can really sit and take care of myself.
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  So think about whether you're willing to do that or not.
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  Think about whether you're willing to pause, take it all
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  in. What what can I make of this
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  moment? How am I going to look at it?
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  Is it going to be dreaded or is it going to be curiosity?
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  Am I going to feel anxious or am I going to do this again?
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  I say it over and over, but everything comes back to emotion
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  and the emotion you choose to be in.
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  And right now, I really feel like the emotion that I'm in is
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  grateful that I walked out here. I'm grateful that I wanted to
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  air out those pillows that we're sitting on the couch.
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  I, I'm grateful I wanted to carry them outside, put them on
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  the porch, let them air out in this morning air and know that
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  later they'll smell like fresh laundry that came off of the
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  line when I was a kid when my mother used to hang her clothes
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  on the line. So I hope you find a moment like
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  this because it is special. And maybe you can walk outside
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  and see it too because it'll be here again tomorrow and because
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  it's very big and I, I'm not sure if it's 100% full or not,
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  but we definitely have a chance. OK my friends, I hope you have a
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  blessed day after your moon bathing.
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  I will see you soon. Bye.