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Season 4 - Episode 65 - Embodied cognition · 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 happen 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 everybody, good morning. Today we are talking about
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  embodied cognition. Now this is something we all
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  organically know about, but don't maybe have an
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  intellectualized. So why it's important is that it
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  gets into the nitty gritty of shifting yourself.
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  So at the beginning of this month, we're entering into the
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  3rd 30 days of the year. And it's important because a lot
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  of us are stuck and that last push of that third 30 days in
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  that quarter is always hard. It's always hard and you're
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  tired. You might be, you know, running
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  into roadblocks. So it becomes hard to get past
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  those little roadblocks. And that's why when you go back
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  and understand embodied cognition on a very like
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  specific level, it can help you. So big concept.
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  The idea is that the mind and the body are rooted together.
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  We hear about that all the time, the mind, body process, but
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  understanding it a little bit more really helps.
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  So sometimes it's easy to push the mind and the body will
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  follow, and sometimes it's easier to push the body and the
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  mind will follow. So if you feel like just bummed
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  out, you're just sad, you're just frustrated and you're
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  sitting around, the body is expressing that emotion in
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  itself. It's just sitting there.
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  It's like a lump, as my mother used to say.
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  You're sitting there like a lump on a log.
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  And I would always, oh, I hate it when she says that.
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  But the truth is I was probably sitting there like a lump on a
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  log when I had anxiety. That was one of those things
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  that was very, that is what I did.
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  I stopped. Everything stopped and I
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  hunkered down and I sat still. But that didn't necessarily help
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  me. That actually made it worse
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  because now I was just fearful sitting.
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  And in order to break the pattern, I had to move the body
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  first. So if I got up and I started
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  moving and walking, going for a bike ride, doing something, it
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  would help me break the pattern. And that is bodied cognition.
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  We're using the body to train the brain and let's just like we
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  can use the train the brain to train the body.
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  Sometimes it's easier to use the body to train the brain.
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  So if you're, if you're need to build more confidence, if you
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  need to build yourself up, sometimes it's easier to say act
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  as if we've all heard everybody say, well, fake it till you make
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  it. That's part of that process,
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  embodied cognition. So where this comes into play
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  right now is wherever you are in this 90 day process of the
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  beginning of the year tends to set the tone for the rest of the
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  year. Believe it or not, it really
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  does. Because if you can figure out
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  where you are right now and then push that last 30 days, really
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  make a solid push going into this month to say, Oh, I'm going
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  to finish strong because it doesn't feel like a finish line
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  right now because it's the beginning of the year.
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  So we think we have the whole year and we think, oh, it's
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  cold. And for most people it we're in
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  winter, unless you're our friends listening in Australia,
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  on the other side of the planet, we are in winter and it hasn't
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  been a pleasant one. And we're, we have lots of like
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  wonky weather and it, you know, the light, while yes, the
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  sunlight is coming up sooner, which is a blessing, it still
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  feels like winter and it's not fun.
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  And we're just so it shifts our moods again, because we're all
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  so tied. Everything in our lives become
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  so tied to each other. And these 30 days are just epic.
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  If you can crush it for these 30 days, if you can push yourself,
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  it will set the tone for the rest of the year knowing that
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  you finished that first quarter strong.
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  You poured in hard. You did what you needed to do.
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  You acted as if you you just moved into it.
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  You understood the concepts and you were like, OK, I am going to
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  push myself in that way. And sometimes it's OK to push
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  yourself. And in my opinion, this is one
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  of those times if you've got something and you need to say to
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  yourself, I need to kick my own butt, then kick your own butt.
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  It's it's the nature of the beast.
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  If you work with a coach, then make sure the coach is kicking
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  your butt. I mean, I'm doing that with my
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  clients right now and I know my coach is kicking my butt.
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  So sometimes you just have to because it's a long winter, my
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  friends. And typically March is that last
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  push. And when we finish March, it's
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  glorious because we know we made it.
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  We made it through that darkness and we're headed into the spring
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  where it is for most people, the feeling of just a breath of
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  fresh air and open those windows, get out the stagnation
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  and go. But sometimes to get to that
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  point, you've got to change your perspective.
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  You've got to challenge the traditional views.
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  You've got to separate yourself from what the conditions are
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  that you're currently in. And you've got to say, Nope, I'm
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  kicking my own butt. I'm changing my perception and
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  I'm going to move forward with this because that's what I
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  choose to do. All right, my friends, go out
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  there and crush it today and focus on that embodied
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  cognition. Own it.
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  All right, I will see you all tomorrow and have a blessed day.
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  Bye.