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Season 2 - Episode 336 - Recovery week! Resting moments · 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 mastermind set
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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 chicken
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  coop. So today we are talking about
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  recovery week. Our next topic is being able to
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  actually rest. Now that might sound funny after
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  the fact that I know yesterday we talked about activity, but I
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  want to make sure I put in there that it is OK to rest.
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  It is OK to take time when you are in recovery.
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  It is OK to actually rest and making it a part of our accepted
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  activities, so to speak. Resting is something that you
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  should do. It's something I do.
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  Do I sit Stillwell? No.
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  But do I? If I said to myself, OK, for the
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  next 15 minutes, I'm just going to sit.
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  I'm going to close my eyes. I'm actually going to listen to
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  a guided meditation. I'm going to put myself in a
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  state for the 15 minutes that this thing is going on.
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  And then I'm going to get up and feel much better.
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  Oh my gosh. If you've never tried doing
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  something like a guided meditation, I highly, highly
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  recommend it. For those of us who have
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  overactive imaginations, this is one of the best tools that I
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  have to control my rampant thoughts and allowing somebody
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  else to give me the path. And tell me, OK, think about
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  this, think about this. Because, you know, if I tell you
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  think about the color blue, it's not like you're not going to
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  think about the color blue. Or if I say imagine something,
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  you're going to imagine it in the way that you imagine things.
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  It might not be the same way other people do it, because we
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  all have our own specific way in our brains that we do it and.
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  It it, it's totally okay. The point of the exercise is to
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  allow yourself to actually take a rest and to be okay with the
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  resting process. Does that mean sitting on your
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  butt? And not moving and being lazy
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  all the way until the next group of holidays show up.
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  No, that is not what we're talking about.
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  But we are talking about during the day, taking the time to
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  allow your body to recover and rest from whatever is happening
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  out there. And the stress activities that
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  we all encounter during our normal work days require us to
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  be able to decompress them. So if you've never looked into.
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  Getting some sort of guided meditation.
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  Highly recommended. Hay House has a whole bunch of
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  different ones. If you go to Google and you
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  hayhouse.com you will find a lot of different guided meditations
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  available there. You can get them also on audible
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  and you can. I highly recommend you listen to
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  the voice of the person first, because there's nothing more
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  disappointing than getting a guided meditation and
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  recognizing you can't stand the voice of the person who's doing
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  it. I've had that happen and it's
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  not fun. So I think it's important to
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  make sure you listen to the voice person.
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  They usually have samples to make sure people like them.
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  But get something. Put yourself into that little
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  vault that says, OK, I am allowing myself to do this.
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  Now how often do you do it during the day?
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  Well, it depends on how you are as a person, but I will tell you
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  throughout my day I love to take these little breaks and the
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  longer ones. I take less frequently just
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  because of my schedule and whatnot, but I take many of the
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  five minute ones and taking just 5 minutes and collecting
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  yourselves for me, this is one of the things that I do.
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  I come to the chicken coop and I sit out here with them because
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  just watching them scratch around, watching them look for
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  things going out in the yard with them and seeing them.
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  It's just it's very chill. It just makes you calm down.
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  It makes you be in the moment watching them digging for
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  something or looking at something or tasting something
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  for the first time. I just, I don't know if for me
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  it works. So it's one of the things that I
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  do. I also go out and you know, take
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  pictures constantly of things. I have grown on the farm as
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  mindful moments and those are things where it's like those are
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  mental rest for me. And if you allow yourself to
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  have the mental rest, you will feel so much more empowered in
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  general because you're not just constantly taxing your system in
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  one way, but you're allowing yourself to feel good.
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  And you're allowing yourself to recover.
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  So go practice, Take resting moments, Feel good, focus on
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  that, and then get right back to being on track with everything
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  else. OK my friends, I will talk to
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  you tomorrow. Have a blessed day.
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  Bye.