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Season 3 - Episode 245 - Spiritual optimism · 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 mastermindset
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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 coop.
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  So let's talk about spiritual optimism.
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  Boy, that's a big term, right? What the heck does that even
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  mean? OK, so optimism, we're pretty
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  all clear on that. I'm not going to explain this,
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  but spiritual optimism in this frame of what we're talking
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  about it today is really being able to master and shift your
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  response to trusting and knowing something is working behind the
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  scenes. And when we are capable of
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  remembering this as we go about things in our day with whatever
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  is happening, all of a sudden things start to change because
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  we know we're not working on something by ourselves.
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  And that's what this comes down to, not doing something by
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  yourself and recognizing that there are many, many, many
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  forces that take place, you know, around us that we are
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  wholly unaware of. Now, just before I started
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  recording this morning, I came out here, and I have this belief
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  as I was creating this farm that everything was going to live in
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  harmony and that my chickens were going to be safe.
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  Now, does that always happen? No.
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  But guess what? 90% of the time it does.
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  Did we have a rough spring with it this year?
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  Yeah, absolutely. But you know what?
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  For the most part, they are safe.
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  And I just had this belief that everything would work in
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  symbiotic order. And I had this belief that it
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  was all going to align. And part of those beliefs came
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  from reading that crows can be trained to protect chickens,
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  alert them, and they will do this.
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  Now you'd be like, what? Crows, really.
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  Yes, you can train crows. And I do this by providing them
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  with a flight deck that has mealworms on it and peanuts.
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  And they love peanuts, so they like to come here and they know
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  when they come here they get food and they know that I take
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  care of them. Crows are very, very smart and I
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  believe I have created the perfect situation for them.
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  So guess what? They come and they take care of
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  it. Now, this morning I came out
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  here and I'm very much belief that this all goes on behind the
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  scenes for me. So I'm out here and I'm getting
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  everything all set up this morning and the crows are
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  freaking out. They're still freaking out a
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  little further off. I'm not sure if you can hear
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  them but they're and my rooster 2 Roosters are both are both
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  growling and I'm like what is going on?
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  And the crows are freaking out and I look up and there's a
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  giant hawk sitting in the tree and the crows are all
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  systematically dive bombing the hawk.
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  I don't have to do anything, they're just taking care of it.
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  I believed that this was going to be my destiny with how they
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  were going to work on air attacks.
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  And they have been extraordinarily great at it.
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  And that's just a belief I hold and manifest it.
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  And I love that. But I'm telling you the story
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  because it happened to fall in line with this spiritual
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  optimism. I take this with me everywhere I
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  go. Now for the doubting dams out
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  there that may be listening and say, well, it's not going to
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  always work. No, nothing is absolute.
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  There's nothing in nature that's absolute nothing.
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  Everything shifts, everything has flexibility, everything
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  changes and we have and has other possibilities.
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  But that's, you know, the butterfly effect.
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  That's other parts of law of attraction.
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  And you know what, I'm OK with that because if I'm still
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  focused on the good stuff, I can bring those things to me.
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  And I will always, always opt for being optimistic over
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  pessimistic because there is no reason to focus on the
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  pessimism. And you're going, you have the
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  opportunity to go to it at any time you want.
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  But by focusing on the optimism, you raise the the vibration in
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  your body and your body actually stays healthier.
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  When we know the effects of depression, we know the effects
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  of negativity, and we also know the effects of positivity.
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  And we know what it means when happiness is present in somebody
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  and how they are able to really stay healthier than those who
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  are more depressed and have all these other, you know, issues
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  that come along with it. So having spiritual optimism is
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  not absolute, but it is something that when you tap into
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  it, it shifts you, it gives you more balance, it makes you feel
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  better. So how do you do this is you
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  start by learning to shift your responses to things and say, OK,
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  well, that's a negative way of thinking of it.
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  What's a positive way of thinking of it?
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  What's a neutral way of thinking of it?
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  When you start asking yourself what are the other responses
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  through the filter, through the driver of my spiritual optimist
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  is driving. OK, So what would that look
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  like? Everything else starts to shift
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  for you. So take on the possibilities, my
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  friends, because they are very, very, very, very giving you that
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  warm fuzzy feeling when you do it, and it makes you feel like
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  you're more in control of the situation than ever.
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  All right, my friends, I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.