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Season 4 - Episode 232 - Are you looping? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happened to be a farmer.
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  This is my Chicken coop and I come out here every day.
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  To record a podcast to. Teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of. Thinking.
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  And just bring some. Joy into the world.
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  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 from the chicken
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  coop. We're talking about looping
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  today. And looping is something that
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  you can't really stop. It's how brains work.
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  Often it's just a bad habit of getting in something.
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  And I can't, you know, we'll often refer to it as I can't
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  shut my brain off. My brain just keeps going and it
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  just keeps thinking and it wakes us up and it keeps us awake at
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  night and we can't stand it. And it's really just a pain in
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  the butt. And when you start looping,
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  often it's on a subject that you feel hopeless or helpless with.
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  Like you can't just quiet it down in your head because you
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  don't know what to do to make it different.
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  So you start overthinking it because you are conceptualizing
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  that. If I think about it more and
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  more, somehow I'm going to come up with a different answer.
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  But the problem is not that you're in the loop and you're
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  you need that loop to come up with the answer.
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  The problem is the energy of that loop.
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  The problem is the emotion driving that energy.
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  So often when you're looping, it's anxiety or fear.
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  That's the emotion that's driving your bus.
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  And when you're in that emotion, that's the emotion that's going
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  to give you the answer. So it it's kind of it, it's like
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  you can't solve that problem. So it's Einstein is famous for
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  saying the mind that created the problem is not the mind that can
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  solve the problem. You have to change your mind
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  essentially. And when we say change our mind,
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  I mean, it's not like we can unscrew the top of our head.
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  Yes, that's absolutely right. That's Samantha who's got a lot
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  of opinions today, apparently. So you can't just all of a
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  sudden, OK, OK, I'm going to take a little screw on the top
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  of my head, unscrew it, take out my mind and change my mind
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  literally by putting a different mind in my head.
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  It doesn't work that way. Be kind of interesting if you
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  could, or if you've watched the show Severance where you get in
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  the elevator and basically if you haven't seen that show on
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  Apple TV and you're into kind of like these weird shows, it is
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  amazing. I'm very spooky and I can't
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  watch it at night without having a problem.
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  But that's a different story for a different day.
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  In any event, you get in the elevator in severance and you go
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  to work and you forget all about your personal life and you are
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  now in innie, meaning you're innie when you're in work has no
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  memory of the Audi life. And we can't, we don't have the
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  the the ability to do that. And, and I would never want to
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  do that because I want to be in a whole consciousness.
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  And the whole consciousness comes with all of these emotions
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  and all these feelings and all of this stuff that we take
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  wherever we go. So this looping is normal.
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  It's normal. I mean, I can't tell you how
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  many times today I've said that to people looping is normal.
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  And again, after my, you know, podcast from yesterday about how
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  weird it is out there, I really just cannot wait for this full
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  moon to show up and get over with because I'm telling you,
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  it's bringing a lot of strange energy out there and people are
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  getting very frustrated with it, as am I and I've got chickens
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  that are fighting. I've it is just weird, weird,
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  weird stuff. But anyway, so this looping
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  takes place anytime it can show up anywhere, anytime.
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  We just force ourselves to like pay attention to it because it's
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  loud in our head. It just keeps going off and it's
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  like, I can't, I can't stop thinking about it.
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  But we do know that we can understand intellectually that
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  those patterns do break because when they break, like if you get
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  interrupted and all of a sudden you're thinking about something
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  completely different, it is very, very easy to all of a
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  sudden like, you know, break the pattern and be distracted with
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  who's ever calling on the phone or who's ever doing something
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  else. Very, very easy to do that.
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  Very, very easy to just keep going in in that direction of
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  whatever's interrupting you. And then all of a sudden you
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  hang up the phone and you're like, oh, what was I thinking
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  about? Oh, that's right, I was looping.
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  And then you jump back to it. It's very interesting how
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  quickly we can redirect ourselves.
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  And it's very interesting how we torture ourselves by not
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  redirecting ourselves. So when you remember that you
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  can interrupt the pattern, you have to ask yourself, what can I
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  do in this moment to change my thought process, my pattern, my
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  state, my physical state? Sometimes it's just getting up
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  and moving. Sometimes it's getting a glass
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  of water. Sometimes it's washing our
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  hands. Sometimes it's something as
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  simple as saying no thank you. I choose not to think about this
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  right now. Now, that may sound strange, but
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  that works in my head because I've trained my drivers that
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  when I say no thank you, I don't want them in the seat.
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  So you have to interrupt it in a way that works for you and
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  everyone is original. It's just like when I work with
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  people on this individually in coaching, we spend time figuring
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  out what they need to do to interrupt themselves and
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  everyone can have different ways to do it.
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  So figure out how you like to interrupt your pattern and make
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  sure you do it because looping not the best thing in the whole
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  world. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.