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Season 4 - Episode 51 - Are you letting your mind melt? · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to 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. So the question of the day is,
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  do you take time to just let your mind melt?
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  And I'm not talking about being creative, I'm not talking about
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  your goals. I'm not talking about any of
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  that right this minute. Do you take time to let your
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  mind melt? And that was how the question
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  was posed to me yesterday. Do you take time to let your
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  brain just go? And I was like, what do you
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  mean? And she said, you know, melt, do
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  you let your mind melt? And I was like, that's a really
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  interesting question. Do you mean like, just like
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  think about nothing, go off like what do you, what do you exactly
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  are you meaning by that? And she said, well, because I
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  feel guilty about wanting to watch ATV show and just sit down
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  and watch ATV show and not feel guilty about it.
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  I can't do it. I feel guilty about it.
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  And I was like, wow, that's really, really interesting
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  because for me, one of the most important things that I focus on
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  is if I'm going to do something, I go into it wholeheartedly
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  without having the feeling of being guilty about it because I
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  handled the objections up front in my head.
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  She did not ever. We had never talked about that
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  apparently. And so that's why I was like,
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  you know what, we're talking about this today because I am
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  100% love to watch a really good series or shows or sometimes
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  just stupid ones, but I don't let it into fear with the rest
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  of my world. In other words, it's it's not
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  going to rob me from progress. It's not going to rob me.
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  I'm connecting with my family because maybe I'm watching it
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  with them or I'm doing something that's that my mind is melting,
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  but it's with them. And usually it's movies.
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  We like watching movies, we like watching shows.
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  My husband and I right now, Full disclosure, we're into
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  Severance. We watched the first season.
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  It's very, very interesting. The concept is super interesting
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  to me about being able to turn off half of your life and not
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  remember the other part of it while you're somewhere else so
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  that you can stay completely focused.
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  It's kind of spooky creepy. I love it.
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  We watched, you know where we watch season 1.
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  Now we're into season 2. Obviously it's coming out slowly
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  with Apple, but OK, whatever. A client had recommended to me
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  to watch Younger and it's a very interesting show, seven seasons
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  long. And you know what?
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  I love it now do I watch the show and have it robbed
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  something from my life? In other words, is it robbing
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  time from with my husband or my son or my daughter?
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  No, not doing that because I watch it like when I know
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  they're watching something else, they like scary movies.
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  So I'm not into the scary, scary horror movies, but they are.
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  So if they're watching that, I'll let myself go do it.
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  But I don't feel guilty about it.
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  I don't say I should be doing this and I should be doing that
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  and shooting all over myself. No, no, no, no, no.
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  I stay focused on the fact that no, this is my, this is my time
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  to just like decompress. For me, the word is decompress.
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  I don't have to think about anything.
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  I don't have to think about helping someone with their
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  thoughts. I don't have to think about
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  animals. None of it.
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  I can just crawl under a weighted blanket, which I love
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  by the way, and can just melt and that's OK.
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  And if you're not doing that, you have to ask yourself, what's
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  the reason I'm not doing that? And it doesn't have to be with a
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  movie or show or anything else. Some people do it with
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  crocheting, some people do it with needlepoint, some people do
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  it with painting. They just melt away.
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  I know I can also do that when I'm in the studio doing clay
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  work. That was a big time for my brain
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  to just melt it. I don't know why it was so much
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  more impactful for me than it was.
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  It is when I paint, but it is. It's just different.
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  But even still from from my perspective, that point of of
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  one, not feeling guilty, and two, recognizing that this from
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  from my perspective, my physical perspective, I want to be still
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  when I do that. So if I'm watching a show or a
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  movie, I'm very still physically, which is not
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  something that I ever am. So if I'm doing the clay or I'm
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  painting or I'm taking pictures, I'm moving.
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  I'm doing what I'm always doing on the move, on the move, on the
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  move. But when I watch a movie and I'm
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  just there and I'm under my weighted blanket and I'm not
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  sleeping, I'm awake. I'm and I'm not present in my
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  head. I'm just present with the show
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  and the characters. There is a release in inside of
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  me and there's a release in most of us.
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  That's just why we get so intoxicated by movies.
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  We're just like because it allows us to unplug from
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  ourselves, which is I think why I get so offended when the movie
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  sucks. And I'm like, I just wasted that
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  time because I wanted to go and I couldn't get into it.
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  I didn't like the characters, the acting was bad.
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  Whatever it might be, it gets my my head going.
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  So the point is, what are you doing to like melt?
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  What are you doing so you can completely unplug?
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  Because on the other side of that is regeneration and that
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  feels really good. So curious question today, What
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  are you doing to melt? 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.