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Season 3 - Episode 298 - Why do we say breathe? · 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
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  chicken coop. Have you ever?
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  Heard somebody say to. You just breathe.
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  Just take a breath. Well, I know I have many times
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  in my life and I've often. Been curious?
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  OK, What's the reason people tell us that?
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  Why? Why is it every?
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  Time. Something's going on.
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  Someone wants to. Say, just breathe.
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  And I say. That to people.
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  Sometimes just. Take a breath.
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  I think I texted that to a client this week.
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  Take a breath, because it works. It's not just like.
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  A. A made-up thing, part of the.
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  Problem that we have as human beings is that when we get.
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  Stressed there is a physiological aspect of our body
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  that takes. Over and we don't.
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  We are very unaware of it. Your shoulders will start to
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  rise up to your ears. You start to get very.
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  Focused on the problem in front of you, whatever that may be,
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  and you. Hold your breath.
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  When we panic, one of the physiological things that.
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  We do is we hold our breath right away.
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  And the moment you start. To hold your breath, your.
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  Brain goes. Into this phase where it's
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  protecting you because it needs air so it starts to race your
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  heart everything starts to go harder, harder, harder.
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  Your heart rate goes up. Heart rate goes up because
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  you're. Probably not breathing.
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  Panic has set in and it's it, it and it.
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  This is something my friends that goes.
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  Off so quickly. You don't realize what's
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  happening. So whether the threat is real?
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  Or perceived. And I know you've heard me say
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  that many, many times. We have to realize that the
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  physiological state of our bodies.
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  Is kicking in and that's causing more challenges just by its very
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  nature of holding our breath. So when we take a.
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  Deep breath. When we sit and pause, we can
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  organically. Very quickly.
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  Naturally shift. Our Physiology very, very, very
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  quickly by just. Breathing and stopping and
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  pausing. This seems like such a.
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  Silly tactic, but I will tell you.
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  If you are someone who goes. To yoga.
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  Or you're into meditation, Mindfulness, you already know.
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  The power this has. Maybe you don't.
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  Use. It regularly or maybe you use it
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  when you're in those rooms or those situations, but when
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  you're not doing it out in the world and I can promise you when
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  you start to pay attention to just breathing.
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  You will feel better throughout your day no matter.
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  What you're. Doing Just take a breath.
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  And that. Pause of.
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  Taking a breath has really taught me to continue that by
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  saying other things where it's like if you're in a heated
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  situation, you need. To hit.
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  The pause button and think. You're you take a.
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  Breath. So now you can actually think
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  clearly because that's the other thing that physiologically when
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  you are having a challenge, you're not breathing.
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  As soon as your brain has, you know, a less amount of oxygen,
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  you can't think clearly. Remember that you are not
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  thinking clearly. So what's important is to allow
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  yourself to begin to think clearly again and that comes in
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  with oxygen. So as soon.
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  As that. Takes place and you start.
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  To. Have the oxygen come in.
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  You can. Say to yourself, hey.
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  I think I need to take. I can't answer this question
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  right now. I need to take a pause.
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  I need to wait to see what this answer is going to be.
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  Give me a bit, give me time. I'll tell you in 24 hours,
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  whatever it might be. Give yourself the pause, because
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  there's. Power in the pausing, there's
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  power in the breathing, there's power in that chilled out
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  moment, Honestly. It works unbelievably well.
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  If we do it, it works unbelievably well.
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  If we do it, If we don't do it. Then guess what?
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  Nothing happens. Nothing happens.
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  So start with that. Figure out where you need to.
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  Put. Your breaths in the day ahead of
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  time, no. If you get stressed out, just.
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  Pulling into your. Parking space at work.
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  If you know that you are now, you know many companies are now
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  putting people back in the office part time.
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  They're saying, well, we want you to come in three days a
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  week. You can work. 2.
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  Days A. Week at home.
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  Three days a week you have to be here.
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  And you've been home for the last you know, 3.
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  Years. Four years because of.
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  What happened with the pandemic? Well, guess.
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  What? That's going to be.
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  A stressor, so you have to realize that as you're.
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  Pulling into work, a very important strategy is to.
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  Breathe before. You even walk in the door.
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  Take. A deep breath.
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  Take. 30 seconds pause and just sit and breathe and feel.
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  Good physiologically. 1st and then walk in the door.
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  It will change everything, it will make you feel like a
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  different person, but you have to remember to do it, and that's
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  the key. It's the memory of saying.
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  Wait, pause. Breathe, wait, Pause, breathe.
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  Right, that's. The thing?
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  It goes. Back to being able.
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  To actually put it into action. Simple strategies in action
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  change our world externally like you would not believe.
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  Give. It a try see how it goes.
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  And I will see you all tomorrow have.
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  A blessed day, everybody. Bye.