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Season 3 - Episode 214 - Rituals for the morning, spiritual practice · 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. Yesterday we talked about
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  establishing a spiritual practice and how important it
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  was. And today we are going to talk
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  about the daily habits that come into play with this exact thing.
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  So, you know, some people love to have their morning rituals of
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  sitting with the newspaper and the coffee.
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  And if that's great for you and you're one of those people, have
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  at it. But I don't believe that most of
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  my people are those people because they know you're
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  probably not taking in the energy of peace.
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  You're probably taking in the energy of having chaos.
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  And that's not fun. So for me, outside information
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  like that doesn't work. I don't take that in in the
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  morning. I get my information, but I
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  don't take it in in the morning. I think the morning is very
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  sacred and to me, if you're going to start a spiritual
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  practice or develop one, it's starting in the morning.
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  Understanding that that is sacred time.
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  It's quiet. I'm out here right now and other
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  than me, there is nobody around. Everybody is asleep.
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  It's way early and you can hear Roosters learning to crow off in
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  the distance. You can hear the birds,
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  chickens, everything, but other than Mother Nature, it's quiet.
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  And this is part of a spiritual practice for me because it's
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  important to bring me into a headspace that it's not all
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  about me. So every day I have to remind
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  myself first, the world is not all about me and caring for the
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  animals and the flowers and the plants and everything that
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  reminds me of the nature of the symbiotic nature of humans and
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  nature. And how when you do it and you
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  and you pay attention the right way, that you end up in such a
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  beautiful place because you're not just making it all about
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  you. That's part of my ritualistic
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  morning. In addition to that, my mornings
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  consist of always reading. Always reading every morning,
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  making sure that there's something good going into my
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  head from a book that's chosen from an article that's chosen in
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  magazines that I may have chosen.
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  But I'm telling you, most of the time it's from a book because I
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  can really pick and choose what goes into my head in that book.
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  And another piece of this puzzle, I would say that's super
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  important about choosing the reading is recognizing that you
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  don't have to read a whole lot in order to get a big impact.
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  So if you just decide, OK, every morning I'm going to read for 10
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  minutes, some people will say, well, that's not enough.
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  I can't take it in 10 minutes. You can take in shifts in 10
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  minutes, trust me. So just give yourself the
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  opportunity to try it and say 10 minutes is all I need. 10
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  minutes is all I need to get that done.
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  I just need to read for 10 minutes and then you're and then
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  you're good. So besides that and going into
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  it, for me, I know this is crazy, but making tea in the
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  morning is a ritual that I enjoy so much because I the whole time
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  I'm doing it, I think about how much I appreciate this tea and I
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  cannot wait to drink it. Now part of that comes from the
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  fact that when I gave up coffee, I really put my intention on
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  finding great tea and looking for tea that would make me feel
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  as good as coffee did. And I did, I did.
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  I found that and I found it because of somebody that worked
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  with for a very long time and thought the, I still think the
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  world of her. And she kept saying to me, well,
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  you have to put two tea bags in there.
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  You have to actually have a mint tea bag in there.
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  And then it becomes unbelievable.
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  And then you put a little tiny bit of oat milk into it or
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  almond milk into it and it just makes it so ugly.
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  And she was not wrong. It does.
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  So it's like an English breakfast tea, tea bag and a
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  Moroccan mint tea bag, a little bit of honey and some almond
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  milk or oat milk. And it makes it unbelievably
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  wonderful. But that ritual of doing that is
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  part of my practice in the morning to center myself and be
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  in a spiritual state before I go off.
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  And I'm sharing that one with you because I want you to
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  realize there's none of this, there's no judgment in it.
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  If you say, hey, I want to get up in the morning and I just
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  want to sit there and color for 30 minutes, OK.
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  And that's your, that's your spiritual practice.
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  Great. Do it because that's what your
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  version of this is. And just like taking pictures or
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  you know, painting or writing there are or doing a podcast,
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  there's no right version. There's just the version that
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  works for you. So don't judge yourself.
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  Just jump in and do it. Don't overthink it.
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  Just do it. Create something and say this is
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  my morning spiritual practice. And because of that, I'm going
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  to feel empowered all day. It's the tuning into the small
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  things that makes the big difference.
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  So go create something and I will see you tomorrow my
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  friends. Have a blessed day, bye.