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Season 3 - Episode 213 - Establishing a 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 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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  Today we're talking about the importance of having a spiritual
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  practice. Now, not talking about religion
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  can be religious if that's what you choose, but I'm just talking
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  about a spiritual practice. Why is it important and what do
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  the statistics tell us about it? Well, people that have a
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  spiritual practice tend to be healthier by as much as 50 to
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  60%, depending upon the studies you look at.
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  Mentally, physically, emotionally, it's just it,
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  There's something about it that brings us a sense of peace.
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  And because we have this spiritual practice that we can
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  rely on for things, it tends to make us just feel more
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  comforted. It makes us calm down.
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  Now again, I'm, I, I, I am telling you the importance of
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  this because having faith in something, whether it's
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  yourself, whether it's the universe, whether it's God,
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  whether it's a specific doctrine that you follow, Catholicism,
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  Hinduism, it doesn't really make a difference.
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  It all comes back to one big thing is that you believe you're
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  not alone. And the thing about human
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  beings, just like having, you know, I'm standing here in the
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  midst of the morning, the girls are eating their breakfast,
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  everybody's Peck, Peck, pecking away, eating bananas and
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  zucchini and all the good stuff, oatmeal, all that.
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  I watch them and they are flock animals and it so reminds me of
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  how humans are. Like.
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  Just like chickens have friends in the group, they have ones
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  that they rely on that they go to.
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  I've watched them mourn. I've watched what happens when
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  one of them who has a friend and the friend dies.
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  It is, it's, it's just like watching, you know, that there
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  is a sadness in that being. They don't simply forget that
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  quickly. And I think that's really
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  important. And when they believe that
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  you're their friend, they come right over to you.
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  I'm here. I'm I'm in the midst of them
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  all. And some of the babies that are
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  still, well, they're not really babies anymore.
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  They're quite big, but they got very used to sitting with me
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  when they were little, like on my lap sitting, just sitting
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  here hanging out with me. They're here.
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  They believe I'm their friends. So that's part of their faith.
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  They have faith in. Me and having faith in something
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  developing in that spiritual practice is.
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  So. Darn important for us as human
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  beings because it gives us the ability to look at things.
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  And say. That.
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  Oh, a new new. Crow from King Rufus.
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  Like here he goes. He's trying to learn to crow.
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  But it's so important because it's establishing a foundation
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  upon which you can build good things.
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  It's establishing this nice foundation for things and it's
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  not it's, it's not giving you a push that says you must do a
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  certain doctrine or anything. Like that?
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  It's just. More about.
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  Believing in something and knowing that there is a,
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  something out there that you can rely on.
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  Now for some people, they are, you know, they do not believe in
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  the spiritual realm of things. They can't, you know, see, and
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  that's totally fine. It could just be that there are
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  their belief is in their family, their friends, and that's okay.
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  If that's what they choose to believe, that's what that's
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  okay. And I am not here to profess
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  which is right and wrong. I'm here to profess that you
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  need to believe in something. You need to have that bigger
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  belief in something because of the benefits of it.
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  So the spiritual way you look at the world helps you adapt when
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  the things don't go the way you want.
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  So if you asked me, you know, do I have a spiritual practice?
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  I would say absolutely. And this is part of it.
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  Coming out, being with my animals, watching my animals,
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  seeing my animals, this all brings me right to nature.
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  The garden is a spiritual practice for me.
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  Hearing the geese fly over, being out here on the mornings
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  when it's so quiet, watching my, the entire flock interact with
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  all the free ranged bunnies that we have.
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  I mean, it's, it's crazy how they just all interact so well
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  based on the fact that I have faith in the, in the fact that
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  the universe is going to blend them together and that they are
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  going to be great. And I truly believe that.
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  And therefore they are. Mother Nature has taught me so
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  much about having a spiritual practice and trusting because
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  there are times when I don't, because I get aggravated because
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  it's not going the way I want it to go.
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  And it's frustrating. This year was one of those big
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  ones with the garden. But guess what?
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  I keep working on it and I keep trusting and I keep saying, you
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  know what, there's more to learn, there's more to learn,
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  there's more to learn. And as long as there's more to
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  learn, then you feel good about it.
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  So developing that spiritual practice, huge big thing.
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  So look at it, see where you are with it and ask yourself, what
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  is that spiritual practice and how can I make myself feel
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  better? 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.