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Season 2 - Episode 249 - Working with our five senses · 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 master mindset
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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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  So today we're talking about comfort items, and comfort items
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  are something that's incredibly important to our wellbeing.
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  And often it is very, very overlooked for what I consider
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  to be toxic comfort items where we'll swap things out that we
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  know are, you know, not good for us other like drinking like too
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  much alcohol. Indulging in other substances.
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  That may not be great for us because they're a comfort item
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  to us, but the truth of the matter is that we have, all of
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  us have basic, basic things that we know and we remember because,
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  listen, we were all taught these things in school.
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  Things you see, things you feel, things you hear, things you
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  smell, things you taste. These are our senses, and our
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  senses actually drive. Us in a huge, tremendous way.
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  So when you start to pay attention to the fact that your
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  senses are so very, very important and you can utilize
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  those in such tremendous ways for your greater good, it
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  becomes an asset that absolutely has to be worked, should be
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  worked in the best ways possible.
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  So let me give you an example. I ought if you follow me on
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  social media, you know I am big. Visually, I'm a huge.
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  Photographer absolutely love taking pictures of everything.
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  So I use my photography as moments of where I know I was
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  present in the moment. I love to take pictures of
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  nature. It's like that is just my thing,
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  whether it's the chickens, whether it's birds, flowers,
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  plants. I don't care what it is.
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  I'm finding something every day and I'm taking pictures of it to
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  the point where I've probably got about.
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  I think I'm up to like 90,000 plus in my iPhoto library and
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  while that may sound daunting and overwhelming for me, when I
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  look through it, I'm like, oh, I remember walking there oh, I
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  remember seeing that lighting hitting something a certain way
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  this past weekend I was out and I've got this huge rain garden
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  that we created and. All of these milkweeds that I
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  got from seed, and it's taking a couple years now to actually get
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  them to bloom in the intensity that they are.
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  But Oh my gosh, everything is just blooming, blooming,
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  blooming. And the butterflies that are out
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  there are tremendous. So many butterflies are there.
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  So I'm very, very excited because I see all the
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  butterflies, then I see the lighting that's happening and
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  I'm like, Oh my gosh, OK, I need to really pay attention to the
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  lighting. And I run my out there with my
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  camera and I start videoing and I start, you know, taking
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  pictures of it. And it was such a great sense of
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  comfort for me. It just made me think, wow, OK,
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  these are things that I really need to remind everybody of.
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  So again, this comes back to simple, simple stuff like, OK, I
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  do it with what I see. You might do it with what you
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  feel. So it's like the warm breeze
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  going to the ocean, going to the beach, going, hiking going.
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  You know, feeling the dirt when you because you can feel in many
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  different ways. Like, I also get this when I
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  love to go in the garden and dig, because digging in the dirt
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  makes me just tremendously happy and I love doing it.
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  So there's that. Then you've got the whole aspect
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  of things. You hear music.
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  Well, we all know the power that music has over us.
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  So that in itself, tremendous, tremendous, tremendous to be
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  just. Going ahead and saying, OK, I'm
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  going to focus on putting together my soundtrack that just
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  makes me feel amazing every time I hear it.
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  Things you smell now. Essential oils.
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  OK, if you're not into essential oils, I highly recommend you
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  find somebody that you can hook up with that can help you with
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  essential oil stuff because that Oh my gosh, just having a smell
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  of something can shift you immediately and take you to a
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  whole different place than you ever thought you would go to.
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  So keep in mind those are. Big one.
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  And of course, taste. So we all know if you if you
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  ever had anybody in your life that made you cookies, and the
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  smell of the warm cookies coming out of the oven, as well as the
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  taste of them, wow, that just blows your mind regularly, and
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  I'll tell you. It's a weakness for a lot of us.
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  That's how we end up eating things.
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  We don't necessarily want to eat, but we like it.
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  So it's a question of OK, comfort food, what can I do for
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  myself, for comfort foods? What can I do for myself, for
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  comfort taste. So for me, one of those things
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  is coffee. I would always go with my dad to
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  have coffee at Dunkin' Donuts. And I will tell you that Dunkin'
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  Donuts has this very special place in my heart.
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  And every time I walk in, the smell immediately along with.
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  The taste of the coffee and the warmth of the coffee.
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  It hits a lot of different Marks and it makes us feel comforted.
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  So the point is, think of the things that bring you comfort.
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  Find a list of healthy things that you can make for yourself
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  and then keep those out so that you can have that as a regular
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  resource to say okay, what can I do right now?
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  Remember, work with all five of your senses as much as you can,
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  and amazing things will happen. 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.