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Season 4 - Episode 151 - Understanding sensory acuity · 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 Mastermindset coach, creative strategist.
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  And also happen to be. A farmer.
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  This is my chicken coop and I come out here every day to
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  record a podcast to teach distinctions, possibilities, new
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  ways of thinking, and just bring some joy into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey, everybody.
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  Good morning. Actually on the porch this
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  morning, it's really early. You can hear all the birds off
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  in the distance and you can hear the rooster off in the distance.
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  It's not the sky is just turning like a brighter color of that
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  morning blue. And why am I describing all of
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  this to you? Because this is sensory acuity,
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  using all your senses to take in your surroundings and recognize
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  what's actually happening. So right now, everything is
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  waking up. Everything is starting to wake
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  off. You can hear roof rake up.
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  You can hear Rufus off in the distance.
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  You can hear my neighbors Roosters off in the distance.
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  You can hear all the little birds in the trees, not flying
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  yet, but they're just, you know, making their sounds, getting
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  ready to wake up. And part of having high sensory
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  acuity is being able to pick up all the sounds.
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  Now, I can hear the traffic. I don't know if you can hear the
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  traffic, but I live really far from any major traffic yet you
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  can hear it. And it's interesting to me how
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  when you hone in on specific senses, you can pick up on
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  things. Now, why is this important in
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  our lives across the board? Well, one for safety purposes,
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  and that's pretty obvious, but on a bigger scale, sensory
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  acuity is really understanding what's going on around you in a
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  room with other people or interacting with other people or
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  anything that's alive or not. Like if whether it's not alive,
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  just paying attention, looking for things.
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  It's I love to use the example of have you ever had somebody
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  wash do your dishes for you and they believe the dishes are
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  clean. And you walk over and you see
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  that the dishes in fact are not clean.
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  That the edge of the pot still has gunk stuck to it or the lid
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  has been washed with like a brush instead of a sponge or
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  cloth. And you can see where the brush
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  marks went through what was on it.
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  And they didn't even notice it though.
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  Oh, I didn't even see that. And you say, how could you not
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  see that It's right in front of you.
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  Well, this is the difference between where we are in the
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  sensory world. One someone person is picking up
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  on it one way, another person is picking up on it in another way.
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  And this level of sensory acuity is so important because we
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  wonder, well, I don't know why this person isn't talking to me.
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  I don't know why this person isn't paying attention to me.
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  I don't know what's happening. And our senses are focused on
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  what how we interpret the world, not on how other people
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  interpret the world. And I'll tell you, it is one of
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  the most talked about subjects that I can even be like when I
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  start to calculate, OK, what do I talk about most with my
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  clients? Often, Very often it comes back
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  to the fact that, well, they're dealing with people that have no
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  idea that this is what's going on for them, that this is their
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  experience. And they just don't, they don't
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  take it all in. They don't see that that this is
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  a big deal. I'm sure if anyone on here
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  listening has a family or a a person that they consider their
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  partner in life and that partner does things to irritate you.
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  Let's just face it, we all my partner irritates me.
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  I can tell you that. So I can look at it and say, Oh
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  yeah, there are things that go on that I go, wait, wait, what?
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  How do you not notice that? How did you not even see that?
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  Because those things are not important.
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  Those things are just not important, but in his world
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  they're just not important, and in my world they're very
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  important. So this comes back to where is
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  his sensory acuity? Where is my sensory acuity?
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  Is mine too high and is his too low?
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  Probably. And yeah, I've been accused of
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  Kim C's dirt. Yes, that's a very real thing.
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  I see it everywhere I go. I noticed things that are out of
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  order because that is my certainty driving.
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  Now, is it possible, Is it completely possible to learn to
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  live and heighten your sensory acuity?
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  Yes, but you have to slow down. And that's the point of coming
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  out here and listening to everything, waking up in the
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  morning and hearing it and paying attention.
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  Because now when you stop and you pause and take in that
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  moment, you're going into that meditative state when they say
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  listen to everything around you, close your eyes, take out your
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  eye, your eyesight and just listen and hear everything.
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  You hear the cars, you hear the birds, you hear the frogs, you,
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  you hear the bugs, you hear the Roosters, you hear everything
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  that's going on around you. And it helps you sensory wise.
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  And then you can go ahead and do it with a vision.
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  OK, I'm going to look right in front of me.
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  Look at all the details. Look at all the details.
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  Now, for me, being visual is very easy.
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  I'm a hyper visual person. The sound I had to train myself
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  to do. And I'll tell you, it's a gift
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  now that I've done it. I love it.
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  It's hard to learn it, but when you start to blend and get very
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  high sensory acuity, I promise you great things happen because
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  now you can take in more and you can understand somebody else's
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  level of sensory acuity. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.