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Season 4 - Episode 69 - Finding the spiritual moments in everyday life · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good afternoon from the chicken coop I'm
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  shooting this Sunday afternoon for Monday morning to come out.
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  Just finished doing a bunch of work out here and creating some
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  benches and cleaning up and just sitting here in the space of
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  some very, very peaceful time and wanted to share this space
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  with you. Because to me, this is sacred.
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  This time that I get to sit out here and just watch them digging
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  around in the hay, watching them out in the garden.
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  Some of them are in the run because I've been in here
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  working, so they want to see what I've done.
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  Some of them are out. There's birds flying everywhere
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  besides them. And it's a spiritual moment for
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  me. And what's so important about
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  these spiritual moments is that it's, it's intrinsically part of
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  humankind. If you go back to the very
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  beginnings, there were always rituals, there were always
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  mysticism, spirituality before religion, before all of it.
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  We always, there's always some tie in some shape or form to
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  this part of spirituality. And it's always been something
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  that's been very fluid, very personal, and something that you
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  can feel no matter what. This is the way I tap into it
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  through nature. And it doesn't matter to me that
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  these are domesticated birds or, you know, however you want to
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  look at them. To me, it's just nature.
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  The dogs, nature, the trees, nature, the air.
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  It's just about getting ready to rain.
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  It feels like it's going to rain.
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  The clouds are coming in and it's very still and very, very
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  sweet. The air smells sweet.
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  And more importantly than all of it is taking the time to stop
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  and pause and notice it. Because if you can tap in every
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  day to that spiritual side of yourself, whatever you believe.
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  And again, we're not talking about religion as much as we're
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  talking about spirituality and knowing that there's something
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  more than out there than just this.
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  Now, some people don't choose to believe that some people have a
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  very nihilistic way of thinking of the world.
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  Well, that's OK. That if that's what's right for
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  their soul, that's what's right for their soul.
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  I happen to think, you know, something completely different.
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  I am incredibly curious and Uber spiritual in that way and
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  believe that, you know, it is magical.
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  There are, there are so many things that are, I'm surrounded
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  by every day here in the space of magical things happening.
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  And I, the more I notice it, the more I tap into it, the better
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  quality of life I have. And isn't this what this is all
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  about? Creating the quality of life
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  that you want by being able to tap into things.
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  You know, as I sit here and I look up, there are a bunch of
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  birds flying very, very high right now.
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  And they happen to be, you know, so high, they look so small and
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  they're vultures. And they're just up there
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  looking, seeing if there are carcasses anywhere.
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  And like, even that to me is so spiritual that they are always,
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  they're the cleanup crew, their nature's cleanup crew.
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  Just like, you know, you find squirrels.
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  They're constantly cleaning things up.
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  While they're a nuisance, they also clean things up.
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  We can always find a way to grow our spirituality when we walk
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  out into nature. And if you've not done it, I
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  highly suggest that you try to tap into it that way and just
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  pause. Look around, see what's there.
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  See, see what's happening out in in your yard.
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  Look around for all the small things that you would miss if
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  you just walked on by. Like most of us drive into our
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  yard and we get out of the car, we go in the house and we don't
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  see what's happening around us. We don't notice all the little
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  things. Today I found some gecko eggs
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  that someone had laid in one of my pots.
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  I have photographed and filmed the quints that are are
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  blooming. I've been out here with the
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  chickens watching them. I have a hen that's broody and
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  she's about to want to sit on about, I don't know, 30 eggs in
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  one nest. They all seem to lay in one nest
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  today. So now she wants to sit on eggs.
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  And it's all just part of nature.
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  The, the blooms on the plum trees, The Jasmine is getting
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  ready to, like, start to grow more of its leaves out.
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  The jessamines blooming roses are starting to get their leaves
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  to come out. The little violets are all
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  popping. It's all so spiritual.
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  And it's just a reminder that if you pause and you look, you'll
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  see it. And you can tap into it.
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  And it doesn't have to be big things like, you know, heading
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  to church and doing all that. You can find it in a moment.
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  And it's important to our well-being.
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  So seek it out today and see if you can find it.
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  Even if you're on your way to work, just stop, pause, and take
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  a look at it. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you find what you're looking for today and some real spirituality
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  and I will see you tomorrow. Bye.