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Season 4 - Episode 158 - The gifts of your senses and being present · 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, and also happen to
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  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 morning. As I'm opening up their door,
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  you may hear a background noise because their little auto door
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  was not open. I actually beat the auto door to
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  let them in the run and they're all popping out.
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  It cracks me up how quickly they want to come out with that door
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  opening. They're all just lined up
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  inside. It's like boarding a plane for
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  crying out loud, and it makes me laugh every time I get to see
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  it. So I like coming out and getting
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  here early enough and getting them to be able to pause for a
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  second and just get myself set to watch it and say good morning
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  to them. Anyway, I wanted to make you
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  part of that process today because I think how you start
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  your day is a huge part of everything that happens in the
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  world. I mean, I truly believe that.
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  I really believe that it is part of everything that happens when
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  you how you start your day is a major, major, major piece of the
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  puzzle. And when you start it the right
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  way, you end up off at having a much better day overall.
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  So you're here to start it with me today right in the well,
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  probably like an hour and a half in because I've already been up
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  and prepped their food and answered messages that I had to
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  for clients that I'm seeing today and taking care of dogs,
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  taking care of the cat and now and and the birds.
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  And now I am here and I've already looked over the garden.
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  But part of this, why I'm telling you all of this, there's
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  a method to the madness here is that this morning is a very
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  humid morning here. It's kind of, it's not sticky
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  yet, but it's already 79° and it is, it is kind of sticky.
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  I guess it is. And the air is extremely still
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  that the trees are still. And there's really not a lot of
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  sound other than the animals that are around.
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  It's like very, very quiet. And here's what's interesting
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  when it's like this, when you are in a state of mindfulness
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  and you are very present, you start to notice lots of things
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  that you wouldn't notice otherwise.
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  So for instance, you really notice the, the scent in the
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  air. I can smell the figs happening
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  right now, like the figs are, are abundant right now on all
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  the trees and you can smell that sweetness in the air.
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  There's a, there's a particularly intense smell that
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  happens because they're so they're growing so quickly.
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  You can smell the tomatoes as you walk by the garden because
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  those plants are just emitting, you know, that wonderful tomato
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  odor. And because there's zero wind
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  and because it it is so muggy, it's hanging in the air, you can
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  smell the flowers. There's Jasmine growing and you
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  can smell it and you can smell the roses as you're like, you
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  don't even have to be on top of the bushes just walking by them.
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  Now this is definitely mindfulness moments where you
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  can, you're not just using your eyes, but you're using your
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  senses to make sure you can smell everything.
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  You can hear everything. You can hear Hawks off in the
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  distance. You can hear certain things
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  going on and it becomes a very, it becomes a very in the moment
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  process like you are present with it.
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  I love that and I love starting my day that way because it just
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  puts you right with everything that's happening.
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  I, I love watching things too, for sure.
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  Like I love watching that. There's a whole portion of the
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  chickens that one leave right away and they don't want their,
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  their breakfast platters. And then the other ones, I mean,
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  they have food all day long, so they don't have food insecurity.
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  But there are others that are just very into, in tune with the
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  fact that they want food right away.
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  They want, you know, they, they instantaneously want food and
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  they run right to the platters, which is a good thing.
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  They run right to the platters and they want to get what they
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  want to get. Then there are the others who
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  are like, I don't really need to be there.
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  I don't need to do that quite so much.
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  I don't need to do all of that. And they just go their own way.
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  They take off and they do what they want to do.
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  I think for me it's such a great reminder of BU just you do what
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  you need to do, you do where you need to go.
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  I got a brand new water at the tractor supply yesterday.
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  Mine someone of them. I have like water stations all
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  over the farm for the chickens and one of them, my favorite big
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  metal one that's the center of the the yard, the run for them
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  broke and they couldn't use it for a couple days and then I got
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  a brand new one and now there's a whole bunch of them around it
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  and they're just they for some reason they like it.
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  I don't know if it's because it's shiny and new.
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  I don't know, it's in the same location.
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  I don't know. But they're all running over
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  there and using it, being present and recognizing things.
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  That's the key. On my way out here this morning,
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  I saw 11 Cardinals at the feeder already and I was like, wow,
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  isn't that crazy? Like you can see and feel and
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  hear it all. So what can you see, hear, and
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  feel in your morning to get you super present?
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  So you go into your world feeling really jazzed about it.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.