Meditation for when you don’t want to meditate :) Hello there Today’s episode is a meditation for you for when you don’t want to meditate Your meditation routine shouldn’t feel like another point on your to do list It should rather feel like meeting up with your best friend Effortless and light ... Enjoy and thank you for listening and subscribing ❤️In the next couple meditations I will focus on effortlessness .. feel the sweetness and necessity of this word already and be excited :) A relaxed muscle hits hardest - Bruce lee

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Hello, and welcome to the Borealis experience. I'm

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your host Aurora. And I'm very happy that we get to spend time

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together today. This is the fourth meditation I want to post

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for you. This podcast is for free, and I'm hoping to bring

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you value, peace and self love. Let's dive in. Today's episode

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is a meditation for when you don't feel like meditating. I

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just made my favorite tea, licorice tea. And earlier today,

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I sat down and tried to meditate but it just didn't work. I was

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too restless, I was kind of felt agitated, irritated, I'm not in

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the mood to just sit down and be still. And maybe you have that

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feeling too at times. And maybe that is why so many people still

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resist to a meditation because it's it's very counter

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intuitive, when, for instance, we had Netflix or eating

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chocolate and popcorn on the couch as self love tool so far.

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If that was your go to, then meditation seems like having to

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go to the gym when you really don't feel like doing it. And

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what I want to emphasize today is that I don't want your

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meditation practice to be another point on your to do

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list, I don't want it to feel like something you have to do.

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Maybe you have a very awesome routine when it comes to

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exercising. But maybe you know those days to where you really

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don't want to go and don't want to exercise and all you want to

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do is sit on a couch and just be and I think we should all be

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more gentle with ourselves. Because I relaxed muscle hits

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hardest. One of my favorite quotes from Bruce Lee. When you

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are a very sporty person, you probably know that days in

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between exercising, where you recharge your batteries, where

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you give your muscles a break your brain a break your nervous

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system a break are very critical in reaching your goals. And

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meditation, it's not much different. I want you to commit

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to a little meditation practice. But I don't want it to feel like

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a drag. So in yoga, for instance, you have the very

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powerful fast pace, vinyasa s. There's also a yoga called yin

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yoga or even yoga nidra, where you just lay there, and the yoga

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teacher guides guides you through a body scan, and most of

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the time I fall asleep. But when I stay awake and receive the

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teachers message, then this is also a very genuine and good way

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to practice yoga and to practice self care. So meditation doesn't

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always have to look like Oh, I'm drinking a tea and sitting on my

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meditation cushion and with a straight spine. Meditation can

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also be while you walk, look at the trees, look at the sky, Look

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at the birds. Open up your your vision field. Look at new

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things. Maybe you go you step out the door tomorrow. And if

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she lives in a city you focus on every bicycle that drives by or

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you focus on people with umbrellas if it's raining or you

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focus on the colors that you can see everywhere you can step out

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into the world with intention and in a state of Being, rather

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than doing doing doing doing, I just had to take a shower

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because today was a very busy day for me. And I set the

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intention that this shower is going to wash off all my to do

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mode that I was thriving. And after the shower, I'm in Bing

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mode. So maybe you can see meditation as meeting up with a

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friend and that friend as yourself. And when you meet up

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with this friend, called yourself, then you're not going

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to roll your eyes and think, Oh, this is like a to do to do thing

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I have to commit to now be open to what that friend wants to

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tell you. Be open to the presence be open to the energy.

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And maybe just lay down today instead of sitting up straight,

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maybe lay on your belly, or as I said earlier, go for a walk.

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Just don't drive a car, drive a bicycle or operate machinery.

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Why are you listening to this episode, because you might drift

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off into a liberal sleep or not pay attention and then hurt

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yourself. So be safe there. So on days, we don't want to

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meditate. Just find a position where you feel comfortable right

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now. And you can keep your eyes open or close. Just do whatever

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you want. Just be gentle on those days with yourself. And

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don't punish yourself for not feeling it today. And if you're

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feeling it today, then discard that message and just stay in

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line for this coming meditation.

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So you found your place. And maybe you want to focus on

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gratitude today. The last couple episodes, we focused on

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visualizing our breath,

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counting our breath. And on days where I don't feel like

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meditating, I simply put my hand on my heart.

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And then think of everything that I'm grateful for. And

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gratefulness is such a beautiful practice because you can be

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grateful and at the same time, have a closed heart. You can be

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grateful and at the same time, think about the things you still

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want to do. Or the things that upset you today. It makes it

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takes up all the space with all its goodness, and just fills you

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with appreciation and love. And there's days where we don't feel

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like meditating. And we don't see anything. We want to be

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grateful for. That let me tell you that. A couple years back, I

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met a homeless homeless guy on the streets of Lethbridge. And

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it was five o'clock in the afternoon. We started talking

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about the weather and he was playing the guitar and just

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taking a break there talking about playing the guitar and

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stuff. And for that whole day, I didn't see another person as

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happy and content as he was because he had his guitar. He

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knew that he was putting something out there that made

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people feel good. And he was just happy to be without

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physical pain without emotional pain. Just being there and it

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was greatly inspiring to me. So if you go back to your little

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practice now my hand is still in my heart. Maybe you want to

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place your hand on your heart to then breathe in deeply and

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exhale. Breathe in all the goodness that life has to offer.

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and exhale judgment, resentment, jealousy

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take a couple more breaths like that

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think about the water you were drinking today. Was it clean?

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Did it nurture your body be grateful for the water you get

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to drink every day. The water you have to wash yourself

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to wash your clothing, your dishes was it a sunny day today

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be grateful for every Sun beam that touched your skin

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be grateful for the clean air you're allowed to breathe in

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and the co2 you're exhaling that nourishes the plants on our

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planet

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be grateful and proud for the presence you can give yourself

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right now at peace to show up for yourself every day even

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though it's just a couple of minutes

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be grateful for the food you had today. Or will have know that it

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is being ingested by your body and turns into your cells be

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grateful for your body and how your body is constantly working

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for you in the background. You don't even have to consciously

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think of digesting breathing having your heartbeat in the

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appropriate rhythm be deeply grateful for your body

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bit deeply grateful that you're doing this meditation here today

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with me you're doing yourself a huge favor and slowing down a

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little bit reconnect and then afterwards you can go back to

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fast paced, slow paced or anything you want I am deeply

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grateful that you're listening today as you make me feel heard

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I feel I'm doing good in the world

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now please both hands on to your sternum in prayer position for

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your head down surrender to your heart for the rest of the day.

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Me heart be your guide and your mind just a tool valuable to

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namaste

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thank you so much for listening today. That was a very special

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episode for me because I felt a lot of resistance to meditation

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today and you in supporting my podcast here allowed me to sit

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down and piece and record this meditation. So thank you so

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much. I will be connecting with you soon again. Have a good

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time. Take care Take care of yourself. You're so worth it.

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Aurora