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Ep. 4 How does your body influence your mood? [self-awareness]
Episode 4 • 7th January 2021 • The Borealis Experience • Aurora Eggert
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Hey luv,

in today’s episode I’m really excited. We have listeners from Finland , the US and A, Germany, Canada and the Arabic Emirates already. Thank you so much for being curious. I want to bring you peace and self reflection. The better we know and care about ourselves the more we can care and support others and live a fulfilling life :) the body can be seen as a separate entity. If you don’t give it what it needs it affects your emotional and mental well-being . On the flip side , when we know exactly what our body needs we are not only healthy but confident, resilient and caring with others . I’m a physio nerd :) and so passionate about the wonders of the body. Thank you for listening and focussing on yourself cause you’re so worth it .

Love Aurora

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

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your host Aurora. And today I'm especially excited because I

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just saw where my listeners are coming from, in which part of

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the world people are listening to my podcast. And that's just

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super, super cool for me to see. So we have people from Canada

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from usna, Finland, Germany, and the Arabic Emirates, thank you

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so much for listening, and I hope I can bring you peace and

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joy and self reflection into your life. Because I know I feel

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the better we know ourselves, the better we know what is good

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for us, the better we feel about ourselves. And the more

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compassionate, more helpful, supportive we can be with

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others. And this is what I want to bring to you. The last couple

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of times. So this is still a season one, this is the

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introduction of the Borealis experience. I dissected the self

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into body emotion, thoughts, so the mind history, relationships.

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And today I want to dive in to the physical body and how the

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physical body is deeply affecting our well being. So one

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thing is really obvious is when pain is inflicted from the

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outside. So when we have an accident when we fall when we

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hit our elbow, then it is pain that we feel but also

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emotionally, sometimes just temporarily short lived, changes

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our mood, and sometimes over a longer period of time if the

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pain is staying as a visitor for longer. When you get sick when

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you feel sick. When you have the flu, for instance, you also

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don't feel awesome. emotionally and mentally, if you're weak,

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you feel powerless. And sometimes everything just gets

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dark just because your body is not feeling well. Now there is

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more subtle ways that the body will be in a slightly stressful

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situation. But not enough to make it obvious. And it still

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will change your mood. And if it happens over a longer period of

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time, it can change your whole hormonal household we say in

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German. I hope you say that in English too. But you might

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understand when I go more into detail now. So when we don't

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drink enough water when there's a water deficit, a hydration is

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very important when we experience low sugar, and this,

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in my case has nothing to do with diabetes. It's very normal

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that for instance, you eat high sugary, sugary stuff in the

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morning, that around 1130 or 1030, you experience a low where

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you have to snack and have to eat something because otherwise

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you feel dizzy or don't feel good, then heat and cold. And

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not enough oxygen can also change your mood on a very

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subtle level without you even noticing. And there might be

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people around you who notice and get impatient with you or

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irritated and you don't even understand why because you get

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irritated. Your body gets irritated and is trying to

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communicate to you what it needs, but you don't get it in

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the moment but get impatient and not pleasant to be around. Then

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we have physical touch, of course, consensual and not

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consensual. I think we all have been in a situation before where

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a person that we don't necessarily like came too close

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approached our personal space too intensely and then you have

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a feeling that comes up it's very different for every Buddy.

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But I think you know what I mean when we talk about non

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consensual physical touch, and then consensual Of course you

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feel appreciated cared for sexually aroused. So all those

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feelings come up. And it is through the physical body that

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you feel something emotionally. So I like to see the body as a

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separate entity, even like, I had this super crazy experience,

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one day I received a massage from a massage therapist. And I

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had kind of an outer body experience there, I felt my body

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as if it was an animal breathing there and receiving the awesome

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healing touch and I was hovering above and just experiencing it

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from the outside. So ever since I see my body as a separate

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entity, and are way better connected to it, I feel I can

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understand my body way better. And in this episode here, I want

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to try and put it into words so that you can be more careful and

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aware of the subtle signals that the body gives us at times. So

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when you really learn to understand it and know how to

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read it, then you can be a master of your health. And it is

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so fascinating because every body is different, every

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physical body is different. And is has to be treated differently

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than the other. So in episode three, we talked about emotions,

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so energy in motion, and I will now draw you a picture on how

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your emotional state influences your physical well being. So

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think about a school kid. And it gets rewarded with TV TV

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watching an ice cream or some sort of treats after receiving a

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grade mark in his or her math test, math exam. So in the kids

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subconscious now is branded, if I'm a good student, I get a

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reward, namely, treats and positive feedback from my

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caregiver. In adulthood now, it's very likely that this

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person will have sugary treats, or the same rewards he received

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as a child, then they're now in adulthood, and the body will

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actually send out hormones to signal I want treats now. So it

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all happens on a very subconscious level, you will

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just feel that you have a craving for something sweet

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because you did something good. And this is what you used to.

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And this is called conditioning. And a lot of people I've met who

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struggled with obesity can recall situations in their

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childhood, where food was used as a tool to reward or punish

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like think about the children who have been bad have to go to

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bed without dessert or something. There is on a very

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deep level this connection and the child's brain made that food

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is something that needs to be worked for that you have to

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behave a certain way in order to get it. Think about the lab rat

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that is being trained with treats and electroshocks.

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Another example of how the physical body or the other way

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around emotions affect the physical body is a person who

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constantly lives in fear of let's say the job or partner or

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the boss more specifically. And if that is happening over a

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longer period of time, the person has that subtle,

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uncomfortable feeling in her chest for a longer period of

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time. Then it will also start showing and fizzle cause

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symptoms

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because there's a build up an overdose of stress hormones in

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the blood. And the body is actually signaled to fight or

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flight. So simple things like digestion or sleep can be

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totally thrown off then, because the body receives stress from

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the outside, and has to process that, and we are still not

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really evolved physically, if you think about it, yeah, from

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the mind, we're trying to keep up with social media or like

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with all the technology, but on a physical level, we're still in

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stone age, and it will take us probably 10,000 years for the

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physical body to adjust to our lifestyle right now. And I tell

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you what, I think we should hold on to the sporty, sporty

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physical person who used to having to run away from a saber

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toothed tigers. Because that's how the body wants to feel like

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and be used. Like, so the second example was a person who's

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constantly exposed to stress. And that will also over time,

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change her hormonal household her balance inside of her and

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throw her off in ways that are very hard to connect. A lot of

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times, especially here in North America, you go to the doctor

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and say, oh, yeah, I have a sore belly after eating. And he's

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just going to give you pills for acid reflux, and not ask any

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questions of constant stress or not going to provide you with

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tools that could help you additionally, like additionally

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to medical medication. So the things that influence us from

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the outside can actually physically harm us if they push

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us out of alignment into a state of fear, stress. And the immune

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system, consequently, then suffers too. And we not always

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connected back to how do we feel emotionally on a daily basis. I

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want to finish on a positive note. Talk about positive

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stress, because this is also a beautiful way the physical body

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can reward you with a strong and healthy immune system and

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oxytocin, the happy hormone. So whenever we are curious and open

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to try something new, we grow. And especially if we are scared

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about something or underestimate ourselves. So when we reached,

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accomplish something that at the beginning, we thought we would

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we could never accomplish. And that really strengthens our

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confidence. And we become more resilient, our muscles are

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healthy and flexible, and the immune system is strong and

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healthy, and you can really fight off different kinds of

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stressors. When you go through positive stress, what is a

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positive stress? Let's say you are starting a new hobby. And

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we're always scared of ice skating. And now it's been your

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third lesson and you're actually doing really good or you always

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wanted to try to play the piano. But your brother was always the

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better piano player so you never really pursued it. And now you

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sit down and actually practice and see that you have a

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beautiful talent has to be revealed as well. And those are

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positive stresses that over the time now in my episodes I want

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to emphasize for you to chase them because they make us feel

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good they make you feel confident and you just radiate a

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totally different energy. Once you reach that state of

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happiness deep contentment I'm a physio So I'm super passionate

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about the body and health and ever since small, I was always

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fascinated about how we can influence our body and change

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and learn to understand it. So I hope I was able to share my

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passion, my excitement with the body a little bit today. And now

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I would like you to please take a second and put your hands on

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your heart. And I hope you're not driving a car, or a bicycle

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or anything. Maybe you're sitting at home on your favorite

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couch, or even if you're walking, it doesn't matter if

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someone somebody sees you put your hand on your heart.

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And maybe you can feel your heartbeat feel slow and deep

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breathing us. And I wanted to send deep appreciation for your

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healthy body now into your body.

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And that appreciation goes through every cell of your body.

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Thank you for being healthy. And if you're battling a sickness,

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if you're in discomfort right now, if you're in pain, then

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let's send some appreciation to that pain. And trust the cells

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the intelligence that created you trust them that they're

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always trying to guide you towards health again. And

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sometimes we have a sickness, a pain because we've gone too far

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away from ourselves. We didn't listen to ourselves. And we're

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just supposed to get back to the roots and tune back into you to

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our body. And just trust that your body is constantly working

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on healing you, making you feel whole and free. We just got to

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allow it. We just got to listen attentively. And then we can

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additionally to medication. I'm not saying drop all the

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medication but additionally to medication. You can help your

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body get back to health

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All right. So that was a little bit of connection to your body.

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I'm so grateful that we were able to spend some time together

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today. I hope I was able to give you some interesting infills

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here on their Borealis experience. I'm your host Aurora

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and I'm so excited to be posting new episodes soon.

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I hope you're doing well. I care about you. Focus on yourself a

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little bit each day because you're so worth it. Bye bye

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