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Hello, hello, and welcome to the Borealis

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experience. I'm your host Aurora, and I'm very happy to be

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spending some time with you today. I hope you're doing well

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know if your heart is in a warm place, your mind is in a

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peaceful place, and your soul feels free and good to expand.

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Yes, today I want to talk about meditation and why it is so

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freakin hard to start meditating. Or maybe you did

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meditation, or were sitting in meditation before and it went

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well. And now it doesn't go as smoothly anymore.

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I think we all have traveled to fully relax and spend time with

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ourselves at times. We're all very conditioned to be active to

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get things done.

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To have a role in society and our family. And

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maybe some of us, not all of us are being taught that spending

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time by yourself, spoiling yourself, doing yourself good as

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selfish. And maybe it goes even deeper. Maybe when you were a

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child, you were sent into a timeout, when you were doing

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something that annoyed your parents. So you associate being

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alone with punishment and something negative. A good

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friend of mine, her son is

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five years old now. But when he was two or three years old, he

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was able to communicate already that he needed time off from

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people from time to time, and he started calling it positive

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timeout. This is how I labeled one of my episodes here and

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season two, because I found this so adorable and so admire bubble

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that this little human knew already that it is very

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important for him to spend time by himself and to just do

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whatever he pleases behind closed doors. And afterwards,

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he's good to socialize again. So maybe if you dig deeper and look

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at your childhood, you can see that alone time was never really

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something that you wanted, or that was possible. Maybe you had

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siblings and they were always around, which is super awesome

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too.

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But maybe it's just something that doesn't come natural to

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you. But I can tell you if you feel you're running into a

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burnout if you feel exhausted if you feel irritated. If you feel

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life is too much. alone time can really help you further and

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feeling better. You can come back to yourself and be

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creative. You can empty your mind you can

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just get rid of stuff that you've been carrying around

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maybe for too long, and it is holding you back and expanding

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and developing as a human being.

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So chances are if you're listening to my podcast here, it

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is something maybe you want to learn.

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But maybe you're very good at it already. Now, why is it so

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incredibly hard to meditate for some of us, me included?

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My mind is very, very active, especially when I crave silence

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and alone time. It wants to get things done. It wants to solve

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problems wants to resolve conflict between people. And I

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learned to don't identify with those feelings and thoughts

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anymore and just know that this is my mind's nature and it

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always wants to be active. But it needs to be quiet at times

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and my body has to overtake a little bit. What I mean by that

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is tuning into my breath. Putting one hand onto my heart

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and feeling my heartbeat.

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On sometimes I go for a walk in nature and just deeply tune in

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To what is around me,

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I love tracking like looking for animal tracks in the mud or in

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the snow. I love all kinds of smells, and all kinds of noises

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that are here in the forest. So if you have a park, or maybe a

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body of water close by, I totally encourage you to go out

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and to explore Mother Nature that is right around you.

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Because if we switch on our senses, physical touch, smell,

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things that you can hear things that you can taste and things

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that you can see, then you kind of get out of your problem

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solving mode, accomplishing mode, and back into experiencing

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life mode. And this is deeply nourishing and good for your

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soul and your heart. And your mind can just wait in the

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backseat, and be okay observing and taking in new information.

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Because what happens when we don't take these time outs,

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these positive time outs?

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Our brain gets into a loop of thinking, I don't know if you

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observed your thoughts before, but notice how repetitive your

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thoughts are. When you look into your mirror, you probably always

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have the same criticism to offer. And I want you to change

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that. Change the thoughts you have when you look into the

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mirror. Start with yourself with what you see in the mirror and

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you will see how critical your mind is. Does it see beautiful

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kind eyes and soft hands and

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beautiful skin? Or does it see?

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I don't know how to say that in English cellulitis,

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and molds and hair and whatever you don't want. And then you go

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further you step into your day and observe the chatter of your

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mind in the background when you do things. Is it positive? Is it

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neutral as it negative? Is it always there? I'm sure it's

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always there, because there's always something to comment on.

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And this is why meditation is so hard because all of a sudden you

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shut down all your senses, you close your eyes maybe. And you

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have no big distractions like computers, other people or

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television in front of you. And now your monkey mind is trying

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to find something to be busy with. And that's the time where

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you need to rein it in. And just put it in a corner for a second.

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And come back to your breath. or visualize your breath. or

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visualize a field where you walk barefoot through and you could

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feel the grass,

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like crawling around your toes, maybe it's a little bit wet,

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maybe it's warm from the sun. And you can do all kinds of

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guided meditation here that I offer to help you stay with

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yourself with your breath, or something you want to visualize

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or even manifest. So when you sit down and meditate and think

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about other people who are peaceful, they look and relax,

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while know that the exact same as going on inside of them. But

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they learned to put their monkey mind their busy mind into the

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corner and to focus on their breath. And when you do that on

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a regular basis, you will have better sleep and better focus.

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Whenever you start something new. You remember how it felt

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when you sit in meditation? how awesome it feels to have single

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focus on something and no distraction and full

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devotion to the self.

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So what I recommend you do is this afternoon this morning this

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evening. Look at how you what you associate I mean, with alone

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time is it comfortable for you

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to just sit there and be with yourself. Maybe lay down on your

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bed and don't watch Netflix don't eat be binge eat something

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And second of all, when you look into a mirror, what are the

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thoughts that come up? How do you feel? And when you try to

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meditate, how does it go for you? Do you become restless? Do

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you feel like you need to edge? Is it uncomfortable to sit

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still? Or is it your mind that tries to keep you busy?

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And then observe your thoughts, your looping thoughts during the

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day? Do you always have the same thoughts when you go about your

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rituals and your daily routine? Or do they change and if they

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don't change, if at all, if it is always the same? Then go out

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in nature and train how to use your senses again, and then you

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apply that at home, the smell, touch, the audio, and the visual

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stuff that you consume on a daily basis. Those are all

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things that we can switch up in order to stimulate the brain,

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the rate the right way, and to then have thoughts that make us

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feel good about ourselves and our environment.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode here. I'm so

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happy to have you on board. Wherever you are on this

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beautiful planet. Take good care of yourself. Drink a huge glass

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of fresh milk.

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And I will be out there for you tomorrow again