This episode has nothing to do with New Years resolutions, I promise :)

I’m happy to be spending some time with you and to share with you what I will be focussing on in the new year

Playfulness.

Being present.

Simplicity. 

Your nervous system might need to be retrained to allow playfulness.

Your mind might need strong discipline to stay present / in the now.

Your being will feel totally youthful and refreshed if you allow simplicity in your life. 

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With much respect for you and your journey 

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Aurora

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Hello and welcome to the Borealis experience. I'm

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your host Aurora, mental coach, life coach. Love coach. And

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yeah, welcome to 2022

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I'm wishing you a happy new year from the bottom of my heart. I

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wish you contentment I wish you peace. I wish you positive

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adventures, the right stimulation for the brain, not

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too much, not too little. And,

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most importantly, health, you can go without health. Health is

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the most important thing in the world. That is what I've learned

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last year. And I will carry it over into the new year.

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Today I want to talk about playfulness. How playful Are

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you?

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I feel playfulness can be seen when someone is relaxed when

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someone is confident

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when someone is in a good headspace

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and all too often I see people living a very healthy lifestyle.

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You know, they eat right, they exercise, they have a job, they

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have a function functioning relationship. They have a car,

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they have a house, you name it.

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But somehow they feel dead inside they feel Yeah, not okay.

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I struggle with mental health.

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And it can have many shapes and shades and forms on how people

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feel internally. But one thing I've learned is that the more I

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allowed playfulness in my life. And the more I've learned

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even to rewire my brain, my nervous system to enjoy and

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allow playfulness, the better I was doing. And it is much easier

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if you surround yourself with people that are playful and

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silly. And

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you know, if you have children, they will want to have a story

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you read or they want to go to the playground or they want to

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play Lego puzzle or whatever it is. If you are surrounded by

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children, Let them guide you into playfulness into a space

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where you can totally switch off your brain. Just be present

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experience yourself and others and allow room for mistakes and

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failures. And if you make a mistake, if you fail, then laugh

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about it and be gentle on yourself.

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So what I said here previously, like rave wiring your nervous

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system sometimes

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we are so caught up in our to dues. We are so caught up in

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self care practices. And we end up doing them

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like engaging in them like a chore like oh my god, I have to

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still brush my teeth or oh my god, I have to wash my hair.

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I'm gonna do it quickly. I'm not gonna make time because it's

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just washing my hair anyways. But if you start

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rewiring your nervous system with the little things in life

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already, and you know, give yourself a smile in the mirror,

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or really indulging in the washing of your hair and

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sending like group deep gratitude into that practice.

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Appreciate every hair that you enjoy on your body, enjoy your

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body.

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And what I mean, right now is not in a sexual way but in a

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sensual way. Be present with you. Laugh at yourself, because

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life is twice as funny if you can laugh at yourself, trust me

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on that.

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And truly be present. I really wish there

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for you, this year, for the new year, if you have any new New

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Year's resolutions or intentions, then add this to the

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list. If you have nothing,

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then have that one intention for the year.

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And we can also call it or label it. Simplicity. You know, when

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you look at our lives, how fucking busy we are all the time

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with, with staff,

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on our phone, at work, without chores, trying to maintain

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healthy relationships, trying to keep our house tidy, trying to

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keep people around you happy, trying to remember all your

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passwords, trying to keep up and keep up with social media, which

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is not possible. But you get my drift, like, we're trying to

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keep up all the time with stuff that is totally overwhelming.

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Our nervous system is not made for that kind of stress. And it

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is totally okay to engage in that kind of stress at times and

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to want to keep up and to be awesome at it.

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But I want to encourage you to also have downtime, times of

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simplicity, times of

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joy is playfulness, where you try something new, where you

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cook something new, and maybe it doesn't taste good, or it

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doesn't look good, but you had fun preparing it, dancing, and

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feeling totally awkward at the beginning, but doing it anyways

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because it feels good. And trust me, you will get better at it.

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If you allow it.

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So many times it is our lack of allowing ourselves to fail,

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being playful with ourselves that will prevent us to

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try out new experiences, new hobbies, new views, new ways of

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approaching people.

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You will need huge resistance if you haven't been playful in the

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last couple of months or years because life was just too tough.

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Life was just too uncertain. You will meet huge resistance. You

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will have people inviting you to be playful and you will find an

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excuse not to engage in it. You will come up with your own ideas

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on how to be playful and your mind will come up with excuses

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on why to not engage in that for too long.

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I even go so far and kind of mentally schedule playful times

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and I'm so lucky because my partner is more on the playful

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side he gets lots of shit done and is an amazing human being

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all around. But his playfulness muscle is way stronger than mine

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and I I always learned from that. I learned from that and

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he's making me feel very confident when I fail at the

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beginning or when I look silly. We just laugh together.

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So yeah, simplicity. Declutter. Get rid of stuff. That doesn't

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bring you joy. I have so many people around me who love online

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shopping more than ever since COVID. And they don't see how

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every little item in your house sucks energy from you. And if

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you have too much energy in your room, then it starts sucking

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life energy out of you and makes you feel

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depressed at some point even

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the more you can get rid of stuff that you don't need. You

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can give it away you can donate it you can bring it to a close

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by church if they receive donations at the moment.

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There's so many people out there who cannot afford stuff but

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desperately need stuff. And there's so many people out there

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who live so cluttered like quarters and they wonder why

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they always feel drained and it is because they

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Your space is not tidy and not clean and not liberating.

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So simplicity decluttering letting go of stuff that sucks

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energy of you that is just too much.

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Letting go of people who don't really add to your life but suck

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energy out of your life and take up way too much space. And you

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feel drained after communicating with them. And drawing people in

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who are playful, who helps you build your playfulness muscle.

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It is incredibly important to relearn that we've all been

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playful once when we were little. And we unlearned we

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pushed playfulness out of alive because it is not really

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constructive.

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But it is a state of being

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when you are engaging and playfulness

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and not a state of doing and this is what I think we have to

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support each other to Yeah, be more in that state of have to

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enjoyment

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and sometimes it's not enjoyable. Sometimes it's plain

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painful but being present in the moment, opening your heart

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opening your eyes

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allowing no distractions

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and

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enjoying yourself.

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Yes.

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That is my first message I want to send out to you on this

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beautiful third of January 2020 to allow simplicity. Allow

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playfulness, seek out playfulness and rewire your

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nervous system for lightness and joy and go against the

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resistance that will come up.

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Alright, if we haven't connected on Facebook yet, please connect

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supported in those uncertain, stressful times.

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All right. I will meet with you very soon again. And for now.

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Take good care of yourself.