Ep.10 Why is it so critical that you know yourself? [self-awareness]

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Hello, Hello, this is Aurora speaking and you're

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listening to the Borealis experience. Thank you so much

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for spending some time with me today.

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And you know what, in those times we live in today, the best

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thing you can do to help this world is to take really good

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care of yourself. And in doing so, so having more energy and

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faith and hope, and just goodness in you to support other

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people. What I want to do with this podcast here, and we went

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through a couple episodes now is to give you tools to get to know

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yourself better. Because the better we know ourselves, the

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better. We can make decisions and feel good. And it is so

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important to do that work, even though it is very painful at

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times. Because we want to grow, we want to grow as an individual

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as a society, we want to learn from our mistakes and just move

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on and not live in regret and resentment. So when you look at

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yourself, we had the body, the mind, the soul, the experiences

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we've made so far. And they all are aspects of your being you

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are not your thoughts, you are not your body, you are all

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together. in a beautiful way, you can say it is all kind of

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chaotically put together. And we can dissect it and look at the

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different areas that make us up and become stronger and better.

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So when it comes to our body, we can nourish and really listen

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and take care of the body. When it comes to our mind. We can

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start meditating, and recognize that our thoughts are not always

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serving us and are sometimes running around like a

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misbehaved, child. And when it comes to our soul, it's also

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through meditation that we can connect to our soul and our

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deepest longings and find our purpose here on planet Earth.

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When you really learn to understand and read yourself,

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life becomes so much easier and beautiful. When you look at

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jealousy, when you look at your sadness, when you look at your

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happiness, when you look at anger, when you look at

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frustration, all those emotions, and when they get triggered out

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of you can show you where you can still grow. Sometimes I try

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to sit in those strong emotions and just wait and see what

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happens. It's a really hard thing to do. Because I think

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we're all trained to react when something uncomfortable happens

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or uncomfortable thoughts arise. We're all inclined to make it go

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away right away. But what happens when we can sit there a

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little longer before we react and try to really understand now

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what's going on. Let's take jealousy for instance. If you're

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a jealous person, and that feeling is not a stranger to

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you, if you're really secure person, I'm still sure that you

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must have gone through some jealousy feelings at some point

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in your life. So next time you feel jealous, I want you to just

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stop for a moment and breathe and really observe what is

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happening. Is it with your partner or a good friend or is

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it someone else's fortune? What are the thoughts that race

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through your mind When you feel jealous? How is it with anger?

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Do you have anger problems? And if not, I'm sure you probably

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went through anger feelings in your life

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before?

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Is it when you're driving your car to work in the morning? Is

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that just general general frustration towards the

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government? Is it just a minor thing that makes you angry and

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resentful towards your family or a friend. And those emotions are

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really important to have, they can show us that something is

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out of alignment, I don't mean to say that you should ignore

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them from now on. I just mean to say that, if we observe the

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strong emotions, the strong aversions and resistance we have

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to certain things, what do they do to you? And how do they make

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you feel? And is there a better way to channel that energy out

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of you instead of reacting snapping.

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A lot of people I know suffer from insomnia. And I feel that

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they all have something in common. And I don't know how to

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put it in words quite yet. But I would say unresolved emotions

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unresolved, like, their mind is still in problem solving mode,

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when they go to bed, and their trill still trying to fix and

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change and adjust things. So of course, when your body feels

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tired at night, it is hard to find sleep because your mind is

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still racing. And then I love to tell them that during the day,

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they have to train their mind already that there's a switch

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on, and a switch off for problem solving for brainstorming. And

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switch off is the most important thing. And this is also why I

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keep posting meditations not only because the feedback is

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awesome, but because I know, when we learn to sit in silence

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with ourselves, when you learn to look at the emotions that are

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present, look at the thoughts that are passing by, then we can

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see patterns. And when you see a pattern that you know is not

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serving you anymore, you can change it, you can shine a light

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on to it and then transform it into something that serves you

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and to something that serves others. So this episode here is

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a little bit more general. And I just wanted to give you an idea

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one more time what this podcast is about. If you've been

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following me listening, ever since the first episode, you

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know that we went through all the aspects of life so far. And

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really give those little meditations a try. I made a

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beginner friendly and friendly for people who still have huge

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resistance to it and you will know it will. It will make you

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feel really good afterwards and then you will keep doing it more

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often. So this was the realities Barbara Helens experience.

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Sorry. I'm your host Aurora, and I'm very excited to be posting

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more Soon, we will go more into depth and to the well being of

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your body, the well being of your mental health and your

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history. Also your relationships. Relationships are

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a huge thing when it comes to our health. And I really want to

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go dig deep down there to give you the tools to make you a

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stronger and happier person. I'm sending my love out there. Thank

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you so much for listening. Thank you so much for leaving a review