Ep.12 Meditation for when you feel exhausted.

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Hey there, and welcome to the Borealis experience. I'm

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your host Iran. And yeah, I'm very happy to be spending some

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time with you today. I've done a little bit of a mixing here of

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the music. I hope you like it. So does that like to be

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creative?

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hip hop. Yeah.

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So let's get started. Yesterday was Valentine's Day, I hope you

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survived. It was an OK day for you or your big celebration. I

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just hope that. Yeah, it is not another day that makes people

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feel weak and unimportant and not good about themselves.

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Today, I want to offer you a meditation for when you feel

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exhausted, emotionally exhausted. We don't have to be a

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parent, or in a draining relationship, or in a shitty job

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in order to feel exhausted. Sometimes there's just too much

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stuff that piles up. And physically we feel okay. But

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emotionally, mentally, we just feel like we want to cry, we

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want to sleep we want to escape. And it's a very hard place to be

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because it's in those times that communication is hardest. And,

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yeah, it's hard to tell people to give us space or what we

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need. Because sometimes we don't even know what we need

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ourselves. So I want to offer you a little meditation here,

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where you can just be in that moment, be with yourself and be

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okay with how you feel and know that it will get better soon.

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And for the time being, I want you to believe in yourself. I

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want you to remember that you are important and that we need

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you out there. Put it as okay for all of us that you take a

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break and recharge your batteries. You've been through a

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lot, you hustle the Lord, You are trying to accomplish a lot

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you run around and help other people. And now is your time

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where you can just maybe even lay down on the ground or lay

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down on a couch. But if you feel I guess you can also set in your

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easy seat, a meditation seat. So if you choose to lay down, look

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that your arms are approximately 45 angle away from your body and

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your feet one and a half feet apart. You let your feet kind of

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flop to the side open to the sky and your palms are facing up to

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the sky as well. Take a deep, deep inhale in and exhale.

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Another deep inhale and exhale.

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Very good.

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You choose to be in a seated position. Then adjust your

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pelvis like I described in the first couple of meditations.

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Roll your sit bones back and forth. And then have them a

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little bit pushed to the back so that you have a little bit of an

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arch in your lower back. You have a straight spine without

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big effort. You roll your shoulders up and back. And then

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you tuck your chin slightly to elongate your neck muscles

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there. Another big inhale and exhale. let everything go. When

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you chose to be in seated position, have your arms relaxed

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and your hands resting on your knees. If you want a more

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grounding sensation, palms down, maybe touch your knee, calves.

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And if you want to be more in a receptive position, then have

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your palms open up to the sky. Big inhale in. And exhale. Now,

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close your eyes, feel comfortable with that. Relax

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your jaw muscles lacks the muscles around your eyes,

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muscles, forehead, on your forehead. Beautiful. And I want

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you to go into bird's eye perspective. And watch yourself

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and then watch your thoughts. Are you proud of yourself?

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Sitting there? Making time and space for yourself? What do you

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think it's pathetic and you're weak. And you should be going,

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you should focus on your to do list, get things done. Observe

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everything that comes up mentally. And be it good or

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negative, aggressive. let it float by.

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When we are in this exhausted space, mode or mood, however you

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want to call them. We usually on top of it feel guilty or shame

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or weak and really beat ourselves up even more. And we

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need to allow ourselves to rest. If you've listened to my podcast

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regularly, you will soon have a very valuable tool that your

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hand to not run into that burnout sensation anymore. To

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have perfect balance between tension and release and

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relaxation. Because this is what you need. You can't just go go

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go all the time. Big inhale and exhale.

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Beautiful.

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Now imagine your best friend. I personally really love doing

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that meditation, either with you or without you, them doing the

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meditation and you watch them. Would you think they're

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pathetic? Would you think that they're weak? That they're

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wasting their time? No, I don't think so. I think you would look

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at them and deeply appreciate them. Enjoy to see them while

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they meditate and are in a peaceful state. state of calm,

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deep quietness. Imagine your friend sitting there are

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language.

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Now

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I want you to send that same appreciation right into your

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heart. Same respect, the same warm loving feeling that you

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just had coming up for your friend there. I want you to send

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right in your heart space

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might be hard. At the beginning it was very hard for me to start

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but you can do this you can send yourself the kindness that you

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extend to other people you don't have to be hard on yourself at

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all you can be gentle big inhale and exhale and on top of all you

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can be very very proud that even if you feel exhausted and

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drained you chose to join me here today and to do this

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meditation

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you're taking good care of yourself as a soul awesome so

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valuable not only for yourself but for everybody around you

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another big inhale and exhale now notice how your heartbeat

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nice and steady your breathing more deep than show very good

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now you can continue to meditate you can count your breath your

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inhale and your exhale you can choose to do another meditation

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with me or you can just sit and stillness if you choose to stop

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here with me then roll onto your side if you were laying down

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come up into an easy seats and for all of us now bring your

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hands to heart center for your mind to your heart rest and

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relax allow yourself to be still today

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namaste

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thank you so so much for joining me today i hope you're doing

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well i hope you can relax for the rest of the day if not know

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that this was very valuable for you to recharge your energies

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and to be productive again out there but if you can then just

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take a walk or have a nap or drink a tea and make yourself a

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cozy couple hours there i'm your host Aurora and i'll be out

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there for you very soon again thanks for listening bye bye