Ep. 16 Your believes / religion [self awareness]

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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. It is Easter Monday. And

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we got fresh snow again. Folks, me so I wanted spring I want to

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summer. Oh, well, that's gonna come soon. I hope you had a good

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weekend. If you spend Easter by yourself, I hope it was okay. I

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hope you were able to connect with family. And if you were

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able to spend Easter with your family, then please know how

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blessed you are. If you're not religious, and Easter doesn't

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mean anything to you, then I love you anyways. Because

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religion is just a very small part of my life. Still, today, I

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decided to talk about your beliefs and religion because I

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find it very, very important that we stay aware that our

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experience here on planet Earth is unique. By the way, my little

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dog here is strolling around sniffing around, so don't mind

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the background noise, I'm not going to cut it out. Because

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he's part of this podcast. So yeah, even though we sometimes

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look alike, and we have the same hobbies, we have the same views

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on maybe politics or entertainment or whatever, we

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still have a very different approach when it comes to life,

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we have a different perspective. And same goes with beliefs and

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religion. I feel we're addressing racism right now. And

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it's very timely. I don't want to say it's too late. But I wish

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it would have happened a little earlier. But that's okay. Racism

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is being addressed. And, yeah, this is beautiful. More and more

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people voice, their discomfort, more and more people are aware

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of what is causing discomfort. And this is just a very

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beautiful change that I can observe here. And when it comes

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to religion, I feel it has to go the same way. As I said, I'm not

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very religious, I have my spiritual practice. And even

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there when I started to heal, when I started to feel better

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what with myself, when I started to get a grip on my depression

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and my anger inside of me, I discovered a couple tools that

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were really good for me, I started practicing meditation

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and yoga and just being open to spiritual practices. And then I

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started talking to people who were suffering from the same

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problems. And I observed myself trying to convince them that

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this is the way to go. This is what you got to do in order to

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feel better. And they were listening and very interested

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yet. When we met a couple weeks later, I knew right away or they

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didn't practice they didn't work on themselves and they didn't

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progress and then made me so mad and upset. And this is by the

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way called abuse to when you are trying to make another person do

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something. But they're not ready yet. They don't want to heal

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right now. They don't want to progress. So I found myself

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being very frustrated and angry at times. And now my dog found

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something to nibble on. What is it dozer, oh, rose petal, and he

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chews on it as if it was a heavy beef bone. So I was frustrated

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with my friends or acquaintances. And now I realize

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no everybody heals at their own time, wakes up at their own time

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and believes what whatever they want to believe. So I think what

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I want this episode to be about as I'm very like in intrigued by

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people who have strong beliefs and who are.

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Yeah, very religious, I find it very interesting because me

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myself, I was always interested in too many things at the same

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time that I didn't want to close myself up focusing just on one

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religion or one hobby. And I admire people how much focus

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they can put into it and really live that believe in the

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religion. But I think at the same time, it is so important to

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know that we are all in the same boat. And we all have the same

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intentions, the same agenda, we want to live in comfort. Yeah,

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we don't want to live under stress, we want to provide for

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our families, and we want to live at peace. And we want to

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believe in a higher force, something that gives us hope,

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and gives us strength, and makes us feel as if we are part of a

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big, big picture. And it doesn't matter how it looks like. So for

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people out there who are extremely strict religious,

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they're probably not going to listen to my podcast, but maybe

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it resonates with you, maybe you feel the same, that we have to

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be curious about each other's beliefs, and how we, let's say

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approach healing, how we approach spirituality. But we

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cannot walk around and try and convert people or try and make

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people feel shitty, if they choose to believe in something

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else. If you choose to not celebrate Easter, because it's

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not part of your spirituality, then awesome. If you have the

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five star dinner, here three days in a row, because of

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Easter, then Wow, this is super cool. But also be open for

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people who have different beliefs. So again, we approach

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life very differently. When you look at siblings, that goes

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through the divorce of their parents, they will experience it

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on very different levels. There's going to be one sibling

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who's relieved and who feels like yes, now we can finally

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live at peace. And the other sibling is totally in pain and

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devastated. And there's a huge gap now between those two or

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more siblings that have to go through divorce. And when it

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comes to religion, I lived on the little island island called

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Mauritius for a couple weeks. And it was so beautiful and

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precious. There were Asian people, with people from Africa

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with people from Europe, living together and small spaces. There

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were Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, like kids

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sharing the bus ride in the morning, and I was just sitting

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among them taking a ride to the beach, and sad Wow. Like those

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cultures, in other parts of the world, are hating each other are

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totally avoiding each other. And here on this little magical

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Island. We all live together. And there were these beautiful,

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colorful fruit and vegetable markets where all the cultures

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were representing what? Yeah, the fruit and the vegetables

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said they had growing in their community and suggesting

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recipes. And it was so colorful, it was so beautiful. And yeah,

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there might be some conflict too. But what I experienced

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there for a couple of weeks is that it's pretty peaceful. And

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on very small grounds. all different kinds of religions are

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living together because they allow themselves to be

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different. They are proud of who they are of what they believe

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in. But they don't judge the other person of being different

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and they are maybe even curious about the way that other people

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live and approach life. So yeah, this is just a little episode

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talk. about religion, I wanted to avoid religion and politics

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at all costs.

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But

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I think it is important to talk about it. And it is important

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for you to know maybe how I think and feel about it. I'm

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always very glad and curious and thankful to learn about new

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religions, new ways of living spirituality. So if you want to

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connect with me on Facebook, feel free to contact me and let

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me know about your practices. You can also join me on

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instagram the Borealis experience. And yeah, I post a

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lot of videos and fun stuff and serious stuff and you get to

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know my dogs here. And I would be happy to see a face to my

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beloved listener out there. So take really good care of

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yourself. Enjoy this beautiful day. And I will be out there for

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you again, very soon again. Thank you for listening to the

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Borealis experience. And thank you to my generous first donor

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donator I don't even know how you say that. James freed. He is

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the first one who bought me a coffee. He was very excited to

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start listening to my podcast and decided to reward me with a

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couple of dollars for a coffee. so generous and so kind of you

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James, thank you so much. All right. Until next time, bye bye