Ep 2 How kind are you with yourself, your body and mind?

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Hello, and welcome to the Borealis experience. I'm

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your host Aurora, and I'm very excited to have you on board

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here. With this second episode of this podcast, I posted an

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intro where I introduced myself and gave you a little bit of a

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rundown of what this podcast is about. In the first episode, I

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was talking about self improvement, and what it means

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to self improve if you're ready to self improve. And the most

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important thing about the self improvement and growth journey

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as said, as soon as you realize that you were in charge of your

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life of your happiness all along. It was not your little

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brother, it was not your daddy, it was not the school boy 10

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years ago. It's a harsh reality to set in. And then it's really

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important to not self isolate, and to not punish yourself and

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feel bad about itself. Because most people don't ever wake up.

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And the people who wake up and have the courage to change the

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direction of their life and success and happiness should not

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feel poor about themselves. Yeah, so that was the first

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episode. And today in the second episode, I want to talk to you

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about self care. And what I mean when I say, focus on yourself,

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you are so worth it. That's my little slogan here. Yeah, be

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kind to yourself, how does that look like in your daily life?

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And why is it important because I feel it is the hardest to take

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good care of ourselves. I still don't know why it is so hard to

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change habits and to just be at peace. But maybe we'll find it

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out together. Once again, please send me comments, questions,

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share or like my podcast. The more feedback I get, the more I

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can focus on your specific case, and maybe help you out there. So

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let's dive in. Do you have habits you want to get rid of?

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And are these habits reflecting how kind you are with yourself?

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I think they do. I think when you look at people that are

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successful and good looking healthy, beautiful. What I

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realized when I observed people is that they are in tune with

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themselves. They are authentic, they are integrated, like very

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secure about decision making. So that's one big clue that you

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will probably find out right away about yourself is how

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secure Are you with decision making? How good do you feel

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about yourself and your surrounding? And then let's go

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deeper and see what are you made of? So who are you? Are you your

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body? Are you your mind? So your thoughts? Are you your emotions?

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Or are you spiritual? Are you religious? Are you your spirit,

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your religion?

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Is it your job that defines you? Is it your house, your car, your

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boat? Things you own that define you? Or did you have a set role

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in your community, your family and this is what defines you. So

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take a moment here and think about yourself. Look at

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yourself. You don't have to look in the mirror. But just see and

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feel what you made off And I think if you can say that you

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take care of all of the above your body, your mind, your

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emotions, your spirit, your job, your position in society, then

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you're being kind to yourself. It is very hard though, and I

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don't know a single person me included, being successful does.

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But that's not a problem at all. So let's start with the body.

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How does self care for your body look like? For me, it's not so

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much about polishing your nails shaving your legs. It is more

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about do you breathe deeply? Now, when you tune into your

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breath right now? Do you exhale fully? Do you breathe in?

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shallow Lee? Is your breathing shallow? Or is it really deep

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into your belly? So if you notice your breath, it gives you

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a big clue of how you feel in this moment. How much water do

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you drink a day? is water. something super annoying, or

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like to drink? Or is it something that you can actually

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enjoy and really be grateful for? Chances are if you listen

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to this podcast, you live in a first world country and you have

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water around you all day long as much as you want. You never have

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to worry about having a shower or washing your clothing and

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washing your hands. So how much for granted you take water, then

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you food and take food as a huge topic. I will be talking a lot

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about food and nutrition in upcoming episodes. But now if

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you think about what you ate today, is it nourishing as a

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Heidi process doesn't make you feel good? Would you cram in

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your cram hole? Then clothing? Are you wearing comfortable

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clothing or as add clothing that is there to help impress other

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people? Do you feel good about your clothing or not so much?

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And then movement? How much do you move a day? Few move

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smoothly?

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Or?

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Do you don't even care about how you move? Are you clumsy? Do you

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exercise too much? Or do you exercise moderately? Do you

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really listen to your body's need? Or do you just follow once

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your monkey mind the beautiful little monkey mind your ego is

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telling you to do? Do you sleep enough? Is it an interrupted

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sleep? Or do you have to get up often do you have problems

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falling asleep. So those are all points that can give you a clue

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of how good you treat yourself on a physical level. Your body

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will always try to keep you in balance. But if you don't

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provide him what he or she needs, then it will get sick it

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will get sore It will literally make your life painful and

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uneasy. So the body is always like for me as a physiotherapist

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and yoga teacher. The first level of well being that I like

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to approach because it's also the easiest to change. You can

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change your breath. With training, you can change your

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water intake, you can change your food intake, you can move

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more you can do everything to sleep better. So it is really

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the easiest way to approach your well being. I will go as I said

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earlier, more into depth in following episodes, but this is

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what I look at, when I take my first assessment of my clients.

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And this is what I would like you to have as a tool to see how

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healthy how good you are with your body. Then we have as a

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mind, how does your mind function? When does your mind

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feel irritated? meditation has been my biggest red flag,

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actually meditation and yoga has been my biggest red flag for

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many, many years. It was something that I kept at

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distance as much as possible. And a year ago, I came around

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and tried it out and realized it is super hard like for

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everybody, and everybody finds different ways to meditate. And

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that made it easier for me to start out meditating, because

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before that everybody who was meditating just looked so

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perfect. And every time I tried it, I just felt like ridiculous.

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So your mind, does it play your tricks? Is? Do you really

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identify with your thoughts? When something upsets you? Do

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you feed into the thoughts that really get get you revved up?

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The mind is really the most interesting part of the health

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and wellness industry and self improvement and growth industry

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because I think everything goes through the mind

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is that it is there.

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Where we control what we do and how we behave. And with lots of

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training, we can unlearn things and behave differently react

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differently, yeah, respond to a situation in a calm and good

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manner. instead of reacting and jumping into feeling triggered

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and feeling old wounds. ripping open again. The mind is really

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the most beautiful and powerful tool that we have. And when we

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learn to kind of put it in a backseat. Yeah, when we learn to

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live from the heart from real, genuine, self nourishing

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intentions, intentions that also benefit others, then the mind is

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an incredible friend. But for most of us, there's people out

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there who struggle with insomnia, with eating disorders

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with anger, anger, problems with depression with physical

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problems, and, and I feel all starts with the mind. The

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physical ailments and emotional pain. All goes back to the mind

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if the mind is cluttered, if the mind is unbalanced, unhealthy,

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then our whole being and even our surroundings are suffering.

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So through meditation, I want to give you a couple tools that you

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can have on hand that you will have everywhere you go and

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through following episodes here. I want to make you aware of

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where you could still grow and then give you guidance on how

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you can be better with yourself and feel better. When you go out

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there in the world into the world. You got to excuse my

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English at times. It's as you know, not my native language.

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But I feel I shouldn't interrupt every time I make a mistake. I'm

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just going to let it go. And we'll get better with time. This

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was the second episode of the Borealis experience. I'm so

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grateful you tuned in today, and next time we will talk more

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about your role in society, your role as a family member, or your

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role in the community. You live in your job, your emotions, and

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your spirit. I'm very excited to be posting a new episode very

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soon. Thank you so much for listening. If you liked my

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video, please share with friends. And yeah, leave a

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comment. More you comment? The more I can focus on your

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specific question Take care of yourself

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and