Ep.20 Meditation #9 For when you feel lost and confused.

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Hello and welcome to the Borealis experience. I'm

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your host Aurora, and I'm so grateful to be spending some

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time with you today meditating. I will be guiding you through a

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meditation for when you feel lost and confused. 2020 has been

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a really tough year, we've been faced with challenges that

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most of us probably couldn't imagining happening. Some of us

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lost jobs. Some of us were stuck in a house or apartment

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was not much space with people that we love. But if it gets too

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tight, then there's nasty fights attempts happening. Some of us

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felt extremely lonely, way lonelier than

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they did in previous years. If they've been single for a while

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or lost a partner. It's been very challenging on many levels.

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So this meditation today is for when you feel lost and confused.

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So make yourself really cozy and comfortable there. If you want

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to lay down on the ground, feel free to do that. If you feel

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like sitting up straight today, maybe you can sit on a pillow or

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on a cushion

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and adjust your pelvis and the first meditation here on this

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podcast I describe exactly how you can sit comfortably without

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having to tense up your muscles around the spine.

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And then tuck your chin slightly elongate your neck, roll your

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shoulders up and back.

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And close your eyes if you wish to.

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You Your hands can be on your thighs can have your palms open

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up to the sky or facing down for a more grounding sensation.

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Sometimes when we feel lost, it's good to

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have the palms facing down and maybe even like grab your thighs

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a little bit to feel yourself.

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Beautiful.

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Take a deep inhale and exhale.

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And when I feel lost and uncertain at times, I try to

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remember myself of the good things and the steady things and

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the things that

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keep me alive. Keep me in a good healthy balance.

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So let's start with the lungs fill your lungs filling,

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expanding

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and then retracting again

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and it is through our breath that we can

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highly influence our thoughts and our overall state of being.

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When we get agitated when we feel uncertain or scared,

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sometimes the breath gets really shallow.

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We don't even notice that.

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So if we come back to our quiet place to a safe place, and tune

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into a breath, calm down again.

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Then you can literally feel how everything reacts as all of a

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sudden.

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Now focus on the muscles around your eyes, around your mouth,

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your jaw muscles, as usual, keep them relaxed

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maybe put one hand onto your heart and the other hand in your

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lower back area.

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And feel that when you really let your lungs expand and

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something happens underneath your hand.

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Head is placed on your lower back

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the skin is moving

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underneath your hand there.

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So that just means that you can really direct your breath to

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wherever you put your hands on your torso.

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Know that this time of confusion and feeling loss will pass.

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It is just a phase in your life.

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And maybe you can even see it as an opportunity. Please Don't

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roll your eyes. I know how hard it is at times to see

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opportunity and challenging times.

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But maybe it is an opportunity to reconnect back to yourself

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to your body

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your body your best friend that is serving you on a daily

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every second of your life without even asking much from

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you.

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See how your heart is beating. See how your lungs and kidneys

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and your liver is working constantly for you to be healthy

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and experience this life

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see how your taste buds can taste delicious food

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know that you're not alone, that there's so many people out there

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who feel exactly the same we just have to start talking about

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it and support each other and don't isolate

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relax your eyes

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tune back into your breath

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No, that was an relaxed and more positive attitude towards

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ourself.

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We can let go of resistance and

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anger, sadness

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and attract goodness again and hope.

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We just have to get out of that state of mind of

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not wanting something and not

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feeling good about ourselves.

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We have to focus on the things that make us feel good. So focus

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on your heartbeat.

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Focus on your lungs,

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your relaxed face.

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And know that these challenging times will pass and you feel

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confident and happy and joys again.

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Maybe you want to remember the last time you felt true joy

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where your heart was jumping in your chest

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maybe try to recall a person that brings you joy and really

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envision them standing in front of you.

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Whatever it is, that brings good feelings up.

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Call it in.

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Be grateful for it

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tune back into your breath

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call that beautiful image and

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and know that

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when you jump into a cab into a taxi,

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you don't tell the driver all the places you don't want to go

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right.

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You tell the driver I want to go here I want to see this. This is

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what I want to pay you for

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and the driver will gladly

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do everything to bring you there safely.

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So what I mean by that is

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now that you took the time and the energy to meditate,

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think of the things that you want in your life instead of

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what you don't want.

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You want to feel freedom. You want to feel certainty,

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confidence

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and how does it look like how do you walk? How does your face

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look when you're confident really envision these good

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feelings

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now bring your hands together

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and rub them against each other

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and I'll place them on your eyes

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and feel the warmth

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maybe your fingers are kind of touching your whole forehead and

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and face there

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and feel the warmth he may repeat that several times.

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Or you just stay like this for a little bit

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Very good.

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Bring your hands in front of your heart and pray up position.

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Pull your head down

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and feel the warmth of your hands once again

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your body is here to make you feel safe and good about

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yourself.

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It is serving you at all times.

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Appreciate it.

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And know that those challenging times out there will pass

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and soon you will feel confident

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relaxed, free.

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Maybe even already.

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Call those images in as often as you can. Especially before us

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fall asleep at night.

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Namaste

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thank you so much for being here with me today. This episode

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meant a lot to me. I'll be sending out a new episode very

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soon. I'm always there for you. Lots of love. Aurora be proud of

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yourself.