Ep.39 Pandemic burnout! [empowerment]

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Hello, hello,

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and welcome to the Borealis experience. I'm your host

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Aurora. And I'm very happy to be spending some time with you

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today. It is April 30. While a good chunk of 2021 is over

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already, maybe Spring has sprung, where you live, maybe

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have summer all year round. For those of you who just came out

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of winter and are anxious for spring and summer, I feel you so

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much.

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Today I want to talk about pandemic burnout. I will title

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it well so that people who felt pretty good and awesome during

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the pandemic, are not tempted to listen to this episode. This

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episode is for you if you're sick and tired, with all this

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Bs, with all the uncertainty, when uncertainty is giving you a

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huge anxiety, and frustration. Maybe you don't know when you're

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going to see a family again. Maybe you don't know which job

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you want to work. When all this is over, maybe you started to

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change your job. And like do things over zoom over the

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internet. And you find that's

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okay, but not really. A piece of cheesecake like I like to say

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those are very troublesome times for a lot of people. The

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uncertainty, the frustration, maybe money issues even are so

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heavily weighing us down. By the way, I have the window open and

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the wind is very strong today. So maybe you hear the whistling

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in the background. And maybe you can imagine already where I'm

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going to guide you to today, when you feel so frustrated and

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rundown. It is namely back to yourself back to your heart and

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maybe even connecting you with nature. Because one thing is for

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sure.

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nature will always be a place where you can replenish where

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you can recharge your batteries. Nature is always going to be

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there and support you. And nature teaches us resilience and

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patience. I invite you to go for a walk here very soon. If not

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today, if not right now put a jacket on and take me with you

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and have a look at the trees. Have a look at the adversity,

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sometimes even hostility those creatures have to go through and

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still they stand they're strong and they do their thing. Namely,

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producing oxygen for us

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and through their root system. being deeply entwined with other

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trees and plants, giving off nutrients taking in nutrients

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from the soil, living in symbiosis with mushrooms in the

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soil. So I want you to imagine yourself being a tree today. And

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if it's hard for you to imagine yourself being a tree then I

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want you to see yourself as a little wheel in a huge complex

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system. And that system right now is shifting and changing.

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And you just feel like you have to go with it and it feels

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uncomfortable because change always feels uncomfortable. And

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this is why I invite you to go outdoors. If you live close to a

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beach. Then go for a walk at the beach and switch on all your

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senses. Your smell. Touch the sand look at the sea. Look at

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maybe shells. And then again with your feet, maybe you're

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barefoot and you feel the sand between your toes. Maybe you

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absolutely hate that picture.

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But maybe absolutely love it. If you live close to a forest or a

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park,

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walk barefoot in the grass. You know, sometimes we feel totally

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exhausted. But all it is that is that we consume too many toxic

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news. We had too many toxic conversations that are not

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uplifting and good. And now we have to do everything again, to

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feel ourselves again. And the best thing to do that is when

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you switch on your senses, taste, smell. And then you see,

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and you hear you go outside into the nature. And you take it all

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in, you touch a couple trees, or you touch someone leaves you

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deeply Breathe in and smell the freshness. And you can sometimes

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even taste nature. Like where I live here in the mountains, we

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have so many berries, we have so many little things that you can

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chew on and they just taste so incredibly good. needles or

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pants, things that native people would teach us to use as

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medicine. So please know, if you are totally exhausted and

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overwhelmed with this situation, you're not alone in this and

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there's nothing really you can do about this. You can accept it

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and start to be at peace with it and know that it's going to pass

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or you can fight it and totally exhaust yourself and even get

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sick of that. So what I invite you to do today is sit with

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yourself, meditate with yourself, be with yourself. Or

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if the weather allows, go outside and explore, drive

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somewhere where you've never been. And I know sometimes when

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we do things by ourselves with feels so pathetic, you know,

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just like standing in a group of people and everybody's smoking

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or on their phones and you are a nonsmoker and you forgot your

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home, in the car or at home. You feel like the most pathetic

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person in the world right? So be that person, I invite you to be

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that person. Because that person lives with all their senses

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switched on. That person goes out and explores and wants to

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know more and as against the nature of numbing yourself out

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and over consuming news that are not serving you and not helping

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anybody. I know you're so tired. I know you want to move freely

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again. I know you want to go to a bar you want to meet friends.

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Or maybe you just want to be able to travel again and see a

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family trust me I know how you feel. And all I can do for you

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is share with you what I am doing to keep sane in my brain.

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If you love to listen to music, then please don't hold back and

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listen to music day in day out. When you have a shower make it a

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fun experience and switch your music on. Enjoy your body. Be

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grateful for the water that you have. I think those times right

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now can teach us something they can either break us or really

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let us become deeper people. People with more depth when it

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comes to emotions and expression. People with more

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depth when it comes to experiencing life. When you wake

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up in the morning, be grateful to be awake be grateful to be

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without Pain, be grateful to have a full fridge, be grateful

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that you can go out into the streets and go for a walk, be

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grateful to be and to be seen, to be heard, to be able to

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express yourself to breathe freely.

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This is the focus I want you to have when you feel your

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struggle. When you think it's just getting too much like it's

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all too depressive, it's too long. If you're too trapped, too

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restricted. You know, there's people who've been in jail for

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20 plus years, there's been people in solitary confinement,

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and they managed to control their brains to a degree where

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they were becoming a little more okay with their situation, they

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knew they had no choice, but to become one with themselves with

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their heart and their mind. And to use their mind as a tool,

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instead of the mind, using you, as a tool. Do not engage in

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every thought that you have. Thoughts can be very toxic, and

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thoughts can bring you to very dark places. When you feel and

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see yourself going into a dark place with your thoughts with

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your mind, come back to your breath. Come back and see

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everything you have around you. And deeply appreciate what you

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have around you take absolutely nothing for granted. Not your

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freedom, not your possessions, not your deep connections,

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because it can't be taken away from you at every moment of

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life. And that doesn't mean to live in anxiety and fear and

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clinging and overly attaching. It just means appreciating a

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little bit more. And soon you will be free again. And soon the

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wild years will come because we're all wild animals who have

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been trapped for too long now. And when that happens, we react,

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we respond. As soon as we feel freedom again, and it will be a

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feast, it will be beautiful. It will be a time of reuniting and

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celebrations and a deeper sense of life. I think, a deeper

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appreciation of true human connections. Don't get me wrong

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social media media is awesome. But we're also thirsty for deep

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connections. deep conversations, loyalty, respect, understanding,

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and we will all get that. But for now, we have to give it to

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ourselves. We have to be there for ourselves and know that it

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is okay to feel frustrated. It is okay to be so angry. But

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don't let it consume you. I'm gonna let you go for now. I'll

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be out there tomorrow. Again, take really good care of

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yourself. Maybe go for a walk right now with some good music

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or with another episode of mine here and have a huge glass of

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water