Hello, hello,

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

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

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

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

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

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

much.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

internet. And you find that's

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

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

uncertainty, the frustration, maybe money issues even are so

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

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

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

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

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

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

sure.

nature will always be a place where you can replenish where

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

there and support you. And nature teaches us resilience and

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

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

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

sometimes even hostility those creatures have to go through and

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

producing oxygen for us

and through their root system. being deeply entwined with other

trees and plants, giving off nutrients taking in nutrients

from the soil, living in symbiosis with mushrooms in the

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

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

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

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

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

uncomfortable because change always feels uncomfortable. And

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

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

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

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

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

absolutely hate that picture.

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

park,

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

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

news. We had too many toxic conversations that are not

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

yourself, meditate with yourself, be with yourself. Or

if the weather allows, go outside and explore, drive

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

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

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

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

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

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

that person. Because that person lives with all their senses

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

know more and as against the nature of numbing yourself out

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

comes to emotions and expression. People with more

depth when it comes to experiencing life. When you wake

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

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

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

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

express yourself to breathe freely.

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

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

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

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

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

and they managed to control their brains to a degree where

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

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

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

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

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

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

see yourself going into a dark place with your thoughts with

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

everything you have around you. And deeply appreciate what you

have around you take absolutely nothing for granted. Not your

freedom, not your possessions, not your deep connections,

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

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

clinging and overly attaching. It just means appreciating a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

connections. deep conversations, loyalty, respect, understanding,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

water