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.

Especially on a day where you feel exhausted.

Maybe you feel good today. And you're listening to this

episodes, or this one here, especially to be more resilient

in the future and to know how to connect back to yourself, how to

recharge your batteries.

But maybe you're having a really crappy day.

Maybe you feel upset, or maybe life is just not running

smoothly for you at the moment.

Maybe you spend too much time on social media, on your computer,

and you just can't stop it, you can come up with the discipline

that it takes to stay away from social media a little bit. I

know that feeling all too well. And trust me, I'm the biggest

social media fan. I love it. I love how you can connect with

people from all over the world.

But it can be very draining. And today's message, I think is

first and foremost for your mind for your relaxation. But your

body also plays a huge role when it comes to feeling exhausted.

Your body communicates to your brain how you feel. It is not

only your brain and what you consume, and how you feel about

it, that makes you feel how you feel

it is your body

is your body dehydrated, is your body hungry is your body in a

position that that it doesn't like it will communicate to you

discomfort. And when you ignore it for too long, the signals

will get louder and louder and more uncomfortable until you

react to it. I'm a person for instance, if I go too long

without food, I go and get super hangry. So hangry ness is the

body

throwing hormones and all kinds of signals red flags into your

bloodstream. And those communicate to your brain, hey,

stress, react, change something, in this case, eat.

You know these pictures all too well of people looking down at

their phone, instead of communicating with their wife or

the person waiting for the bus. Looking down at your phone, that

posture is so so bad for your overall mental health.

an upright body position, a proud body per position makes

you feel good, your body can inhale and exhale freely, and

you can move your joints freely. As soon as you slouch, the

breathing gets shallow, and the body is in a position that

communicates to you that you are sad and tired and exhausted. So

not only the overstimulation of social media or the internet can

tire you out and always having to have an opinion and always

having to have a judgement is tiring. But your body position.

And then imagine

on Saturday, you feel exhausted from your work week. And it was

not really physical week, it was just mentally very draining, yet

you feel physically drained as well. And then you just decide

to stay on the couch for the whole weekend. Because you feel

tired, but that tiredness comes from your brain and sometimes

even under stimulation, it is not a real tiredness of your

physique. So sometimes we have to overcome we have to observe a

little closer and be aware that this tiredness can be countered

with exercising or just going for a walk and have some fresh

air.

So for today, for when we feel exhausted already, what can we

do? We can just sit down in a comfortable seat or you lay down

on your mat on your floor.

If you choose to sit down, cross your legs in front of you shift

your pelvis. If you set bonds on the ground, right, shift your

pelvis that you have a little bit of an arch in your lumbar

spine.

roll your shoulders up and back.

Tuck your chin slightly to elongate your neck, and close

your eyes. If you choose to lay down,

heavy legs a little bit spread apart and your feet kind of

flopping open to the side.

So your feet are opening up to the sky.

And your hands, your arms are a little bit spread apart from

your body, and you have your pants opening up to the sky. And

now you let your head, your shoulders, your pelvis and your

heels. sink in heavily into the mat.

Beautiful. Now close your eyes if you feel like it today.

Take a deep inhale through your nose.

And exhale through your mouth.

Inhale

and exhale.

Beautiful.

And now feel how restoring it feels to be in those two

different positions.

You're all by yourself. Or maybe you chose to do that meditation

with a friend or a relative today you are at peace.

It is quiet around you.

If there is noise as just try to focus in on your breath.

Beautiful.

Know that we live in a very fast paced society.

And I think no matter where you live on this planet Earth,

life is becoming faster and faster.

And we're not necessarily made to keep up with that speed.

Sometimes we can sometimes it feels even effortless.

But sometimes it's just not rolling, right? It's just

too much.

Maybe you're a young parent,

maybe your children always want something from you.

You have a hard time to be a caring wife at the same time.

Maybe COVID struggle is still affecting your finances and your

overall well being.

It doesn't really matter

who you are, excuse me, and in which situation you find

yourself.

Because we're all in that state of mind at times.

The difference between people is how they deal with those

feelings, feelings of exhaustion. Do you keep pushing

through? Or do you allow yourself to rest? Do you set

firm boundaries with others, especially the people that you

love to take care of yourself.

And by setting boundaries and by taking care of yourself, I don't

mean locking yourself up in the bathroom. But this can be an

option at times.

Sometimes I do that. I just take my sweet time and the bathroom,

doing nothing.

washing my hands, my face, being really present with myself.

looking into my eyes, and knowing

and everything was fine, everything will be fine. So you

have these little moments in your daily life where you can

just sneak in a little meditation or sneak in a little

self love, practice.

Practice where you praise yourself, where you embrace

yourself, where you let go of regrets and pain, where you let

go of shame where you let go of judgment and having an opinion

at all times.

You can just be and breathe, and experience and feel.

Maybe you are running around and trying to fix and trying to

accomplish things, maybe you're that kind of person, then of

course, it is exhausting. But maybe you're fighting depression

and maybe you're sitting at home and not doing much, really. But

that can be very exhausting to to be sitting there with your

own thoughts.

To not find a grip on life.

We all feel like that sometimes.

It is okay.

I feel today's episode, the time you take aside for yourself

today is to be okay, where are you at, and to not try to fight.

But to trust, to trust that things will change again, to

trust that you're open to receive guidance. And to trust

that everything will be fine, you will be fine. And there's a

solution on its way for you.

Because if we reach that state of mind, where we can trust and

relax, we can attract goodness into our lives again.

Same goes with people. If you are

in a shitty situation, if you feel totally drained, exhausted,

and you're fighting it and you're resenting it and you're

upset with it, you will at the same time, push away people

if you are okay, if you accept things to be bad at times,

things to be difficult at times. But you have a hopeful outlook.

And you are open and warm with your surroundings, you ask maybe

for help, then people are more inclined to stick around and pay

their for your support, because you're not pushing them away.

Focus again into your breath. And now notice how warm air is

leaving your body. And fresh cool air is entering your body.

So you're processing the air that is coming in.

Maybe you can imagine a white light going up your spine,

whenever you inhale,

that light goes up your spine. And whenever you exhale.

It maybe turns into blue and goes down again down your spine.

You can draw in air positivity, and you can exhale blue air air

that you don't need in your body anymore.

Very good. You can do that a couple times. And you can

continue this beyond my little episodes here today.

And know that everything will be fine and know that you might

just have to find the source of your draining.

Find your source of exhaustion. Is it people that you surround

yourself with that exhaust you?

Is it yourself? Do you have difficulties to set boundaries

with yourself? Are you always chasing perfectionism? You're

always chasing goals and accomplishments.

Is it your environment that is exhausting you? Is it very

noisy? Is it smelly? Maybe even Is it a very fast paced

environment we live and it's just against your nature.

Be curious about your exhaustion to find out what it is that

drains you. And then we can be better at

limiting the exhaustion sources limiting the stress

and in doing so we can be more resilient in the future. We can

set boundaries accordingly and be good and firm with them

because we know and setting them we can be our best self.

Now continue breathing continue being with yourself here. Feel

free to choose another meditation if

You want to spend a little more time with yourself.

But otherwise, I'm going to let you go now and thank you from

the bottom of my heart to share my little podcast here.

It is my heart's mission to make our society more resilient to

make you love yourself more.

Thank you. I'll be out there tomorrow again. Bye bye