Hello, hello and welcome to the Borealis

experience is the see in the background. I'm in Mexico, San

Jose, on the Baja I saw for the first episode of 2023. I want to

make it really special. I really hope that the waves in the

background now not too loud. I guess I'll see. Once I finished

recording

I hope you're doing well. I hope you feel safe and connected.

Content it's been quite an interesting couple of weeks,

those first couple of weeks of 2023.

Maybe you entered this New Year with fresh eyes, expectations,

resolutions, full of energy. Maybe it took you a little while

to get into the groove of the new year.

Today I want to talk about keeping an open mind while I'm

traveling, and slowly getting to know a new culture, I realized

how closed up my heart and my mind was for the last couple

months may maybe even yours. You know such things we don't even

realize until we are faced with situations where we have to have

an open mind and open heart otherwise we're not going to get

through it. That is when you realize, Oh man, I'm so rigid.

I'm so closed minded. I'm so and so much pain and suffering. For

so long now that I didn't even realize that I was so tensed up,

closed up and in pain. When the pain and yours stays long

enough, you just make it a part of yourself. And for me

traveling always helps me to open up my heart again and my

mind. You see how people live a life similar to yours with very

different tools and approaches and opinions. Very different

faith, maybe sometimes even different struggles. At the same

time, if you keep your heart open and your mind open or if

you start to open it up again you see that people really just

want to be seen and feel connected. feel understood and

respected. No matter where we go. It is the same thing all

over the world

right now you might be in a situation leading a life where

you can't really travel. So what do you do then? With my

information that I'm sharing here, well, fortunately we don't

have to leave our daily life. To open up our heart again. We can

change our attitude we can open up our mind our heart. We can

change assumptions that we made conclusions that we made about

people and ourselves and our past. Maybe a future you by

making space and time to see what's going on. And that's a

necessary evil. That's the only thing that you need to invest

into yourself is time and making space to reflect, to question to

untangle yourself, to get back to your true self. When we go

through pain and discomfort, our psyche, our mind, starts to

build a fortress around our heart, we start to engage in

little habits first, to protect us from future pain, who then

can become part of ourselves. So the pain becomes part of you.

And you change your character changes the way you move and

behave, relate to people changes, bit by bit, it consumes

you and you don't even realize it. Maybe the odd comment and

people, you know, maybe starting to avoid you reject you more

often, or making comments mocking you. That sometimes can

be their problem. But it can also be a sign of you.

distancing yourself from your core being, if it is people that

truly know you.

You can't run away from your pain, you can't avoid it. Yet

your mind and your psyche will always be there with the mission

to protect you. And all too often, we also give it

intentionally the mission to protect us by behaving different

ways by speaking differently, clothing ourselves differently,

relating to people differently, right smiling when we don't

really feel like smiling. But what you're doing by doing that

is that you give your mind a task that it's not fit to

accomplish. You can't predict life, you can't predict pain.

You can't avoid pain. Yet you tell your mind subconsciously

that you don't want to experience that pain again. And

then you come to see me for coaching and wonder why you're

still single, why you still haven't found a job that gives

you satisfaction. Or whatever pain you're struggling with. All

along, though, your mind is trying to protect you to be

vulnerable again. And to explore what an open heart is, because

that's where you got hurt the last time right. So it's a whole

mess. It's a mess. It's a big mess, but it's so beautiful to

realize and to see where you're at. So also deeply humbling. To

notice what's disturbing you what's holding you back, what is

the pain you're trying to avoid? Maybe you forgot, you're just

dealing with the coping mechanisms now and the little

addictions or maybe even big addictions. But to go and sit

down and explore yourself again, be it by yourself or with a

coach doesn't have to be me it can be any person out there who

is offering coaching and as trustworthy to you to to peel

the layers back from that shell from that fortress that was

built around your heart. Because life is short and I don't want

you to pass away crossover to the other side and regret that

you haven't really experienced life. You lived a life behind

Wilds in fear. Scared to be yourself again, because that's

where you got hurt the last time so keeping an open mind and open

heart is really Everything I want to remind yourself of today

because I know, you know, it's valuable and good. But sometimes

we forget. I'm also very excited to have built a physical

location for you. Or anybody who wants to come and explore. Make

sense of their mind experience deep, calm, relaxation from the

inside out for body and mind. And, yeah, I'm very, very

excited to have that set up. And to share this with people, not

only through my podcasts that I love so much, but also in, in

real life. I crave deep connection with people I crave

seeing people and having people take their masks down and just

be themselves. That's the greatest gift that we can offer

to each other. And I'm all all in to encourage that and you and

to see you grow and untangle yourself. All right. I'm gonna

leave you with that My dear listener, I'm so happy to

connect with you again through this beautiful way of

communication and being out there in the world through

podcasting. And I will be out there with you for you very soon

again. With Love from Mexico. Aurora