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 Friday. And yeah, I

hope you have a good weekend ahead of you. I know. For some

people, it's the weekend, no work all week long. But maybe by

now you find a hobby.

Sorry, found a hobby, or

are okay with the COVID situation. It's very tough on

all of us, no matter where you're at. So just a reminder

that you're not alone in this. We're in this together.

Yeah, I hope you enjoyed my little intro here. Today's

episode is about appreciation. Do you truly appreciate

things live, everything you have.

A friend of mine contacted me today, and said she really tries

to appreciate drinking water now. And when she has a shower,

then she really appreciates the water and

uses a lotion or oil afterwards.

To feel good and her skin. And I really encourage people to do

that more and more because it's not always on your partner to

apply physical touch nonsexual physical touch. And if you're

single, then it's especially important that you know how to

take really good care of your body.

So drinking water on a regular and then not just chucking it

around, and not just doing it because the doctor told you to

drink those three liters a day. But to really

see that this is a precious material.

Do you say material, maybe not an English

and it is going to nourish your body, it's going to make your

heart function, your lungs function, your kidneys function,

and your body is going to make beautiful cells out of that

water and keep you healthy and in balance.

And when it comes to the shower, I just got reminded today that

so often we just during the day, wash our hands, have a shower,

rub soap on, wash it off. Maybe anon COVID times get a hug from

a friend or a partner. You have sex with your partner. But do

you really take care of your skin and really feel and touch

your body at times. I think we all don't do that enough in a

non sexual way. And maybe you can think of it more often and

really appreciate your beautiful hands, your forearms, your

biceps, your triceps and your back. Give yourself a little bag

right up there with some oil, some

body lotion.

And then, of course going for walks and inhaling fresh air and

really filling up your lungs with that beautiful oxygen that

is also nourishing your air every being.

And then when it comes to our relationships, do you really

truly appreciate the people that are in your life that you love?

Do you make eye contact with them? Do you ask them questions

that go beyond how was your day? And can you do this or that for

me? Do you listen to them? Maybe do you

treat them with a massage or beautiful music or something?

Like when we think about the five senses, whatever you can do

to I don't want to say stimulate the other senses but to

To

bring something good to your partners or friends,

life,

then think about the five senses, maybe you can cook well,

and you're awesome at preparing meals, maybe you are a musician,

and you can play beautiful music, and you totally

underestimate how touching it is to play music for another

person.

Maybe you are an artist, or you are totally handsome, pretty

lady, and you can just

Yeah, stimulate their visual sense.

And then physical touch is also very powerful. You can give a

hand rub a foot rub

a bad group.

And,

yeah, so sometimes we're so caught up in trying to make

ourselves good. And we forget that doing someone, somebody

else something good, does us good, as well, because we're

herd animals, and we need each other. And when the other is

doing well, it usually positively affects us as well.

And then we have the fifth sense, the scent.

I've only discovered that recently. Actually, I know

perfumes are awesome and make you feel great after a shower.

But to have essential oils,

do you different kinds of sense to when you eat, really eat with

all your senses and really smell your food, really smell that

orange before you bite into it, that pineapple.

It really changes your whole experience. So if you have like

a favorite scent, like let's say mint, eucalyptus or oregano, go

and get yourself a little bottle of that essential oil, and

stimulate laid your

scent sense at times. And it's really, really a beautiful way

to connect with yourself and, and to feel good.

What I really

want to emphasize here is that appreciation is so much more

important than dissecting and analyzing with the mind. What I

find most annoying is when you sit at the table and you cook

something and all the person is interested in is the recipe and

what ingredients are in there. And we have to dissect

everything to the to the ends degree. And those people usually

don't know me because I cook and bake pretty much everything

without recipe, I take it as a guideline and then throw it into

a corner. When I eat when I want to taste something, then I do it

with all my senses with my fingers, and so on. And I truly

enjoy the moment and I feel too much were distracted

with our phones or really want to know into the details. What

was going on with that food before we eat it instead of just

trusting us from for me it's a trust issue when someone has to

know every little detail about the food that I put on the

table.

Except when it comes to dietary needs that I know beforehand if

you're gluten free or lactose free or vegan or whatever. But

as soon as I know that just shut up and enjoy.

And the same goes for your partner. Sometimes we fatigue or

partners with questions and we want to know and we want them to

talk and think that that is listening and taking care of a

partner. But sometimes we just have to feel like does that

person really want to talk right now? Do they want to open up to

me? Or do they just enjoy my company and want to be quiet?

Because being able to be quiet with someone to appreciate

silence

to gaze into each other's eyes. Without it being awkward, is so

so precious and very, very intimate. It is a beautiful way

to connect. And to be silent at times is way more powerful than

to wanting to analyze

No and wanting and desiring and expecting and nagging.

Yes. So appreciation is usually silent and involves all senses.

So what I encourage you to do now is to go out into this world

or to stay at home and to observe yourself how much you

were appreciating stuff up until now, and how much of a beautiful

experience you can add to your life now, with those simple

little life hacks. Thank you so much for listening to the

Borealis experience. I'm your host Aurora, and I'll be out

there for you tomorrow again, thanks for being here.