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. I hope you're doing well. I hope Life is good,

and if its a little rough. Rig t now. I hope I can give you ho

e and peace and help you o reconnect to yourself. Today

I want to talk about life lesso s that I've learned from an

9 year old. Some of you know th t I live in Canada, on a litt

e cottage in the Rocky Mountai s with my grandma. My mom is he

e as well. But today I want o talk about the life lessons

I learned from my 89 year o d French grandma. She doesn

t speak English. And over 20 yea s ago, they decided to move to t

e English part of Canada. So y u can imagine that it was pret

y difficult at times for them. B t they made it friends. They, as

I said, have this beautiful litt e cottage out here. And yeah, h

d a really, really good li e together. My grandpa passed

n 2016. And ever since my grand a is very busy in the gardens, s

e plays the piano. She eats wel . She keeps herself busy eve

y day. So the first lesson I' e learned is that if you have

a dream, there is no obstacle . There is times where you wi

l feel you're going through. Yea , uncertainty, there's times th

t you will feel you a e encountering obstacles when y

u pursuing your dreams. But if y u really want something so badl

, nothing can really hold y u back. So self doubt and doubti

g their dreams was never a part f my grandparents life. The seco

d thing I've learned from her s that you have to live

n moderation and de p appreciation. She is from Fran

e and French people apprecia e good wine, and very good foo

. But you have to enjoy the e things in moderation. You can

t indulge. You can't let yourse f go. You have to enjoy your foo

, appreciate your food and n t exaggerate of the good thing

. The third thing she taught me s that you have to learn a litt

e bit about everythin

She has no day where she is depressed or bored or doesn't

know what to do with herself. When she has nothing to do

around the gardens, nothing to cook or bake as she loves to do.

She learned something new. Funny thing is that she never really

learned to speak English because that would have helped her

enormously. I don't know if it is the French pride or whatever

it is if she believes that she can learn English or that she

sounds funny. But she knows how to sew. She knows how to knit.

She knows how to cook and bake all different kinds of meals and

pastries. She plays the piano and learns new songs on a weekly

I would say and many more things when it comes to the garden. She

never gets tired of learning new things and failing at the

beginning, but then succeeding. Because the more you do a new

task, the better you get, there is no way around when you put

your focus in. When you have good intentions. When you're

consistent, then you will get better and something new. So

also when it comes to repairing things, like doing an oil change

on a truck on a car, she's curious about how it works. I

feel a lot of times we have resistance to learning things

that we think was too dumb or is other people can do it. So the

third thing would be curiosity. Be curious and excited to learn

new things. Another thing that I've learned is keep in touch

with your close friends, and the people you love in your life,

never wonder if the other person is doing enough, investing

enough. Always make sure that you are giving your all in your

relationships. Don't forget your friends birthdays. Just message

them randomly and ask them how they're doing, how they're

feeling. What their mind is busy with. Be curious about your

friends lives and how they handle situations. My grandma

and grandpa's sailed around the world before they settled in

Canada.

And

throughout the years, they always kept in touch with their

friends. And back then you have to imagine there was no

WhatsApp. There was no Facebook, of course, no emails, she had to

send and written letters. And then go to the post office, pay

a lot of money. And then send a letter that would take 10 days

at times to reach their friends. But you would always make sure

that they know what they are doing right now and share their

adventures. and wonder how her friends back home are doing. And

it's very important for your heart for your soul to keep in

touch with at least one person. Next thing that I've learned

from her as travel, travel as much as you can, with at least

amount of baggage as you can really learn to be a minimalist.

Learn from other cultures learn to see that we all want the

same. We all need the same on this planet. Yet, we might use a

different language, different body language, different tools

to satisfy our needs to go about our days. She saw to poverty

back in Bolivia. And it really touched her so deeply. And when

she came back home and really changed the way she cooked and

used water and appreciated what she had. The other day I've

learned that traveling is not only good for the mind and

opening your heart, but on a biological level. On a gut

level. It is so important to strengthen your immune system

because he can maybe imagine that if you've traveled to

Africa or Australia or South America. You take in way

different bacteria and ingest them and it's exciting for your

immune system. To sometimes fight them off, but sometimes to

integrate them and make your gut more biodiverse. So, traveling,

being open to learn from new cultures, and especially to

learn to live with very, very minimal resources is a very

important lesson you can learn in life. And there's really

never an excuse not to travel, you can

go and travel in a camper van, you can go and work your little

ass off and put money aside so that you can travel

is really important to open up your mind to, to feel and see

new cultures in order to learn, but in also, order to appreciate

what you have at home. The last lesson that I've learned from my

grandma is to be disciplined to wake up every morning at the

same time, even though you don't have a job to go to. You make

yourself busy. I know that every night she goes to bed, she knows

exactly what she's gonna do the next day. And she really takes

it serious, and does it with full attention

and focus and love. And it really does matter what it is.

But most of the time it is to serve others.

And I feel that's a very, very important lesson to learn.

Because sometimes we feel depressed, we feel lonely. And

all it is is that we are too focused on ourselves and not

enough on other people around us. And we are herd animals by

nature. So if we start being there for others, serving

others, we will be connected again to community and feel less

lonely and feel as if we have a purpose. And this is so

incredibly important. I hope these little lessons here helped

you. And I know they will certainly help you on a dark day

that you can go back and listen to this and know that Yeah,

there's a couple of very specific things that you can do

in order to feel better right away. I'm sure there's many more

lessons that I forgot here now today, but those were the core

lessons said, I've learned from my grandma so far living with

her

first seven years, I think so yeah, I speak French with her

every day. I speak English with you guys. And with my friends

back home and with my mom here I speak German.

And my brain loves it. Tried to learn a little bit about

everything. And you will feel rich, and you will feel you can

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