Hello and welcome to the Borealis experience. I'm
Unknown:your host Aurora, and I'm so grateful to be spending some
Unknown:time with you today meditating. I will be guiding you through a
Unknown:meditation for when you feel lost and confused. 2020 has been
Unknown:a really tough year, we've been faced with challenges that
Unknown:most of us probably couldn't imagining happening. Some of us
Unknown:lost jobs. Some of us were stuck in a house or apartment
Unknown:was not much space with people that we love. But if it gets too
Unknown:tight, then there's nasty fights attempts happening. Some of us
Unknown:felt extremely lonely, way lonelier than
Unknown:they did in previous years. If they've been single for a while
Unknown:or lost a partner. It's been very challenging on many levels.
Unknown:So this meditation today is for when you feel lost and confused.
Unknown:So make yourself really cozy and comfortable there. If you want
Unknown:to lay down on the ground, feel free to do that. If you feel
Unknown:like sitting up straight today, maybe you can sit on a pillow or
Unknown:on a cushion
Unknown:and adjust your pelvis and the first meditation here on this
Unknown:podcast I describe exactly how you can sit comfortably without
Unknown:having to tense up your muscles around the spine.
Unknown:And then tuck your chin slightly elongate your neck, roll your
Unknown:shoulders up and back.
Unknown:And close your eyes if you wish to.
Unknown:You Your hands can be on your thighs can have your palms open
Unknown:up to the sky or facing down for a more grounding sensation.
Unknown:Sometimes when we feel lost, it's good to
Unknown:have the palms facing down and maybe even like grab your thighs
Unknown:a little bit to feel yourself.
Unknown:Beautiful.
Unknown:Take a deep inhale and exhale.
Unknown:And when I feel lost and uncertain at times, I try to
Unknown:remember myself of the good things and the steady things and
Unknown:the things that
Unknown:keep me alive. Keep me in a good healthy balance.
Unknown:So let's start with the lungs fill your lungs filling,
Unknown:expanding
Unknown:and then retracting again
Unknown:and it is through our breath that we can
Unknown:highly influence our thoughts and our overall state of being.
Unknown:When we get agitated when we feel uncertain or scared,
Unknown:sometimes the breath gets really shallow.
Unknown:We don't even notice that.
Unknown:So if we come back to our quiet place to a safe place, and tune
Unknown:into a breath, calm down again.
Unknown:Then you can literally feel how everything reacts as all of a
Unknown:sudden.
Unknown:Now focus on the muscles around your eyes, around your mouth,
Unknown:your jaw muscles, as usual, keep them relaxed
Unknown:maybe put one hand onto your heart and the other hand in your
Unknown:lower back area.
Unknown:And feel that when you really let your lungs expand and
Unknown:something happens underneath your hand.
Unknown:Head is placed on your lower back
Unknown:the skin is moving
Unknown:underneath your hand there.
Unknown:So that just means that you can really direct your breath to
Unknown:wherever you put your hands on your torso.
Unknown:Know that this time of confusion and feeling loss will pass.
Unknown:It is just a phase in your life.
Unknown:And maybe you can even see it as an opportunity. Please Don't
Unknown:roll your eyes. I know how hard it is at times to see
Unknown:opportunity and challenging times.
Unknown:But maybe it is an opportunity to reconnect back to yourself
Unknown:to your body
Unknown:your body your best friend that is serving you on a daily
Unknown:every second of your life without even asking much from
Unknown:you.
Unknown:See how your heart is beating. See how your lungs and kidneys
Unknown:and your liver is working constantly for you to be healthy
Unknown:and experience this life
Unknown:see how your taste buds can taste delicious food
Unknown:know that you're not alone, that there's so many people out there
Unknown:who feel exactly the same we just have to start talking about
Unknown:it and support each other and don't isolate
Unknown:relax your eyes
Unknown:tune back into your breath
Unknown:No, that was an relaxed and more positive attitude towards
Unknown:ourself.
Unknown:We can let go of resistance and
Unknown:anger, sadness
Unknown:and attract goodness again and hope.
Unknown:We just have to get out of that state of mind of
Unknown:not wanting something and not
Unknown:feeling good about ourselves.
Unknown:We have to focus on the things that make us feel good. So focus
Unknown:on your heartbeat.
Unknown:Focus on your lungs,
Unknown:your relaxed face.
Unknown:And know that these challenging times will pass and you feel
Unknown:confident and happy and joys again.
Unknown:Maybe you want to remember the last time you felt true joy
Unknown:where your heart was jumping in your chest
Unknown:maybe try to recall a person that brings you joy and really
Unknown:envision them standing in front of you.
Unknown:Whatever it is, that brings good feelings up.
Unknown:Call it in.
Unknown:Be grateful for it
Unknown:tune back into your breath
Unknown:call that beautiful image and
Unknown:and know that
Unknown:when you jump into a cab into a taxi,
Unknown:you don't tell the driver all the places you don't want to go
Unknown:right.
Unknown:You tell the driver I want to go here I want to see this. This is
Unknown:what I want to pay you for
Unknown:and the driver will gladly
Unknown:do everything to bring you there safely.
Unknown:So what I mean by that is
Unknown:now that you took the time and the energy to meditate,
Unknown:think of the things that you want in your life instead of
Unknown:what you don't want.
Unknown:You want to feel freedom. You want to feel certainty,
Unknown:confidence
Unknown:and how does it look like how do you walk? How does your face
Unknown:look when you're confident really envision these good
Unknown:feelings
Unknown:now bring your hands together
Unknown:and rub them against each other
Unknown:and I'll place them on your eyes
Unknown:and feel the warmth
Unknown:maybe your fingers are kind of touching your whole forehead and
Unknown:and face there
Unknown:and feel the warmth he may repeat that several times.
Unknown:Or you just stay like this for a little bit
Unknown:Very good.
Unknown:Bring your hands in front of your heart and pray up position.
Unknown:Pull your head down
Unknown:and feel the warmth of your hands once again
Unknown:your body is here to make you feel safe and good about
Unknown:yourself.
Unknown:It is serving you at all times.
Unknown:Appreciate it.
Unknown:And know that those challenging times out there will pass
Unknown:and soon you will feel confident
Unknown:relaxed, free.
Unknown:Maybe even already.
Unknown:Call those images in as often as you can. Especially before us
Unknown:fall asleep at night.
Unknown:Namaste
Unknown:thank you so much for being here with me today. This episode
Unknown:meant a lot to me. I'll be sending out a new episode very
Unknown:soon. I'm always there for you. Lots of love. Aurora be proud of
Unknown:yourself.