Hello, hello, and welcome to the Borealis

experience. I'm your host Aurora, life coach and companion

on this beautiful journey called life. I'm so happy to be

spending some time with you today, it's a very hot day out

there had shows 40 degrees Celsius. And I'm in my very cool

little forest house. And it's just so nice to be able to hide

away from this heat, I hope you're doing well, I hope you

are in a good place. I hope you feel loved and understood and

free. Freedom is such a big thing nowadays, right we, we all

felt stuck and caught and crammed. During those COVID

years, and now we want to feel free we want to explore we want

to feel as if what we do matters, we want to feel a sense

of purpose. So I really hope that you have found that chances

are if you are listening to my podcast, you might be still in a

place of uncertainty and maybe feeling a little bit stuck. And

if that's the case, I hope I can provide a space for you where

you can feel yourself, rest and recharge your batteries. And

make some time to reflect and to grow. Or go deeper or understand

yourself and others on a deeper level.

Today I want to talk about the importance of traveling.

Traveling, you don't have to be a travel bag. You don't have to

be that kind of person, you know who discovers a new country each

month of the year.

You can be a person who's actually very content with where

they live. But I what I invite you to do is to be open to

perceive an old place a place that you feel, you know, very

comfortable and with new fresh eyes and perspective. And that

if you travel and go drive, walk to a new place that you look at

the new place through the eyes of a child very curious. Very,

very inquisitive. very open minded. I've learned that in

recent years. I'm I'm not an extreme travel bug, but I

traveled a lot and the benefits of traveling, have having an

open mind. Meeting new people seeing new places is wonderful.

It's just so great. And all of a sudden, all those little

problems that you had in your daily life, vanish, or even get

resolved.

If we go into birds perspective, like I say all too often, or if

we have a little bit of you know distance from our current life

from our daily life. It's sometimes it's easier to see

what is not going well for us. And we can also start missing.

What is going very well for us right you can miss your

children, your partner, your hobbies, your house, your

apartment, your pets, whatever it is that you leave behind for

a little while. You will start missing if you truly love it and

enjoy it in your life and when we come back home, then, most of

the time we have this feeling of a full heart, a grateful heart

and we promise ourselves someday I was even that we want to be

more grateful for what we have, because we missed it so much now

that we didn't have the people in our life or the things or the

hobbies. And now, we promised ourselves that when we engaged

again, then we want to be more mindful. And it's really

important to remind ourselves of that, and to not forget to be

grateful for what we have. And that yeah, we will be coming

back to our daily daily life, but maybe we can look at it with

fresh eyes. And maybe if you travel to a new place, you can

be curious about everything that's going on, sometimes we

traveled to a new place, and we want to make sure that our

comfort zone is being preserved read, we want the same coffee,

we want the same breakfast, we want the same way of living in a

new country. And that's sometimes very hard to find. So

if we start to be more open and more relaxed, and know that we

have everything that we need to feel comfortable, we don't need,

what we have at home, but we can learn new things that make us

feel comfortable and good and safe. To have that open

mindedness is such a gift, it opens extremely valuable

precious doors to your life. I traveled to a nearby city two

weekends ago, and we went to a Japanese garden. And we entered

this garden. And he just thought and felt all of a sudden as if

you were in a new world. And I started moving differently and

thinking differently, and seeing details that I wouldn't see if

it wasn't in a sacred space like that Japanese garden Enos. And

it really initiated a shift inside of myself. And that is

what inspired my episode today is that you don't have to travel

far. You don't have to pay expensive. How do you say that?

You don't have to pay for expensive flight tickets. But

you can travel to a close by place and go to a new cafe, go

to an art gallery, do something that you would usually never do.

And by physically engaging in something that we never do, of

course, it's it's a safe activity, it's an activity that

makes you good, feel good. It's nothing dangerous. It's nothing,

you know, too, out there and too challenging. As soon as we put

ourselves in a new environment, our mind opens again, and our

heart will do the same.

And that is what I'm inviting people to do. Most of the time

in my workshop that I hosted here in over the last couple of

months. I invite people to listen with their heart, put

your pen away, put your mind away for a second, turn the

volume down and simply listen with your heart and see how

differently it hits you how it stimulates your nervous system

and a different way. I feel all too often we approach situations

difficult people, our work our life, our love life from a very

heavy space. And then we get upset that we don't get the

results that we want. And I don't have the solution to that

I'm not, you know, hovering above you. I'm right next to you

in this mess. But what I've noticed this, once I turned the

volume down of my mind, I can switch my heart on and I'm

curious and hoping and in a place of you know wanting to

learn new things. needing to understand my environment.

Instead of having opinions making assumptions, or having

harsh judgments. I feel much better with myself. I sleep much

better. I feel much better. In my skin. So make the time to go

visit new places, say yes to an invitation, of course, only if

it's safe, that you usually would decline, you know, there's

little community fests festivals, or there is, like I

said earlier art galleries, that host events, there is theatres,

movies, live music, cooking classes, you can learn a musical

instrument, learn to stimulate your brain in a way that you

haven't stimulated in a long time, and then change it up. You

don't have to go too deep, you can just try it out once. And if

you like it, you try it out twice. But the physical location

can usually help us to be that open minded again. We forget

about it. And we need to get reminded that this world is so

big. And we're just so small. And to have that humble feeling

in your chest, that you're just a little creature trying to do

her or his way. Not by diminishing yourself and looking

down on yourself. And, you know, thinking thoughts like, Oh, my

God, I'm just so unimportant. And I'm just this little wheel,

and I will never make a difference in other people's

lives. No, that's not what I mean. But to see how different

people approach situations in a different way, can be so mind

blowing at times. It's so fascinating how a different

culture would approach a specific topic like, you know,

anger management, or love dilemmas, or eating disorders,

with such a different mindset. And we can learn so much. If we

have an open mind. And then you come home, get back into your

daily life. And we'll be more grateful for what you have, or

will introduce into your life new practices. And when you meet

people, and it doesn't matter if you're single or in a

relationship, you will also look at them in a different way, you

will maybe listen to them more closely. You will see that,

yeah, you know that person for several years now. But they

still have secrets, they still have ways of thinking that you

could never imagine they would have. And to be curious to be

open minded will help you deepen your relationships

enormously to a point that you can really press a reset button

in a relationship, just by being curious. You don't need to get

fancy, you can just ask questions. I feel we we don't

wander enough anymore. Right? Because everything is at the tip

of our fingers. We can Google CellTech right away. But you can

google your partner, you can google your children. You have

to ask questions, be inquisitive and observe them with the

kindest, most loving eyes and learn to understand them. And by

traveling by leaving your comfort zone. You will feel that

deep appreciation for sure for what you have, and for what you

want and desire in your life for what you want to change in your

life for what doesn't fit anymore, and really has to go

now. So, my dear friend, my dear listener, I'm going to leave you

with this. I'm sending my love out to you. As always, if you

want to request an episode Don't hold back. I'm also available

for one on one coaching or if you're a group of people, and

you want me to hold workshops So be it in your friends circle or

at work with your co workers, or you want to pass on my details

to your boss and invite them to host workshops with me together.

Then I'm open and available for this as well. All right, thank

you so much for being here. I hope I was able to bring you

lots of value and peace and hope and self reflection to take good

care of yourself and I'll be out there very soon again. Bye bye