Hello, hello, you beautiful people. This is the

Borealis experience. I'm your host Aurora. And I'm so happy to

be spending some time with you today. It's been a busy couple

of days. I had my first interview here yesterday with

Sean Dustin. His podcast is called nowhere to go but up now,

check him out. He's awesome. And we have had a lovely

conversation about Yeah, being abusive partners in our past,

not physically but mentally and emotionally, which doesn't make

it better. We're not proud of it. But we wanted to have that

conversation. And yeah, provide you with these episodes. And if

you feel inclined to come on to our show, then shoot us a

message. You can reach me Aurora Eggert on Facebook, I also have

a Facebook page called the Borealis experience. And you can

read Sean over nowhere to go but up now@gmail.com. Today's

episode is for you, if you are struggling with insomnia, or in

general, being too much in your mind and not enough in your

heart space. How do we notice when we are too much in our head

and not enough in our heart? Well, it's very easy. Every time

you're sitting still doing nothing. You either feel guilty,

or shame. Or you feel your mind racing, pushing you to

accomplish more to do lists. And yeah, judging you harshly,

having very harsh opinions about yourself of how you're supposed

to operate and function and be in society. And whenever you

feel like doing something else, it will come and creep up on you

and make you feel very shitty. So how do we deal with a mind

that is too active? One thing is going for walks in nature and

really being present with what is going on out there. Like at

the beginning, I felt very pathetic doing it. But fake it

until you make it. You look at the trees. You look at the

birds, you hear the birds, you hear the sound of the snow

underneath your boots, or the gravel underneath your shoes. So

being 100% present with what is around you is such an awesome

tool to get out of your mind into the present moment. And

then when you interact with people, presence is also key. So

actively listening, passively listening, and really like being

in tune with that person making eye contact and asking

questions. And doing nothing but enjoying being with that person.

Of course, you will pick someone that you like and not someone

you don't like. Needless to say, but yeah, being present, being

right there in the moment, is the best way to reconnect to

your heart and to enjoy life on a deeper level as well. So,

meditation, of course, is a very good point. This was very

annoying. I'm very sorry, I'm sitting outdoors today and

Bonnie is being very protective. So yeah, meditation is also a

wonderful tool because there you can guide your thoughts and come

out of To Do List problem solving mode into being

relaxing, enjoying yourself mode. So when you wake up at

night,

try to convince your mind that you need the rest that you don't

need to brainstorm right now. But only focus on resting and

relaxing. So whenever your mind We'll come up with all while

this is what I have to do tomorrow. And I have to

accomplish this and I have to problem solve this. Come back to

your breath. And know that it is not a waste of time, it is very

precious recharging of your batteries, because you don't

serve anybody and especially not yourself if you are a hard

working person, but you are running low on energy and being

more and more impatient or making more and more mistakes

because of not having enough sleep. Of course, if you are on

any kind of medication prescribed by your doctors don't

make any changes. Because I'm not a health professional. You

talk to your doctor first and then change. But you can apply

these little thought tools that I'm providing you here, already.

So you wake up at night and think about all the stuff that

you want to have to do the next day. Come back to your breath,

come back to I feel warm and save. My blanket is keeping me

safe. And I have a roof over my head. I'm so grateful that I

have food in my fridge and fresh water to drink. So maybe you

notice already what I'm doing here, you kind of tame that

monkey mind. You treat it like a misbehaved little child and

bring it to gratefulness and presence. And that way you can

very easily fall asleep again, it works awesome for me, like

when I think of the people that I miss, and I want to be close

to. I really imagine their faces, I imagine them hugging

me. I imagine talking to them that tone of their voice. And

really go as much into detail as you want. And you will see it

will let you fall asleep as soon as possible. Just go away from

trying to problem solve and trying to schedule and trying to

organize because this is what is gonna keep your mind active and

not going to let you sleep. Come back to what am i grateful for

precious connections that I have in my life and things that I

want to experience right now it is deep, calm, soothing, feeling

in my chest, relaxed feeling in my legs, maybe a heavy feeling

in my chest and my head is falling to the side. So as if

you were to hipness, hypnotize yourself back into sleep. And

you can learn to do that during the day. For a couple minutes.

When you have a break. Just tune into your breath. If you go for

a walk, tune into nature and notice how it feels to have the

wind touching your face, the sun warming your hands, and your

walk, how fast or how slow you walk. And then you can train

yourself already to have a more steady and calm mind. And

whenever you need it switched on, you will be able to switch

it on. Don't worry if you have an overactive mind, it will

always be ready to be switched on. But it is very very

important to find the balance between being in your head and

living from the heart. Awesome. Thank you so much for listening

to this episode, I will also post a meditation for you that

you can just listen to for whenever you can sleep or you

need deep relaxation. I have one episode for insomnia already in

season one so you can just search it up. And yeah, I have

an announcement to make. I will be upgrading my podcasting

performance here and have a website for you up and running

soon. Which will take me a lot of editing and working on my

computer. So tomorrow I'll be posting the interview, which I

would love you to listen to. And the next day I will take a day

two just focus on upgrading my podcast here for you, to provide

you with more in depth Yeah content, but also ways to

contact me or to research about my content here.

Thank you so much for listening. take really good care of

yourself. Until next time

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