hey there
and Hello haello to India
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today’s episode is about your monkey mind
Who is it?
What is it?
What does it do and how can you tame it and free yourself from it 🙂
enjoy
with love
Aurora
Transcript
Hello, hello and welcome to the Borealis
Unknown:experience.
Unknown:especially excited because I was able to have a peek at my
Unknown:listeners location again, and I have so many people from India
Unknown:now listening to my podcast from the bottom of my heart. Hello,
Unknown:hello to India. I know you guys are very good at learning
Unknown:English. And yeah, I’m so grateful to have you on board
Unknown:here. And then of course, hello to Canada and us, and Germany
Unknown:and France and the UK, and Russia, as well. So this is
Unknown:incredible. You guys are so wonderful. And yeah, please
Unknown:never hold back
Unknown:to share my little podcast here, it would mean the world to me,
Unknown:if you just suggested to friends and family or acquaintances, if
Unknown:you share it.
Unknown:But yeah, most of all, you subscribe, and you download, and
Unknown:it gives me feedback about how I’m doing. So thank you so much
Unknown:for doing this for me. And yeah, let’s dive into today’s episode
Unknown:called the ego, or the monkey mind, who is the monkey mind
Unknown:what is the monkey mind. And whereas the monkey mind,
Unknown:I will post a couple of videos to illustrate. But for you, I
Unknown:want to
Unknown:Yeah, put it into words, your ego is part of your mind that
Unknown:identifies and attaches to things that is very opinionated
Unknown:and judgmental. We need our ego to a certain degree, to feel a
Unknown:sense of self.
Unknown:Although I think
Unknown:most of us are very ego driven. And we could listen a little
Unknown:more to our hearts and our physical body. And put the
Unknown:monkey mind the ego a little more. Yeah, into a corner into a
Unknown:little positive time out.
Unknown:You can observe your ego especially well, when something
Unknown:out of the norm, or super annoying is happening to you.
Unknown:It is, for example,
Unknown:I can only come back to my phone issues here. How I tried to
Unknown:problem solve and the assumptions I make all my phone
Unknown:is broken. Because
Unknown:I didn’t do updates and I’m just very neglectful with my devices,
Unknown:I always expect them to function, yet I don’t take
Unknown:perfect care of them. Hence, I’m
Unknown:neglectful person. So something happens that is super annoying.
Unknown:And then you make an assumption about yourself, and this is who
Unknown:you are.
Unknown:and The bad thing about us is that it holds you in that
Unknown:assumption and it makes you be that person that you assume you
Unknown:are and that’s never a good thing because every morning we
Unknown:wake up we can be a new person. Every moment in this life we can
Unknown:decide to make different decisions than we made in the
Unknown:past. And if we are stuck in a certain way that we think we
Unknown:are, it is not good.
Unknown:Now look at other people, when people do something that is out
Unknown:of your norm that is different than your monkey mind usually
Unknown:jumps into an s very harsh and judgmental and opinionated.
Unknown:Look at comedians look at YouTube videos where you know,
Unknown:other people would laugh and you don’t really think it’s funny.
Unknown:And there as well you become judgmental. You say, Well, why
Unknown:is that funny? Why is that person so? Yeah. Silly in this
Unknown:moment and thinks that this is funny. So this
Unknown:The SEO, monkey mind when we feel jealous,
Unknown:the monkey mind is highly active and judges and compares and
Unknown:makes you feel small and then you want to make the other
Unknown:person feel
Unknown:inferior are shitty, and you want to kind of change
Unknown:the thoughts around that person in order to make you feel
Unknown:better. So this is also the ego and the monkey mind.
Unknown:And it’s very interesting to observe because the most secure
Unknown:people have the least amount of monkey mind activity, or they
Unknown:know how to not take it too serious. So they hear the
Unknown:thoughts in their brains, that a one brain they don’t have two
Unknown:brains. And then they can maybe smile about it, laugh about it,
Unknown:but put it in the corner. They don’t identify with the monkey
Unknown:mind. They see it as a maybe even separate entity that does
Unknown:its thing. But they don’t let it distract from what is really in
Unknown:front of you. What is reality
Unknown:skews me. So next time you see yourself being jealous, it’s
Unknown:very easy to do when you go on Facebook or Instagram or Tick
Unknown:Tock or whatever. Observe your judgment, your opinions,
Unknown:your negativity, maybe even. And no, this is not you versus your
Unknown:little bit of insight and security. And if you could maybe
Unknown:guide your mind to feel and think inspired
Unknown:by what is making you jealous by being happy for the other person
Unknown:even by knowing that the other person achieved a goal or as
Unknown:successful, because they put every little cell of their body
Unknown:and mind into that project. And are so dedicated and are so
Unknown:focused. And this is why they are succeeding. And not because
Unknown:you’re dumb or young, or whatever excuse you want to
Unknown:have. And they’re not successful because they were born into a
Unknown:successful family or they have your money or whatever. They
Unknown:have a healthy mindset and are okay to reach the goals that
Unknown:they set themselves. Because there’s tons of people out there
Unknown:who are born into rich families.
Unknown:And they absolutely don’t make anything out of what is given to
Unknown:them. And that’s totally legit. They go their own path. So your
Unknown:ego is also the part of your brain of your mind. That comes
Unknown:up with excuses. Oh no, like I can’t do this because I was
Unknown:always bad and math or Oh no, I can’t learn that
Unknown:language because back in school, I had bad grades. So your ego
Unknown:can also really keep you stuck with what I said at the
Unknown:beginning what you think you are,
Unknown:and it can
Unknown:really manipulate you out of beautiful things like love
Unknown:relationships. Yeah, when you’ve been hurt when you had to go
Unknown:through a heartbreak and now you meet that new person and you get
Unknown:to know them and they are just being themselves and your mind
Unknown:your ego keeps coming up with all one gonna get hurt again, I
Unknown:will have to have my guard up and I cannot be intimate or
Unknown:close with that person. Because I might get hurt in the future
Unknown:again. So your ego is a very good thing it wants to it wants
Unknown:to protect you at all times. And this is also why it makes it a
Unknown:bad thing. Because
Unknown:life is meant to be messy. You will always get hurt and
Unknown:disappointed and you just got to learn to make healthy
Unknown:assumptions and conclusions about sorry about yourself and
Unknown:life in order to be happy and your ego when it is left
Unknown:unchecked will prevent you from enjoying life to the fullest and
Unknown:having deep relationships and
Unknown:Yeah, loving life and people and all the adventures that you can
Unknown:have. So for the next couple of days, I want you to notice your
Unknown:monkey mind and befriend your monkey mind, that’s a good part
Unknown:of your brain. But sometimes it’s just a little too loud,
Unknown:it’s too active. And it’s trying to, yeah, push you into a
Unknown:direction that is not oriented towards growth and health. It
Unknown:keeps you in unhealthy small spaces, sometimes even
Unknown:disconnected from people and isolating. So have a look at
Unknown:your monkey mind and have a look at my little videos on
Unknown:Instagram, and YouTube. Maybe not yet, but Facebook for sure.
Unknown:And then you will have a different angle on this topic.
Unknown:Thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for
Unknown:listening. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day. And
Unknown:yeah, please share my little podcast here with people that
Unknown:you care about. And I will be out there for you again
Unknown:tomorrow. Bye bye. Until next time, Aurora with the Borealis
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