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8 Weird Things Swedish People Do (& You Should Too) · The Spirit Nomad: Spiritual Awakening + Life Purpose

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  I'm Julia and you're listening to the spread know my podcast,
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  the show that helps spiritual Seekers step into their purpose
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  and freedom. You can find the video version
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  channel. Now, let's get into the episode.
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  I have eight really weird things.
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  I want to tell you today that Swedish people do but that are
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  surprisingly spiritual and I noticed these things when I
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  moved from my home country. Sweden, I'm in the UK now.
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  And I don't really understand why other countries don't do
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  this. All these eight things will make
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  your life so much more, happy easy and peaceful.
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  So let's get into the list. The first Good thing that
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  Swedish people do is Countryside getaways, so most Swedish people
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  will have a summer cabin or they want to rent a summer cabin
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  during the weekend to have another environment that is
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  stressfully where they can get a tech detox and just be in
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  nature. Which I think it's so important
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  especially if you live in a city.
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  The second weird thing that Swedish people do is allowed us,
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  go with it. Which means Saturday candy and
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  that means that every Saturday you have candy.
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  So you reserve your sugar day for Saturday and it really helps
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  Lee the rest of the week but on Saturday, you really get to
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  indulge. So when I grew up every Saturday
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  evening, my dad would come out with his silver.
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  Tray of, literally, like a mountain of candy.
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  Sweet. And actually eats the most candy
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  in the whole world, but they are also one of the healthiest
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  fittest people in the world study suggests that eating one,
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  large portion of sugar, each week was less damaging to our
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  teeth and health than a small amount everyday.
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  And even when it comes to weight loss, there's also studies
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  around this. I read a book called the
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  Buddhist diet, which you might think we'll the Buddha.
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  He had some belly fat, right? But they famous better than we
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  see with the Stomach is actually another burden of the Buddha
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  thinking of their several different with us in the study,
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  they mentioned in this book is that even if you want to lose
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  weight you want to have one day a week where you you completely
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  exceed your calories because otherwise your body will go into
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  starvation mode and hold on to the fat.
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  And this also reminds me of a video I saw by the poet prints.
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  Are he was talking about a woman on her deathbed and she was
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  saying, I wished I had eaten More ice cream and less beans.
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  And that made me think. Because like, we're so obsessed
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  with health and looking good, having a flat stomach and like,
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  all these things, but sometimes we just got to live as well and
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  just enjoy our time on Earth. So, I think this is where you
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  healthier to just have one occasion per week where you
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  really eundel judge and had that be A celebratory occasion rather
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  than every time you feeling a bit low and Pressed you go out
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  and you stuff yourself with some junk food and then you just feel
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  crap afterwards and wish you had never done it.
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  Number three is a young, the log n or the law of young there and
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  it basically mean it's like a mentality.
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  Swedish people have that they are not better than other
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  people. So yeah, Swedish people are very
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  humble and I this really resonates with me because I feel
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  like especially on the spiritual path.
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  Many people will actually pick up more ego than they had before
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  the spiritual awakening because they feel Superior to other
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  people who haven't gone through a spiritual awakening, the guru
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  complex. But we have to all remember is
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  that we are all Sparks of God. So we are equal.
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  The fourth, weird thing that Swedish people do is having
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  separate duvets. Oh, this will really help you
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  with getting more sleep. If you're sleeping with a
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  partner because there will be no like, tug of war during sleep
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  where someone takes Of the the debate in the other and it's so
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  much more easier to snuggle up like with the with a duvet.
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  I like to have it in between my knees to to support my back.
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  So to me, oh my gosh, I don't know how you do it when you
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  share one, I can't do it. The fifth weird thing that
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  Swedish people do is fika which you might have heard which is
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  like a coffee break where you have a coffee or tea and then
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  usually maybe something sweet with.
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  This is why like A cinnamon bun and you connect with friends or
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  family or colleagues. And in Sweden, we take this very
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  seriously and it's also happens during work, and it's really
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  important. You cannot take away their fika
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  break from the Swedish person because they will be very angry.
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  And I think the reason why I love this one so much.
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  It's, again, with the deathbed connection that made people say
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  it on their deathbed, like it was all about the connections,
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  they make the relationship, Should people they loved and if
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  we, if we could break means like you taking a break from work to
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  connect and just be present. And if you've read that your
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  tallest book, The Power of Now, You know how powerful it is to
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  repress it. And that's all we really have is
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  the present moment. So, being present with your
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  friends or colleagues, just having a nice coffee and
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  enjoying each other's company. I think it's so underrated, but
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  I highly approve of doing that several times a day.
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  Which we Swedish People do this six weird thing, that's which
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  people do is that we are rarely go out to eat at restaurants or
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  takeaways. We grew up having meals, Cooked
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  our from scratch like we don't even say from scratch.
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  We always assume it is from scratch because we don't really
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  have like different cake, mixes Pizza, mixes and stuff.
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  Everything is done from scratch and we prefer eating at home,
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  which saves you money and it's so much more healthy because it
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  Be processed foods like loss of even numbers and different
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  additives. And when food is pure like this,
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  when you make it from scratch, the food has more Prana or life
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  with energy and it's so it's so much more healthy for you.
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  Number 7 is showing Respect by being punctual and queuing so
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  it's quite funny. So if I am like one minute late
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  to a meeting meeting, a friend, zoomy thing, whatever it is.
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  If I'm one minute late, I'm like oh my gosh, I am being so
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  disrespectful, I need to hurry, but I actually like this about
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  Swedish people that we try to be on time like 10 minutes,
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  arrived, 10 minutes before the time or like worst-case exactly
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  on time because it's just respect for the other person.
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  Because then, you know, exactly? When they will calm my, you
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  don't have to, like, look at your clock.
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  And be like, okay, sit half an hour now, are they coming or
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  they not? It's I think it's like, basic
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  respect and same with. Cueing.
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  If you got there first, I think you deserve to be first because
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  in many countries I feel it's like a Sharky Shark world.
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  The words to slide the most loudest.
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  Most disrespectful person is the one who goes first because they
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  just, you know, elbow they weigh in front of the queue which I
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  feel is disrespectful. So, yeah, Kinesiology and
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  queuing. I think this is some really good
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  values as which people have. And number eight is Silence.
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  Yes, of Swedish people. They really value silence.
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  If you've ever talked to Swedish person, you might be surprised
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  by how quiet they are. Probably the most quiet of any
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  people in the world. If I got a cent for every person
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  who said, why are you so quiet? I would be a millionaire by now.
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  And many people think this is really annoying with Swedish
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  people, especially if they come from a very extroverted culture.
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  But I actually really like this because there is so much value
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  in silence. You get to really take in your
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  environment, enjoy the present moment.
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  So Swedish people will basically only talk when they have
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  something important to say and not just to fill the Gap and if
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  you look at enlightened Masters, you will see that they only
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  speak when they have. Yeah, something that's important
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  to say and does that mean that all Swedish people are
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  enlightened. Yes.
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  Now, I'm kidding but I do think there is a value in silence and
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  you don't have to fill the Gap. Every time you you are with
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  someone just enjoy the present moment and it doesn't have to be
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  awkward, just embrace it. Let's continue the discussion in
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