9+10 March 2024 a.k.a. Day 2 and 3 of 365 days of #dailybonjoviyoga I did 40 minutes of Daily Bon Jovi Yoga, with 🎶📀Bon Jovi 🌉🔥Burning Bridges (2015)📦 and 70 minutes 🎶📀Bon Jovi 🏚️This House Is Not For Sale (2016)🙈 Why I chose these albums: On Saturday I chose Burning Bridges because I was feeling so badly, and the vibe of Burning Bridges was the closest I could find to saying: “Just lost two months and possibly a handful of relationships (among which ones that will be missed) on a project I dropped like a hot potato today.” In 2015, being contractually obliged to deliver an album, Jon had thrown in the audio files in a brown paper bag (hence the emoji of a brown paper box, the closest I could find!) And he intended that to be the last thing he ever did for the record company. Burning Bridges was the album born under the most bleak  of circumstances. And on Sunday I chose its follow-up This House Is Not For Sale, which was released by the same record company. I don’t know exactly how it worked, because the labels appear differently, but it was a mother-daughter company, kind of a change. It was a happy ending, and Bon Jovi did not change companies. I also chose This House Is Not For Sale, because I had time for a longer practice and I only own this album in an extended version.  

God Bless This Mess

👩🏼‍💻 the day 2+3 story 

. The duo Burning Bridges (2015) and This House Is Not For Sale (2016) – an album followed by a tour with the same name that would run from 2016 to 2019- symbolize both the all-time low of Jon Bon Jovi dropping of the Burning Bridges album with the record company, as well as the story of the band’s resurrection with This House Is Not For Sale. On Saturday I chose the album Burning Bridges (2015) because I too, was at my 2024 low point. Not counting January first, when I made actual pictures of my crying run-mascara raccoon face, so that I would remember to never let it get to this again! (which it did not) But I also laid out 2016’s This House Is Not For Sale for Sunday, hoping I too, would have a resurrection that would last me for years to come! It did not disappoint.   Because although it had been more wishful thinking than trusting I would shift into a more positive mindset, that is exactly what happened today. Sacrificing a good part of the night to intense feelings of restlessness and doom, feelings which could not be pinpointed to having an exact cause, the night also brought me new insights into ( I kid you not) the nature of reality. The why, of my final four years, six years maybe even seven years, feeling like a slippery slope of contemporary doom. A feeling of something having its fangs in me that is not one of the older demons (of which I have at least one). A foe a younger me has never needed to face, and probably because of that, one I have rarely named, nor even tried to express what it was. The good news is: Last night I found out what it is, that has been disrupting my life from the deepest layers, messing with my sense of reality. The bad news is: It is something so common, now in the modern world, it will be hard to live without. In particular because I am a writer, and consider myself a contemporary writer too. Not a writer of novels or non-fiction which would be outdated the moment they hit the shelves. In my opinion, a contemporary writer, is a blogger. And, also in my opinion, my reality, your reality, everyone’s reality but some no doubt will be more prone to its flaws than others, has gotten severely disturbed, creating not one but three realities; The reality of the “real world”, the part that has not changed since the 20th century. And the two new realities, the Bee Hive (email, Facebook, Whatsapp) and the Matrix (internet at large, Twitter, YouTube and so on) I spent the best part of my day writing about these worlds. Writing, about the two new levels of the Bee Hive and the Matrix. And how having become aware is in my opinion the first step, to full recovery. If you would like to learn more, you can read my article here: I found the World Between Worlds | 20th Century Lives, Bee Hive and Matrix And I also went out for a celebration today, in the real world, and did not make any photos because I did not want to take anything away from the real world experience. I had gifted this experience to someone, and taking a picture even before they arrived or after we had parted, no longer felt right. The real world felt more sacred than ever. Now of course, it is not a miracle cure, realizing there are three worlds. All the pain of the past weeks, of this whole year even ever since the first of January- it is not gone. And it’s almost as if I am more aware that the toughest world really is, the real one. There is a reason we are so eager to disappear into all these extra communication devices. The real world, reality, it bites. More often than not, I feel social interaction is like claws going through my aura! It feels so intense, so painful. And it seems like ever since the pandemic it has gotten worse. Like I feel it more intensely, like my guard no longer functions. So did I feel perfect today? No. Am I healed, fully confident I am going to crush it at any layer, of reality? The real world, the bee hive, the matrix? No. But I was feeling much better this Sunday, than I was Saturday. It was literally, a world of difference. And the good news was, that painful as it still was, I was feeling it all, in the real world. Old-fashioned, 20th century, and terribly messy.

. “I must confess, I’ve lived, I’ve died
God bless this mess, this mess is mine”

God Bless This Mess, Bon Jovi

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The Yoga of saturday and Sunday March 9 and 10, 2024

Here are the manual and the schedules I used for this practice. Throughout this entire year I will only be using free resources. Source Saturday and Sunday March 9 and 10: Free 2021 manual Daily Bon Jovi Yoga 2.0 -> https://dailybonjoviyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/bon-jovi-yoga-set-list-2.0-yoga-framework-incl-sticky-men-schedules.pdf Saturday (the short, burned out practice) I used schedules 7. Lying Down, Supine Poses 8. Lying Butterfly or Restorative Yoga with Props And did a relaxation during the final two songs I’m Your man (9) and Burning Bridges (10), a very funny breakup song with the record company. Sunday, the XL album practice I used schedules 1. Opening Sequence 2. Balance Poses 3.Standing Poses 7. Lying Down, Supine Poses And did a relaxation during the final three songs We Don’t Run (15), a song originally featured on Burning Bridges!, I Will Drive You Home (16) and Goodnight New York (17) The next episode will be written Tuesday night 12 March CET, at the earliest featuring day 4 and 5 of 365 days of #dailybonjoviyoga