So if I write about burn-out I should maybe write also about what you can do.
I think I did mention once or twice in my blogs to take five minute each day to enjoy something simple, or to give you each day a little present (and that does not mean to buy something... maybe but there is so much more..). Alright, but if you don't have the time for sport, yoga or an everyday walk in a park, then maybe mediation is your way. Those meditation can take 5, 10 or 20- 30 minutes... Sure in the beginning it won't be much more, or you are the one who can do so from the beginning. But for the rest, 5 minutes can feel like an hour.
Mostly it is good to start in a group of people but if you want to do it alone at home, then just know... there are no right or wrong, just find out how. And... it's absolutely normal if you lose the focus and start thinking what you should buy next day. Just make sure you get aware of that and then go back to what you wanna do- meditate.
First- how you sit, or lay is up to you, no matter what they say... you should feel comfortable and this must be because you need to stay it that way a couple of minutes. But to be true, when you start with laying down, there is a high risk of sleeping at the end... But-again- if you lay down, then you should find a good CD where they lead you the way, so you can calm follow and rest.
Otherwise, sitting on the ground or the chair you can start with watching yourself breathing- be aware how the air comes in and goes out. An easier way is to chant. The most popular is the "Om" which just means in easy words- you are ready. The sound of mantras has a deep frequency and it will help you much to calm down and also ease pain. To start with the "Om" is the most easiest way, then later if you are used to, then you can take mantras with more words and just look on youtube or in special stores and you'll find them and also the meanings of those or look on this side:
" http://www.beyondsinging.com/de/interact/sing-along.html++/devotion/13/ "
This is a project Tina Turner is a part of and there you're on the right side.
But as I did try a lot of different meditations I can recommend another one at least for the end of each meditation setting. The "Smile- Meditation". To be true in the beginning I was thinking that this is stupid, is just something people came up to make money or to make a laugh stocking out of you. But like Julia Roberts in the film "Eat, Pray, Love", I started to smile next to each day after my meditation. To smile with my face, then with my mind, then heart and bladder, then with my lever and so on... It turns out that one day it was not only easy to do so in meditation, it also is now very easy in my everyday live, just to smile out of no reason. It's relaxing, feels good and no matter what people think- they surely mostly thinking nothing at all or just wonder why I seem to be happy. But all I actually do is relaxing my muscles and making my body bringing out and producing all the good things which your body needs to stay healthy. I mean we all know that smiling needs the most less muscles to get done. Easy, but we forgot and learned to use muscles to look unhappy without being aware that we can have it another way. So maybe you give it a try and smile and maybe one day you too just do.
with a big smile to you....
LOVE & LIGHT
Do you remember the world Aids Day or has it already gone by and you forgot about it... and all the things around it...? Or do you have the feeling of having the need of getting to know more about it... What about movies, who show you some ways of living with HIV and Aids...?
Do you heard about the book and also the film "and the band played on"...?
It's the story of the beginning of all and how people use to act in 1980 and the years after and why it took such a long time to start finally the fight against this disease....
Another movie which is about the myth of patient Zero... You know a long time there was the story of a man who was the one who brought the virus to the states .... Well the movie, is kind of musical, part happy, sometimes, crazy but it won't let you go away easy at the end, because you will also get angry seeing some things which happened... but you have to laugh sometimes too... I mean singing butts...!
Another movie is about a dancer and how he learns to fight back and find love and life again.... The movie is a mix of just a movie of love, but also a movie of awareness and togetherness... Watch it if you can... It will give you hope, after all the drama you can get through sometimes...
Now I can recommend a movie, which is actually not one, it's a two part story.. based on an theater play and kind of fantasy and real story... The actors are part very famous, but all actors play very well and the storyline is really good and the rest as well and you get really an Idea from the time when all big lies starts and the fight and how the gays and the families acted and you also get an idea how to survive, but also which prize you pay... These 6 hours will make you think about what you have, but also leave you with a feeling of your own part of live... and by the way, the film has some scene that are more then worth watching... you really will like them...
The next movie will show you that you can really make a comedy of such things like HIV and Aids... Captain Picard will lead you the way and mother Theresa is helping too... Fun Fun Fun is what you get, although it is much about what do we want and how to deal with it.... but then again... let's have fun with Yoko One!
But there are also to tell stories from other countries then the USA. France even has a very good Film series to show you, how heterosexual have to deal with it, how it was when you got infected blood and how people around you work or not ... well the series is very much worth seeing, because you get en idea of the time, the country, the lies, the way, the fight, the love and dead... Live isn't always fair but you have to go on... cos live does... watch it, but take your time... Viva la France... "What love means"
The last movie I'm gonna recommend to you is a love story.. a gay falls in love with a heterosexual and somehow their ways cross again and again and what are you capable to do, when you love someone.. and if this one is going to die.... will you let yourself into this? This movie is in my eyes very much worth watching for everyone, cos it shows you to ask yourself... what if you fall in love with someone who is ill, has a disease, will die in the next time... will you risk it? I really love this movie... and I hope it will make you stronger, when it is about love... no matter what... "The man of my heart"
LOVE & LIGHT
