20181118 SAVERS for SUNDAY LULU'S BIRTHDAY

Lisa's 36 today!!!  Amazing!!!

SILENCE

Tried to silence my brain for 60 seconds.

AFFIRMATIONS

1. I, Ken Taylor, continue losing weight through daily exercise and eating healthy food.
2. I, Ken Taylor, continue losing weight through daily exercise and eating healthy food.
3. I, Ken Taylor, continue losing weight through daily exercise and eating healthy food.
4. I, Ken Taylor, continue losing weight through daily exercise and eating healthy food.

Also, said aloud for 60 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

175 by 12/10

EXERCISE

Did my full SUNDAY 30 day routine:

1. ankle/wrist circles 60
2. toe/finger stretches 60 + 10
3. bicycle crunches 60
4. shoulder rolls 60
5. squats 30
6. push-ups 30

Feeling good about incremental improvements in body health through exercise.

READING, WRITING

Read 60 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says there are 3 ways in which (and 3 reasons for which) humans could have caused the extinction of the huge mammals in Australia:

1.  2-legged beings had been hunting large beasts in Afro-Asia for 450K years, so they knew how to subdue larger dumber beasts.

2.  Australian beasts (notably the Diprotodon which was the largest mammal to ever roam the planet) had never seen a 2-legged animal such as a human; to it, the human likely looked nonthreatening, and so it was taken by surprise when the human attacked & killed it.

3.  (to come)

Harari's tone is critical of humans who are, in fact responsible for killing off species.  It's easy to place the blame on humans for that, and for thousands of other injustices.  But still, I'm sensing that he's taken this tone too easily.  He hasn't looked at the WHY of this evolutionary murder of species.  Not that it would be justified.  But let's at least acknowledge that, for example, the diprotodon could have simply been done on the planet.  Perhaps in some cosmic sense, it was "done."

We need to be careful not to ascribe the thoughts & feelings of today's environmental (including megafauna) protectionism to large megafauna beasts in Australia 45K years ago.

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Re my weight loss.... I'm not so sure I like my body this thin.  Maybe I'm just not used to it yet.