20181211 SAVERS for TUESDAY, 1st DAY OF NEW VISUALIZATION & GOAL

SILENCE

Tried to silence brain for 60 seconds.  Not easily done.

AFFIRMATIONS

Today I begin a new (for now) affirmation.

1. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
2. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
3. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
4. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
5. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
6. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
7. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
8. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
9. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.

Also, said aloud for 60 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

I am concerned about possibly becoming a crotchety old man.  To avoid that, I now visualize the following while driving in traffic, and while communicating with others:

If I am tempted to flip some driver off, I will change the signal to a THUMB UP, no matter what the reason is.

So my visualization is:

THUMB UP!

Visualized THUMB UP for 60 seconds.

EXERCISE

Did my full 30 day routine for Tuesday:

1. ankle/wrist circles 60
2. toe/finger stretches 60 + 10
3. bicycle crunches 60
4. shoulder rolls 60
5. inversion table 3 1-min sets
6. squats 60

READING, WRITING

Read 60 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says that history scholars once believed that agriculture sprang up in one part of the world and spread throughout.  But no.... evidence shows that agriculture developed independently in each major area and spread locally.  The actual crops grown and animals domesticated were different in each area.  People grew tired of randomly finding good things to eat, so they began cultivating crops (e.g., earlier, they found gourds under the brush; later, they began planting pumpkins)

By 999 AD, the whole planet was agricultural.

All of the above seems quite reasonable to me.

Since the "Agricultural Revolution" took place independently but relatively simultaneously, it makes me wonder if there wasn't an overall evolutionary path that Earth beings were following during the transition from "hunter/gatherers" to "agriculturalists."

The Levant:  Geographic and cultural region consisting of eathern Mediterranean between Anatolia and Egypt.  The historical region of Syria.  The definitions I read do not mention Cyprus, but they do include parts of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Egypt.