20190523 SAVERS for THURSDAY

SILENCE

Tried to silence brain; not an easy thing for me to do.

AFFIRMATIONS

1. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving, professional and knowledgeable philanthropic foundation administrator.
2. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving, professional and knowledgeable philanthropic foundation administrator.
3. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving, professional and knowledgeable philanthropic foundation administrator.
4. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving, professional and knowledgeable philanthropic foundation administrator.

Also said aloud for 60 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

I AM A SAFE AND COURTEOUS DRIVER.

EXERCISE

Did my 1+ routine for the month; full routine based on 70)

1. ankle/wrist circles 70
2. toe/finger stretches 70
3. bicycle crunches 70
4. shoulder rolls 70
5. inversion table 3 70-second sets
6. squats 70

READING, WRITING

Read 60 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says that the establishment of permanent villages during the early years of the Agricultural Revolution did 2 negative things:  increase in population, and increase in disease.  The people, over hundreds/thousands of years, did not realize that they were leaving behind a better life.  But, "too late!" - the trap had snapped shut, he says.

As for me, a casual observer of humankind today, and considering what Harari has written, and can't help but think that, 

     IF the human AR brain "back then" was capable of figuring out how to plough, plant, harvest, and feed the growing numbers of village people, 

     THEN at least some of them could also figure out ways to minimize the disease, keep the grain secure, limit the population, and ______________ (I've forgotten the 4th thing I was just thinking about - dementia?).

I'm not saying they did that; if they tried, they did a poor job.  They were not yet thinking globally, but they might have been thinking regionally.

Again, who knows?