20190629 SAVERS for SATURDAY

(I caught up for Friday first)

SILENCE

I lay in bed, knowing that I did not have to hurry, and I tried more than usual to silence my brain for 60 seconds.  But it still seems impossible.

AFFIRMATIONS

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.

Also said aloud for 60 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

I AM A SAFE AND COURTEOUS DRIVER.

EXERCISE

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

Re-read and researched the previous 60 second reading of SAPIENS:

1.  Anatolia is modern day Turkey; it is where the first "city" of record was located, a place called Catalhoyyuk (?) which is estimated to have been home to 5,000 to 10,000 people.

2.  The Fertile Crescent.  I thought that this referred to a "crescent" in Persia, over the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.  I also recalled that it included Egypt.  So it's a lot larger than I had thought.  It goes from Egypt up and over and down to the Persian Gulf.  It has to "get around" the Saudi Arabian Desert, I guess; hence it's called a "crescent."

3.  Cities "popped up" in the Fertile Crescent, but also in Italy, and in China.

I then read for 60 more seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says that by 200 BC, the Roman Empire had grown to millions of "subjects" and it was not all just to become farmers; it was to gain oppressive influence over the masses, through taxation.

Harari introduced the idea that mythology motivated many back then, but does not seem to address it much; he's more interested in stating how the elite oppressed the peasants by taxing them, enslaving them, and exploiting them to build the cities, pyramids, areenas, etc.

Enough writing for today.