20191105 SAVERS for TUESDAY

SILENCE

Tried to silence my brain for 60 seconds.

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.
9. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.

Said aloud for 60 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

175 by 1/31/20

EXERCISE

Did my full 1+ routine on a squats Tuesday for 11/05/2019:

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

Push-ups are the only 1+ exercise I'm doing now.  Tomorrow (11/6) I'll do 2 sets of 15..... and that will continue until 11/16, when I'll begin adding one each day, through to 35 on 12/5.

READING, WRITING

Read for 60 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says that romanticism - however it came about and took hold - caused the ancient peoples to build pyramids (eg. Egypt), and today, we build houses in suburbia, or an apartment in a highrise......  He also claims that few (thinking) people today doubt that the desire to build pyramids (then and now) come from the myths we believe(d).

It may be so.  Harari writes as one having authority to know how we evolved.  I suppose it's justified, but some of it does not ring 100% true to me.  Perhaps I am so steeped in myths that I can't extricate my thinking from them.  But also perhaps..... he could be too presumptive in his ideas.  It could be, for example, that there is an "Evolver" (an advanced being who set things in motion in some other time.... and it could be that because of the Evolver's work, we have the idea that building pyramids is what we are meant to do, or supposed to do.  Perhaps in doing so, we're learning important things.

So, Harari, I will continue reading, but I haven't, and won't necessarily agree with you.

In the section titled "The Prison Walls" (p. 126), Harari lists 3 factors that prevent people from realizing that the order organizing their lives exists only in their imagination:

a.  The imagined order is embedded in the material world

b.  The imagined order shapes our desires

c.  The imagined order is inter-subjective

(Just want to keep clear on the "imagined order" of Harari's writing.)

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David just texted; he's going to text or call today sometime.  Meanwhile, I am proceeding with my daily routine, because with or without David's money call today, I am a 69 year old human who needs to be in better shape for my "old age."

Earlier this morning I thought about writing, and how it could be one of those things that GG was talking about - something that you try and then assimilate into your life.

But I imagined what I'd write about, and nothing came to mind.  So I thought about making a list of things I could write about, and see if that might spark some interest.

In doing this, I'm feeling alone and without real direction (advice, etc.).  It's been that way most of my life, and likely due to my own obstinance - not wanting others to lead me astray, or living my life for me, or taking credit for getting me started, etc.  It's a shame I didn't swallow my pride back then, somewhere (ANYwhere) on my path.

Oh well, I've done some good things, although nothing unique, IMO.

Maybe I'll write about Dr. Pruitt, maybe not.  Even if I don't create a "masterpiece," perhaps the experience of writing it would do me good.  I'll think about it.