20220401 SLLLAVERS FOR FRIDAY - NO SIGN OF A REAL D-DAY - YET............... Meanwhile, PPPPPFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!

SILENCE

Tried to NUMB-ER (lol) my brain for 70 seconds.  All I got was numbers.

Strange dream, again.  This time, my frustration was in being in a "fender bender" with a bus that backed up, into my car.  There was minor damage, and strangely, it was damage to the BUS.  In my dream, I never even looked at my car to see what damage there was.  I immediately began photographing the damage to the bus, but I couldn't make my camera work.  The camera switched back and forth between my old Canon camera, and my iPhone camera.  The bus driver came out and had not realized he had hit me.  He kept half laughing/half smiling.  Someone from the bus group asked to help me fix my camera, and in the process, he began taking it apart.  All the parts were strewn over a table, and he finally gave up.  I asked him his name, and he laughingly gave me the name of "Christopher Fish."  (Now I can't remember if it WAS actually "Fish" - but I do recall it was an unlikely last name, with 4 letters, and having a usual meaning of some common every-day object.------- as I continued typing below, I remembered the name he gave me:  Christopher SKIN - not Fish.)  Someone else who seemed to know how to reassemble cameras came to my rescue, but he never really got it to work.

I grieved, as I usually do in these dreams, that I'd never get it back together, and I couldn't call anyone for help, and I didn't have any proof of the accident.  Eventually I began to wake up, and (again) slowly came to the realization that this was only a dream.

LLL

Live.  Laugh.  Love.

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

Also said aloud for 70 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

196.2  Yesterday's weight

195.4  Today's weight 

-0.8

I visualize weighing less tomorrow.

NOTE:  Monday (0328), I wrote:

I visualize weighing less tomorrow, through:

1. Eating only 2 meals every day:  1) Smoothie at 10am-11am, and 2) Dinner at 4pm-5pm.
2. NOT eating anything between meals.
3. Exercising every day

Reasons I'm AGAIN motivated are

1. David's D-Day will likely happen sometime between now and APRIL 11, and I want to be in as good of physical (and therefore mental) shape as I can be.
2. George tells me that if a person can stand on one foot for X seconds/minutes, then s/he will likely live longer.
3. I feel better overall when I'm doing my exercises regularly

So, if I lose a pound every 1-2 days, I should be down to approx. 192 by April 4th.

Here's how I've done during the last 24 hours:

1. Yesterday, I had only 2 meals:  1) smoothie & coffee at 10-11am, and 2) Steamed veggies dinner at 4pm
2. I had NOTHING between these meals.
3. I exercised yesterday morning, and I exercised this morning (see below)
4. It's April 1st, and I now weigh (199.0 - 3.6) 195.4

EXERCISE

1. ankle/wrist circles 72
2. toe/finger stretches 72
3. bicycle crunches 72
4. shoulder rolls 72
5. inversion table 1 1-min set
6. EPLEY MANEUVER 1Ram
7. ball/wall 12
8. angel/wall 12
9. counter stretch 12
10. flamingo R 29, L 29
11. squats 36
12. push-ups 36

READING, WRITING

Read 70 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says that the "Nazi sect" of 3) EVOLUTIONARY HUMANISTS went further than discarding God and monotheism; they developed the idea that there could be a "superhuman" race (they chose Aryan), and that the other groups (Jews, Blacks, homosexuals, and earlier, in kind, Neanderthals) should not be allowed to intermix with the Aryan race; in fact, they sought to exterminate all others.

MY NOTE:  What a blight on the evolution of Homo Sapiens!  Hitler tried it in WWII, and now Putin is trying it again (Ukranian war).  

Read 70 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He recalls the devastation of McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate.  She (and BO) sympolized the new age of politics when the 
"old guard" (i.e., white male polititians in DC) was breaking down.  She helped McCain's campaign get more attention & better ratings in the polls.  Her message also stung:  She complained that BO was catering to the middle class while talking to them, but then behind their backs, he sought to take away their guns.  In contrast, Palin was "one of the American 'guys'."

Read 70 seconds in WORKING WITH ONENESS by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.  He says that in our efforts to become "pure" or "one with God" or "enlightened" or "perfect," we ignore a vital aspect of our being, our journey...... and that is DARKNESS.  We must lovingly accept as part of US,

• darkness creativity
• corruption magic
• hopelessness freedom
• disorientation joy
• nowhere wonder (erotic)

And we do this because God needs us there.  The spiritual evolution of today must include ALL aspects of being, light AND darkness.

Read 70 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He says that Kohlberg's work arrived just in time for boomer grad students to adopt his "ode to justice" - he gave them the tools to measure the progress of kids toward handling moral dilemmas and justifications.  (1970s - 1990s).

By using a framework that predefined "morality" as "justice," and initially by avoiding political considerations, Kohlberg's work inevitably led to becoming identified with egalitarian, questioning, and secular world views.

MY NOTE:  Haidt packs a lot into each sentence, and if I disect each one, I learn a lot.  I'm also reminded of 2 other things:

1)  I hardly even scratched the surface of the fields of psychology and sociology during my high school and early college years; my purpose was to simply graduate, and I mostly did the minimum to get to that goal.  2)  Now, I am rewriting what I read in my own words.  WAY back in early High School, when I did research for a paper, I read the Encyclopedia Brittanica (which my father kept in our household, hoping we would read it and use it), and I rewrote each sentence by selecting synonyms and reconstructing my own replacement sentences.  This, I thought and hoped, would be impressive to my teachers.  But I also recall sitting in a Jr. High class (Austria) when the teacher complained that we were not really doing research, if all we did was to re-write encyclopedic paragraphs.  He wanted us to think about the ideas and formulate our own opinions about the subject.  I suppose I tried to do that from then on, but I don't think I made any significant progress.  Now, I AM doing so, by adding MY NOTES to some of what I read & write.

Read 1+ pages in AN AMERICAN FAMILY by Jon and Michael Galluccio.👌

Read 1+ pages in THE PERSIAN BOY by Mary Renault.👌