20220404 SLLLAVERS FOR MONDAY - STILL NO D-DAY - PFFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTT!!!!

SILENCE

Woke up post-strange dream, had left phone podcast all night on, slowly woke up, listening to Atheist podcast, fell back asleep, woke again at 8am, tried to silence brain for 70 seconds - only counted by 6s to 60.

LLL

Laugh.  Love.  Live.

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

194.8  Yesterday's weight

194.6  Today's weight

-0.2

I visualize weighing less tomorrow.

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. 193 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 beef/broccoli, w/chips 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 3rd, and I now weigh (199.0 - 4.4 194.6

EXERCISE

Did my full base-72 routine for Monday, April 4, 2022:

1. ankle/wrist circles 72
2. toen/finger strertches 72
3. bicycle crunches 72
4. shoulder rolls 72
5. inversion table 1 1.5 min set
6. ball/wall 12
7. angel/wall 12
8. counter stretch 12
9. flamingo R32, L30
10. squats 36
11. push-ups 36
12. EPLEY MANEUVER 1Ram

READ, WRITE

Read for 70 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He summarizes the 3 "sects" of humanism: 1)Liberal, 2) Socialist, and 3) Evolutionary.  I can remember their relative identities by thinking of 1)  My inner being, 2)  My community being, and 3)  My cosmic being.

Read for 70 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He remembers back in the 2000s when he was faced with tight budgets, mounting credit card debt, and attractive refi offers.... and he bit.  He began using his condo as an ATM.

Read for 70 seconds in WORKING WITH ONENESS by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.  He says one of the basic Sufi principles is "Outwardly to be with the people, inwardly to be with God."

He continues the explanation of the dream of the woman in the room aside, where she is crackling with gold/orange light and energy, and from where she allows her energy to spill out into the darker room.  Those who are partaking of the feast (i.e., the attractive but corrupt food) are faced with the choice of food or energy.  I think Vaughan-Lee is saying that they will all eventually turn to the light, thus ushering in this Dawn of a new age.

MY NOTE:  MY DREAM Last night I dreamed:  I was on a bed in some sort of hotel room where I was still lying under the covers.  A woman came in without my invitation and began to tell me about how things were and how they would be changing.  I resisted and tried to interrupt her, but she kept talking, in a calm voice, unchanging and direct, telling me that things were, and will be different from here on out.  Still, I tried to resist.  I complained that I had to use the bathroom, but she kept talking, telling me new things, but with the same message:  I can no longer expect for things to be the same.  I somehow made it to the bathroom and tried to urinate, but it would not happen.  Still, she kept talking.  She was not immodest, but she was present with me at the toilet.  I tried to shut the door to keep her away, but my hands would not cooperate:  they passed right through the door jamb, and I was helpless.

My thoughts, post-dream:  I recalled that I had tried to be an architect in my 20s, but was not able to continue due to my inability, or perhaps my unwillingness, at the time, to assimilate the culture of modern-day architecture.  So, perhaps this was an example of how I could not then, nor now control the solid doors of my world.... It is perhaps a lesson learned at this late time, that I must stop assuming things are/were the same, and be ready for unexpected changes in all of my world..... physical AND mental.

But who knows what dreams may signify?

Read for 70 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He says that during his undergrad years, he had a hard time continuing because his field (MORAL PSYCHOLOGY) seemed so dry, but he continued by reading.  A prof had him read several ethnographies which lit a spark in him to explore where tribes, witches and other societies obtained their moral directions.  He is about to explain.

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

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