20220414 SLLLAVERS FOR THURSDAY - Not expecting D-DAY today, but qui sait? For now, PPPPPFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!

SILENCE

Tried silencing brain for 70 seconds thru counting numbers; mild success.

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

194.6  Yesterday's weight

193.4 Today's weight

-1.2

(This was more than I expected.  So  YAY!!!!)

I visualize weighing less tomorrow.

Reasons I'm AGAIN motivated are

1. David's D-Day will likely happen sometime between now and APRIL XX (who knows when - I certainly do not), 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. 

190 by April 22 (anniversary), and 

186 by April 30th.

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

1. Diet:  I had two meals yesterday: 1) my smoothie & coffee around 10-11am; and 2) my steamed frozen dinner w/leftover icecream (it's all gone now). around 4-5 pm.  
2. I did not eat anything between these meals.
3. I exercised (full routine - see below)
4. It's April 14th, and I weigh (199.0 - 5.6) 193.4

EXERCISE

Did my full base-72 routine for Thursday, April 14, 2022:

1. Ankle/wrist circles 72
2. Toe/finger stretches 72
3. bicycle crunches 72
4. shoulder rolls 72
5. inversion table 1 1.5 min set
6. EPLEY MANEUVER 1Ram
7. ball/wall 12
8. angel/wall 12
9. counter stretrch 12
10. flamingo R51, L35
11. squats 36
12. push-ups 36

READING, WRITING

Read for 70 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says that there is no "yardstick" by which to measure the history of human culture evolution, to perhaps see how it performed.  There is no proof that one victorious culture is somehow better than those they conquered (although the victor might very well think so).  In the same way that a virus lives in a living organism, so a meme lives within a culture.  Sometimes it emerges strong enough to overpower (and even kill) the weaker elements of that culture.

MY NOTE:  I like the lack of proof concept - it's similar to my own observed concept that "life is a series of one way streets."  We can't go back and measure anything without a bias toward one particular element (or many).

Read for 70 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He remembers how W Bush tried to stave off economic disaster with government loans, etc.  McCain said the economy was strong.  Many used the "too big to fail" argument, which was both true and not true.  Bush came up with TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program $700B) which became a campaign political element for 2007.

Read for 70 seconds in WORKING WITH ONENESS by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.  He says when we step outside of the collective, we learn more about who we are, and what mistakes we might make.  When we return to the collective, we do so as a more mature and wise individual, better prepared for life:  TAOISM.  He quotes a poem:

    Be content with what you have

    rejoice in the way things are.

    When you realize there is nothing lacking,

    the whole world belongs to you.

                    Tao Te Ching, 44

Read for 70 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He says his findings supported Shweder more than Turiel.  The higher the income/education level in all cultures, the less moral judgment about harmful AND unharmful acts.  He also found another surprising result - if he removed the people from the study who said "yes" to the question "do you think anyone was harmed by what ____ did?", he expected cultural differences to get smaller.  But they got BIGGER.  This shows that Shweder was right.

MY NOTE:  I doubt I'll remember all of these results & nuances Haidt found.  But it's a good exercise for me to clarify in my mind what he found and what he concluded - at least for one time.

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

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