20220422 SLLLAVERS FOR FRIDAY - I ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SILENCE

Tried to silence brain for 70 seconds; mild success w/focus on numbers.

LLL

Live.  Love.  Laugh.

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.

1. I, Ken Taylor, already have everything I need.
2. I, Ken Taylor, already have everything I need.
3. I, Ken Taylor, already have everything I need.
4. I, Ken Taylor, already have everything I need.
5. I, Ken Taylor, already have everything I need.
6. I, Ken Taylor, already have everything I need.
7. I, Ken Taylor, already have everything I need.
8. I, Ken Taylor, already have everything I need.
9. I, Ken Taylor, already have everything I need.
10. I, Ken Taylor, already have everything I need.

Also said aloud for 70 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

191.2  Today's weight

191.0  Yesterday's weight

+0.2

I visualize weighing less tomorrow.

Reasons I'm AGAIN motivated are

1. I already have everything I need.
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) frozen dinner + potato chips & salsa for dinner at around 3:30 pm, and then 1 small apple w/peanutbutter + 1 fig newton at around 6:30 pm.
2. I did not eat anything between these meals (approx 16 hours fasting)
3. I exercised (full routine - see below)
4. It's April 22nd, and I weigh (199.0 - 7.8) 191.2

EXERCISE

I did my full base-72 routine for Friday, April 22, 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 stretch 12
10. flamingo R28, L35
11. squats 36
12. push-ups 36

READING, WRITING

Read for 70 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says that the SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION (beginning in 1500 AD) evolved into today's "feedback loop":

• science needs more than just research to make progress
• it needs mutual reinforcement of science, politics and economics
• political and economic institutions provide resources vital to scientific research
• science provides new powers which obtain new resources
• new resources are in part reinvested into research

He further explains that Sapiens have long sought to understand what the rules are that govern the natural world.

But today's science differs in 3 critical ways:

1. The willingness to admit ignorance (from the Latin "ignoramus" meaning "we do not know."  And admiting that when we think we know something, we also admit that we could be wrong.)
2. The centrality of observation & mathematics  (gathering observations, using mathematical tools to write theories)
3. The aquisition of new powers (using new theories to acquire new powers, develop new technologies)

I agree with this, and I like how he lays it out.

Read for 70 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He remembers the way politics were back in the 2000s, when there were challenges & crises, but the 2 political groups (Ds & Rs) were more sure of how to conduct themselves, and what to do when those crises went south.

BO was new, and a bit naive & a little innocent, but he was (is) a quick study, and he seemed to know what to do at each step.  I really admire him quite a bit.

Read for 70 seconds in WORKING WITH ONENESS by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.  He says that JOY is the ultimate expression of life.  If we have not joy, we are not really living.  It's spontaneous and too rare.

I will re-read this passage tomorrow.  I have an initial understanding of the concept of JOY as Vaughan-Lee presents it.  But I want to understand it better, and I think I agree with it quite a bit.

Read for 70 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He says Plato, Hume and Jefferson all came to their understandings of human mind without the greatest too ever devised to understand the design of living things:  EVOLUTION.  When it came to morality, Darwin was a NATIVIST:  he believed that natural selection gives us minds "preloaded" with moral emotions.

I had no idea that Darwin addressed morality, although I did know that the "survival of the fittest" was part of his observations.  Being a "nativist" is not exactly a virtue in today's thinking

Two waves of moralism altered 20th C social sciences:  1)  the horror at Social Darwinism - i.e., the richest, most successful races/nations/people are the fittest (and therefore they survive) (a la Hitler's Nazis), and 2) the radical politics that washed over Academia in Eurpoe, NA, SA in the 60s and 70s.

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

Listened for 1+ pages in ULYSSES by James Joyce.

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