20220427 SLLLAVERS FOR WEDNESDAY - I ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SILENCE
Tried to silence brain for 70 seconds by counting; mild success.

(Maybe I think it's "success" simply because I don't recall the thoughts I was having; qui sait?)

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

189.8  Yesterday's weight

189.0  Today's weight

-0.8

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) steamed dumplings dinner + chips + 1 fig newton (covered with peanut butter) for dinner at around 4:00 pm
2. I did not eat anything between these meals (approx 18 hours fasting)
3. I exercised (full routine - see below)
4. It's April 27th, and I weigh (199.0 - 10.0) 189.0

EXERCISE

Did my full base 72 routine for Wednesday, April 27, 2022:

1. ankle/wrist circles 72
2. toe/finger stretches 72
3. bicycle crunches 72
4. shoulder rolls 72
5. inversion table 1 2-min set
6. EPLEY MANEUVER 1Ram
7. ball/wall 12
8. angel/wall 12
9. counter stretches 12
10. flamingo R30, L30
11. squats 36
12. push-ups 36

READING, WRITING

Read for 70 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says that the modern scientific approach has supplanted the earlier concepts of "absolute knowledge."  We now choose observations (emperical facts) when we are faced with a conflict between them and prior "absolute knowledge."

MY NOTE:  No wonder scientists at BYU are so conflicted.  I would have been, too, had I not examined Mormonism more closely and found that it is a fraud.  I was therefore forced to replace it, to choose how to live, and I chose science, as dimally inadequate as my understanding of it might be.

Read for 70 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He remembers meeting Joe the Plummer, who proved to be an obstacle for BO's campaign:  BO said to Joe, "Spread the wealth around."  Joe repeated it when he talked to McCain, and McCain pumped it full of fear:  he went all the way to saying that BO was trying to secretly steal money from all Americans.

MY NOTE:  Today (2022) Dems are in control, and we are tasked with how to STAY in control (in face of a possible return to Trumpism).  My thoughts are that Dems need to be "OFFENSIVELY TRANSPARENT" - not to hide ANYTHING.  And simultaneously tell the public that the GOP is full of lies and secrets (which is true).  This will save the DEMS, but it will also save AMERICA.

Read for 70 seconds in WORKING WITH ONENESS by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.  He says that we should step away from the polarity of "light" and "darkness," and remember that there is always a point of light in each episode of darkness.

I'm reminded of the COURSE IN MIRACLES which teaches that all is either love or fear.  A wise friend reminded me that, in the final analysis, LOVE is all there is.  Amen.

Read for 70 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He says that by the years immediately preceeding the 1990s, psychologists had generally dismissed Wilson's idea that human behavior had evolved, just as their bodies had.  But Haidt noted 2 names that had further things to say:

1. Frans de Waal (in Good Natured:  The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals) who studied the brain and found that apes and humans have almost the same building blocks for emotions:  fear, anger, sympathy, affection
2. Antonio Damasio (in Descartes' Error) who noticed patterns in patients who suffered brain damage, specifically in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (the aread just behind and above the bridge of the nose).  They exhibited no emotionality, although they functioned normally in other areas of life.

Read for 70 seconds in MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl.  He says his account of his time in the camp is necessarily biased; neither he (one who experienced it personally) nor the outsider (one who can hardly imagine it) can present a purely unbiased account.  But recognizing this, Frankl will attempt to present it in the best way he can, in order to achieve his ultimate goal of explaining how we can best search for, and find, meaning in our lives.

MY NOTE:  I am "plagued" in a way, by thoughts like this:  "When I lived in Vienna as a boy of 10, Frankl's ordeal in the camps had already taken place.  I had no concept of it at all."  I seem to be focused, at times, on what happened when, etc.  If an event took place in the late 1800s, I often will imagine how it might have (or not have) affected my Grandfather Borg, who was born in 1888.

Listened for 20+ minutes to ULYSSES by James Joyce.👌