20220430 SLLLAVERS FOR SATURDAY - I ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SILENCE

Tried to silence brain for 70 seconds; didn't really work:  only counted.

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.

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

187.8  Today's weight

188.4  Yesterday's weight

-0.6

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 approx 0.5 pounds every day, I should be down to approx. 

180 by May 15th.

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 veggies dinner + 1 slice dry toast + chips + 1 fig newton (covered with peanut butter) for dinner at around 3:30 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 30th, and I weigh (199.0 - 11.2) 187.8

EXERCISE

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 stretch 12
10. flamingo R30, L30
11. squats 36
12. push-ups 36

READING, WRITING

Read 70 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says Newton's laws were very helpful in predicting the movement of objects.  But mathematical formulae did not "cover" everything.  Life on earth proved to be more complex than what a formula might describe.  So, to meet the need, a new branch of mathematics was born:  statistics.  In 1744, Clergymen Webster & Wallace wanted to leave a small pension for their widows, so they began to predict when they would die.  This spread to every other group.  Using statistics, Sapiens began to predict the death ages of all people.

Read 70 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He remembers the campaign days during which he wondered if it was really worth it:  "It's not too late to throw it" they said.  And to this, one campaign volunteer (?) replied that the country had waited 230 years for a brother to come along and fix things.  In this mix, BO got a call from his sister Maya about his grandma Toot in Hawaii, who was near death.  BO went to visit her & say good bye.

Read 70 seconds in WORKING WITH ONENESS by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.  He says what we perceive in waking hours or in dreaming hours, is not what it might seem to be at a given moment.  He gave the example of a dreamer who was "left behind when the world was ending;"  he later realized that the world he perceived as ending was merely a week-long intensive sale at a department store.  He said the sales girls in the dream were servants of the goddess "MAYA"  - which was shocking to me when I read it.  I  had just read in Barack Obama's A PROMISED LAND above about BO's sister Maya.  Hmmmmmmmmmm.

Vaughan-Lee also says Sufis say that in life, nothing matters very much, and even that doesn't matter.  I get the sense of that idea, but I'm not sure I can let go and embrace it 100% right now.  I can do it incrementally.

Read 70 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He says some very complex things about psychology, morality & evolution.  I will re-read this passage tomorrow.  But today, I learned that Haidt became a prof at the University of VA, founded by Jefferson, where Jefferson was "diety."  I'm not sure if it's related, but Haidt adopted Jeffersonian principles during his 1st year at UVA.  He claims that "evolutionary biology" was born during that era.

But what this seems to be coming down to is:  how are people making decisions about morality?  what do they "use" to make these decisions?  and how do the brain and the emotions work to make these decisions?  and how does evolution apply?

Read 70 seconds in MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl.  He says the group he was in were loaded in cramped quarters on trains, not knowing where they were being taken.  But in the early light of dawn, one day, they saw a sign that made their blood run cold:  Auschwitz.  They knew it was where gas chambers & crematoria were located.  The train slowed, but did not stop at Auschwitz.

Listened 25 min to ULYSSES by James Joyce.