20220602 SLLLAVERS FOR THURSDAY - D-DAY TODAY?? PPPPFFFFFFTTTTTT!!!!!! I ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SILENCE

Tried to silence my brain for 70 seconds; lazy, so didn't do it completely;  but I TRIED, didn't I?

LLL - BHL

Live.  Love.  Laugh

Bless.  Heal.  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

195.0  Today's weight

195.4  Yesterday's weight

-0.4

I visualize weighing less tomorrow.

Reasons I'm AGAIN motivated are

1. I already have everything I need.
2. The death of Michael Harrington tells me my health is paramount for working with David - SOON!
3. I feel better overall when I'm doing my exercises regularly
4. I'm preping for a 1-day drive through to Utah.

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

194.0 by June 3rd.

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

1. Diet:  I had XXXXX meals yesterday: 1) my smoothie & coffee around 10-11am; and 2) frozen dinner + 2 slice buttered & jam toast + chips + X fig newton (covered with peanut butter & or jam) + pickle & cheese sandwich for dinner at around ALL DAY pm  UGHHH
2. I did not eat anything between these meals (approx 10-12 hours fasting)
3. I exercised (full routine - see below)
4. It's June 2nd, and I weigh (199.0 (on 0328) - 4.0) 195.0

EXERCISE

1. ankle/wrist circles 72
2. toe/finger stretches 72
3. bicycle crunches 72
4. shoulder rolls 72
5. flamingo R35, L35
6. inversion table 1 2-min set
7. EPLEY MANEUVER 1Ram
8. ball/wall 15
9. angel wall 15
10. counter stretches 15
11. squats 36
12. push-ups 36 (+3)

READING, WRITING

Read for 1+ pages in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says that after the "Golden Age" of innovation, Sapiens settled into the idea that there was nothing more science could do that it hadn't already done, coupled with the idea that "if Jesus, Mohammed, etc. couldn't stop wars, illness, age, etc., who were we to think we could do so??

In more recent scientific times, Sapiens began to admit that we don't know everything, and that we could be wrong about some things.  Harari gives as the most significant example Benjamin Franklin, who tested the theory that lightning was simply electricity, and not a "hammer of the god," (or whatever people thought).  Franklin disarmed the gods.

MY NOTE:  LDS leaders continue to believe that God is in charge, and that he is allowing science to develop new technology, for the purpose of preaching the gospel of Jesus.  I have no way of knowing if that is really true.  But it seems more and more unlikely.

Read for 1+ pages in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He remembers that the process of selecting his team members necessarily reflected the truth about what was going on in DC.  IOW, each appointee brought his/her baggage (e.g., Immanuel), and in announcing who they were, BO was left with facing the truth/reality of what he stood fore.  His campaign worked because voters were hungry for the change he promised.  And not all of his team wanted the same changes he did.

Read for 1+ pages in WORKING WITH ONENESS by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.  He says when Puritans labled the Maypole as "immoral, superstitious" we closed the door on magic.  But now, those doors are re-opening to let us experience magic again - God is the source, he says.  We will again be treated with unexpected pleasures & treasures.

Read for 1+ pages in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He says he eventually became aware that emotion & cognition are not exclusive, rather, there are cognitions IN emotion.  He says emotions IS a cognition, complete with stages, etc.  E.g., hearing footsteps behind you on a dark street produces a series of "fight-or-flight" actions.  They're all emotion, and they're also all cognition.

Read for 1+ pages in MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl.  He says the camp experience taught him about the emotional responses of a "normal" human being, faced by abnormal circumstances.  His response must necessarily be abnormal, and that is accepted as "normal."

I'll be very glad when I get through the 1st part of this book, when I no long have to imagine the degredation of life in an Auschwitz Nazi camp.

Listened for 20 min to ULYSSES by James Joyce. 👌