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SILENCE

After a mostly restless night (due to Cubby sleeping and thrashing next to me for most of the night), I was VERY groggy.  But he rolled over and said "I love you Papa."  So that melted all my anguish, and I decided to at least try to do my full routine here in Alpine, chez Joe & Chrissy:

Tried to silence my brain for 70 seconds; mostly counted.

LLL - BHL

Live.  Laugh.  Love.

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, alrdedy 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

195.6  Today's weight (Joe's scale in Alpine)

194.4  Yesterday's weight (Winnetka)

+1.2

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. 

191.6 by June 13th.  (note:  yesterday, June 3, I weighed 194.4)

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    TRAVEL DAY - NO DIETARY RESTRICTIONS.  BUT 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 5th, and I weigh (199.0 (on 0328) - 3.4) 195.6

EXERCISE

Did my full base-72 routine here in ALPINE, UT:

1. ankle/wrist circles 72
2. toe/finger stretches 72
3. bicycle crunchdes 72
4. shoulder rolls 72
5. modified inversion table back stretch 1 2=min set
6. modified EPLEY MANEUVER 1Ram
7. flamingo R30, L30
8. ball/wall 15
9. angel/wall 15
10. counter stretches 15
11. squats 36
12. push-ups 36

NOTICED:  breathing more difficult due to higher altitude.

READING, WRITING

Read for 1+ pages in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says the oldest myth known is THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH.  In it, King Gilgamesh, the strongest man, loses his best friend to death, so he embarks on a journey to the Underworld, where he fails to find the way to be immortal.  So he returns to his life as mortal as he ever was.

Christianity, etc.  all base their creeds on mortality, and what we must do to be "saved" in the next life.  Harari says we can't imagine the religious beliefs of today without the promise/threat of an afterlife.

Read for 1+ pages in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He recalls details about the decision he would make about who he'd be appointing to Secretary of the Treasury:  Larry Summers (slovenly) or Tim Geithner (elfin).  He noted that Tim Geithner, having lived abroad during his youth, had developed a "reserve" he saw in himself as well.

MY NOTE:  I'm amazed at the attention to detail regarding both skill and personality, that BO brought to his decision making process.  And, I note with some pleasure the observation that BO made about himself and TIm Geigthner that they had a quality of "reserve."  I dare say I have that same quality.

Read for 1+ pages in WORKING WITH ONENESS by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.  He says many confusing things, but perhaps the core of his message lies in his statement,

    For the Sufi, His greatest name, Allah, can help allign all of creation with His divine unity, both His immanent and His transcendent nature.

MY NOTE:  "immanence" (a word I've heard, but never internalized specifically) is defined as "the state or quality of a Diety exclusively existing within the Universe, time, etc."

immanence (compared with) transcendence (defined as "the quality or state of being.")

These, when examined closely, are BRAND NEW CONCEPTS for me.  I saw a statement involving both immanence and transcendence:

"A horizontal axis stretches from God's IMMANENCE in the world, on the left, to TRANSCENDENCE of it, on the right."  (this is a concept within Theology)

Read for 1+ pages in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He explains the rider-elephant analogy in detail.  Since this is key to Haidt's philosophy, I will study it in greater detail later (tomorrow, I hope).  But for now, I just am aware that reasoning, emotion, passion are all elements in moral development among human beings.

Read for 1+ pages in MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl.  He says when death came to moribund prisoners, the others would take whatever items they wanted/needed off the corpse without showing any emotion.  Later, they'd have to remove the corpse, and they did so with almost no emotion, and without any energy.  (OMG!)

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