20231114 SLLLAVERS FOR TUESDAY - NOT D-DAY, BUT I, KEN TAYLOR, ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED!!!!!!!

SILENCE

Tried; mild success.

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.

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.

Also said aloud for 70 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

205.0  Today's weight

203.X  Yesterday's weight

+2.X

I visualize weighing less tomorrow.

EXERCISE

Did my full base-80 routine for Tuesday, November 14, 2023:

1. ankle/wrist circles 80
2. toe/finger stretches 80
3. bicycle crunches 80
4. (MADE BED, PIANO)
5. shoulder rolls 80
6. flamingo R40, L40
7. ball/wall 15
8. angel/wall 15
9. counter stretch 15
10. squats 40
11. push-ups 11 (floor) + 29 (wall)

READING, WRITING

RUMI

Read for 80 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He discusses how our modern economy came to be as it is.  In long distant past times, money was merely a means for trade.  But as the banking industry developed, bankers became the means by which entrepreneurs began & lived out their dreams.  The cycle of borrowing, interest, repaying.... etc.... resulted in banks holding depositors' cash, but lending it out to entrepreneurs, TRUSTING that their business would be successful.  After a period of time, the successful business would repay the loan, with interest, and the depositors at the bank would be safe.

US Banking laws allow this "cycle" to occur a maximum of 7 times, and banks are allowed to loan $10 for every $1 they possess.  AMAZING!

Read for 80 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He recalls a bill he signed - the Lilly Ledbetter Act - which guaranteed women equal pay for equal work.  Republicans tried to stop it; Democrats pushed it forward.

My comment:  GOOD GRIEF!!

Read for 80 seconds in WORKING WITH ONENESS by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.  He says living should be INSIDE life, not OUTSIDE it.  Then we can see, and appreciate the patterns of living that give it true meaning.

My comment:  This discussion is quite repetitive, and yet I still do not grasp the entirety of it.

Read for 80 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He says experiments with fMRI (Greene) show that areas of the brain become highly active when the person is faced with a moral dilemma (trolley exercise where you must push (and kill) one person to save 5 other people, or throw a switch that will do the same).  The study was first published in 2001, and since then, there have been many fMRI studies that evaluate the brain's moral judgment areas in a myriad of life situations.

Read for 80 seconds in MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl.  He recalls talking to his fellow prisoners about how art and humor are means of self preservation - or CAN be.  His friend, a former surgeon, and he discussed how they will live once they're released and would go back to their former lives.

Read for fun in THE COMFORT CRISIS by Michael Easter.