20231120 SLLLAVERS FOR MONDAY - NOT D-DAY YET, BUT I, KEN TAYLOR, ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED!!!!!!!

SILENCE

Didn't try today.

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.

Also said aloud for 80 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 80 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

206.2  Today's weight

206.2  Yesterday's weight

-0-

I visualize weighing less tomorrow.

EXERCISE

I did my full base-80 routine for Monday, November 20, 2003:

1. ankle/wrist circles 80
2. toe/finger stretches 80
3. bicycle crunches 80
4. (MADE BED; PIANO LESSON)
5. shoulder rolls 80
6. flamingo L40, R40
7. ball/wall 15
8. angel/wall 15
9. counter stretch 15
10. squats 40
11. push-ups 14 floor + 26 wall (=40)

READING, WRITING

RUMI

Read 80 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says that in 1776, Adam Smith, in THE WEALTH OF NATIONS, justifies the rich becoming richer along with the poor becoming richer, by increasing the size of the pie.  I don't fully grasp this, but Harari says it's like Smith opened "heaven" for the rich; by increasing the wealth of a nation, it became OK for the rich to be greedy, and NOT at the expense of a poor person.

Read 80 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He recalls a December meeting in which a woman described the moment they were in at that time as President-elect Obama's "holy shit" moment.  There was, it was estimated, a 1 in 3 chance that the nation would experience a 2nd "Great Depression."

Read 80 seconds in WORKING WITH ONENESS by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.  He says that there is a new way of looking at living, and we, as aware elements, are midwives who will usher it in.  We only have to recognize that we are part of the greater oneness, and it will happen.

Read 80 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He says psychologists of the mid-20th Century argued about the basis for morality in the human brain:  Wilson predicted that we would eventually identify the brain functions for human morality, and it would not be based on reason, but on emotions.

I like the idea Green put forth in his "The Secret Joake of Kant's Soul":

  "We have strong feelings that tell us in clear and certain terms that some things simply cannot be done and that other things simply must be done."

Read 80 seconds in MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl.  He recalls how the prisoners exhibited the defense mechanism of using humor in the face of suffering, much like a gas would immediately fill a room evenly.  He recalls how joyous they were in his particular train car when they realized that they were not headed from Auschwitz to Maunthausen, but only to Dachau.  (They'd heard that Maunthausen was pure torture); when the train DIDN'T cross the Danube, meaning they were NOT going to Maunthausen, they began to dance with joy.

Read for FUN in THE COMFORT CRISIS by Michael Easter