20231126 SLLLAVERS FOR SUNDAY - NOT D-DAY YET, BUT I, KEN TAYLOR, ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED!!!!!!! (***3***)

SILENCE

Tried to silence my brain for 80 seconds; not much success today.

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.

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.

1. I, Ken Taylor, am a confident human being.
2. I, Ken Taylor, am a confident human being.
3. I, Ken Taylor, am a confident human being.
4. I, Ken Taylor, am a confident human being.
5. I, Ken Taylor, am a confident human being.

Also said aloud for 80 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

206.6 Today's weight

206.8 Yesterday's weight

-0.2

I visualize weighing less tomorrow.

I visualize weighing less tomorrow.

EXERCISE

Did my full base-80 routine for Sunday, November 26, 2023:

1. ankle/wrist circles 80
2. toe/finger stretches 80
3. bicycle crunches 80
4. (MADE BED; PIANO 30)
5. shoulder rolls 80
6. flamingo L40, R38+2
7. ball/wall 15
8. angel/wall 15
9. counter stretch 15
10. squats 40
11. push-ups 16 + 24 = 40

READING, WRITING

RUMI

Read for 80 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says that Columbus' voyages to the New World introduced the European economy to the cycle of capitalism, and specifically adding in CREDIT, in which entrepreneurs (like Isabella of Spain) took risks and reaped great rewards.  By comparison, the Asian merchants ran out of cash and had no bank to back them up, so they stopped the process.  Columbus et all (i.e., all of European merchants) began calculating their risk/reward potentials, and eventually began to share the risks (and later the rewards) among fellow merchants.  Not all were successful, but enough were to change the landscape (literally) of global economics.

Read for 80 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He recalls discussing the situation he and his team were facing with Axe (Axelrod), when they observed and agreed that "when things are bad, no one cares how they 'might have been a lot worse'."  They also agreed that if they acted in a way that scared the economy (fear of another Great Recession), it would likely add to the possibility of another Great Recession.  Axe also predicted that the Mid-Term Election would likely be disastrous for them.

Then BO remembers how, post- WWII, there was a strong spirit of bi-partisan cooperation in US politics, where both parties of Congress cooperated in getting legislation passed.  The GOP had generally accepted the New Deal changes (Social Security, etc.) and had moved on from there.

But.... then LBJ got the Civil Rights Act passed, and that had changed everything:  the "Southern Democrats" became staunchly conservative - and against equal rights.  That began the antagonism between parties that gradually grew into the deep chasm we have today.

Read for 80 seconds in WORKING WITH ONENESS by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.  He says the female body is the connection between heaven and earth.  Women have the dark secrets of this connection, but have been abused for so long that they are reluctant to bring it forth.  Some women have, but most have not.  So, the eventual oneness we all are ultimately seeking depends on women's willingness to participate.

Hmmmmm... so we men have long generally blamed women for our troubles, and now Vaughan-Lee is still doing that.  Or....... ?

Read for 80 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He says that Plato's brother, Glaucon, asked Socrates to provide proof (i.e. a logical argument) that JUSTICE leads to HAPPINESS.

NOTE:  I'm amazed that these people would be focused on these ideas; I thought that the people of this era would be focused much more on how they'd grind their wheat, etc.  But anyway......

Glaucon asks Socrates to imagine a man having the "Ring of Gyges" which would make him invisible.  He then could have anything and everything he wanted, living as a god among human beings.  Glaucon then posits that such a man would be same as another (visible) man who presents himself as just... but is secretly unjust.  Hmmmmmmm.........

Read for 80 seconds in MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl.  He remembers how the prisoners in the camp were herded like animals, until they lost (or came close to losing) their sense of identity as an individual human being.  They felt as if they were simply part of the greater whole of human prisoners who thought only about not dying, and about how to get some food, and nothing else.

NOTE:  reading this book is opening my eyes to the horrors and specifics of "life" in a Nazi concentration camp.  I'm shuddering mentally to think that Donald Trump wants to sent up some sort of camps for his adversaries.  I simply can't dwell on this possibility, it seems too horribly ..... well, there are no words that come to mind to describe this awful idea.  I'm also wondering if Viktor Frankl's life was essentially saved because he was a doctor.  He might think so, but there is no way to know.  Also, he was MORE than a doctor - he was an observer of the way human beings react when deprived of everything but the little food and rest needed to keep them from death.  I'm shuddering again.........

Read for fun in THE COMFORT CRISIS by Michael Easter.