20231220 SLLLAVERS FOR WEDNESDAY - NOT D-DAY, AND I, KEN TAYLOR, ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED!!!!!!!

SILENCE

Mild attempt to silence brain for 80 seconds; not much success.

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.

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

201.8  Today's weight

201.4   Yesterday's weight

+0.4

I visualize weighing less tomorrow.

EXERCISE

Did my full base-80 routine for Wednesday, December 20, 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 L25+15, R40
7. ball/wall 15
8. angel/wall 15
9. counter stretch 15
10. squats 40
11. push-ups 35 (floor) + 5 (wall) = 40

READING, WRITING

RUMI

Read for 80 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says the Industrial Revolution is heavily dependent on electricity, which we use all the time, but hardly know how it works.  Harari wonders how people/governments can be so concerned with "running out" of energy, when there is ample both on the earth and in the sun.  Other forms we consider today beyond hydroelectricity & solar:  nuclear, gravitational, wind.

Read for 80 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He recalls how the political landscape post his election began with good feelings & camaraderie, but quickly hardened into a GOP v DEM battleground with clearly defined limits.  Example was Charlie Crist of Florida.  BO hugged/shook hands with him, and the GOP had a field day killing Crist politically:  he lost his next election, switched parties and lost again.  BO's comment is obvious today:  we're still dealing with the enormous gulf between Left and Right in the USA.

Read for 80 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He says, as he begins part II of the book, that the "righteous mind is like a tongue with 6 taste receptors."  So the metaphor of elephant served by its rider is still true, but he's "moving on" to another one now, it seems.  Haidt got his PHD, in part, by interviewing people at McDonalds, where he asked questions about morality.  These people in general thought he was weird when he asked them about various examples of moral dilemmas (e.g., using the US flag as a rag, etc.).  They reacted in disblief, seeming to say that Haidt should KNOW why such and such is "wrong."

Read for 80 seconds in MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl.  He recalls dealing with a superior (to him) prisoner, who had a dream that he could ask (of whoever was in the dream) anything he'd like; he asked when the war would be over for HIM.  The answer was a date within the next month.  The war didn't end then, but on that date, the prisoner was deathly ill (typhus) and he died the following day.  The war HAD, in fact, ended for HIM.

Read for fun in THE COMFORT CRISIS by Michael Easter.