SILENCE
Tried to silence brain for 80 seconds; mild success.
LLL - BHL
Love. Live. Laugh.
Bless. Heal. Love.
AFFIRMATIONS
- I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
Also said aloud for 80 seconds.
- I, Ken Taylor, already have everything I need.
- I, Ken Taylor, already have everything I need.
- I, Ken Taylor, already have everything I need.
- I, Ken Taylor, already have everything I need.
- I, Ken Taylor, already have everything I need.
Also said aloud for 80 seconds.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a confident human being.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a confident human being.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a confident human being.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a confident human being.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a confident human being.
Also said aloud for 80 seconds.
VISUALIZATION
203.8 Today's weight.
203.8 Yesterday's weight.
-0-
I visualize weighing less tomorrow.
EXERCISE
Did my full base-80 routine for Saturday, January 6, 2024:
- ankle/wrist circles 80
- toe/finger stretches 80
- bicycle crunches 80
- (MADE BED; PIANO)
- shoulder rolls 80
- flamingo L45, R45
- ball/wall 15
- angel/wall 15
- counter stretch 15
- squats 40
- push-ups 32 (floor) + 8 (wall)
READING, WRITING
RUMI
Read for 80 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari. He says that we consumers of animals (chicken, beef) and/or what they produce (e.g. eggs, milk) generally take no thought about the emotional and physical stress we are putting on the animals (while alive). (Vegans/vegetarians generally DO take such thoughts.) Harari discusses the evolutionary process of farm animals; when "wild" they necessarily developed close relationships with their parents (mothers, mostly) so they would survive (nursing, protection).
NOTE: As I see it right now, there are 4 options available to me: 1) Do nothing and take little or no thought about the suffering of farm animals, 2) Only consume farm products that do not stress or kill the animals, 3) Be a vegetarian, and 4) Be a Vegan.
Read for 80 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama. He says that after he and his team had passed (GOTTEN passed the Recovery Act, he realized that he had 4-5 more huge moves to make in order to get the economy moving again (ObamaCare loomed on the horizon. He was reminded of the Yeats poem "The Second Coming" - he says his supporters lacked all conviction while his opponents showed passionate intensity. "Keep running" he told himself.
NOTE: YEATS' poem, "The Second Coming":
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
(Hmmmm. Well, Obama saw his situation as similar to Yeats' first stanza. But what of the rest of the poem? That will take some time to evaluate. The 2nd READING of the Second Coming yields more applicable images to our day, along with the next level (MY next level) of understanding.)
Read for 80 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt. He says "3 ethics are more effective than 1" and then proceeds to describe the life & culture at the University of Chicago: Playboy called it the "worst party school in the country." It's cold and miserable there, and Haidt describes it as "Shweder's culture" because he led a new thinking trend in cultural psychology:
".....combines the anthropologist's love of CONTEXT and VARIABILITY
with the psychologist's interest in MENTAL PROCESSES."
DICTUM: "culture and psyche make each other up."
IOW:
".... you can't study the mind while ignoring culture (as psychologists usually do) because minds function only once they've been filled out by a particular culture."
AND
".... you can't study culture while ignoring psychology (as anthropologists usually do) because social practices and institutions (such as initiation rites, witchcraft, and religion) are to some extent shaped by concepts and desires rooted deep within the human mind. AND this explains why they often take similar forms on different continents.
NOTE: OK
Read for 80 seconds in MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl. He remembers observing how kindness existed in guards AND prisoners, and how indecent behavior was found in guards AND in prisoners: Frankl concludes that there are only 2 races: decent, and indecent. And they can both be found in ALL cultures.
Read for fun in THE COMFORT CRISIS by Michael Easter.
Read for fun in THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel Van Der KIolk.
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