20240107 SLLLAVERS FOR SUNDAY - NOT D-DAY, AND I, KEN TAYLOR, ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED!!!!!!!

SILENCE

Tried to silence mind for 80 seconds; a bit better this morning.

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

202.8  Today's weight

203.8  Yesterday's weight

-1.0

I visualize weighing less tomorrow.

EXERCISE

Did my full base-80 routine for Sunday, January 7, 2024:

1. ankle/wrist circles 80
2. toe/finger stretches 80
3. bicycle crunches 80
4. (MADE BED; PIANO)
5. shoulder rolls 80
6. flamingo L45, R45
7. ball/wall 15
8. angel/wall 15
9. counter stretch 15
10. squats 40
11. push-ups 33 (floor) + 7 (wall) = 40

READING, WRITING

RUMI

Read for 80 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says the AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION has led us to ignoring the psychological needs of animals, and being able to feed the entire US population AND to export excess to other parts of the globe, and all this by only 2% of the "hands & brains" of the human population.

Harari also cites the Harry Harlow monkey studies in which baby monkeys were separated from their bio mothers, and kept in a cage in which they were fed by a metal nursing monkey, but were also exposed to a cloth but barren "mother" who provided cloth comfort.  The infant monkeys preferred the cloth mothers, and only left them when they were hungry for milk.

NOTE:  I'm leaning more and more towards at least vegetarianism.

Read for 80 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He recalls sitting at his home office desk (not the Oval, apparently), and reading letter after letter from US Citizens who expressed their hopelessness about the future for their children.  In part, they attribute this situation to a failed government:  the middle class was disappearing.

Read for 80 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He says that Shweder (univ of Chicago) earlier collected 600 interviews of people who exhibited distinct morality opinions & awareness; he was able to identify 3 major groups:  1)  individuality, 2)  community and 3) divinity.

The first group was largely in the US, and valued their personal freedoms above anything else.  The second group was found mostly OUTside the US, and they valued their place in a heirarchy of social constructs (family, neighborhood, city, state, country).

NOTE:  OK

Read for 80 seconds in MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl.  He recalls the day when the prisoners were greeted with a white flag, which meant that they were now free men.  They could hardly comprehend the meaning of it, after so many long years of brutality and confinement.  They tried to walk out of the gates, but could hardly walk at all.

Read for fun in THE COMFORT CRISIS by Michael Easter.

Read for fun in THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel Van Der Kolk.