20240108 SLLLAVERS FOR MONDAY - NOT D-DAY, AND I, KEN TAYLOR, ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED!!!!!!!

SILENCE

Tried to silence brain for 80 seconds; sleepy, so mild success.

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.

202.8  Yesterday's weight.

-0-

I visualize weighing less tomorrow.

EXERCISE

Did my full base-80 routine for Monday, January 8, 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 L 30 + 5 + 5 + 5, R 45
7. ball/wall 15
8. angel/wall 15
9. counter stretch 15
10. squats 40
11. push-ups 34 (floor) + 6 (wall) = 40

READING, WRITING

RUMI 

Read for 80 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says with the industrial & agricultural industrial revolutions, the economies of Sapiens began to shift to where SUPPLY outstripped DEMAND.  Who was going to buy all the extra stuff?  People were used to being frugal, so they had to change their mindset:  they were now CONSUMERS, and they would buy new rather than repair old.

Read for 80 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He recalls his first 3 months in office, during which time people's financial plights were worse than when BO took office; job loss & housing issues were the main two crises BO faced; he read the 10K letters (per day!) that came into the WH, as best he could, and even answered them when he could.  The Recovery Act (signed on February 17) would not be enough to get the US out of trouble.

Read for 80 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He says Shweder's 3rd ethic (general group), DIVINITY, took their codes from the idea that humans are children of God, and as such, should act according to religious dictates, and not merely their individual or collective ethics.  Haidt studied Penn students (who leaned heavily toward individual ethics), and blue-collar workers (who leaned heavily toward community and divinity ethics).

NOTE:  interesting.......

Read for 80 seconds in MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl.  He recalls the transition to freedom, during which the former prisoners began to absorb the message that they were free; local farmers & others treated them to unlimited food.  Frankl describes how the former prisoners had difficulty discerning the truth, since they had dreamed of being liberated many times, only to wake up to the reality of still being prisoners.  Frankl says the human BODY has fewer inhibitions than the human MIND: they ate ravenously, but still had doubts that they were actually free.  They'd ask each other if they had experienced being pleased with anything that day..... and some said "no" for quite a while.

Read for fun in THE COMFORT CRISIS by Michael Easter.

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