20240309 SLLLAVERS FOR SATUTRDAY - NOT D-DAY, AND I, KEN TAYLOR, ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED!!!!!!!

NOTE:  Due to 2 major breakdowns WRT my car within 3 days, costing me over $2,500 in repairs, I slipped down into a depression of sorts, in which I did the absolute bare minimum of self-maintenance.

But today (Saturday), I've come back into my routine, albeit SLOWLY (today's a "laid-back day").  Also, gehen wir weiter mit dem "routine."

SILENCE

Tried to silence my brain for 80 seconds; 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

205.0  Today's weight

204.2  Yesterday's weight

+0.8

I visualize weighing less tomorrow.

EXERCISE

Did my full base-80 routine for Saturday, March 9, 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 L40, R40
7. ball/wall 15
8. angel/wall 15
9. counter stretch 15
10. squats 40
11. push-ups 40 (ALL FLOOR!!!)

READING, WRITING

RUMI

Read for 80 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says, to introduce a section called "The Collapse of the Family,"  that before the IR, people lived in a nuclear family, and near extended family, and in intimate communities, and all were reliant on each other for their needs and wants, without expecting payments.  The exceptions were when they needed/wanted goods/services that the family or intimate community could not provide:  then they had to seek those things in the marketplace.  When they lived in royal realms, they were expected to help build the king's castle for no payment, but in return, they were protected by the king from brigands and barbarians.

NOTE:  No more.

Read for 80 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He recalls getting a lesson in modern-day conservative talk (from a "famouls" Rick Santelli clip) in which the conservatives began to "reverse" the complaints brought up by minorities:

• racial discrimination --> "reverse racism"
• workplace sexual harassment --> "feminazis" beating men over their heads
• big bankers playing casino games --> lazy shiftless moochers in Washington

BO acknowledges that our demands on government HAD changed over the 200 years since we began:  when social injustices were no longer acceptable, wars were fought, and government had to step in to enhance the SOCIAL CONTRACT, insuring the collective masses against unjust disasters, and enhancing our means of travel & communication, even in rural areas where corporations often don't make a profit.

Read for 80 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He says his time in India taught him a new appreciation for human beings:  the locals distinguished between "left, or dirty" and "right, or clean."  Places were either dirty or clean.  Removing shoes before entering a house is the norm.  Temples and holy places were above the common ground.  He calls it "ethic of divinity."

Read for 80 seconds in MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl.  He begins Section II by introducing his school:  LOGOTHERAPY.  By this, he means that the patient must LISTEN to things which s/he might find disagreeable (in contrast to traditional psychoanalysis, which entails the patient SAYING disagreeable things)