20240315 SLLLAVERS FOR FRIDAY - NOT D-DAY, AND I, KEN TAYLOR, ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED!!!!!!! (ALSO THE IDES OF MARCH!)

SILENCE

Tried to silence brain for 80 seconds; mild success.

LLL - BHL

Love.  Live.  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

199.6  Today's weight

200.8  Yesterday's weight

-1.2

I visualize weighing less tomorrow.

EXERCISE

Did my full base-80 routine for Friday, March 15, 2024:

1. ankle/wrist circles 80
2. toe/finger stretches 80
3. bicycle crunches 80
4. (MADE BED; PIANO)
5. flamingo L40, R40
6. shoulder rolls 80
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 state and market have combined to weaken the family and community units.  The "alienated individual" is the norm today, after only 2 centuries (which followed millions of years of evolution in which family and community were strong).

NOTE:  These passages are depressing.

Read for 80 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He recalls sitting with his Treas Sec'y, Tim Geithner, who was confirmed by the slimmest of margins in the Senate and was unaccustomed to public scrutiny,  and discussing the financial plight of the USA:  there were 5 BOMBS (banks, insurance companies) who could fail and cause havoc among the US and International markets, and likely cause the US real estate market to disappear.  They acted by infusing another $200B into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and braced themselves for further actions required to save our financial crisis.

Read for 80 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He says his upbringing was by Jewish parents who had survived the antisemitism in WWII, and had been strongly defended by FDR, a Democrat.  When at Yale, Haidt was among the "liberal elite" who could not contemplate any kind of support for Conservatives, who complained that Liberals were wrong to demand government support for minorities, among other things.  Haidt's group did not consider any merits of a moral code among Conservatives.

NOTE:  It's the same struggle we're having today.  Who has the moral edege?

Read for 80 seconds in MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl.  He uses terminology that warrants a list of definitions:

1. existential - can be used in 3 ways:  A:  existence itself (the human mode of being), B:  the meaning of existence, and C:  the striving to find a concrete meaning in personal existence (I.e., "will to meaning")
2. existential frustration
3. will to meaning - the striving to find a concrete meaning in personal existence.
4. neuroses
5. logotherapy
6. nooegenic
7. nooegenic neroses - a logotherapeutic terms that denotes anything pertaining to the specifically human dimension, those neuroses that derive from existential problems.
8. nooes - from the Greek, meaning "mind"

NOTE:  All of this is, to me, quite vague.  Problems of the mind are difficult to comprehend, without meticulous study, which I have not yet undertaken.  It seems to foggy to pin down.  But we'll see.