20240608 SLLLAVERS FOR SATURDAY - NOT D-DAY, BUT IS P2P-ERA, AND I, KEN TAYLOR, ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED!!!!!!!

SILENCE

Tried to silence 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

199.2  Today's weight

201.0  Yesterday's weight

-1.8

I visualize weighing less tomorrow.

I've "screwed up" for the last few weeks.  I don't know why I've lacked motivation.  But today, I am beginning a 12 day plan to follow my exercise/diet routing every day, until I leave for Europe.

For the next 12 days, I'm back to the simple "do routine & weigh daily" approach.

EXERCISE

Did my full base-80 routine for Saturday, June 8, 2024:

1. ankle/wrist circles 80
2. toe/finger stretches 80
3. bicycle crunches 80
4. (MADE BED; PIANO)
5. flamingo L60, R60
6. shoulder rolls 80
7. ball/wall 15
8. angel/wall 15
9. counter stretch 15
10. squats 40
11. push-ups 40

READING, WRITING

Read for 80 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says "the modern era" is described by historians who are "close" (in time) to the latest innovations or catastrophic events in pessimistic or optimistic words........ and is also described by other historians who are "farther away" (in time) to those same events, in LESS, or MORE optimistic/pessimistic words.

Harari is trying to cover all the bases, it seems.  But he concludes this chapter saying we can't know which direction we're heading until we're almost there.  I.e., at Heaven's Gate, or Hell's Antechamber.  It will depend on how a possible series of events rolls out in the coming years.

Read for 80 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He recalls being so frustrated by Wall Street Bankers (Goldman Sachs and Chase, notably), who were WAY out of touch with the common folks, that he (BO) began to smoke more, not less.

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Read for 80 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He describes how Autism (low empathizing, high systemizing came to be defined - by 2 men who were Autistic.

The spectra Haidt (source:  Simon Baron-Cohen, 2009) uses are "high empathy - low empathy" and "high systemizing - low systemizing" - which immediately led me to ask where I land on the chart (p. 137).  I also asked myself if I was "naturally" empathetic, or if I made a conscious effort to avoid being nosy (I.e., asking others how they feel, or what their lives are like, etc).  I am that way, but I don't know if it's natural, or forced on me by my diplomatic parents.

Systemizing, OTOH, seems to me to be in my nature.

Read for 80 seconds in MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl.  He says that if the cause of unhappiness is AVOIDABLE, then that cause should be removed.  But if it is UNAVOIDABLE, then perhaps it can be ameliorated by attaching a MEANING to it.  LOGOTHERAPY.

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