20240917 SLLLAVERS FOR TUESDAY - NOT D-DAY (AFAIK), AND I, KEN TAYLOR, ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED!!!!!!!

SILENCE

Tried to silence brain for 80 seconds; mild success.

LLL - BHL

Live.  Love.  Laugh.

Bless.  Heal.  Love.

AFFIRMATIONS

1. I, Ken Taylor, am a kind human being.
2. I, Ken Taylor, already have everything I need.
3. I, Ken Taylor, am a confident pianist.

VISUALIZATION

205.8  Today's weight.

206.0  Yesterday's weight.

-0.2

I visualize weighing less tomorrow.

EXERCISE

1. ankle/wrist circles 80
2. toe/finger stretch 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 33 (floor) + 7 (wall)

READING, WRITING

Read for 80 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says good family & good marriage is far more important to happiness than is money or even good health.  If not too serious, even illness takes a back seat to happiness.

Read for 80 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He says the run-up to the Automakers bailout was full of unknowns, including "Why can't Detroit make a damn Corolla?"  Bankruptcy loomed, while the CEOs tried to paint rosy pictures.

Read for 80 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He says it's easy to find a story that supports a given theory: reasoning can take you almost anywhere you'd like to go.  But HIS goal (I.e., Haidt's) is to identify the most obvious links between two fields he loves:

anthropology, 

and

evolutionary psychology.

Hmmm  - lost me here.

Read for 80 seconds in MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl.  He says that understanding the meaning of suffering is a human attribute; an ape would not understand the suffering it feels as a scientist pokes & prods it to do research.  He adds that humans, on a "higher level," might also not understand the meaning of suffering as regards some "higher dimension" where we are not as evolved as that dimension's entities (aliens, etc.).

Hmmm - that's a concept I've dealt with before.

Frankl also cites his daughter's complaint that "the good Lord" is the source of blessings, but is also the source of trials (e.g., measles)