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Day #0802 – (Fri., Nov. 7, 2025) – (ChatGPT #0188 – Stillness Experiment Day #12) (-31.7 lbs.)

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This is the “Stillness Experiment” Day #012! Coming next? Item #1 on my “ToDo List”: (You can use these symbols: ☐✅).

By the way, here’s what ChatGPT said about this framework: This is an absolutely stellar 30-day framework — it’s comprehensive but still rhythmic, and it hits your mind–body–spirit axis exactly right.

🌅 Morning Grounding! The “Why”!

✅ #01: 🤔 Read & Reflect! (Neville + Tolle + Becoming Integration): (6:15 pm!)

This morning I stop chasing the man I’ve been trying to become. After one hundred seventy+ days of creating, refining, and reaching, I see that he was never somewhere else. He’s been breathing through every frame I’ve lived. Eckhart calls this Presence. Neville calls it Living in the End. Both point to the same truth: When I am fully here, I am already there.

The next thirty days are not about results — they’re about re-tuning the instrument through which results arrive. I’m teaching my nervous system that safety is not earned through striving; it’s found in awareness. When my body learns to rest, my imagination becomes fertile again. That’s what this Stillness Experiment will do — it rewires the baseline from effort to ease.

I breathe, and air fills my lungs without permission. That is grace — the same grace that moves money, love, and health into form when I stop blocking it with tension. Each calm breath is a rehearsal for peace, and peace is the vibration that makes everything grow.

If lack appears, I smile — that’s an echo, not a prophecy. If desire stirs, I feel it real for a heartbeat, then release it into faith. That’s the marriage of Neville and Tolle: imagination without grasping, surrender without apathy.

Every act today — sipping coffee, writing, walking, feeding the hens — is my quiet line delivery: “I am already him. The world is adjusting to the truth.”

Even my body is learning that truth. At 199 lbs I’ll feel light, strong, and unguarded — but that number isn’t a race; it’s the outer reflection of this inner calm. Peace in the mind becomes balance in the body. That’s the physics of Becoming.

✅ #02: 💫 What These 30 Days Will Do: (6:18 pm!)

  • Re-calibrate the nervous system from fight-or-flight to flow.
  • Dissolve the reflex to measure worth through doing.
  • Reconnect imagination with stillness, so creation feels effortless again.
  • Let the body find its natural weight and rhythm through peace, not pressure.
  • Restore joy in ordinary life — the proof that the work has integrated.

✅ #03: 🕊️ What Comes After: (6:19 pm!)

When the 30 days close, I won’t “return” to Neville — I’ll arrive there new. From presence, imagination becomes play again. From rest, action becomes art. Then I can choose the next experiment — perhaps the 90-day Creation Phase, or Manifesting Mastery Deluxe by Mr. TwentyTwenty, or simply the quiet rhythm of life itself — but it will rise from calm, not craving.

The goal after these 30 days isn’t transformation. It’s stability. A steady peace I can build anything upon.

So I move through today knowing: The work is no longer about Becoming. The work is remembering that I already Am. And from that awareness, all good things begin moving toward me.

🔝 DAILY PHYSICAL CORE!

Approved Foods For 30 Days!!! (1 gallon water per day + AS MUCH AS WANT OF: potatoes, non-starch vegetables, egg whites, oats, spelt flour, black beans, chickpeas, olives, PB2, berries, plant beverages, stevia + FOR COFFEE ONLY: plant-based creamer).

  • ✅ #04: 📈 Weigh yourself! (361.9 lbs. – 308.9 lbs. = 53.0 lbs. total weight loss.)
  • ✅ #05: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title (Down More Each Day)!
  • ✅ #06: 🥂 Martini Water Ritual! (This evening!)
    • 🌾 Metamucil (1 tablespoons)
    • 🌾 Collagen (2 scoops)
  • ✅ #07: 💊 Take Vitamins: (This evening!)
    • Progressive Multi Men 50+ (one capsule)
    • Silica + Biotin Supplement (one capsule)
    • Omega-3 (1000–2000 mg/day) (one capsule)
    • Resveratrol (two capsules)
  • ✅ #08: 💍 Ring Touch + Whisper! (This evening!)
  • ✅ #09: 🤵 Cufflink / Collar Adjustment! (This evening!)
  • ✅ #10: 😏 The Calm Smirk! (This evening!)
  • ☐✅ #11:🧴 Face Moisturizer Routine: <>
    • (AM) Cleanse → “Splash of Water”
    • (PM) Cleanse → CeraVe SA Cleanser
    • (PM) Moisturize → CeraVe Renewing SA Cream
  • ✅ #12:🌾 Metamucil Drink (1 tablespoon): (This evening!)
  • ✅ #13:🧴 Dove Pro-Retinol + Firming Cream: (This evening!)
    • Daily (1–2 times per day)
    • Once in the morning after shower (most important)
    • Optional second application at night, especially on belly/flanks
    • Use every day even on non-brushing days for consistency
  • ☐✅ #14:🌾 Metamucil Drink (1 tablespoon): <>
  • ✅ #15: 🫗 DRINK ? cups of water each day! (To Drink:) ==> (Drank: 💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧)

🔝 DAILY MENTAL CORE!

🔝 WEEKLY PHYSICAL & MENTAL CORE!

DayFocus Area
Monday☐✅ 🌀 Dry Brushing (5-7 minutes): <>
Tuesday☐✅ 🚿 Shampoo + Conditioner Routine — Aussie Miracle Moist Shampoo for 30–60 seconds, rinse, then apply Being BIG HAIR Volumizing Conditioner to mid-lengths and ends for 2–3 minutes before rinsing cool. <>
☐✅ 👕 Laundry Day: <>
Wednesday☐✅ 🌀 Dry Brushing (5-7 minutes): <>
☐✅ 🥗 Record “Weight Loss” Video: <>
☐✅ 📹 YouTube SHORTS VIDEO Creation
Thursday☐✅ 📹 YouTube SHORTS Upload @ 5:45 PM
Friday☐✅ 🌀 Dry Brushing (5-7 minutes): <>
✅ 📡 Social Media Linking: (Questions on Neville’s Mastermind FB Group!)
Saturday☐✅ 📹 YouTube LONG VIDEO Creation
Sunday☐✅ 📹 YouTube LONG VIDEO Upload @ 5:45 PM

🔝 FUN, FUN, FUN!

DayFocus Area
Friday
☐✅ 🎸 Music Studio Setup: <>
☐✅ ✈️ Flight Simulator: <>
☐✅ 🎶 Learn Sultans of Swing: <>
☐✅ 🍳 Cooking: <>
✅ 🧹 Clean Barn Suite: (Cleaning kitchen counter!)
☐✅ 🌿 Etc.?: <>

📋Additional Daily Notes

This morning I reminded myself that the Stillness Experiment isn’t about chasing results; it’s about letting the instrument retune itself.

By mid-day I’d taken shavings to the compost heap and noticed with relief that the little hen we’d buried stayed undisturbed. I put some gravel into the hole in front of the Barn Suite that the hens had dug while “dusting”.

2025-11-07 - Benino's Side Bench

As evening came I headed to Benino’s for coffee. My usual back table was taken by a couple of kids; a small disruption that felt bigger than it should have. I found another spot near the front side (see photo to the right), first time I had sat there. The café was full of young energy—laughter, couples, bright eyes. Watching them stirred something raw: the realization that beauty and youth still pull attention while age fades into the edges. For a moment I felt invisible. But then I caught myself judging from absence instead of presence. The real practice was right there—staying open even when I felt left out.

Chapter 5 of The Power of Now talked about the state of presence—how the instant your conscious attention drops, thought rushes back in. I could feel that truth in my body. It’s a muscle memory now: awareness rising, mind slipping, awareness returning again. The simple act of noticing has become the real work.

Later, I watched Maggie Murphy’s “Manifesting Your Biggest Desire: Release the Chokehold.” Her reminder hit perfectly: when we grip our desires too tightly, we strangle the current that wants to deliver them. Maybe that’s why the “winks” from the Universe have been so quiet lately—because I’ve been listening too hard, checking too often. The lesson tonight was simple: loosen the hold, return to gratitude, trust the flow.

So I drove home under clear skies, thinking about Wattles’ line—“The universe doesn’t reward waiting; it rewards movement in faith.” My movement now is gentler: reading, tending, feeding, writing, breathing. Every small action is a rehearsal for the man I already am.

If there’s a wink waiting for me, it’ll arrive when I’m not looking. For now, the silence itself feels like proof.

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