SATURDAY 5th SEPTEMBER 2015 10:01 BST

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1. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
5th September 1914
THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE MARNE BEGINS
In a week-long battle, Anglo-French forces defeated an advancing German army and forced it to retreat 40 miles to the Aisne. As a consequence, Paris, the German objective, was saved and the Germans failed to achieve the quick victory planned. Despite many subsequent offensives on both sides, the Western Front settled into a bloody stalemate that would last four years.

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Shift 2 of the Weekend Job
Missus Time

Twitter Followers = 2,002 (up 2)
Non-followed eliminated = 0
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Unfollowers eliminated = 0
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New Followers followed back = 1
@iamnick78, 
Spammers not followed back = 1
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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION

With surrounding circumstances currently calm and benign, I have been indulging private passions, but also focusing on mindfulness and mind-emptying, with the objective of being intuitively rather than intellectually driven. I believe that the intellect is best at collating information received and solving problems, but leadership and decision-making is best done by the intuition. Consciousness therefore needs to make continual acts of submission.

I have tinkered for quite some time looking for mantras, visualizations and techniques to promote this submission. I rediscovered an old Zen Proverb that makes a strong easy visualization that proved very effective at the weekend job yesterday - the glass of muddy water settling. Once my mind has settled, I used a second picture of a wind constantly blowing away the dust of random unwanted thought.

The more I can silence my own mind, the more power I can wield and the more difference this character can make. I'm so on it!

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Do you know what you're doing and why?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry and mainly sunny with clear skies after dusk
A cool moderate northerly wind will ease and swing westerly overnight
Max Temp = 12 degC at 2pm
Min Temp = 10 degC at midnight
Sunrise at 06:22
Sunset at 19:49
Moon:

Weathertrack: An anticyclone over the Atlantic is moving steadily east, extending over Britain and keeping the country cool and dry

Air Pressure: 1020 millibars and rising

6. TODAY'S ONELINER

@Due to an intense mind fog, all of my thoughts have been grounded until further notice :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!

I Paradiset - Do You Want To Play With My Beaver?

8. TRIVIA

REM atonia, or sleep paralysis, occurs in the typical sleeper every night to prevent people from acting out their dreams. Only a few muscles have the ability to move during REM sleep, such as the eye muscles, the auditory muscles, and the diaphragm for respiration.

9. ZEN WISDOM

It takes courage to become happy—courage to remain true to one’s convictions, courage not to be defeated by one’s weaknesses and negativity, courage to take swift action to help those who are suffering.