The Anne Report, There’s No Business Like Flow Business, shows how a little flow business can make life a lot EZier and more enjoyable. The Main article, My One and Only Slum Lord is Me, shows us how becoming aware of our personal choices can help us move from limitation to thriving. The Healthy Living article, Worrying Doesn't Work, reminds us that worry is praying for what we don't want. The Anne Talk is Collective Will. The Featured Product This Month is Words Make a Difference. Click to read What is EZosophy? Celebrate Tuesday, International Giving Day, by making a donation to this newsletter.

The EZ Mantra: "Everything can be EZ or at least EZier." -- Anne Sermons Gillis

Living EZosophy, November 28, 2017
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  The Anne Report

There’s No Business Like Flow Business

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Sunday, I spoke at the Unity Church in League City, Texas. What a beautiful church, with a labyrinth, gardens, a pond, and a dock. I had the time of my life, which happens when I get to do what I love to do – speak to a group. The people were wonderful. They had that "flow" rhythm.

Labyrinth at Unity Church in League City, Texas

We left the church and went to Galveston for lunch and rode around to see Christmas appearing on each corner. Many dislike the commercial side of Christmas, but I love Christmas - the songs, the old Christmas movies, and baked goodies. I don't care if advertisers temp me or if holiday songs flood the air, even if it's summer! I prefer not to be upset about what others do or do not do during the holiday season; that way I have loads of fun. Stop practicing bitchcraft this holiday season. Enjoy it.

Today we are in the Escapees RV Park near Livingston, TX. We are doing some RV maintenance and just hanging out. We love to hang out in our RV. It's our little heaven, and I can assure you we are relaxing, exploring, and loving it. That's it for the Anne Report. Make it EZ.

  Main Article

My One and Only Slum Lord is Me

I love dreams. They are not only entertaining, they often give me insight into my life. One morning, as I awakened, I brought my dream with me. I was singing, "I'm longing to be free, but my one and only slumlord is me." I don't remember the rest of the song. Of course, I should have written it down, but that tiny bit of my dream was brilliant. I'm my own jail keeper and it's been an interesting job. I can be happy and joyful, bright and light, and suddenly the prison guard pulls a shade over my heart and I feel alone and disconnected. I admire the ingenuity of the egoic mind. It can take me down is seconds. If the false mind has that much power, how much more power the mind of our true selves must have!

When my friends tell me they feel bad, they've tried everything, and nothing helps, I have an inner reaction. I don't say this; no need to make them feel worse. But my question would be, "What are you doing now?" Certainly, I've worked to change depression into joy and helplessness into power, and have failed, but I had enough sense to know that change can't happen in a void. I consider it my job to do whatever I can, when I can, to dissolve my false identification with pain, working it until something works! Pain is a familiar friend to most, but it's a toxic relationship. As we gain wisdom and insight into the heart of life, we realize that most pain is drama, and that genuine pain, caused by a real loss, will eventually dissipate. Our work is to take up the moment to moment task of awareness.

Awareness is not about trying to feel feelings. Awareness is noticing what we are doing, when we are doing it, and observing our feelings, without getting caught up in them. This is awareness of what is happening. Awareness doesn't answer the question, "What is happening." Rather, it experiences the answers as wordless insights.

Why do we hear so much about meditation these days? Because meditation trains the mind to slow down, so we are not caught up in the endless droning of the mind. Without a trained mind, listening to deeper wisdom, through the voice of the egoic mind, is like trying to listen to a conversation in a crowded, noisy restaurant. Even if the other person shouts and you shout to be heard, a lot of the conversation is drowned out, and it's exhausting. Awareness is overridden by our senseless, repetitive, inner dialogue, and meditation is one of the most powerful tools to restore awareness. (Check out this meditation app for iPhone and Android. It has a lot of guided meditations, a timer, and you can see who else is mediating with you.)

I started my spiritual journey when I was four years old. I didn't know what I was doing, but I had an experience during tonsil surgery. I went down a tunnel. I still sense that tunnel, even after 65 years. Whatever happened, I don't know, but I became spiritually curious at that point. I managed to get myself invited to all my neighbors' churches and even attended revivals. As I grew older, I tried everything, from speaking in tongues to trying to master out of body experiences. The picture below shows me sitting in a dodecahedron with a pyramid on my head. It illustrates the lengths I was willing to go to, to find the truth.

Sedona 1990 – Anne working on 2012 transformation vision

I always came back to the same conclusion, regardless of how far from home I'd roamed: "I was my only slumlord" and the way out was always present, abiding in me, as me. I was the only one who could make choices that could bring my life into balance. There was no rescue party searching to find me, lost in my emotional and thought-laden wilderness. Sometimes my choice was to seek help. My mind blinded me from my power and wisdom, and I needed a therapist or a friend who could help me across the false divide. It's naive to think we can heal the feeling of separation or abandonment alone. Being human is a team sport, and isolation brings desperation. Solitude is okay; it's different from isolating and hiding, but staying in loneliness is not necessary. Loneliness is a false god, and we need not worship it.

Life is predictable, if we keep doing things the same way we've always done them, and we have the same thoughts we've always had. If our lives continue the same way they are today, where will we be in five years; ten years? Without a continuing, radical reinvention of ourselves, we stay stuck in the past. No one can tell us what to do, but we have a responsibility to make changes. We have to break the habit of being ourselves (Dr. Joe Dispenza's term). The cavalry is not coming. We must set an alarm clock, wake up, and then get up. We already know what to do. My friends always say, "I know what to do." And our lives depend on doing it. While it may be daunting to change our lives, it is more daunting to die on the vine of life. We must act. It might be as simple as changing a thought. It might be going to a therapist. It might mean taking up a meditation practice or joining a Master Mind group. Surprisingly, as we change our depraved and senseless habits, we find that what we feared dissolves and that our lives become EZier and EZier. Ready, set, go.

Anne

  Quotes

Anne Quotes

"Bureau of internal affairs – My mind is a bureaucracy. There's so much red tape, it's hard to get inside."

"Don't miss your rendezvous with destiny. It's happening right now."

"Stay involved with living things. Be around children or pets, or take care of plants. Staying cooped up in our homes or offices, without touching life, leads to an unattractive kind of deadness. You can't do life alone; you will dry up."

"Worry is an advanced plan for failure."

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Worrying Doesn't Work

We are overwhelmed. Alvin Toffler predicted our dilemma in his ground-breaking book, Future Shock. The book came out in 1970. Future shock "refers to what happens to a society when change happens too fast, which results in social confusion and normal decision-making processes breaking down." Source

Toffler went on to predict the internet and much of the new technology, in his book, The Third Wave. He coined the term "information overload." Toffler spoke to us about our future, which is now. "We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots -- religion, nation, community, family, or profession -- are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust."

That's where EZosophy comes in. We are marinating in complication and shock, and we will either drown or learn to swim. EZosophy is a transformational philosophy that teaches us to swim. Suffering has been glorified in our religions, but it's time to honor the ease in which life can flow when we let go of our attachment to suffering. Once my therapist told me I had a "worry racket." He nailed it. I was suffering about things I didn't need to suffer about.

Since we live in a time where overexposure to rapid change overwhelms us, we have to let go of the traditional worry patterns of our parents and grandparents. Contemporary life sits on the razor's edge, and we cannot afford to shake its balance by getting upset over things that don't matter. Who cares which day who said what? We don't need to fight to be right or argue to win. We can no longer afford such emotional indulgences. We are called to a higher way of being, and if we don't answer that call, we are not going to make it. We need do more than tread water each day in a survival pattern. We want to thrive, not survive. We cannot thrive unless we break the worry habit. Worry is a prayer for what we don't want.

I had a friend who used to worry about money all the time. I visited her and noticed a new-found peace on her face. "What happened?" I queried. "I decided not to worry about money any more. After I stopped worrying about money, some interesting things happened. My retired husband was offered a part time job at his old place of employment. He had been set against doing any kind of work. He changed his mind. Now he happily goes to work. I've picked up odd jobs too. When I stopped worrying about money, my money problems disappeared." It was as if her worry kept her problem in place.

Let's take notice of how we complicate complication and move away from our addiction to drama, because when we do, we find that life becomes EZier and EZier.

If you have any healthy living tips for the newsletter, send them to me at anne@annegillis.com.

  Anne Talks

Collective Will

Today's Anne Talk is Collective Will. Charles Fillmore speaks of Will in his book, The 12 Powers of Man. This talk is a commentary on The Power of Will. It focuses on The Collective Will. It was presented at Unity Church of Practical Christianity, Webster, TX, on August 3, 2014. Time: 23:13.

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