The Anne Report, How to "Buy Into" Agelessness, suggests that you adopt an attitude of agelessness, not of old age. The Main article, Clearing Old Hurts Makes Life EZier, shows you how to change your experience of the past, to make your life EZier in the present. The Healthy Living article, Mind Over Food, recommends that practicality should accompany mental awareness, for EZier healthy living.The Anne Talk is EZosophy for Daily Living. The Featured Product this month highlights Anne's first book, Offbeat Prayers for the Modern Mystic. Click to read What is EZosophy?

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Living EZosophy, January 16, 2017
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  The Anne Report

How to "Buy Into" Agelessness

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Saturday morning, I did what I thought was impossible – 108 sun salutations. Each salutation has either 20 or 24 movements, depending on where we were in the practice. Then we did 20 minutes of breathing exercises and finished off with a long meditation. The event lasted from 7 AM to 10:30 AM. I thought I would be worn out, but I was energized after the physical exercises. I expected to do 30 and would have been pleased with that. I was the oldest person there, clocking in at 69! I feel so empowered. I plan to live at least until I'm 100, so I can be a great grandmother. I can't afford to speed up the aging process. That's what most people do in their minds: they "buy into" old age. I am going for an ageless body. My friend, Karen, who is my age, says, "Sissy, we are entering our prime."

I've learned not to pamper my limits. I have scoliosis, but I find the more I do, the better my back gets. That's why I took up yoga, to strengthen my back, not to pamper it. It's too easy to retreat from greatness. We all need to stay fit and excited about life so that we can be as great as we are. If we are not great, we need to make all the adjustments necessary to be as great as we are.

We are entering the age of potential super beings. Child prodigies abound. "If a person living a century ago would have taken an IQ test and scored it against today's standards, he or she would have received an average score of 70. Meanwhile, if a person from the current generation were to take a test in accordance with prior generations' norms, he or she would score an IQ of 130." Source

It's time to stretch our limits. We need to be sages, not mindless; abundant, not poor; blessed, not damned: generous, not miserly; and compassionate, not judgmental. Let's stretch the limits so we can be the super beings we are. We are always coming into our prime, whether we are 8 or 80. It's time to be great, or at least greater than, we were yesterday. That's it for the Anne Report.

Anne

  Main Article

Clearing Old Hurts Makes Life EZier

Many things obscure the Presence of Being, including and especially the emotions and thoughts we hold about our friends, colleagues, family, and acquaintances. In our quest for freedom, letting go of any grievances or hurtful feelings we have about others, restores us to that Living Presence. When we live in presence, our lives are peaceful, yet fulfilled.

Though it may be difficult to let go of our judgments of others, it might be even more of a challenge to move past our emotional triggers. We can be talking with a friend who says something inconsequential, and bam: it feels like a sucker punch hitting our gut. Regardless of what kind of inner self talk we administer, the gut wrenching feelings turn a pleasant chat into an emotional nightmare. When this happens to me, I start breathing evenly and promise myself I'll look at this later. I don't react back with fire or hurt, because I know this is not about what's being said; it's about an old wound. Any time we have a strong, unfounded reaction to anything, we can be sure it's a wound from the past. There are situations that warrant reactions, but a mild comment someone makes that either breaks our hearts or starts us seething, is not a time for an exaggerated response.

My favorite self-talk in these situations is, "I do not want my feelings about what you are saying to harm my relationship with you. I will process this at a later time." And I do work on this later. When someone I love makes a homophobic remark, I don't make them wrong; I don't go into what the Bible says; I just let the subject drop. A Course in Miracles says that when someone says anything other than "I love you," it's a call for love.

Later I try to look at their judgment as a call for love and remind myself that others judge and disapprove of people based on their fears, not on their empathy and compassion. Then I ask for help to release the upset and breathe. When the breath is calm and rhythmic, the upset usually subsides. I know that if I join others in judging, then judge them for judging, I become a judger and a hypocrite. I try to avoid that!

Sometimes our differences or held upsets are old. We think we have hurt someone in some way; therefore, we feel guilty or afraid our aliveness is too much for others to bear or we believe someone has harmed us in some way. We seek revenge for those who have harmed us, but the revenge only plays out in our internal dialogue or through passive aggressive remarks. The new year is the time to purge ourselves of these old grievances.

If you have any unfinished emotional business with anyone, try the following.

• Make a list of all the people you believe have harmed you, people that you feel uncomfortable around, people you think you have harmed, and people who irritate you.
• Bring to mind the first person on the list and see what comes up. Ask your Higher Self to show you this person in a new and different way.
• Forgive the person for not treating you the way you wanted to be treated.
• Ask yourself, "What leads a person to behave this way?" Ask your Higher Self to reveal something about that person's emotional makeup. Ask that the spirit of compassion consume you and look for you at the action, words, or behavior in question.
• Look deeper now and think about the law of cause and effect. This person is the delivery system of your beliefs. If you have a deep-seated fear of loss, you might be robbed, lose face, or be left by someone you love. We do not have the power to reverse past situations, but we can change the way we experience a past event. This is huge, because we hold these hurts in our mind, in the cells of our bodies, and in our energy fields. Releasing our pain and upsets frees us to return to our original state of innocence and renders us able to experience Radical Presence.
• Finally, bless the person and thank them for bringing up your subconscious beliefs so you could heal them. Feel what it feels like to want the best for this person.
• Do this process with each person on the list.

Make a final list of all persons on your list and pray for them daily for thirty days. Make it an easy, simple prayer, such as, "May you be at peace, may you be happy, may your physical needs be meet, etc."

Holding grievances, hurt feelings, or painful internal dialogues creates emotional blocks that keep us away from everything we want. We look at the world through these upsets, and the results are devastating to our well-being. We become guarded or cynical, and we pass on our emotions and beliefs to those we are closest to. We all want a better world, and, as the old saying goes, "Think globally; act locally." While that may be a slogan to live in harmony with mother earth, it can also apply to our personal need for introspection. Don't lose sight of the whole picture, but take action to heal those hidden wounds.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world, and, most especially, the world of our friends and family. Let's clear our relationship slate, because when we do, everything not only becomes EZier and EZier, we also restore our experience of the Presence of Being in our lives.

Anne

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"Sometimes we play small and don't realize our potential, but frequently, we expect too much. We demand perfection, consummate wisdom, an ageless body, and a 24-hour positive attitude. When we accept ourselves as we are, help ourselves when we can, and give ourselves a break, we always find that life can be EZier and EZier."

"Once I attended a weekend Vipassana workshop. The leader spoke of the nature of the mind and how it works.  What a breath of fresh air to hear about how the mind works, rather than the normal chatter on how we need to control our minds or think positively. While positive thinking has its place, it is still a form of controlled thinking, manufactured by a frightened mind. Until we know the nature of mind and can flow with its true nature, rather than its egoic nature, we are trapped at death's door. Not physical death: we encounter mental death, psychological death, death of depth, and the death of spontaneity."

"It doesn't matter how we move beyond the mind's chatter, but it does matter that we do move beyond the wall of chatter. Most self-help is about rearranging our thoughts and attitudes, and this makes a great contribution to our freedom, but self-help is only a stepping stone to our release. We can't stay on the stone and tidy it up. We must move forward, into our deeper capacity. While no one can tell us where to go or how to free ourselves, we can follow the signs that point inward and call us to be present, to live in awareness, and to pay attention. It seems scary to move into the uncharted territory of infinite mind, but when we do, we find that our weary hearts are uplifted and that our lives always get EZier and EZier."

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  Healthy Living

Mind Over Food

The most important factor in our health is our thought. Our thoughts and beliefs trump what we eat. They are more powerful than exercise and environment, but it is easier to believe that a salad is healthier for you than ice cream.

I met a man that some people called a master. Not like Jesus, but he was amazing none-the-less. He had tremendous powers; at least that's what my friends said. He got cancer. He cleaned up his diet and worked with his mind and emotions. The cancer went away. He resumed eating a large bowl of ice cream daily. One night, when he was eating ice cream, his inner guidance spoke to him and told him to stop eating the ice cream. "Turn it into something else else while it's still in the bowl." He said he couldn't do that. His guides or guidance voice replied, "If you can't change the ice cream in the bowl, what makes you think you can change it when it's in your stomach? Stop eating ice cream or you will get sick again."

The moral of the story is, even though our minds can keep us healthy, we are not always in touch with the power that can keep us healthy against all odds. That's why I eat few junk foods. My mind is strong, but not strong enough to overcome a steady diet of crummy eating. All that said, I want to share the simple recipe I have for salad dressing and salad.

Dressing

• 2 Tablespoons of apple cider vinegar (with the mother – Braggs is good)
• 4 Tablespoons of olive oil
• 1/2 Teaspoon sea salt
• 1 Tablespoon of dill weed
• 2 Chopped green onions (the onions and salt take the bite out of the vinegar)

Mix everything together and pour it over a large green salad. It's delicious.

My husband and I eat a large salad every night. Here are the ingredients for my salad.

Salad

Here are the ingredients for my salad.

• 1 head of romaine lettuce cut into small pieces
• 1/2 red bell pepper, chopped
• 1 tablespoon pine nuts
• 1/2 cup sliced tomatoes

Put the ingredients in large bowl, mix, pour in all the dressing, and toss. It's much better if you pour the dressing over the salad and then toss the salad, rather than just pouring it over the top and leaving it on top. When we have company, I might add a few chopped artichoke hearts, to add some pizazz, but the salad's great either way, and I always get compliments when we have guests. Eating a raw, healthy salad daily is probably one of the best food choices one can make, and we don't have to do any mind-bending techniques to believe that a salad is healthy!

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