The Anne Report, Happy Mother's Day, shares some of Anne's Mother's Day memories and a suggestion for you. The Main article, Mind Mastery, discusses how to master our mind instead relying only on our brain. The Healthy Living article, Body Miracle, reminds us that we should notice how well our body is doing, even when we have health challenges. The Anne Talk, Happy Mothering Day, invites us to re-imprint beautiful images of our mother/child relationship. The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne's fifth book, The Living Book. Click to learn about all of Anne's Books. Click for What is EZosophy? Click for Abundance Affirmations.

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

Living EZosophy, May 08, 2018
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Happy Mother’s Day

Dear ,

Anne's Mom, Ernestine Keel Sermons

Every Mother's Day I have a little bit of panic. What will I get…? Then I remember, "There is no mother to call or send a card to." My mom passed away 13 years ago, and I still momentarily forget. My mom, Ernestine Keel Sermons, was a meek woman. My parents divorced in the early 1950's. This was very rare in the south. Of course, no one mowed laws on Sunday either: it was considered a sin. I was too young to know what her marital status might have meant to society and to her. She would have been somewhat of an outcast, but to me, she was plain ole mom, sweet, simple, soft-spoken, and witty.

Now I'm a mother and a grandmother, and Mother's Day takes on a different meaning. It's the day my husband asks if I want to go out to lunch, and one of the days he brings me a humorous card. Regardless our age, we all need a little mothering. Check out this month's Anne Talk for a 5-minute nurturing pick me up.

If your mom is still with us, remember to send a card, a present, or flowers. Call her or visit if she is local. If she's no longer with you, send her a silent thank you. Our country might think the U. S. military holds us together, but they are wrong. It's our mothers who hold us together.

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  Main Article

Mind Mastery

Early in our spiritual and emotional development, we become aware of the run-away mind. It has long been referred to as the monkey mind. The mind twists and turns in endless prattle, going nowhere. It dances to misfires and blunders. Sometimes it sneaks to its destination, but other times, it races like an obsessed junkie. This mind exhausts us; it drags us down and pulls us around like a dog tied to runaway horse.

The idea that "The mind is a great servant, but not a good master" is a fundamental principle in spiritual living. Many think of the mind as the brain, but the mind's outer limits are semi-permeable and our expanded mind functioning is tied to creative intelligence. The parameters of the brain are limited, but the mind has no limits. The direction of our thoughts changes as we open our minds. We move from thinking and creating from the brain, to downloading thoughts and inspiration from Master Intelligence.

Spiritual practice, at its best, moves from personal mental hell realms to heaven on earth; at least that's the promise. I practiced and meditated, and created a rosy reality, and certainly still do, but it was only when I began to realize the uselessness of much of my thinking, that I was willing to go to a deeper level. And, surrendering to a deeper level, necessitated making choices on how I focused my mind, required eating a diet that supported a quieter mind, and demanded physical movement. The mind is tricky. It has its ways, and we can't tune into the essence of our being if we sit on our mental, spiritual, or emotional buts and butts.

I have my ways too, and I love certain practices that tend to calm my body and heart. This favorite, simple practice is adapted from a Deepak Chopra technique.

Just as our mind habituates itself to drama and the lack of focus, we must create a habit of focus and calm. Try this process in the morning, upon awakening, and at night, when drifting off to sleep. I also use it in the middle of the night, when I can't sleep, and during the day, to settle down my mind.

Find a quiet, comfortable place. Imagine the center of your chest as a still pool of water. See a drop of water hitting the pool. The drop represents a spiritual principle. There will be at least four drops into the water. The first drop is love, then peace, harmony, and finally laughter. Breathe in, and on the exhale, see the drop of love falling into the still pond. Imagine concentric circles moving across the water. Continue with a drop of peace, harmony, and laughter. Once the process is set in the mind, just the thought of four drops into the water has a calming effect. Expand the practice by doing four sets of each heart sutra; love, peace, harmony, and laughter.

Peaceful people are peaceful because they have learned to live life in a non-reactive way. They have done the work. A calm mind is non-reactive mind. Living fresh, without hindrance from life's learned fears and phobias, is mental and emotional freedom. The mind's harvest is a result of the harnessing of the mind. It is not so important what we do to tame the mind, but it is vital that we do something. The mind, left to its own devices, spirals downwards. Until we learn to calm our minds, we live in emotional turmoil, but once we find a way, any way, our lives become EZier and EZier.

Anne

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"We have a thought that we are too much for others to handle. If we speak out, people can't take it. If we are fully alive in the presence of others, who are amid some dilemma, or not as accomplished as we are, we do them a disservice. If we are brilliant, we will be lonely, because we will be put on a pedestal, envied, or thought to be too big for our britches. We believe our aliveness, enthusiasm, and light hurt others. Our brilliance is too much for others to handle. We will outshine others, and they will be left in a darkened misery. We are embarrassed to be lucky, happy, more abundant than others, or healthy. We don't want to disturb others' suffering by being happy."
-- Anne Sermons Gillis

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  Healthy Living

Body Miracle

Recently I purchased a new computer. It looks like my old computer, but it works. My husband makes frequent comments on how nice it looks and feels. I don't even notice the difference since I'm using the same programs I used on the old computer. Today he said, "I bet you like having a WIFI that works." My old computer was one of the new computer types that could not be directly plugged into the internet, and it had a faulty built-in WIFI. I had an external WIFI connection that competed with the internal connection. It was a hassle to work out the compatibility issues. And it crashed frequently, and the USB ports gave me problems. I had too many computer inconveniences. "Yes," I replied, to his question about the WIFI. I realized that I so easily slipped into the EZ advantages of my new computer, that doesn't have problems at every turn. And I had not noticed.

It is easy to see when things go wrong, but when things go right, we often overlook them. This whole idea, which is not new, got my attention this week. Tim Bays sings a great A Thousand Things Went Right Today. My favorite lyrics are "Sometimes when our tire goes flat, it's really hard to see, just how well it's going for the other three."

The body coordinates 6 trillion simultaneous functions. The heart is going, white cells are doing their things, all kinds of chemical reactions are percolating. The body is an alchemical miracle. We eat an apple and the body transforms it into energy. If we have 10 things wrong with our bodies, we still have many more things working as they should. When we are ill, the body goes to work, doing just what it needs to do. Just as heat transforms cake batter into a cake, the body turns food into fuel, illness into health, and vibrations into sound.

It may not be so important to my computer to notice what a great job it's doing, but it is important to remind ourselves how well things are going with and in our bodies, even when we are ill, and especially when we have a chronic disease. Every cell, every organ, is ease dropping on our internal dialogue and attitude toward our body. We must be cheerleaders for our bodies, despite what's not right.

I have a spine condition called scoliosis. It's bothered me since I was young, and even though I have pain at times, I decided when I was in my 30's that I was not going to let the condition get me down. At the time I was bent over in pain and thought I was going to drop out of college. I went to the chiropractor and asked him what I could do. He said, "Walk." I started walking and my back got better and better. I didn't have to drop out of school. I do have to cater to my back. I don't deny I have some problems, but I don't ride my back problems. I don't lead my conversations with stories about my back, and it's paid off.

I attracted a great retired healer into my life who works on my back. I believe that I attracted him because I refused to give into my pain, and the universe met me halfway, and continues to meet my halfway. Sometimes when I hurt, I get an idea of how to move my body or what to do to help relieve the pain. There may be an angel in my pocket whispering to me. I don't deny my body has challenges, but I don't give into them either. I don't let my pain define me; I let my health lead the way.

We don't have to be glib or cavalier about our health challenges. We need not deny them, but when what's ailing us becomes the center of our lives, it's downhill from there. Let's focus on the body's miracles and watch how well this serves us, because when we do, everything become EZier and EZier.

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

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Happy Mothering Day

In Happy Mothering Day, Anne invites us to use this simple exercise to help us imprint happiness at a deep level in the primal brain, the spinal cord. Through images of your mother, you can re-imprint old, limiting emotional patterns, with better images. A couple of minutes a day can change your life.. Time: 4:57

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