The Anne Report, Summer Awaycation, shares Anne and Jim's plans for a summer with their 4-year-old grand twins. The Main article, Who Am I?, helps to lead us toward finding who we really are but we were taught otherwise. The Healthy Living article, Support Your Local Pineal Gland,discuses the importance of the pineal gland and how certain foods support it. The Anne Talk, What if?, invites us to dwell on good things happening, instead of awful things. 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 15, 2018
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Summer Awaycation

Dear ,

We are already packing for our trip, even though it is still a few days before we leave. I've never been away from home three months in a row. It's exciting and nerve wracking at the same time. We have someone staying at home, so we don't have to worry about our house, but the task seems daunting in some ways. We will drive the RV attached to our truck and the Prius to Charleston, S. C., then camp in an RV park. We are going to spend the summer with our grandchildren.

Anne and Jim's RV


Anne and Jim's Truck

The grands turn 4 on May 18, and this is a time in their lives we don't want to miss. We put our home on the market a couple of years ago, with plans to move closer, but our home never sold. We had two floods in the neighborhood. In addition, the rental and housing market suffered because our area was overbuilt. This has worked to our advantage, because we decided if we couldn't move our home, we could still move around. We've enjoyed some great times in our RV and look forward to more. We pared down our belongings and we love where we live, so there's a happy ending.

We could have probably made this move work, but something in me just didn't want to push. When I am completely sure of something, I push, but when I am unsure, I take all the action I can, then surrender. This simple plan makes my life easier: do what you can do, and then let it go. And I'm glad I did, because resistance makes life hard.

I'm speaking on Sunday and we plan to leave Sunday afternoon. Send us some traveling mercies and join with me in believing that everything can be EZ or at least EZier.

Anne

  Main Article

Who Am I?

Who am I? This question seems to call for a description of our role, our personality, our desires, and our dreams, but it's a call to self-realization. This question asks us to silence every voice of recognition and calls us to silence. Silence requires that we experience it, not define it.

The egoic mind offers multiple compelling arguments as to our identity. Its dominant voice hypnotizes us into the belief that our essence is our personality. When we wake up to who we are, all previous patterns of self-recognition lie dormant. It was a moment of triumph, satisfaction, and deep realization. Who and what we are can only be accessed through direct experience, and that experience is only now. Increasing numbers of books are written to point toward the eternal now. This now is not the plain old psychological point, bound by a clock; it is an expansive, ever-present movement of consciousness.

These days everyone wants techniques. We are a solution-oriented culture, and to step beyond the confines of the problem/solution paradigm seems blasphemous. People are encouraged to make lists to discover who they are. Goals are suggested to lure our identity to the surface, and values are touted as a reflection of self. While these techniques offer honorable activity for the personality, they are not the tools of deliverance they promise to be.

There is one word that might be more applicable than others, a word that offers a possibility to the mind. This word is surrender. This word asks the mind to stop all reasoning, definitions, and analysis. This word asks the mind to serve an undefinable yet powerful presence. This presence is the Self.

When I was young, I learned the practice of Mantra yoga. I repeated the mantra faithfully. This practice trains the mind into submission to a higher consciousness. Once the mind stops seeking thrills, thoughts, thinking, and emotions, it settles down enough for the recognition of Self to start bleeding through. I say recognition of Self because the Self is always bleeding through the personality. We tend to be so preoccupied with our words, beliefs, thoughts, and emotions that we fail to notice consciousness itself. We are like a fish looking for water or humans in search of the air. I mentioned Mantra yoga because it, as well as meditation and breathing techniques, are tools that train the mind to let go, but letting go is beyond any technique. The technique primes the mind to accept its final deliverance into submission.

When I begin my spiritual search, I was miffed because I ran into phrases like search for meaning and search for God. I searched so hard that I had blisters on my soul. Ironically, it was only when I gave up the search and fell deflated into a hopeless sorrow that I found my Self lurking in the rubble. When I stopped trying to be somebody I wasn't, stop emulating what I thought was holy, when I realized the dangers of perfectionism, there was always an ever-present, sweet and still presence of Self that didn't eradicate my personality: the entity I called Anne. It celebrated this manifestation of the One. It seemed like the Holy Order of the Self. It's an order we all belong to but fail to notice. I can see why it's called a spiritual journey, this journey to the Self, but the hardest part is stopping the so-called journey to recognize that we are already what we seek.

I propose these thoughts of Self with the hope that they don't stir up more frustration than clarity. Maybe they offer an oasis to those who are tired of the spiritual treadmill. There is a power that is you, that requires your attention, not your intention. You already are what you seek and who you are can only be experienced now. Ask frequently, "Who am I?" and don't try to find an answer to that question. Let the answer become the living you. Rest the mind. Take refuge in the Self. Celebrate the softness of your spirit. Let the spirit of who you are lead your personality into the manifestation it was created to be. Consider the lyrics from the song, I Am a Loyal Servant.

I am your loyal servant, a part of God's great plan.
I'm here to love and serve you in every way I can.
Pure light shines through me, my work has just begun.
Now that I can see, there is only one.

The key to this, is the last line, there is only one: the realization of that One is our last mission. That mission is the realization of the self.

Anne

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"Belief Systems (B. S.) are irrelevant, but they can be useful in delivering the mind to a more joyful experience of reality. They can serve as guides to a weary mind and bring rest to useless mental chatter. Belief systems can support and betray, for they are only expressions of something that cannot be expressed or codified. Belief systems cannot deliver the ultimate joy of being. At their best, they point the way to truth, and at their worst, they lead to truth decay and dis-spiritualization."

Examine what you believe. Is it based in inspiration or desperation? Does your B. S. ground you, uplift you, or scare the life out of you? The Stillness strips away the thoughts and brings us closer to Atman. (I found this in my journal. I may have written it, it sounds like me, but the use of the word Atman and dis-spiritualization make me wonder. Regardless, I think it's worth quoting whether I wrote it or not. Truth decay is a phrase I use, and I often tout the irrelevancy of belief systems. ASG)

"You are a very powerful healer. Never doubt that. That talent came with your body. Your body has an astounding ability to heal itself … and there's more good news: your body is seeking its perfect size. The more you focus on the strengths of your true nature, the more power you have in all areas of your life. You already are capable of having a healthier, slimmer body. Remember that. All resistance to that thought is drama. Drop the drama. Do not be a Hard-a-holic. A Hard-a-holic makes life hard and suffers about it."

"When waiting, whether it be in line, on the phone, or in an office, we tend to feel out of control and become agitated or unpleasant to others. Our voice may get harsh as we complain or our inner emotional climate can heat up. Don't fight to be right about waiting. Waiting will happen, and the more we resist waiting, the more waiting will occur. Make waiting a Wonderful Adventure In Time (WAIT)."

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  Healthy Living

Support Your Local Pineal Gland

Recently I gave a presentation on the use of intuition. Usually I talk about techniques and definition, but when I started researching the pineal gland, also known as the third eye, I found some startling information. The pineal gland is a pine cone shaped endocrine gland that sits behind the forehead, between our eyes. This gland, when activated, is the seat of intuition, but that's not all it does. Serotonin, one of the feel good chemicals, turns into melatonin in the brain. Melatonin fights free radicals, keeps us young, and gives us a good night's sleep. When melatonin levels decline, we start looking a little craggy!

The pineal gland also regulates our daily and seasonal circadian rhythms. Just as our earth has seasons, we have seasons. Night time is our winter. Wakeup time is our spring. Summer time is our active time, or productive part of the day, and fall is our evening. We live longer and are healthier when we live with our body's natural rhythms, and if our pineal gland can't do its job, our seasons get out of whack.

Good news. There are foods that support a healthier pineal. Here's the list:

• Chlorella. Chlorella, Spirulina, and Wheatgrass
• Iodine
• Oregano Oil
• Apple Cider Vinegar, with the mother
• Beets or Beet Juice, non-GMO
• Raw Cacao

Bad news. These things are not good for the pineal gland:

• Fluoride, from tap water, settles into the pineal gland and calcifies it. I skip the toothpaste with fluoride too. The fluoride used in tap water is an unprocessed industrial by-product of the phosphate fertilizer industry, called silicofluorides.
• Metronidazole, sold also as Flagyl, is used to treat pelvic inflammatory disease, endocarditis, and bacterial vaginosis. It is effective for dracunculiasis, giardiasis, trichomoniasis, and amebiasis. I used to use this before I discovered probiotics. Yikes. Forgive me, pineal gland. I didn't know what I was doing.

More good news. Boron is an antidote for the destruction caused by fluoride. These foods are high in Boron:

• Avocados
• Prunes
• Raisins
• Almonds
• Hazelnuts
• Dates

If you want your intuition to rise and you want more sleep, support your pineal gland. If you want to look younger and feel happier, support your pineal gland. I hope these few facts make you aware that we can do more than we realize to support our pineal glands. We can give them the foods they need to make a comeback and to operate more efficiently. Dates, anyone?

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

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What if?

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