The Anne Report, Heading Toward Home, recounts some of Anne's and Jim's summer ventures and a Florida trip on the way back home. The Main article, The Law of the Three Forces, describes three forces that can affect how our goals play out. The Healthy Living article, Enhancing Your Mind/Body Connection, provides seven tips for enhancing your mind/body connection. The Anne Talk, Kindness is our Best Commodity, talks about the virtuous circle of benefits generated by showing kindness. The Featured Product This Month highlights all 5 of Anne's books. Click to read What is EZosophy? Click for Abundance Affirmations. Click for Shareables From Anne.

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

Living EZosophy, August 28, 2018
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  The Anne Report

Heading Toward Home

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We are camping near Destin, Florida. Thursday we start the two-day drive home. It's been a great 3-1/2 months of RV living. We loved being with the little grands, Thomas and Reynolds, so much. We parked beside their house for two plus of the months we were gone. We played with them a lot. They say the funniest things. Reynolds wanted to know where the pee went when it left the commode. We looked behind the commode and I showed him where it went through the floor into a pipe. He says, "The pee can go to where it lives. It can go home." He spoke with a sense of awe and discovery. Every time Thomas saw me making a protein smoothie with spirulina, he would ask, "Is that dirty?" If you've ever mixed spirulina in your drink, you are familiar with the less than appetizing color. Think cranberry juice and dark green mixed together. "No, it's not dirty. That's the way it's supposed to be." He looked at me like I was demented. His food tastes  are limited.

We went to some lovely Florida springs,  Ginnie Springs, near Lake City. Everyone suited up for the one-hour-plus tube ride down the river. What I didn't realize, was that thong bathing suits were in. I remember when thong underwear was racy; now people wear thong bathing suits! My husband, Jim, had quiet a show. We would raise our eyebrows to each other when we was a particularly beautiful woman with her lower parts blessing the men around. "Good to know I'm not dead," quipped Jim. He said he was glad we went.

We stayed at the Osceola National Forest for four nights. Our site was on Ocean Pond Lake. It's much easier to relax in nature than it is in the city. I’m fortunate we could take our time returning home so we could bask in nature, and if one has a National Parks senior pass, the RV camping rate is only $12.00 a night. Gotta love our national park services. They do an amazing job. And that's it for the Anne Report.

Picture taken from My Campsite on Ocean Pond Lake, Florida
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Anne

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The Law of the Three Forces

Our behaviors are not always what we want them to be and our habits take us off mark. Habituated reactions can put us in physical jeopardy and deliver us to familiar mental and emotional prisons. There's always a list of things we want to change or rearrange. The to do inventory may include things such as altering our eating habits, our worry habits, having children, or turning our lives in a different direction. We want emotional freedom and wish fulfillment. What stands in our way? Maybe it's the Law of the Three Forces.

I learned about the Three Forces when I was in my 30's. The information was invaluable. These are the forces that mobilize when we decide to make a change. Unless we are fully apprised of the obstacles we may encounter, we might give up without giving ourselves the support we need to guide our lives in the right direction.

What are The Three Forces?

The first force is Success. We set a goal and begin to experience success. We find the perfect book to inspire us. We eat healthier food. We find immediate leads on that new job. We lose weight. We don't lose our tempers. Our relationships flourish. Whatever our goal or desire, we seem to be successful or we are well on the way to success. We are on top of the world. Wow.

The second force is Resistance. We had stopped eating after 9 PM, then out of the blue we start craving a mango lassi at 10 PM. The desire is fiercer than ever and we can't resist. The relationship, the one that was getting better, turns sour. Things appear to be worse than ever. Resistance is the ego's last attempt to keep us down. The ego never wants change. But maybe there's another element to this downturn.

Resistance is two sided. It can be our ego trying to sabotage us. If it is our ego messing with us, we need to persist and keep taking steps toward our goals. Another aspect of resistance means that the delay we are experiencing asks us to look deeply. Delays and obstacles give us time and space to clarify our desires. Are we going in the direction of our deepest needs? If it's our hearts that bring up resistance, we need to find what soul needs undergird our desires.

I was engaged to a man who stood before a large audience at a relationships seminar and declared he would move mountains to make our relationship the best it could be. He wanted us to be role model, and we were the happy couple, for about 6 more seconds. Knowing the second force, I was dubious, and then it happened: our relationship tanked. After five years together, he broke our engagement and left. This is a living example of the second force. After our initial success to a greater commitment, we were blind-sided by the ferocity of the second force.

The third force is Persistence. It's essential to recognize the ego's attempts and the energy of the second force. There is a part of the mind that doesn't want you to succeed. Persistence is the force that triumphs over resistance. It is important to believe in what you want and take consistent action toward changing your life.

This is a good time to reevaluate, to be sure you still want what you are reaching for. You may want to look at your goal in a different way. If your goal is to have an emotionally honest and loving relationship and heretofore you have been fighting like combat soldiers, you may want to rework your desire. Maybe you could change your desire to be something like, "My partner and I are getting along a little better every day." Expect small, positive changes in your relationship and work together to make those things happen.

You may want to take the focus off your relationship all together and focus on yourself. You might realize your partner has no investment in making things different. You can only make changes in your own life. You can't make changes in someone else's life. Persistence gives us the opportunity to examine our wants and to be sure they serve our highest good.

Beneath all our desires and goals, there is an essence or want that drives desires. You may want to write a book, but underneath that desire is really your need to feel appreciated or acknowledged as a person. Persistence allows you to keep looking at different angles of your desire so you can get to the essence of what you want. It may be that the resistance we encounter is the heart saying to take a new look at our desire. If we just drop our wants, without examining them, we might not get the message. Examine all sides of your desires so you can see which ones bring you closer to your ultimate goals of peace and joy.

In creating our lives, changing our habits, and obtaining our goals, there are three forces: Success, Resistance, and Persistence. Remember not to bail on your desires at the first sign of trouble. We must recognize these forces and use them to our benefit, and when we do, we can definitely make our lives easier and easier.

Anne

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  Healthy Living

Enhancing Your Mind/Body Connection

Recently I conducted a training entitled "Reduce Stress by Getting in Touch with Your Body." We sang, danced, laughed, and moved. When Joni Mitchell sang, "We Got to Get Back to the Garden," she might as well have been talking about connecting our heads to our bodies. Unless we are fully connected to our bodies, there is no garden. Every participant got the message and there was no resistance to moving those bodies. Playing requires the body, not just a mind.

Here's list of ways to keep that mind/body connection going.

1. Stretch before you get out of bed. Think cat or dog. They are our teachers. Our bodies really, really, really need this gentle stretch in the morning.
2. Bounce on a mini tramp (also known as a rebounder) or an exercise ball. The up and down movement turns on the lymph system. Get some great music and bounce. See my Lucy and Anne Jump video.
3. Facial exercises make your face come alive. Say the word "who" ten times. Open mouth as wide as possible and close it, with lips puckered, ten times. Pat cheeks one minute. Rub tip of nose 20 times.
4. Walk for 15 minutes after a meal. It reeves up your metabolism for over an hour and you will burn more fat. Try walking in place while watching TV or talking on the phone.
5. Put walking into your normal routines. When possible, walk around your house or even outside, when you are on the phone. You don't notice the exercise when on the phone. Once I was walking in circles around a parking lot and someone came out and asked if I was okay. This was when cell phones were relatively new and they thought I was walking around in circles talking to myself!
6. Give yourself a foot and hand massage. It gets your energy moving. Massage hands in the morning and feet in the evening.
7. Rub a Dub Dub. When drying off after your shower, do a real rub a dud dub. Buff that skin. The skin is the largest organ and it eliminates toxins. You can accomplish the same thing with a dry brush or a loofah.

Practicing some or all of these tips will help you keep your mind and body connected, so you're more in touch with your entire beingness.

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

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Kindness is our Best Commodity

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