The Anne Report, Growing Past Our Limitations, reminds us that we can choose to outgrow our past limitations. The Main article, The Speech of a Lifetime, is an example of how EZosophy can help us successfully navigate extreme circumstances. The Healthy Living article, Goodnight., offers some helpful tips for better sleep. The Anne Talk, Manifesting Support, provides a personal example of manifestation. The Featured Product This Month highlights all 5 of Anne's books. Click to read What is EZosophy? Click for Shareables From Anne. Click for Abundance Affirmations.

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

Living EZosophy, August 14, 2018
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  The Anne Report

Growing Past Our Limitations

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My four-year-old grandsons love to play hide and seek. They are not sure of the rules, but they love the game none-the-less. If they find a hiding place they like, they want to continue hiding in the same place repeatedly. When the other twin goes to find him, even though he knows the hiding place, each acts exuberant and surprised when the one hiding is found.

Thomas called me into the guest bedroom to show me a monster he created by shining his flashlight on the bedpost. He points to the monster, which is a shadow on the wall. "Look at the monster, Grand Ma Ma."  Later he explained that he couldn't hide in the guest bedroom because there was a monster in there.

One day when we are playing, Thomas goes to hide. I start counting and hear a scream. His mom rushes to find him. He was in his closet, but when he closed the door, it was dark, and he was afraid of the dark. His mom got in the closet with him and the game continued.

It's easy to see how children scare themselves with self-created fear. It's tougher, however, to see how we create our own personal horror stories, but we do. We have a series of self-created horror stories we count on to get us out of things we don't want to do. These stories become an effective tool in keeping us imprisoned in the emotional past of a four-year-old. That's why emotional clearing is so important. I could write a book on this and, in fact, I did. If you want to move beyond some of the limits from your past, I suggest my book, Words Make a Difference. The first part of the book helps you identify and move past beliefs that keep us stuck in fear. I think you'll love this book. It takes us from our limits to our possibilities. And that's it for the Anne report.

Anne

  Main Article

The Speech of a Lifetime

Well, maybe it wasn't the speech of a lifetime, but the events surrounding the speech were intense. On Sunday, September 12, 2014, I arose in good spirits. I was adequately prepared for my talk on world peace. I ate a light breakfast and took a conglomeration of vitamins. As I prepared for the hour trip to Webster, TX, I had a thought, "Something is not right and something regarding my health will happen during the service." I remembered a colleague who had a similar inner warning and she had a stroke, while speaking, during a Sunday service. I was a little shaken, but I my inner knowing told me that it wouldn't be life-threatening and that I could just handle it as it came. I went downstairs and saw my husband, who had decided to stay home. I knew he should come with me, but he wasn't dressed, there wasn't time for him to change, and I had to get on my way. I kissed him, told him I was feeling strange, and hopped into the driver's seat. Off I go.

On the hour ride over, my thoughts became gruesome and I watched them pass, thinking that all mental activity is not pleasant, and this mindset would pass. Then fear visited. "What are you doing here?" I addressed the fear with curiosity. It was like a little friend was peeping in to check on me. I just kept driving. By the time I arrived at the church, I had indigestion. I looked for baking soda. No baking soda, no soda water. I asked members if they had any digestive enzymes, and the best I could find was some Gas X, which I took.

Now it's time for the service. I start to lead the congregation in meditation and break into a sweat - I tell the congregation to rest in the stillness. I sit down and take off my jacket. It's time to go back to the podium. I knew I had to get up, so I stood, came to the mike, and ended meditation. By this time, I was dizzy, and certain I was going to throw up. I ran down the center isle towards the bathroom. I heave, and let out a loud fart, fortunately no spewing until I reached the restroom. I heave and fart again - great - still I'm on the center isle running for my life. I arrive and throw up in the bathroom. I didn't close the door; the bathroom was close, so everyone had a front row seat to the sounds. (I didn't think about that until later. I was oblivious to everything at this point.) I am so weak I collapse on the floor only to stand up to heave again. I feel like I am dying or close to death. Familiar reference points dissolve. Finally, I finish. I'm weak, but I feel much better. I'm having chills. I rinse out my mouth and walk back into the room. Someone is volunteering to deliver the message. I say "No, I want to do it; just put a chair beside the microphone and I'll speak from a seated position." And so, it came to pass I delivered a talk on world peace.

I value freedom. I seek freedom from inner shame, freedom from what others think about me, and freedom from what I make up about what others might be saying about me, and in this peaceful experience of being sick and being the center of attention, I was free. I was free to be sick, I was free from concern about the service, and free of worry from what others thought about my hightailing it out to throw up. I look back into my life and remember a time where this would have thrown me, as in I would have been mortified. But on that Sunday, I felt free to live in the moment, placing no judgments on what happened, and going with the flow, even if the flow was not an ideal scenario. I was free to be me, in sickness and in health, for better or worse, and even though I have many limitations, I am thrilled about the many breakthroughs. Life's a trip and I'm along for the ride.

This is the essence of the EZosophy philosophy - let go of the struggle and pain; they rob us of life. Ease is available all the time. Even though this experience was not easy, it was easier than it could have been if it were fraught with self-judgment and perfectionism. I'm living the eight-word miracle mantra, "Everything can be easy or at least easier." I hope you are living it too. Let's all be EZosophist philosophists.

Anne

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  Healthy Living

Goodnight.

Have you ever lain awake until the wee hours of the morning? I have - too many times to count. That's when I started looking for ways to improve my sleeping experience. I also heard that poor sleep contributes to dementia. Yikes! More motivation to want to sleep better. Here are a few things I learned that worked.

1. Good rest tip number one: Massage your feet before you go to bed. While one does not want to do regular exercises at night, since they rev you up, some massages can help you get to sleep. Here's a great video by Richard Poley. It's a do it while you view it video. It doesn't take long to learn this practice, so you can eventually do it without the video.
2. Good rest tip number two: Wear socks to bed. When the feet warm up, it signals the body that it's time to wind down and go to sleep. If our feet get cold during the night, the body thinks the cooling is a signal to wake up. If the idea of wearing socks to bed freaks you out, try massaging your feet with coconut oil. Oil keeps heat in the body, but your sheets might get some oil on them.
3. Good rest tip number three: Take a magnesium capsule at bedtime. I take 400 mg. Magnesium relaxes the body.
4. Good rest tip number four: Take melatonin at night. I used to take 3 mg of melatonin at night. My doctor told me to take 10 mg of time released melatonin. Yes, 10 mg does work better.
5. Good rest tip number five: Get off all electronic devises one hour before you plan to go to sleep. Read a book. If you read an eBook, be sure you use a reader that is not back lit, such as a Kindle Paperwhite.
6. Good rest tip number six: Sleep in a dark room. Cover any lighting you may have in your room. Even the tiniest blue light suppresses the production of melatonin. I found one study that said red light actually improves sleep quality. While I'm not convinced of this, at least I won't freak out in hotel rooms any more when they have those red digital clocks. I actually sleep with a sleep mask so as to keep the light pollution down.
7. Good rest tip number seven: Get plenty of exercise during the day. Exercise helps everything. Take three 10-minute walks a day if you don't like to walk for 30 minutes. Stretch. Walk in place when you watch TV. Just do something.

There are many more things we can do to ensure a good night's rest, but if you do the seven I recommend, you should sleep like a baby. All this talk about sleep is making me sleepy, and I am yawning too. Goodnight.

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