The Anne Report, Staying Sane in a Changing World, reminds us that things do change in life, and we must find ways to successfully manage unavoidable changes. The Main article, Infinite Intelligence's Delivery System, shows how local intelligence and infinite intelligence combine to guide our lives beyond the capacity of only our local brain. The Healthy Living article, Do Your Best, reminds us to be diligent about our health, but not overdo it, to the point of exhausting ourselves. The Anne Talk, The Beige Path, talks about being real in life, not "beige." The Featured Product This Month highlights Offbeat Prayers for the Modern Mystic. 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, September 18, 2018
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  The Anne Report

Staying Sane in a Changing World

Dear ,

It's been another crazy week for the planet. Our family and friends in SC and NC, yours included, if you have any, have been under immense pressure. My daughter and family evacuated from Charleston to Atlanta, but the people I've texted in the Charleston area, the ones who stayed, are fine at this moment. I survived Hurricane Harvey; I know what people go through. Even though our home was spared, our neighborhood was not. My neighbors are still rebuilding, and many have moved and bought other homes. We had a mild case of PTSD after the event, but I'm sure my neighbors, who have rebuilt multiple times, are worn down, knowing they face the threat again.

I recently read an article in the NC News and Observer, a Raleigh paper. The title was "NC beach homes and coast are ‘doomed' and residents need to get out, scientist says." This article is a warning. The NC legislature is in denial about climate change and they voted not to use current scientific models of climate change in preparing the state for the future. Now thousands are in jeopardy, and though the state may not have done things differently for this hurricane, they could prepare their citizens for potential problems and warn them to see the writing on the wall. At some point, taxpayers are going to be tired of footing the bill for people to live on the coast. In contrast, on the west coast, the subduction zone is an area of potential disaster. The local governments have disseminated information for years to residents in the area. There are multiple emergency plans in place. This should be the norm in the US.

We are undergoing drastic changes in our weather patterns and the denial of this is like a family with an alcoholic father whose family denies a problem exists. It's the family secret. There's a YouTube channel that puts out a monthly video of the climate disasters in one month. It's startling to watch. Ronald Reagan would be appalled at the current state of his brain child, The EPA. The current administration has rolled back pollution limits to favor big business, while gutting the EPA. The former head of the EPA thought it was a victory when he overturned a mandate or law that rolled back pollution regulations. We the people suffer. I am fortunate to live the spiritual life, because if I didn't, I think I'd be stark-raving mad! While I do what I can to expose the gravity of our earth mother's situation, and have been doing so for 50 years, my efforts bear little fruit. I'm glad that I have a little of the peace that passeth understanding, because without it, I'd be stumbling and crumbling. Though I like to keep the newsletter on the light and bright side, I'll have to go with Ecclesiastes 3 on this one, "There's a time for everything." So during the week of the 9/11 anniversary and Hurricane Florence, it is a time to reflect, not rejoice. It's time to stand in love, not dissolve in fear, and that's it for the Anne report.

Anne

  Main Article

Infinite Intelligence's Delivery System

Want health? Health is bigger than our bodies. While health includes our bodies, it also includes mental health, financial health, relationship health, and career health. How do we develop our health? We must develop our minds. The mind is not just the brain in the head. It is the intelligence that resides throughout the human body. This intelligence informs our cells how to act and react. It talks to the sub-atomic structures that make up our bodies. This intelligence does not rely solely on words; it informs a spectrum that includes mind and body but brings in other types of information that are unintelligible to our intellect. It's information and intelligence that speaks to our organs, our cells, to our feeling nature, and to (but not just to) our logical minds. The information is translated according to its destination. The Information that goes to our cells is coded differently than information that goes to our brain or to our intellect. Though the messages are delivered in different languages, they are coordinated; they allow six trillion simultaneous functions in our body. It informs our bodies, our thoughts, our emotions, and interfaces with our true natures and with our perceived natures. It is the source of intuition.

The Sophomoric Attitude

High schools and universities throughout the U. S. have a sophomore year. The freshman year is the rookie year, but by the time the student reaches their second year, they imagine they have figured everything out. They have a false sense of confidence and a know-it-all attitude. That is the classic definition of sophomoric. It means thinking we know-it-all when we are naïve and underinformed.

Many seekers are in the sophomore year of their spiritual understanding, thinking they are in control and know what to do and how to do it. They have discovered one aspect of consciousness that has brought them a certain distance but are unaware of the impermanence of belief systems. A canoe can carry us across the river, but it won't take us across the ocean. We start out in a canoe, and when we find the row boat, we think we have the whole ocean figured out. That's why it is good to keep a beginner's mind. When our minds are full of the "I know it; I got it" attitudes, our minds are too "informed" to see anything except what we already believe. We are not teachable; we are sophomoric. This attitude pops up in religion and in academia. Scholars have such an investment in being knowledgeable that they lose a sense of wonder, curiosity, and discovery. Have we all become scholars?

Letting Go

Developing our minds occurs when we let go of the beliefs, attitudes, and the habits that limit our awareness of this ongoing dynamic interchange between Infinite Intelligence and our local intelligence. We have a local mind field and an infinite mind field that are always communicating with each other, and the more aware we are of this interchange, the easier our lives become. We are healthier and happier when we discover that we no longer need to run the universe.

The key to healthier living rests more on emptying out than on obtaining more information. That's why meditation is the rage in the west. Even in the age of technology, we have figured out that in the case of enlightenment or unencumbered living, less is more. We have been a culture of getting more. We want bigger houses, faster cars, gourmet foods. We set goals so we can get more, but maybe we have been asking the wrong question. Should the question be, "How do I get less?" The Buddhist nature is about non-attachment. Non-attachment is an emptying. We want to be all that we can be, when we already are all that we are. Ironically, we have to empty ourselves to find ourselves.

More than Enough

No one can convince us that we already are what we seek. It is a realization that we stumble across on our way while cleaning up the egoic mind's messes. We are humbled by our mis-takes and realize that something much bigger than our thoughts, beliefs, and abilities is in charge and we might as well surrender to it. We fall flat on our faces, only to fall through a past of misunderstandings and then land into a field of grace. And it is here that we see God's face and realize it is our own. There is no separation. There is no it and me; there is only one Thee. And in this realization, we dip into the peace that passes understanding, and that is more than enough. A new kind of more takes over our lives as the need to accumulate knowledge and material items fades away. We want more stillness, more time for reflection, more laughter. But whatever presents itself in life's reality, in the infinite now, is always more than enough, and naturally our lives become EZier and EZier.

Anne

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  Healthy Living

Do Your Best

As I age, my health becomes more of a priority. I've read about cells and how, theoretically, they can live forever. Research shows that much of the body replicates itself over different spans of time, so the body I have today is not the same body I had last year. That means most of the cells in my body have been replaced. I'll call them virgin cells.

Research informs me that the nucleus is not the cell's brain and that my thoughts actually have dominion over my health. Since my virgin cells don't get their smarts from an internal, localized, cellular brain, I supposed my virgin cells needed instruction. So I instructed my cells the best I could. I nourished them, fed them, complimented them, and gave them energy, but they seemed to be rebels, because my motto, "Every day, in every way, I am getting healthier and healthier" seems to have missed its mark. At least part of the time.

I am happy for my level of health, but I look older and feel older. The curves in my back, the ones that go the wrong way, give me hip pain, back pain, and limit some of my activities. I don't bound up the stairs as many times a day as I used to. Does this mean I won't continue to take care of myself? Of course not. My plan is to "Do my best and forget the rest." This is a great health motto. Worry about our body's aches and pains feeds those little virgin cells life-denying information, in an indirect way. Worry causes stress, stress causes certain chemical reactions, and, finally, the little virgin cells get instructions to break down faster, and I surely do not want anything to break down any faster than it already is.

So why worry when you can sing, dance, read, pray, or do thousands of other things that don't contribute to stress?

If you have time, it's 2.5 hours long, check out Bruce Lipton's video on "Mind Over Matter." Even though I want to accept things the way they are, without suffering, there is plenty of evidence that our health can improve in the future. While I may not be able to implement all the possibilities new research offers, it is still refreshing to find out that what we believe to be true, might not be as true as previous science has mandated.

Remember, when it comes to your health, "Do your best and forget the rest." We can never be perfect in our beliefs and behaviors, so we need to give ourselves credit for what we do and allow ourselves to enjoy our lives regardless, of the level of health we currently have. Life is a gift, and it never helps when we ditz the package and the delivery person!

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

  Anne Talk

The Beige Path

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