The Anne Report, Life is EZier When You Flow With the Go, shows some of the ways Anne makes her life EZier when things go awry. The Main article, Good Relationships Depend on Emotional Sobriety gives some helpful ways to better handle our emotions. The Healthy Living article, Vegan Banana Bread Recipe, provides an easy, tasty recipe for your enjoyment. The Anne Talk, The Unfamiliarity of Doing Things the EZ Way, recommends some simple ways to make your Christmas chores EZier. The Featured Product This Month highlights the newly reprinted version of Anne's book EZosophy:The Art and Wisdom of EZ or At Least EZier Living. 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, October 30, 2018
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  The Anne Report

Life is EZier When You Flow With the Go

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Tomorrow I fly to Toronto to attend the Parliament of the World's Religions. I will meet my friend, Rev. Karen Love Baisinger, and we plan to rock the convention, commensurate with our abilities to rock. I met Karen when we were in our twenties, and we are currently in our 7th decade. Though we speak regularly by phone, it is a rare treat to meet face to face.

Being prudent, I booked our VBRO accommodations in February. I received a cancellation by the owner six days before we were to arrive.  Panic. When there are 10,000 other people coming to the convention, it was easy to imagine that all rooms in the inn were full, especially at the rate we had paid. I was on the drive back home when I received word: "Oh, ye of little faith." I knew in my heart that all would be well, but my gut was protesting, as I swam in a cortisol (the stress hormone) bath.

Fortunately, my husband, Jim, was driving. That allowed me to call and to be online to re-book rooms. Okay, there was no instant re-booking, but one day later, after numerous emails, multiple calls, which included automation, and long waits on the phone, I booked another space. Turns out that we now have a wonderful place, which costs twice what we originally paid, but we pay no extra. Very good score for Dr. Money (my Facebook alias for the Prosperity Group).

Next, how does a Texas gal pack for Toronto? It was in the high 70's here today. Yikes. Guys may not have the same experience; my husband packs at the last minute. But for us ladies, our wardrobe choices require careful consideration. Time for my packing prayer and a re-read of the section on travel in my book, Words Make a Difference. As my friend, Rev. Kimberly Renolett Heck, says, in the face of every situation, "Let's have fun with this." It's almost her mantra. I think I will take her advice and spend my day having fun. I will see myself as a packing genius. I claim amazing packing wisdom. I am a master packer. Packing provides a most blissful opportunity to use my ingenuity, creativity, and savvy. Yes, this is overboard, but it's helping me because I am having fun with this. And that's it for the Anne report.

Anne

  Main Article

Good Relationships Depend on Emotional Sobriety

Sometimes I feel bat sh** crazy, occasionally I'm angry, and at other times I feel like a helpless, hopeless little waif. When I was young, these emotions defined me. As an adult, who has worked on my "stuff" relentlessly, I've learned a few things. Here's my list of insights:

• Emotions appear without warning, and when I react from them, they can cause some real damage, to others and to myself.
• Not only am I not my emotions, the reliability of my feeling-thoughts during an emotional storm is poor.
• It's best not to make any kind of statements, commitments, decisions, or pronouncements during an emotional attack.
• Ego driven emotional attacks are a form of temporary insanity.
• It's best to take refuge in my fallout shelter during an attack. I need to just watch it from a safe space.
• I am innocent, even if I don't act enlightened or say something I regret.
• It's important to make amends to those who were caught in my emotional storms. not just for them, but for myself as well. Until I clear it up, there is emotional distancing.
• Emotional storms include sarcasm, criticism of others, angry words, yelling, snobbery, and jealously.

My husband and I recently returned from taking care of our grandchildren. We were gone for more than a week. While taking care of them is one of our favorite things to do, the assignment was so time consuming that we had little time for us. By the time we got home, Jim was acting snippy. We spent much of one morning going through our stuff. Why did we feel separate? What old patterns of separation were we returning to? He talked about his thoughts and emotions and finally worked through it. I started out as a reasonably good listener, but by the time he arrived at a good space, his stuff remained in my mind. It tickled my past baggage so much that there were no warm fuzzy feelings left toward him. I was numb. I expressed some anger, fear, and sadness, but I wanted to get on with my day. This was after a couple of hours of processing. At that point we decided to do our morning exercises together. I lead, and we do some cardio, but mostly yoga type stretching. Thirty minutes later, we returned to normalcy. We hugged, smiled, and planned a date night.

We did spend time processing our stuff, but at some point, we had to get the stuck emotions out of our bodies. That's the final lesson I learned about emotions. Emotions get stuck in the body, and I must breathe them out and move them out.

Relationships are wonderful when things are going well, but when they aren't, they're a special kind of hell. When they are sour, the dourness seems to take everything along with it.

Many people choose not to get into special love relationships because they only want the highs and are not willing to go through the lows. Others get into relationships, but after the initial sparks extinguish, they physically stay in the relationship, emotionally vacate, and build separate lives.

Effective relationships take work. We must to learn how to handle emotions because they are the tsunamis of relationships. They turn us upside down! We can learn emotional skills separately or we can learn them with our partners, but without knowing how to consciously deal with emotions, all our relations suffer. It doesn't matter whether it is with our partner or with our employer. If we don't emote well, we suffer from e-motion sickness! Emotions are our friends. When we don't know how to handle the bad ones, we numb out, thus keeping the good ones away.

There are many ways to handle the emotions. I've listed ones that work for me:

• Feel the emotions as sensations in the body, breathe consciously, and drop the story.
• Get rebirthed to clear out emotions that are stuck in the body. If you want to know about rebirthing, send me an email and I will send you information.
• Talk with a trusted friend about what you are feeling and tell them your story. Ask this person to listen only and not provide solutions. Tell them you need to vent. Be sure they are in the mindset at that moment to listen.
• Journal. Write it out.
• Do some vigorous exercise.
• Process it with the person involved in the situation.

There is no one way to deal with emotions. We need more than one tool because our emotional climates change. We don't deal with a tornado the same way we deal with a tsunami. Once we find ways to help us with the emotional turmoil of relationships and being in a human body, we can weather any storm. Emotional sobriety arms us with resilience and gives us what we need to have good relationships with ourselves and others, and it makes life EZier and EZier.

Anne

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 Featured Product This Month

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EZosophy:The Art and Wisdom of EZ or At Least EZier Living is a simple philosophy that radically changes lives. It is a book for the spiritually-based reader who no longer values the ego driven struggle of contemporary life.

EZosophy will help readers:

• Give up Hard Attacks. Hardaholic no more.
• Drop the drama.
• Make your life EZier. Ease is not indolence. Rather, ease is the art of accomplishment without struggle.
• Learn to identify ego driven suffering (EDS).

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  Shareables From Anne

The World's Best Weight Loss Secret

Thought Freedom

40 Days to Abundance
 

  What is EZosophy?

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  Healthy Living

Vegan Banana Bread Recipe

I love good food. I have been interested in combining health and appetite for years. Here's a picture of a cookbook I bought when my 43-year-old daughter was an infant. The well-worn pictures have little holes and food spills throughout. My two favorite recipes are the banana bread and the carrot cake. Recently I updated the banana bread recipe to fit my mostly vegan lifestyle.

Instead of cooking the banana bread in a loaf pan, I cooked it in a square Pyrex dish. I called it banana cake, and my guests loved it. I added coconut flour and chocolate chips, used coconut oil instead of vegetable oil, substituted agave for honey, and used ground flax seeds as an egg substitute. I reduced the temperature 25 degrees because I used a glass pan. It makes a big difference.

Ingredients

• 1/2 to 3/4 cup agave or 1/3 cup honey. I used 1/2 cup agave, then squirted some more for good measure!
• 1/2 cup coconut oil
• 3 medium-sized ripe bananas
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1-1/2 cup of whole wheat white flour
• 1/2 cup coconut flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup raw chopped nuts
• 1/2 cup vegan chocolate chips (Kirkland's brand from Costco are great.)
• 2 "flax eggs" made from 2 tablespoons of ground flax seeds and 4 tablespoons of water

Mix flax eggs and set aside. Cream agave (or honey) and oil, and add bananas, vanilla, and flax eggs. I use an immersion food processor. It liquefies the bananas and blends everything together well, but one could use a blender or food processor too. Mix dry ingredients and add to liquid. Stir mixture by hand. Pour in greased square Pyrex dish and bake 50 minutes at 300 degrees. You may want to check this after 40 minutes to see how it is doing. I don't keep up with the time as much as I keep up with the smell. If you use a 5" X 7" loaf pan, increase the time to one hour and 10 minutes and up the temp to 325 degrees for metal and use 300 degrees for glass.

Cooking is a sacred art. I feel a chill when a new recipe pops into my head. When we align ourselves with the food, it tells us how to cook it. Let's be calm when cooking; listen to classical music. The energy we impart while cooking permeates our food. Be grateful for each ingredient we add to our concoctions. When we fill our food with love, that love comes back to us when we eat it.

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

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  Anne Talk

The Unfamiliarity of Doing Things the EZ Way

In The Unfamiliarity of Doing Things the EZ Way, Anne recommends some simple ways to make your Christmas chores EZier. Time: 5:10

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