The Anne Report, Watch What You Focus On, reminds us that what we think about, we bring about. The Main article, Manifesting What You Want So You Can Let It Go, provides seven practical steps that help you manifest your dreams. The Healthy Living article, Do What You Can Do With What You Have, talks about using what we have in the process of creating what we want. The Anne Talk, Let Go of Suffering, prompts us to expect more ease in our lives. The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne's fifth book, The Living Book. Click to read What is EZosophy? Click to join Anne's Abundance Affirmations. Click for Shareables From Anne.

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

Living EZosophy, January 15, 2019
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  The Anne Report

Watch What You Focus On

Dear ,

We drove home from South Carolina this week. I was disturbed by all the dead animals I saw on the road. It is so sad that their habitats are disappearing and their migratory patterns are interrupted by development, walls, subdivisions, and "progress." I went on and on about it, triggered by each new animal I saw on the road.

We arrived home to find a dead possum in the back yard and a small, dead mouse in the garage. We have never had a dead animal in our yard. We've lived in this house for more than 12 years. This was a lesson for me, one I've learned a thousand times: what we think about, we bring about. Of course, this axiom does not always come true. We have errant thoughts than never manifest on the physical plane, but some thoughts manifest quickly. It is okay to acknowledge devastation, but best not to focus on it.

We also arrived home to find an expected stack of mail. It included a postcard from our health insurance informing us that we have a free membership to a gym and 24-hour fitness, sponsored by our insurance plan. My husband had been repeating, almost like a mantra, "I need to find some new exercises for my heart and for upper body strength." We were thrilled, and, once again, our belief came to pass: "I have what I need, when I need it.

I'm still celebrating the new year and hope you are too. I love new beginnings. I feel like I'm getting a Hallmark card every day. And that's it for the Anne report.

Anne

  Main Article

Manifesting What You Want So You Can Let It Go

Although I've written about how to manifest many times, the beginning of the new year is a good time to remind ourselves how powerful we are. Though we may have misstepped many times during the past year, each day provides a fresh, new opportunity to move in another direction.

It is important to distinguish our attachments from our desires. When we are attached to something, we think our lives depend on its coming to pass, as we want it to. We see ourselves as failures when we don't get what we want, and even if we satisfy our cravings, they boomerang with a vengeance. Attachments come from fear, never from the heart. Eventually it takes more and more to satisfy our ego driven longings. The ego sends unrequited demands about everything we do, and when we follow its demands, we get depressed, disheartened, and hopeless.

While desires can be overrun by attachment, a good, clean desire offers a wonderful stepping on our spiritual journey. Our heart's desires forge a trail to our greater well-being. When we move from and with a sense of presence and purpose, our desires create a better world for ourselves and those around us.

The following steps help us move in the direction of our desires.

1. Clarify – What do we value? Our basic values should include wanting to obtain our desires without harming anyone or anything. Our basic values should be home-grown, not based on others' expectations. Our basic values are our guides and should hail from our self-esteem, not our self-pity, self-debasement, or from a sense of entitlement. Establish base values, then live, create, and manifest from them.
2. Check – Are our desires in line with our basic values? If so, continue. If not, best to drop the desire. Desires can be dropped easily; attachments cannot. We whine and moan about letting go of attachments, yet it is possible to let them go.
3. Imagine – If our desires are in line with our basic values, then it's time for some fantasy. How would it feel to have all the resources necessary to bring this dream about? How would it feel when we obtained our desire? Imagine the desire as already being answered, and feel the feeling as if our goal was already accomplished.
4. Affirm – Develop a statement of recognition that this desire is met. Let's make this a simple desire. Maybe life has been difficult, or time seems to evaporate. Here's an easy affirmation for that situation: "I have a wonderful, easy day." It's good to add a qualifier to an affirmation, because if our days are long, hard, and too full of tasks, we are probably used to carrying such a load. Our subconscious mind believes that we want the burden. If that is the case, we may want to affirm: "It's safe and desirable for me to have a wonderful, easy day." Use this as a mantra throughout the day. Repeat it often. Write your affirmation on a piece of paper and carry it throughout the day. Touch it frequently, using it as a reminder that you can have a wonderful day.
5. Inquire – Ask, "What can I do to make this dream of having a wonderful day come true?" This is a very important step. Write down any answers you might receive, or just ask on the spot, when things start going downhill. Asking this question sends a direct request to our intuitive mind, and that part of the mind is linked to Infinite Intelligence.
6. Act – Act, based on the information we receive from our Higher Power. It could be to call someone, or, in the case of having a wonderful day, we might be able to tune into a deep softness that cushions any blows we might receive during the day.
7. Surrender – Once we have taken the above steps, it's good to let go. "I let this go into the non-efforting flow of good in my life. I will take action with grace, and never push or pull life. I will not contort life to meet demands. I will let it propel me toward my greatest good. Thank you."

Creating and manifesting is not the end game. It's a stepping stone that allows us to resolve the hopelessness born from our limiting training. We were trained, by life and authority figures, to believe that we are less than and broken in some way; therefore, we can never have what we want. This belief drives us to rebel. We try hard to succeed, and when that doesn't work, we try harder. Once we realize that creating and manifesting is a tool that works well, that we can have what we want, our desperation begins to dissolve. When the desperation, which was our main perceptual filter, recedes, we are free to find a world that is almost magical. It is a promised land that we dared to hope existed, yet never believed it possible. This world is called reality. It's not that world made up of hopes and dreams, likes and dislikes, or accomplishments. It is a world where ideas, hoping, and creating take a back seat.

Fulfillment itself requires nothing. It is pristine in its existence. Walking through the world of desire, when done efficiently, helps us do away with desires. No need to want what we already have. This leaves us at self-actualization, and when we arrive there, we find there was never an end game. There was nothing to desire, because we already had what we wanted. Getting money and material things is necessary, and we are equipped to get those needs met, yet if we are spiritually attuned, those very actions liberate us.

What is the final lesson? When we integrate our needs, desires, and wants with the very essence of who we are, when we take care of our physical world with grace, and when we learn to let go, our lives become EZier and EZier.

Anne

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  Healthy Living

Do What You Can Do With What You Have

What is the most important thing in our lives? Is it success? Is it happiness? Is it spending time with loved-ones? Is it travel? Do we spend time doing the things we value?

Travel was important to me

I like to travel. There was a time I had little expendable cash. I thought of travel as something I couldn't do. One day I had an epiphany. It wasn't the travel that was important, it was getting out of my routine. I found that going across town afforded a different experience. It was like being on vacation. There's a name for that these days: we call it a stay-cation. Most people who take a stay-cation don't vacation. They just do chores. Not so for me. I found a lovely lake less than an hour from my home that I started visiting. It was in a state park and there were no entry fees. I spent many a day at that lake. I took adventures across town and met new friends and felt enlivened by the change of pace. It took little or no money for my adventures.

Publishing my first book was important to me

When it came time to publish my first book, I couldn't figure out how I was going to pay for it. I decided to self-publish, but I needed $3,500.00. I had amazing volunteers who provided layout work, art work, and editing. Now, how was I to get the book published. Then it came to me. I printed 100 copies at Kinko's. When I picked up my books, the checkout lady provided me with a half-off coupon. I was happy because I was only going to make a dollar on each book I sold. This way I could double my money. I sold all 100 and then decided to print 100 more. Even though I would only make one dollar on each sale, at least I could make some money. This time the printer made a very small mistake in the printing and they gave me the books for half-price again. I managed to pull together half of the money needed for the printing, then a friend of mine came into some money and gifted me with the money I needed to print the book. I was dumb-founded, but once more, the action I took led me to get the book published and paid for. I went on to sell 3,500 copies of that book. That is actually a lot for a self-published book. I published the book in 1997. At that time, computer layouts didn't exist, or if they did, they were rare. The process was much more complicated, but this right-brained lady figured it out.

These examples are not offered to get you to put more on your plate than you wish. They are offered to supplement the main article in this issue. I used the process of manifestation offered there to create these dreams. Sometimes the mind needs a shove so it can look beyond its limits. This is my shove to all of us, because we all need a little movement from behind to get us out of our "I can'ts." Let's get out our "I can" opener, because when we do, everything can be EZ or at least EZier.

Anne

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  Anne Talk

Let Go of Suffering

Anne's video, Let Go of Suffering, Anne reminds us to expect more ease in our lives. Time: 1:48

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