The Anne Report, Add More Ease to Your Life, shows how exercise can make our lives EZier. The Main article, Acceptance, contrasts the important difference between acceptance and resignation. The Healthy Living article, Unfooding, Fasting, and Sacred Sustenance, discusses fasting and honoring the food we eat. The Anne Talk, What You Nourish Flourishes, reminds us to choose whether we're nourishing our problems or solutions in our lives. The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne's 5 Books. 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, February 26, 2019
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  The Anne Report

Add More Ease to Your Life

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The weeks fly by. I'm sure you have a new newsletter in your inbox before you know it. Please do not take reading the newsletter as a burden. Read what you can, when you can. I appreciate your reading any of it. I am a writer, and without readers, I'm spinning my wheels. Gracias from Texas.

My husband and I do Yogalates on the mornings I do not go to yoga class. My grandson, Reynolds, calls it, "yogo." I'm noticing that my arms are getting stronger, but I have not lost all my stiffness. Yoga promised to remove all stiffness. My husband says that maybe when you are in your 70's, all the stiffness doesn't go away. I'm not sure that Tao Porchon-Lync, the hundred-year-old yoga teacher and competitive ballroom dancer, feels this way. Go Toa!

Here's the video we do in the mornings. We only do week one of the five-part series. The rest of the videos' movements put too much pressure on the knees for us. Check it out if you have any interest in what's happening around my house in the morning and if you would like a great 20-minute workout.

Please make your life EZier this week, and remember that asking for help is often the first step we must take when moving from a drama based life to an EZier one.

  Main Article

Acceptance

Can you imagine losing your home to fire? We all know someone whose house burned down. My mother's home burned when she was a child, and she had a large burn scar on her leg. While having one's house burn down is traumatic, there comes a time when courage must supplant sadness, acceptance must replace incredulity and, when asking "Why did this happen to me?" becomes a trap rather than a stepping stone.

My friend's home burned down. She lived in an apartment that was next to a railroad track while it was being rebuilt. She was not used to the noise, horns, and activity the trains create. At first it was annoying, but as time went by, she made peace with the sounds, and, at some point, they seemed like friends. When she returned to her resurrected quiet home, she missed the trains, the horns, and the sound of her friends clicking down the tracks at regular intervals.

This is a story of nonresistance and acceptance. If she had focused on the noises and stayed irritated, it would have been stressful on her and her husband, but she accepted her plight and was able to be in harmonious accord with her temporary surroundings.

Nonresistance and acceptance are different from resignation. When one is resigned to a situation, it means she is beaten down by the situation and feels helpless to change the situation. People who are in abusive relationships often resign themselves to a miserable life. They feel unable to move into their power and, in some extreme cases, people cannot get out of abusive situations. This is probably truer for children than adults, but some adults are trapped in situations.

We have more slaves in the world now that we did 150 years ago. While it is tragic that unimaginable abuse takes place, no one who reads this newsletter is in that position. Most of us can walk away from abusive systems and people and fight for justice for those who cannot fight for themselves. I prefer not to get off on the topic of injustice and abuse, because my purpose is to point out how we can make life EZier by not attacking life as it is. That's where acceptance or nonresistance comes in.

Acceptance is reserved for situations that we can't do anything about, and when changing how we view them will not put us in harm's way. There are situations we should never accept, such as physical abuse or heavy emotional battering, but acceptance is a tool that disarms the ego and provides a healthier emotional climate.

My friend accepted that every day, at a certain time, the train would pass. She couldn't change that. She could move, but that would be a stressful alternative. She chose to make every day an EZier day.

We seem to think we have a right to be upset about any and every thing, and while this is true, we do have that right, what does upset buy us? Upset pushes people away. Who wants to stay around a grump? That might be the payoff. When we stay a little ticked off and irritated with life, people will stay away, and we can feel safe in our loneliness. Another payoff for focusing on things we can't change and complaining about them is that it takes the focus off any real problems we may not want to deal with. Focusing on the small inconveniences provides a robust platform for denial.

While the topic of denial requires a book, the grace of acceptance is simple and easy. We can take our noses out of the air and realize that everything is the way it is and as it should be. When we accept that, we find that life is always EZier and EZier.

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  Healthy Living

Unfooding, Fasting, and Sacred Sustenance

A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by John DePass. He met me on my Abundance Affirmations Facebook group and asked for the interview. I looked him up and found out that he eats only two days a week. His videos were mind-blowing, at least to me. I have done extensive fasting, but not water fasting. I have only done one three-day water fast. It was so long ago, I've forgotten how it felt.

I have been doing a weekly lemonade fast (lemon, cayenne, maple syrup, water) on and off for 40 years. I've done many experiments with long-term fasting but was given guidance in a dream to stop. Last week I decided to give water fasting a chance. I watched videos of John doing hand stands after days of fasting. Usually, when I fast, I am very hungry, but with the suggestion that I would be fine while fasting, the first day went very well. I maintained my energy and strength throughout the day. I'm fasting today, as well, and all is good. I used to be hooked on the idea of low blood sugar, so, of course, I had it, but I've found I cannot eat for 36 hours and be fine.

Fasting offers unique spiritual insights and many physical perks. When we don't eat, the body searches for damaged cells and fat to eat. Who wouldn't want to give up a little fat and damaged cells? Fasting gives our system a chance to rest. I don't advocate it for everyone, but I take no prescription drugs, and am in good health, so it works for me.

I realized years ago, while fasting, that I was addicted to food. So much time was and is spent buying food, preparing food, anticipating eating, and eating. We are bombarded with food commercials on TV and on the internet; therefore, we are programmed by external sources to eat more. We all must eat, but we don't want to overeat. Maybe fasting is not for everyone, but having a holy, healthy relationship with food should be an idea on everyone's plate.

Fasting can be instrumental in restoring our relationship with food. I appreciate food when I eat mindfully, and when I am hungry. Eating mindlessly, when not hungry, is body blasphemy. Regularly eating processed foods puts our bodies in danger, unless we are adept at food mastery. Everything we eat was alive at one point and something has given its life for us. Let's honor all life and be grateful that we have the privilege of eating.

Cooking is sacred art. Flashes of recipes dance in my head. I call it "food intuition." It's like having a green thumb in the kitchen. I know food and it speaks to me as to how to combine ingredients and how best to prepare it. I rarely use a recipe, and when I do, I always tweak it. I honor food. At mealtime, I take only what I plan to eat, so as to not have to throw away food from my plate. I cook only the amount I know we can eat, so none has to be thrown away. Growing food in today's world is a burden on mother earth, and we need to receive her generous gift with reverence.

Here's a food prayer you might appreciate:

Bless this food and let it be
In the greatest harmony
With all my organs, muscles, cells
May it bring the best of health.
And may I so grateful be
That nourishment has come to me.
May those who hunger want no more
And all who have, I do implore
To share and give, please hear the call,
So Source's bounty is shared with all.

Does your relationship with food need an upgrade? From the earth to our mouth, may we all have a holy relationship with this sacred nourishment, so that we all can be healthier and happier, because when we are good with food, everything can be EZier and EZier.

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

  Anne Talk

What You Nourish Flourishes

Today's Anne Talk, What You Nourish Flourishes, reminds us to choose whether we're nourishing our problems or solutions in our lives. Time: 11:23

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