The Anne Report, Letting Go of Our Attachments, shows how we see things differently at different ages of our lives. The Main article, We Are Connected talks about the advantages of synchronicity in our lives. The Healthy Living article, Do You Know the Muffin Man?, provides a healthy, tasty recipe for Buckwheat Banana Nut Muffins. The Anne Talk, When Good is Bad, reminds us that sometimes good can be bad, if it's not right for us. The Featured Product This Month highlights Offbeat Prayers for the Modern Mystic. 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, March 19, 2019
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  The Anne Report

Letting Go of Our Attachments

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I’m getting excited. My grandchildren are coming to visit next week. We have been to see them many times, but this is their first visit to our home. Grandpoppy and I have more plans for their visit than we have time for, but we love our dreams.

The boys have been enamored with Dusty Crophopper for a couple of years. Dusty is a crop-dusting plane that goes pro and wins a racing competition. Dusty has a mechanical problem, so he quits racing and becomes a fire-fighter. The boys had one Dusty plane until we gave them each a Dusty for Christmas. Up until Christmas, the boys fought over the old Dusty day after day. The old Dusty, with pontoons, was quickly forgotten when they each received the new fire and rescue Dusty. Recently, Reynolds took Thomas’ Dusty on a golf cart ride and lost it. Thomas is now bereft. He can’t just take Reynolds’ Dusty, because Thomas’ Dusty has a bent wheel. Thomas only wants his Dusty.

The boys will be five in May. Their behavior is normal for five-year-olds. They are territorial and I’m guessing, with a twin sibling, the tendency to guard their possessions might be greater than a child who has no direct competition. I feel strongly about some possessions, and I’m 70. How easy it is to identify with our stuff, almost as if it is an extension of ourselves. Think of the last piece of pie that was yours, at least in your mind, then someone in your family eats it, and you are left with a craving and the disappointment of a five-year-old.

Letting go of our attachments to things is an integral part of the spiritual journey. We are called on to share and to look beyond material things to the very heart of love. PR firms and marketeers try to convince us otherwise. They do everything they can to keep us at a five-year-old level of maturity. That’s why we have to fight our animal survival instincts and develop characteristics such as patience, compassion, and altruism. I’m happy, at this stage of life, that I have the patience to watch two little boys do their thing. What looks petty when we are 50, looks cute when we are five. It’s important that we remember how old we are. We want to act five when it comes to joy and 50 when it comes to sharing. We want to act five when it comes to spontaneity and 50 when it comes to taking responsibility for our lives. We want to act five when it comes to anticipation and 50 when it comes to patience, because when we can we hold 50 and five in perfect balance, when we act 50 at the right turn and five at the perfect juncture, life becomes EZier and EZier.

  Main Article

We Are Connected

Everyone must deal with feeling alone. It can be a chronic condition or a temporary assessment, but aloneness strikes everyone at some time during their lives. Fortunately, the universe has a way of showing us that we are not alone and that there is an unseen web that creates and connects events and circumstances in our lives. Carl Jung identified this phenomenon and coined the term “synchronicity” to describe the event. The term literally means “joined in time” but its meaning is deeper. When two events collide, that offer a unique or informative meaning, they speak of something more than mere coincidence.

My friend and fellow Theosophist, Fali Engineer, sent in the following story:

In May, 2016, my wife was unable to move on her own. One day she fell from her bed to the floor. I was alone and unable to lift her up. So I stood at the edge of our carport and waved to passing cars, since none of our neighbors were in. One car stopped and I asked the lady to help my wife. She came in at once and easily put my wife back on her bed. We thanked her and she left.

Last week I was alone and unable to deal with a problem in the house. So, I again stood at the edge of the street with my walker and waved to passing cars as my neighbors drove to work. One lady stopped, and guess what? IT WAS THE SAME LADY! She recognized me and in no time dealt with my problem and went on her way.

Now what are the odds of my stopping the same lady, after nearly THREE YEARS, on the same street, for the same purpose? Clearly a synchronous event. The more open we are to synchronicity, the more we see it operating in our lives and the more frequently it happens.

My favorite prosperity affirmation is, “I have what I need, when I need it.” This pronouncement comes true recurrently. I spill something and there is a cloth nearby that I can use immediately. I need some obscure piece of information and a friend provides it in a random conversation, when I never spoke to him or her of needing the information. I need two cups of flour and that’s exactly how much I have in the flour sack. With this pronouncement, life becomes a magic carpet ride.

These meaningful coincidences happen regularly, but they go unnoticed unless we pay attention to them. I believe that my affirmation attracts synchronicity, and the synchronicity is that I have what I need at the exact moment I need it. If I were not paying attention to how frequently this happens, I would think it was an isolated coincidence. Paying attention to what is going on in our lives is paramount to feeling connected and to seeing how synchronicity works wonders in our lives.

When we feel alone and lonely, our immune systems respond negatively. Paying attention brings life into focus so we can see the unity of all things. Awareness allows us to see our connection to the Infinite. When we feel connected, our bodies are healthier and our minds are clearer.  We can pick up a book and open it to the advice we sorely need, or receive a note in a fortune cookie that guides us. Someone calls unexpectedly when we are down and lift our spirits. When we sense ourselves as a part of the one, life displays itself like a proud mama, nurturing her offspring. Just because we don’t experience our connection, doesn’t mean it is not there; it means we haven’t learned how to see and sense it.

Let’s abandon abandonment and create more synchronicity in our lives. How?

• Read books on synchronicity. Reading about synchronicity makes us more aware of synchronicity.
• Talk about synchronicity with friends. The more energy we build around the topic of synchronicity, the more it happens.
• Conduct an experiment. Think about a black cat and be on the lookout for one. Prove that your intention to have more synchronicity and being vigilant for it, works.
• Meditate. Meditation brings focus, awareness, and synchronicity. Meditation clears out the extraneous and provides a clarity that unveils the mystery.

What we think about and focus on expands. When we focus on being disconnected and alone, the experience comes to pass, because we filter out the times when we are connected and not alone. The mind always works to prove what we believe to be true. The old saying is “I have to see it to believe it,” but seasoned metaphysicians know that “We don’t see things until we believe them.”

Start looking for the connections. Look for synchronicity. Affirm the best for yourself and everyone else. Fire up those neurons. We don’t have to fall prey to the false belief that we are alone and disconnected. Everything is connected at the quantum level, and we are an integral part of the connection. It’s up to us to see and nurse our connection, and when we do life becomes EZier and EZier.

Recommended Reading:

• Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illuminati, by Robert Anton Wilson, © 1977
• Incredible Coincidence: The Baffling World of Synchronicity, by Alan Vaughn, © 1979
• Unexpected Miracles: The Gift of Synchronicity and How to Open It, by David Richo, PhD, © 1998
• Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership, by Joseph Jaworski, © 1996
• The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self, by Jean Shimoda Bolen, MD, © 1980

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  Healthy Living

Do You Know the Muffin Man?

When I was young, I sang The Muffin Man song, but I don’t think I tasted a muffin until I was an adult. Now I love muffins and buckwheat. Buckwheat is a seed, not a flour, and it is gluten free. Recently, when we ran out, I put it on our grocery list. My husband, the shopper, informed me that he couldn’t find any buckwheat flour for sale in the grocery stores, so he ordered from Amazon. Yikes. I now have 5 pounds of buckwheat flour. How in the heck was I going to be able to use 5 pounds of buckwheat? I went to the trusty internet and found a recipe for buckwheat muffins that we like so much, that I might be able to use those five pounds after all.

If you are transitioning to a healthier lifestyle, I invite you to try these delicious muffins. I’ve had rave reviews from my friends. I’ve taken them to three events already.

Buckwheat Banana Nut Muffins (Gluten-free, Vegan)
Makes 12 muffins

Ingredients:

• 1 cup buckwheat flour
• 1 tablespoon ground flax or chia seeds
• 3 tablespoons water
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 tablespoons coconut oil, melted
• 3 very ripe bananas, mashed (about 1 1/4 cups)
• 1/4 cup water, or non-dairy milk
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
• 3/4 cup chopped walnuts
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips (I like dark chocolate chips)

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 350°F and line a standard muffin tin with 12 parchment cup liners.

In a medium mixing bowl, combine the ground flax or chia seeds with the 3 tablespoons of water, and mix well. Allow to set for 5-10 minutes, until it gels. Add in the buckwheat flour, cinnamon, salt, coconut oil, mashed bananas, and water or milk, and stir until a uniform batter is formed. Add in the baking soda and vinegar and mix quickly, to distribute throughout the batter.

Gently fold in the walnuts, or other add-ins, then use a 1/4 cup to scoop the batter into the paper muffin liners, filling them about 3/4 of the way full.

Bake at 350°F for about 20 minutes, until the centers are firm and the tops are starting to crack. Allow to cool for 5 minutes in the pan, then transfer the muffins to a wire rack to cool completely.

These muffins can be stored at room temperature for a couple of days, but, for best shelf life, store them in a sealed container in the fridge. I hope you like these as much as we do. They are my healthy pick for dessert.

Recipe copied from:
https://detoxinista.com/buckwheat-banana-nut-muffins-gluten-free-vegan/.

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  Anne Talk

When Good is Bad

Today's Anne Talk, When Good is Bad, reminds us that sometimes good can be bad, if it's not right for us. Time: 5:56

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