The Anne Report, Obituary, recounts the loss of a family member. The Main article, Judgment, describes how quickly judgment can pop up in our lives. The Healthy Living article, Releasing Hardaholism, provides tips for how we make life EZier. The Anne Talk, It's Ooh Season, reminds us that if there's too much Ooh in our lives, it might be Ooh season. Through images of your mother, you can re-imprint old, limiting emotional patterns, with better images. A couple of minutes a day can change your life. The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne’s third book, Standing In The Dark. Click to read What is EZosophy? Click to join Abundance Affirmations. Click for Shareables From Anne.

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

Living EZosophy, May 14, 2019
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  The Anne Report

Obituary

Dear ,

Thursday evening, during a horrific rainstorm on Galveston Island, our precious Academy Canopy was blown into the marsh. We immediately reported this, with her description, to the Park Ranger station. She was approximately seven feet tall at her apex. She had slender, white metal legs and a tan canvas body. They were not able to send a search and rescue team out until Sat. She was found and retrieved, but we were not able to save her. She had two tears in her body, her legs were bent, and some of her screws were missing. She was laid to rest in the park maintenance facility dumpster. Miss Canopy will be missed. She is survived by Lucy, her canine sister, and her parents, Anne and Jim. She travelled well, played well with others, and provided many hours of wonderful shade for her family. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be sent to the Texas Parks System.

Other than the fact that we lost our canopy, we spent a wonderful week at Galveston State Park. We were able to ride into the sunset on our bikes, tour the Moody mansion, and take long walks on the beach. Our RV was perched on the water’s edge and, other than surviving what seemed like a life threatening storm that raged through the night, it was a low key week. There are more than 500 species of birds that come through the park, and we saw more birds than I’ve ever seen at one time. It was an enjoyable week.

And that’s it for the Anne Report.

  Main Article

Judgment

Judgment is a crucial part of living. Sometimes we have good judgment and other times we use poor judgment. We can’t escape judgment, and, while it helps us navigate the oceans of life, judgment can be a gnarly guide.

I enjoy watching my mind: not just the content it produces, but also the way it works. It has several modes. There’s the rose-colored glasses mode. When my mind is in this mode, the world looks dreamy. There’s a practical mode: it’s not exotic, but it gets the job done. When the mind is in cloudy mode, even the brightest day casts long, impressionable shadows. It’s on the cloudy days that judgment turns against me.

Last week, when camping, the five-year-old girl who was camped next door, spoke to me. I was involved with a video, thus it took me a few moments to disengage and become fully present. She asked a few questions and then said, “My mom is in the bathroom with my brother. I am old enough to stay by myself.” I asked her how old she was. “I turned five yesterday.”  The child is five! That’s the age of my grandchildren.

My judgment kicked in. The bathroom was not in the section we are staying in, so the mother couldn’t see her child. Though the child was probably safe, especially since I was close to her, she should not have been left alone. She was outside. There are alligators in the area, and though kidnappers don’t frequent state parks, there’s always that perfect storm of unusual circumstances that create havoc. The mother returned shortly, and all was well. The day before, she got out of the car and left her two-year old inside the car. It was a hot day. She called to the five-year-old to get her brother out of the car. The older child was playing and didn’t open the door. The two-year-old starts screaming. The mother is yelling. “We can’t let him stay in a hot car. Get him out. I’m naked.” She’s in her popup tent. Finally, the young child opens the door and lets her brother out. Had it taken much longer, I would have intervened. I was certain that three minutes of sitting in the car wouldn’t kill the child, but I was concerned none-the-less. Why in the Sam Hill didn’t she take the child out of the car when she got out?

The problem was what my mind did with the events. It colored the way I saw the mother. I watched my mind ditz her every time I saw her. My mind sneered. Maybe I should have spoken to her about leaving a five-year-old alone, but I didn’t. I never know what to do in those situations. I tried to think what it would be like to have a two-year-old and a five-year-old. The two-year-old cried a lot. That must be disconcerting. In retrospect, I didn’t always use good judgment with my child. My cloudy mode was revved up, and while empathy was high, my compassion was low. When perfectionism and judgment wed, emotional and mental bedlam ensues, and I was stuck between bed and lam.

What was my primary responsibility when the encounters were over? My first job was to deal with my mind, not the outer situation. Whenever there’s self-judgment, that’s where the healing starts. The mom and children left. Everyone was still alive, although they weathered a horrific and somewhat dangerous thunderstorm though the night, despite the lack of good sense regarding the children. There’s no do over now. I’m left with a story. In spite of my faults, poor judgments and all, I need to apply liberal amounts of compassion. It is impossible for me to see the mother in a better light when my self-vision is injured. Compassion is not an excuse to justify cruelty or malice. It’s not like confession clears the slate to go out and raise hell again, but self-compassion puts poor judgment in its place. Fortunately the practical mode reminded me that my judgment is not always perfect. My intuition and rosy outlook do not generate the best in me 24/7, and that’s okay. I can only do what I can do.

The spiritual journey is fraught with exceptions, contradictions, and puzzles. What was perfect action or reaction in one situation is no longer called for in another. No wonder we get confused. Not knowing is the breeding ground for the egoic mind, but it’s also the field of dreams. Our task is to move through an irrational space of consciousness with compassion and to soar though the grace spaces of liberation and renewal. We will take wrong turns and encounter detours, but when we realize that our judgments are strewn with imperfection, that, ultimately, we are innocent, and that something beyond what we can know or fathom parlays everything into our higher good, then life becomes EZier and EZier.

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  Healthy Living

Releasing Hardaholism

We’ve heard about attitudes, mind filters, rose colored glasses, emotional patterns, and self-sabotage. And if you’ve been around me, you’ve heard about ego driven suffering (EDS). When we suffer uselessly. I call it a Hard Attack. There is an irrational belief in the western world that our existence is legitimized though suffering. Suffering does offer a path to learning, but too many people suffer about things that are not difficult. There is real suffering, the kind that follows a loss or a tragedy, but there is too much suffering that is made up suffering (MUS).

When we believe the three basic tenants of Hardaholism, the decision to suffer naturally follows. These three beliefs are: Life is hard. I must suffer about it. And I can never change. If we have these basic beliefs, especially if they are dwelling in the subconscious mind, it may take a while to root them out and to re-decide to live an authentic life, rather than an ego contrived one.

The following affirmative statement offers an EZier path and helps the mind redirect its need to suffer over the unreal. I suggest you print out this statement and read it and live it daily for 30 days. It’s a first thing in the morning practice.

Good morning. I wake up today, really wake up. I clearly see good in my life. Do these: I breathe in deeply and fully exhale. I straighten my back and expand my chest. My shoulders are open; my heart is exposed. I am fully capable of an EZier life. I focus my intention as I breathe in EZ and exhale habits of drama and suffering. I inhale EZ and exhale all the decisions from my past, from my culture, from my family, from my experiences that bring about unfounded emotional suffering. My connection and awareness of EZ is already more than adequate to bring EZ into my life. I pledge to stop several times today to consciously relax and to feel the ongoing flow of EZ. I let go of muscular holding patterns and tensions in my body and physically welcome and honor the presence of EZ. I am at EZ. My body is at EZ. I am the embodiment of EZ. It is honorable to let go of my familiar patterns of struggle, stress, sacrifice, suffering, and strain. I am willing to be struggle free. Life is not hard for me today. I create struggle when I don't allow things to be the way they are. I can do things differently in the future, and I can change the things I can, but when things already are, I must let them be. Evaluating, judging, and criticizing people and events in my life bring an ongoing struggle, angry righteousness, and loneliness. What I think about, I bring about, so I will think more and more about EZ. Today is a call for EZ. I hear that call and give myself permission to have an EZier and EZier life. I no longer define myself by my struggles. It is safe and okay for me to exist, and is safe and okay for me to have an EZier life. I'm willing to do my part by dropping the drama today. I go forth into the day with EZ thoughts. EZosophy is the way, to live and go about my day. So be it.

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  Anne Talk

It's Ooh Season

Today’s Anne Talk, It's Ooh Season, reminds us that if there's too much Ooh in our lives, it might be Ooh season. Time: 2:10

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