The Anne Report brings you up to date with Anne's latest activities. The Main article, Are We Unique?, asks about our role in the diversity of the universe. The Healthy Living article, For Real - Avocado Ice Cream?, provides a tasty recipe for your sweet tooth. In the Anne Talk, Three Things That Make Life EZier EZosophy, Anne spotlights 3 tips for an EZier life. In the first video of Anne's new series, Dr. Money’s Prosperity Videos, Goodnight From Dr. Money and Dr. Hen, Dr. Hen joins Dr. Money to provide some helpful money tips. The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne's fifth book, The Living Book. 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, July 16, 2019
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The Anne Report

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It’s been a hazy, lazy week, with feel-like temperatures of up to 110°. My daughter left a voice message on Voxer: “I hope you are spending this time clearing out your attic and garage.” My reply, “No. Between the temperature and the mosquitoes, there’s little outside activity. Summer, in the deep south, although Texans do not define themselves by location, requires creativity. The walking trails here are empty at noon, but full in the early morning. This morning we took an hour-long bike ride. Studies show that people who spend a minimum of two hours a week in nature have higher levels of health and well-being, than those who stay inside.

I read about a man who had TB. He was very ill and stayed in a sanatorium, day after day, in a weakened state. His condition was not improving. He hired a horse drawn carriage (this was a long time ago), to ride him around for an hour a day. He was rolled to the carriage in a wheelchair and lifted to his seat. He started feeling better immediately. Being outside lifted his spirit. He continued to take a daily carriage ride. His health improved quickly, and he was soon well.

The takeaway: we do better when we go outside, especially when we go into nature. No matter whether we are ill, or hot or cold, we need to be outside. Just as our souls need to be fed, our bodies need more than food. Our bodies need to be out in nature, where the lines of ownership blur and we can join with the nature around us. Houses are wonderful and comfortable places to be, but, at a certain point, they become divisive. They move from their appointed task of giving us rest and comfort, to being a fort that keeps us separated from nature and life. We are a part of the One, and we can best experience the One when we are not walled away each day. I wrote this for myself, because as I get older, I find myself not making the effort to drink in the Divine that nature offers, and that’s it for the Anne Report.

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Are We Unique?

I was a member of Toast Masters in the 70’s. Forty years later, I still remember a speech I gave. The question addressed was, “Why is it difficult for us to consider the presence of human or other life forms on additional planets or galaxies?" After the talk, several people spoke with me. Each one voiced an opinion about extraterrestrial life. Each believed that we were the only ones and that earth was the only inhabited planet. No one addressed the topic. Their answers were based on religious beliefs. They couldn’t stretch to consider more than they currently believed. They wanted to believe that we were chosen by an anthropomorphic god to be the only ones – that we were the chosen ones. Personally, I don’t think unconditional love requires that kind of exclusivity.

Given the size and complexity of the Universe, I thought they were bonkers. Surely, we aren’t alone in the multiverse. Recent estimates of the number of galaxies in the observable universe (the rest of the universe is disappearing or moving at such a rate that we can’t see it) range from 200 billion to 2 trillion or more). Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has 200 billion stars, and it extends more than 100,000 light years. If you’ve forgotten, or if this doesn’t seem significant, a light year is the distance light can travel in one year. A trillion seconds is more than 31,000 years. A stack of hundred-dollar bills that equal a trillion dollars would stack up to be 631 miles high. Think if it were dollar bills! Our International space station is only 248 miles up. There could be more than 2 trillion galaxies. Wow! The numbers alone don’t seem as staggering until you put them in context, and, in context, staggering becomes our buzz word.

I recently posted a meme on Facebook that said, “Cheers to all people who can change their minds when presented with information that contradicts their beliefs.” It pictured an elegant woman, of the fifty’s era, drinking beer out of a wine glass.

Biologists have identified 20 evolutionary lines among animals. These animals have developed a social order based on the division of labor required to serve the needs of others. Most of these orders arose in insects, several in marine shrimp, and three in mammals. Two of the mammal group were species of African mole rats and the other was humans. These species paired up or joined a group to ensure they were protected and could have enough food. Hum, so humans are like insects, rats, and shrimp, in their social organization patterns.

We share DNA with animals and bananas. If we are built from the same clay as plants and animals, does anything make us unique? We tend to look at the concrete for answers. We consider our possessions and what we’ve accomplished, and, while that might show our interests, there’s much more to us than what we can see. What drives us toward a specialized individuation?

Though I may not have the correct answer, a dream provided a powerful insight. I say dream, and it may have been a lucid dream, but it seems as if I was awake, having a vision. There was an angel (or light being of some sort) holding a round, glowing ball. The ball contained words: “Within every human is a decree or directive.” This is a translation, because I’m putting something into words that was communicated without words. My directive was freedom. This was not the freedom that the flag waving jingoist touts. It was the freedom from ego, the freedom from fear, driven-ness, and the freedom from the fear of lack. It is freedom from being concerned about what others think of me and the freedom from burden. It was freedom to be me, to be creative, to be extraordinary. It was the freedom to open my mind and to experience guidance and bliss.

I was awed by this information. Every person has something written in their soul that calls them to lead their lives from an inner decree. This morning I stumbled across a notebook written in 1997, that included an account of the angel experience, and I thought: “Oh, that was right before I met Gangaji.” Her body of knowing, and that of her lineage, focused on freedom. Being in her presence provided the most transformative experience of my life. Before, life operated on simple math; then, in an instant, there was calculus. While it seems obvious that my decree led me to Gangaji, I only had this realization today, in this very paragraph, as I typed.

I think it is our inner decree and how we respond to it that gives us uniqueness. There may be millions of planets, populated with trillions of human-like animals, but I bet each soul has a directive, and that’s what makes each one different – the way we navigate this inner calling. Life is on our side, providing a distinctive pathway. We can walk or sing or sleep along the way, and that’s what makes us unique. We do it our way. We can’t escape our soul decree. It dabbles in everything we think, do, and feel, and while we are hunting for the answers as to who we are, our directive shines light on the path so we can see. Our inner decree has been with us all along, speaking silently to us and giving us what we need, when we need it. Are we unique? Yes, and when we realize this, and now is always the time for realization, everything becomes EZier and EZier.

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  Healthy Living

For Real - Avocado Ice Cream?

I love sweets. I prefer healthy treats, and when I find a nutritious dessert recipe, I get excited. Thumbing though a magazine, I lucked upon a recipe for avocado ice cream. It called to me with siren-like coyness. I tore the recipe from the magazine, and it sat on my coffee table for a few days before it disappeared in one of my house clearing flurries. That’s the downside of selling our home. When we receive short notice that a buyer wants to see it, eye sores are hurriedly placed in secret places. I found my recipe nestled among some investment papers. The next day I made the ice cream. Wow. I loved it. Here’s the recipe.

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Ingredients

• 3 medium avocados (I used large ones.)
• 1/2 cup of honey (I used agave and I think 1/3 of a cup might have been enough.)
• 1 Tablespoon of vanilla (I questioned this, but it worked. I tried half the amount to ensure the vanilla taste didn’t overtake the flavor, but I realized, when I tasted it, that it could handle that much vanilla. Added advice: I never use imitation vanilla. It contains artificial flavorings, who knows what that means, corn syrup, probably genetically modified, and caramel color. Caramel color is produced from nutritive sweeteners consisting of fructose, dextrose, invert sugar, sucrose, malt syrup, molasses, and starch hydrolysates. The ingredients in imitation vanilla sound like a cancer cocktail special. Need I say more?)
• 2 Tablespoons of coconut oil, soft or melted (This gives it a subtle coconut flavor and adds to the richness.)

Mix all ingredients in a food processor. I use a food processor on a stick, which I can’t live without. Put in airtight container and freeze overnight. People portray heaven as flowing with milk and honey, but I think the streets are lined with avocado ice cream. Yes, it’s that good.

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Three Things That Make Life EZier EZosophy

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