The Anne Report brings you up to date with Anne's latest activities. The Main article, When It’s Time to Reach Out, shares a simple but helpful healing tip from Anne's personal experience. The Healthy Living article, Tic-Tac-Toe Relationships, talks about ways that we may jeopardize relationships by making them win or lose situations for one or the other of the partners involved. In the Anne Talk, Making Relationships EZier, Anne gives us some tips for making our relationships EZier and more enjoyable. In the first video of Anne's new series, Dr. Money’s Prosperity Videos, Goodnight from Dr. Money and the Prosperity Bandito, The Prosperity Bandito joins Dr. Money to provide more 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 23, 2019
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Dear ,

I’m writing this on a flight to Chicago. It’s the second leg of my trip. I boarded my first flight, found my seat, and waited for my seat mates. I was in the center seat, I prefer the isle, but I was in good spirits; even a center seat couldn’t dampen my spirits. Eventually two ladies flanked me and we settled in for a long flight. I love it when someone is reading a book. It provides an instant clue about their interests. The young  woman next to me was reading a Tony Robbins book. It had the word money in the title. Her bookmark sported a picture of her and listed several skills. She was an energy healer and numerologist. I had to speak. “Are you a healer?” “Yes,” she replied. The conversation was on. A few minutes later she said, “I asked for a compatible and interesting person to talk with to be seated next to me.” We both knew the power of intention; it was destiny that we meet. We are now Facebook friends, she’s a member of the Abundance Affirmations page, and we follow each other on Instagram. We talked the entire trip.

As we approached Orlando, I watched the time. I had a 30 minute turn around. We landed a little early, but, due to a lightning strike, we could not go to the gate until it was clear. As the minutes clicked by, I started to wiggle around. I called the flight attendant and asked about our gate. I wondered if the gate would be close to my departure gate. Maybe I could make it. The attendant didn’t know but said that all flights were grounded and I should be able to make it. “Hum,” I thought, if the plane at the gate is loaded and ready to go, they aren’t going to wait for me.” I kept an optimistic attitude. She left and I continued to converse with my new friend. Ten minutes later the flight attendant came by to tell me that the plane we were on would be the plane that was going to Chicago. All I had to do we deplane and re-board. One more in-the-flow happening.

When you read this, I will have been at the National Summer Conference for the Theosophical Society in Wheaton, Illinois, for several days. I love these conferences and attend them every year. I feel so fortunate, and if you were sitting next to me right now, you would see me grinning like a crescent moon. Life is good, and that’s it for the Anne Report.

  Main Article

When It’s Time to Reach Out

The other day I looked at my back in the mirror. I have scoliosis, so I do a mirror check every few months. “This looks bad.” I noticed how far one rib cage stuck out and saw the indention on the other side of my back. “Geez, this looks much worse than the last time I looked at it.” The next day I was recording a video with my friend, who stood beside me, and I thought, “Something is wrong. I am shorter than Mary is.” There we were, side by side, and I was a good two inches shorter than she is. I used to be two inches taller than she is! “Yikes, I’m shrinking.” And I wasn’t thinking about shrinking violets. “I am disappearing.” Memories of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids flooded my mind. “I think I am getting shorter because my back was bending more.” She looked at my back and said, “Wow, that looks painful. Does that hurt?” “Yes,” I replied. “But it’s manageable.” And the pain is manageable, but I started feeling a tad sorry for myself.

The next day I reached for a book, Human by Design, by Gregg Braden. He relates the story of having a tumor on his kidney. He worked with it holistically for two weeks. He relaxed, visualized, juiced – he partook in a smorgasbord of healing techniques. Then he went to Mayo Clinic to have it removed. He was admitted and prepped to undergo surgery. He was anesthetized, and when he was waking up, he heard the doctor’s voice, “Gregg, what are you doing here?” He was disoriented, but his memories streamed in. “I’m waking up from surgery.” He asked, “What do you mean?” The surgeon replied, “There was no trace of a tumor.” He showed Gregg an x-ray of the tumor taken two weeks before, which showed a tumor, and compared it to a current x-ray, that showed no trace of a tumor.”

Some would call that a miracle, and some might say he was able to radically influence his health by using alternative healing methods and the power of his mind. The scientist might say, “This is unexplainable,” but I would say, “Reading about this is just what I needed. What a great story.”

There’s nothing more invigorating than a good story, and this was a good story and it was a true one. After reading the story, I felt hopeful about my back, my poor me feeling dissolved, and I was in the flow once more.

Years ago, I took my friend to the doctor. He had a serious condition and was ill. “The doctor looked at him and said, “Bodies get sick so fast; they heal fast too. It’s miraculous.” This was the doctor’s pep talk. With a little antibiotic, my friend was fine in 24 hours. I keep that story packed away in my mind, in case I ever needed more pep in my step.

That’s my secret. When I get down about something, I find a book that takes me away from my take on things and moves me in a better direction. Books offer a fresh, new perspective and take us from our boxed in notions of reality.

Another secret - Talking with a friend can move us from our narrow perceptions and bring us back to sanity. When I was going through a divorce in the 70’s, I felt low. I had failed. I was over the hill. I was a misfit. Looking back, this was funny: I was only 28 years old. I thought my life was over, but it was just beginning. I had a fix. I would call my friends and say, “I feel like crap. Would you please tell me what it is about me that you like?” I wanted and needed support and validation. I asked for it and I received it. They were kind and generous with their appreciation. I felt good after these conversations. When I hung up the phone, there were two winners. I won, but people love to help and make a difference, and in helping me, they won as well. I gave them that opportunity.

There are many times when I reach in and receive help. I have a talkative inner voice and my intuition is strong, but there are times when reaching in is not what I need or want. Reaching out is what I need. I can reach toward a friend or a book. I can gather hugs from my community. I can ask for emotional help. Asking for help is a part of the spiritual equation. Asking for help takes us out of hiding and makes us give up the hope that everyone will think we always have it together. No one has it together all the time, and the insistence we be perfect or save face is debilitating, but when we figure out that our emotional and mental health is not a solo activity, we realize that, at times, we must reach out, and when we do, everything becomes EZier and EZier.

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  Featured Product This Month

Suppose someone told you that you could change your life radically, for the better, if you spent just three minutes a day doing inner work? Would you believe it? Maybe not, but wouldn't it be worth an investment of three minutes a day to try it?

The Living Book offers just this. Devote three minutes a day to this process and your life will become a living testimony to the seed principle. A tiny seed can grow into a mighty tree, but it must be planted. Plant your daily seed for three short minutes and notice both subtle and miraculous changes in your life. In addition to the daily practice, one can use the process when they are stumped or afraid or angry. This process transforms anger into love. When we plant seeds of light into our thoughts and emotional bodies, we move into higher frequencies of well-being.

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  Healthy Living

Tic-Tac-Toe Relationships

Have you ever played Tic-Tac-Toe? If so, you know that the only way to win is if one person makes a mistake. If each player is astute, the game will end in a tie.

Unfortunately, people often conduct their relationships as if they are playing Tic-Tac-Toe. Each transaction or interaction between the two is an attempt to win an unspoken game. When one person makes a mistake, the other wins by pointing out their partner’s error. When there's no winner in the emotional Tic-Tac-Toe game, their interaction ends in a stalemate. It’s not a satisfying way to conduct a relationship. Tic-Tac-Toe relationships can be very dramatic, even boring, and they offer little toward being good relationships.

Relationships are basically the foundation of our lives. They influence us so much that the ultimate punishment for prisoners is solitary confinement. The lack of human contact can drive people crazy.

So how can we connect better to our family and partners, if we want to stop playing Tic-Tac-Toe with them?

• Forget the idea that your partner is predictable. My husband never reconnects my laptop after he’s used it. One day I was thinking about going to the downstairs computer and thought: “It won’t be connected.” Then I had another thought: “Let’s use some get out of the box thinking. Jim loves to reconnect the computer. He enjoys plugging it in and attaching the mouse.” When I later went downstairs, the computer was plugged in, ready to go. Not only did I get what I wanted, the positive thoughts I had about him made our relationship better. Thinking that someone is never going to do a thing the way we like it done is detrimental to the relationship.
• Brag about your partner to others. When we brag about our partners, the one who is most helped is ourselves. It points our mind toward appreciation rather than toward depreciation.
• Never tell yourself or others that you are trapped. If we stay in a relationship, yet tell ourselves we are trapped, the belief creates animosity or hopelessness. We can either get out or change the way we look at the situation. It’s for the best. (This does not apply to people who are literally trapped in very abusive situations. This advice is for people who are in reasonably sane relationships!)

These three simple ideas are powerful. They can turn the rudder of our lives. It doesn’t take much to move our lives in a better direction. Life on the move is what we need. We want a dynamism in our relationships with ourselves and others that supports everyone's highest good. Let’s get out of the predictable Tic-Tac-Toe game of life, the one influenced by mistaken assumptions, and set our intentions and attention on creating better relationships, because when we do, 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

Making Relationships EZier

Today's Anne Talk is Making Relationships EZier. It gives us some tips for making our relationships EZier and more enjoyable. Time: 7:30

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