The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main article, Secret Success, reminds us that focusing on our perceived lacks can prevent us from acknowledging our successes. The Healthy Living article, Happy Breathing, explains how conscious breathing can re-train our brain. In the Anne Talk, Collective Will, Anne Talks about Will, one of the 12 Powers of Man that Charles Fillmore wrote about. But here she focuses on the group or collective will, instead of our personal will. In today’s Dr. Money’s Prosperity Video, Do You Have Prosperity Amnesia?, Anne reminds us that our prosperity comes from the Source within us. The Featured Product This Month highlights Offbeat Prayers for the Modern Mystic. 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, September 10, 2019
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The Anne Report

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September came in with a blast. My daughter’s family fled Dorian, stayed in Atlanta, and returned on Friday. Fortunately, there was no damage to their house, but one large tree was blown down. It missed the house by inches. I see that as a miracle.

When I went to Illinois this summer, I lost one of my earrings. I was sad, because these earrings were my deceased mother-in-law’s. I never met her; she died 40 years ago, but I liked having something of hers. One day I looked at the one lonely remaining earring. It was in my jewelry box. I said a small prayer, “If there is something to these Masters, please restore my earring.” Without thinking I opened a drawer. There was the other earring! Okay, so I must have left it home, and that’s why I couldn’t find it when I was on my trip, but maybe not. Could it have materialized? I believe in infinite possibilities, and when it comes to miracles, I’m not ruling anything out. As I often say, “I don’t just believe in miracles, I count on them.” And that’s it for the Anne Report.

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Secret Success

I used to wonder how my friend could afford to travel. She was the minister of a small congregation, as was I, but somehow, she managed to travel extensively. “I wish I could do that,” I often thought. One day I was astonished, yet amused, when she asked, “How do you manage to travel so much?” I laughed and told her I wanted to know the same thing about her. We knew the answer – we accomplished the impossible through burning desire, intention, and a wing and a prayer. It was easy to see her success, but not so easy for me to see my accomplishments. My success was a secret, but only to me.

Years ago, I admired a woman and wanted her to be more than a casual acquaintance. She had an acting background and lived in an upscale section of town. She was beautiful, prosperous, creative, and gentle. She was the epitome of grace and style. I was in awe of her. I reached out on more than one occasion, but we never connected. Years later, we were in a workshop that required intimate sharing. I told her how I admired her and had reached out to her in the past. Immediately she replied, “I’m sure I was too intimidated. You were such a powerful woman, so together. I had very low self-esteem then.”

Both stories represent or illustrate a lack consciousness - the inability to see and appreciate the here-and-now. My life was a secret success, maybe not to most people, but it was a secret to me.

When I was in my 20’s and 30’s, I was morose about environmental destruction. I grieved as I walked in my neighborhood and witnessed species habitat destruction, ponds plowed under to make way for homes, while other places were flooded to make way for groundwater holding tanks (lakes are often created to be a cities’ or counties’ water supply). The world was upside down. The environment was being destroyed, and, regardless of what I did, things were getting worse. I couldn’t do enough to stop the plundering of Mother Earth. Fortuitously, I had a dark night of the soul moment. I hit a wall, but it was a climbing wall, and I climbed over it. I realized that even though species were going extinct and that our water and air quality were threatened, I was okay. I had food, clean water, safe shelter, and a career I loved. My good life was hidden beneath my distress. Again, I lived with a secret success; I had what I wanted in life, but my fretting kept my heart covered with artificial trouble – trouble that had not arrived in my life. I emerged knowing what I had to do, I needed to honor what was, rather than stay focused on the possibility of the destruction of my way of life. It was a colossal waste not to enjoy and appreciate what I had now. I could recycle, use less water, take my bags to the grocery store, ride my bicycle, but I didn’t need to live in fear or depression over some possible catastrophe in the future.

Do you suffer from secret success? Look at your life. Are you wasting your grace on the future?

Life deserves an appreciation that extends to every area of our existence. When we are riveted on an apocalyptic scenario, we ruin today. This is not a positive thinking or a Pollyanna optimistic way to look at life - it’s just a practical way not to drive ourselves crazy - but if we add a little Pollyanna on top, we can be sane and happy.

It’s easy to look at someone’s life and see how much better it is than ours, or to look at the future and worry about finances, political drama, climate change, and health issues, but it’s also blasphemous. We live in sacred surroundings, and to ignore this is to squander the great gift of life. Apprehension and supposition keep our success a secret, and what good is secret success? Let’s use each day as a passageway to the greatness of our individual lives and be open to the light of appreciation and awareness, because when we do, everything is EZier and EZier

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  Healthy Living

Happy Breathing

I have written about the mind on many occasions, and especially how the mind influences our health. Though we know how important our thoughts and feelings are, it takes an act of courage and stamina to change our mental habits. Deepak Chopra and Joe Dispenza, along with others, speak about the neuroplasticity of the brain. If we want to change, we need to change our thoughts and feelings, and our brains. Once we thought the brain was like a cooked cake, but now we know it’s still cooking. Neuroplasticity means that the brain can change its connections when it receives new information. That’s where we come in. We are the new information givers.

How can we change our brains? Is there more than doing crossword puzzles involved here?

One of my mentors, Leonard Orr, passed away last week. His contribution to my life and millions of others was a great gift. He taught breath awareness and a process called rebirthing. Leonard nailed it. Breath makes a difference! The breath helps the brain in many ways. When we are stressed out, the brain uses the same stress wiring places and spaces as it collects data and stores it in the stress filing cabinet. The conscious, connected breath does more than just shuffle the data. It also goes into the filing cabinet and throws away the offensive files. The files don’t leave all at once, but as we practice some form of pranayama (conscious breathing patterns), the files lose their charge and eventually dissolve.

How do I settle my breath? A simple thought might be one of breath harmony. What can I do to bring harmony to my breath? Leonard, the master, started people off slowly. He suggested people start with 20 deeps breaths in the morning and 20 deep breaths at night. If twenty breaths make you feel light-headed, do ten or whatever number works for you. Increase the number until you reach twenty in each session. Maybe the technique is not as important as developing a habit of watching the breath and bringing it back to harmony. It is easy to forget to start a new practice, so you may want to set your alarm to go off twice a day to remind you to stop and breathe.

The harmony breath is one that is deep and smooth. It’s not deep enough to make us light-headed, but it is deeper than the fear breath. The fear breath involves either holding the breath or short, staccato-like intakes of the breath. The harmony breath restores equanimity and ultimately gives the brain new pathways that override or dissolve the stress pathways.

Ramana Marharshi, the great eastern mystic and purveyor of nondualism, said there were three things we could do to bring about illumination: inquiry, which is known in the Vedas as vichara, meditation, and conscious breathing. I use them all, and though I am not a poster child for illumination, I no longer am a nervous wreck!

Though everyone knows about the breath these days, I find that when I read about the benefits of some practice, that I’m inspired to increase my efforts. Happy breathing, because when we change our breath, we change our lives.

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

  Anne Talk

Collective Will

Today's Anne Talk is Collective Will. Anne Talks about Will, one of the 12 Powers of Man that Charles Fillmore wrote about. But here she focuses on the group or collective will, instead of our personal will. Time: 23:13

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  Dr. Money’s Prosperity Vid

Do You Have Prosperity Amnesia?

Today’s Dr. Money’s Prosperity Video is Do You Have Prosperity Amnesia? Anne reminds us that our prosperity comes from the Source within us. Time: 8:20

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