The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main article, The Journey of a Lifetime, describes how one’s wakeup journey might evolve. The Healthy Living article, Better Sleeping with a Sleep Mask, explains how a simple mask can improve our sleep. In the Anne Talk, The EZosophy Vows, Anne introduces you to her EZosophy Vows. In today’s Dr. Money’s Prosperity Video, Afraid of Your Thoughts, Anne reminds us that we don’t need to be afraid our thoughts. The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne’s first book, 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 17, 2019
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We are at the South Llano River State Park for a few days. We came here year before last on our great camping adventure and I was ready to come back. It’s a favorite. From the bobtail spotted deer to the clear water swimming hole, it’s relaxing. There are hiking trails and birds to watch. We dusted off our RV and set out Sunday for another adventure.

Lucy does not like the RV. Once we have arrived and settled in our RV spot, we like to explore. We can’t leave the screen door open when we leave and it's pretty boring for her. She’s too old to walk very far and she can’t climb, so she has to stay in the RV. When we leave, her ears go down and she looks at us with mournful eyes. I feel like a heel.

People are still looking at our home. We’ve had a few offers, but they were too low, and the one promising one dropped out of the game. We are playing the waiting game, and it’s not my favorite. I haven’t scheduled any speaking engagements, and the trips I have scheduled are flexible. That way I’ll be ready to go when it sells.

We were in Florida a couple of weeks ago and I mentioned to my husband that I would like to go to Orlando. The next day a friend invited me to go with her. The tickets and the rooms are booked. It’s my late birthday present. I’ll be in S. C. on my actual birthday. I just love the Law of Attraction. And that’s it for the Anne Report.

  Main Article

The Journey of a Lifetime

We are bombarded by ads and sales material. We are assaulted by noise and forced to smell chemically laced air. We drive or ride in crowded freeways and hope our children are safe in this barrage of confusing choices we refer to as life. No wonder we are so stressed out. We have sensory overload. It’s all too much. Jean Houston says we are 50 times more psychologically damaged than our ancestors. We may not have a fox stealing our hens or bears chasing us, but we are faced with overstimulation and annihilation at every turn.

The problem with sensory overload is that our senses are smart. When we’ve had too much, our internal mechanisms start shutting down our systems. The first line of defense is to tune things out. We become experts at hearing what is relevant and blocking out the rest, but there comes a time when we can’t tune things out any more.

The next line of defense: our senses are dulled. Too much to take, the body’s protective devices shut down our sensory perception. We lose our abilities to see and feel what is before us. Often, when a person is confronted with intense physical pain or a highly emotional situation, they leave their body, and that’s what happens to us when we are under continuous pressure. We check out. We go to sleep and become sleepwalkers, trying to make it through to the next day.

One day something dawns on us and we know there is more. Of course, when we are asleep, there’s something in us that knows we are not playing with a full deck. We go on a search. We want freedom and we want to wake up.

The first place I searched, when I realized the problem, was in my religion, but I found it offered little help. It was a complex work, this waking up, and even though my religion offered practical solutions to everyday problems, the solutions were out of date when I arrived. I had a disease that rocked the foundations of my past beliefs.

Then I figured it out: the ideals that stand behind religion had something to offer. There was all sort of perennial wisdom that assisted me toward the underbelly of my soul. I read the words. I made better decisions. I changed my mind. While words and thoughts offered assistance, they were merely the breadcrumbs that led to wordless realizations of truth.

It all became clear. I didn’t need more information; I needed less information. I didn’t need to change my mind; I needed to give it up and get it to shut up. I started meditating and entered the most amazing and scary time of my life. When the mind gets still, it is free to purge itself of unnecessary material. Yikes. I lived in a mental cesspool, and watching unfiltered material arise was chilling. Some say that if there’s emotional pain when thoughts, beliefs, and cruel decisions go in, there will be pain when it goes out. And there was pain, but it was the kind that turns coal into diamonds. I started having vivid dreams. My shadow had no place to hide. Fortunately, there is a power greater than I that made the right book fall off the shelf or nudged the perfect support person to call. Though I was traversing the inner realms, I couldn’t have made it without external support.

How did it all end? It didn’t. I am still waking up. The idea that life is a journey stinks, but I declare, with a robust mea culpa, it is the truth. If we are alive, we are on a journey. If we experience less fear as we move along and more joy, then we are on the right road, but when life is misery-filled, every day, we need a new roadmap. What I’ve learned is the more I listen, the better things are. I don’t mean to listen to others, though that’s okay, I mean listen to that which is beyond words, beyond the familiar, beyond the intellect. When I started deeply listening, and for me it occurred though meditation, the snooze alarm stopped working and I began to wake up. I can’t tell others how to answer their wake-up call, but the bell tolls for everyone. We can ignore those darn bells, but, when we hear them, life gets a lot more interesting and we lose that “Is that all there is?” feeling. Though waking up is fraught with pitfalls, it is sustained by a higher power, and when we chose to wake up, everything becomes EZier and EZier.

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  Featured Product This Month

Order Offbeat Prayers for the Modern Mystic from my website or call me at 713.922.0242 to order directly from me. The price is $15.95, including shipping. Click to order the Kindle version on Amazon for $4.99.

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  Healthy Living

Better Sleeping with a Sleep Mask

I used to think sleeping masks were frivolous indulgences. They were for Hollywood types. I bought a beauty product that included a black-lined bright pink silk sleeping mask. I felt silly but decided to try it. Wow, I fell in love with it.

My neighbors burn a night light that shines into my face at night. The sleep mask made such a difference. My research shows that when the eyes are in pitch black, they tend to produce melatonin. Eye masks are one of the best tools for sleeping.

Once I misplaced my mask and fashioned one from some dark green felt I had on hand for crafts. I cut a mask and attached a piece of elastic to the back. It worked great.

I love my sleeping masks. I’ve even bought a soft, fancy, silk mask for sleeping. I have at least 4 masks now. When I travel, it’s the first thing I pack. If I misplace mine during my travels, I’ll tie a scarf around my head as a make shift eye mask.

Putting on my mask is a bedtime ritual. My mind slows down and thinks, “Beddy bye. Goodnight.”

If you are crafty, here’s a pattern for a sleeping mask. Click here or on the image above.

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

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The EZosophy Vows

Today's Anne Talk is The EZosophy Vows. Anne introduces you to her EZosophy Vows. Time: 9:19. Click here for a free download of Anne's EZosophy Vows pdf file.

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  Dr. Money’s Prosperity Video

Afraid of Your Thoughts

Today’s Dr. Money’s Prosperity Video is Afraid of Your Thoughts. Anne reminds us that we don’t need to be afraid of our thoughts. Time: 9:13

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