The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main article, The Great Pretenders, reveals that until we awaken to our true identities, we are pretending to be our personalities, our bodies, and our beliefs. The Healthy Living article, Halloween Treat Alternatives, provides some tips for alternative Halloween treat shopping. In the Anne Talk, Do You Define Your Life By Your Difficulties?, Anne reminds us that we can choose a life that's safe and EZier. In today’s Dr. Money’s Prosperity Video, Take Your One Minute Prosperity Break, Anne provides some great prosperity affirmations, with matching prosperity images. The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne’s second book, EZosophy: The Art and Wisdom of EZ or At Least EZier Living. 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, October 29, 2019
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We are suffering from house selling fatigue, therefore we decided to take our house off the market for a while. We are tired of having to keep a clean house and having our plans interrupted because of a showing. Our dog Lucy has to vacate too; it complicates things. Staying outside in 100+ degree temperatures wasn’t that great, nor was riding around in the car for an hour. Fortunately, our good friend, Susan Tinsley, became our foster mother and fed us and took us in. The open houses always hit at lunch time.

I told my friend, Holli Pretti Mullins, that we have taken our house off the market. Here’s her reply, “Anne, I understand the house selling fatigue. Waiting in complete surrender is high spiritual teaching for sure. Pray. Take a step, let go, look around. Pray. Take another step, let go, look around. Whine a little. Pray some more. Take another step, let go, look around. Grumble a lot. Really pray some more. Take another step, let go, look around. Cry for a while. Pray while begging. Take another step, let go, look around. Laugh for a while. Pray and really surrender.”

Her response was too precious not to share. Holli has lost too many loved ones, including a brother and a father, over the past two years, and her husband needs a job now as well. I keep her close to my heart because she’s had so much to bear. You can see by her reply that she’s keeping her faith, along with her humor, and that’s what we all need to do. And that’s it for the Anne report.

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The Great Pretenders

Halloween is a big holiday in the United States. It’s fun. It marks a time to stretch our imaginations and to fly high on the broomsticks of our lives. It was once a rather minor holiday, but it has evolved into a major, month-long festival. There are parties, pumpkins, carving contests, hayrides, haunted houses, costume balls, and costume contests. Candy sales go through the roof. Both children and adults pretend to be someone other than themselves.

When a child puts on her princess outfit, she knows it’s pretend. She’s not a real princess. The pirate swaggers around with his eye-patch and sword, but his costume eventually comes off and he returns to his previous identity. Everyone knows we are pretending. We are not pirates and princesses and, after Halloween, the costumes are put away and stored until next year.

But the pretending goes on. We still wear costumes. Our costumes are our bodies, our personalities, and our self-defined identities. We are Infinite Being, joined with the all of existence, pretending to be human. We have forgotten who we are. H. P. Blavatsky calls it the great heresy, the belief that our self or our soul is separate from one universal Self. We think we are our costumes. That’s why Socrates kept telling us to know ourselves and the Bible says be still and know that I am God. It is in the Stillness that the ideas of who we are recedes and we can sink into our true identities.

The mix-up causes a tremendous amount of pain and longing, yet despite all the mayhem, our misunderstanding gives us the impetus to try everything imaginable to fill this void of not knowing. Through this quest to rediscover ourselves, we’ve artfully and skillfully invented and created many worlds. We fall in love, go to war, dance, invent billions of things, help others, and develop compassion and forgiveness. We’ve done many creative things to rid ourselves of our false identities; it almost seems like a master plan for the ultimate Halloween party. Put on the body, train on how to be human, then party like a big dog! What kind of mad genius could be behind this? Eastern culture says that the Supreme incarnates as multiplicity solely to have infinite experiences. Shiva depicts this philosophy. He is symbolized as the Nataraja. The symbol combines in a single image: “Shiva’s roles as creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe and conveys the Indian conception of the never-ending cycle of time.” Shiva is the cosmic dancer. We are like Shiva. We create, preserve, destroy, and hopefully dance! Maybe forgetting our true identity is our personal invitation to create a life of purpose and meaning. Each experience provides a clue on our hunt for our true identities. The clue hunt can be terrifying or delightful. Our lives teach us to make effective choices on our unique path to self-discovery. We learn to calm the fears and to stoke the fire of our joy.

Life becomes most meaningful when we realize that we are searching for ourselves. It is a spiritual journey because we are looking for the spirit of who we are. The journey teaches us to shed the past and cling lovingly to what is present. It teaches us the uselessness of resistance, holding grudges, and clinging. There’s a party going on. We are dressed in our human costumes, clad with beliefs and limits. We can be party poopers or party participants. This is our human set up, and when we realize this, we can shed our upset and enjoy the party, and when we do, everything can be EZier and EZier.

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EZosophy:The Art and Wisdom of EZ or At Least EZier Living is a simple philosophy that radically changes lives. It is a book for the spiritually-based reader who no longer values the ego driven struggle of contemporary life.

EZosophy will help readers:

• Give up Hard Attacks. Hardaholic no more.
• Drop the drama.
• Make your life EZier. Ease is not indolence. Rather, ease is the art of accomplishment without struggle.
• Learn to identify ego driven suffering (EDS).

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  Healthy Living

Halloween Treat Alternatives

“According to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey [on Halloween spending], conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, U. S. consumers are expected to spend $2.6 billion on [Halloween] candy, or more than $25 on average.” It’s enough sugar to send our kinds into a sugar coma! We all know how bad candy is for our health, and we know that trick or treating is not going to stop, but is there anything we can personally do to stop poisoning our neighborhood kids?

Read the labels on the candy. Don’t buy the most toxic ones. Look for healthier candies and for non-candy treats.

Here’s a list of toxic ingredients to avoid:

• Corn syrup

• Hydrogenated palm oil. (Palm oil production is destroying our natural habitats.)

• Artificial and natural flavors (Arsenic is natural; catch my drift?)

• Artificial colors, including FD&C red, yellow 5, and blue 1

• PGPR (polyglycerol polyricinoleate)

• TBHQ (tertiary butylhydroquinone)

Here are some healthier snacks or ideas to pick from:

• Individual packages of Cheez-Its, pretzels, popcorn, or Pepperidge Farms Goldfish

• Handmade Affirmation cards with sayings such as “You are amazing.” Call them Halloween fortune cards.

• Temporary tattoos

• Halloween themed stickers

• Unreal candy bars (If you have a robust Halloween budget.)

• Small Halloween themed toys like plastic bats – children might not eat them, but they aren’t good for the environment.

• Organic candy

Our kids deserve better. We need to stop giving them foods that will show up as disease in thirty years. Toxicity is cumulative, and the healthier lives we live today, the healthier our futures. Happy Halloween.

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

  Anne Talk

Do You Define Your Life By Your Difficulties?

Today’s Anne Talk is Do You Define Your Life By Your Difficulties?. Anne reminds us that we can choose a life that's safe and EZier. Time: 3:19

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Take Your One Minute Prosperity Break

Today’s Dr. Money’s Prosperity Video is Take Your One Minute Prosperity Break. Anne provides some great prosperity affirmations, with matching prosperity images. Time: 1:50

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