The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main article, Two Ways to Raise Your Consciousness, suggests two ways to help reduce judgments of others. The Healthy Living article, Guilt Free Chocolate, brings you two easy and tasty chocolate recipes. In the Anne Talk, Make Your Life EZier through Questions, Anne shows us how to release Ego Driven Suffering (EDS) by asking helpful questions about our upsets. In today’s Anne’s Prosperity Video, Dr. Money Prognosticates, Dr. Money predicts a prosperous future for you. The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne’s third book, Standing in the Dark. 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, November 19, 2019
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I recently returned from the buzzing world of Disney, and Universal Studios. From watching an actress croon Marilyn tunes, in her white dress, with the wind blowing from down under, to Harry Potter’s Daigon Alley, I spent three days in an alternate universe. My secret wish, to go to Orlando, was fulfilled when my friend called and asked, “Are you interested in going to Orlando?” No hesitation: “Yes.” A few weeks later we landed at Orlando International. It was just us and thousands from all over the world.

Anne at Universal Studios, Orlando, FL
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Daigon Alley, in Universal Studios, was my favorite, but watching live actors interact with the movie, Frozen, was spectacular. Picture sitting in an audience and during a few parts of the show, seeing snow fall around you. Yep, right out of the ceiling; snow on the audience. There were great actors and singers in Hollywood. We went to the simulated making of The Raisers of the Lost Ark. I was riveted when Indiana Jones and Marion climbed into a life-sized plane, only to have the entire area explode in flames as they made their narrow escape. The park was decorated for the holidays and the child within did frequent double-takes. The light shows made the impossible possible. I even helped ET go home. I went on one simulated, scary, stomach churning adventure and then swore off anything that looked like spinning or lurching. I will not be flying over Hogwarts, chasing a Golden Snitch, ever again!

Talk about external world thrills. My adventures usually lead to an inner world, but I admit that playing in the world of maximum maya (Sanskrit for “magic” or “illusion”) was fun. And that’s it for the Anne Report.

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Two Ways to Raise Your Consciousness

Consciousness is a complex subject. When someone awakens from a coma, we say they have regained consciousness. And what about consciousness raising? It was a term made popular in the 1960’s by the civil rights movement, then adopted by the feminist movement. Consciousness raising is a form of activism. Consciousness raising makes people aware of how things really are.

The word conscious is also used to describe a person who is awake and aware. Someone who is conscious interacts with the world with a sensitivity to their surroundings, the tone of their voice, their food choices, how they treat themselves and others, and how they treat the planet. We sometimes we refer to people who don’t consider the consequences of their actions as unconscious. They are not in a coma; they are in a state of unawareness.

Consciousness is like the pot of soup and our actions are like the soup’s ingredients. When our soup is perfected, our ingredients are healthy. When the soup is tainted, it’s because the ingredients are bad, the food is burned, or it’s overcooked.

One might think that our consciousness would be steady, but we seem to move from one pot of soup mentality to another. Have you ever noticed yourself having a superior attitude? You look at someone who uses poor grammar, who dresses in worn-out or dirty clothes, and think you are better than they are. We might not think, “Oh, I’m better than they are,” but our minds carry on a dialogue that gives us away; that is, if we are conscious or aware of our thoughts. The inner conversation says, “He is not well educated. Listen to that grammar.” “Her clothes are dirty; doesn’t she know how that reflects on her? I’d never be caught looking like that.” “He never closes a door. What kind of person never closes a door?” The conversation consists of putdowns and judgments.

Then there’s the other side; the talk that puts us down. “I never look good.” “My clothes are so outdated.” “Your hair looks so good.” “I look like a mess.” “I just said something really stupid.” “I’ll never be as good as you. You are smart, poised, well educated, more fun-loving.” “I can never do anything right.” It’s a conversation that smashes the windows of our souls and leaves us feeling the brokenness.

Sometimes there are those okay moments that Thomas A. Harris, M.D. defined in his book, I'm OK-You're OK. (He based his book on Eric Berne’s Transactional Analysis theory that postulated that everyone born is okay.) This is when we don’t put ourselves, others, or our life situation down. Martin Buber might refer to these healthy moments in terms of relationship. We move from an I/it mentality to an I/thou relationship. It’s space of self and other respect.

It would be great if we could keep our minds quiet when it comes to this up and down assessment of almost everything, but we can’t. We are overrun by mentally inadequate moments. “I’m okay; you’re okay” is where we prefer to be, but when we operate from hurt or fear, we tend to put ourselves above or below others or above or below the circumstances. “I’m to blame,” or “They are to blame.” “I’m stupid,” or “They are stupid.”

Getting out of this dilemma can be accomplished in two ways.

The Forgiveness Doctrine - We forgive ourselves for having these judgments. It requires us to hold no harm in our thoughts and words. Forgiveness simply means to let the upset go. “I forgive myself for judging myself.” “I forgive myself for judging you.”

The Awareness Process - We can witness what we are thinking without assessing our thoughts as good or bad. Here are the steps:

• Look at our crass, marginalizing, or tacky thoughts – the judger thoughts.

• Think, “That’s just what the mind does. It likes to put people and circumstances up on a pedestal or down under, though smugness, angry righteousness, bravado, or through a sense of superiority.”

• Let go and continue to watch the thoughts. Be curious about what thoughts the mind generates.

It’s very refreshing to take judgment out of the equation. The body relaxes when we stop judging.

We are perfect beings, but our behavior and thoughts don’t always reflect the natural essence of our perfection. It’s a journey to move from the antics of the mind and its conditioning to the heart space. It’s a consciousness raising process and project. We need a plan, a route, and sometimes even a swift kick to restore our natural state of being. The route is shorter when we allow ourselves to step out of our habituated thinking and feeling patterns. One thing for sure: when we can forgive ourselves and stop being attached to our thoughts and feelings, life becomes EZier and EZier.

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Guilt Free Chocolate

Chocolate is the queen of foods. The problem we encounter with chocolate is that when we pair it with sugar, it becomes junk food. In truth, as many of you know, I have a sweet tooth and I am a chocolate lover. Here are a few of my chocolate tricks that allow me to enjoy chocolate without sugar. I do eat sugar, but it is in my rarely eaten foods category.

Hot Chocolate

• 1 to 1 ¼ cup of coconut beverage (found in a carton at Whole Foods)

• I tablespoon of powered cocoa

• A spoonful of maple syrup, raw honey, or raw agave

• Liquid stevia to taste, if desired

Heat up milk. Add other ingredients except stevia. Taste. If you want it sweeter, add stevia. Work this recipe to your taste. I just keep adding ingredients until it tastes yummy to me. I do most of my cooking without a recipe. When there is a recipe, I adjust it to my taste. The closer we get to the essence of food, the easier it is to cook intuitively. It’s like the ingredients speak to us and tell us how to use them in the best way.

Quick Fix Chocolate

• 1 teaspoon powdered cocoa (or more, to your taste)

• 1 tablespoon Tahini

• I tablespoon maple syrup

Mix all ingredients. Add more chocolate to make it dark chocolate and add more maple syrup to make it sweeter. When it suits your taste, it will taste similar to a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, but not exactly.

When the taste is just right, put in a tiny bowl and sprinkle sea salt on top. Eat right away or put in the freezer for about 30 minutes, if you prefer it to be a fudge like consistency.

Sometimes, when my sweet tooth calls, I mix up a tiny bit of powered chocolate and honey. It works. When I make one serving of chocolate candy, I’m not temped to eat more. If I were to make multiple servings, I would eat more. Enjoy.

Be sure to keep your chocolate away from dogs. It is potentially lethal to them.

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

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Make Your Life EZier Through Questions

Today’s Anne Talk is Make Your Life EZier Through Questions. Anne shows us how to release Ego Driven Suffering (EDS) by asking helpful questions about our upsets. Time: 6:08

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