The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main article, Inner Knowing, suggests the importance of listening to and acting on our inner guidance more than on guidance from outside. The Healthy Living article, Food Alchemy, encourages us to develop a sense of romance with the food we eat. In the Anne Talk, When Good is Bad, Anne reminds us that sometimes good can be bad, if it's not right for us. In today’s Dr. Money’s Prosperity Video, The Good Gets Gooder, Anne provides some positive affirmations to encourage and inspire us. 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 15, 2019
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Life is South Carolina is slow and easy, unless you have two five-year-old’s running the show; then it goes into high gear. I know why you can’t conceive children when you are older. Almost every moment around my grand twins is explosive. They never sit still, are very competitive, and loud. All definitions of who I am disappear when I’m around them. It’s like trying to hold onto the tail of a tornado.

Jim, my husband, barely made it through a snow and ice storm in Colorado last week. He went into a long slide on the road but was able to recover. He drove in snow that was so deep he couldn’t tell where the road was. I’m sure he knows he would be in deep trouble if he wrecked the car; I would have a fit. That thought might have saved him. Whatever it was, I am grateful, because he is one of those men who never admit to any kind of hardship, and when I talked to him, he was shaken up. Is this a man thing? Why would anyone start a trip in a snowstorm? He told me that he thought he could beat the storm. My thought, “When the storm is already happening, you can’t beat it!” I didn’t mention that to him.

I’ve looked at several houses since I’ve been in SC and worked with a house-selling prayer. Our Texas home is still on the market. That’s why I started working with the affirmation, “Things are as they should be, when they are meant to be.” That thought relaxes me. Much of life is about dissolving our disappointments, letting go of attachments, allowing life to be as it is, without trying to control it, and developing a state of mind that supports joy, creativity, and spontaneity. You’d think I’d have it down by now, given that I’m 71, but I’m still on the trail of learning to let go! It’s a wild ride, and that’s it for the Anne Report.

  Main Article

Inner Knowing

When I was young, you were not supposed to use the word “pregnant” in mixed company. It was considered gauche. As I grew, I learned there were many good words that were thrown to the wayside because they were in bad taste or pointed to a topic that was best left undiscussed. In polite society, certain subjects were off limits. When we can’t discuss certain topics, or use certain words, they become secrets.

This summer I heard historian and award-winning author, Mitch Horowitz, speak. He said that we must reclaim our words. He wrote a book entitled Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped America. He used the word occult as if it had panache. To him it wasn’t a stained word. The word has been linked to many activities, but basically occult means hidden. The broader definition would include mystical, magical, that which we cannot explain, and that which cannot be explained: the ineffable.

Psychic is another maligned word. When we think of psychic, we think of Madame Zarina, who welcomes us with her pockets wide-open. I rarely use the word psychic, at least not in the company of those I consider pragmatic, intellectual, or members of a fear-based religion. I don’t need any eye rolls, sarcasm, or superstitions. It is not my job to exacerbate fear, but it is my desire to alleviate it. That’s why I leave certain words alone. But I wonder, am I hiding because I am afraid of criticism or because I thoughtfully respect others’ beliefs? It is a fine line. The word intuition is the fashionable and acceptable word, when it comes to information coming from a higher knowing. Yet, the root word psychic means of the soul. How can that be bad? Our soul tells us things that we ignore or can’t hear because they stay behind closed doors. We have locked them out.

There is much more to our world than the physical, and we know it. We feel the call from the beyond, in all that we are, but our culture tells us it doesn’t exist or that is woo-woo or crazy to look toward our inner knowing. We are lied to, and we assimilate the lies as if they were the gospels of life itself. Consensus reality covers up the vastness of information and experiences that go beyond our normal senses. The great lies of our culture tell us that money will make us popular and happy, more things will make life meaningful, and the perfect job will make us secure. These beliefs do not have the power to deliver what they promise. People peddle the lie that unprecedented climate disasters are a part of a normal pattern. We are lied to by the media, and when the media exposes the truth, we are told it is fake news. Confusion and overwhelm permeate our culture. Our collective pain leaks through in tragic ways. There are mass shootings, bullying, sexual predators – symptoms of a world gone mad. When we are systematically lied to, we start to feel crazy. We have realms of consciousness that are devoid of facts but studded with truth, that are always available to us, but we distrust our inner knowing. We would rather fit in with our peers than know the truth.

We not only need to reclaim our words, we need to claim our inner knowing. We need to trust our truths. Last week a friend died. When I lived in Memphis, we were close buds. I lost regular contact with her when I moved away, but the bond that we shared never weakened with time. Once you’ve wiped the tears of ones you love, you never lose each other. We were privy to each other’s lives through Facebook and an occasional phone call. A few weeks ago, she posted that she was diagnosed with cancer. I meant to call. The other day I thought. “I should call her, because if I don’t, it will be too late.” She passed away in the early morning of the next day. Yes, I should have called, but I didn’t. That night I had a dream. She came to me and we hugged. We communicated with a wordless knowing. I expressed my grief that she had passed, and we were able convey the deep love and appreciation we had for one another. If I use my logical mind, that would just be a dream, but when my heart read what happened, it was more. It was our goodbye. It was our ending in this lifetime.

The Twelve Step program says, “We are as sick as our secrets.” When much of who we are and what we know is a secret from others, we get sick. When we try hide under the banner of false privacy, we add to the shadow side to our personalities. When we can’t or don’t listen to our own knowing, we become emotionally sick. When our society convinces us that the deeper truths don’t even exist, our society gets sick. It is time not only to reclaim our words, the words that speak of that which is bigger than the intellect, it’s time to reclaim and trust our intuition. We are multidimensional beings who were not designed to live on bread alone. If we don’t live from our inner knowing, we are left to rely on others’ advice and knowledge. While we can learn facts from others, we teach ourselves the language of inner knowing and discover that the heart speaks in wordless wonders. It’s time to undo the taboos of old and come open handed to the Source of Being from which all knowing flows, because when we do, our lives become EZier and EZier.

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  Featured Product This Month

At last, the reprint of EZosophy: The Art of EZ or at Least EZier Living, is out. If you've been wanting an EZier life, this book provides a clear path toward EZ.

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

Food Alchemy

I have a passion for food and a personal relationship with food. I love to cook. My food relationship is based on that inner knowing I spoke of in the main article. I know what ingredients go well together. I can cook without recipes. I can concoct wonderful dishes on the spot, with only a few handy ingredients. What makes this so? It’s a mixture of creativeness and feeling akin to each ingredient. Just like we can connect with nature or be moved by a symphony, we can have an inspirational relationship with food.

It’s like having a green thumb or being an artist. A regular artist works with colors, but an intuitive cook paints with foods. When I read Romancing the Bean, by Joanne Saltzman, my insides jumped for joy. She described how to work intuitively with recipes and ingredients. It was something I already did, but I had not been able to put it into words until I read her book. I wasn’t alone.

I read a wonderful fiction series by Gigi Pandian, The Accidental Alchemist. Zoe Foust is an alchemist who has discovered the secret of immortality. She is a plant alchemist who works with and understands the power of herbs. You will remember that people of the earth, those who were natural healers, were killed for this intuitive knowledge in the past. But back to the story. The main character, Zoe, is befriended by a gargoyle statue who was brought to life a century ago, using reverse alchemy. His name is Dorian Robert-Houdin. Dorian is a French chef, and much of the book deals with his close relationship with food and their ingredients. He has a challenge, given that Zoe is a vegan, but Dorian is so in tune with the food, that he creates new and wonderful recipes. The series is no doubt a treasure for food alchemists, and I’m one for sure!

The relationship with food goes beyond cooking. It has to do with eating as well. If we stuff ourselves with food or always eat mindlessly, we can’t develop or use our food wisdom. Large numbers of people have food addictions or addictive eating patterns, but when we eat wholesome, refreshing foods and don’t practice habitual, emotional eating patterns, food becomes sacred. Cooking with consciousness is a form of worship. Food church. I attend food church regularly.

We learn the art of cooking in cooking classes and in recipes, but the essence of cooking requires an intuitive awareness. Maybe you already have it, but, if not, consider connecting with food.

• Say a blessing or just silently express thanks for the food you eat.

• Move your relationship with food from one of dread to one of eager anticipation. Make it more than body fuel.

• Change your attitude about cooking. Become a positive thinking cook. When we are uptight when cooking, we imbue the food with our emotions. The food will not taste as good, even if we use the perfect amounts and correct ingredients.

• Be conscious when buying foods in grocery stores. Pay attention. Reach to the essence of the food to see what calls to you.

• Enjoy your trips to the grocery store.

• Pay attention when eating, and eat with reverence and gratitude.

• Allow yourself to eat some foods that are outside your normal eating plans, for a special treat. Make them rarely eaten foods.

• When preparing foods, pay attention to the silent communications the ingredients send out. We can get aha’s if we listen.

We all have to eat, but, as spiritual beings, we want to include all parts of living, especially our relationship with food, because when we do, life becomes EZier and EZier.

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

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When Good is Bad

Today’s Anne Talk is When Good is Bad. Anne reminds us that sometimes good can be bad, if it's not right for us. Time: 5:56

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The Good Gets Gooder

Today’s Dr. Money’s Prosperity Video is The Good Gets Gooder. Anne provides some positive affirmations to encourage and inspire us. Time: 3:46

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