The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main article, I Am the Happiest Person in the World!, provides a great suggestion for revolutionizing your EZ life. The Healthy Living article, Relatively Raw Chocolate Fudge, gives us a healthy chocolate food processor candy recipe. In the Anne Talk, Joy to The World, Anne reminds us that life can be EZier when we add some joy to our world and don’t take things too seriously. In today’s Anne’s Prosperity Video, Ask, See, Release, Anne describes how she uses the Law of Attraction (LOA). The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne’s fourth book, Words Make a Difference. 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, December 24, 2019
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From the shore of Hobcaw Creek in South Carolina, I bid you good day. Tomorrow is the day that my grandchildren have been waiting for. They are concerned that our dog, Lucy, will bark at Santa and scare him off. They have a point. Lucy does bark when strangers enter the room. I’m not going to stay up and wait for Santa, so I’ll keep my fingers crossed and hope that Santa has some dog magic. I bet he does. There are probably many barking dogs on the route. I don’t just hope for miracles any more: I count on them. So Santa, please bring your magic dog happy spray to Hobcaw Bluff.

I remember this day fondly. Christmas eve day was my mother’s birthday. RIP Ernestine Keel Sermons. Dec. 24, 1915 – March 2005.

Let’s use our imagination for the best holiday ever. Imagination is one of our best assets, but we use it to create useless drama. I wrote the following a few years ago, and it still rings as true now as it did then.

Making holidays difficult and rushing through life are not on my to do list. Savoring the moments, the holiday songs, cooking a few luscious dishes – these are the things I love. Seeing friends, drinking in the beauty of each moment – how fun. Recently a New York Times article said that the people who are happiest are those who don’t think a lot – those who keep their minds still. I laughed when I heard that – the mystics have known that for eons, but when the truth hits the New York Times, my insides tingle. Holidays bring a certain delight, and yet life, in its fullness, is so amazing. Life itself is a permanent gift. Kirtana’s song, “Deathbed Song,” states, “If I had the chance to do it over – I would open each day like a present. Tender toward what ever came my way, every texture, joy or pain, searing sun or healing rain… for I have seen the face of my beloved.”

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I Am the Happiest Person in the World!

Sometimes I hear something that catches my soul. The words assail my heart, as if to say, “Wake up. Listen.” I once heard a friend talking about a man he interviewed. My heart stood at attention. “He was the happiest person I’ve ever met. I think he was the happiest person in the world.” He admired the man, and as he spoke, his face lit up in remembrance of the encounter. As I listened, my mind jumped up and down with possibility. “How would it be to carry such an idea around? Does that thought fit me? Can I pull it off? Dare I consider the thought that ‘I am the happiest person in the world.’” The thought might seem grandiose, but when I ponder the possibility of Supreme happiness, my mood changes. Why court irritability and confusion, when the thought of happiness is available? The idea haunted me. “What is possible? Certainly more happiness.”

To take a thought such as “I am the happiest person in the world” and use it as a tool, is a spiritual practice. Often we think of a spiritual practice as something we do daily at an appointed time, such as a morning meditation or yoga, but our entire lives can be a spiritual practice. When we practice kindness, compassion, honesty, and integrity, they become our lives.

How can we practice the idea, “I am the happiest person in the world?” The first step is to examine the images we have of ourselves. Do I see myself as temperamental, clumsy, slightly depressed, or anxious? It’s important to take a radically honest inventory of ourselves so we can override the beliefs that don’t serve us. Unfortunately, we have a relentless drive to prove our beliefs about ourselves to be true, even when the beliefs are self-destructive or life denying. When we dig deeply, we uncover our hidden agendas.

Once we discover our negative self-beliefs, it is time for an intervention. Talk with each aspect individually. If I am a fear driven person, then personify the fear and speak to it. “Fear, you’ve been with me a long time. I know you think you’re helping me, and thank you for your help, but I don’t need you any more. If you have any valid parts, I’ll listen, but you are no longer in charge and I am no longer a fearful 10-year-old.” I remember the day that I faced fear. It was more than 45 years ago, but the whole encounter was so powerful that my breath quickens as I mentally relive it. I walked past my bed and stopped. I turned around and spoke to my fear. “Enough! I’m tired of you running the show. No more.” I conversed with fear. It was a major turning point. We can confront any level, any limit, thank it for its service, and then fire it!

The next step in becoming the happiest person in the world is to contemplate that idea. Think of your intention as a precious secret: “I’m the happiest person in the world.” Imagine yourself laughing, smiling. Rest in that happy thought. Cultivating happiness as an identity is a spiritual practice.

As I write and think of myself as the happiest person in the world, I can feel a visceral response. There’s no other position about myself that’s truer; after all, I’m the one who makes everything true and false. Why not bless myself with happiness? This is not a practice of longing for happiness. Longing is a part of the egoic mind’s plan to keep us from changing our lives. In contrast, this is a practice of cultivating happiness, not longing for it. As we prepare our mental soil for a crop of well-being and tend to our thoughts and feeling nature, we grow a crop of happiness.

It is handy to attract material things into our lives using ideas and thoughts. Getting and keeping our physical world in order is life maintenance, but cultivating character is our soul’s work. If we don’t encourage changes in self-perception, we remain in the familiarity of the choices we made when we were 5 years old. I challenge you to be the happiest person in the world. The position is wide open. Decide, then imagine yourself as the happiest person in the world. Do the work, and your life will surely be EZier and EZier.

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  Healthy Living

Relatively Raw Chocolate Fudge

Food plays a vital role during the holiday season. There’s nothing like the odor of cookies wafting through the house. While we may veer from our normal eating patterns for special occasions, here’s a guiltless treat that most people rave about. It’s a dark chocolate delight. There are few chocolate centered candy recipes without sugar, so when I came across this recipe, it became a staple for special occasions and potlucks. This recipe does require a food processor, so stop reading if you don’t have one.

• 3 cups of raw walnuts

• 1/4 teaspoon of salt

• 20 pitted Medjool dates (they are big) If the dates are little, use 40. I buy mine from Costco.

• 3/4 cup cocoa powder

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 1/4 heaping teaspoon cayenne (this makes the flavor pop)

• 1 teaspoon cinnamon - I just always add cinnamon to anything chocolate I make.

• 1/3 cup agave nectar or 100% maple syrup

Put walnuts and salt in food processor with S blade and process until fully ground. It makes an oily mass that looks like almond butter. Add rest of ingredients to food processor and blend until thoroughly mixed. Press out into square pan. Put in fridge. Cut in squares. Optional: Top with coconut. Store in fridge.

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Joy to The World

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Today’s Anne Talk is  Joy to The World. Anne reminds us that life can be EZier when we add some joy to our world and don’t take things so seriously. Time: 3:46

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Ask, See, Release

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Today’s Dr. Money Prosperity Video is Ask, See, Release. Anne describes how she uses the Law of Attraction (LOA). 6:40

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