The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main article, The Power of Pertinent Thinking, contrasts two ways to approach living, positive thinking and creativity, and shows they can both work together to help us navigate life's challenges. The Healthy Living article, Anne’s Life Hacks, provides recipes for healthy living. In the Anne Talk, Made Up Suffering, Anne reminds us how to question if our difficulties are genuine difficulties or just made up. In today’s Anne’s Prosperity Video, Journey into Prosperity, Anne gives you a vivid visualization for prosperous manifesting. 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 26, 2019
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This Thanksgiving my husband, dog, and I will trek up to Nacogdoches, pecan pie in hand, to celebrate with our long-time friends, the Hutchisons. It’s a holiday celebrated by many religions. It’s not a religious holiday, however; it’s a holiday of gratitude. It’s time to give thanks for the harvest and to settle in for the cold of the winter. We are not so close to harvest any more; therefore, Thanksgiving has become an appreciation day for the good in our lives. People hold hands, give thanks, and then pounce on a feast.

It turns out that that gratitude is good for our health. Of course, we knew this, but scientists confirm that negative emotions can feed cancer, and positive thoughts and emotions can send us on our way to healing. It may not be as easy as one might think, to go from being habitually irritated or sad, to being happy for things, but unless we start changing our thought patterns, we can’t rewire our brains. Habits are wired in our brains, and we may not be electricians, but unless we provide circuits for happier lives, we continue to live in misery. I am not against misery. It’s okay sometimes; after all, life can periodically be a free-fall into disaster. But I am an activist against constant misery. There is no life that can’t have joyful, creative, and harmonious moments, but unless we turn toward the light, our lives continue in the same lack-luster ways.

Gratitude allows us to see the things we take for granted in a new light. It keeps us from feeling sorry for ourselves. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough.” (Melody Beattie) Gratitude is a great tool, and Thanksgiving is the time to put our quirks and opinions aside and agree that life offers some wonderful things.

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  Main Article

The Power of Pertinent Thinking

I have been on a two-day Elizabeth Gilbert binge. Think YouTube, blogs, and websites. All my rabbit-holing revealed a complex and determined woman. She worked as a cook, a bartender, a waitress, and a magazine employee in her early years. As with all good writers, she used her personal experiences in her writings. Gilbert wrote the phenomenal success, Eat, Pray, Love. It sold more than 12 million copies. The book chronicles her continuing moments of despair and triumph. While motivational writers center on positive outcomes, she focuses on developing compassion and wisdom. Her central theme, as I suspect it should be with all humans, is self-care. She birthed herself through a tunnel of not knowing, and her readers found themselves in her story. I, along with others, held her hand as she meditated, ate unabashedly, and found a new love. The book was eventually made into a movie, and her newest book, The City of Girls, will also be turned into a film. She is a raging success, but that was never her goal. She promised herself that she would not use her writing as a means of support, yet she eventually found herself on the NYT best seller list year after year. I picked up her book, Big Magic, at the library yesterday. Big Magic calls to our deepest creative desires and makes it okay to express them. Her words glide over the pages, expressing themselves in radical vulnerability. Her power lies in this exposé of her inner world. They take us on a carriage ride into her heart and deliver us soundly into our own tenderness.

Norman Vincent Peale’s book, The Power of Positive Thinking, sold 20 million copies. Today, 26 years after his death, Peale is still a household name. His seminal book was published in 1952. It received poor reviews from the critics and health professionals but soared into popularity with the public. The book came out when the baby boomers were arriving and the middle class was thriving. Everyone wanted the American dream. His book put stars in our eyes and promised success to anyone who dared to think positive thoughts. Though Peale is considered the father of positive thinking, few know that it was his teacher, Florence Scovel Shinn, who aroused his curiosity. Shinn, who was well-versed in an esoteric work, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece, delivered her work in a way that was embraced by those who treaded far from the esoteric. Peale’s work, like Shinn’s, was a hybrid of esoteric teachings and Christianity, and spoke to the masses. Thus, the secrets of the ancients made their way to popular culture.

Peale and Gilbert take opposite approaches. Peale reminds us that our outlook determines how we see things and that we can change our perception and our outcome. We don’t have to fret and whine about everything life serves. We must rise in the glory and the story of well-lived lives. Gilbert reminds us that we are flawed and, rather than be at odds with what is, we must apply liberal amounts of compassion and care. She invites a fearful society to see through a tender heart.

Who is right? Do we need to rise up or settle down? Do we need to plan or allow? The world of creativity is different from the world of positive thinking. Positive thinking points us away from ego driven suffering, thus providing a space for creativity. Creativity allows uncharted territory to peek through and shine a light into our imagination. Our world is full of paradoxes, and it requires unique, but seemingly opposing, answers. At times we need the arms of a mother, a comforter, an encourager, but at other times we need to know we can do it, we can make it, and that we can be powerful and relevant. Our assignment is to know when to be open and honest, when to comfort and support, when to motivate and plan. This is the kind of information that leads to transformation. It comes from our guts, our inner knowing, not from an assembly of facts. We are responsible to ourselves to know ourselves. (Thank you, Socrates.) Unless our thoughts and feelings are under our watch, we miss our soul’s direction. There is always hope and guidance, even if the answer is to do nothing. We must give up our self-serving stories of personal injustice and create a clean field of receptivity, because when we do, everything becomes EZier and EZier.

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  Healthy Living

Anne’s Life Hacks

I’m a health advocate. I take good care of my body. After all, my body is my greatest asset. I spend plenty of time on my emotional and psychological health as well, because that’s what it takes for me. I have a fickle body and mind. Sometimes they come through, but they also desert me. I take care not to feed narcissism in this quest and try not to impose my values onto others. Who wants to hear the intimate details of healthy living? Fortunately, this health column gives me a place to share some of the things I do to keep my body and mind healthy, or at least healthier. Here are two of my standbys.

Olive oil – The list for the benefits of olive oil is impressive: from reducing the risk of strokes and heart attacks to lowering our bad cholesterol. I even read claims that it helps burn off belly fat. That one seems a little hard to believe, but I like the thought. How do I get my daily dose of olive oil – on a large salad.

Here’s my recipe for the perfect oil and vinegar dressing. This is for one serving.

• 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar with the mother. Regular vinegars promote systemic yeast growth. Yes. It was hell to give up my balsamic vinegar.

• 2 Tablespoons of virgin olive oil

• A dash of Himalayan sea salt, or at least sea salt. Maybe 1/4 teaspoon. Never use that plain old salt – nasty stuff.

• 2 teaspoons dillweed

• 1 tablespoon of chopped red onions. I used to use green onions, but I’ve fallen for the red ones lately, plus they are really a good buy at Aldi’s.

Put all the ingredients in the bottom of your salad bowl. Add your salad (greens and veggies) and toss. When you eat this, be sure to drink the left-over juice. This works well over white potatoes, as a potato salad base; just add some dill pickles. Double the dressing recipe for the potato salad. It works well with cooked black-eyed peas. Add dressing and chopped tomatoes and celery.

Reduced Calorie Intake Plan

Studies show, but I can’t put my finger on them right now, that reducing calories for five days during the month has unique benefits. When we take in fewer calories than we expend, the body goes hunting for fuel. It starts eating the unhealthy cells first and leaves the healthy cells alone. It also jumpstarts stem cell production. As we age, the number of stem cells we produce reduces. At my age, my body produces about 95% fewer stem cells than when I was 20. My personal plan includes eating 500 calories on Fridays and doing a water fast on Tuesdays. I don’t do this when I’m traveling or if there’s a holiday on fast day. Flexibility allows do-ability.

Here’s what I eat on my 500 calorie days.

Breakfast Strawberry Shake

• 1 cup of Good Karma Flax Milk with protein – 60 calories

• 10 strawberries - 40 calories

• Stevia to taste

Blend it together and drink.

Lunch and dinner – One salad for each meal.

• 1/2 can of wild caught, packed in olive oil, sustainably fished, sardines. Be sure to eat the olive oil. 100 calories.

• Add red onions and dillweed

• 1 head of organic romaine

• 1 small organic tomato

What are you doing to support your body’s best health?

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

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Made Up Suffering

Today’s Anne Talk is Made Up Suffering. Anne reminds us how to question if our difficulties are genuine difficulties or just made up. Time: 4:15

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Journey into Prosperity

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