The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main article, EZosophy Philosophy, presents an overview of Anne’s EZosophy teachings. The Healthy Living article, Maybe You Can Help Yourself, provides some suggestions for self-healing. In the Anne Talk, Start Your Day With EZ (Ease), Anne shares affirmations for an EZ (easy) day. In today’s Prosperity Video, You Are at Risk, Anne predicts that you are at high risk for all sorts of wonderful things happening in your life! The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne’s fifth book, The Living Book. Click to read What is EZosophy? Click to join Abundance Affirmations. Click for Shareables From Anne.

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The 8 Word Miracle Mantra: “Everything can be EZ or at least EZier.” -- Anne Sermons Gillis

Living EZosophy, January 14, 2019
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It looks as if our home deal will go through and we will move to the Charleston area in May. It’s exciting to think about a new life. Lots of sorting. I will listen to Marie Kondo’s book, The Changing Magic of Tidying Up (a YouTube recording). Her wildly popular book was out over 60 weeks before it hit the USA Today’s best-selling book list. Interesting that Americans have so much stuff that we need a decluttering guru! Forget enlightenment; let’s just go for peaceful, uncluttered surroundings. I think her motto should be “Mess is Stress.” I pulled out everything from under our bed (that’s where I shoved things when we had an almost on-the-spot showing), and was stunned to find many lost items. Piles of notes and books are neatly placed in the bedroom, awaiting instructions. Marie, help me out!

I spend too much time on Facebook. It provides an opening to the supreme rabbit hole, but it has its upsides. I received a messenger from a friend I met this summer at The Theosophical Society convention. He sent a picture I made when a group went to dinner. I posted the picture on Facebook and tagged as many people as I could. He texted that as a result of the picture, he became friends with one of the women in the picture. They started communicating and now they are an item. He wrote to thank me. I was thrilled because they are both great people. Here’s his message: “After that photo was on Facebook, the woman seated to your right in the photo added me on Facebook. And we started talking. And we’ve visited each other a few times. With other trips planned. She has become a huge and important part of my life.”

Life has its complications and misery, but our personal journey demands that we either rise above the hubbub or that we move senseless events into meaning. The alternative is misery. Yes, we do have a society that is addicted to misery, but I’ll save those Hardaholic discourses for another time. And that’s it for the Anne Report.

  Main Article

EZosophy Philosophy

What is EZosophy? Can it benefit me? My life is already easy. Legitimate questions. Why do we need a new philosophy? Haven’t we covered everything in our spiritual traditions? No, that’s why we need EZosophy. It covers virgin territory.

Move your right arm up and down several times. Stop. Do this now, before continuing. Next, move your arm, but this time be keenly aware of your arm as you move it up and down, and think easier, freer, lighter as you lift it. Allow your arm to flow effortlessly into a rhythmic flow. Did you experience the change that happened with your movements when you moved your arm the first time and when you moved it with conscious awareness? This exercise shows how awareness can bring ease. Just as we can physically bring ease into our bodies, through our intention and awareness, we can also bring ease into our lives through focused awareness.

The idea that life is a battleground is a familiar metaphor. We believe that life is hard, and yes, life is hard, but not all the time. It is time to put an end to the cultural narrative that life is hard all the time. True, there are many things we will suffer about. Buddha taught nonattachment. Attachment causes suffering, but Buddha gently reminded us that we will become attached. We will love, and when we love, at some point we will lose a loved one, and we will suffer. This is genuine suffering, when we suffer a real loss, but when we use the idea that life is hard, as the foundation for life, the things that are easy become tainted by our filters. Life itself becomes an endless chore. Taking out the garbage or filling up the car with gas is not hard. People say, “I don’t do windows,” meaning they are above certain maintenance tasks. Really? Most of life is maintenance, and if we hold out for the star moments or the mountain highs, we are doomed. Often, when I’m in a crowd, I look around at the faces. How many people look peaceful or happy? For the most part people seem absorbed in head work, an intellectualism stripped of the heart. They are in a hurry. They aren’t present. There is an insidious somberness that permeates adulthood. I call it terminal seriousness. This burdensome outlook on life is hard-a-holism. Our culture has a misplaced loyalty for ego driven suffering (EDS). Ego driven suffering is synthetic suffering. It’s emotional martyrdom. Years ago, a Brazilian friend visited. He told me that of all his family and friends, I was the only person who took time away from work to be with him. He wasn’t my lover, just a good friend. He was astounded by the driven-ness or terminal seriousness of most Americans.

Do you remember the story of the monk who runs from the tiger and falls off the cliff? He grabs a flimsy root. The tiger is above him, waiting for his dinner, and below is a steep drop into a canyon. When the root breaks, he will fall to his death. He looks up and sees a strawberry plant growing on the side of the mountain, with three beautiful strawberries. He plucks them and eats with reverence and enjoyment. Amid tragedy or danger, he sees the pleasure that is before him. Can we be like that monk? Can we imbibe in life’s refreshing moments, regardless of the turmoil life might offer?

Yesterday I dropped a glass bottle of oil on our tile kitchen floor. Oil and glass splattered everywhere. Was that a reason to suffer? While it was inconvenient, and inconvenience is a just a mental construct, the event did not warrant suffering. I hear people cuss and get angry when they spill things or make a mistake - like they are entitled to suffer. This is hard-a-holism. Suppose you have the flu. Yes, this is physical pain, but being emotionally distraught because we are ill or in pain is hard-a-holism. As Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert; April 6, 1931) used to say, “Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.” The eight-word miracle mantra might seem simplistic, but it is simple; it is profound. Everything can be EZ (easy)* or at least EZier (easier) means that all genuine suffering (loss of job, loved-one, etc.) can be eased to some extent, and most suffering can be dropped immediately.

When my best friend died suddenly, I was bereft. I suffered. I grieved, but my burden was lifted when I cried in the arms of my friends and when people acknowledged my loss. Sharing the load made my burden lighter. That’s what is meant by at least EZier (easier). While our losses cannot be taken away, our emotional pain diminishes when others rally around. Hardships are EZier (easier) when we use resources such as counseling, 12 step programs, and friends. Next time you sigh heavily (that’s the hard-a-holic  mantra), remind yourself of the arm lifting exercise. Do you want to clumsily lift the moment with a heavy outlook or do you want to intentionally move into the moment with EZ (ease) and grace? That’s all it takes, a conscious intention for ease, to make life EZier (easier) and EZier (easier).

*I add easy and easier because, in most English-speaking countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia, the letter “Z” is pronounced “Zed.”

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Suppose someone told you that you could change your life radically, for the better, if you spent just three minutes a day doing inner work? Would you believe it? Maybe not, but wouldn't it be worth an investment of three minutes a day to try it?

The Living Book offers just this. Devote three minutes a day to this process and your life will become a living testimony to the seed principle. A tiny seed can grow into a mighty tree, but it must be planted. Plant your daily seed for three short minutes and notice both subtle and miraculous changes in your life. In addition to the daily practice, one can use the process when they are stumped or afraid or angry. This process transforms anger into love. When we plant seeds of light into our thoughts and emotional bodies, we move into higher frequencies of well-being.

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  What is EZosophy?

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  Healthy Living

Maybe You Can Help Yourself

We all want to live healthy lives, or so it seems. Most of us even know what to do to live healthier lives, but too often we fail to do the healthy thing. Why? All disregard for our bodies is an attempt to cover up emotional pain. Sound over the edge? Too simple?

Jane, not her real name, came into our offices to gain control of her weight. She was given a little body patch that turned colors based on one’s body temperature. The color change indicated a change in mood. Jane was to wear the tiny monitor to track her feeling states. What activities was she participating in when the color turned to calm and what was she doing when the color indicated stress? The only time the patch indicated calmness was when she was eating. The rest of the time the color reflected agitation. Given this, there was no weight loss regimen that could solve her problem. Anyone would overeat if over-eating was their only way to feel okay.

We may not display our pain in our weight, but when there’s unresolved pain, it will come out. Some peoples’ success is caused because they over-work to protect themselves from deep emotional wounds. The pain eventually comes out when they realize their success is empty.

Where do we start in the healing process? The first step is to look at our self-esteem. If we don’t value ourselves and our personal needs and desires, it’s because we have painful beliefs that tie us to the pain of the past. Dealing with issues of self-esteem includes learning how to set functional boundaries, taking care of ourselves financially, learning how to deal with emotions, and taking the focus off others and putting it back on ourselves.

Where do we get help? Self-help books are sometimes laughed at by intellectuals, but these books come to the rescue of those who don’t have the time or the money for counseling. After all, you can sit in bed at night, pajama clad, and read the secrets of the ages. In addition to self-help books, there are inestimable online blogs, free newsletters, and YouTube. We live in a time when we are overcome by technology, but with this technology comes a plethora of easily accessible self-healing modalities. Technology is not all bad.

• The public libraries have thousands of online eBooks, audio books, and videos. To access these all you need is a library card and a Hoopla or Libby app.

• New thought and positive thinking tell us that we have the power to heal our minds, bodies, and spirits with all the information available.

• My book, Words Make a Difference, defines and offers help for the most pervasive negative beliefs that plague us.

• My friend, Dawn Koufakis, has written a wonderful book, Drawing Your Line: Setting Boundaries Step-by-Step, to help people learn to set functional boundaries.

• Twelve step meetings offer support for any condition. The meetings are free. There are even online meetings.

We live in complex times. We are overrun with too many choices and we drag around our old pain. Yet it is comforting that this angst-inducing puzzle of contemporary living can be met with more tools than ever before. When we reach out for information and support, and reach into the depths of who we are, we create a winning combination of self-healing. Maybe we can heal ourselves? What do you think?

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

  Anne Talk

Start Your Day With EZ (Ease)

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Today’s Anne Talk is Start Your Day With EZ (Ease). Anne shares affirmations for an EZ day. Time: 4:06

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  Anne’s Prosperity Video

You Are at Risk

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Today’s Prosperity Video is You Are at Risk. Anne predicts that you are at high risk for all sorts of wonderful things happening in your life! 4:12

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