Here's Anne Sermons Gillis' 01/28/2020 newsletter, The EZ Secret: Tips on Living in EZ
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The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main article, The Beige Path, points to how we lose our natural spontaneity and expression when we try to make others feel comfortable. The Healthy Living article, Do You Have an Expiration Date?, suggests that we consciously choose our expectations about health and longevity. In the Anne Talk, Worry is a Racket, Anne reminds us not to worry on purpose! In the Anne’s Prosperity Video, What Would Andrew Carnegie Do?, Anne shares the prosperity principles used by Carnegie, the famous steel magnate, to earn his great wealth. 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. The 8 Word Miracle Mantra: “Everything can be EZ or at least EZier.” Anne Sermons Gillis |
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EZosophy, January 28, 2019
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The Anne Report
The Anne Report
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I’m still in my pajamas. It’s 12:30 PM. How did this happen? Can I really be sitting here in my PJ’s at this late time in the day? I call myself retired, but I work about six hours a day. Does this mean I am getting decrepit, lazy, or just comfortable? In the summer I rush to get dressed, but in the winter, not so much. If I could find a bear and a cave, I might take residence during the winter months. I’m asking for feedback. Anybody like to stay in their pj’s? Am I a weirdo?
House things moving along, as evidenced by the emails we get from title companies, realtors, and who knows who. In the old days we made trips to offices, but now, we open our emails, the Godzilla of communication, and use a signing service to create a legal digital signature. A wonderful benefit of the Internet. It’s daunting to see that we can buy a home in the Charleston area that is half as big as our current home for $70K more than we paid for our Texas home. I keep the thought, “We are divinely housed,” at the tip of my mind. It’s still three more months before we can close, but I’m occupied with snakes and snails and puppy dog tails. If the devil is in the details, I’m on it, because the details seem big enough to take up my entire life! And that’s it for the Anne Report.
Main Article
The Beige Path
Beige is a neutral color. Beige can be dressed up or dressed down. One can wear red, black, pink, turquoise, or even purple with beige. Everyone knows that beige goes with everything.
The indigenous walk a path known as the Red Road. Red alludes to red skin, but walking the Red Road means living in harmony with life, earth, and its inhabitants. It is a path filled with a fire for life, with honor, and with respect for all of life. This path contains both delight and sorrow. There is a path close to the Red Road, but (unlike the Red Road) it leads to a life that diffuses awareness, squelches spontaneity, and tramples intimacy. It is the beige path (BP). It is the well-worn path of our culture.
The BP is not straight and narrow, but wide and all consuming. To be on the path, everyone must fit in, look good, and restrain emotional intensity. Beigites, those who walk the BP, stroll softly and avoid topics that might arouse thinking, opinions, and controversy. The tyranny of agreement rules. They avoid speaking about politics, personal finances, or religion. Talk of the weather and gossip dominates the conversation. Beigites are hurried, harried, preoccupied, or numbed out.
Passionately alive people (EZosophists) tend to stay off the beaten path. Beigites are quick to rein in joy-filled or pain-filled EZosophists. They ask a series of intellectual questions, while sporting looks of disapproval. Sometimes they threaten. “Get serious” and “You’ve got to live in the real world” are mantras for the Beigites. Commands such as “Be careful” and “Wipe that smile off your face” dispel positive emotions from those who stray from the path. “Be positive” is the command used for a person in genuine pain and “Get real” tramples joy and enthusiasm.
Once I climbed into a cave with a vertical entrance. I lowered myself in, and after my eyes adjusted, I could see I stood in a narrow passageway. Rock walls, riddled with gaping holes, surrounded me. More eye adjustment revealed thousands of eyes staring at me. The holes held snakes and their heads were pointing out toward me. It was an Indiana Jones moment. Simultaneously, two people approached and spoke with my partner. I could hear the pleasantries. Meanwhile, back in the snake pit, I am afraid. I have dealt with a fear of snakes all my life and here I am face to face with more snakes than I had ever seen. I wanted to scream but right then a Beigite tendency set in. “You don’t want to make the people outside feel uncomfortable,” the beige voice beguiled. Fortunately, sanity set in. “I’m inside a hole in the ground while they are outside safe and sound. I am petrified — they are jovial. I am in a hole and surrounded by snakes and I am going to suppress my feelings? That’s crazy.” So I screamed. I allowed myself to feel the fear. I moved swiftly through the passageway and made my way into a chamber of bats. After snakes, bats seemed a welcome relief. Later, I realized that the reptiles were lizards, not snakes; but at the time, they were snakes to me.
This is how the BP operates: Let’s walk the well-lit halls of no emotions; it feels safe. Let’s inoculate others from upset. When I noticed this dynamic, I found it easy to see how others tried to suppress my aliveness and emotions. Others shut me off, turned my enthusiasm down. It came as a shock to discover how I, too, tried to fix up the hurts and pains of others so as to reel them back to the real world of flatness.
The BP offers a life of control. Life in the Beige lane is predictable, safe, and comfortable.
People who walk the BP confuse lack of activity for peace. Peace is one aspect of a deep sense of well-being. Peace is an integral part of a fully functioning emotional reality. Peace is much more than the absence of conflict. If our goal in life is to avoid conflict, we will numb out in order to not feel or see it. We might become people pleasers and say yes when we really want to say no. That is denial. When we suppress or deny emotions, our lives become harder.
EZosophists take time to do the emotional work required to be fully alive. If the dominant answers you have to the question “How do you feel?” are “Fine” or “I don’t know,” you are probably standing in the middle of the BP.
Wilhelm Reich said that as long as our muscles are armored against love and sex, we will continue to crucify the Christ. This is another way of saying, “If you are not on the BP now, you will be later, because we will kill your enthusiasm and aliveness until you surrender to the predictability we call normalcy.”
If you want to get in touch with your feelings, you must get in touch with your body. Bodywork and energy work help release the years of numbness stored in the organs, muscles, and systems in the body.
Let’s get off the path well-traveled and ease on down a road of power and aliveness. The following activities are effective in reconnecting the body and the emotions — so you can retrace the steps to wholeness.
Excerpted from Anne’s second book,
EZosophy: The Art of EZier Living
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Abundance Affirmations
This group is a place to post uplifting affirmations and thoughts about prosperity and abundant living. Let’s create a right relationship with money so that we feel comfortable about money. Let’s use money as it’s meant to be used, and not as a way to accumulate power or to fill a void. We don’t need money to buy more stuff. We need it to create a world that works for everyone. We want to cast off old beliefs of lack and reclaim our natural state of abundance. Anne, AKA Dr. Money, posts a nightly goodnight video for the prosperity team, and everyone who watches those videos becomes a part of the prosperity team.
You too can join the Prosperity Team by watching Anne’s Dr. Money channel.
Featured Product This Month
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.
The Living Book, by Anne Sermons Gillis. Paperback $4.95 plus $3.00 shipping. PDF Download $0.99. Kindle Book $2.99.
What is EZosophy?
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Healthy Living
Do You Have an Expiration Date?
Do we have anything to do with the date we die? I used to administer a questionnaire to new clients. It had what many may have thought was an unusual question: “How old will you be when you die and how will your death occur?” The answer pointed to possible subconscious beliefs they might have concerning their death. This is not an infallible theory, but it does hold sway. My colleague, Jane, had a client who was 34 years old. Let’s call her Mary. Mary’s answer on the questionnaire was: “I think I will die at age 34 in an accident.” Jane took note of Mary’s answer and planned to discuss it with her in the future. Mary had a wreck that week. She didn’t die, but Jane was bereft because she had not spoken with Mary immediately about a potential setup for death.
Elvis Presley died 19 years to the day after he buried his mother. At her funeral he was heard to say that he had lost everything. Was there a connection in his subconscious mind to that date? Why is it that spouses are more at risk the year following their mate’s death? They have a 66% chance of dying in the first three months following the death of their spouse. It’s called the widowhood effect.
Leonard Orr was an advocate of the idea of physical immortality. He contended that the thought that we are going to die was a set up for death. He called it the death urge. What if we trained our minds to believe that we would live forever? There might be some benefits. No one dies of old age. There is always a cause of death. It could be an accident or illness, but no one expires without cause.
All of this leads to the possibility of setting our death date. How long would you like to live? When I was young, I hoped to live until I was 84 years old. At some point I decided 84 was too young and set my death date at 133 years old. Now I’ve decided 100 might be the best age to cross over. The point is if one thinks they will die at 80, then every ache and pain will seem normal and part of the process of dying. Wouldn’t it be better to expect robust health and either think we will live forever or expect to ascend after a healthy life? This sounds like mind games, and it is, but the mind thinks it’s for real.
The subconscious mind is powerful and can create all kinds of disease. Phil Donahue had a man on his show who had multiple personality disorder. In one personality he had a scar on his face and in the other one, no scar. We watched the transformation on screen as the scar appeared and disappeared. That change was a product of the subconscious mind. It pays to feed the mind exaggerated and monumental thoughts of well-being, because it takes the instructions we give it.
I recommend spending five minutes a day focusing on health and healing. Let’s picture ourselves becoming healthier and healthier every day. Our mind can play tricks on us, but let’s beat it to the punch. Let’s play tricks on it, and see ourselves living joy-filled and healthier lives, because when we do, everything becomes EZier and EZier.
If you have any healthy living tips for the newsletter, send them to me at anne@annegillis.com.
Anne Talk
Worry is a Racket
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Today’s Anne Talk is Worry is a Racket. Anne reminds us not to worry on purpose! Time: 2:23
Anne Art
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Anne’s Prosperity Video
What Would Andrew Carnegie Do?
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Today’s Anne’s Prosperity Video is What Would Andrew Carnegie Do?. Anne shares the prosperity principles used by Carnegie, the famous steel magnate, to earn his great wealth. 7:20
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