The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main article, How Our Words Make a Difference, shows how to master our words rather than be controlled by them. The Healthy Living article, Light at the End of the Tunnel, gives us suggestions for how to continue when there seems to be no way. In the Anne Talk, One Revolutionary Relationship Idea That’s a Game Changer, Anne provides helpful tips for EZier conversations. In today’s Anne’s Prosperity Video, Affirmative Vision for Prosperity and Abundant Living, Anne provides encouraging prosperity affirmations. 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 EZ Mantra: “Everything can be EZ or at least EZier.” -- Anne Sermons Gillis

Living EZosophy, January 7, 2019
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The Anne Report

Dear ,

I attended a meeting Saturday morning. Later in the day I received a text from a woman thanking me for the humor I introduced. I don’t remember what I said, but I do remember it was time for the conversation to lighten up. I must have done it at the right moment, given the text applause I received. I tend to introduce humor when conversations get too serious. Spirituality is an instrument of joy, rather than an instrument of esteemed somberness. When I get in a long, somber conversation, I tend to either mentally check out, waiting for my misery to be over, or check in, to see if anyone is still alive. My personal hashtag is, “I am sincere, but not serious.” We don’t have to be laughing hyenas, but we also don’t need to be terminally solemn to earn adult status.

We expect to get a contract on our house this week. We have some serious buyers with approved credit. If all goes well, we will be on the east coast this spring. When this buyer first saw the house, she said, “This feels like home.” I’m hoping she is right and that everything goes smoothly. Fingers crossed; prayers please.

And that’s it for the Anne Report. Remember the eight word miracle mantra: “Every thing can be EZ or at least EZier.”

  Main Article

How Our Words Make a Difference

I love words. I even wrote the book, Words Make a Difference. I partner with words and allow them to teach and inform me. While words can lead to paths of righteousness, they can also become the guides to hell. At some point, I realized that I was giving some words too much power, so I set out to neutralize inflammatory words. I would not let them drag me into a funk or cause me to react in a harmful manner. Not an easy task. I realized that I had filters that turned innocent words into demons, and, for me, some tones were big problems.

Unfortunately, much of society speaks through a personal unspoken code that they don’t even realize they have. The code: I am pissed off or mortally sad because I did not get my early childhood needs met; people abandoned me, hovered over me, or were mean to me, and I wear that pain on my sleeve. If I can knock you down with my agony, or take care of your emotions, I can take the attention away from my own.

Want to see our pain in action? Turn to Facebook. Yikes! I back away from harsh comments, ones not even directed at me, because I get triggered. I am averse to name calling and ideas that divide. I watch our leaders strike out through their personal pain and see those who are hurt in the same ways, line up behind them in solidarity. But more importantly, I see my friends, people I love and care about, being cruel and insensitive. I see them making blanket generalizations about people who see things differently and who are deeply invested in an us vs. them scenario.

Let’s face it: we are in a royal mess. We need a national therapy session. We need to boycott network news. It’s all slanted and it fits in with the dysfunctional narrative of an addicted society. We need a kick in the pants and a dose of reality. Anne Wilson Schaef wrote a book in the eighties that is more relevant today than ever: When Society Becomes an Addict. Schaef offers a penetrating look at the addictive system that infuses modern western society. The book moves beyond the concept of patriarchy and into the pain that forms addictive systems.

We live in a crime scene of the heart. We have broken hearts, and rather than focus on what could heal them, we engage in meaningless Facebook discussions, pick up our phone with every notification, stay glued to the news, or go shopping. While it’s important to connect and stay apprised of current affairs, it shouldn’t be the center of our lives. Our lives need to be the center of our lives. We need to grow up, and the only way we can do it is to face our childhood pain, raise our self-esteem, find good support systems, and spend time alone looking inward.

Addiction is the process of covering up pain through a substance or though a process. Watching the news all day is a process addiction. Worrying is a process addiction. Shopping until you drop is a process addiction. Alcohol and drug dependency are substance addictions. Habitual gossiping or focusing on others is a part of addiction called codependency. Hating a certain person or political leader is a part of a process addiction. There were as many addicted to hating Obama, as a way of life, as there are now who are addicted to hating Trump. It becomes a part of one’s identity – an organizing principle for their thinking. It’s codependency! Talking with someone who hates the president, whoever it might be or whomever it was, is like playing pop goes the weasel. No matter what you say to them, you know that the weasel will eventually pop out. One more opinionated diatribe. It’s exhausting to listen to.

I’m calling for a renaissance of kindness and a renewal of compassion. Do we want to live our lives thrown around by our culture? No! We must heal ourselves, and when we can’t, it’s time to turn to higher power. The 12 Step programs offer relief from our addictive predicaments. While Alcoholic Anonymous offers the serenity prayer, I wrote a corresponding prayer for Codependency.

Codependency Prayer

God, grant me the grace to let others have their addictions, upsets, and imperfections, without trying to fix them, change them, or solve their problems. Give me the courage to say "No" when I want to and the wisdom to reach out for help when I am in denial. Heal my need to please others or control them. Help me to accept with serenity my imperfections. Open my vision so that I know I am precious and make me aware that my expression is valuable. AMEN.

I use the word God, but the word good is a perfect substitute for the word God. I recently read that the word good is synonymous for God in all religions. I’m not convinced it applies to all religions, but it applies to most. If we don’t believe in good, then there’s the place to start in our healing process. We must learn about trust, because without trust, we see a fickle God or Good. We must learn what and whom to trust and what and whom to not trust. Once we learn the power of trust, we are ready to engage in the spiritual aspect of life. The essence of spirituality is that the Universe is benevolent and we are a part of that Divine Good. Healing is a process, but when we work to right our emotional wrongs, we take control of our lives and are not as subject to the gloominess of our modern culture. The last sentence in the prayer is “Open my vision so that I know I am precious and make me aware that my expression is valuable.” When we know that we are valuable, we don’t hate other people or other ideologies. We are secure enough in ourselves to see that hate toward an other is a veiled hate for oneself.

Once we get the muddle cleaned up in our lives, words can take their rightful place. They can bless us and open us to states of peace and joy. Let’s clean our mental and emotional houses so that we can truly make our lives and our worlds a place of wonder and safety, because when we do, everything is EZier and EZier.

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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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  Healthy Living

Light at the End of the Tunnel

I may not be right, but sometimes there is no light at the end of the tunnel. We are bombarded daily with the tragedies of climate change, animal cruelty, air pollution, dying whales, species extinction, and plastic-filled oceans. Having a positive attitude does not change anything, but are we to give up the practice? What are we to do when the external world has no light at end of the tunnel? Do we grieve? Do we give up? Do we prepare for potential disaster?

I read an article about a woman who faced financial disaster during the 2008 crash. She said that positive thinking kept her going. She knew that she would lose her home, but positive thinking gave her the courage to go on and not focus on her present losses. She knew the right use of positive thinking. She believed that her life would be okay even when she couldn’t figure it out herself.

Fundamentalist positive thinking posits that we should be positive about everything. Authentic positive thinking says we can be positive in spite of everything. Fundamentalist positive thinking allows no room for fear, but healthy positive thinking pulls us through the fear.

Here are some positive thoughts to help us through the tragedies of modern living.

• I am safe and okay, even if everything around me is not okay.

• I can count on my wisdom and intuition to guide me through any situation.

• There’s nothing that can destroy my good. Life always offers me its best.

When we begin to use positive thinking in a constructive way, we not only bypass denial, we become the light and the tunnel disappears. Positive thinking, at its best, moves us to an inner strength that cannot be destroyed by outer circumstances. It allows space for grief and outrage. It is not a band aid for feelings, but when we have positive thinking as an ally, we don’t center on fear and outrage as a way of life. We just let it go. When life is out of our control and we can’t see any way out, it’s time to stop looking for the answers and to simply stay in the light. We look for answers to come, and we allow ourselves to be open to seeing them when they do.

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

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One Revolutionary Relationship Idea That’s a Game Changer

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Today’s Anne Talk is One Revolutionary Relationship Idea That’s a Game Changer. Anne provides some helpful tips for EZier conversations. Time: 3:06

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Affirmative Vision for Prosperity and Abundant Living

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Today’s Prosperity Video is Affirmative Vision for Prosperity and Abundant Living. Anne provides some helpful prosperity affirmations. 3:37

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