The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main article, How to Survive Post COVID-19, provides some guidance on how we can successfully and positively survive our current dilemma. Click to see Anne’s Quotes. The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne’s second book, EZosophy: The Art and Wisdom of EZ or At Least EZier Living. Click to learn about EZosophy. In today’s Anne Talk, Ain’t it Awful - EZOSOPHY with EZ Anne, Anne reveals the “AIA word game” we often habitually play. Click to see Anne’s Art. In today’s Dr. Money Talk, The Mind, Dr. Money provides some positive affirmations for retraining our thoughts. Click to learn about Anne’s Abundance Affirmations. Click for Shareables From Anne. Click to learn about Anne’s Schedule. Click to Schedule Anne. Click to learn about Anne’s Services.

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

Living EZosophy, April 21, 2020
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Boxes stacked. Papers scatter the floor. Our dog wanders past her favorite spots with worried eyes. She spends more time outside. The home she’s known for ten years churns. Her mom and dad scurry past, with focus toward a box or in efforts to find items that can be packed away. Just like having a skeleton crew, we have more and more of a skeleton life. All but two plates packed, a few utensils, and a pot or two. What else can we do without? Boxes move to storage almost daily as we harvest the packed boxes.

All approvals came through. I breathed a sigh of relief. I communicate with the new owners about what we are leaving, and if they will allow it. Furniture is housed at a consignment store. Fourteen days until closing. After closing, we hitch up a tiny U-Haul to our truck. I drive the Prius and Jim drives the truck and off we go. This may be the longest birth in the history of moving. We had our home on and off the market for five years. Two floods on our street didn’t help. A drop in the price of oil didn’t help. Our area being overbuilt didn’t help, but finally it’s happening in spite of the lack of help. It’s time!

Two little faces wait eagerly for Grand Ma Ma and Grandpoppy, and that makes it all worthwhile. 14 days until closing. Yes.

Thomas and Reynolds
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  Main Article

How to Survive Post COVID-19

Writing an article when the world sits, watches, and waits, has its downfalls. What can one contribute to the dialogue? There are blogs about using this down time constructively; why don’t you mediate, exercise, or clear clutter? But there are so many how to do the virus suggestions that the words teeter on the edge of being stifling platitudes. Clean, clear, watch these great Netflix shows. Yes, everyone is aware that they should clean out the shed. But what are the more salient aspects of this crisis? Can we imagine a post COVID-19 world? I may never approach a cough the same way, especially when it’s not me coughing. This moment will change the world again, one more time, and I predict that the change will be bigger than the 9/11 shifts.

My grandparents survived the post war depression of the ’20’s. The depression lasted from 1929 until 1933, but the devastating effects were felt throughout the ’30’s. That cataclysmic event left a scar on the collective psyche. I’ve worked with many people, remember I’m 71, whose parents lived through that time. I too am the child of depression parents. My clients emotionally inherited fears around scarcity and lack. Full disclosure. Me too. Even when our personal finances were okay, we felt as if we could lose everything at any moment. The financial concerns were far from logical. Yes, everyone could lose everything quickly, but it is unlikely enough that that we don’t need to worry and scheme to prevent disaster with every thought and choice. While poor people have substantial fears, based on not being able to meet their need for food, clothing, and shelter, wealthy people whose parents lived through the financial crisis of the last century often share a sort of PTSD over money. Maybe it should be called post traumatic depression disorder.

Will we face a similar psychological blow when the COVID-19 virus abates? Unfortunately, the virus and global economics are interwoven. The world collectively holds her breath as personal economies collapse. Governments are at risk as well. I live in a township, not an incorporated city, that has three sources of revenue: hotel tax, sales tax, and property tax. In Texas, many foods are not taxed, so while there is a lot of grocery shopping, those sales doesn’t always generate sales tax revenue. The hotels and shops are empty, so the township faces unparalleled hardships in the future.

We have learned the art of positive thinking or mind science. What we think influences the way we view the world and attracts future circumstances into our lives. But how can we be optimistic when the world we know crumbles? The same way we were able to get through all the crises of our lives. We have a now moment that will decide our future. Our thoughts of today become our destiny, and if we are terrified in the present moment over the virus and the economy, we will not only suffer from PTSD, we will carry the burden of these thoughts into our tomorrows and pass down the fear to future generations. We are like our grandparents. We are coloring the emotional and psychological futures of generations to come.

While people suggest activities for this time, maybe the more important aspect is how we think and what we feel about contemporary events. We can’t hold our breath until things go back to normal because what we called normal didn’t work, and world technology, climate change, and innovations are speeding us in fragmented directions. There was never a normal and there will never be one. Will changing the direction of our thinking help, and if so, in what direction should it go? Too often positive thinking goes astray when we fake it. We smear whipped cream over a mud pie, but the truest aspect of positive thinking lies in our ability to go to the depths of our souls, to the land where dreams spring forth and the fountain of Being nourishes us. There is a soft moment, always available, that hovers within, waiting for our attention, and when we allow ourselves to focus on this unceremonious blessing, there is nothing that can do us in. We take care with our bodies, protect them, nourish them, but more important is the care we take of our spirits. When we care for That Which is Great within us, and commune with it, then the outer world displays itself in ways that we can manage. Life no longer looks like an infinite unsolvable problem. This tragic current event carries pain, but when we face it with our hearts, rather than with our fear-ridden minds, even the COVID-19 virus becomes EZier and EZier to deal with.

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  Featured Product This Month

The reprint of EZosophy: The Art of EZ or at Least EZier Living, is out. If you've been wanting an EZier life, this book provides a clear path toward EZ.

Anne’s second book, EZosophy:The Art and Wisdom of EZ or At Least EZier Living, is a simple philosophy that radically changes lives. It is a book for the spiritually-based reader who no longer values the ego driven struggle of contemporary life.

EZosophy will help readers:

• Give up Hard Attacks. Hardaholic no more.
• Drop the drama.
• Make your life EZier. Ease is not indolence. Rather, ease is the art of accomplishment without struggle.
• Learn to identify ego driven suffering (EDS).

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  Anne Talk

Ain’t it Awful - EZOSOPHY with EZ Anne

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In today’s Anne Talk, Ain’t it Awful - EZOSOPHY with EZ Anne, Anne reveals the “AIA word game” we often habitually play. Time: 3:15

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  Dr. Money Talk

The Mind

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In today’s Dr. Money Talk, The Mind, Dr. Money provides some positive affirmations for retraining our thoughts. 3:23

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