The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main Article, How to Make Change EZier, shows us how we can flow with life, by using compassion and acceptance, to make allowances for what is, instead of resisting it. In the Anne Talk, EZosophy - Experience Your Self, Anne reminds us to frequently connect our consciousness with our heart, to re-align our self. Click to see Anne’s Art. The Dr. Money Talk, Am I Enough? Will Getting More Help? What Can I Do?, reminds us to stay present in the current moment, giving thanks for the good we already have, and knowing that we will have what we need in the future. Click to see the 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. 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, October 13, 2020
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Dear ,

It has been a long week. Jim made it back Thursday with our furniture and other belongings from Houston. My Texas friend, Mary Helen, is helping, and the boxes in the garage are dwindling, though they are still intimidating. I have a new house, a new washer and dryer, new sheets, new rugs, new small refrigerator – I am up to my neck in new. It is exciting to get one new item; I may be over-excited with so many new things.

Boxes to unpack

We celebrated my birthday on Sunday, though my birthday was on Thursday. We went out on the newly refurbished John boat. See my grandtwins and me in it below. The maiden voyage was on Saturday. The boat is a 1973 Smoker Craft left by some unknown person at a friend’s house, who passed it on to a friend, who passed it on to my daughter and son-in-law. The boat has been in their yard for years; then for some reason, my son-in law decided to make it sea-worthy. It took a bit of work, a new trailer, and a motor, and we soon headed down the creek. Nothing like boating past jumping fish, water birds, luxury boats, and lovely homes. The sun gleamed on the water; no large waves, just the sweet calm and quiet of nature. A few days before I saw a friend post about her boat ride. I thought, “I would love to go on a boat ride.” Within a few days, I was on my desired trip. Thoughts are wonderful magnets for our desires.

Anne and grandsons

I have a three months check-up in November, but so far so good. I will let you know how I and my kidney are getting along, after the checkup. For now, that is it for the Anne Report.

  Main Article

How to Make Change EZier

I speak with a number of groups about making life easier, giving up personal emotional drama, and living in a world of ease, while living in the midst of ego driven drama from the world, our family, and our friends. It is the ease that passes understanding – to piggyback on a well-known phrase. We can eliminate drama and make our lives easier, but the most difficult task we face is the integration of the personal down times, the exciting times, the times of pain, our failure, and our successes.

We live on a continuum of change, from open, fully alive, self-assured – an almost mystical state – to living in a contracted, self-doubting state of helplessness and doubt. When things go well, it comes as a surprise when things disintegrate around us. Yet this is life. We live in impermanence. Change is constant. It’s best to be humble when things go well, because there will always come a time of downturn. In the east there is a trinitarian concept represented by Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu is the sustainer, and Shiva is the destroyer. These are three aspects of life. Life is created; it lives; it dies. So it is with an idea: it comes, lives, and eventually loses its usefulness.

When I feel self-assured, I doubt that anything can shake me, yet something always comes along that knocks me off the idea of permanent stability. Our culture holds up an impossible standard of behaviors and expects us to be strong, perennially upbeat, and in charge of our lives. This standard of perfectionism is not only dangerous, it is impossible to uphold.

Two aspects of our higher selves help us live with this state of rapid expansion and contraction. They ground us so that we can stay centered in lives that move in opposite directions.

1. Compassion is an aspect of perfect love. Compassion holds both joy and pain. It blesses and moves in us, so that we no longer judge ourselves and others. It allows us to imagine how it feels to be a person who acts out, and it keeps us from spreading the chain of pain. Compassion allows us to forgive and forget transgressions.

Once, at a party, I found myself listening to someone who seemed bitter. Rather than back away from her and criticize her in my thoughts, I decided to apply compassion. I listened deeply. I empathized, acknowledged what she said, agreed with her, and replied with statements such as, “I can see how that is hard for you, I hear you, or I understand what you are saying.” Compassion holds a special energy. As I stayed with her and listened, she transformed, and I found myself enjoying what she had to say. Within a few minutes she was off her diatribe and became a different person. She had become fresh and amiable.

Parties are a great place to try out compassion. Find a disagreeable person, move in, and apply compassion. Lean in with your body, rather than backing off (which triggers people abandonment anxiety). They will not be used to this kind of treatment, and the energy of compassion can move them. Watch the change. This may not always happen, but compassion is a powerful force. Let this be your emotional experiment. Are you an alchemist? Can you turn lead into gold? Can you listen with interest and put yourself in his or her shoes? Try the transformer game.

2. Acceptance is not resignation. It means not fighting with what is. When we fight with what is, we suffer and struggle. When I ask myself, “How could this be happening now?,” when I am in what seems like the worst timing possible, I remember that that question is not relevant. Everything is timed as it should be, because it is already happening. We may resist what is happening, but that resistance will cause us pain and suffering.

When I was younger, my fiancé broke our engagement. It was painful, and I was not expected to live. That is a joke, but I did feel like I would die. It was not until I quit trying to figure out what I did wrong and how I could get him back, that I was able to move on, rebuild my life, and have some fun. Acceptance is the point at which pain turns to possibility.

Acceptance does not mean to not change things in the future; if we can change things and make our lives better, then let’s do it, but what has already happened cannot be changed. The behavior of others cannot be changed, and what we did in the past is gone. Carrying regret around is the signature of resistance. Apologize, if we can, when we harmed others, but let it go.

I once had a friend whom I could not forgive. I was angry about things she did that caused problems. But my biggest problem was not with her; it was with me. I could not accept that I could not forgive her. I tried to put out the fire of my obsession, but finally I accepted that I could not forgive her. Immediately I felt peace, and within a few weeks I felt as if a weight had lifted from my shoulders. One day I felt something lift and realized I had forgiven her. Strangely enough, when talking with another friend who also could not forgive her, she found herself able to forgive our friend on the same day. It was like something bigger than we are had taken our inability to forgive her, along with our willingness to forgive her, and applied a miracle.

Compassion and acceptance never wear out; they serve both the master and the student. And if we can live our lives with the humility that allows them into our lives and hearts, we will find that our lives are easier and easier. Go out in the lab of life and practice. Life is the practicum, and compassion and acceptance are gateways to richer and easier living. They allow us to live in the life we are meant to live and close the door to rejection, judgment, and perfectionism.

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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.

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This Anne Talk, EZosophy - Experience Your Self, Anne reminds us to frequently connect our consciousness with our heart, to re-align our self. Time: 2:34

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Am I Enough? Will Getting More Help? What Can I Do?

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