The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main Article, From Chaos to Order, offers a way to take control of the stuff of our lives. In the Anne Talk, EZosophy Philosophy by Anne Sermons Gillis 20200404, is a video of a Zoom call on EZosophy, which was presented to members of The Houston Lodge Theosophical Society. Click to see Anne’s Art. In the Dr. Money Talk, You Should Never Give Up, Anne’s 6-year-old grandson, Thomas, gave her a prosperity lecture recently. Click to see the Quotes. The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne’s fifth book, The Living Book. 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, January 26, 2021
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Our truck is in the truck hospital. We will not have a vehicle for a few days. My daughter offered us one of their cars. I told her we did not need it. Toby, my son-in-law said, “What are you going to do? Just stay home?” I laughed. “That’s what we do all the time. We go for bike rides and walk around the block, but basically, we stay home.” I admit, we are home more now because of COVID, but as we age, our need to explore and go places lessens. It was funny how incredulous they were over our not needing a car. I guess 25 years does make a difference.

I have been giving a few Zoom talks lately. The most recent presentation had a blip. My PowerPoint presentation came up with a lot of blank slides. It seems that a last-minute tweak, which I did not check out thoroughly, turned the dark backgrounds white and the white lettering was no longer visible on the white slides. Had this been my material, material I am familiar with, it would have been a snap to continue. I did continue, maybe not in a straight, methodical line, no snaps involved, but it all worked. There is nothing like that moment, when others are waiting, for the presentation to not work properly. That is the most exciting thing that happened in my week – a bit of drama, but one from which I easily recovered.

I am thankful for Zoom. Can you imagine being quarantined during the 1918 Spanish flu season? One of my uncles died during that pandemic. One of my husband’s aunts died during COVID. Though death is tragic, it is great to have access to my friends via video. And that’s it for the Anne Report.

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From Chaos to Order

Chaos is an important idea in the totality of the universe, but when it is a part of our daily lives, it creates and sustains stress. We are drowning in our stuff. Annie Leonard’s video, The Story of Stuff, tells of the predicament we are in with our possessions. Our society not only supports the purchase of more and more, it solicits these purchases.

It’s possible that we are genetically predisposed to hoard, buy too much, and clutter. In the past it’s been wise to store food or other supplies for the future. This is not the case today, but epigenetics show that genes are malleable and they can change in the midst of trauma. Environments, even emotional environments, affect our genes. Could it be that our needing to have so many things is a product of our parents' or grandparents' experience of hoarding during and/or after the Depression? Studies of holocaust survivors suggest that people whose parents went through the Holocaust carry unique genetic markers: the same markers their parents carry.

One of the most popular ideas of our time is the idea of decluttering. It’s about taking control of the physical chaos that surrounds us and creating order. Does the story of more have an irreversible hold on our lives? If our genetics predispose us to hang on to too much stuff, does that mean we are doomed to buy and keep much more than we will ever need?

We are destined to fail unless we become aware of the problem and take some time, energy, and effort to overcome the problem. The first step in overcoming our stuff problem is knowing that we have a problem.

I've written a 12 step Program to help us with decluttering our lives that's fashioned after the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.

12 Steps to Freedom From Stuff

1. We admit we are powerless over our stuff—that our lives are unmanageable. Just say, “I admit that I have too many things, and, as a result of that, my life is unmanageable.” Having too much stuff makes a heavy load. We call that a burden.
2. We believe that a Power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity, relieve our chaos, and empower us to let go of useless items. There is a force larger than our problems. It’s larger than our past and more powerful than our limited minds.
3. Make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of The Infinite Source of our understanding. This is the humbling step of surrender.
4. Take an inventory of our keeping behavior and of our stuff. What behaviors keep our chaotic system going? For example, too busy to take care of ourselves, don’t know what to do, negative self-talk. Make a list of categories of stuff. For example, kitchen gadgets, shoes, shirts, makeup, or toiletries.
5. Admit to Source, to ourselves, and to another person, that we have too many unneeded possessions, do not have the ability to organize our belongings, nor the willpower to let go of our useless items. Talk with a trusted friend. Tell them you are in the midst of cleaning up your life and your environment and that you have a problem. Tell them you are going to get rid of the things that no longer serve you and that you don’t want or need as many things in your life as you used to. Ask for support.
6. Become entirely ready to have The Infinite Source remove all these defects of character and self-judgments, and for Source to break the chains that bind us to our family history. I am willing to have my life changed at the core. I am willing to be changed internally so that I can make the external changes I need to make.
7. Humbly ask Source to remove our need to buy and keep too many personal and household items. Ask Source to instill in us a sense of having more than enough of all things necessary to abundantly support our lives. We pray or ask for help in our own way. The Cosmic Forces Exercise, developed by David St. Clair, has proven an effective way to ask for help. Years ago I taught this method to a Catholic Priest. He told me later that he had solved a long time problem using this technique.
8. Make a list of how having too much stuff saps our energy, keeps us from succeeding, and keeps us in the addictive drama of overwhelm. Be specific. For example, “When someone rides in my car, I feel ashamed because there’s so much junk and trash in it.” “My purse or briefcase is too heavy and taxes my body.” ”I’m ashamed to have anyone to my home. I don’t want them to see the mess.”
9. Work the steps, develop an action plan for decluttering, and execute this plan. Take action. Go through the steps, make your plans for recovery, and implement them.
10. Continue to take personal inventory and continue to declutter on a daily basis. Carry a copy of the steps with us and affirm perfect and easy order in your mind and all your surroundings. Click here for a PDF Printable copy.
11. Seek, through prayer and meditation, to improve our conscious contact with Infinite Source, praying only for knowledge of our dharma and the power to carry that out. Stay in touch with the stillness. It is from this stillness that all order is born. The stillness allows us to experience the enough-ness of the universe and gives us the ability to lighten our loads.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we seek to live in freedom from stuff, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

My 5-5-5-5 Plan will help you declutter your mind so you can focus on the task at hand and provide a plan for the day. The Minimalist blog offers ten creative ways to declutter your home.

As humans we walk a dual path. One path involves our physical world. This includes earning a living and taking care of our physical world in an effective way. It is the path of the physical, the practical, and the sustenance of life. The other work we do is on ourselves. This is our dharma. Our dharma requires that we live life in an effective way that enriches life itself. In order to live the path of rightness for our lives, we must identify the obstacles than keep us from fully living. Working the steps helps us live our dharma, lighten our karma, and makes our lives EZier and EZier.

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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.

The Living Book, by Anne Sermons Gillis. Paperback $4.95 plus $3.00 shipping. PDF Download $0.99. Kindle Book $2.99.

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  Anne Talk

EZosophy Philosophy by Anne Sermons Gillis 20200404

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Today’s Anne Talk is EZosophy Philosophy by Anne Sermons Gillis 20200404. This interview is a part of an ongoing series of podcasts focused on the empowerment of women, though men will love it too. Time: 2:00:07

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  Dr. Money Talk

You Should Never Give Up

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The Dr. Money Talk is You Should Never Give Up. My 6-year-old grandson, Thomas, gave me a lecture recently. I grabbed my camera and started filming. We had just finished playing a game of hide and seek and Reynolds and I hid in a very good place. Grandpoppy wanted to give up looking for us, and Thomas gave us this talk after we finished playing our game. "We should never give up,” he advised. He said a mistake is an accident, but that giving up is a choice. So cute. 2:45

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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.

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