A Note From Anne

Dear ,

Anne is still in LA taking care of her sister, who is now out of the hospital and improving. Anne has only limited internet access, if any, so she's asked me to put together this issue for her. I've pulled some material from Anne's EZosophy blog for your enjoyment.

Charles Heineke
Anne's newsletter Editor/Publisher

  Happy Surrender Day

How do I surrender? Everyone wants to let go, but how do you do that? Here’s a process to help you let go and to have an easier day.

The EZ U Process:
Get out of the School of Hard Knocks!

Step 1: I admit that today, in this moment, my life is a struggle.

Step 2: I am willing to consider the possibility that my life can be easier.

Step 3: I dedicate my mind and heart to discovering an easier way to perceive and create my life.

Step 4: I am willing to be aware of any conscious or hidden need to suffer or struggle.

Step 5: Anything other than ease is fear.

Step 6: I release my need to control and fix this situation.

Step 7: I relax my body and become aware of my body’s needs, then attend to them.

Step 8: I face my emotions.

Step 9: I surrender my situation, problem, or feeling to GUS (God/Universe/Spirit). Imagine yourself looking at a vast star filled sky. Take your mind off the situation and go to this image of expansion. Lose yourself - just for a moment - in the grandeur of the universe. Use any image that works for you, such as a blue cloud filled sky or the ocean.

Step 10: I write down any reaction or feeling I have as a result of letting go (or reflect silently).

By this time you should feel more present and lighter.

Happy Surrender Day.

Excerpted From EZosophy: The Art and Wisdom of Easy or at Least Easier Living

  Health Tip: Happy Stretch Day

Happy Stretch Day. One of the amazing things about humans is that they do not always act in their best interests. If we did all the things we knew would produce a healthy body – there would be fewer hospitalizations, fewer drug sales and healthier bodies.  Bodies need to stretch, but few bodies take the time for even minimal stretching. That’s why I’m declaring this national stretch day.

Have you noticed how your dog or cat always stretch when they get up? Remember stretching when your were a kid?

According to the Mayo Clinic, the top five benefits of stretching include:

• Increased flexibility and joint range of motion
  Flexible muscles can improve your daily performance. Tasks such as lifting packages, bending to tie your shoes or hurrying to catch a bus become easier and less tiring. Flexibility tends to diminish as you get older, but you can regain and maintain it.


• Improved circulation
  Stretching increases blood flow to your muscles. Blood flowing to your muscles brings nourishment and gets rid of waste byproducts in the muscle tissue. Improved circulation can help shorten your recovery time if you've had any muscle injuries.


• Better posture
  Frequent stretching can help keep your muscles from getting tight, allowing you to maintain proper posture. Good posture can minimize discomfort and keep aches and pains at a minimum.


• Stress relief
  Stretching relaxes tight, tense muscles that often accompany stress.


• Enhanced coordination
  Maintaining the full range-of-motion through your joints keeps you in better balance. Coordination and balance will help keep you mobile and less prone to injury from falls, especially as you get older.

Today try a few unusual stretches. Say “wow” ten times, really stretching your mouth. Next, pull your ears from the tops, sides, and bottom, three times. Next, raise your right arm above your head and stretch your body to the left, three times. Now switch sides and repeat. This will take only about a minute to do. Do you feel your face waking up? Can you feel that aliveness rising in your torso. Try 3 minutes of stretching in the morning or whenever you can get to it. Again, I wish you a happy stretch day, and remember to make every day a holiday.

  Anne's Books

Standing in The Dark

EZosophy Book

Offbeat Prayers

Click here to see all three of Anne's books

What people are saying about Standing in the Dark:

"If as you said, it is not a positive thinking book, then, however, it is a positive being book, because positive has its own rewards. You wrote very eloquently, and gracefully about very hard to cover topics. More than that, your shadow is a light unto us, Anne, and your night is like a day. I thank you."
  – Veronica Nannee, Houston, Texas

"Someone asked me how you could be spiritual and live in the world. Your book spells it out perfectly."
  – Helen Hutchison, Nacogdoches, Texas

  Quotes

"Angry people want you to see how powerful they are; loving people want you to see how powerful you are."
  – Chief Red Eagle

Here are some sins Gandhi noticed in the world: "Pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; commerce without morality; science without humanity; and politics without principle."
  – Mahatma Gandhi

"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside."
  – Denis Waitley

  EZosophy CD/DVD Spotlight

Each week in this space we'll be featuring one of Anne's CD's or DVD's. Click the link below to learn more.

EZosophy CD: Easy Body

Relationship struggle and relationship ease result from the choices we make. This easy relationships process will allow you to decide for easier relationships and allow you to drop much of the struggle, drama, and difficulties which sometimes accompany relationships. Relationships offer us great possibilities. We really learn who we are when we are in relationships. As we learn to love someone fully, beyond their fragilities and mistakes, we learn to love ourselves. This CD is designed to work with both sides of the brain. This special effect is called Split Brain Learning. The split brain theory proposes that we have two separate realms of conscious awareness: two sensing, perceiving, thinking, and remembering systems. The left hemisphere controls language, sequential learning, and information storage. It is logical, rational, and linear. The right hemisphere is holistic, creative, thinks in pictures. It is nonlinear. This CD works with both sides of the brain to expedite a new understanding that will make your life easier. You need to work with each CD for 31 days or more to experience miraculous changes that make you live easier in the area you have chosen. CD: $14.99 Downloadable MP3 file & Printable Cards & Affirmations in PDF format - $9.99. http://www.annegillis.com/Books-CDs-Etc.html#Split

  What is EZosophy?

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  Anne's Schedule

September 11 & 13, 2013
Wed. & Fri., 10:00-11:50 AM CDT
"EZosophy"
Lone Star College
Montgomery Campus
Conroe, TX 77384
936-273-7000
Offered as an ALL Class

Recorded Interviews:

Click here to hear a recording of Keith Anthony Blanchard interviewing Anne Sermons Gillis on June 3, 2013.

Click here to hear a recording of Dennis Tardan interviewing Anne Sermons Gillis on May 30, 2013.

Click here to listen to a recording of Rick Archer interviewing Anne Sermons Gillis on April 27, 2013.

Click here to hear a recording of Ken Keis interviewing Anne Sermons Gillis in January 2004. It's a good overview of EZosophy.

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Because I'm very busy caring for my sister Lois, there is no post for this column this week.

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