A Note From Anne

Dear ,

Howdy Folks, from the EZosophy Express.

I haven’t talked to my daughter much since the twins came home from the hospital last week. I think I can hear the sound of bubbles if I listen closely. It’s the sound of her drowning in human waste, child hunger, and wailing babies. Send her a thought of EZ. Anyone remember how it was with one new baby? Case closed!

As for me, I’m reaching out and grabbing a little of that EZ for myself. Drama, the mainstay of the American culture, lurks in every corner of our world. There are temporary times when we suffer emotionally from loss, illness, work pressures, and divorce, but we can’t drag life around forever as if it were a task. Why live life if we never access the ever present joy of living.

It’s not practical to think we have to be happy all time, but if we are never happy, it’s a sign that we need to make some changes and most often those changes are not about getting rid of partners or quitting jobs, even though there’s always a time for that. The changes are the ones we need to make to our belief systems. Positive thoughts bring positive results. Negative thoughts bring negative results. And EZ thoughts bring EZ results. Thoughts are where we start, next we clear our life denying emotions, and finally we allow the stillness and EZ of life to direct us.

Take it EZ.

Anne

  Opt Out

Things are going slowly for me in my move to get out of jail. All my get out of jail cards have been played and I’m extricating myself from a life of too much to do. I’m having to make out an extensive “Don’t do list.” While others seek success, long to make a contribution, or operate under the prison like demands of the ego, I’m opting out. It’s not a cop out; it’s an opt out.

I have been through this process so many times. My whole message of EZosophy is a self-designed program to make my life easier and to break the bonds of over-achievement.

These are the skills I’m using to opt out.

1. Resign – not from life, but as the head of organizations and committees.
2. Yard Therapy - My grandmother was a terrific gardener. Her yard was blossom-filled throughout the year. A visit to her Maple Street home in Greenville, NC was like entering magic land. I envisioned myself as a grownup, in my own magic kingdom. I’m 65 and it’s time to make that dream come true. My back yard looks better already and I’m loving my dirt filled fingernails and sun-tanned freckled skin.
   
3. “No.” I’m saying “no” much more than normal and it’s really working out.
4. Goofing off.
5. Organizing my home. It feels so good to nest and piddle.
6. Sitting in my back yard watching the birds, anoles, lizards, squirrels, butterflies, and dragon flies. I bought a fan to blow directly on me. I put a little water on my arms and legs and make an outdoor Texas air conditioner.

Anne's Back Yard. Click images for a larger view.

I have the luxury of being retired. I am still active; that I don’t have to worry about. It’s the inactivity I have to nurture. The world seems like a sucking device that draws me into a complicated kaleidoscope of activity.

We can do many things and I don’t want to be the “REIGN in anyone’s parade” yet in the flurry of maintaining our lives, earning a living, and helping others, we miss the very point of life. Love is the point. Do we live in this love? Do we feel love’s presence? Do we feel life’s nourishment? Are we immersed in the satisfaction and contentment of deep love? These are not questions to be verbally answered; these questions are answered in living. “Living Love.”

We all need “ease.” Ease is about allowing and letting go. It is an essential element in life that allows this Living Love to flow. Love flows around, up, and down. It’s flexible, absorbent, and adaptable to any situation, and the good news is that is it here now. There’s no waiting period.

So if you are in emotional prison, maybe your get out of jail card is love – not the love of someone, nor getting another to love you, not the love of your personality, or your accomplishments; that’s all about a worldly kind of love. This love is still and quite. This love is compassionate and kind. This love is impersonal and a part of all life, and this love is you and me right here and now. Remember, it’s who and what we are. Be still. Be aware. Wake up, and I’m sure you will find that life is easier and easier.

  Quotes

"The mind is a special interest group and the special interest is me - the story of me - who I am, what I want, how to get it, and who and what interferes with my agenda."
– Anne Sermons Gillis

"The moment you stop wanting more, the wealthier you become."
– Anne Sermons Gillis

"There is a time to act, but when our lives are full of empty action, we fail ourselves, we develop a deep longing, we feed on stress as a substitute for the direct experience of the love of our being."
– Anne Sermons Gillis

  Anne's Books

Standing in The Dark

EZosophy

Offbeat Prayers

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What people are saying about Standing in the Dark:

"Standing in the Dark, by Anne Sermons Gillis, isn't just another positive thinking book. It's a book about the difficult times in life and what we can do to make it through them. It does, however, give us positive ways to make life easier. It's a short book, but it's one that may just turn your thinking on its head, which will probably be the best thing that's happened to your thinking in a long time. It's about how to bring more ease into a life that isn't easy all of the time. Anne discusses six main areas of life: Ease, Mission, Health, Relationships, Money, and Loss."
  – Charles David Heineke

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What people are saying about EZosophy: The Art and Wisdom of Easy or at Least Easier Living:

"Although most conscious people understand that life doesn't have to a struggle, the "how to" has been missing... until now. Anne's book makes it "easy."
  – T. Harv Eker - Bestselling author and Founder of Peak Potentials Training

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What people are saying about Offbeat Prayers for the Modern Mystic:

"I love your book. It is filled with much wisdom, humor and heart. Really beautiful."
  – Alan Cohen author, Enough Already, mentions Anne and EZosophy on page 99

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  Anne's Services

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  Anne's Schedule

All times here are Central Time.

Wed. & Fri. Sept. 17 & 19, 2014
10:00 AM-Noon, “Synchronicity”
Lone Star College ALL Program
Montgomery Campus
3200 College Park Drive
Conroe, TX 77384-4500
936-273-7000

Wed. & Fri. Sept. 24 & 26, 2014
1:00-3:00 PM, “Alive, Awake, Aware”
Lone Star College ALL Program
Kingwood Campus
20000 Kingwood Drive
Kingwood, TX 77339-3801
281-312-1600

Wed. & Fri. Oct. 29 & 31, 2014
1:00-3:00 PM, “EZosophy”
Lone Star College ALL Program
Kingwood Campus
20000 Kingwood Drive
Kingwood, TX 77339-3801
281-312-1600

  Healthy Living

Stress Relief

Making your way in the world today
takes everything you've got.
Taking a break from all your worries
sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?
  – From the theme song to Cheers

Jean Houston says we are 50 times more psychologically damaged than our ancestors. Just facing one’s daily e-mail box can be a dauntless task.

Many of the built in stress relief activities in life are defunct. We no longer labor in the fields or walk to work. We stay up late, illumined by artificial light. Our eyes are over-worked, our brains are fried, and we have to take extraordinary steps just to eat a healthy meal. We live in a world of chemical soup, emotional sabotage, and strained relationships.

Wouldn’t you like to get away, if only for a moment? You can by engaging in a little reflexology. Stimulating the “solar reflex” helps one reduce stress, reign in anger, and calms upset. You might call it the “solar button.”

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You can find your “solar button” by making a fist and finding the spot on you where the middle and ring finger meet. The point is between the tips of these two fingers. Press the spot with your thumb and count three slowly. Take a deep breath and release. Do this six times on each hand and the stress or upset will fade away or at least be reduced. *

* This information was taken from Body Reflexology by Mildred Carter.

Also check out these two articles:
Hand Reflexology Points and List of Hand Reflexology Points.

  Anne Talks

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