A Note From Anne

Dear ,

Happy Veterans Day. I appreciate our veterans and their work. However, I am not a supporter of the military industrial complex. I am sad for all the young men and women who put their lives at risk for causes that may be more for profit and gain than for freedom and liberty. It is certain that wars and other stressful jobs associated with the military leave many of our best with post-traumatic stress disorder, failed relationships, and physical injuries that will never heal. I hold a sustained vision of a world that supports everyone, a world where war is not an option, and where we have a Department of Peace instead of a Department of War.

Is it my imagination or has time speeded up? We’ve flown through Halloween and the elections and Thanksgiving is on our heels. It’s tempting to have a hard attack this time of year but, as EZosophists, we know a better way. Tapping into ease is one of the steps in waking up. It’s a matter of weaning ourselves from the addictive nature of drama and choosing the easy way out. Be on the lookout for Ease this season because without it, life’s going to be hard.

Anne

  Unconditional Love

A physician once said, “The best medicine for humans is love.” Someone asked, “What if it doesn’t work?” He replied, “Increase the dose.” – Unknown

I’m rereading a book I got when I was 33 years old. It is about turning off your age. (Turn Off Your Age by Elsye Birkinshaw) I admit that at the age of physical perfection and youth, the book didn’t hold the same interest for me as it does today. Now, when I read, I’m much more engaged. I can surf the net, something I couldn’t do in 1981, to research Li Chin Yuen, the herbalist who lived to be 256 years old. I thrill to the thought of a 105 year old man who felt he was too young for retirement as a waiter. I feel excitement about reversing the aging process. At 66, it’s not about looking beautiful and like a babe; it’s about being healthy, vibrant, and full of zest for life.

One of the suggestions in the book is the mirror technique. Look at yourself in the morning and the night and say, “I love myself unconditionally.” I scoffed a little since this was the kind of thing I may have done when I was much younger and doing a lot of emotional clearing, but really, I’m way beyond this stuff. After all, I’m about detaching from the personality of Anne, the body of Anne, and experiencing myself as an expanded part of an infinite sea of love, not a finite point located in a body.

In spite of my intellectual protests I decided to try it. I placed a mirror beside my bed and lovingly spoke the four magic words, “I love you unconditionally” into the mirror in the morning and night. It was fun. I beamed at myself and admired my wrinkles. Something unexpected happened the first day; my need to be perfect surfaced – the need to look better, feel better, do more. During the day, when I became aware of the almost subconscious urge that placed me on some souped up provisional status, I would drop my self-expectation and say, “I love you unconditionally.” How refreshing. My body would relax and my mind stopped scheming. Maybe saying, “I love you unconditionally” was a good idea.

I found the idea worked when I was with others as well. I could repeat silently, “I love you unconditionally” and banish my judgment of their thoughts, actions, or behaviors. The recitation of the four magic words transformed our encounter.

Unconditional love is the key to life. If there are conditions, we suffer. If happiness depends on the temperature, the actions and reactions of others or ourselves, our financial condition, or anything external, we suffer. Even if things go our way, the tides will change. We will encounter a person who hurries to the checkout line and cuts in before us. We will have some limiting physical condition; something will strain the need to have it our way.

When we love things exactly as they are, including ourselves and others, we stop suffering. We end once and for all the pain wrenching search to find a fix for the problem of life. When we end the need for problems and searches, our joy level skyrockets and life becomes EZier and EZier.

Anne

  Quotes

Lily Tomlin has a great line that goes, "Why is it when we talk to God, we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us, we’re schizophrenic?" – Lily Tomlin

"War and crime never pay. The billions of dollars that went up in the smoke of explosive nothingness would have been sufficient to have made a new world, one almost free from disease and completely free from poverty. Not an earth of fear, chaos, famine, pestilence, the danse macabre (dance of death), but one broad land of peace, of prosperity, and of widening knowledge." – Gandhi

"Everyone is gifted, but some people never open their package." – Unknown

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Sat., Nov. 15, 2014
10:00 AM, "Esoteric Buddhism"
Anne will conduct a study of chapter one in A. P. Sinnett’s book, Esoteric Buddhism. Free and open to the public.
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  Healthy Living

Vitamin D

We’ve all heard of the importance of Vitamin D and healthy bones, but did you know that many studies show a connection between Alzheimer’s disease and dementia and vitamin D? These conditions are more common in people who have low levels of vitamin D in their body.

Low Vitamin D levels also are responsible for depression. Adequate levels of Vitamin D also stave off colds. Studies estimate that 95% of seniors have Vitamin D deficiency. No wonder we have runny-nosed, depressed, rickety seniors!

Unfortunately, taking Vitamin D supplements is not the same as getting our Vitamin D directly from the sun. Think of drinking Tang to replace fresh orange juice. It just won’t work. I take Vitamin D capsules, but I can assure you I stay healthier and feel better when I am able to get reasonable doses of sun.

I have a friend who is in his mid-seventies. He had rickets when he was a child. The family doctor told his mother to take him to the beach and put him in the sun. He was almost healed, except his legs remain slightly bowed. To this day he goes out in the sun for at least a short dose of daily sun. In the winter, he often creates a wind shield in a sunny spot and puts on his bathing suit and goes out to receive a dose of health. I’ve got to say, he’s one of the healthiest people I know.

Few foods provide large amounts of vitamin D unless maybe you want to take couple of spoonfuls of cod liver oil a day or eat a daily cup of sliced portabella mushrooms, but regardless of the problematic nature of getting enough Vitamin D, it is a topic worth your attention. After all, do you want to become a memory deficient, hunched over, crotchety version of your former self? If not, pay attention to your Vitamin D intake, and when you get enough, I bet you’ll feel better.

  Anne Talks

A few years ago I received a Facebook request from a man I’d never met. I accepted the invitation and found that he took a clip of from a CD I made in 2003, part of a lecture at a conference in LA, and listened to it daily. He ultimately became a business coach for me and convinced me to do this newsletter. One day I received this link in an e-mail. He did this wonderful video to showcase the short piece he had listened to for so many years. His name is Donald Wells. That video is above.

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