This week Anne's Note reminds us of three questions we can ask ourselves to help make our lives EZier. The main article is Words Are Limits, where she describes how we can experience our limits without viewing them as bad. In the Healthy Living section she discusses the importance of using reusable bags instead of plastic ones. She's featuring her book, Offbeat Prayers for the Modern Mystic: A Book of Prayers in the Featured Product section.

  A Note From Anne

Dear ,

Hey you; yes you. I’m talking to you. I’m giving you the responsibility of making your life easier. Ask yourself these three questions:

• Is this what I want to be doing with my life?
• Can I make anything in my life EZier?
• What more can I do to get over the mind’s fascination with drama?

Ask these questions frequently and you are on your way to emotional ease. These are just the kind of questions we need to ask as the seasons change, as the days grow shorter, and as the holiday season goes into full gear. Being an EZosophist takes full commitment. It is not a part time job. I’m on your team and I’m rooting for you. Take it EZ.

Anne

  Words Are Limits

Words are limits. They direct mind flow. I’ve thought of limits as bad things; I've thought of limits as incorrect mind play, but maybe I was wrong. Ironically, limits can form infinite possibilities because there are an unlimited number of limited possibilities.

When awareness meets limits, limits become toys of the mind. When we are aware of what the mind is doing and how it is doing it, we experience the expansiveness, not the limits.

Imagine you go to an art show. The artist is a master. You come across a picture of a desert. The picture draws you in with its mystical quality. Its calming nature awakens something inside you. Everything in you dances into life. How could that be? It’s not really the desert. The picture is a tiny representation of a large swath of land. The picture is limited. Even though the picture is a limited representation of the real thing, it still provides an openness into an expanded state of awareness.

We have many limits; it’s good to know when to break those limits. Fear sentences us to a limited world in which our main objective is to find safety, but not all limits are fear driven. Limits have a place and a space. Creation is actually the manifestation of limits, and regardless of what limit we encounter, we have the ability to dive into the limit with the same eyes we use to view a masterpiece. When we can experience our limits without viewing them as bad, we gain a sense of freedom. We escape the mental free fall that defines life through problems.

EZosophy is the mental science of making life EZ or at least EZier. It’s about not seeing life itself as a problem. It invites us to stop the mind’s evaluation of everything. We can be sure that when we stop cataloging life’s limited and unlimited nature into good and bad classifications, our lives become EZier. When a limit appears, ask “What is the unlimited nature of this limit?” See how the mind handles that kind of inquiry. Outsmart the mind so it doesn’t outsmart and befuddle your ease and peace of mind.

We are not doomed to miserable lives. We are invited to open to the vigor and vitality that can only be experienced now. Time’s up; it’s now. Now is the time to embrace our limits and our infinite nature, because when we do, life is EZier and EZier.

Anne

  Quotes

"When we give up fear and pridefulness, we escape the thrill of ego's touch and drink at last the nectar of freedom."
– Anne Sermons Gillis

"Resolve to dissolve that which limits your perception."
– Anne Sermons Gillis

"The more things one needs, the more one suffers."
– Anne Sermons Gillis

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  Healthy Living

Less Plastic: Fantastic

Most of us are apprised of the wisdom of taking reusable bags to the grocery store. Plastic bags take forever to break down and when they do, they interrupt the cycle of life.

It took me a long time to transition into using reusable bags. I kept forgetting to take them into the store or forgot to put them in the car. I started this transitioning process more than 30 years ago and today, it’s easy for me to remember to say no to plastic bags. Here are the tips.

1. If I can carry my items around in the store, in my arms, I certainly didn’t need a plastic bag to carry them to the car. I take my few items in hand and clutch my sales receipt so it is very visible and leave the store.
2. I installed hooks next to my back door to hang the bags after I’ve returned from the store.
3. I carry the bags to the car when I go to the car. I have maybe 20 bags in the car, so I’ll never run out.
4. When I forget and leave my bags in the car, I return to the car to retrieve my bags. I tell the clerk what I am doing so they won’t restock my groceries.
5. When I leave my bags in the car, I ask the clerk to put the groceries back in the cart as he checks them out. I wheel the cart of unbagged groceries out and bag them in the car. This seemed radical the first time I did it, but no one noticed and it turned out to be no big deal. The only big deal took place in the conversation in my head.
6. I carry small bags in my purse. This idea came later and saved me a lot of time. I take the bags when I travel. I end up schlepping wet bathing suits, swim fins, groceries – all kinds of items in them. They fold up into a small pouch, but when they are unfolded, they are as large as a regular grocery bag. I usually carry at least four bags in my purse.

Our planet is in stress. Some people say it is us versus nature, but we are nature. We have an opportunity to conserve by using less plastic without having to give up any quality of life. I wrote this because even though my intention was to use less plastic, I had to find ways not to forget my bags so I could live my values in actuality, not just on my head.

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