Here's Anne Sermons Gillis' newsletter, The EZ Secret: Tips on Living in EZ, for 03/3/2015
Published: Tue, 03/03/15
Anne's Note talks about Living EZosophy. The main article is about how to handle Modern Living. Healthy Living asks us How Much Soap is Too Much?. The Anne Talk is Collective Will. The Featured Product this month is Anne's book, EZosophy: The Art and Wisdom of Easy or at Least Easier Living. The EZ Mantra: "Everything can be EZ or at least EZier." – Anne Sermons Gillis |
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EZ Secret NewsletterLiving EZosophy, March 3, 2015
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A Note From Anne | Healthy Living |
Modern Living | Anne Talks |
Anne Art | Quotes |
Featured Product This Month | Anne's Services |
What is EZosophy | Schedule Anne |
Anne's Schedule |
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A Note From Anne
Dear ,
It’s EZosophy time. What time is EZosophy time? Time to make our lives EZier. No matter what the challenge, life can be easier. You may remember the article I wrote a few weeks ago on asking for help: Install the Help App. Help from a more informed inner source may be just what you need to make things EZier.
We are so quick to press the Hopeless Button in our lives that we forget that a turnaround is ALWAYS possible when we face a dilemma. Why even think about EZosophy if we are not going to live the main principle? That principle is, “Everything can be EZ or at Least EZier.” Don’t try to make your life more hopeful; just make it emotionally and physically EZier. It’s the right thing to do, and when we do, other things seem to fall into place.
Anne
Modern Living
Sunday (2/22/2015) I went to the Texas Yoga Conference as a vendor. Three members, including myself, represented the Houston Lodge of The Theosophical Society. We handed out brochures, secured e-mail addresses, and tried to seduce people into checking out the Society.
It used to be that a yoga conference was the home of hippie Rastafarian want-a-be's; now a yoga conference is just plain hip. Eastern culture is a staple in the west. The convention aisles were filled with yoga clothing wear, essential oils, body workers, and wellness advocates. What was once obscure is now front and center in our stores, our stock markets, and our lives. Alternatives are mainstream and the stream is getting so wide you can’t even walk across it.
In 1986 an event called World Healing Day, the World Instant of Cooperation, World Peace Day, brought together 500 million people from around the world in an unprecedented healing event – a moment of oneness to dissolve the sense of separation and return human kind to its true nature. Some say this event marked a turning point. We stepped onto the road to sanity.
What came with this turn around, this creative opening? Open-mindedness, cooperation, and networking. We were near the beginning of a people friendly Internet. Then, in what seemed like overnight occurrence, the world connected by an electronic global brain. And this net wasn’t just for geeks; it was for grandma and toddlers too. That main stream just keeps getting wider.
We are so connected that we are run ragged by our connections. The times are exciting, filled with possibilities, more and more information, and anything imaginable to satisfy any kind of desire, but we are not getting more peaceful; we are getting more fragmented. For the first time in human history, we must tend to deeper psychological and emotional needs of contemporary living so we won’t go crazy. Jean Houston says we are 50 times more psychologically damaged than our ancestors. They had to run from a bear for safety, but we are assaulted by so many invisible threats that we don’t know who to defend against or what to defend.
No wonder yoga conferences pull in more people than ever. We need calm bodies and peaceful minds. What can we do the guard against the fragmentation of present-day living?
How about this answer, “Simplify and quit being so busy.” The answer to complexity is simplicity. Here’s some ideas to get you started.
- Say “no” to doing five things this week. Call this your “no” week. Be strong. Try one week of not overcommitting.
- Throw away or give away five things from your home every day for a week. This means you will give away 35 items.
- Make a list of five easy tasks you’ve been putting off, such as writing a thank you note, or calling over a bill dispute, and do them all five tasks this week.
- Clean out one drawer. Match those socks, get rid of the old makeup you will never wear, or the cologne that your aunt Sadie gave you 10 years ago. You will feel more in control when one small area is in order.
- Get grounded. Stand in place and bounce your body up and down gently while tapping on your lower belly. Tap 300 times.
- Take a daily five minute music break every day for one week. Use calming music. Sit and wrap your heart around the music. Relax. (Baroque music is calming music and recommended to sooth the nerves. Pandora has a great station for Baroque. Just type baroque in the station box there.)
The above list provides a starter kit for EZier living, but we have to intentionally have a plan for our sanity and peace of mind. We live in such fast-paced, information fueled society that we have to carve out time for relaxation and time to keep our lives in order and then take action sometimes and inaction at other times. If we don’t have a plan for simpler EZier living, it could get very messy. Then we have to clean up the mess. Most people have a plan for success but few people have a plan for peace of mind. Let’s get a plan and follow through, and when we do, life gets EZier and EZier.
Anne
Anne Art
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Featured Product This Month
EZosophy: The Art and Wisdom of
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EZosophy is a book for the spiritually-based reader who no longer values the ego driven struggle of contemporary life. EZosophy is a simple philosophy that radically changes lives. The book offers action plans to reverse familiar patterns of suffering and brings home the truth that life is not meant to be a series of to-do lists punctuated by eating and sleeping. |
Down With Ego Driven
Suffering, Do you believe that hardships
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Healthy Living
How Much Soap is Too Much?
Much is written about the use of antibacterial soap. We are creating a strain of superbugs by using these powerful chemicals on our bodies. It’s the same with the sanitizers and their neurotoxins. But suppose you have the most natural organic innocuous soap on the planet? It can still be bad for you.
Our skin has natural bacteria and oils. These form the immune system for the skin. Taking long hot showers washes the natural oils off our bodies and soap interferes with the immune system bacteria or microbes. Soaping the entire body on a daily basis puts the skin at risk. I know someone who lathers profusely in the shower. He has all kinds of weird outbreaks, itchy spots, and inflammation on his skin. Too much soap on the body, any kind of soap, is like taking antibiotics is to the gut. When we are forced to take an antibiotic, we normally take care to repopulate our friendly bacteria by taking plenty of probiotics, or we should. Yet we don’t replenish our friendly skin bacteria when we wash them from our skin.
How can we keep our skin healthy?
- Use very little soap.
- Use a natural organic soap. Dr. Bronner's soap, which can be purchased at Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, and many grocery stores, is a terrific choice for body soap and it’s inexpensive. A dab can clean your whole body.
- Do not put soap on areas that are not dirty. If you have dirty feet because you’ve gone barefoot, by all means use soap on your feet. If your feet are not dirty, using a washcloth and scrubbing them is probably enough.
- Use a modest amount of soap on your genitals and underarms. Normally those are the only areas that need soap. If you wear makeup, you will want to wash that off with soap as well, but many people have a face washing routine separate from their bodies.
- Use rubbing alcohol for nothing on the body. It’s one of those chemicals we used profusely until we discovered its harmful potential. Babies were rubbed down with alcohol to reduce fevers, until the babies started dying!
When we use very little soap, we save money, have healthier skin, and reduce our effect on our eco systems. Happy, healthy washing.
Anne
Anne Talks
This week's Anne Talk is Collective Will. It's a presentation given at the Unity Church of Webster, Texas.
Quotes
"Awaken to this startling news: you are the supreme
superintendent of a vast measurable domain that holds the secret
of a perfect life, and the fulfillment of all your needs and wants
is the true destiny of your whole personality."
— James T. Mangum
"You can only go so far in the darkest forest. Then you are
coming out the other side."
— Chinese proverb
"The Universe does not condone stupidity. Use your common sense."
— Anne Sermons Gillis
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