Anne's Note talks about Overcoming Information Overload. The main article is about Subconscious Sabotage. Healthy Living reminds us to Smile. The Anne Talk is Happy Out of the Box Day. 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

  A Note From Anne

Dear ,

Everyone receives an abundance of e-mails these days. I used to send out one newsletter each week and my good friend, Donna Mosher, advised me to send out a weekly ad to make everyone aware of my products. So now you receive a newsletter on Tuesday mornings and a piece with a featured product on Friday mornings. This forces me to write because without a deadline and a commitment, I will not write. The newsletter is my setup to be creative and to do something I really enjoy – write.

Trust that when you need some information or inspiration in my newsletter, you will be attracted to the right edition or article to read. Just delete the ones you don’t have time to read or create a rule in Outlook or your particular email program and have them all to go to one folder that you can open from time to time to check out.

Don’t stress about the number of e-mails you receive. This is the mark of the Hardaholic, suffering over something that isn’t important. You will always read and receive the information you need when you need it, from me or any other source. Trust that and feel free to delete any of my e-mails at any time without reading them. I appreciate your staying on my mailing list and reading things when you have a few moments.

We live in a techno-age that will never allow us to get to everything. We will never get everything done. This is the cost of being alive these days. Life is much EZier when we can learn to live with a list of things to do that never completes itself. It’s just the way things are and fighting this leads to suffering. You know how I feel about ego driven suffering. It’s not necessary.

Anne

  Subconscious Sabotage

Everyone has emotional challenges. No one is exempt from pain. Self-help books, seminars, counselors, and therapists have emerged over the past 100 years to help us deal with the pain. Help abounds, but unfortunately we do not always get the help we need when we reach out. Sometimes our attempts just open up another door to hopelessness. How can that be when we live in a universe specifically designed to support and love us?

One belief, held in the subconscious mind, might be the culprit. It is a powerful thought that undermines our best efforts. It’s a belief that stops the loving inflow of solutions, support, and love. What is that stalwart belief? “Nothing works for me.”

It’s a potent thought that tailors itself to almost any situation. Relationships never work for me: therefore, I must keep my protective distance. I can’t have friends; it just never works out for me. I can never really be healthy because nothing ever works out for me. It is a self-fulfilling thought that tyrannizes our lives. The thought can even be restricted and only applied to one area of our lives. I can make plenty of money, but my relationships never work out. They are all misguided beliefs based on erroneous decisions we made about our lives during our formative years.

The thought, “Nothing works for me,” can actually become a crutch. If nothing works for me, I can abdicate responsibility for my life, do little on my behalf, and live a protective, walled up existence or I can borrow someone else's life and live through them. The thought that “Nothing works for me” forms a prison of illusory safety and suffering.

It takes courage to change this belief because it's so familiar. It's like an old friend. But what would life be like without this thought? What could we do if we believed that life provides an even playing field and that we have a great position in the game? Suppose we begin to replace the thought “Nothing works for me” with the thought, “It is safe and okay for more and more things to work for me; therefore, more and more things work for me.”

How can we start? How can we facilitate the change? Here is a four step process to consider:

1. Ask for help. It can be a prayer to a higher power or a request to the universe. “Help. I want to overcome this.” Imagine help assisting you overturning this belief. See love flowing in, see the cavalry riding in, or create a scene in your mind picturing everyone you've ever loved being by your side to help you undo this belief.
2. Write or read the following, “I am willing to let go of any of the negative payoffs that I might receive for believing that nothing ever works for me. I receive any beneficial payoffs in other ways that are favorable and supportive. These new benefits help my life work.”
3. Write or read the following, “Now that I have the unlimited help of a friendly universe or God (use your own words), I am willing for more and more things to work for me and go my way. I'm loved, nurtured, and supported by the thought that life can work for me. This new belief is a gift to me and for me. As I accept this new belief, I find more and more things going my way.”
4. Move energy. The limiting belief, “Nothing goes my way,”* is not only mental; it is also physical. The thought is trapped in the energy of the physical and emotional bodies. You can move energy through breathing exercises or movement. Movement frees our energy. Take 5 to 15 minutes to dance it out, take a swift walk, jump on your rebounder, move your body up and down while seated on an exercise ball (it’s like rebounding in a seated position on your exercise ball), or do breathing exercises. Picture life bringing in your new belief as you inhale and exhale while visualizing the trapped energy moving out of your body.
   
   Inactivity is said to be the new “smoking.” We have to move. Physical movement fosters emotional movement and inactivity fosters inertia. Move out that belief!* (Other permutations of this belief are, “Nothing goes my way. Nothing good ever happens to me. Things are stacked against me.”)

Undoing this primary thought creates a shift. Replacing it with new beliefs reawakens our creativity and productivity and bolsters our self-esteem. It releases energy. Emotional healing is a progressive activity, and the therapeutic process is fun and empowering, and it always makes our lives EZier and EZier.

Anne

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  Featured Product This Month

  What is EZosophy?

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  Healthy Living

Smile

I recently purchased a Dawn Yoga DVD. It offers easy physical movements and many stress reduction activities. The instructor says, “Breathe, stretch,” and then intermittently she will say “Smile.” I decided to not just smile during the video, but to smile throughout the day. When I stopped to really smile, and feel the emotion of joy, it stopped the chatter and immediately reduced my stress.

New Taoism meditation practices the inner smile and there is a Qigong inner smile mediation, but just stopping to smile throughout the day is an easy, informal practice. It’s free EZ therapy and available this instant. Smile. Not a fake, cover up smile, but a real, deep down smile. Smiling creates an e-moment (EZ moment) and makes life EZier and EZier.

Anne

  Anne Talks

You may discover that you're "in a box" without having noticed that you'd gone there. This week's Anne Talk, Happy Out of the Box Day, will give you some tips on becoming aware and present again.

  Quotes

"Slowing down our pace and just being for moments throughout our day gives us access to our true nature and its innate wisdom. Hurrying, on the other hand, keeps us tied to the ego, which barks its commands, pushes us harder, and shames us. The ego views life from a lens of fear and scarcity. It doesn’t trust life because it isn’t in touch with the truth about life. It copes with its fears and insecurities by pushing us to constantly be doing. When we are caught in the ego’s world, we can never rest and just be, and we lose touch with the deep sense that all is well."
— Gina Lake

"Slowliness is Holiness."
— Babaji

"Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop!"
— Gangaji

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