Anne's Note shows how to Be busy and still at EZ. The main article speaks of Relationships. Healthy Living provides The Biggest Secret to healthy living. The Anne Talk is EZosophy: Anne Sermons Gillis. The Featured Product this month is Anne's I AM Affirmations CD.

The EZ Mantra: "Everything can be EZ or at least EZier." – Anne Sermons Gillis

  A Note From Anne

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It’s been a week full of back to back activity. Someone told me this week, “You are really a busy lady. You don’t seem to live the ease you talk about.” I had to reply that it’s the ideas of EZosophy and EZ that keep me grounded. As a busy person I have to live in the moment and not be drug down by the mind. Who needs drug abuse? I need to be carried, not drug, and it’s the principles of EZ that carry me. I may never be a slowdown person.

As soon as I carve out some space in my life, I fill it with something else. I know myself too well, but I’m not going to struggle about the way I schedule too many things. I am going to live in as much EZ as possible, regardless of my schedule, and that’s the best I can do. I am not a slave to perfection. I’m a student of life, and I’m certain life is perfect, but life’s events are slippery and that’s just how things stack up on planet earth. Have a great week regardless of the events, and I’ll be back next week with more ways to live an EZier life.

Anne

  Relationships

Relationships are the playing field from which we learn love and goodness. Without these indispensable basic elements, relationships are cold and dark. They imprison us in pain or limitations. Loveless relationships are full of competition, a relentless drive to get something, or the need to be right and prove the other wrong. Unhealed wounds are the source of punishment when the other friend, child, or partner does not meet one’s unmet baby needs! Revenge on one’s parents is taken out in the relationship.

Gina Lake puts in succinctly when she says, “What interferes with expressing love is the tendency to be absorbed in your mind and thoughts about yourself and what you want and need rather than about how you might express love.”

It’s not a pretty scene, the loveless relationship. However, relationships founded in lack, pain, power, and struggle have the potential to come alive through love. It is in the awakening to our true nature that love flourishes. Love surfaces when we surrender the egoic mind. Once we stop demanding the form love must take, we are free to become what we really are – love incarnate. This loves shines away the darkness in our relationship and even the darkest corner becomes a welcome potential to strengthen love. Focusing on love awakens deep compassion, and it is this compassion that allows us to see our partner, friend, or family member clearly. We cease to identify them with their actions and define them through their Essence.

Truly, the quality our relationships is dependent on our relationship to Source. When we know who we are and make a conscious effort to be the space for love to live, everything changes.

Are you ready for the change? How can you live love?

• Don’t try to be right. Just drop the conversation that keeps love at bay. This is a game called right - wrong and it is designed to thwart intimacy.
• Really listen to what your friend or partner is saying.
• Heal your thoughts about your parents. Unhealed parental wounds not only show up in your relationships, they show up as your relationships. Acknowledge what your parents did to you. It’s not about blame. If a parent runs over a child with an automobile, it’s unintentional, but the child is hurt none the less. Truly acknowledge what happened, then forgive your parents, and drop it.
• Pray for your friend or partner. Wish for him or her the best. Don’t try to coerce the Universe into getting more love or attention from your partner. Radiate your love toward your partner.
• See yourself as whole and lovable when you are with your friend. Be aware of your self-talk. Don't use that inner voice to put them down. Don't think about what you want from your friend. Experience your lovability; drink in the ever-present, omnipresent love available. Keep your mind clean.

Relationships can be thought of as a spiritual pilgrimage. You enter with high expectations, stumble and fall, then discover things about yourself that would be hidden if you were alone, then heal those wounds, and finally share love from the deepest places. If you can’t go to India and see a guru and you desire the rigorous teaching of a master, just turn to your relationships and see them as your guru. If you open your heart and let them, they will lead you to love, and with love as your guide, everything is EZier and EZier.

Anne

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  Healthy Living

The Biggest Secret

Trying to live a healthy life can not only be confusing, it can be difficult to find the time, energy, and resources to accomplish the things we want to do with and for our bodies. There are many differing views on how to maintain health, how to heal disease, and whether to use mainstream or alternative approaches to health and healing. Even within each discipline there is controversy.

The most important contribution we can make to creating and maintaining a healthy body is to believe in health and identify with health. When we identify with disease we set up a self-fulfilling prophecy for more illness. I have scoliosis, sinus problems, and intermittent bouts of anxiety, yet I consider myself a healthy person. This belief makes a powerful contribution to my overall health. Even if you have more health problems that you care to admit, focus on what is right with your body. Find something that works. “I can see through both eyes.” If only one eye works, think about the one that does work. “I can walk. I can bend over.”

It is vital to your health to understand the most powerful, healing, and life-supporting belief about your health. What is this potent secret belief? It’s the thought, “I am a healthy person.” Even if 6,000 things go wrong in our bodies, the fact that we are alive means that trillions of things are going right in the body. You always have more health going on in your body than illness, so why not identify with your health?

What we think about expands, and while it is smart to learn about specific action steps we can take for our dry eyes, painful back, or dermatitis, it is imperative not to identify with the disease. Let’s make this our new mantra, “I am healthy.” Focus on that belief as much as possible. Forget the thought, “I am screwed.” Yes, we have unhealthy foods and environmental problems that influence our health, but living with the thought that we are all doomed contributes more to our demise that the actual situations themselves. “I am a healthy person” is a much more pleasurable thought than “I am sick.” You can add the qualifier, “Overall, I am a healthy person.” You may have a heart condition, but don’t think of yourself as a sick person! Your health depends on it. You can have a healthy day today, knowing that you are a healthy person.

Anne

  Anne Talks

This week's Anne Talk is EZosophy - Living Life with Ease, with Anne being interviewed by the Wise Women Weekly team of Robin Blanc Mascari and Moni Patterson. Time: 1:03:05.

  Quotes

"Looking behind I am filled with gratitude. Looking forward I am filled with vision. Looking up I am filled with strength. Looking within I discover peace."
— Quero Apache Prayer

"Your purpose needs you."
— Anne Sermons Gillis

"Be wherever you are."
— Anne Sermons Gillis

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