Anne's Note reminds us to Make Time for Living. Anne's article, Money, provides suggestions on how to heal our relationship with money. Healthy Living's Do Your Best article reminds us to make the best of growing older. The Anne Talk is Anne's video on Maintaining Life. The Featured Product this month is Anne's The One Year Seminar.

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

Living EZosophy, January 19, 2016
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  A Note From Anne

Dear ,

Today two of the next door neighbor’s children (they have four!), accompanied by their nanny, came over to swing in our back yard. It was impromptu and I spent maybe half an hour, perhaps longer, with them. They are 21 months and 3 years plus old and full of energy and questions. Our dog, Lucy, surveyed the situation and did everything she could to steer clear of the munchkins. I called Jim and had him join the fun. It’s really cute to see a three-year-old asking, “Jim, where do you sleep?” “Does Lucy have a skate board?” “Why do you have a wheel right here? (It was a dolly.)

A few years ago I would have been too busy to take time for these miraculous little children. I would be on a deadline, out of time, and there would have been no swinging in the back yard. It was more than ten years ago that the previous owner stood in the same spot where I encountered the children and offered to read the poetry he had written about his deceased wife. (Read story “The House Next Door Died.”) I was new to the area and up to my ears in boxes, and hungry. I did hear some of the poems, years later, at his funeral. Looking back, I wish I had said, “I’d love to hear your poems. Will you give me 15 minutes to grab a bite? I’m so hungry.

People resist getting older, but there is a gift for me in aging; I just don’t care about a career anymore. What freedom. I read books, walk Lucy three times a day, and watch movies too. While some may suffer over looking prune-like, I’m just happy to have time to enjoy life. I still write, work, and speak to groups. I’m not a couch potato, but getting older is a lot better than most people make it out to be. Good news. If you are young, there’s still a lot to look forward to.

Anne

  Money

Our culture is fanatical about money. We believe there’s not enough. Even when we have enough in the moment, there’s a projection that our financial future will possibly be bleak. It’s like saying that a poisonous snake will jump out in front of us at any minute during the next 40 years, and we had better prepare. We give away our health, ignore our loved ones, and keep ourselves in overdrive in order to get more money. Our cultural mantra is “More money,” as if money could fix any problem we might face.

We judge people by how much money they have. Women seem to be more attracted to the power money brings than to the looks of a possible mate. We equate success with money and too often forget about the quality of our lives as the most important ingredient of success. Money is the god of our contemporary society.

Money is neutral. It is inanimate. It comes in paper, metal, plastic, and numbers on a computer screen. But if money is neutral, there shouldn’t be a problem, but there is. What is the real problem? The problem lies in our relationship with money. Most people have a dysfunctional relationship with money.

Once we have enough money to pay our bills and to live comfortably, our focus should move toward other kinds of activities, but it usually doesn’t. When it comes to money, there is a lot of fear. If we could heal our fears around money, the world would not only be a better place, greed would dissolve, and our lives could open to a greater happiness. Unfortunately, if our parents worried about money, we will probably worry about money too. Regrettably, we inherit worrying patterns from our elders – but relax, there is hope.

Here are some suggestions that can heal your relationship with money. Remember, having enough money to live a good life is wonderful, but building a life around money, robs us of our lives.

Suggestions for healing your relationship with money.

• Recognize that money is innocent. It is not the root of all evil. It is a neutral means of exchange. It’s okay to have money.
• Write a money worry payoffs page daily for one month. Complete the following: 5 Payoffs (benefits) I receive from worrying about money are:

Examples of payoffs would be:

1. It’s a familiar habit and I identify with it and like to worry.
2. My parents worried about money and I feel disloyal to them if I don’t worry about money.
3. It feeds my addiction to drama and upset.
4. It gives me something to complain about with others.
5. Worrying about money is a game and I like to play it. (“Ain’t it Awful” is a game in which people talk about how awful things are. It could be money, the government, smokers, etc. The activity passes time, but people leave the conversation feeling uncomfortable. Games thwart intimacy.) If you prefer, write 5 payoffs for not having enough money.

• Contemplate this thought for 5 minutes a day for 30 days. “I appreciate the money I have and I am okay with money.” See what comes up. Take notes. Rooting old beliefs from the subconscious mind helps free us from their power over us.
• Make a pact with yourself not to worry about money for 30 days. At the end of 30 days, see how your experiment worked. Did anything bad happen because you didn’t worry? Were you able to break the habit?
• We try to amass money to cover up feelings of lack. My free program “40 Days to Abundance” moves you from lack to abundance.

If you are constantly worried about money, and you currently have enough, I invite you to start the money relationship healing process. It’s never too late to improve your relationship with money, and when you do, you feel better about money, and your life will definitely be EZier and EZier.

Anne

  Quotes

“It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
— Taken from the Just Sit There Twitter feed

"There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”
— Rumi

“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.”
— Pearl S. Buck

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  Healthy Living

Do Your Best

As I age, my health becomes more of a priority. I’ve read about cells and how, theoretically, they can live forever. Research shows that much of the body replicates itself over different spans of time, so the body I have today is not the same body I had last year. That means most of the cells in my body have been replaced. I’ll call them virgin cells.

Research informs me that the nucleus is not the cell’s brain and that my thoughts actually have dominion over my health. Since my virgin cells don’t get their smarts from an internal, localized, cellular brain, I supposed my virgin cells needed instruction. So I instructed my cells the best I could. I nourished them, fed them, complimented them, and gave them energy, but they seemed to be rebels, because my motto, “Every day, in every way, I am getting healthier and healthier” seems to have missed its mark. At least part of the time.

I am happy for my level of health, but I look older and feel older. The curves in my back, the ones that go the wrong way, give me hip pain, back pain, and limit some of my activities. I don’t bound up the stairs as many times a day as I used to. Does this mean I won’t continue to take care of myself? Of course not. My plan is to “Do my best and forget the rest.” This is a great health motto. Worry about our body's aches and pains feeds those little virgin cells life-denying information, in an indirect way. Worry causes stress, stress causes certain chemical reactions, and, finally, the little virgin cells get instructions to break down faster, and I surely do not want anything to break down any faster than it already is.

So why worry when you can sing, dance, read, pray, or do thousands of other things that don’t contribute to stress?

If you have time, it’s 2.5 hours long, check out Bruce Lipton’s video on “Mind Over Matter.”  Even though I want to accept things the way they are, without suffering, there is plenty of evidence that our health can improve in the future. While I may not be able to implement all the possibilities new research offers, it is still refreshing to find out that what we believe to be true, might not be as true as previous science has mandated.

Remember, when it comes to your health, “Do your best and forget the rest.” We can never be perfect in our beliefs and behaviors, so we need to give ourselves credit for what we do and allow ourselves to enjoy our lives regardless of the level of health we currently have. Life is a gift, and it never helps when we ditz the package and the delivery person!

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Monday, January 25, 2016
5 PM CST
Center of Light Radio
with host Keith Blanchard
interviewing Anne Sermons Gillis
“The Path to Conscious Awakening:
The Stages of Spiritual Growth.”
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Thursday, February 18, 2016
10:30 AM-12:30 PM, “EZosophy”
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