Anne's Note, Show Up and Play, reminds us that we need to show up in order to experience living. In the Main article, The Stories We Tell Ourselves, Anne describes how to have a direct experience of life instead of just think about life. The Healthy Living article, Take Short Walks for Better Health, suggests that a short walk after each meal is a healthy practice. The Anne Talk, Love is Now, is a comforting meditation, set to music, about the love that we are. The Featured Product this month is Anne's new reprint of 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

Living EZosophy, October 25, 2016
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  A Note From Anne

Show Up and Play

Dear ,

If you read this on Tuesday morning, we will be on the road somewhere between Mobile and The Woodlands, Texas. We’ve had almost two weeks with our wonderful grands and are headed home for a while. We arrive late in the afternoon.

Jim, my husband, will be practicing for a performance at the Centers for Spiritual Living when we return. He’s formed a group he calls the Guitar Geezers. The members of the band change. It’s more or less who shows up. What a great idea. Whoever shows up, gets to play.

That’s what we are called to do in our lives – show up. Life is more fun when we show up. Everything else is a facsimile of life, because until we show up, life isn’t real.

In closing, remember, there’s a big, ongoing choice in the EZosophy world. We can look at the EZ or we can look at the drama. While the drama is fetching, EZ is fulfilling. It should be an EZ choice. Which one will you choose with your next thought?

Until next week,

Anne

  Main Article

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Several years ago, my great-aunt Elba died. I was sad about her passing, but I knew it was time for her to go. A few weeks after the funeral, I received a call from her attorney, who informed me that I was named in the will. Aunt Elba was wealthy, but I had no idea she would leave me anything. After the will went through probate, it turned out that the stocks and property she left to me were worth more than 5 million dollars. I was elated. I knew that I had been working with my prosperity consciousness and my ability to receive, but this was incredible. I closed my business, moved to the Texas Gulf area, and began to write, travel, and do lecture tours.

Notice how you feel about my experience. I tell this story in my workshops and receive varying reactions. Some people wonder why it happened to me. Others think: “That will never happen to me.” Some people are vulnerable enough to express their jealousy, while others share their excitement: “If it can happen to you, it can happen to me.”

This story is only partly true. My great-aunt Elba was prosperous and she did die. She died more than forty years ago. I did move to the Gulf and began to give lectures and write. I was not included in her will. While most of this story is true, the gist of the story is a lie.

Even though the story is a lie, people are impacted. This illustrates a truth: stories and beliefs do not have to be true to have an effect on our lives. Just reading the story set up a reality that triggered strong reactions. Did you get excited, feel anger, or judge me in certain ways because I became a millionaire? How did you react when you found out the story wasn’t true?

There is a story, told by our egos, that has deep impact. The story says that life is always hard and things can never change. It has no more truth than the story of my inheriting a small fortune. It’s time to recognize the things in our lives that are not difficult and to cease making easy tasks difficult. We must stop mistaking Ego Driven Suffering (EDS) for real suffering and genuine pain. People ask me, “What can I do to help alleviate my need to suffer?” I have outlined some practical steps to follow.

If you plan to develop an easier attitude, you are going to have to give up Murphy’s Law, which goes something like this: “If anything can go wrong, it will.” This law is a prime Hardaholic axiom. It’s tripe and not worthy of your attention. Make a new slogan: “If anything can go right, it will.” Throw away any Hardaholic slogans or cartoon pictures you have on your desk that make life out to be rough. Take down the cartoon of the man standing with a screw going in one side of his head and coming out the other or the one where a woman has stressed out lines radiating from her body and her eyes are bulging. It’s okay to look at these pictures as a joke, but do not put them up where you see them all the time. These funny pictures are lethal. They serve as destructive subliminal programming. Every time you look at them, they register in the subconscious mind and confirm the idea that life is hard, if not brutal.

If you look for your life to be hard, it will be; you will interpret everything as hard. If you look for your life to be easy, you will find evidence of ease. Just as positive thinking brings positive results, easy thinking brings easy results. Even if life doesn’t become easy, almost everything can be easier.

Anne

  Quotes

"Life teaches us how to live it as it goes along."
-- Bailey Cates

"The mind wanders in and out of its old content as it fabricates a story about the present."
-- Anne Sermons Gillis

"If we love ourselves while we are in the presence of others, our lives flourish. No matter how they feel about us, whether they acknowledge us or treat us badly, when we continue to love ourselves when in their presence, we thrive. Our existence doesn’t require a stamp of approval from anyone except ourselves."
-- Anne Sermons Gillis

  Featured Product This Month

At last, the reprint of EZosophy: The art of EZ or at Least EZier Living, is out. If you've been wanting an EZier life, this book provides a clear path toward EZ.

EZosophy:The Art and Wisdom of Easy or At Least Easier Living is a simple philosophy that radically changes lives. It is a book for the spiritually-based reader who no longer values the ego driven struggle of contemporary life.

EZosophy will help readers:

• Give up Hard Attacks. Hardaholic no more.
• Drop the drama.
• Make your life EZier. Ease is not indolence. Rather, ease is the art of accomplishment without struggle.
• Learn to identify ego driven suffering (EDS).

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  Healthy Living

Take Short Walks for Better Health

Experts used to tell us to exercise 20 minutes per day. Then they changed and told us that we need 30 minutes of daily exercise. The new scoop - 3 ten minute walks after meals may benefit us more than one 30-minute walk per day.

Why?

• Walking 10 minutes after each meal helps with digestion and accelerates digestion.
• Walking 10 minutes after each meal levels blood sugar; therefore it is a health-filled ritual for diabetics. It can help lower blood sugar and bring down triglycerides.
• It raises your energy level. I can feel my energy lift during a brief 10-minute walk. After I walk I feel a zing and a sweetness circulating. It’s the energy of the subtle bodies, the shakti, moving around.
• Walking frequently keeps one from sitting long hours. Sitting for 6 hours without moving spells a decline in bone strength and limits the function of our lymph system, whose job it is to rid the body of toxins. If one walks 30 minutes in the morning, but stays behind the computer for hours on end before a break, the body starts its breakdown.
• It’s a quick way to burn calories. Walking speeds the rate at which food moves through the body.
• It revs up your metabolism.
• It makes you sleep better.
• It helps clear the mind and makes you happier. It’s like a mind spa.

Can’t walk during inclement weather? Try walking in place for ten minutes or walking around in a small circle in your house. If you walk in small circles, change directions frequently. Walk in place while watching TV. Be creative, and, whatever you do, walk, walk, walk.

Anne

  Anne Talks

Celebrating Life

Today's Anne Talk, Love is Now, is a comforting meditation, set to music, on the love that we are. Time: 14:55.

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