Anne's Note today is Coming Home. The Main article, Making Your Mind Work FOR You, encourages us to take control of our minds to make our lives EZier. The Healthy Living article, New Year Transition, provides some tips for completing 2016 and creating 2017. In today's Anne Talk, Anne sings Egor the Ego. The Featured Product this month is Anne's new reprint of EZosophy: The Art and Wisdom of Easy or At Least Easier Living. Click here to learn about Anne's newest book.

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

Living EZosophy, December 27, 2016
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  A Note From Anne

Coming Home

Dear ,

The thrill of Christmas is over and the New Year looms. It’s been a traveling holiday and today we start our trek back home. We’ve visited the twins and family in Mt. Pleasant, SC and relatives in NC. No matter how much fun I have visiting others or going on adventures, it’s always fun to return home. There’s a special kind of relaxation that occurs when I go home. I can follow my own schedule, eat what I want, and snuggle into my life.

When I was young, my grandmother’s church had a homecoming weekend. People who now lived in other places returned to their home church to see their friends and loved ones. It was an exciting time; families joined and food was abundant. Life seemed simple and unadorned by complexities.

There are football homecoming games and homecoming parades – everyone wants to come home. Even though we think of home as a physical space, spiritually speaking, home is where the heart is. Home is a centered space that is both local and nonlocal. When we are heart-centered, we feel at home wherever we are. When we do not feel at home, we can be sure the part of our mind that drops bombs on our lives, is in charge. As we move into 2017, let’s be inner peace advocates and stop following the drama lama. Let’s take residence in the home of our hearts. It’s about time we came home. The door is always open. We can refuse to enter, but we cannot close the door on ourselves. Let’s make 2017 an ongoing homecoming to our hearts, because when we do, our lives are always EZier and EZier.

Happy New Year!

Anne

  Main Article

Making Your Mind Work FOR You

As the season moves into a new year, it’s time to make plans, reflect, and to erase the past. One of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves, as we move into what we hope will be an older, wiser us, is a broad understanding of the mind. One noteworthy aspect of the egoic mind is the part that paddles its way into our ordinary lives, kicks us out of our boats, and leaves us to drown. We’ve all experienced that drowning moment. It’s the moment when we grasp for life, feel hopeless, and think that life can never change. It’s the moment where some spoken word or hidden belief punches us in the belly and we writhe in pain.

How does our mind operate? Sometimes it operates on high octane fuel as it fills us with a heavy dose of adrenaline. What would happen if we drank 10 cups of coffee in two minutes (if that were possible). What would you do to come down? You might try to drink a lot water to flush it out. You might take a hot shower to calm yourself down. You might go for a run to use up some of the energy. You might do breathing exercises, but ultimately you must ride it out. A good tool, when triggered into intense or high gear, is to think of having a temporary chemical overload in our body, do whatever we can to take care of our body, and then realize it will pass. As the old saying goes, “It came to pass, not to stay.”

The egoic mind can deliver doses of high level chemicals or it can lie low, and use judgment as its weapon. It rejects or approves each moment, then grasps and holds onto the feelings or events it likes or flees from what it judges to be bad.

This back and forth evaluation, grasping, and fleeing take tremendous effort and energy. When we free the mind from its evaluative duty, an immense amount of creative energy flows forth. Ideas abound; we no longer drag ourselves around. We have a bounce in our step. We are free. That’s why it pays emotionally to join the isness business. This is a mindset that does not see things as good or bad. It deems things as neutral. The current saying of the isness business is “It is what it is.” This means there’s no need to get upset; you can’t change what’s past or what’s happening in the moment. Don’t hang onto the moment. Let it go. We are much better equipped to deal with any current situation when we are not emotionally bound to it.

We plan, make our to do lists, run errands, and set and accomplish goals, but the greatest change we ever make is to change the way we use our minds. It’s not about rooting out the bad thoughts; it’s about not allowing the mind to dramatize our thoughts and feelings. Drama is a drug, and it’s time to drop the drama. While it’s okay to make New Year’s resolutions to lose weight or to exercise more, let’s be sure to add our soul tasks to our resolutions. Let’s resolve to pay more attention to the mind and how it works. Let’s resolve to wean ourselves from drama and to bring a deeper sense of EZ into our lives. Let’s resolve to give up hard attacks and to stop taking refuge in difficulties. Let’s wipe the slate clean and walk into the New Year with emotional clarity, because when we do, our lives will be EZier and EZier.

Anne

  Quotes

"We have to warm ourselves from the inside. It’s wonderful when someone warms us, but the main furnace is inside, and unless we feed the fire, the fire dies."
-- Anne Sermons Gillis

Affirmation: "A deep, resolute peace arises from within and I am at peace. This peace guides my thoughts and emotions into the Supreme EZ (ease) and the love of the Universe."
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"Be a practical master; stop stepping on your own mind traps. It is the only way your life will stop exploding."
-- 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 encourages you to:

• 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.
• Identify ego driven suffering (EDS).

  Healthy Living

New Year Transition

The EZiest path to healthy living is by way of fulfillment, satisfaction, and happiness. While getting out of the way of the Source is required, using our intellect and taking action are a vital part of allowing our good to flourish. My good friend Robin Blanc Mascari shares this list every year with friends. Our personal reflections challenge us to review the past year and call us to create a new and prosperous 2017. The Source provides the tools for living, but we have to build the house. Happy New Year.

Completing 2016

1. What was your biggest triumph in 2016?
2. What was the smartest decision you made in 2016?
3. What one word best sums up and describes your 2016 experience?
4. What was the greatest lesson you learned in 2016?
5. What was the most loving service you performed in 2016?
6. What is your biggest piece of unfinished business in 2016?
7. What are you most happy about completing in 2016?
8. Who were the three people that had the greatest impact on your life in 2016?
9. What was the biggest risk you took in 2016?
10. What was the biggest surprise in 2016?
11. What important relationship improved the most in 2016?
12. What compliment would you liked to have received in 2016?
13. What compliment would you liked to have given in 2016?
14. What else do you need to do or say to be complete with 2016?

Creating 2017

1. What would you like to be your biggest triumph in 2017?
2. What advice would you like to give yourself in 2017?
3. What is the major effort you are planning to improve your financial results in 2017?
4. What would you be most happy about completing in 2017?
5. What major indulgence are you willing to experience in 2017?
6. What would you most like to change about yourself in 2017?
7. What are you looking forward to learning in 2017?
8. What do you think your biggest risk will be in 2017?
9. What about your work, are you most committed to changing and improving in 2017?
10. What is one as yet undeveloped talent you are willing to explore in 2017?
11. What brings you the most joy and how are you going to do or have more of that in 2017?
12. Who or what, other than yourself, are you most committed to loving and serving in 2017?
13. What one word would you like to have as your theme in 2017?

Please share freely with friends and family.

Compliments of Robin Blanc Mascari (rbmascari@mac.com) EnlightenedNetworking.com.

If you have any healthy living tips for the newsletter, send them to me at anne@annegillis.com.

Anne

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Egor the Ego

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