The Anne Report shows how life for seniors can be better by Taking Life EZier. The Main article, Taming Our Mind Traps, describes how we can make life EZier by routing out the traps our mind sets for us. The Healthy Living article, Healing Solutions: Consult Your Inner Physician, explains how we can develop and use our intuition to improve our body's health. The Anne Talk is Intuition Teleseminar. It provides examples of the value of using our intuition. 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, Words Make a Difference.

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

Living EZosophy, February 7, 2017
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  The Anne Report

Taking Life EZier

Dear ,

While people often make fun of the south, I never hear of anyone who retires and moves up north. The mild temperatures make the south an old folks’ haven, but that too can be a problem. Older people seem to avoid new ideas, are settled in their ways, and lend credence to the terms old codger and geezer.

I don’t think of myself as an old codger. I don’t avoid new experiences, and that’s how I came to have a rib boo boo. I attended a yoga class; it’s been ten years since I attended one. I went to about 3 classes a week back then, but since I stretch on a regular basis, I thought I would do okay in the class. I’m not sure how the sweet smiles of the instructors matched the slow and steady grind of doing more Sun Salutations than I could count, but underneath their compassionate, beatific gaze, two well-toned, extremely strong, fitness gurus drove me into a movement trance.

The next day I awakened to find that the daily hip pain I experience was not there. It was a miracle. I felt like a fitness guru myself until the aching set in. My right side was sore. I don’t think my ribs were broken, but something was wrong. I can’t figure out how I could hurt my ribs by doing yoga, but maybe there is an old codger in me after all. My friend told me recently that some people don’t age well, and I think she’s right. I think I’m eternally young, but my rib’s telling a different story. Adam has his rib story and now I have mine. I think maybe the next time I take a yoga class, I’ll take it EZier!

Until next week, this is the Anne Report.

Anne

  Main Article

Taming Our Mind Traps

Where is our attention? Where does our focus go and flow? What makes us who we think we are?

The following tells a story. It is an hypothesis of how the egoic mind creates reality. This story is not ultimately true. It is designed to awaken consciousness. If it does not serve that purpose, it is not for you. It’s not that you are not ready for the story: it’s just not the story for you. It might be true for you at some point or it may never be for you. Belief systems only have value if they bring freedom. With all the information available today, it is imperative to choose wisely the stories we believe. Here is one story, one metaphor, to consider.

We are enthralled with our traps: our attractive, enticing mind traps. The mind creates a trap through stories. The mind entertains us, horrifies us, and glorifies reality. The mind contains every channel imaginable, including romance, horror, inspiration, and sports channels. The mind spins out whodunit messages and the mind station is on all the time. We are so in tune with our reality-making mind and its stories that we believe that we are the mind. The mind is our personal reality show and we don't want to turn off the Mind Channel. We are addicted to its tales of surprise, tales of hope, and tales of shock. We think if we turn off the mind channel, we will cease to exist.

Meditation, contemplation, and stillness are ways to turn the mind down and off; the mind that generates a self-involved tale of life. This tale is informed by our past, our prejudices, and our preferences. It takes our side, makes us innocent bystanders of life, then turns and blames us for our existence. It’s a crafty little thing, this mind. Fortunately, many of us recognize the false reality crafted by the mind. We can see the damage it’s done to our aliveness and we’ve broken the trance, not once, but time and time again.

We've moved from chance, to choice, to part time surrender, and much of the time we are in pursuit of freeing our self-imposed confinement. We live in a time when the collective unconsciousness runs amok. Some say we are in labor, birthing a new global identity, but, unfortunately, labor and delivery can be slow and painful. Yet despite the pain of change and the external vestiges of a wounded humanity, we are traveling toward something joyful and unexplained.

There is a destiny that cannot be understood in terms of current events. We are called to fasten the safety belts of consciousness, because to go from one level to another, we're going on a ride, and that ride may be a little bumpy, even hair-raising. It is time to unhook ourselves from the mind and to still ourselves in Presence. It is in the quietness of mind that our lives are fueled by the peace that passes understanding. It is in the Stillness that we fracture the limits and merge into the Supreme Okayness.

What if we assumed that everything is okay? Could that stance free us from the constant need to fracture reality and to defend against the story we told ourselves? Standing in the Stillness, living in the present, does not mean that we can't act for ourselves, for our community, for others, and for our nation. It means that when we do act, the motive for that action comes from strength, not from weakness. The action we take comes from inspiration, not desperation. We cannot go into life half-cocked and think that the vibration of outrage and defense will lead to a better life or to a higher planetary vibration. We are always at a jumping off point in our lives. Where we choose to jump, when we choose to jump, and how we choose to jump will be sourced in love or in fear. What will we choose today, love or fear?

Anne

  Quotes

Anne’s Affirmation Corner

"I am the chosen one. I choose myself. Not the me of the ego, but the me of the Self. In this knowing I am free to live an extraordinary life of abundance, health, peace, and compassion."

"I am gifted and guided by the infinite. I am the Infinite Way."

Quotes

"Turn your pain into gain; then everyone benefits."
-- Anne Sermons Gillis

"The thoughts we think when we arise set the emotional course for the day. We can dread the day or set sail on a more pleasurable course. Thoughts of despair are habitual. Dreading the day is a fatal mistake. Dread is a magnet for gloomy experiences. It’s a filter that darkens everything we view throughout the day.” Excerpted from Anne’s book, Words Make a Difference."
-- Anne Sermons Gillis

"Life’s humbling steps, when faced and assimilated, lead to compassion. We discover that there are those who cannot extricate themselves from a life of poverty and misery simply by choosing out. Some people don’t even know how to choose. They come from a place and space where they are treading water. How can you plant a garden when you are struggling for a place to stand?” Excerpted from Anne’s book, Words Make a Difference."
-- 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).

  Healthy Living

Healing Solutions:
Consult Your Inner Physician

One of the greatest things we can do for our overall health is to access, listen to, and use deeper realms of consciousness. While doctors can guess what’s going on in our bodies, our bodies know for sure. The brain has incredible capabilities. Everything we see, think, hear, smell, and feel is recorded. Not all this information is in our awareness because we would have no focus if this were the case. We can, however, present a problem to the mind and the mind can retrieve information from the subconscious and put it together in ways we can’t consciously do.

Once I had a physical condition. I awakened to a thought: “B6.” The thought was loud and clear. I purchased some B6 and it worked well. In addition to the subconscious mind, we have the collective unconscious and the superconscious mind. We can get healing information from these realms of mind and super mind. These higher thoughts are not constructed in words. They are creative vibrations that filter down from resonating energies of light and sound. These energies convert themselves into something we can experience.

Not too long ago I suffered from a deep anxiety. It didn’t seem to matter what I did; the anxiety wouldn’t abate. Weeks stretched into months, and I did as little as possible so as to not exacerbate the condition. Finally, I sent out a plea, “HELP. HELP. This has to end.” That night I mentioned my condition to a friend. She asked me, “Do you think it is your thyroid?” I had my thyroid tested, so that wasn’t the problem, but suddenly I knew that the thyroid support supplements I was taking were the problem. I cut down the dosage and immediately the anxiety was gone. My intuitive knowing saved me.

How can we develop our intuitive healing abilities?

• Buy a notebook or journal. Begin your book with an intuition contract. This sends a message to your subconscious mind.
  Intuition Contract: I, (Name), am open to intuitive guidance. I expect and trust my guidance and judiciously act from my intuition. Sign and date your intuition contract.
• Use colored pens or cut out clever pictures to serve as symbols of your finite mind opening to a greater infinite mind. Don’t just scribble in your book: jazz it up, make it special. This journal becomes your healing altar.
• When you have an issue, turn to your intuition journal. Write out your problem. Center yourself and write out anything you think of, from a free flow of thought. Do this every day until you start opening to the answers that help you with this problem. Don’t take each word as gospel. The mind plays tricks on us. Use your gut feeling and common sense to assess the information. You may not get the answer right away, but if you set aside some time to write about this each day, your intuition will flower and you will find yourself instinctively taking actions to heal your situation. Writing is a way to get deeper levels of the mind flowing. It’s best to write in cursive and use a pen and paper rather than the computer.

Anne

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  Anne Talks

Intuition Teleseminar

Today's Anne Talk is her Intuition Teleseminar, which was presented on March 28, 2012. It provides examples of the value of using our intuition and ways to access our intuition. Time: 43:07.

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Words Make a Difference
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