The Anne Report, The EZosophy Path to Returning Home, reminds us that ease is the path back to peace. The Main article, "Being" Needs, reminds us to balance our being with our doing. The Healthy Living article, Practice Health Healthily, suggests that we use flexibility in our health practices. The Anne Talk is Anne‘s video, Celebrating Life. The Featured Product this month highlights Anne‘s Four Books. Click to read What is EZosophy? 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, May 9, 2017
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  The Anne Report

The EZosophy Path to Returning Home

Dear ,

Today finds us on our second day of driving home from our trip to North and South Carolina. We have been to a funeral, which I conducted, played with our grandchildren, gone to the ocean, kayaked in the tidal waters, walked the streets of Charleston, and had a great time. Modern times brings with it an affluence of activities. Two hundred years ago, just the journey we just took would have taken months. Cars, trains, and planes have rearranged our lives in ways our ancestors would not have imagined. However, there are always those visionaries whose heads are in the clouds. Their imagination paves the way for advancements in science, medicine, travel, and more.

Unfortunately, the advancements carry with them a down side. We live in an advancement overwhelm trap. We knew this was coming. Psychologists and theologians alike warned about this impending mental health dilemma. This development makes the EZosophy Philosophy essential to modern life. It is a philosophy that acknowledges the drama spike that is taking place currently and reminds us that it takes conscious intention not to get hooked on the ever-present drama.

News and politics seem to be the most emotion-based addictive drama feeds available. They are the crack cocaine of the soul. They wear us out with the false hope of a fascinating life and too often direct us away from the intimacy our heart offers to life. The eight-word miracle mantra, "Everything can be EZ or at Least EZier" is a salve. It is an invitation that encourages us to take back our lives from the external so we can return to the heart. Returning home to the heart requires no special techniques. It just takes willingness and surrender. Now is the time. Now is your time.

And that's something to report. Until next week.

Anne

  Main Article

"Being" Needs

We often envision a world where we have everything we need. We dream of having that perfect mate, two children, and a warm, secure place to live. We dream of lavish vacations and exotic foods. The world trains us to focus on our "having needs." While our having needs are important, especially when they focus on the basics, such as adequate food, clothing, and shelter, in our culture, we often overlook our "being needs."

Our being needs are a part of a continuum that Abraham Maslow characterized as self-actualizing. The process of self-actualization rests on the foundation of having enough to eat, a safe place to live, and adequate clothing. If one lives in Alaska, warm clothing is essential to survival. Unfortunately, after we get enough to eat, a place to live, and procure sufficient clothing, we often try to "get more and better" food, clothing, and shelter. We get caught in a loop. Fear of not having enough is the driver that tethers us to the endless activity of "more getting." We become momagenes: more machines. We must have more, and the only way to get more is to go more, so we become go machines or gomagenes.

Some people never wake up from the dilemma that drives modern life. Others fight overwhelm until they resign from life and never reenter it in a meaningful way; in other words, they cop out. People try to chill out with drugs, food, or addictive behaviors, such as shopping and redecorating their houses.

How do we wake up, and what drives us to greater, more satisfying living? There is a silent call within that calls us to a better life. It is a voice that never relents. It hounds us, and when we do not listen, we continue toward destruction. It's not physical destruction; it's soul destruction, a spiritual destruction.

Changing our intention from finding something that will fix things to being that which needs no fix, moves one from the path of drivenness to the path of fulfillment and freedom.

We are blessed with a consciousness that operates through awareness. It is paradoxical that we are not aware of the expansive awareness that moves through us and moves as us. When we are blind to the truth of our being, it can be helpful to affirm that truth before we embody it. The following offers a celebration of being:

I awaken each morning to new levels of consciousness, new levels of peace. This awakening continues as the perception of who I am expands. No longer do the constraints of the past haunt me. There is a new freedom of being and a new freedom of purpose that elevates the now as it dissolves meaningless thought patterns and habituated emotional reactivity. The harvest of my labor is in, and all efforting ceases. My mind relaxes as restlessness and longing recede. The calm waters of my soul wash over me, and I am free. It is so.

There is a blessing closer than our breath that brings sweetness. It is immediately available and perfectly aligned with our highest good. Awareness asks only for a few sacrifices. We must sacrifice our pain, our struggle, our stress, and our strain to take the communion of life. The table is set. The wine of life is poured. Drink ye now of it.

Anne

  Quotes

Quotes

"Free each moment to be as good as it can be."
-- Anne Sermons Gillis

"Freedom from worry is a powerful aspect of true wealth."
-- Anne Sermons Gillis

"There are no important missed opportunities except the ones where we could have uplifted, loved, or emotionally supported others."
-- Anne Sermons Gillis

"If you have to force someone or something into your life, that is not a part of your good. What you fight to get, you must fight to keep."
-- Catherine Ponder

Anne Affirmations

"There's a perfect slowing and a perfect flowing in my life. I relax into life's perfect rhythm."

"What a joy to expand my ideas, services, and creativity and to receive money for my endeavors."

"I am fortunate in all matters, and especially in accessing the present moment and in receiving life's unmitigated gifts."

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Anne‘s Four Books

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  What is EZosophy?

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  Healthy Living

Practice Health Healthily

I traveled to India in 1990 and stayed in an ashram north of Mumbai. I was surprised to find a walking track within the ashram grounds. At the time, I thought that enlightened people kept their bodies healthy using their minds. I was surprised to find that the guru wanted people to walk daily. She believed in physical exercise.

People talk about the uncle they had that lived to be 95 although he smoked and drank whiskey. The insinuation is that mind trumps matter in all situations. This is true, but most of us don't operate at the level of mind that defies the practicalities of living. I bet old uncle Fred, who lived to be 95, had no drinking buddies that survived that kind of physical neglect. I don't want to gamble on the hope that I'll be one in several hundred that thrive despite physical abuse.

With all that said, just exercising the body and eating well is not enough. Plenty of people who exercise and eat well get sick and die. It takes a combination of mind and matter to maintain a healthy mind, body, and spirit.

While healthy eating is not all there is to health, it is an integral part of maintaining overall health. I don't always eat healthy foods. I have what I call rarely eaten foods. This way I am not bound by unrealistic dietary expectations. I also exercise regularly, but if I miss a day or two of exercise while traveling, I'm okay with that. In other words, I don't obsess about my guidelines and then beat up myself if I miss one.

Fundamentalism is a mindset that says we must believe and adhere to a set of rigid rules and practices. This type of mindset is as detrimental to healthy living as a poor diet and inadequate exercise. Fundamentalists take a firm stance that their way is right, there is little flexibility, and others are wrong. People who study A Course in Miracles, Ernest Holmes, and Charles Fillmore can be just as fundamentalist as those who study the Koran, the Hebrew scriptures (the Old Testament), the Bhagavad Gita, and the Bible. Fundamentalism is not about the content of the literature we study; it is about how we study and practice it.

When we find ourselves hung up in one area of the mind, body, spirit trinity, it's time to rebalance. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. That means we need to pay attention to the physical as well as the spiritual. We are priceless beings, yet we are the main contributors to our lives. Life is a present, but if we open it with a chainsaw, we may damage the gift!

Let's ditch ridged fundamentalist practices and be flexible in our health practices, because when we do, we will find that our lives become EZier and EZier.

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

  Anne Talks

Celebrating Life

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  Anne‘s Schedule

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Sunday, May 14, 2017 (Mother‘s Day)
10:30 AM Service
"Light Your Way Home"
Unity Circle of Light
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Sunday, May 21, 2017
11:00 AM Service
"Living in Ease and Peace"
Carmel Temple
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South Houston, TX 77587
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