Hpy EZosophy Day

 What is EZososophy? It is a philosophy that calls suffering into question. Some suffering is a part of life but there is an emotional kind of suffering that limits us from the direct experience of our lives. We chose this suffering based on the erroneous belief that life is hard and it is out to get us. The belief goes like this: life is hard, you must suffer about it, my life is harder than yours and I’ll prove it, you don’t understand how hard I have it, and life is serious business. Life is hard, but it is not hard ALL the time! Much of suffering and struggle is a habit. 

Don’t stand for it. Call your existence into question as you go through your day. Ask yourself, “Does this have to be hard?” Try the eight word miracle EZosophy mantra, “Everything can be easy or at least easier.”  Ease can be applied to every thought and action throughout our day. Dusting, making up the bed, getting up in the morning and flossing our teeth are not reasons to suffer. The belief that “life is hard” is the corner stone of our culture. Revolt, tear down the foundations of suffering. Make life easier.

I’m making every day a holiday. Join me. Happy EZosophy Day. Want more information on living with more ease? http://www.annegillis.com/

Happy Intuition Day

When February 14 rolled around, my husband and I were like children. It was our anniversary and Valentine’s Day all rolled into one. We look forward to this day ever year. This year we had a leisurely meal at two local restaurants, one meal for each occasion. We ham it up. It was so much fun that I decided to make every day a holiday. In keeping with that tradition, I declare today to be Intuition Day.

Even though it seems like women corner the market on intuition, men use intuition too. Women tend to use their intuition more in relationships and men use theirs in business. My ex-husband had a knack .  He made a fortune using his gut feelings about the growth areas in our city and he followed that hunch. Some people seem to have reverse intuition; it’s like they follow misfortune.

Want to juice up your ability to feel and follow those hunches? Ask yourself this question,” What is the next step?” Practice this throughout the day even when you know what you are planning to do next. Then listen. This strengthens our ability to be in touch with that inner knowing.

If you are into intuition, I’ll be giving a teleseminar on intuition next Wed. 28 at 2 PM CST. 2 PM CST call (209) 647-1600 Conference Call Number Access Code 539554 #

EZosophy is about living life without ego driven drama while maintaining a quality life of easy or at least easier living. When we are in touch with wisdom that expands beyond our limited doubting systems, we move into the realm of power and creativity. Go on listen, listen to your intuition. Happy Intuition Day.

Happy Mistake Day

Yesterday I sent out my weekly newsletter. It seems as if I always make a mistake in the newsletter. I write it a short period of time and send it out. Yesterday the mistake was providing an incorrect date. I immediately sent out a correction.  If I was totally averse to making a mistake, I would never attempt anything. Fortunately I’ve gotten over some of my perfectionism. The world is hip to the fact that I screw up a lot of things up, but I am lovable and do many things right and in some things I excel.

 The first thing I think when I find a mistake is “Oh no.” Sometimes, depending on the consequences of the mistake, there’s a dread. How many of us have lost a document because we didn’t save it? We all make mistakes in traffic. Mistakes can trigger that subconscious belief that we are wrong, that we ourselves are a mistake. 

Let’s reframe the whole idea of mistakes. After all a mistake is a mis  take. Fortunately ee can usually remake our mis-takes – like a do over. The following acronyms are do overs of the word mistake. Maybe they are silly, but let’s be bold and subdue the somberness of mistake making. Mistakes are innocent and unintentional. When you make a mistake, forgive yourself, correct what you can and move on.

M-I-S-T-A-K-E

Mistake Is Something That Anyone Kan Erase

Maybe Illusions Step Towards Another Kinky Event

Memory Installed Symbolizes Teaching and Kinetic* Energies    *Moving  

Today is the day to celebrate and salute our mistakes. Life is too short to punish ourselves over an unintentional happening. Life is easier when we support ourselves.  We can make our mistakes easier,  by no judging them. Take easy and make this an easier day.

Happy Vernal Equinox

Today our nights and days are equal. It is a day of natural balance and nature calls us into that balance. Can you hear her call? It’s in our intuition, that draw we have to do or un-do something a little out of the ordinary.

If you tend to play and never get important tasks completed, then get out that “to do” list and balance your resting and productivity quotients. The typical western mind set tends to run on productivity. We spend hours doing useless activity rather than resting in a state we call being unproductive.  We think we have to earn our right to exist. When we allow our minds to go deep into that which lies beyond doing and undoing, we find that our ability to discern what needs to be left off and what needs to be accomplished is fortified by an intuitive wisdom.

Hardaholics make life hard and suffer about it. The difficulties are accomplished through mental magic, and it’s black magic. Balance brings harmony and takes us off the wheel of endless doing. So take a break, doodle, buy some flowers, sniff some essential oils, yet also pay homage to the things that need to be done – things that make your lives easier. Balance is a call to sanity. Today everything in life supports balance. Tune in, now and don’t forget the eight word miracle mantra, “Everything can be easy or even easier.”

Happy Worm Moon

I checked the web to see if there were any scheduled holidays for today and came up with the list below. Wow 10 holidays today throughout the world.

National Quilting Day
Perigean Spring Tides
Purim (Jewish - begins at sundown)
Saint Joseph's Day
Swallows Return to San Juan Capistrano Day
Worm Moon
Anniversary - Operation Iraqi Freedom
Save the Florida Panther Day (Florida)
National Day of Oil (Iran

The holiday that captures my attention is Worm Moon.  The Farmer’s Almanac enlightened me as to the meaning of this holiday.

Full Moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the northern and eastern United States. The tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full Moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred. There was some variation in the Moon names, but in general, the same ones were current throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England to Lake Superior. European settlers followed that custom and created some of their own names. Since the lunar month is only 29 days long on the average, the full Moon dates shift from year to year.

Full Worm Moon – March As the temperature begins to warm and the ground begins to thaw, earthworm casts appear, heralding the return of the robins. The more northern tribes knew this Moon as the Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter; or the Full Crust Moon, because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night. The Full Sap Moon, marking the time of tapping maple trees, is another variation. To the settlers, it was also known as the Lenten Moon, and was considered to be the last full Moon of winter. http://www.farmersalmanac.com/full-moon-names/

The worm moon holiday brings new life. It’s like the Easter of mother earth, a time when the dark is over and life appears.  Happy Worm Moon to you. It’s astounding that millions of interdependent systems of mother earth give rise to support our lives. Thank you worms and thank you mother earth.

Happy Shrub Day

Happy shrub day. What, shrub day? Do you mean those short little tree like things? We have arbor days, flower days, but how about a shrub day? Take today and when you see a little shrub, notice. It provides beauty, processes co2 and helps with erosion.

A shrub is also known as a bush. There are bushes that grow in the shade, flowering bushes, short, fat and skinny bushes. Shrubs are woody plants that have multiple stems and are most often pretty darn short . They are easy to grow. They embrace life. There are over 20,000 varieties North America that we’ve counted so far. They are an integral part of our lives. They are everywhere. Have you ever thought of them – I mean after you planted a few?

You might wonder, “Why shrub day?” This morning when I was in a meditative state, I kept seeing images of shrubs. It happened more than three times, hence today is shrub day. I think they were talking to me. “Notice me, notice me.”  You think that’s a wild thought? Watch your thoughts sometimes and see what you get!

We tend to limit our awareness. Our mind circles the same words over and over, round and round. When we begin to hold life in an open space, without so many repetitive thoughts, our awareness brings  the ordinary and highlights it in a way that showcases the sacred.

SO take time today, off from the usual mental wear and tear and love a shrub. See where they are in your neighborhood. Notice the numerous varieties. These kinds of practices help us go conscious.  Take it easy, make it easy. Forget hugging that tree and rub a shrub today. Happy Shrub Day.

Happy Synchronicity Day

Happy Synchronicity Day   What is synchronicity? It is meaningful coincidence. I’ve found when I talk about synchronicity I often find it. It’s like when you buy a car, you see cars like yours everywhere you go.

Yesterday I held a teleseminar. One of the exercises I suggested was to pay attention to how the bottoms of your feet feel when you walk. This awareness practice is a walking meditation. While preparing for the talk I wished I had the words to the song we sang when I participated in 2002 Thich Nhat Hanh peace walk in Memphis. I knew I had written the words somewhere and I assumed they were tossed long ago.

Last night I needed a box to mail an item. I went to the attic and found the perfect box. I noticed another box from our 2005 move. It had a few papers in the bottom. I gathered the papers, climbed down the attic ladder, eager to look at the papers. Upon examination I found some old tax records and tossed them in the recycling bin, but there was one small piece of paper – wow there it was. It was the paper I had at the peace march. I had scribbled the words I mentally sought earlier today on this small paper.  The missing words found their way to me.  I felt that tingle of aliveness when I sense the connection of life.

This event reminded me of a previous attic incident.  In 1981 I hosted a workshop. One of the exercises was to imagine what would happen during the next 10 years of our lives. We were to stretch and think of things we really wanted to happen. I wrote a detailed account about my life, my career and my relationships. After the workshop I placed the workshop notebook in my attic. One day I went to the attic to retrieve a suitcase. I noticed the notebook. The year was 1989 – eight years after I’d charted the imaginary course my life might take. I opened the book and read, “In 1989 I met a spiritual master. “ Now it was 1989 and I was packing my bags to go to India to see Gurumayi. (You may remember her as the guru from “Eat, Pray, Love.”) My imagination seemed more like a prophecy or a self-created destiny. Off I went to see the master. The trip was fraught with synchronicity and magic. I would have to give 1989 a 10 on life’s scale. Yeah life.

I like to set an intention for each day. Some days I expect good surprises, but today I’ll look for a meaningful coincidence – where the content of my mind matches and external event. I invite you to do the same. Happy Synchronicity and remember to make everyday a holiday.