Comments on: Upgrading Your “Belief Baggage”

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:13:41 +0000

Well done, jim. Your web site looks great and FEEEELs perfect. Good to see that you are really stepping out. Your experience with Patricia–wow!!! It’s so refreshing to see how we can bein “disagreement” without blame, without making anyone wrong. This is the place we meet, at the Heart. The power of love and truth is truly transformational as we hold the perfection of the Divine flowing through each body, touching our tenderness and urging us more and more toward the “kiss of the Beloved”.

By: Jim Granger

Jim Granger — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:46:46 +0000

There is a big difference between mindfulness and being obsessed about something or someone. Mindfulness is about paying attention, but with ease and nonjudgmental awareness. For me there's a background sense of curiosity and intrigue as to what the moment is revealing to me when I am being mindful. Having to monitor someone's else's "buttons" 24/7 so you don't push them certainly makes me tired thinking about it as well! Practice going back and forth consciously between an easy mindfulness and then obsessing as you described Amy, and watch how that feels in your body. I believe you will feel a huge difference in the two approaches.

By: Jim Granger

Jim Granger — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:35:47 +0000

Ooooh, I complained all right! This was not an easy subject to deal with because I didn’t have any problem with my own mindset about the kitchen. It had worked for me for years without any problem, so I wasn’t so keen on changing something I didn’t see any need to do. It was only when I was presented with Patricia’s preference for a greater degree of cleanliness AND the arrival of the ants that I realized that my mindset needing upgrading.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:30:50 +0000

I like this post alot and hears why. It involves my two favorite words, shift and mindful. These days I’ve been getting quite a bit of mileage out of these two. It seems like they go hand in hand. For instance, If you are mindful a shift will occur. It always leads to change and growth soon to follow. Sometimes I feel as though being mindful is a bit like walking on egg shells. So maybe what I think is being mindful is more like being obsessed about what’s going to make the other person content and sometimes you just can’t fulfill that for whatever reason. To me, mindful feels like having common sense to a degree. If you are aware that X is someone’s hot button then guess what don’t push it. However that means we have to be paying attention, present, aware, mindful 24/7 and that makes me really tired just thinking about it. Or maybe there’s something I’m missing.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:33:33 +0000

I love the ants part. Its really nice (and rare) to see a guy shift without complaining especially about housework!