30. 30th BlogDay!

Blogs 30th birthday! Let's eat cake! And have it, too. Because in order to eat cake, we must have cake. Unless we can eat cake without the cake. Would it taste the same? Better? At all? But I digress, or should I say "digest."

Assimilate. Yes. That's the name of a pretty big game. It's really what we do all our lives. From the moment we pop out, we are assimilating: food, experiences, senses, anything and everything that crosses our field, whether conscious or unconsciously.

So when is it time to play ball? When do we put what we've learned to the test? Well, every day, of course, to some degree. But what about those "bigger" lessons/experiments/beliefs? When do we test them?  Again, every day to some degree. And then there is the day/moment/instance where we decide to leap out of our comfort zone and try something else. No matter how painful or mundane our comfort zone is, it's familiar, and that in itself is comforting. Pain? Comforting? It can be. For some, it's been a great and loyal companion. Maybe Pain is the thing that's always been there for you. I mean, the Devil you know is better than the Devil you don't know. (more on the cliche theme at a later date).

So it's time to make a change. To consciously test the new belief systems to see if they work. If they don't, then we can move on and find another belief system, or we can cop to the fact that we don't believe it enough yet. After all, the more you believe something, the more real it is. That's why your life right here right now is just a projection of your currently running beliefs.

Back to making the change. Yes. At some point, it's time to find out. As my teacher Dennis said, "It either works or it doesn't." So stop resisting and start resting. Cool. The difference between rest and resist is "is."

Why all the stalling? Because I am ready to make a change of my own. And we'll see what I really believe.  Bottom line, I think that we can believe anything we want. Sometimes it may take longer for the new beliefs to take root and grow fruit ripe enough to eat, but just like spaghetti, sometimes you have to throw it against the wall to see if it sticks. Not the fruit. The other.