Today I’d like to share a few things that worked for me, in case you’re considering changing your life. Maybe you want to quit your job and start a business, or start an organization that will change the world in some way. Maybe you want to change your eating and fitness habits and become healthy. Maybe you want to finally start creating that art, that book, that blog that you’ve been meaning to start someday.

Someday is today.

Let’s look at how you find that motivation to finally start changing — and then to keep going when the changes inevitably get tough.

What Gets in the Way

None of these are insurmountable, but they can often cause us to put off major changes. So be aware of them:

• Fear of change
• Not wanting to be uncomfortable
• Fear of uncertainty
• Being tired
• Fear of failure...

HJ: Creativity is the essence of being human, and therefore to increase your creativity is to live more fully.  Whether or not you believe it or realize it (although I would imagine as a Healers Journal reader you absolutely do realize and believe it), you create your life day in and day out.  To become more creative is to become more masterful at living, at expressing the essence of who you are.  And it is with great pleasure that we present this little gem of an article outlining seven wonderful practices to help you do just that.

- Truth

7 Rituals You Should Steal from Extremely Creative People

By Marc Chernoff | Marc and Angel

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“Creativity is just connecting things.  Wh...

Luke Glowacki, Contributor
Waking Times

Some days feel quite ordinary. Other days become lifelong memories because they are truly extraordinary. What is the difference between the ordinary and the extraordinary? For many people, it is the ability to raise their consciousness to higher levels.

Here’s some good news: you can raise your consciousness to experience extraordinary days every day. With these steps, the ordinary, boring days will fade away and become no more.

1. Find a little time to begin meditation.

When you meditate, you’re creating an environment where you must raise your consciousness. At the start, this can be an uncomfortable experience because there are a lot of factors that will fight you.

Marco Torres, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

If you guessed refined sugars and processed oils, give yourself a gold star. Diets that lead to obesity — specifically diets high in refined sugars and processed oils may cause changes to the brains of obese people that in turn may fuel over-consumption of those same foods and make weight loss more challenging. The problem is that the body exerts a strong defense against undernutrition and weight loss, but applies a much weaker resistance to over-consumption and weight gain — a human behavior food industry scientists have learned to exploit in their favor.

There are very specific principles which influence how appetite control operates and this constitutes one form of vulnerability to weight gain. The expression of appetite is reflected in an episodic pattern of eating behaviour, the selection of dietary commodities and an associated profile of conscious sensations such as hunger, preferences, aversions and fullness.