HJ: Difficult emotions can be doorways to deep self healing and awareness, but they can also be uncomfortable and so we tend to suppress or try to escape them… but, counterintuitively, accepting and embracing them is the key to having them pass rapidly and being able to see the wisdom that they contain for us.  Asking yourself the question, “Why am I having this reaction to this situation?” or going even deeper, “What must I believe is true in order to be having this reaction?” will allow you to discover the root cause of the negative emotion.  As you then begin to heal this part of yourself, the negative emotion stops arising altogether.  However, in order to understand where it comes from in the first place, you must not suppress or escape, you must accept what is happening knowing there is great wisdom within it for you.  Acceptance is ultimately the key to freedom, healing and full liberation of consciousness.

- Truth

The Power of Befriending Our Feelings

A Middle Path Between Avoiding Feelings and Fueling Them

By John Amodeo, Ph...

HJ: Intuition is like a muscle — it gets stronger the more you use it.  And it also requires trust in oneself and the larger principles that govern intuition.  The fact is that we are constantly receiving intuitional messages but most of us are so used to not listening to them and instead relying on our logical minds that they go unnoticed (in a sense).  Those just getting started or learning to live solely from their intuition must begin an ‘experiment’ of sorts.  You must suspend doubt and disbelief for a time and begin to follow the voice of the heart no matter where it leads you — trusting all will work out beautifully — and then experience for yourself firsthand the flow of intuition and how beautifully it always works out.  Then your first hand experience will create the trust you need to turn your life over to it.  And that, my friends, is when things get magical.

- Truth

Six Easy Ways to Strengthen Your Natural Intuition

Spirit Wisdom

HJ: What if you could turn down (or completely off) the mental chatter that runs through your mind day in and day out?  You can.  And this fantastic article gives you many powerful techniques and principles to help get you there and get you there quickly.  But like anything in life, making it a reality for you is as close as a simple decision.  That, combined with the excellent wisdom and guidance in this article, are enough to get you very close to your goal.

- Truth

Want Peace of Mind? Answer This Question

By Manal Ghosain | One With Now

Calm contended peace … a life free of struggle … everything flows with ease. Who doesn’t want that?

We all aspire to have less struggle and more peace in our lives...

HJ: Reality is subjectively experienced and created.  The truth is that we have far more power over every facet of our life experience than we realize.  It is so real and true to every last detail of our beliefs and emotions that it can frequently seem as if it is out of our control, because most of us are not aware of the myriad beliefs and perceptions we hold because they are so deeply ingrained into our psyche.  They literally form the basis of our experience of reality and therefore they go unseen and unquestioned because we believe they ARE reality.  Only through turning our gaze within and observing these patterns can we begin to deconstruct what we believe and bend our reality to our will through the restructuring of the most fundamental levels of our consciousness.  It sounds more complicated than it is, believe me.  The biggest stumbling block for most people is the steadfast clinging to their model of the world, even if it doesn’t serve them.  The only truly necessary ingredients to be successful are a desire to change and a willingness to let things that no longer serve you go.  A bit of motivation always helps...

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...