With a new calendar year many people set goals or resolutions to make healthy changes in their lives. If you wish to maintain healthy commitments you are encouraged to take joy in having a healthy lifestyle - live this way not because you feel you have to but because you like healthy habits! You don't want to be the same old person attempting to force yourself into behaviors that are incongruent with your identity - you want to fully transform yourself so that the new habits are natural to the new you!

Here are 20 suggestions for things that can help you find improved health and harmony in 2010:

1. Release old addictive behaviors. This could be addictive use of food or drugs as well as addictions to behaviors and activities like gambling, sex, the Internet, shopping, and other pursuits.
2. Eat more whole, unprocessed foods. This includes more fruits and vegetables as well as avoiding sugar, artificial sweeteners, fried foods, hydrogenated oils, and other foods that don't work harmoniously with you body.
3. Take time each day for meditation, prayer, or quiet contemplation.
4. Take time for exercising your body at least a few days a week.
5. Avoid environmental toxins as much as possible.
6. Use a water purification system in your home.
7. Commit to taking steps to heal unresolved emotions.
8. Learn to look at life from a new perspective in which everything in your life is there to help you grow and evolve... nothing that happens is bad for you no matter how unpleasant the experience may feel in the moment.
9. Use exercises or healing methods that work to help restore balance to your energy system. This includes yoga, tai chi, qi gong, reiki, healing touch, therapeutic touch, quantum touch, massage, acupuncture, and other practices.
10. Enhance your communication with others - be authentic and genuine, listen openly to others and their points of view.
11. Don't take it personally when other people don't treat you the way you wish to be treated.
12. Take more time to be of service to others if you've been too self-absorbed.
13. Take more time to address your own needs and desires if you've been too preoccupied with helping others.
14. Consciously recognize things you can feel grateful for.
15. Spend more time with people who are positive examples for healthy qualities.
16. Spend less time with people who exhibit unhealthy traits.
17. Find something that allows you to express your creativity.
18. Spend more time reading about natural health and less time going to doctors who are uneducated about natural health.
19. Accept that everyone has the freedom and responsibility to live their lives with their own choices and challenges.
20. Trust in the love and wisdom of Creation and the Creator (with whatever name or concept you have for the Source of your being).