If you want to move more effectively toward achieving better health, then almost always this means getting uncomfortable and doing hard things. Have you ever started down a path to create a meaningful change in your life and then for whatever reason found yourself not moving toward that outcome? Like there’s a part of you that simply refuses to move toward what you want? Neuroscience tells us the brain naturally resists change because change represents uncertainty. Our brain likes what is familiar, even if that familiar thing isn’t good for us. This is why change is so hard to actually create. You can’t go into the unknown with confidence that you’re going to be successful, because you just don’t know. You’ll never know if you’ll reach your goal until you get to the other side. Confidence in your abilities comes after you accomplish something. All the stuff in the middle is the unknown, such as that fearful thing that crops up and hits us right in the face. Sometimes we let it stop ...