"Optimal Health"

I would rate my physical wellbeing at a 7. I haven't worked out very much lately. But I don't have any major health problems. I have noticed some fatigue lately, but thats probably because I haven't worked out like I'm supposed to. My mental wellbeing would be an 8. For the most part my mental wellbeing is good. I've traveled a long road to get to that 8. I continue to work on it daily. However there are times when I slack. My spiritual wellbeing is an 8. I love God and I talk to Him through out the day. I would not say that it is a 10 because this is something that always needs to be worked on. I can always grow closer to God.

My goal to to start back up on Tai Chi and Yoga. This will help with the physical, mental and spiritual side. Connecting each one together. My dad just built me a deck in our back yard, this will be a wonderful place to do these activities with all the bird chirping in the background.

I need to go to the gym more. This is a constant goal of mine. I want to do more yoga and tai chi as I said above. I need to have more "me" time.

The relaxation technique, I loved. I liked this one better than the first relaxation exercise. This exercise helps me to become more centered. To be more positive. It focused on all the chakras of the body. I absolutely loved it. It made me feel so positive.

My journey.....

I have struggled in life with low self-esteem. Because of that it once affected my marriage. I was not trusting. I had negative thoughts all the time. Negative thoughts were so part of me, that it started to play a hard role on our marriage. With the stress of my husbands school, along with my negative thoughts and reactions, we struggled. My husband tried to talk to me, but at that time my mental state was not clear. I thought that all he was talking to me about was what I was doing wrong. I took everything as an attack. Eventually it pushed my husband from me and he began to want someone else. This was the lowest time in my life. I felt nothing but dispair and loneliness.

Then I started my transformation...... For the first time in my life I fasted. I prayed not for myself, but for my husband. I also prayed for myself to be transformed. I asked God to be my sculpture, because I was his marble. I became so deep in connecting with God, I could hear him talking to me. But it wasn't just me he wanted to transform. I had to bring my husband closer to God. I was his voice to my husband.

The power of prayer is a mysterious and powerful thing. I had to change my negative thoughts, because I was worth it. I had to fight the devil. The harder I fought the devil the hard he tried to fight against me. But I won.

Changing the negative thoughts is the hardest thing to do. But it can be done. Not worrying about things that you can't change is hard. But it can be done. Knowing that you are worth so much and that you are priceless in the heart of God is empowering.

I have to work on my thoughts everyday. But my marriage is saved and is more wonderful now then it has ever been. My health is improved. I know that I am loved.

I was a catepiller and I have transformed into a butterfly.

I took this picture in 2007. I take all of our pictures.

This is Maggie (left) and Max (right). Maggie is a Cocker Spaniel and is about 5 years old. I got her when she was 6 weeks old for my birthday. She actually picked me out of the crowd. Max was found last October around my birthday walking along the road in our neighborhood. He was litterally skin and bones. He was filthy and had the biggest fleas on him I've ever seen. My husband and I stopped and I got out to befriend him and he ran right to me. I knew then he was mine. He was only 4 pounds when we found him. Now he is 6.8 pounds and very happy. Both are very spoiled. I even make their food. Because you never know what factories put in the food. :-)

Relaxation:

I've done this type of thing before. It honestly worked for me. I didn't realize that I was so tense. The funny thing is that I noticed that my very hyper dogs started to relax as well. They are actually asleep right now and they don't sleep until the absolute minute of bedtime. I would like to use this in our clinic for people that are getting acupuncture. This could help the patient to actually focus more on relaxation and recieve higher benfites from the acupuncture.

Hello everyone..

Just an introduction. My name is Tiffany. I am 29 years old. We have two spoiled dogs (and there will be pictures). This is a great outlet. I am open minded, so please be open minded with me. I want to learn new things. I'm a Christian. I have been married to the wonderful man in the picture above for almost 7 years. He's a Chiropractor and I'm very proud of him. I plan to be a Doctor in Naturopathy. I want to help people. I hope to share a lot of information about everything. So please share lots of information with me. I have been transformed within the last couple of years. That is why I chose that heading. If your interested perhaps I can share a little about the transformation. I look foward to getting to know everyone in class. This should be a great experience.