Thank you for your support and feedback!

Wow!   I can’t thank everyone enough for all of the wonderful feedback to the blog so far.   I am so excited that others may benefit from my experience and from what I have learned during my journey to  good health. 

The biggest question I have heard was whether food choices were the only change I made.  The answer is, the food issue was just one change; however, I think it was one of the most important.   I made many other changes, and will blog about them in more detail in future months. I explored and benefited from many different alternative healing therapies such as chiropractic care, acupuncture, Ayurveda, massage, and Watsu.   I also have been working with a holistic preventative medicine physician who really worked on getting to the root of the problem, which for me ended up being largely a digestive issue.  I also started doing active movement every day and incorporated yoga and Pilates into my life.  And, I made huge changes to the way I think.  I learned about meditation and positive thinking and really tried to follow those basic principles.

Next month I will focus on meditation and positive thinking in my blog.  The Chopra Center, which is one of the places where I learned more about meditation, is doing a 21 day meditation challenge.  It begins on January 24^th, 2011. Participation is free.  I put a link to it on the blog under resources.  I plan to participate in the challenge and will blog about my experience.  Please feel free to join me.   Initially, I really struggled with meditation, but it has made a big difference for me.  The Chopra Center teaches that meditation is an antidote to stress, and I found that to be true in my life.   I think the greatest thing that I learned from meditation is what a quiet mind felt like.  Once I knew what that felt like, I was able to incorporate that feeling into my daily life when I was stressed, in pain, or anxious.   Meditation has proved to be a wonderful resource for me.  Research has also shown that there are numerous benefits to meditation, including reducing stress hormones like cortisol, reducing high blood pressure, etc.  I will post more about this subject in February.   I just wanted to let you know that the Chopra Center meditation challenge is a resource that is available.