January,
2007
Wellness Achiever, Tina Johnson
Hello, my name is Tina
Hi, my name is Tina Johnson and I am a Ziquin Wellness Coach. I have been in the wellness industry for most of my adult life. As a result of my own TV and radio shows, I was able to try about just about every holistic health supplement on the market. In my situation, none of them seemed to help for the long run. By the time I was told about Ziquin, I was quite jaded and running on empty energy-wise. From the start, however, I could sense there was something different and very special about Ziquin’s approach. Happily, my own experience has borne out that intuition, and I am very happy to share my personal health turnaround with you here.
From Bodybuilder to Corporate Entrepreneur
Though my health has been compromised over the last two decades, there was a time when I had experienced optimal health. This was when I was 19 years old and seriously pursuing bodybuilding. During that time, I had a clean diet, and my nutrition was outstanding. For my supplement regimen, I basically took different supplements and powders after reading up on them and using my own intuition about what was right for my body at the time. This period of a disciplined exercise, dietary, and supplementary protocol lasted for about 3-5 years. From that experience, I knew what it felt like to feel energized, clean, and very healthy.
In my twenties, I began to get caught up in building a corporate career and my own businesses. As a result, I lost my focus on my own health. I maintained a fairly clean diet, and was even vegetarian for about seven years. However, I dropped my supplement intake, and eating regularly was more and more difficult as I became a single traveling mom. During that time, my weight would fluctuate up and down around ten pounds. Maintaining routines has always been challenging for me, so regular mealtimes were just not something I did well. I got caught up in eating for convenience. This did not help my primary health challenge, which was digestion and weak elimination. From a very young age, I had always suffered in that area.
Caffeine, Health Supplements, and PMS
Over the course of the next twenty years, I became a road warrior developing a television show and a radio show on wellness. One year in my thirties, I had logged over a half a million miles on Northwest Airlines alone! For three years solid, I had a very aggressive travel schedule. Being in those airport environments for long stretches of time, my body was taking in a lot of toxicity. I began to experience horrible PMS in the form of sweet and chocolate cravings, and at the same time, I would get exhausted a few days before my cycle. My energy was so low, the doctor diagnosed me with Chronic Fatigue, for lack of a better term or explanation for what was going on. And though I didn’t know it at the time, I was actually experiencing bouts of depression.
For my stimulation, I would use coffee and chocolate. Basically, I would get my java first thing in the morning, and then another one in the afternoon to carry me through the rest of the day. From my mid- to late- thirties, I was easily spending $10 minimum a day on coffee. One year for Christmas, I got $425 worth of Caribou Coffee gift cards! On top of that, my cycles were irregular, making it more difficult to manage the symptoms. During my erratic PMS cycles, I would definitely get stressed a lot more easily. I would now say that my stress levels were fairly high all around—my happiness had gone to the bottom end of the scale. Nonetheless, I maintained an interest to try to do something about it. Over the years, I spent tons of money investing in every kind of natural supplement possible – vitamin lines, juices, tonics, and elixirs. By the time I reached forty, however, I was running on empty.
A Hodgepodge of Health Supplements
I tried all the different types of holistic health treatments – particularly acupuncture and chiropractors. Each visit, the chiropractor would prescribe a different supplement. One week I’d walk out with a bottle of Vitamin C, the next with Vitamin B, etc. It was to the point where I was taking up to 30 bottles of different supplements in one month! Then, they’d later say that something would interfere with something else, or that the following week I wouldn’t need to take something anymore. So, I would start stowing away my supplements in the cabinet. Between the alternative health practitioners’ recommendations and the products I was exposed to as a result of my wellness shows, I felt that I had tried just about everything. In retrospect, what I have since realized as part of the problem was that there was no synergy to my supplement protocol.
Though I didn’t have access to that particular insight at the time, there was one thing that stayed in my mind throughout that period. And that was what I had felt like as a young body builder – the clean eating, the discipline, and the routine. It was the only thing that gave me hope, because I knew I had once been very healthy. I always asked myself, “How could I have felt so great, when I was body building?” There were a few things I needed to put together. I knew that the body didn’t have to age as I was experiencing it. My mind still felt young. So I knew that I needed to get my body back into alignment with my mind.
Hearing about Ziquin from a Friend
Around August 2004, my friend Myron called me and said, “You need to have this person named Dr. Morris from Ziquin on your radio show.”
I replied, “No way – I’m not going to have another product line on my show (it was a live radio program called “Mind, Body, and Spirit: Life Changing Conversations”). Everyone wants to sell products, but my show is purely educational.”
My friend said, “No, this is perfect – Ziquin is an educational group!”
But I was still not convinced, and did not move on his suggestion immediately. However, I did trust Myron and with his persistence, I finally agreed to speak with Dr. Morris. Pre-interviewing Dr. Morris, I immediately said to him, “One thing I want to say is that this is NOT about selling a product –it’s about education. This is an educational show.”
Dr. Morris responded, “No problem! Because that’s the main intention of our company —to provide education about health and healing.” With Dr. Morris’ words, a green light went off for me. His intention seemed clear.
The interview was a hit. From the beginning, what I loved about Ziquin’s message was its disclaiming the “magic miracle potion” approach to attaining true health. Rather, Dr. Morris’ words were about really honoring the body –that the body is a miracle, and that all we have to do is to support it. This message was very different from what I had been hearing from other show interviewees. Because the message sounded so sound and sane, I was open to trying the Ziquin products for myself, even though I had felt that I had personally tried everything by that point and time.
Starting on Ziquin – Immediate Changes
About a month after the interview, Myron (who is also a Wellness Coach) came into town. Over lunch, Myron told me his story about overcoming his back pain, and how Ziquin had changed his life. It was then that I decided to try it. Myron gave me the Mind and Body Collection. About a month later, I started the Fusion minerals.
Within two months of being on this full protocol, my 17-year old teenage son said, “Mom, what are you taking? Whatever you’re taking, I want to try it.” My skin was already developing a nice glow, and it showed! I was starting to have more energy, and I was able to cut down on my coffee intake. Right away, I was able to exercise more and feel more available energy after exercising. Somebody even asked me if I had a facelift!
Also, my sense of sadness seemed to be lifting.
First Retracing Experiences – Emotional and Physical
My first retracing experience was pretty minor. Within the first thirty to forty-five days of being on Ziquin, I got what I thought was a light cold. Every winter, I would get sick like this, but it would usually last about one week. This one didn’t last very long – only about three days – and it didn’t knock me out.
Then, about two months later, I got hit with a more noticeable retracing experience. In contrast to the initial physical improvements I was experiencing thus far on Ziquin, suddenly my energy began to feel really heavy. I felt the weight of the world on my shoulders, and it made me feel very disconnected. During that period, I remember having to sleep a lot. Though it was challenging, I was also really curious about what was going on. I wasn’t sure if it was hormonal, or if I was coming down with something. There weren’t any obvious changes going on in my life at the time, so it wasn’t “triggered” by anything specific.
For about a week and a half, I experienced an overwhelming sadness. It was all I could do, to just curl up with a blanket for hours. It was the strangest thing – because right when I started Ziquin, I had had so much energy! So when this happened, it was quite a jolt. In retrospect, however, it all made sense to me: In fact, I had been dealing with feelings of sadness for a long time, but they had been suppressed by the caffeine, fatigue, or sleep. Now, I believe that my first major retracing was about releasing a lot of sadness. I could just see that my past had been constantly hanging over me. That retracing allowed me to honor the sadness – and at the same time, not overwhelm me or make it be who I was. After that particular retracing episode, my mood swings were less intense—both my lows and my highs fundamentally lifted, and the deep sadness from my past never returned.
After about one year on Ziquin, Hepatic Shen Food came out and that brought on another level of retracing. For the first seven days that I took the Shen, I would get up in the middle of the night like clockwork, between 2 – 2:30 a.m. On the other hand, during the day, I was gaining more and more energy. I was letting go of old structure versus getting sick – getting rid of the old sludge, the old energy in the body. And during my second year on Ziquin, every once in a while – maybe every few months, I would just feel fatigued. It would last maybe a day. Learning about the body’s phases of rejuvenation and the concept of replenishment, I knew that during those times, I just needed some extra rest.
Six Months to One Year Later
For a long time, I would have to take a nap in the middle of the day, every day. Because I worked out of my home, I could do that. About six months into Ziquin, naps became a choice rather than a necessity. At around that same time, I also found myself craving healthier foods, and not having to force myself to eat them. I was able to cut out the sugar. By this time, I had a lot more energy without the use of coffee, and I was feeling and appreciating my body a lot more. I had gone through a shift, and it went hand in hand with other healthy changes – I started to hydrate more and began eating more whole foods again.
After one full year on Ziquin, I was able to drop the chocolate around my cycles. After that, when I would go to the dentist for cleanings, the plaque on my teeth had virtually disappeared –they said there was nothing to remove! By that time too, naps definitively became a thing of the past—they were no longer a part of my life. I felt a new level of well-being that was so much deeper. My most challenging health issue, my digestion, took about 18 months to see some regularity, but finally, my metabolism and weight began to even out. And after one and a half years, I had no PMS whatsoever, and my cycles got completely regular!
Vision Improvement and Reconnection to Purpose
During this entire time, my vision also recalibrated numerous times. I was using reading glasses when I first started Ziquin, and about six months later, I didn’t need them anymore. At the one year mark, I needed them for a temporary period of time, for about a week. Since then, I haven’t needed glasses anymore at all!
My overall sense of feeling connected to my primary purpose, a greater purpose in life, has been strengthened. My inner awareness has been fine-tuned – there is more clarity and intuition at my disposal. Part of my current work includes intuitive spiritual counseling, and there is so much more accuracy and passion in my work. Reading subtle energies, I can sense them more and more, and my precision seems to be right on target. Simply put, I feel that I am in full alignment in mind, body, and soul.
Living Today
Today, I feel so open and expanded to the divine essence of who I really am. These emotional and spiritual shifts, however, occurred very incrementally and more consistently in my second year of taking Ziquin. In contrast to my past supplement experiences, the changes now feel very deep and lasting. As I alluded to earlier, it is now obvious to me why this is so: With any other supplements that I would try, I would just end up quitting because there were always different recommendations that seemed unrelated to each other. But with Ziquin’s comprehensive and synergistic approach, the immediate improvements were so obvious, I was able to stay with a deep level of commitment to the program.
From the start, what Ziquin had to offer was so obviously bigger than me. Something inside me kept saying, “Now—don’t forget your Ziquin!” Whether the changes were good one day, or I was retracing the next – I just knew that I needed to continue to take the products.
How can one describe a Ziquin experience? Life is more about “living and being” rather than surviving and worrying. My body feels nourished and alive, like I felt in my late teens. Recently, the “age” of my brain was tested with some special equipment at an anti-aging conference in Las Vegas. The results came back that though I am 43 years old, my “brain age” is that of a 24-year-old. I definitely see myself as a testament to turning back the biological clock, and attribute much of it to Ziquin. My whole sense of life has shifted—I just really love life now. I would say that my life has a greater sense of joy, balance, and love which I didn’t think was possible. My gratitude and appreciation goes out to Ziquin for offering an incredible synergistic nutritional solution for wellness and anti-aging. (And to think—it all began with a radio interview which I almost didn’t take with Dr. Morris!)
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