To get this back to MA relevance, I absolutely believe studying martial arts is a spiritual undertaking (my humble opinion, of course!). But only in the way that everything you do is a spiritual undertaking. I believe that we're spiritual beings, that we just aren't aware of it all the time. And for ...

Hi Vicki. I have a similar situation, except that my husband was never into any athletic endeavor. Now he's 53 and finally decided to go the gym (after hearing all the hype about aging and exercise). Nothing I ever said or did motivated him to exercise (and that includes him watching me go off to ...

Everybody and his brother has been telling me to do Atkins. Its haunting me! Comes up everywhere I turn. I'd like to take off about 30 lbs., but am afraid of Atkins becuase the 4 people I know that really followed the diet lost tons of weight, and within a year had put it back on, plus some. Even so ...

Yeah, I guess the fast hard life is going to catch up with us no matter what (ha ha)! Anyway, I've seen reference to studies regarding simply cutting back calories (substantially, like 30% less than current minimum recommendations) prolongs life, but don't think I want to live like that. Oh well ...

Yes, I've read that all of the above are healthy, and the book may address these practices too. As I said, I've not read it yet. Another thing I'm wondering is if they found any correlation between longevity and those that used martial arts as their form of excercise. Wonder if they even looked a ...

Has anybody read the "The Okinawa Program : How the World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting Health--And How You Can Too"? I haven't read it yet, but reviews I've seen mention that Okinawa has the highest percentage of centenarians in the world. They also seem to maintain a high quality of ...

Randy, this is from a different perspective. I've been in and out of Uechi Ryu for almost 30 years and am still a Nidan. I passed my Shodon test when I was 17 and am now 43 (yikes!) and train when I can. This past semester I taught part time nights at a local community college along with my day job ...