No. There we go. The shortest article on Reiki you’ll ever read. Or maybe not. Of course there’s more to such a grand question than a yes or no answer can provide. Before we probe that grand question a

Anyone who has been practicing martial arts long enough will likely spend some time cross-training in styles different than the one they started with. In this context, the martial art a person had started

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Belt ranks in martial arts are a funny thing. In a perfect world, a belt rank is a good indicator of how much of the qualities that make up a martial artist are developed. These desired qualities vary

I had to spend a couple of days at the beginning of the week taking my wife to a city about an hour away for training for a new job. I found a nearby neighborhood park, and passed the time practicing Tai

I’ve made a lot of dramatic changes in my lifestyle over the past few years in an effort to lead a more sustainable and stress free life. I’ve closed down my gym, retired from personal training, rid myself

So you want to learn Tai Chi? It can be overwhelming to begin a Tai Chi practice. Perhaps you’ve heard about all of the health benefits of Tai Chi and want to add it to your daily routine for those reasons.

Two weeks ago I moved into the area where I recently bought a small amount of land to clean up and build an off-grid homestead on. It’s a very rural area, and I’m feeling very at peace with the lack of

It has been a pretty crazy year for me so far. I started off January by selling all of my belongings except for what I could fit into my Ford E-350 Club Wagon, and hitting the road with my wife and 2 cats.

With food shortages and supply chain disruptions being a matter of "when", not "if", it's important to be taking steps to make sure your family can be fed when the conventional systems

It's been a couple of months since my last post, and a lot has happened. So this serves as a bit of blog and reflection for me. It also serves as a post to get back into the habit of writing. This habit

My second post on haveyoubeenhere to recap our vanlife journey so far brings me to Louisiana, to our favorite place we’ve been to so far, Fontainebleau State Park. Having left New Mexico with our emotional

I’ve always considered myself an ecologically minded person interested in sustainability. And as a personal trainer whose education includes yoga, tai chi, and other holistic fitness focused continuing

By the time I had started vanlife, I had completely transitioned my fitness training business from an in person service fulfilled in a privite gym I owned to an online service. Having an established income

I’ve been on HIVE for about a year now, and am still discovering new and wonderful communities and dapps. This week I got excited to learn about pineapple and haveyoubeenhere. In January my wife and I

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Splinterlands is the number 1 blockchain game, and each week the Splinterlands community focuses on one card to highlight battles using. This week's card is the Goblin Psychic, a powerful healer that every

Splinterlands is a fast paced card game played with NFTs on the HIVE Blockchain. Each week the Splinterlands team encourages a special battle challenge to be shared on HIVE and on social media. This post

My goal for 2022 is to really focus on HIVE from a content creation standpoint, a social standpoint, and from a financial standpoint. To that end, I've set the intention to participate in every Hive Power

My wife and I are finishing up our first month since we bid adieu to landlords, renting, and the shackles that kind of lifestyle represent for us. We've been living out of our van, a "converted"