Welcome to Mind Body Spirit Journal — My intentions for it

Mind Body Spirit Journal will differ from Mind Body Spirit Bulletin, the old print version of the publication, in several ways.

1. It will truly be more of a journal. I will use it that way to keep track of observations and discoveries and thoughts and ideas — as well as to post actual, more formal articles.

2. It will update frequently — possibly daily. Whenever I come across anything of interest in the 40-some interest areas Mind-Body-Spirit Bulletin tracked. It will not publish on a one-issue-per-month schedule. In fact, the interest areas will probably expand beyond 40 as it gets well underway. I’ll use it to track and share anything I find useful or intriguing or significant in the greater realm of Holistic Living.

3. Subscriptions will be free. While the publication itself may update daily, weekly or bi-weekly I will send to subscribers a brief summary (with links) of articles that have been posted. So you don’t need to check in daily to see if there is an update. I haven’t activated the subscription function yet. That is coming.

4. You can talk back — instantly — in real time. Please do. Comment on posts. Add to them, challenge them, broaden my thinking, narrow my thinking, share your personal experience…whatever you think would be helpful to me and our readers.

5. It will also operate, to a certain extent, as an online R&D Team. I will post and email queries from time to time to the subscribership and the “official” R&D Team when I’m working on specific projects — or just puzzling through something I want to develop more — and will ask you to post your thinking about the query, online, in the comments section.

6. It may develop private areas, that are password protected and which are available by subscription only.

7. It will work in a symbiotic relationship with three other sites (that also are being overhauled and made more intereactive and useful): ExcitingSolution.com, kenwinstoncaine.com, and WellnessU.org. New programs and courses I am developing (and which will carry a price tag) will often be roughed out right on the pages of Mind Body Spirit Bulletin and/r WellnessU.org and/or kenwinstoncaine.com. So, if you’re willing to dig through tons of disparate posts and sort the wheat from the chaff, you can find the essence of nearly everything I will offer — free. Sort of an open-source availability (though I retain complete licensing and copyright rights). The advantage of purchasing access to a course or program will be that the course or program will be neat and tidy and well-organized in a clean, easy-to-grasp, sequential, step-by-step manner. And *may* come with live group teleclasses and recordings and assessments and specific assignments and more. But you can probably find all the basics, for free, on these sites, if you are willing to sort through the messy, creative morass.

8. Mind Body Spirit Journal will be much more personal than Mind Body Spirit Bulletin. Since I am using it as a journal of sorts and am speaking most frequently in a first-person voice. I will share my own experiments with various “cures du jour” and herbal and nutritional and exercise and mind-body formulas. Even to my embarrassment. You can learn from my experience. And — if your experience differs — you can share that — and please do.

9. Mind Body Spirit Journal will be rather laissez faire. I will post when I post what I post and may not always follow-up right away on things — as I would and do when I play journalist. I will abide by the basic tenants of journalism, but I also will be an unashamed holistic living/eco-living advocate and will will promote products and causes that I find especially helpful and useful. That is part of the mission of Mind Body Spirit Journal: To help you achieve quick, phenomenal, sustainable, meaningful success with your holistic living goals. Mind Body Spirit Journal will not operate under the strict journalistic standards of say, the New York Times. Rather, I see it as a publication working within the somewhat more flexible journalistic mold of popular special-interest magazines.

An example of what I mean by “laissez faire?” I had intended to write something like this post as the first post when I took Mind Body Spirit Journal online. I’m getting around to it at about the 23rd post. Expect more of that.

10. I intend to use my sites as a platform — both creative and public — as I build my next books and courses and other public offerings. As a way of promoting helpful approaches and concepts and as a way of meeting and interacting with colleagues and supporters and pioneers and experimenters and afficiandos in the greater Holistic Living and self-help universes.

11. The plan is to make full use of the WordPress publishing platform and abilities to hyperlink to interesting sites, people and resources. Something that could never be done in the print version.

12. Following on from 10 and 11, I also want to explore the potential for virtual community building through the process of attraction to ideas and personalities and intentions and common interests. Something I first explored in ‘95 with “Positive Church Online” and which grew very quickly then — to a certain size — and then seemed to grow no more. I may not be articulating this well, but there is something in this about using the web to create a virtual “alternative community” that could develop a synergy and momentum of its own.