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Mind Body Spirit Journal shares WHAT REALLY WORKS in holistics, alternative medicine, personal growth, success, right livelihood, coaching, and planetary healing. And more.
In Mind Body Spirit Journal, and beyond,
Health specialties
include:
· wellness matters
· health spirituality (graduate of Harvard Spirituality and Health course, 1997)
· mind-body medicine
· alternative and complementary health
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Among ken winston caine's published books are:
24.
- Random Acts of Romance, 2001,
Hallmark
contributor
23.
- A Man's Guide to Women, 2001,
Men's Health Books
22.
- Lose Your Gut Now!, 2000,
Men's Health Books
(My name's on it, but Matthew Hoffman did most of the work. And, besides, he looks more like the beefy model on the cover.)
21.
- Prayer, Faith and Healing, 1999,
Rodale
I conceived and co-authored this one--wrote roughly half of it.
(Brian Paul Kaufman, co-author.)
(Doug Hill, major contributor)
Bernie Siegel, MD, honored us with the Forward
20.
- The Positive Bible, 1998,
Avon
19.
- Total Health for Men 1998,
Men's Health Books
contributor
18.
- Death Defiers, 1998,
Men's Health Life Improvement Guides
contributed chapters:
"Companionship,"
"Learn to Breathe,"
"Spirituality: Dr. God's Prescription,"
"Yoga: Age-Old Secrets that Fight Old Age"
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Among writing awards for ken winston caine's work:
Awards for series or projects on which I served as editor
Pulitzer Board:
· finalist, 1987. I was special projects editor on this year-long investigation by Terrence Poppa detailing life inside Mexican drug cartels. Terry Poppa is the bravest reporter I've ever rubbed shoulders with. Evolved into the book: Drug Lord. (See review.)
Institute for Southern Studies:
· Southern Award for Investigative Reporting, 1988, I was special projects editor on this investigative series by Peter Brock delving into the century of water politics that resulted in 20,000 poor and impoverished people living in substandard subdivisions (colonias) without potable water along the Rio Grande in El Paso County. Series and award were instrumental in bringing $20 million in grants to establish at least centralized fresh-water supplies in los colonias.
El Paso Press Club:
· First-place best series, 1988
El Paso Press Club:
· First-place investigative reporting, 1988
Scripps-Howard Newspapers:
· Non-deadline writing, May 1988
The Ojai Valley News, while I was editor, garnered four awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for the excellent work of people I hired and oversaw.
Awards issued in my name:
Rodale Book Division:
· Quarterly Writing Award, June 1996
Scripps-Howard Newspapers:
· Team reporting, Dec. 1988
· Non-deadline writing, June 1988
· Team reporting, Feb. 1988
· Non-deadline writing, Feb. 1988
· Team reporting, July 1987
El Paso Press Club:
· First-place best feature, 1987
California Newspaper Publishers Association:
· First-place best writing, 1983
· First-place best feature, 1983
Combined total sales of:
· The Male Body: An Owner's Manual;
· A Lifetime of Sex;
· Prayer, Faith and Healing; and
· A Man's Guide to Women
were in excess of 1.2 million when I last checked exact numbers (in 2001).
Among best-selling authors I'm grateful to have worked with while developing pieces are:
- Larry Dossey, MD
- Bernie Siegel, MD
- John Gray, PhD
- Dean Ornish, MD
- Harville Hendrix, PhD
- Gay Henricks, PhD
From Prevention magazine, Oct. 1997, lead cover story,
(c) Rodale Press, Inc.
Cover line was "Healing Foods You'll Love - Beat fatigue, PMS, cholesterol and more! p. 97"
Laboratory scientists grab headlines for cooking up new miraculous medicines. You and I, too, cook up miracle medicines. Daily. In our kitchens, and to much less fanfare. We work with nature’s most powerful healing and health-promoting potions.
These are drugs that come out of the ground and for which we need no prescription. These are medicines that for the most part we find in supermarkets and which are never tough to swallow.
They are life-preservers and life-enhancers that increase immunity and build healthy hearts and strong bones and defend against cancers and arthritis and diabetes and other debilitating and even deadly diseases. Each made it onto our list because it has the double-dip advantage of being tasty as well as being able to prevent more than one health problem.
Put all these foods in your grocery basket every week, and you'll get compliments on dinner. And be around to get those compliments for a long, long time.
Broccoli is fabulously full of fiber and immune system building vitamin C, and features a fistful of the phytochemicals thought to fight cancer.
True, broccoli is much-maligned, even held in contempt by a recent president but, politics aside, this veggie wins every nutritionist’s vote. Listen. Every single stalk puts up a big fight against big diseases in at least 4 ways:
1) It may make carcinogens impotent through “organosulfur” compounds.
2) It steps up the body’s production of a weak estrogen. This weak version seems to replace the “real” estrogen that’s implicated in breast cancer.
3) It offers heart protection through vitamin C. This antioxidant vitamin helps keep arteries healthfully elastic and helps prevent blood from getting sludgy. A single serving of broccoli gives us 97% of our Daily Value (DV) of vitamin C.
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From Death Defiers, 1998, Men's Health imprint, (c) Rodale Press, Inc.
by Ken Winston Caine
Unless you’ve had lessons, chances are you don’t know how to breathe. Chances are you're silently, secretly suffocating, says breath researcher and psychologist Gay Hendricks, Ph.D.
Dr. Hendricks conducted experiments and reviewed more than 300 scientific studies of “breathwork” while researching his popular book Conscious Breathing. He is convinced most of us could use a few breathing lessons. Here’s why.
Breathing is how we rid 70% of the toxins from our bodies and how we cleanse and oxygenate our blood and every cell, says Dr. Hendricks. The remaining wastes are discharged through urine, sweat and defecation. If we aren’t breathing right, other purification systems—such as our kidneys—get overworked.
And, Dr. Hendricks says, “there is one universal breathing problem: the tendency to hold your belly muscles too tense so you can’t get a deep breath down into the center of your body.’
From Death Defiers, 1998, Men's Health imprint, (c) Rodale Press, Inc.
Want to live forever? Get religion.
The world’s major religions promise eternal life. They don’t all agree, though, on exactly how we get from here to eternity. But in a nice little cosmic twist, it turns out that spiritual beliefs may well delay our journey to the unknown, allowing us to shuffle along this mortal coil longer. Numerous studies have suggested that aspects of spirituality contribute to better health, better quality of life, and yes, even longer years.
Just what is this spirituality thing? It is not the same as religiosity.
True, religious people are spiritual, but spiritual people are not all religious, notes Krista Kurth, Ph.D., a management consultant in Potomac, Maryland, who specializes in spirituality in the workplace.
Dr. Kurth's preferred definition of spirituality is, “The Divine influence working in the human heart.” For those uncomfortable with the concept of “the Divine,” she offers this definition:
“The sense that something more than us is out there and connects us all.”
Spirituality, she says, is “our recognition of our connection with the Divine,” or with that something greater, be it greater consciousness or greater sense of being.
Let's say that you cultivate a sense of connectedness with the Divine. What is it going to do for you? Scientists who've tried to isolate God in the laboratory have some answers.
by ken winston caine
I have more than 10,000 published articles.
Easy to do if you work for newspapers for many years, as I did.
You rack up clips fast when you start on a good, scrappy, high-circulation twice-weekly. Like Lowell Blankfort's and Reb Rebele's Star-News group of papers that covered San Diego's South Bay of the 1970s like a coat of paint. Our territory ran from the southern edge of the San Diego city limits to the Mexican border--and sometimes darted far across both lines. And we truly competed with the three big dailies (now only one) and the other 30-some media outlets in town. Did serious investigative reporting. Crusaded. Captured best-of awards in our circulation category year after year in the big journalism contests.
Lowell's oft-stated philosophy was that a good newspaper should "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." We did that. Smartly and often.
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Moi?
How ken winston caine spent his summer vacation...
I returned (in mid-2004) to full-time free-lance writing and research after a fascinating hiatus. In recent years I've:
· Established a solar-powered home on semi-wilderness land about 30 miles from downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico. (My second solar-powered wilderness home in northern New Mexico.)
· Served on the late Thomas Leonard's R&D team as he prepared to launch Coachville and the Schools of Coaching, now the world's largest professional coaching organization and largest coaching school, respectively. Had the pleasure of interacting weekly and sometimes daily with Thomas as he teased out the specifics of the first 20 or so courses.
· Led a 350-member team to develop and test a non-medical, but medically complementary, wellness coaching model. (Link tk) It helps individuals explore health-spirituality factors such as their personal, deepest needs, highest values, outlooks, environments, relationships, sense of purpose, support systems, sense of community, personal rituals, and more.
