Archive for August, 2008
Posted by Soul's Code on 26 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: A Book That Changed My Life
Introducing a new Soul’s Code feature, A Book That Changed My Life. Name a book that changed Your life, and tell us how it did that for you in mind, body or spirit

BY KATY LEASK — Everyone should read this book. I’ll come […]
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Posted by Soul's Code on 23 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Love & Relationships (families included), Confessions, Loss & Grieving, Sex & Spirituality
Having an abortion is never an easy decision to make, here’s what I did, and why

BY DIANA (a pen name to protect the author’s privacy) — Twenty years ago I had an abortion, and while not regretting my decision or thinking about it overly much, once […]
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Posted by Soul's Code on 22 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Everyone's A Guru, Loss & Grieving, Journeys

BY VICKI WOODYARD — Life is a ballet, and although it looks and feels beautiful at times our toes are bleeding and we wake in the night with muscle cramps. All of this strenuous work creates beauty and it is well worth the effort. I have […]
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Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Everyone's A Guru, Presidential candidates + other Pols, Religion Gets Funny, Religion Goes Scary, Soul's Code Canon & reviews, Spiritually Speaking
MSNBC is running a poll asking whether the slogan, “In God We Trust,” should be removed from American currency. A better question is, *which* God do we trust?

BY DAVID RICKEY — You’ve probably seen the sign over the cash register at […]
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Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Peak Experiences, Everyone's A Guru, Soul's Code bulletins, Yoga
Have a chance to be featured in a Soul’s Code slideshow. The prize, other than Web glory, is a $50 giftcard to www.soundstrue.com

Does the notion of striking a tree pose in the beverage aisle of your local supermarket seem downright ordinary? Then read on.
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Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Everyone's A Guru, Rites & Role models, Mind-Body toolkit, Astrology
This poetic affirmation is beautiful for those moments when you are feeling down about yourself, or whatever . . .We ALL have days like that!

SPECIAL TO SOUL’S CODE, ROB BREZSNY —I first wrote these in a book called, Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How […]
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Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Love & Relationships (families included), Prescriptions to Problems, Psych 101

Are you, or have you ever been, a codependent person?
co-de-pend-ent [koh-di-pen-duhnt] - adjective
1. of or pertaining to a relationship in which one person is physically or psychologically addicted, as to alcohol or gambling, and the other […]
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Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Love & Relationships (families included), Prescriptions to Problems, Addiction, Eckhart Tolle, Psych 101, Break-Ups & Love Triangles
BY DAVID RICKEY and PAUL KAIHLA — In the Disney movie, The Parent Trap, a pre-tabloid child star named Lindsay Lohan manipulates a reconciliation between her on-screen, estranged parents (played by Dennis Quaid and Natasha […]
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Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Love & Relationships (families included), Prescriptions to Problems, Psych 101
BY DAVID RICKEY and PAUL KAIHLA — In our description of the Stage 1 of codependence we talked about how common it is for people who had childhoods with an abusive, dysfunctional or […]
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Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Love & Relationships (families included), Prescriptions to Problems, Psych 101

BY PAUL KAIHLA and DAVID RICKEY — Codependency is such a tricky area for self-examination, one idea is to do your own ‘chart’, so to speak. Check out if you and/or your […]
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Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Prescriptions to Problems, Confessions, Psych 101, Mind-Body toolkit, Journeys
BY PAUL KAIHLA — I grew up with a mental illness, my mother’s.
That’s not a very funny thing to say, but it is a really codependent thing to say.
My mother developed schizophrenia when […]
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Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Love & Relationships (families included), Prescriptions to Problems, Psych 101

BY DAVID RICKEY — From a psychological perspective, codependence is an issue of inappropriate boundaries.
The codependent person has difficulty experiencing adequate separation. As Paul […]
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Posted by Soul's Code on 20 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Love & Relationships (families included), Prescriptions to Problems, Psych 101


BY DAVID RICKEY — From a spiritual point of view, especially if you wanted to freak out a passing fundamentalist, you could say that […]
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Posted by Soul's Code on 19 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: PRAYER WALL
The near-category three storm ripped across the Texas gulf coast last night
Gone with the wind: Murdoch’s Bathhouse (1910), The Balinese Room (1929), Hooters (2006). Still standing, we hope, is UTMB’s BioSafety Level Four lab, one of only 13 in the […]
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Posted by Soul's Code on 18 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: PRAYER WALL, Journeys
Residents flee storm that recalls the worst natural disaster in American history

BY BEVERLEY WOOD — 9:00 am one fateful Saturday in September, a storm began to make landfall in Galveston, Texas from the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, where it had tossed […]
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Posted by Soul's Code on 17 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Sacred Days, Minor Miracles
Love is the answer for transforming the pain into unconditional love
SMADAR DE LANGE — I meditate on this day on the worth of life. 9/11 is an exhibit of the way some in the body of humanity do not believe in the worth of individual human life.
It’s easy […]
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Posted by Soul's Code on 16 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: PRAYER WALL
BY RONDA LARUE — 9/11 is, and was, a big wake up call to witness the internal machinations of fear, and its multi-faced projections. And as with all tragedies, it is a call to dive deeper under the ruble of suffering, shock, and reaction to reclaim an ecology of the heart.
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Posted by Soul's Code on 14 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Love & Relationships (families included), Eckhart Tolle
Kim Eng is a seeker, and now a teacher, who became Eckhart Tolle’s intimate partner. How has this power couple of enlightenment transcended the disagreements that sabotage us in romance?

Eng answered that question in this fascinating post that no one picked up — and incredibly, conducted a Q&A with […]
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Posted by Soul's Code on 13 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Love & Relationships (families included), Confessions, Psych 101, Journeys

(Cassandra is using a pen name to protect her privacy).
GUEST COLUMN: CASSANDRA KELLY
I only now realized that I have something in common with John Edwards, who went sideways on his wife while he was raising funds and razing his future in a public bid […]
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Posted by Soul's Code on 13 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Love & Relationships (families included), Presidential candidates + other Pols, Confessions, Psych 101, Break-Ups & Love Triangles, PRAYER WALL
FATHER DAVID RICKEY — In the public perception, the mighty are just waiting for a fall — and in the public mind the rush to watch the fall is swift.
It is always easier to anticipate, or watch, someone else fall, than to do personal reflection. The […]
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