In our mind, a spiritual resort is a place where you can go out of mind. A place that’s therapeutic not just for your body but your most over-worked and over-heated organ in this mad, mad world — your brain. A spiritual resort is a place that chills your brain organ to the point that [...]

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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 out and say that loud and clear from the start. An Imperfect [...]

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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 in a while I wonder what happened [...]

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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 never danced as hard as when my small daughter [...]

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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.
Here at Soul’s Code, we want to see photos of you doing [...]

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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 the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with [...]

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The first in a seven-part SOUL’S CODE series about Codependence

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 person is psychologically dependent on the first in an unhealthy [...]

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Part 2 of 7 in a Soul’s Code series about codependence
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 Richardson). Yes, it’s a romantic comedy. But this charming film [...]

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Part 3 of 7 in a Soul’s Code series about codependence
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 weak parent to carbon-copy that dynamic in adult relationships — or compensate [...]

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Part 4 of 7 in a Soul’s Code series about codependence

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 partner fall into “that” set of behaviors.
Personality scales [...]

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Part 5 of 7 in a Soul’s Code series about codependence
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 I was a young boy (in the image at left, with parents). [...]

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Part 6 of 7 in a Soul’s Code series about codependence

BY DAVID RICKEY — From a psychological perspective, codependence is an issue of inappropriate boundaries.
The codependent person has difficulty experiencing adequate separation. As Paul Kaihla describes in the previous installment, you are so psychically plugged into someone else that you experience anxiety any time [...]

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The last of a 7-part Soul’s Code series about codependence

BY DAVID RICKEY — From a spiritual point of view, especially if you wanted to freak out a passing fundamentalist, you could say that the Jesus of traditional Christianity represents the Nth-degree of codependency: he owned the sins of the entire body of humanity, and [...]

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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 country equipped to experiment with avian flu, hemorrhagic fever and other highly infectious organisms. But how [...]

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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 and turned all night. By 10 o’clock, the severity of the wind had gathered force [...]

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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 public can say: See, they are just like [...]

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A six-part Soul’s Code series by RAQUEL TAVARES, both author — and model. Born in Brazil, she learned yoga from her mother as a child. Raquel is a certified Ashtanga instructor.
Introduction: Love and Yoga
The meaning of the word “yoga,” like the meaning of word “love,” has been butchered. The cynicism prevalent in America, coupled with [...]

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The Art of Devotion: Part 2 of a six-part series.

SAVASANA POSE
By RAQUEL TAVARES — Savasana, known as the corpse pose, is the ‘Until death us do part’ aspect of the yoga practice. In savasana you experience the ultimate yama or moral code. In the posture you are asked to withdraw your senses, and [...]

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Part 3 of a six-part series.

LOVE-ASANA
By RAQUEL TAVARES— Postures like this one, known as the Half Bound Western Intense Stretch, in essence rewire your energetic and physical anatomy. It triggers the flow of subtle energies that affect various Koshas and Chakras.

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Prana: The *love* force. Part 4 of a six-part series.

By RAQUEL TAVARES — Devoted practitioners often talk of the “force” that comes from yoga, which is embodied in the concept known as prana. Prana, also a misunderstood word, is generally thought of as energy, a life force, or a fire in the pit of [...]

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