Alongside the peak experiencesthat pop up in our lives, there's the opposite side of the ledger — events and episodes we call "problems," the scenes we wish we could snip out of our lives with a pair of scissors.
Here's a course of prescriptions to problems like arguments, break-ups, divorce, addictions, death and other kinds of loss. We're putting our counter-measures out there, and ask you to suggest yours. You've experienced more — and discovered more solutions — than we could possibly, read about or figure out. Hit the comment button below to help us help others.The end of desire II: Passage to India
Posted by Soul's Code on 30 Jun 2009 | Tagged as:
Inspired by female mystics, Pamela Wilson and Neelam, a medical student drops out, has a peak experience in India, and becomes “Nirmala”
(Read the first part of this two-part series)
GUEST COLUMN: NIRMALA — After being in the presence of Pamela and Neelam, I just couldn’t let this desire for Freedom go. I had the sense [...]
How to heal from job loss: build a new you
Posted by Soul's Code on 26 Jun 2009 | Tagged as:
“Just because CNN is selling economic fear across the board doesn’t mean you have to buy it.”
GUEST COLUMN: VAISHALI — From the Eastern perspective there will never be one single pill, diet, exercise or lifestyle that will cure what ails all people.
Each of our lives fulls of thoughts and episodes and sensations reflect an intensely-experienced [...]
Katie Davis: A mystic responds to the recession
Posted by Soul's Code on 26 Jun 2009 | Tagged as:
The collapse of financial institutions are like a Harvard Business School case study: our collective hubris falling away
SPECIAL TO SOUL’S CODE: KATIE DAVIS author of Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment — Through spiritual awakening, we realize that virtually nothing is as it seems. Previously, we believed that we were a tiny fraction of individuality [...]
Are you in love? You may be perfectly “mis-matched”
Posted by Soul's Code on 26 Jun 2009 | Tagged as:
“As a psychotherapist and Episcopal priest, I have counseled hundreds of couples. What I’ve learned: There is no such thing as relationship problems.”
BY DAVID RICKEY — Most of us, when we fall in love, think we have arrived at a true and ultimate “answer” to all of our personal pains and aspirations.
Sooner or later, [...]
Ask for this prescription at the first signs of job loss
Posted by Soul's Code on 17 Jun 2009 | Tagged as:
A priest and psychotherapist shares how he and his friends have dealt with recession, job loss and financial poverty
BY DAVID RICKEY — The loss of a job — the proverbial “Pink Slip” — can be a major challenge on several levels. Material survival, physical well-being, emotional balance, and, ultimately, sense of meaning are all threatened [...]
Dealing with an angry man: 4 choices
Posted by Soul's Code on 16 Jun 2009 | Tagged as:
Marriage and family therapists are advancing a new way to disarm people when they lose their cool: the Aikido of Communication
SOUL’S CODE — Like a scene out of the Michael Douglas movie, Falling Down, a just-divorced aerospace worker in California’s “Inland Empire,” dressed up as a Santa on Christmas Eve 2008 and shot nine [...]
True lovers disappear together, free of “you” and “me”
Posted by Soul's Code on 16 Jun 2009 | Tagged as:
Katie Davis is a female mystic, fellow traveler of Eckhart Tolle’s and teacher of the kind of love that makes relationships last
GUEST COLUMN: KATIE DAVIS author of Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment — All love is one Love and when we fall in love with one another, it is said that we are experiencing [...]
Universal meditation education: The perfect cure for hate crimes?
Posted by Soul's Code on 15 Jun 2009 | Tagged as:
Holocaust Museum shooter James W. Von Brunn is a case study in the mechanisms of the reptile brain
DAVID RICKEY — Hate crimes are nothing new. They have been around ever since the homo sapien emerged from its evolutionary forebears. Animals have an instinctive “fight or flight” response built into their brain structure.
Human beings, as [...]
Six to-do’s when you feel the economy’s pain
Posted by Soul's Code on 13 Jun 2009 | Tagged as:
Stock market forces might be causing a “correction,” but a larger “force” is at work. It seeks more than a correction. It seeks an evolution
BY DAVID RICKEY — The media is full of polls that reflect what everyone already knows: Americans are clinically depressed by the depressed state of the economy, and their own [...]
Learning from lingering spirits with a psychic medium’s help
Posted by Soul's Code on 06 Jun 2009 | Tagged as:
A real-life mentalist explains how staying connected to lost loved ones can help you deal with grief
GUEST COLUMN: MARK ANTHONY — No one is immune from losing a loved one, and the pain of death and loss comes to each one of us. Healing from the grief of loss is a road everyone is forced [...]
Using hypnosis to find your inner winner
Posted by Soul's Code on 29 May 2009 | Tagged as:
Psychotherapist Dr. Nancy Irwin explains how you can reprogram your subconscious mind and make it work for — and not against — you
GUEST COLUMN: DR. NANCY B. IRWIN — As a doctor of psychology and a therapeutic hypnotist, I know for a fact that we are all born to win.
By “win” I don’t mean necessarily [...]
Loving your story too much
Posted by Soul's Code on 27 May 2009 | Tagged as:
What is your “story”? It’s a self-image, and self-talk that we repeat to ourselves internally and to others in conversation
GUEST COLUMN: GINA LAKE — People don’t just have ideas and self-images about themselves; they have stories.
These stories come up repeatedly in internal self-talk or conversation with others. They are easy to identify: like any story, [...]
Memorial Day: A spiritual way to honor makers of peace
Posted by Soul's Code on 25 May 2009 | Tagged as:
Watching our thoughts from a place of awareness, before they become action, is the path to peace — and highest way to honor fallen service men and women
DATELINE: Memorial Day service at the Presidio Interfaith Chapel, San Francisco. A sermon by Fr. DAVID RICKEY — On this Memorial Day 2009, we gather again to honor [...]
How I deal with the pain of separation and saying goodbye
Posted by Soul's Code on 22 May 2009 | Tagged as:
A doctor of life coaching for women discovers the art of letting go
GUEST COLUMN: DR. JEANINE AUSTIN — Part of my job as the Department Head of Social Services when I worked for a skilled nursing facility was to have regular client contact. One morning, I stopped by to see how Mr. and Mrs. Carol [...]
The best vaccine for Swine Flu
Posted by Soul's Code on 18 May 2009 | Tagged as:
“The next time you pick up a newspaper forecasting the end of the world, remember to laugh.”
GUEST COLUMN: VAISHALI — The only thing more highly contagious than a virus, bacteria, mold spore or free radicals is fear. The panic that arises from imagining oneself succumbing to the dreaded swine flu is a far greater health-threatening [...]
Five holistic steps to avoid flu, plague and pestilence
Posted by Soul's Code on 18 May 2009 | Tagged as:
From herbs to T-Tapp exercises and cold-laser treatments, the key is boosting your lymphatic system
GUEST COLUMN: VAISHALI — If it isn’t the swine flu, then it is the bird flu. The truth is no one wants to get sick or feel bad. No one wants to place his or her job in jeopardy, missing productive [...]
“Gut feelings” guide us to our Soul’s Code
Posted by Soul's Code on 11 May 2009 | Tagged as:
Sandy Andrew learned three steps for trusting his intuition, and it changed his life. Here’s how trusting your “gut” can change yours.
GUEST COLUMN: SANDY ANDREW — Have you ever had those moments when gentle thoughts or ideas enter your mind in a peaceful way that ultimately helps you find solutions to difficult problems at work [...]
The power of surrender
Posted by Soul's Code on 08 May 2009 | Tagged as:
“I can feel the years of fears, abandonments and hungers. And then, I let it all go in acceptance.”
GUEST COLUMN: JULIA TUCHMAN — I have never been very good at surrendering. I have been the fighter — the hold-on-to-the-side-of-the-cliff, fight-for-your-life, never-give-up and “go down with the ship” kind of soul. It was exhausting work.
Because surrender [...]
Crystal clarity
Posted by Soul's Code on 19 Apr 2009 | Tagged as:
A woman’s peak experience in a crystal healing session leads to a career change and a seismic shift in consciousness
GUEST COLUMN: SUSANNA BELLINI — Years ago, I was struggling at the end of a painful relationship, coming to the end of a freelance IT contract, and thinking about whether I should change direction.
My question to [...]
How to shake free of bitterness and *stuck* emotions
Posted by Soul's Code on 05 Apr 2009 | Tagged as:
Three ways to move you, me and we from resentments to emotional life, liberty and happiness
GUEST COLUMN: DR. JEANINE AUSTIN — The clients I coach will often tell me that they wish they could quickly and effortlessly shake free of things that have bothered them.
Like an injured athlete who is asked to “walk it off”, [...]
