Soul's Code

Male modesty a negative during job interviews; 10 types of addictive sex; Cooking priest stirs controversy; Predicting suicidal behavior
Conquering love blunders: The newly released book, Better Love Next Time, says work out your negative relationship patterns or be doomed to repeat them
Still macho after all these years: Study shows that male "modesty" is seen as a [...]

I find my soulmate, but a cyber lover causes a rift in our bond
Read the Soul's Code exclusive series, Sins of my Faith
In Marina's last episode she begins therapy with a psychologist and realizes that she's become estranged from both her creative, and feminine sides.
BY MARINA GIULLIANI — After years of hopping from bed to [...]

Don't avoid the pain; we can learn from our temporary negative emotions and move on
GUEST COLUMN: MARY COOK — Have you ever felt compelled to do something?  If you have, you know that it's not a pleasant experience.
Compulsions concentrate our available energy in limited areas, and deplete and block energy that we require for overall [...]

If the act of thinking registers in brain scans, what are those thoughts doing to your body? A spiritual teacher who self-healed from two terminal diagnoses shares some miraculous mind-body mechanics

BY VAISHALI LOVE: After being diagnosed terminal from an illness — and then again ten years later from an injury — there is one thing I truly understand as a result of piecing my health back together and studying the Eastern healing sciences.

What I want to share with you is the physical dynamics of emotions — how emotions travel through the body, what emotions stress and undermine which organs, and how unresolved emotional experiences can literally get trapped inside the body.

Robert Louis Stevenson called it Mr. Hyde; Jung called it the personal unconscious. Psychologists today call it projection. The great sages say we want to own this denied part of ourselves.
GUEST COLUMN: MICK QUINN AND DEBORA PRIETO, 1st of 2 parts — Picture the ecosystem of relationships that hold you in this time and place, [...]

How to recognize and reintegrate the shadow aspects of your personality
GUEST COLUMN: MICK QUINN AND DEBORA PRIETO, 2nd of 2 parts — But, before we get to the cure, let’s look at eight ways to tell if you have a shadow.
1.  Do you sometimes despise certain situations or people?
2.  Is there one person in your life [...]

An addiction therapist's mantra: remove your blinds. Owning the compulsions in our lives is step one for creating a healing space both on the inside, and around you
BY MARY COOK, M.A., R.A.S. — Only a holistic approach can offer significant improvement, because we have been damaged and have damaged ourselves in all of these areas.
While [...]

A priest and psychotherapist finds answers in Genesis, the work of Carl Jung and the science of meditation

BY 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 [...]

Drawing on techniques from modern medical hypnosis, psychotherapist Nancy Irwin shares tips on how to reprogram your unconconsious mind
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 winning an Olympic medal [...]

How to turn MySpace into Our space: A contemporary shaman's response to hate-mail

GUEST COLUMN: DAWN DANCING OTTER — Everywhere I go, in every moment, the ongoing mantra in my mind is a repetition of the four graces of Ho’oponopono — "I am sorry, I love you, please forgive me, thank you."  What I have come to realize is [...]