Netflix addiction

Netflix is great. The shows are what the shows are.

And Netflix, or actually the shows can become addictive.

I watch Netflix almost every day. A number of shows start out OK, but turn addictive around season 4.

You notice that you became addicted if you are craving it, thinking about it, wishing it were already that time of the say when you can watch it.

The shows became addictive, according to what I"ve seen, when there is plot change that turns the show into more of a soap opera than independent episodes.

Soap operas were always addictive. But starting a show as a soap opera is counter productive: intelligent people aren"t attracted, off the cuff, to inane twists and turns of the plot.
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The Juice Exercise: what gives you "juice" in life?

I have been coaching people for many years now. The goal was always to take people on a journey to become their best Self.

Now, the task is easier when someone knows who they are. When someone has a Self.

Most people don"t. They have a persona for each group they interact with, the family persona, the student persona, the friend, the gossiper, the entertainer, the this and the that.

Those personas (roles you play) are not you. They were created by a perceived demand in the circumstances, a perceived demand in the environment.

They leave you empty, they leave you being jerked by the shoulds, and have to"s and the wants... like a puppet on a string.

You sense that you have no control, you sense that you are not you... a vague sense.

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What you value and in what order... why you are off... and why you are unhappy, unfulfilled, living a meaningless life

A lot of why"s are answered here... why you can"t get well, why you are not happy, etc.

People are the highest value in the universe. Why? Because they are able to be all levels of values, the thinking mind (systemic), the extrinsic (create tools, cook food, provide pleasure), and the intrinsic.

You live, predominantly on one level, and value what is on that level most.

Depending on how closely your valuation matches the valuation that is "godly", or the Original Design, you fulfill the purpose of being human.
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How do you decide if you have value or not?

How do you decide if you have value or not?
This article"s purpose is to widen your understanding of value... so you can start valuing yourself, at last.
The current state of this area: deciding on your value is abysmal... and keeps you anxious, worried, and not happy.

You always think that your understanding is the correct understanding of reality.

You think you understand what people say, what people mean.

You never consider that your understanding is based on your small picture of reality... and you never think to grow your picture of reality, or to ask something new.

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From my correspondence: Astrological Signs, Are they preventing us from changing lanes?

I stumbled on this old post... and it is exactly perfect for the "What"s the truth about you" workshops, so I thought I republish it...

Question:
Hi Sophie, I have a question. I would like to know your advice. I recently found an astrological site with natal chart sun decrees interpretations which are scaringly accurate.

I bought your Effortless Abundance Book, three days ago, I do believe one can get much more. My doubt is, can we change lanes? concerning those astrological imprints for a better life?

All the best,
My Answer:
it all depends on your mindset.

if you are trying to change lanes to fix anything: the answer is no.
if you manage to not make anything wrong in the present or in the past!!! not easy, then yes

astrology and such are the mind"s effort to understand the world so it can control it.

the world can"t be controlled, moreover when you want control for safety etc. you are making something wrong.

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What can my recent anger teach you?

I have said before: What you see is the most important element in your life. In this article you"ll see, that what you see is also directed by where you are looking... You can look at one thing or you can look at another ting... and your actions will be sharply different. ((For completeness sake, where you are looking from is also an important factor... where the "where" is not a place, it"s an attitude, expectation, or an already knowing. If this made no sense... it is new to you. Ask me to write an article about that. But here is an example for already knowing: "Carlos never listens to me..." it is from where you are looking...))

So read this article with that in mind: it will make it more valuable to you.

I have been angry for the past few days.

It is a familiar place where I"ve gone before: I started to pay attention to the results, good or bad, instead of paying attention to something I can control, something that belongs to me.

The results are not up to you. Really.

All you can do is all you can do, and all you can do is enough...

Actions, the doing, comes from the beingness... Beingness comes from within... from consciousness.

The doing, the actions cause something... whatever the results may be, and that is the having...

You"ll have the results.

We tend to get angry about the results... as if the world owed us the results we had in mind.

But the truth is, that even the best actions don"t produce the results that you had in mind, unless you are the only person in the game. No partners, no customers, no family... just you.

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The hardest thing, it seems, for any human, is to let go of control.

Just think how hard it is to let go and pee, when people are, maybe, watching. Falling asleep in a new environment.

But... when you are controlling, your are shrinking. When you let go of control: you are expanding.

There are so many things to control: with your control of the few things you know, your breathing, your thoughts... you take yourself out of life, take yourself to a place, where life dies with your control.

In you, and around you.

There is an exercise they make you do in leadership classes. Two people face each other. One say names of colors, the other"s job is to repeat the word the one says.

After a while they synchronize... then they switch.

Pairs where either of them wants to control... fail. Pairs where both let go... they seem to be one mouth speaking.

Same thing happens when it is movement they mirror. The same couples fail.

Life can"t be controlled, life works best when you let go.

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Current science"s view on DNA and what I say is the truth

Science talks about genetic lottery... haves and have nots, lucky and unlucky.

The truth is both simpler and more complicated.

Human DNA has capacities encoded, but they are either turned on or not. And even capacities that are turned of, may be used, or not used.

The kids in studies who are good at reading but not good at math are dealing not with a reading gene and a math gene missing, instead they deal with something less simplistic than that.

There is no reading gene and there is no math gene. On the other hand, there are 160 genes that lie underneath all the clever feats a child or adult can perform to scientists" amazement. Sarcasm intended.

So, let"s take an example: you got a kid who is good at reading... but isn"t good at math. I say, that the capacity that is definitely missing is humility: the capacity to say: I am incompetent, I don"t know anything: teach me.

Why? Isn"t saying "I am incompetent" going to keep me stunted? No, the opposite is true. What keeps you stunted is what you have decided is true about you and about the world.

When your earlier decision was: I am not good at math... you"ll not even try. You already know that you won"t be able to get it.

Are there other capacities that are missing? Probably another up to eight capacities... duh...

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More on activating consciousness to guide you: what are the abilities you use for that?

It is human nature to want to be smart. The feeling is: the smarter you are the better life will be.

But being smart from the mind isn"t very smart, except to the people who put the stuff in your mind.

In my readings about different cultures, the Chinese culture is a good example of that kind of smart. For hundreds and hundreds of years, the Chinese has been encouraged to repeat, not think.

For two years I had three Chinese students live next door: no thinking, no emotions, was my experience. If any emotions were felt by me, it was the emotions of visitors and guests... never the occupants.

Problem-solving

The evolution of the species requires people to be problem solvers.

There are two kinds of problem-solvers

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Self-possessed... living from the Witness position, living from Consciousness

The question in your life is: who possesses who? Who possesses what?

But the answer to that question, albeit it is fashionable to think that the guy/gal with the most toys wins, will surprise you: the person who possesses himself wins, every step of the way.

I pretty much don"t know anyone with any level of self-possession: it can be measured.

People are like leaves blowing in the wind, flotsam on the ocean... out of control, hoping for a favorable wind... lacking what can only developed by rigorous practice.

Rigorous? Practice? Please stop laughing... you are out of control!

But like anything of value, it doesn"t come cheap.

In an interaction with a longtime student, I saw something. Here is the interaction:

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I have been working on starting to lead courses again.

I"ve taken a break, recharged my batteries, and I am ready...

The first step I needed to do is to look at the courses I have already lead, to get a sense that in fact I CAN lead effective courses...

I listened into a whole lot of the recorded sessions. I learned that I have fun leading (I laugh a lot), that the material is amazing, and that the students love participating.

I have decided on doing the second phase activators course... this time with the new energies that eliminate the need for you to be connected while I download the activators... A good 20 minutes each hour was spent on making sure you are connected when I last lead that course.

That is a lot of time, wasted... thank god for the new technology, right?

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Updated: Humility: What Is It And Why Should You Have It? Is Being Humble Meek? Powerless? Stupid? Get Ready To Be Surprised!

Sometimes guidance comes from a student or client request.

Today I heard from a long time client who never managed to go from a to be... despite of the many courses she came to.

She had a difficult time accessing an activator, part of the Second Phase Activators (I downloaded more than 100 activators in that course!). I checked and she was right, somehow the video got corruteed in the more than three years it was moved around...

I listened to it and it dawned on me that without activating humility, of course you"ll never learn anything. Anything new, I mean.

Here is the article I wrote at the time, and in the meantime I am trying to rescue that video: given that it is the cornerstone of all learning, all growth, all evolution, all raising your vibration, if necessary, I"ll dedicate another webinar to the topic...

In the meantime, here is the "oldie but goodie" articleOn Humility

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The anatomy of missing the mark

Have you been wondering why public services and big companies employ semi-morons for customer service?

I am, I think, supposed to mention this, given how many times it has happened in the past week.

Not every customer service person acts stupid, only most of them.

So what is their stupidity about? They only hear what they know. The filter of their mind screens out everything that is not the three-four basic issues: refund request, payment plan request, return request... you know the kind most people will have.

For every issue outside of the ones that the solution is standardized, the customer rep can"t hear...

The mind did not allow the person to interact with reality, only with what"s in the mind.



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What can Marco Polo"s legend teach you?

This may just be a legend... Yet, legends can teach...

Marco Polo was an Italian man who arrived into the Great Khan"s court. The Great Khan asked him and his two companions about the desert they had to cross to get to his court.

The two older men had little to say. Marco Polo, on the other hand, had a lot to say.

The two older men were banished, Marco Polo was given the role of advisor.

Why?

Because Marco Polo didn"t live his live with his consciousness buried in his mind.

WTF, right? What does that mean?

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Expectation is the mother of Disappointment

One of the questions I hear on the Talk-to-Me calls or in emails is how to "make it better" or what is good, etc.

It"s all a comparison, past based, from the mind.

One thing, disappointment ((the feeling of sadness or displeasure caused by the nonfulfillment of one"s hopes or expectations.
"to her disappointment, there was no chance to talk privately with Luke"
synonyms: sadness, regret, dismay, sorrow; More
dispiritedness, despondency, distress, chagrin;
disenchantment, disillusionment;
displeasure, dissatisfaction, disgruntlement
"his disappointment in the outcome was obvious"
antonyms: satisfaction

a person, event, or thing that causes disappointment.
plural noun: disappointments
"the job proved a disappointment"
synonyms: letdown, nonevent, anticlimax, washout; informal: bummer
"the trip was a bit of a disappointment")) can"t be made better. It"s like pregnant: it is either a yes or a no.

Now, I assume that we all get disappointed, more or less, depending on us.
Disappointment is the shadow side of expectation.
Expectation, of course, is quite automatic, just like having an agenda is automatic... actually they are just a different word for the same thing.

I haven"t been able to consciously not expect a certain result... on the other hand, for the most part I expect nothing... or expect the worst.

This is another Dark Side suggestion: expect the best and then you"ll get the best... What a bunch of huey! The whole positive thinking movement is a Dark Side suggestion, and has created more misery than even religion, which is saying a lot.
Expecting the best won"t get you the best... Exactly the opposite is true.

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Spiritual Practice: Angry? Frustrated? Anxious? Ask: Does this benefit me?

You get angry, you get frustrated, you get anxious, you get jealous... you name it, the emotions pop up and you have nothing to do about them.

But... and this is a BIG but: A normal emotion comes and goes, like clouds on a windy day. Com and go... sunny, cloudy, sunny, cloudy.

Emotions and feelings are energies, and energy"s nature is to move. If they don"t, you have the static electricity thing going: and because energy MUST move, it will explode... like lightening.

You just have to hold onto the emotion by resisting it.

After all most emotions don"t feel good. I even dare say: held-onto emotions don"t feel good... even if it is happiness you are holding onto.

It"s like laughter: it is great. It is a great release. It is invigorating.

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We all walk around with veils in front of our eyes.

Warning: this article is a little sloppy... in time I"ll clean it up. I just wanted to get it out. Enjoy.



We tend to see the same thing over and over. It is called: already always listening. Or sometimes it is called "a seeming". And yet other times it is called prejudice.

Whether it is there or not doesn"t depend on your vibration. What depends on your vibration is what you are going to do about this information.

But your results in life depend on that... so ultimately, it is true, that the quality of your life will depend on your vibration.

How? Where? Why?

It is slightly different for every person, but we could say that your fixed way of seeing the world is responsible for 90% of what"s in your life. 10% is out of your control.

Where? In money. In relationships. In health. In spirituality. Everywhere.

Why?

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You are hardwired to be bad and pretend to be good or better than others

Until you can look inside at your ugliness, at your emptiness, at your hatefulness, spitefulness, gossipy judgmental behavior, and see it for what it is, you will NEVER raise your vibration.

But you have an issue: that ugliness is hardwired into humans.
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What will save you in this tanking economy: three moves anyone can learn

How to be the eye of the storm calm... Three moves you can learn and practice
Everything is moved by the invisible... where all the power is. Some are just one layer below the surface, some are deeper... but all the same, all changes, all movements, all phenomena comes from there, the invisible.

Do I see all the forces in the invisible that jerk on your chains? I don"t.

But be sure that your efforts to manage the visible, in reaction to what you see, is misdirected.
Let"s look at the economy in the wake of an election.

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Election year manipulation

Who makes money when you are scared?

Or another question: who doesn"t make money when you are scared? Because if you stay scared long enough, smaller companies will go out of business... for sure.

This fear based behavior started in the middle of summer, if my feelings are correct, and it is effecting my chiropractor, MindValley, and myself. And when I look at the behavior of people emailing me to sell me something, creators of programs, I can detect desperation and hope in them... Hope that SOMETHING will work...

Panic-mongering is an age old technique to control people and fleece them.

Scared people are stupid. Fear causes inchoherence.

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