Why Being Honest Is Better Than Being Polite (Especially For Empaths)

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This video was originally published a year ago on YouTube. In it you'll find:

• a description of empaths, and what they experience

• some challenges and gifts of heightened awareness

• three easy and natural ways empaths can feel grounded and centered

• how to be in touch with your emotions, without being "so emotional"

• that honesty should not be confused with cruelty; they are not the same

• and other helpful hacks

Background Song Credit: "An Odd Endless Story," by Pianochocolate.

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Hi, I'm Erika. A sensitive and sovereign soul from Chicago, currently in Acapulco, Mexico. I am into Deep Voluntaryism. Voluntaryism is the philosophy that all forms of human association should be voluntary.

Deep Voluntaryism recognizes the ROOT 'voluntarius' ---> which is one's WILL ---> which is one's MIND and DETERMINATION ---> which is one's Most Precious + Powerful Aspect of Themselves.

Deep Voluntaryism understands that it is our Most Precious + Powerful Aspect -- Our MIND -- that has been the historical and ever-marked target of any who wish to oppress, misuse, or manipulate. Whether it's a bullying boyfriend, or bullying bureaucrat, the tactic is always the same. Predictably, the same. Effectively, the same.

Weaken one's mind.

With fear, uncertainty, and doubt. With bread and circuses. With pettiness and trinkets. Weaken the Most Precious + Powerful Aspect of Ourselves with the haunting belief that we are not fundamentally okay...

...and the possibility of that being true is so dreadful, we fill every single second of the day with SOMETHING. Noise. Busyness. Stuff. Drama. Anything but stillness and silence, because we have become chronically 'bored,' always chasing greater degrees of stimulation. moreMoreMORE!! Shove more in mouth. Shove more in car. Shove more in house. Shove more in day. And HURRRRY it up, will ya?! Dash-Rush-Ping-Bada-Bing.

Deep Voluntaryism isn't led by the nose, or tossed willy-nilly, BECAUSE IT CAN HEAR ITSELF THINK. It can re-member its fractured self, and eventually That Most Precious + Powerful Aspect of Ourselves -- our MIND -- comes into submissive service of OUR determination... not Zuckerberg's determination, or Trump's, or your boss', or your hero's.

Who -- other than you -- is worthy to drive your will, and map your way?

Deep Voluntaryism is interested in realms BEYOND politics because:

Politics are the affairs of The State.

"And the State is a COMPULSORY political organization with a centralized government that maintains a monopoly of the legitimate (wtf, Wikipedia) use of FORCE within a certain geographical territory."

What logical sense does it make to think one will become well-read by concentrating on illiteracy, or that one will become liberated by concentrating on the maniacal methods used by psychopaths to destroy people and ecosystems?

Deep Voluntaryism looks beyond politics and polarities, and concentrates instead on enduring, perennial, life-affirming things like the healthy restoration of soul (inner life) and soil (whole food + nourishment). Gain proficiency in those two realms, and you win everything.

Wow, that was a long P.S.

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