{"product_id":"truthspeaking-ancestral-ways-to-hear-and-speak-the-voice-of-the-heart","title":"Truthspeaking: Ancestral Ways to Hear and Speak the Voice of the Heart","description":"Imagine a place where there are no lies\u003cbr\u003e where gossip is just a meaningless word\u003cbr\u003e and people naturally speak with respect\u003cbr\u003e The air is not laced with cursing\u003cbr\u003e and there is no shame or judgment\u003cbr\u003e The expression of all feelings is welcomed\u003cbr\u003e Even anger and fear are regarded as gifts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this place, you can trust in another's word\u003cbr\u003e There is no need for doctrine\u003cbr\u003e as each person knows her own Truth\u003cbr\u003e Even without it being spoken\u003cbr\u003e you can read it in her Heart\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Everyone's Truth is heard\u003cbr\u003eas listening is valued even more than talking\u003cbr\u003e And each person's voice is held sacred\u003cbr\u003e There is no need to sweeten it with humor\u003cbr\u003e or mask it with doublespeak\u003cbr\u003eThey call this, their cherished way of sharing, \u003cbr\u003e Truthspeaking \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI wrote this book for one reason-to incite a revolution of the Heart. For too long we have been taught to say what others would like to hear, and what makes rational rather than relational sense. We have been encouraged to be assertive, but we have not learned how to listen. To tell the truth is our ideal, yet most of us tell dozens of lies every day.\u003cp\u003eIn the coming pages, we will reacquaint ourselves with a way of life based on the gentle, clear, and heartfelt communication which the American Indian Elders I apprenticed to called Truthspeaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotice that I said \"reacquaint.\" You and I already know Truthspeaking: we are genetically programmed to be spontaneous, in-the-now beings with astute expressive and listening skills. We evolved the ability as a matter of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is only since we have become urbanized that we have begun protecting ourselves by suppressing our thoughts and feelings-and defending ourselves from the thoughts and feelings of others. This book shows how to dissolve those boundaries, so that we can again say what we really mean and hear what people are really saying. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author, \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Tamarack Song was a child, he got to regularly practice Truthspeaking with the wild animals in the extensive woods and wetlands which comprised his backyard. As a young man, he lived for several years with a pack of Wolves. After that, he learned the human nuances of Truthspeaking from Menominee, Ojibwe, Blackfoot, Hopi, Iroquois, Australian Aboriginal, and Maygar Elders. They taught him much of the terminology and phrasing you'll find in this book. He augmented this organic tutelage with his lifelong academic study of nature, language, anthropology, and indigenous cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Snow Wolf Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51937346715879,"sku":"9780989473767","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/truthspeaking-ancestral-ways-to-hear-and-speak-the-voice-of-the-heart","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}