This is my third post on reaching people. The first post went over 4 strategies: drip drip drip, go for the gut, ask questions, and seek more strategies. The second post was on Strategy #5: go easy, be calm, go slow. Calm, relaxed, nice and easy.
Now here’s STRATEGY #6. RELY ON THE HEART, just be yourself, instead of giving piles of facts. “Data is nothing next to the power of the heart.”
The strategy is from Tess Lawrie:
[W]e are realising more than ever that the best way to communicate with people is to just show one’s humanity. I had a fascinating conversation with German journalist Stef Manzini and she shared that we don’t need to be sharing this bit of research and that lot of data, we don’t need to be spending all this time defending ourselves and defending the truth. All we need to do is to be who we are, in all our integrity, all our heart, and that would be enough to bring the entire pack of cards tumbling down.
I love the emphasis on human connection, on just being yourself, rather than giving realms of data - especially as most of us have found giving realms of data ineffective. People have been programmed to deflect and even respond with hostility.
Here’s what we so often experience. Those with facts (namely, us) try to transmit them. Those blocking the facts generally prefer to name-call, denigrate, insult. They may refer to "the science," but have almost certainly not verified and definitely have not looked deeply into data that does not go with their beliefs.
Bezmenov, KGB defector, already said in a brilliant 1984 interview, that one can show proof to the brainwashed and they are unable to perceive it. He further stated that 85% of the KGB budget went to brainwashing, not spying. So we may have the facts, facts and more facts. The facts may be crystal clear. So is the resistance to them.
What a relief to hear: let go of leading with the facts. Lead with who you are, with your humanity.
Strategy #6 goes with Strategy #5 - so slow and easy, be relaxed . . . and show your humanity.
By the way, just like every other strategy, leading with the heart does not always work - even when we have masses of facts on our side, even when we talk about the thousands of people dying because effective medication is withheld, and even when whoever we’re speaking with knows everything we know, knows we have truth on our side.
I first heard of Dr Tess Lawrie in her open letter to Dr Andrew Hill. She speaks from the heart in the open letter. She had also spoken to him from the heart almost a year earlier, in a recorded conversation where she begs him to report the truth on the effectiveness of ivermectin, as established in studies, to the British prime minister. He refuses to do so. She speaks of the people dying who would be saved.
For those of you who have watched or read Lord of the Ring, Andrew Hill reminds me of cringing Smeagle: https://www.bitchute.com/video/I7GA1Ay3AAw/
Anyway, Tess speaks from the heart. It does not work, anyway not in terms of getting Hill to prefer to tell the truth and save lives - and risk of losing his position. A painful failure.
That doesn’t mean speaking from the heart doesn’t works. It just means that it’s good to have many strategies, plus the ongoing and long-term aim to expose and get out of any position of power, anyone who prefers to see people suffer and die, rather than have the courage to help them by telling the truth.
As for the power of speaking from the heart, like many other people, I was touched by Tess in the open letter. I’ve chosen to subscribe to her posts on Substack.
How often do you speak from the heart when trying to reach someone?
Posted September 23, 2022
Greg Mannarino is speaking from the heart in his video this morning, an important one. He's always a straight shooter, possessing the typical directness of a native East Coaster. What he's been warning about for over a decade is now starting to bear down like a runaway locomotive.