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The Energy Tax: The Hidden Costs of Inauthenticity · I Am Astrology Readings Podcast with Paul Heath

• 0:08
  Jesus said, pay unto Caesar what is Caesar's.
• 0:12
  But he never said, pay an energy tax to anyone.
• 0:18
  In America, you can go to jail if you don't pay your taxes.
• 0:22
  Look at Al Capone.
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  Look at Martha Stewart.
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  Shout out to Wesley Snipes, the government will come get your ass.
• 0:32
  But what about the energy tax?
• 0:35
  And I'm not talking about the tax you pay when you fill up your tank or you cut your lights on.
• 0:41
  I'm talking about something you've been paying your whole life that nobody ever put a name to.
• 0:48
  What prison do you put yourself in when you keep paying tax bills to people you don't even owe?
• 0:57
  And that's what this is all about.
• 1:01
  Being yourself is the highest conservation of energy state you can operate in.
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  Everything else, you're paying a tax.
• 1:11
  Here's what most people don't realize.
• 1:15
  It takes more energy to not be yourself than to be yourself.
• 1:21
  When you suppress who you are in a conversation, your System is running two programs at once.
• 1:30
  Operating System 1 is the real you.
• 1:34
  Operating System 2 is the version of you designed to keep the peace.
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  And Operating System 2 is the energy hall.
• 1:45
  Constantly scanning, filtering every word, monitoring every reaction, adjusting your tone, softening your truth, managing someone else's comfort.
• 1:58
  That's background programming.
• 2:00
  That background programming.
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  That's expensive.
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  You're burning energy to maintain the performance.
• 2:08
  Think about your phone, having 50 apps open in the background with your brightness all the way up.
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  You're at 10% battery by noon and you don't even know why.
• 2:21
  That's what inauthenticity does to your system.
• 2:26
  Being yourself shuts down operating system, too.
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  No editing layer, no Persona management, just you.
• 2:37
  And that's efficient.
• 2:39
  What comes to my mind?
• 2:41
  Taxation without representation.
• 2:45
  The Boston Tea Party.
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  The colonists were being taxed by an authority they never consented to for a bill they never agreed to.
• 2:57
  And at some point they said, enough is enough, and they went to the harbor and dumped that shit in the water.
• 3:05
  Dump that shit.
• 3:06
  Dump that shit.
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  That's what authenticity actually is.
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  A revolt against a tax system you never signed up for.
• 3:17
  It's easier to be yourself and let everyone else adjust to you than you go around constantly adjusting yourself to everyone else.
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  The math is simple.
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  You are one person.
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  There are many.
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  But you're doing all the work.
• 3:35
  But here's why most people suck.
• 3:39
  Because to do it, to actually live this way, you have to be okay with people being angry with you.
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  You have to be okay with losing people.
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  Most people aren't afraid to be themselves.
• 3:55
  They're afraid of the consequences that come with being themselves.
• 4:01
  The British were furious at the colonists.
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  Some colonists were loyalists.
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  Look at them.
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  Traitors over there.
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  They chose the crown over freedom.
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  They lost those people too.
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  And America still got built on their back.
• 4:20
  When you stop adjusting yourself to fit every room, some rooms stop inviting you.
• 4:27
  Some relationships with were built on the version of you that was accommodating.
• 4:32
  When that version retires, some of those connections retire with it.
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  That's not a loss, that's structural correction.
• 4:42
  If a friendship can't handle your truth, the friendship was a debt you were paying, not an asset you were holding.
• 4:51
  The real question you either pay now externally, through friction, discomfort, someone being mad and someone leaving, or your pain continuously, internally, through suppression, exhaustion, resentment, a slow disconnection from yourself.
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  One is sharp and occasional, sometimes the other is chronic and draining.
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  Can lead to sickness.
• 5:20
  Most people choose the internal tap because they feel fear losing people more than they value their own peace and they spend their whole life in a prison they built themselves, paying a bill they never owed.
• 5:34
  Tarot360 Astrology always says PI perception is everything.
• 5:42
  Now we all saw the movie or heard about the movie.
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  The whole world accepted the narrative, the greatest love story ever told.
• 5:53
  But if you actually look at it, the Titanic movie that's supposed to be the great love story.
• 6:03
  That woman cheated on her fiance with a stranger she knew for 72 hours and he lost his life for that floozy.
• 6:11
  Most people felt that, but kept it to themselves because going along with the cultural consensus costs less in a moment.
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  That's energy tax in real time.
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  You suppress the actual read to avoid the friction of saying it.
• 6:28
  Multiply that by every conversation you ever had, every room you ever sat in and stayed quiet every time you nodded when you disagreed.
• 6:40
  That's lifetimes of payments.
• 6:43
  Now your assignment.
• 6:45
  You know I give homework.
• 6:47
  Pick one conversation today where you normally adjust yourself and don't stay level.
• 6:57
  Don't laugh at that joke that ain't funny.
• 7:00
  Don't agree with that.
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  Take you hate.
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  Just stay level and watch what happens.
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  Watch them adjust to you and then feel how much energy you have left at the end of that conversation.
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  That's your homework.
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  You cannot go to jail for not paying an energy tax, but you can spend your whole life in prison by paying it.
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  Know what you owe and know what you don't owe or you'll find yourself bankrupt.
• 7:43
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