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Ep.106 Mastering the Fire Within: Using Anger Strategically
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I’ve been sitting with this episode for a while. Honestly, it scared me—because it asked me to revisit my past relationship with anger and how I’ve transformed it. For a long time, I either lashed out or shut down. I didn’t know how to express criticism without burning bridges—or how to fight for what mattered without destroying everything in my path.
In this episode, I explore how nature helped me reframe anger—not as a reaction, but as a sacred spark. Plants like kudzu, dandelion, and mistletoe taught me that taking up space, standing firm, or even disrupting the ecosystem can be acts of deep service. It’s not about balance—it’s about flow. Compassion and strength are not opposites. And righteous anger can be a force for regeneration.
Let’s talk about mastering your fire—so you don’t burn it all down, but light the path forward.
Topics Covered about anger and personal growth
➡️ Suppressing anger is not the same as choosing peace
➡️ Nature uses aggression strategically—so can we
➡️ Righteous anger is a sacred motivator, not a weapon
➡️ Plants teach us how to disrupt and rebuild in harmony
Chapters
00:00 Why This Episode Scared Me to Make
05:08 When Compassion Isn’t Enough
10:56 Understanding Anger’s Ecosystem Role
15:01 Eco-Conscious Business Partner: The Shift Network
28:01 Aggressive Plants as Strategic Allies
35:43 Strategic Fire: When to Use Anger, and How
43:01 How to Disrupt Without Destroying
51:51 What Plants Teach Us About Flowing Between Force and Softness
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Transcript
Introduction to Anger and Strategy
00:00:00
Speaker
Hello, hello, hello, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Reconnect with Plant Wisdom. It's me, Tigre Agadeña. I have to admit that I have kind of been sitting on this episode in the sense that I had a feeling I wanted to work on it and I started to like lay out my ideas and work on the outline and then I sort of shelved it. And I think honestly, this episode scares me a little.
00:00:29
Speaker
Mainly because i it's hard to find the right words. But then um this last Thursday, from when I'm recording it, we had our Naturally Conscious Leadership Group meeting, which is a group mentorship call that I do with my Leader Sprouts. These are all the people that have done or are actually were are working with me as one-on-one you know mentorship and coaching or have worked with me and then they're in Flourishing Sprouts in the Naturally Conscious community.
00:00:56
Speaker
And the Flourishing Sprouts is basically everything and it's you know peer mentorship call that we do once a month. And at the very end of that call, we got into a really great discussion about what actions you're supposed to, not supposed to, bad word already. See, I already started off wrong. See why I was holding off on doing this episode?
00:01:16
Speaker
Kind of like, what is the direction that you want to take in the world in this particular moment and how do you use, um what does it look like to be angry and to fight in a world where you don't want to create and perpetuate those types of energies.
Personal Journey with Anger
00:01:32
Speaker
Now, I've spent years, years, years um evolving past my old ways of expressing anger back when criticism poured out of me unfiltered in everything.
00:01:46
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Everything I did felt like a battle. And if I hadn't changed, I knew that I wouldn't be able to build the types of relationships and projects and even honestly confidence that I have today because I was leading with criticism that led to judgment that sounded like anger all the time.
00:02:06
Speaker
But in that process of, you know, working through all of that and figuring out where all of that judgment was coming from and how was it that my criticism was unbalanced and leading to all these sort of angry ah ways of speaking,
00:02:24
Speaker
I actually swung too far the other way. i led with so much compassion that um over the years I have realized that I've let disrespect kind of enter into my life in a way that it was not expected. In other words, trying to always give everybody the benefit of their doubt, trying to look at ways to not quote unquote fight,
00:02:47
Speaker
um trying not to step into anger, realized that I walked away from things that I really cared about instead of fighting for them.
00:02:57
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And not because I didn't believe in them, but because I didn't want to be seen as irrational or difficult, something that was... Very common terminology used to to, you know, to talk about me in the time when my criticism, my dominant personality of of being critical, of understanding criticality, criticality. I keep using that word and I'm still not sure. One day I'm going to go look it up to see if it actually exists as a word. But anyways, criticality.
00:03:25
Speaker
looking at my critical nature and leading from that, but with ah a sense in the background of myself of inequity and of not feeling good enough and of, you know, the the worthiness and imposter syndrome and all this, these pieces. So, right. So I had to work on all of that.
00:03:43
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But the thing is that there are some things that are worth fighting for.
Balancing Anger and Compassion
00:03:46
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The question then becomes how, right? When is anger the right tool? And even if anger isn't really a tool that you use or is anger more of a motivator?
00:03:57
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And when does compassion serve better? And this is really what I want to explore with you today, because this is going to be a bit of a more raw and probably vulnerable than usual.
00:04:08
Speaker
Not that this whole... Everything I do is raw and vulnerable, but this is going to be even more with probably, as I tell you all the time, a lot more fumbles of words and a lot of calling in my plant partners to help me kind of work through this because this is really a topic that I think is very timely for everything that's happening in the world right now. So I want to first thank you for all for giving me the space to get into it and for being here with me today.
00:04:35
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um I'm looking forward to the comments and to all of, you know, your own feedback on this and how you experience. So this is episode 106, Mastering the Fire Within, which is using angry, angry, using anger strategically. Um,
00:04:54
Speaker
Yeah, using anger strategically, that really is. So that's the episode we're going to go into. And, you know, let's see what some of our, some of my plant friends have to say about this.
00:05:06
Speaker
Welcome to Reconnect with Plant Wisdom. I'm your host, Tigria Gardenia, nature-inspired mentor, certified life coach, and the founder of the Naturally Conscious Community. For over a decade, I've been known as a world ambassador for plant advocacy, working closely with plants to share their practical wisdom to help you consciously embody the elements of life that nourish your evolution.
00:05:28
Speaker
In this podcast, I delve into ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways of plants. Together, we'll explore how ecosystem thinking helps you overcome limiting beliefs, understand the true nature of relationships, and live an authentic, impactful life.
00:05:47
Speaker
Okay, at its core, this episode really explores how to channel anger and I expect quite expansive set of justice that I have. Let me let me try to explain that a little bit better.
00:06:01
Speaker
So in this episode, I really want to get into the ways that I have been able to move and evolve my anger into something that's productive rather than being destructive or suppressed and how I'm working on that suppression piece of it to kind of give it back into a balance that feels right for me. And how is it that it gets used and how I walk many of my clients who also have many of these types of feelings um through this. So this is really about a personal journey with anger and criticism, looking at the past and also what shifted and then the realizations that compassion alone isn't actually always as effective, you know, where we want to think everything is beautiful and kumbaya.
00:06:45
Speaker
And there are ways to get to that, but it's not really always the best thing to lead from, even if that's the behavior. Also, I want to talk about the challenge of finding balance or better said, you know how I talk about this. It's about flow.
00:07:00
Speaker
I can't really think about it in balance because when I put it into balance, that means that I sacrifice one for the other rather than flow allows me to move from, you know, anger into.
00:07:12
Speaker
ah compassion and from compassion to anger. So really, i want to explore with you the impact of suppressing my anger and letting people walk all over you or walk all over me, avoiding confrontation at all costs, and how that's really not the solution either.
00:07:29
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So it's when is... the How do we recognize when justice and self-protection are actually needed? And then I want to talk about lessons from ah aggressive plants. mean, there are some plants out there like Gutsu and dandelion and mistletoe that are really quite aggressive or parasites or pre predators, Venus flytraps or predators like these, all these types of plants.
00:07:52
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they use their traits for the ecosystem. In other words, they create a harmony within the ecosystem by using these aggressive traits of themselves. And so, yes, they can easily go out of control. And we have seen that, right? We see when a species becomes invasive or goes too far out, which is very similar to my behavior when I used to be a very ah angry or... um ah What's the right word? What's the word that I would use that that people always use?
00:08:22
Speaker
Presumptuous. I'm a very presumptuous person. That was the way that I used to be. Very presumptuous. So I also want to talk about some of the tools that we as humans use in relation to the plants, because I think that'll help us get a different point of view, like fire, for example.
00:08:38
Speaker
You know, indigenous wisdom has used controlled burns to maintain an ecosystem health. And I think that if we think of ourselves in that vein, right, what is our human element and our component to work on in relation to the the ecosystem and how do I keep the ecosystem healthy?
Using Anger as a Tool for Change
00:08:56
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Fire is a very legitimate tool that we as an overall society have somewhat forgotten how to use. We either burn everything down or we fire. suppress it to the point where things get dangerous. So I think that that's a really good comparison.
00:09:11
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And then the last piece I want to talk about is how to develop your strategic and your purposeful anger, like when to fight for a cause versus when to walk away. And how do you start to build up your own checks and balances in this? And what is the difference between, for example, being reactive or being intentional and How is it that you can learn how to be more surgical in using that anger? So by the end of this episode, I really want you to feel like you can give yourself much more space.
00:09:40
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to use the anger as a tool rather than as a reaction, to recognize that anger, for example, when it's used with intention, right, can be a force for protection, for justice, and even for positive change. Now, I don't necessarily think that anger, I guess maybe I misspoken a second ago, which is it's not really a tool. I think it is the fuel, kind of like we were talking about fire, right?
00:10:05
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Fire is the the the tool, but it's not a Fire is a tool that you use, but the intention behind it changes it. And I think that anger can be an intention setter in some ways.
00:10:18
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when used constructively, but it's not the way to approach the situation. And I think this is something that I learned through this process. I really want you to see that compassion and strength are not opposites, right? They being forceful and being compassionate and are not on two ends of a spectrum. They really can work together.
00:10:36
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And that knowing when to walk away and when to stand your, stay your ground, right? When to stand up for yourself, are really skills worth developing, that fighting for what matters doesn't mean neither losing yourself nor being actually angry, which I think is very different from using anger.
00:10:53
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It means showing up with clarity and purpose and oftentimes with joy and fun. And that's really what I want to get into more than anything. This isn't about being angry all the time. It's about knowing when to pull up that fire and when to direct that fire in a certain direction and then to choose consciously which of the various tools in your toolbox to use in order to um in order to let that fire burn. So let's really explore how we're going to use this anger wisely.
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00:12:27
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All right, so let me tell you a little bit more about my own personal journey with anger and criticism because I think that that's really going to set the stage, let's just say. So you have to understand that I have always had a very, very, very sharp eye for details.
00:12:41
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While others maybe saw the big picture, I actually didn't start seeing the big picture until I was later in my life, probably in my 40s, that I started to see big picture
From Criticism to Understanding
00:12:51
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items. I always noticed the cracks, the flaws, the inefficiencies, the things that needed to be fixing. In other words, my dominant personality is about being critical.
00:13:02
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I thought that in my opinion at that time, I thought that by pointing all of these little nitpicky type of things or what I saw wrong with a situation was going to be helpful. Like I thought really that was the way I was going to help you. I was helping you if I saw a project that you were working on and here was a flaw or here was a hole.
00:13:23
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As a matter of fact, when I started my software career, like working in um in high tech and such, I actually started as a tester and I was a very, very, very good tester. To this day, whenever I have something that breaks and I have to contact you know support of any sort, I always have to warn them. I'm like, hey, by the way, I'm a and you know an ex-techie with QA or quality assurance ah experience because I'm very detailed.
00:13:51
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I give you every single step. How did I break it Where does it break? I usually can find the corner cases and understand like when this happens and when that doesn't happen. The problem was that being also very insecure, suffering from I'm not worthy and suffering from imposter syndrome so many of the times when I would try to point things out, my words would tumble out with a force that honestly I didn't even realize I was doing.
00:14:16
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I wasn't just offering like a critique or pointing things out. I was tearing things down. Like I was, I was pointing out how your flaw was going to tank the entire system. So it wasn't surgical at all. I was more like, ah here's everything that's wrong. And this is going horrible.
00:14:33
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At the time, this was coupled with the fact of, I always feel this deep, deep, deep sense of injustice. Like if I see injustice in the world, um,
00:14:44
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i I just can't handle it. It's something that's still to this day, very, very difficult. I feel it in my bones. It's something that hurts me deeply. If I see something that's wrong, whether in a personal interaction or a larger societal issue, for example, I...
00:15:01
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react intensely. And back then i didn't hold back because I thought that that was what it meant to be a good person. In other words, the way I overcame my unworthiness was to make my voice heard. And since I have a lot of energy, ah yeah, that voice was really strong.
00:15:20
Speaker
The problem is that when your anger and your criticism isn't strategic, it's not really calculated. It just comes out in this blunt, oftentimes very sweeping and broad way, then it's really overwhelming for the people that are receiving it. They, um they don't know where it's coming from. They usually feel it like a personal attack.
00:15:43
Speaker
They also, it's so broad and you sweep everything into the conversation that in the end, you you kind they kind of don't even know what you're talking about, because now it sounds like you're talking about how everything is a disaster.
00:15:55
Speaker
And it would leave me really frustrated, and I felt very misunderstood. i was surrounded by people who were stuck in complaining cycles, because that's what I would attract, right? Because Since my way of experiencing things was to be like a sweeping, this sucks, I attracted a lot of people who just thought everything sucks.
00:16:16
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So we didn't really create change. I would just, you know, of course, good that I had a job for a long time that allowed me to do this. But when I moved into, for example, project management and release management in particular,
00:16:28
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it became a huge problem because I didn't know how to encourage somebody to say, hey, I see that there's a problem with this, but don't worry about it. We can work on it together. Today, I have a whole different language to be able to do that.
00:16:41
Speaker
So realizing that this approach wasn't working, I tried something different. I softened, right? I chose to really go down the path of compassion over confrontation. The other day I was asked in one of our ah NCC calls um to specifically talk about why the use of the color black and because I use black as in clothing in particular, very strategically for me, from a Kabbalistic perspective, it's connected to Bina and which is the great mother of understanding. And that was my my beacon. Like I wanted to understand things, not in a, let me dissect it, but more of, if I understand where you're coming from, then I don't judge you. And I don't think you did something wrong. I just see a mistake that we could easily fix together.
00:17:25
Speaker
So by moving in this way, I tried to assume the best in people, giving endless, endless benefit of the doubt, because I did not trust my own ability to sort of detect um when somebody was being malicious or anything like that. So I thought if I just met others with kindness, they would rise to it. And if I let go of the anger and I focused on this understanding, people would naturally be inspired to do better.
00:17:55
Speaker
Yeah, that doesn't, by the way, that doesn't always work either because it's still sort of has this
00:18:03
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it Let's just say that there are some people that are very highly motivated by kindness because, you know, they are misunderstood or maybe they didn't understand the situation or maybe, you know, you just have two different points of views. And so if you, if you approach them with kindness,
00:18:20
Speaker
then and you say, hey, can you just explain your point of view, then you understand where they're coming from. And then you can, you know, find the right way. The problem is, there are some people who do not want to meet you.
00:18:31
Speaker
And so while this was overall a good shift, it helped me build relationships that I could have never had before. It allowed me to see the world through a more patient and forgiving lens. I was no longer repelling people with really sharp words. And I learned how to create a space for growth instead of tearing everything apart.
00:18:51
Speaker
Unless sometimes I was put into a group of people who were tearing everything apart. And I have to say that my tendency, that critical nature of me can can can really rise very quickly.
The Role of Boundaries in Relationships
00:19:00
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But i hit another different wall, which is the fact that compassion isn't always enough.
00:19:06
Speaker
Some people don't respond to kindness. Oftentimes, I have learned this is my own I don't want to call it judgment because it's more of a discernment because judgment has this bad word, although it is judgment in the sense of I've realized that there are some people that even when you're kind to them, they can't respond to that in the sense of also taking steps to change.
00:19:28
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What they do is they just use it and kind of like use that. I don't want to say against you, but they do. They use that against you. So while there are many situations that demand patience, there are some things in life, in in friendships, in work, in society that actually need to be dealt with in a much more forceful way.
00:19:49
Speaker
Because what was happening and what sometimes still happens is that I find myself letting people cross boundaries. I excuse behavior that I shouldn't really excuse, which is somebody maybe being very disrespectful for me. Now I can understand because I understand their situation, I maybe know their traumas, I maybe know their fears and their anxieties, so I understand where their disrespect is coming from.
00:20:14
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And I can see, because I also see myself in them, that they can't always control it. But the problem is that if people would have only been nice to me in the time that I was going through this,
00:20:28
Speaker
maybe I wouldn't have dealt with it because I only started to really deal with it and realize that I could deal with it when my world started to crumble, when I was losing friends, when I was finding myself very alone, when I was having difficulties at work, when I tried to go for a promotion and they wouldn't give me the promotion, even though they admitted I was the right person for the job because I had the technical skills, but I didn't have the personality to be able to interact with that team of people in the way that I was.
00:21:03
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So there are people who need, pardon me for saying this, a swift kick in the ass. And so, you know, i also in stepping away, what would happen is that when I would be super kind and compassionate, and then that situation in front of me wouldn't change. That person or that that team that I was on or that project that I was working on would just continue to do the same thing knowing that I would be the one to bend, give, and compromise and they didn't have to do anything.
00:21:38
Speaker
I started to walk away from it because I wasn't going to fight anymore because I just wasn't the person. I didn't believe that I had the power to fight in a way that was efficient and that would be seen as constructive.
00:21:51
Speaker
And I also didn't want to fight in a way that was just purely disruptive and destructive, which was my past. So I'd walk away and I watched so many of the projects that I cared for.
00:22:04
Speaker
and that they just crumbled because not pushing back when I should have, they'd had no impetus to push themselves out of their own comfort zones and move forward.
00:22:15
Speaker
I really avoided so much conflict because I was worried that I would be seen as irrational or harsh. I started walking away and started of standing my ground. Not because I didn't care, but because I wasn't sure how to fight anymore without becoming my old self.
Controlled Anger as a Powerful Tool
00:22:30
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So I had swung completely um into the other direction. And this affected not just you know my work, it affected you know my personal relationships because you know you get into situations where you look like this giant pushover or you just walk away and you let it all fall to the ground.
00:22:48
Speaker
and And, you know, i I realized that I was missing out on things. That's when I really, really realized that my anger and criticism and even aggression are not inherently bad, right?
00:23:00
Speaker
Like, just like I've been learning about that relating to my dominant personality of being critical. Also, my anger is like that. These are incredibly powerful tools that when used with purpose can be very, very strategic.
00:23:13
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The key is knowing when to use them And very importantly, how to wield them without causing unnecessary destruction, but very much being okay and leaning into the necessary destruction.
00:23:28
Speaker
And that's really what I want to explore more here. Now, I can't tell you that I have all the answers because I still don't. Right. I'm I'm still very cautious, although I'm getting better at being kind of like breathing into it.
00:23:42
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trusting deep down that I have the best intentions, because that was another thing that changed. I had to make sure that I wasn't lashing out also, but that I was doing it from a place of love and kindness and compassion to myself also.
00:23:54
Speaker
And then therefore, when I would be able to take a very strong stand, I could be seen from that place of, oh my goodness, she really loves this. And that's really what I want to go to. So when I started holding back my anger, I thought I was choosing peace.
00:24:10
Speaker
But over time, what I realized was that I was choosing silence. I let things slide that really shouldn't have. I stayed in situations where I should have spoken up. I let people cross lines.
00:24:22
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that you should never let them cross because I convinced myself that understanding and patience was the higher path. It's the whole take the higher road. But the higher road means sure you don't succumb to the low tactics that these other people do, especially when you're dealing with, for example, narcissists, which not statistically, scientifically speaking, narcissists can't control themselves.
00:24:47
Speaker
So for you to just think, oh, I'm going to be compassionate to that narcissist, there comes a point where that doesn't work because a narcissist has an inherent set of fears that govern their lives.
00:24:59
Speaker
And therefore, they are going to continue to bully and push in that direction. It's something they can't control. So you cannot try to just meet them with kindness.
00:25:10
Speaker
You can definitely meet them with kindness and understanding when they have that rare break that that allows them to kind of be a little bit more vulnerable. You can create that safe space so that that vulnerability happens more often. But you also have to learn to see when that they're not in that space and block and sometimes push back quite harsh on their attack because otherwise they feel emboldened and can continue to push and will not try to make themselves better.
00:25:40
Speaker
What I was doing was avoiding confrontation. Not because I lacked conviction, trust me, in the privacy of my own home, I very much had a lot of conviction, but because I was afraid of being perceived as too much. You know the famous too much that we, many of us, especially multi-passionates and people who are extremely passionate, like myself, that hold too much, too aggressive, too difficult, too emotional.
00:26:05
Speaker
And the more I held back, the more I noticed the pattern that instead of resolving the issues, I was actually just tolerating them. If anything, I was supporting them. I was allowing these issues to move on. I noticed this in some of my work relations. Most of my work relationships, I'll be really honest, in that period where I went too far, i would just walk away from them.
00:26:28
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i And I can't even tell you how many projects I saw just kind of like, because i'm I'm a driving energy force, right? I'm a catalyst and I'm a bridge and I'm really, really good at creating that fire and holding that fire and being super passionate to get something done.
Flow Over Balance in Emotions
00:26:43
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And so when I left, some of these projects just fizzled. And I, you know, I'm super sad about that. And in relationships, I saw these people like I would just sit there and hold space for them endlessly. So I would be exhausted and these people would feel great around me and not even realize that I was the one that was holding that space. And I was constantly compromising and little by little, everything that I wanted and everything that I am would disappear.
00:27:10
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Luckily, I had done a lot of good work for myself to be able to know that me as an individual, as who I am and what I love about myself and all these things, they weren't breaking me down anymore.
00:27:21
Speaker
That was something that had happened in the past as well. But it still didn't mean I was getting what I wanted and I definitely wasn't getting any kind of respect. I wasn't creating space for real growth. I was just enabling cycles that needed to be broken over and over again.
00:27:34
Speaker
So for a long time, this anger and this compassion I was seeing these kind of as two opposing forces, right? Two ends of the spectrum. And I was trying to balance them. You know what I think about stability, right? It's impossible because if you stabilize everything, nothing grows. And that is what had happened.
00:27:50
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I had stabilized myself over into the world of compassion and I had not given any space to my strength and my anger and all this. And so I leaned so much into this. because I was afraid to lose control of the other. And that was that overcorrection, right? i i My language softened, ah my my my ability to understand and compassion grew. My mother has always said that I have enormous amount of compassion. And so I just i just leaned in it.
00:28:16
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But the thing is,
00:28:19
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that you have to learn how to move between these two. You know, you you have to learn how to step into that anger and to step into that fire. Suppressing anger didn't actually make me more peaceful.
00:28:32
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It made me more hesitant. It made me unable to act when I needed to And in a world like the world we live in with a very aggressive species, which is us homo sapiens, hesitation can be really, really dangerous.
00:28:49
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So at some point I started to ask myself, when is anger actually the right response? Because obviously anger exists, right? And if in an ecosystem something exists, it's useful at some point, right? That's the whole point of an ecosystem. Ecosystems don't have garbage.
00:29:07
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So everything that exists is useful to someone or something at some time. So when is anger useful to me?
00:29:18
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Well, obviously anger and force is useful for self-protection, right? If I am being attacked, there is a way to use anger. I can't just always shield. Sometimes you have to push back.
00:29:32
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It can be necessary when you're protecting others, right? Something is happening, somebody is being attacked, and I need to step into that and protect because I have the strength to do it. And the other person might not, or the other situation might not. This could be, again, whether we're talking about a person or a project or a business or anything.
00:29:50
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And it's especially necessary when shared values, things that we really care about, are being ignored or trampled. So that helped me recognize and step deeper into the fact that, wait a minute, in an ecosystem, every species has its periods of attack or protection and also of, right, you take what you need because i don't care.
00:30:16
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And so I had to learn to do that. We see this in nature all the time. There's a difference between a plant that bends with the wind and a plant that has strong enough roots to stand firm when it needs to, right? You have some that build up really strong, strong trunks so that the wind doesn't bend them at all. And others instead that have this flexibility and they do this dance with the wind.
00:30:38
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Some plants release chemicals to warn others of dangers. Some will even fight for their space in the ecosystem not out of an aggression or for just the ability to be an aggressor, but because survival is based on the fact that they need this space. They need that light.
00:30:55
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And so therefore they are going to make space for it. So the real question isn't, should I get angry? It's when is anger the tool that serves the highest school good?
00:31:08
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And let me be really clear, because this was the piece that um came up in NCLG and the Naturally Conscious Leadership Group that it took us a while and some
Anger as a Catalyst and Mastery
00:31:16
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working through it. And this is why I love this group of Sprout leaders.
00:31:20
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which you know ah are so inspirational because we have the ability in that group, in this space in this safe space, in this mentorship circle that we've created to really work deep inside of this.
00:31:32
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We were trying to understand the difference between you know using not not giving in to anger as an all-encompassing emotion when not to fight, which just creates more destruction for the sake of destruction versus when is it, when, when does it become spiritual bypassing or when does it become the, I'm not going to get involved type of thing. And then in the end, you know, nobody is safe.
00:31:57
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And we were saying how, look, we live in the world of form, which means that there's duality. So you can't think everything is going to be like unity and kumbaya, but it doesn't mean that my fight back has to be with disrespect or with meanness or with judgment.
00:32:18
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My, my fighting back could be with joy, with love, with deep respect. When I love something so much that I'm willing to put my life on the line for it.
00:32:28
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When I believe in something and I want to protect it. When I want to joyously share with you in the temples of humankind and dominant her, when you come into the hall of earth, beautiful, beautiful hall, which has, you know, kind of almost the the cycle of humanity. There is a big scene painted on the walls that is this giant battle.
00:32:55
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It's the battle of us as Dhammen Hurrians, as humans, battling against the enemy, which are these sort of gray creatures that do not evolve. And the way that that we battle in this scene, which is kind of the tenet of the way Dhammanhurians do battle, is by laughter, by playing, by having fun, by moving mountains in joyous celebration.
00:33:24
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So when I'm talking about anger as an emotion, I am talking about using anger as your catalyst, as your spark. Because plants don't hesitate to take what they need. They don't apologize for growing towards the sun or taking up space in the ecosystem.
00:33:42
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Some plants even spread so rapidly that when the conditions demand it that, you know, you can use struggle to slow them down. They flow with what's necessary in the moment. And that's the kind of mastery I want.
00:33:56
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It's the ability to know when to lean into the spark of anger, not out of habit, but out of wisdom and to pull on the tools that are not a I'm cutting you down because you're shit and you're not worth it and you're horrible, but more of I am going to do my battle by playing and laughing and smiling.
00:34:19
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you know, putting up and telling you that this isn't the way, this is the way that we're going to do this, and we are going to join in a celebration with it.
00:34:30
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Sometimes anger is the right response, not just for self-protection, but for protecting others, for standing up to what matters, for ensuring that shared values aren't trampled. And you want to do that with force, but that force should not be out of the idea of humiliating or destroying somebody's that doesn't really, is not really involved.
00:34:50
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It should be about an ideal, a value, and looking at transforming that into a force for good. There are moments when the world does not need patience. It needs fire.
00:35:01
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It needs people willing to step up and say, this is not acceptable. And I want to be able to trust myself to know when is that moment.
00:35:12
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So instead of resisting anger or fearing I'm going to overuse it, I've been working on developing that anger. I've been working on developing the ability to step fully and step out of it fully when the time is right.
00:35:29
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I don't want to hold on to anger any longer than necessary. i want to kind of fill into that righteous indignation, those values. And I also want to be able to check my values. And I think that that's also the thing. When you're not in the grips of anger as things are happening, even if you're using that anger, you can always still double check what's going on. Like, is this still in line with my values?
00:35:57
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You don't go beyond what is necessary because I don't want to bypass when it is the appropriate response. I want to trust myself to flow between those states.
00:36:08
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I want to ah there's a one of the organisms here in Dhammenhur, one of the the main bodies is called the game of life. And the game of life really has one main goal. change.
00:36:18
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It is a body that has been created to instill and to create moments of change so that stagnation doesn't get a part of us. Constantly shifting us into instability in order for us to grow.
00:36:32
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And then the other piece of it that I think most people forget about the game of life is that the game of life can launch a bomb into something in order to make that thing blow up because it's been too stable, it's no longer growing, it's stagnant, and it needs to move.
00:36:46
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But then the game of life has to come in and help put together the pieces again. It has to be able to make sure that it creates an environment where new things can grow and take root.
00:36:58
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And that's how I want to use anger. I want to be able to pull and call on that fire to like burn what needs to move. But then I also want to be able to be there to lend a helping hand to replant or to encourage new growth to come out.
00:37:16
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I want to trust myself to flow in these states, knowing that both of them have their place, both serve a purpose, and neither diminishes the other.
00:37:27
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That's the mastery I'm looking for. Not getting stuck in anger, but also not avoiding it. Not choosing compassion always over anger, but learning to wield them both with intention.
00:37:41
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So to do this, because it's, you know, humans tend to be a bit aggressive, so it's really easy for us to kind of go into one direction. I had to start to ask myself, when is it that aggression serves the ecosystem?
00:37:54
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Because like I said, nature doesn't really apologize for being aggressive when needed.
Nature's Lessons on Anger
00:37:59
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Kudzo, for example, or dandelions and mistletoe are often labeled as invasive or parasitic plants.
00:38:06
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But their existence actually serves a really important purpose, right? Kutsu, for example, stabilizes damages damaged landscapes, right? Preventing ah erosion where other plants struggle to take root.
00:38:20
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And dandelions, for example, can really break up compacted soil. They can make way for new growth. Besides the fact that the dandelion is an amazing plant with all kinds of different properties that can be used by humans, but that also grows in harmony with humanity and is ever present, right? They're ever present plants can want to be there to help and can do so many things. And so even though they are highly, um,
00:38:46
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How is it? They're highly successful at growing in places. And this can be seen as a nuisance. So some people might say it's too much. But the truth of the matter is that the benefits that they bring to the area by their presence and what they do to the environment far outweigh what it is that might be bothersome because there's too many of them.
00:39:08
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The same goes for mistletoe, right? Mistletoe is a parasitic plant. Mistletoe provides food and shelter for countless species. the Mistletoe basically weaves Kiself into the fabric of a given ecosystem. These plants don't hesitate to expand.
00:39:24
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right? They take up space. They do what they want to do. They must survive and they must support the system that's around them. And I think that's the big difference.
00:39:36
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I think that when you apply anger unchecked, you end up just destroying something. I once had somebody in one of the Nucleos, right? One of the shared homes that we live in here in Dhammenhur. used to live in a home that at the time was fairly big. I think there was like
00:39:52
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close to 30 of us, there was 20 something of us in that house. I think 28 or something like that. And one of the people was saying to me that whenever I was upset, She was afraid of being in the living room when I would walk through the door because I would walk in and my energy was so, I was so upset that it felt like a so sonic boom was coming through and just tearing everybody down and everybody felt like shit afterwards.
00:40:17
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And I realized that that is that anger unchecked, right? When that type of strength gets unchecked, that's where it goes. As opposed to when you use it, that righteous ignatiation, when you set up those flames You can be very poignant and when you use it and nobody else around you.
00:40:34
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My mother, when I was growing up, was a master of this. I remember one time she was telling off the disciplinarian of my school who was being an irrational jerk. Seriously, being an irrational jerk. My mother was being a saint. She had the patience of a saint back then.
00:40:50
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And I remember sitting down on a chair. Now I knew what was happening because obviously my mother had been called into the school and the man wanted to complain about me. um It's a long, long story. But one day, if you want, I'll tell you.
00:41:03
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Anyway, so I was sitting there in the chair and I was staring at my mother and this man talking. And if it wasn't for the fact that I didn't know what was going on, you would have never known that my mother was chewing this man out.
00:41:14
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Like this man, my mother put this grown man in his life. place She explained very politely, very strategically, why everything he was saying was categorically false and how his assumptions were more disruptive to the environment, which in this case was a school. He was new to the school and we had been in the school already. I had been in the school for like eight years at this point.
00:41:39
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um And my mother was was, had already had my two brothers graduate from the school. So like my mother knew the school well. We knew the owner of the school. I had always grown up like in the office of the school. Like this was a place that was home.
00:41:51
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and my And this man and my mother made it very clear to him that he was wrong, that he was lying in order to make his point. And that my mother would not put up with him treating neither her nor me that way.
00:42:05
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But if you didn't know what was happening, if you were just sitting near them, you would have never known that my mother was chewing this man out because she was so polite about it. She was so strategically focused on him that nobody else in the room hurt her.
00:42:21
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Nobody else in the room felt any of her wrath. Nobody else knew how angry and how much this man, you could feel him like shutting down because he was caught and he could not argue his way out of this because my mother was adamant and clear about And it was beautiful.
00:42:41
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So this is, I think, what we're talking about. We need to learn how to be strategic in the way that we use this, not to dominate the landscape forever, but to surge forward when the conditions demand for it, then retreat when the balance shifts and don't force yourself out of the situation. Don't try to be submissive for fear of being too much.
00:43:08
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This man did not like my mother. He did not. And after the year after, he didn't like me either. But synchronically, everything worked out. I ended up leaving the school the next year because in part because of this man. But it turned out to be the best thing I could have done because I ended up into a bitch better school with a better like gifted programs and all kinds of different, you know, honors programs that I just didn't have in the school that we were originally in. So in the end, my mother's strategic work ended up creating a place where, sure, the man had it in for me because my mother told him off, but he ended up looking like the idiot because nobody could understand why he had it in for me because nobody ever saw my mother say one crossword to him.
00:43:50
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my Nobody saw my mother treat him badly and my mother didn't have to do anything else. So it turned out to be ah awesome to be like, this is one of those episodes of human behavior that I try to like tie into.
00:44:03
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But this is what we see with the plants, right? Strategic, do the thing that I need to do, flow with what it is and help keep the rest of the environment healthy, even while you're destroying that one piece that is causing the damage.
Connecting with Nature for Insights
00:44:16
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And this is the journey that I want for myself. I'm really right now calling deeply into those three plants to help me. Two of the three I can find growing around me because mistletoe and dandelion are found here.
00:44:28
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With spring right now kind of coming into full swing, there's this fantastic ritual we do here at Dhammenhur where you get to connect with dandelions. And so I have in mind a little adaptation that I want to do to this ritual specifically to help me with this.
00:44:44
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Plus, I love having an excuse to sit in a big field of dandelions, asking a bunch of questions to kin and lying down there to receive. I mean, kin are awesome for this type of work. So if you've never sat down and had a conversation with a dandelion,
00:44:57
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Please do. I'm also experimenting with some watercolors recently. That's another great way to help me connect. It's almost as if um the sort of flowiness of the watercolors allows Dandelion to share with me things that are a little bit more emotional of nature, probably that water connection of some sort that helps it do it.
00:45:16
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I haven't really seen kutsu around here and kind of hoping I don't, given some of the things I have heard about it. So going to need to get a little creative. But according to the Smithsonian Magazine, I don't know if you know this, but this is one of those strange things.
00:45:30
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In 1930, what is it? 1930, I want to say seven, but I think it's 35. As dust storms were damaging prairies, Congress in the United States declared war on soil la rouge erosion, and they actually enlisted kutsu as a primary weapon.
00:45:48
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So talk about using kutsus like aggressive tendencies for good. More than 70 million kutsu seedlings, not seedlings, seedlings were grown in nurseries by the newly created Soil Conservation Service.
00:46:04
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And to overcome this like suspicion that farmers had as to whether or not kutsu can actually be controlled in this way, the service actually offered as much as $8. Remember, we're talking about 1935, $8 per acre to anyone that was willing to plant the vine.
00:46:22
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And eventually, to be honest, kutsu did go a little bit out of control. It has a really bad reputation as a terror, mainly because farmers couldn't figure out how to make money with kui. They thought that that they were going to be planting this and making tons and tons and tons of money. But the truth of the matter is that kutsu was very strategic.
00:46:40
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Soil erosion. Take care of this. Go out as far as you want. I'm not something for you to be making money off of. And so, of course, got a super bad reputation. In fact, Kutsu has appeared larger than life in many of these ways because it's most aggressive when it's planted along things like roads and rail, um the the rail line embankments and things like that.
00:47:03
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because these habitats become front and center um of the kind of way that when cars started to come in, they had all this kutsu in the way, and so they got a really bad reputation. Anyway, it's all those types of things.
00:47:15
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But the truth of the matter is that kutsu was very strategic and really helped the overall soil situation. It rarely penetrates into any kind of forest. So the biggest problem that it had was the fact that as more land was getting cleared, kudzu was like, yay, more space for me. Let me head off over there.
00:47:32
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So in reality, if we would have kept more of our forests, we wouldn't have a kudzu problem in the United States. But that's another story for another day. And I really want anger to kind of be that way. I want my anger to have like the places where it is most appropriate for it to come out.
00:47:48
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And I want it to fear certain types of environments. Like I don't want narcissists to come and like push me around anymore. I want them to actually be like, no, that one is going to be respected. I had a friend of mine, a new friend, somebody that I like started to hang out with, but apparently he knew several people that knew me. And I i made a comment about something once and he's like, oh yeah, they warned me about you.
00:48:10
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Yeah. I just looked at him. i was like, what do you mean? He's like, no, no, It's a good thing. But they're like, they just told me not to fuck with you in this thing. i was like, oh, I like that. I like that very much. Do not screw with me when it comes to certain things.
00:48:21
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And I want to be more like kudzu in that way. I want to have the areas in which I'm like, oh, you're going to push my button. You're going to try to railroad me. Then I'm I am going to step all over this situation. I'm going to make it right.
00:48:36
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Not a I'm going to push you down, but a I'm going to make it right.
Strategic Disruption and Positive Change
00:48:40
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And this is kind of that idea of fire as a tool, right? Fire is often seen as destructive, but in indigenous lands, land stewards, they used fire for destruction.
00:48:52
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Ages, right, they knew it was a necessity. Controlled burns clear off deadwood and prevent very catastrophic wildfires. At the time, it was a co-creation between plants and humans to use fire in this strategic way, to create fertile grounds that could be used for regeneration.
00:49:10
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So because without them, the ecosystem became stagnant. And when fire would come then because it would spark accidentally, which, you know, you can get ticked off accidentally. And when that would happen, it would be uncontrolled and devastating.
00:49:23
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And that's exactly what I don't want. I don't want to bottle it up to let my environment become so... um filled with fuel that when something does push me too far, I just go off.
00:49:36
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I don't want that. This is the role of anger that can be very unnecessarily destructive. It's when you leave things unchecked. This is when everything gets burned in path without any kind of you know guardrails on it.
00:49:53
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But when you wield this type of fire with wisdom, right, it clears the way for transformation. It clears the way for an evolution. surprisinging Suppressing it entirely really just doesn't work. I mean, come on.
00:50:06
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When has that ever led to peace? Anybody who's ever been with anybody who's extremely aggressive or who's ever had a boss that's super aggressive knows that being a yes man doesn't make the person nicer to you.
00:50:17
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it It just delays the inevitable. At some point, they're going to yell at you for no reason. why It builds up this pressure until things explode because it's inevitable that it is going to explode.
00:50:29
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So true mastery is learning when to let the fire burn and when to let it rest and to do all of these things with the intention of creating something better.
00:50:39
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I've seen, you know, um ah living in Europe for so many years and especially traveling a lot to France. France is very, very big on protesting, right? The French will protest anything. And it's it's an amazing social cultural tool that they've learned how to use.
00:50:54
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And I've seen so many instances where this, um especially in smaller communities, like I remember I was reading once about wine and they were talking about certain protests that the winemakers in certain regions would have.
00:51:07
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But they did it from the perspective of pushing out something that they felt was destructive, but then enhancing the thing that they felt was very good for the community and therefore creating an enriched wine section altogether. And I think that that's the way protests should be used.
00:51:22
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I can't just think I'm going to go stand up there with a sign or I'm going to create some space and I'm going to try to stop something. I have to then support the new thing that needs to come into it. And so this is where humans can actually be you know agents for very strategic disruption, because we often hesitate to be the force of disruption, fearing that we're going to be too harsh or too demanding or too much in general, but nature shows us that destruction and is really a necessary thing. Just like, again, plants spread where they're needed and fire resets an ecosystem, we too have a role to play in shaking things up for the better.
00:51:59
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The key really is flow, knowing when to push forward and when to step back, when to burn and when to rebuild, when to stand firm, and when to soften.
00:52:11
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This isn't about fighting just for the sake of fighting. It's not about your ego. Put that ego aside, right? It's about consciousness and awareness and knowing how to use this as a tool. It's about mastery, just like nature does.
00:52:24
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So Not every battle, to be honest, is worth fighting, right? Not every cause needs you needs your energy in the middle of it. I've had plenty of things that I've walked away from and actually been happier about.
00:52:36
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I walked away from a certain big project that I was working with even here in Dahmenhurst several years ago, but I ended up getting a master's. i got more you know I got my ah coaching certification.
00:52:47
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I moved into a deeper relationship with plants and now entering back into, you know, being responsible for Dom and her international working a lot with our initiates around the world.
00:52:58
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I am much more equipped to create these fantastic relationships. to present the music of the plants and other projects that I am a part of. And I do it with a much more mastery that allows me to grow. Plus it gave time for Dom and her to, to mature certain parts of what was happening here in the community. So it was a win-win.
00:53:18
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That was one of those times when walking away was the smartest thing I did. So some plants really, um, are always looking for when is the right time for them to emerge. For example, you have plants like fireweed that emerges after the destruction. So not everybody creates the destruction. Some of them emerge afterwards.
00:53:38
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And so knowing your place, like, are you somebody who is going to do best if you come in in this way in another way? Should you be the one to break that down or should you support others that break that down because you're going to come in afterwards and help rebuild?
00:53:50
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Like there's lots of little considerations to do. But if you take the time for these considerations, then that is the strategic use of that righteous indignation and of that anger. So anger works in that way, knowing when to stand your ground, when to make your voice heard or when to instead like ah Let something pass you by because it's not that important.
00:54:14
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The smartest choice is a choice that's made consciously, whether that is, you know, standing up to an injustice or whether that's stepping back and conserving your energy and waiting for a more effective way to create that change.
00:54:26
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Walking away isn't always defeat. It can be very, very, very strategic. And that's really the difference between an uncontrolled wire wildfire and a very calculated and careful burn managed burn.
00:54:40
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One destroys everything and the other clears space for renewal. And this is a very Important distinction. Reactive anger is just a big, giant wildfire. It flares up instinctively, often leaving destruction. It even burns down things you never wanted to burn down.
00:54:58
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Intentional anger is different. It's a tool. It's wielded with precision and purpose and mastery. It doesn't consume, it transforms and it makes space for evolution.
00:55:10
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So developing that mastery over anger means moving beyond reaction and into strategy. It's about pausing before lashing out, assessing whether this moment requires fire or something completely different.
00:55:24
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It's the difference between setting boundaries with clarity and burning bridges unnecessarily. You know, mistletoe, for example, and doesn't really spread key's energy everywhere. Key finds the right host at the right moment, usually a tree high up and takes only what key needs to survive because being a parasite means that because that plant is high up, if something, if that, if mistletoe takes too much, the entire tree dies, but mistletoe.
00:55:54
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Not only doesn't deplete the tree, but it keeps the tree kind of in check. It integrates key integrates into the tree and creates a symbiotic relationship that sustains both mistletoe and the overall ecosystem, but not by not allowing that tree to get too big, to take up too space, to hold others back.
00:56:16
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And this is how really anger should function for you. Not as a blunt force weapon, but as a surgical tool used wisely. It can be a force for growth, for connection and necessary change.
00:56:31
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This challenge that I'm giving you, which is the challenge I'm taking on myself is not to suppress anger or to let it take over, but it's about mastering the flow, knowing when to ignite the fire,
00:56:46
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and when to let embers cool and mastery really means wielding anger with the same intelligence as nature uses every single day purposely, precisely, and always, always, always never forget this part in service to something that's greater.
00:57:08
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So i want you to leave you I want to leave you with a few questions that I ponder myself to try to understand how to work closely with nature. The first one is when is anger the right tool for action? This is something that you should ask yourself continuously.
00:57:25
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When is compassion the better response? Kind of looking and seeing how it feels in your body, asking your plant partners, you know, taking a walk and being in nature and allowing the response to also come if you don't feel like you can judge it clearly.
00:57:40
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And how do we learn from nature, especially from aggressive behaviors? invasive and parasitic plants, right? To use our emotions more effectively. And this is something that's great for you to work on, like to journal on, to spend some time in with a very specific plant asking this question.
00:57:58
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Like how can you, especially if it's an aggressive, like a dandelion or something or a parasitic plant, How is it that you use your skills, even those that destroy, and how can those how can those help shape my own emotions so that I can be much more effective?
00:58:16
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Because mastering the fire within is is like I said over and over again, not about suppressing anger or forcing balance. It's about flowing between strength and softness and knowing when to blaze forward and when to just let things be, because sometimes you just got to walk away.
Reflection and Community Engagement
00:58:33
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So Learn from the plants, how to disrupt, how to regenerate, and how to restore, how to harness our own emotions for growth rather than just simply disruption, but not being afraid to destroy when it's necessary.
00:58:48
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So take some time to really reflect on how you're using and how you're working with anger in your own life. Is it serving you? Is it guiding you towards the change that you want to create? And let's keep this conversation going. I want you to reach out to me with share your thoughts. Like, remember, like hit the like button, subscribe, hit the notification bell if you're on YouTube, but also leave a comment. And if you're in a place like a podcast app that doesn't allow you to leave any kind of comments, come into the Naturally Conscious Community.
00:59:17
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You know, naturallyconsciouscommunity.com, super easy to find. And let's have this conversation. We're not meant to navigate our emotions alone. The plants know this, right? Kin don't suppress their own nature.
00:59:28
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They grow, adapt, and use unique traits to support the ecosystem around them. And we can do the same, but we need to be sharing in order to be able to do that. We need to experiment. We need safe places where we can play this.
00:59:42
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So if you're feeling the pull to really engage with your emotions differently, to stop either fighting or suppressing your anger and instead mastering your flow, then you don't have to figure this out alone and you don't have to worry about whether or not you're going to destroy something as you practice.
00:59:58
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Come into the naturally conscious community. This isn't just a place for us to talk about plant wisdom theoretically. It's where you learn how to apply it. So your emotions become these tools that you can grow with. They're not your obstacles.
01:00:11
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And if you're looking for deeper guidance, I'm here to help you as a nature inspired mentor and a life coach. I love working with people like you, those who want to channel their emotions with purpose rather than being controlled with them.
01:00:24
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And the plants already show us how. So together we can help you integrate their wisdom into your own life. So if this resonates with you, don't wait. Join us in the Naturally a Conscious community or book a call with me today. All the information that you need is, of course, in the show notes because the power that you're looking for is already within you. You just need to learn how to wield it.
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So thank you for being a part of this journey and this conversation. And thank you for being here all the way to the end of this episode. Remember to resist the urge to hold back your emerging green brilliance.
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Thanks for tuning in to this episode of Reconnect with Plant Wisdom. To continue these conversations, join us in the Naturally Conscious Community, your premier online ecosystem for plant reawakening and accelerated evolution and co-creation with other kin.
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Here you'll find expansive discussions, interactive courses, live events, and supportive group programs like the Plant Wisdom Book Club and the Sprouts Writing and Creativity Group. Connect with like-minded individuals collaborating with plants to integrate these insights into life. Intro and outro music by Steve Shuley and Poinsettia from The Singing Life of Plants.
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That's it for me, Tigria Gardenia, and my plant collaborators. Until next time, remember, resist the urge to hold back your emerging green brilliance. I'm out. Bye.