Ep.83 Three Lessons from Plants to Increase Productivity

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Hello, Hello, everyone! Welcome back to another episode of reconnect with plant wisdom. It’s me, Tigrilla Gardenia.

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How are you? I am doing really. Well, this morning it’s morning time for me. The only problem I’m having is since I record audio and video. The light has changed because of the time of the year. And I still after. You know now all this time that I’ve been recording the podcast in the fall to winter months, I’m still learning on how to get the lighting in here right? So it takes me a while to just set everything up

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and just try to get a lighting that makes sense. Then after a while, I, after trying to adjust it in several ways I have.

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because I’m in front of a window. I am when I work, and we’re going to get into this in this episode. But my desk is in front of a window that leads to a giant meadow with a river in front of it, and I have always had to have a view to the outside, a view to nature in some way, shape or form, even if it’s

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a tree and some grass near a parking lot, the way that I am most productive is throughout the course of the day.

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If I can just gaze out the window a little bit, and sometimes I just sit there and stare out. And even before I started working directly with plants, this had always been something that was important to me. As a matter of fact, when I used to work in Microsoft

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the way it was, I don’t know if it’s still like that now, but where it was back then is that you started off on an internal office. Luckily for Microsoft, everybody had offices, but you started an internal office, which obviously means I didn’t have a window, and so I would often go to kind of the common areas. And I would just sit there and stare outside the window. Sometimes it’s just the way that I had always processed things, and

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I’m not really thinking about anything when I do it. I’m just doing it. I just sit there and sort of gaze out, and somehow that recharges me so

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in all of my setups every time I’ve always had a home office or any kind of office. My my desk has to face the actual window, or a way that I can easily look out the window. It’s always been an important aspect for me, and in places where maybe I was near I don’t know a parking lot or something, I would stare up at the sky, but usually it was towards the plants. So

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my mornings I have some mornings where what I dedicate myself

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to the plants, and but when I’m setting up to record because I want to record in the morning, because I feel more energized, it takes me a while because I got to kind of close the window up and get the lighting right, and so, if it doesn’t look beautiful, I apologize, but

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I don’t, you know. Sorry, not sorry because I want to. Do you know, I want the information that I bring to you to be the most important aspect of this, and in particular. This conversation is very much tied to that, because what I want to talk to you today is about kind of what what it means to be productive, and

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you know we oftentimes feel very overwhelmed by the demands of being productive. I have several of my clients of my one-on-one coaching clients, where much of the work that we do at the very beginning is to, as we’ve coined with one of my clients that has become now a kind of meme between us that we use is, how do I get comfortable sitting on the couch eating bonbons?

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The reason for this is because the hustle culture has been such a strong force in most of our lives, especially as women, especially as you know, entrepreneurs, or even people who are trying to build up a career of some sort. The culture is so tied to the idea of hustle. I need to get more done. I need to move, and then that oftentimes leads to Burnout, and I’m glad that now there is a discussion happening around Burnout

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when I was in the corporate world. Nobody talked about burnout you just you just did it.

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You just ran yourself to the core, and you did as much as you can. It’s this fast paced world. Now you have to understand from my perspective. I started my career at the height of the Internet, you know, like the height. I don’t know what you would call the height, but it was like where the Internet bubble the original Internet bubble. So we were chasing. We were chasing to get things out as fast as possible. It was very common

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to work, you know, to get to work at 8 o’clock in the morning, and to be there at 11 o’clock at night, if not midnight. I’m sure that there are many industries that are still doing that kind of schedule. Now I have to give credit that that period of time especially also gave birth to like play hard. So we did have, you know.

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so many types of activities that the company would sponsor real networks as well as Microsoft to help us sort of blow off steam, but that was because we were working so freaking hard, and it wasn’t like

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you were being told you have to be in the office. It’s that you were working on releases that were coming out software that was shifting and changing on a regular basis. And you wanted to get it out there. So I really grew up in that fast paced hustle culture. I always had a pillow and a blanket in my office.

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because there were some times where I was just so exhausted that I would close the door, and there was a period where, I remember I didn’t even have a lock on my door, so I would literally put my body in front of the door, so I would close the door. I would shut the little blinds on the little window that I had.

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and I would curl up with my back against the door, with the pillow and the blanket on the hard floor. Yes, some people had

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little couches. I did not have an office that was that big I actually never had. No, that’s not true. I had one office that I eventually got a little couch for, and that was heavenly. But I would just throw myself onto the ground and sleep. I was so exhausted, and and everything was measured in your deliverables. Everything was about. How do I get things out? I remember that when I finally left that world

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i 1 of the things that i, 1 of the promises I made to myself, or one of the experiments really was. I don’t want to wake up with an alarm clock ever again.

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I want to see what it’s like when I just allow my body to naturally wake up whenever it fits. And that lasted probably a good 10

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10 years, where I never had to wake up with an alarm clock. I wake up with an alarm clock now, but not so much because of the work thing, but because

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I’m trying. I’m testing out different parts of my morning routine between breath work and body movement and creativity and stuff like that. So it’s a very different thing. It’s an alarm clock more to stimulate myself in a different way, and to work with my different allies in a different way. But but the point being is like that hustle. Culture is still there. And so

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in today’s fast paced world, we often overlook the wisdom that nature offers us to, to define, to redefine what is productivity. So in this episode, I want to share with you 3 very powerful, very important lessons that I’ve learned from the plants

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that transformed my approach to productivity.

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And and it really did change what.

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how I looked at, what it meant to be productive. What it meant to complete a project, and especially it gave it a very different you know what? Let’s just get into this. This is episode 83 3 lessons from plants to increase productivity, and discover yet another way that plants teach us to really thrive.

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Welcome, to reconnect with plant wisdom.

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I’m your host, Tigrilla Gardenia, nature-inspired mentor, certified life coach, and the founder of the naturally conscious community.

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For over a decade I’ve been known as a world ambassador for plant advocacy.

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working closely with plants to share their practical wisdom, to help you consciously embody the elements of life, that nourish your evolution.

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In this podcast I delve into ancient and modern knowledge, from biology to spirituality, about the wondrous ways of plants.

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Together we’ll explore how ecosystem thinking helps you overcome limiting beliefs, understand the true nature of relationships and live an authentic, impactful life. Okay, in this episode, I want to focus on 3 major. Let’s call them for now lessons. Okay, I don’t really know the right word. We might figure that out together as we go.

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but after you’ve heard them, you tell me what you would call them. You can leave me a comment or post it in the naturally conscious community, because I’m super curious as to what you would call it.

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We have such a limited vocabulary to the things we learn. It’s kind of like it’s a lesson, or it’s anyways, I’m getting caught up on that. And more than anything I think of them as ways of being. I think of them as changes that I’ve made.

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thanks to what the plants are teaching me

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about what it means to be alive and what it means to be a quote, unquote, productive member of society. And this has really changed. So yeah, sure, it’s a lesson, but I think of it more as a way of being. I’ll let you decide. You send me a message. You let me know what it is

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so. What we’re going to go is we’re going to kind of skim through a few these 3 different processes, because from ecosystem thinking to the importance of presence and the power of community. These lessons have really redefined what it means to be productive in a way that aligns with my natural rhythms, with our natural rhythms, and more importantly even than that

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is our true essence, like the authentic way that I express myself, and the authentic way that this comes out. Now, these 3 points that I want to focus on are going to be

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ecosystem thinking. And I use that term very very

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deliberately. I have studied systems, thinking, for example, with Fritav, Khapra and systems, thinking and systems, design and all these different aspects, and adding the Eco element to it. Eco is in an ecosystem really did change the way I approach these, the second one is presence, and really understanding what the differences between things like patience and presence and attentiveness, and all the awareness, and all these different aspects.

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and the last one is really connected to.

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I guess the easiest way that I can put them is

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what’s the word I’m looking for? Let me think about this for a second interaction and connection. So it’s really 2 words, I know. But it’s 1 concept. And I use this, even though it’s similar to ecosystem thinking. But this interaction and connection is really another element that I think is extremely important, so interaction and connection. I’m joining them together. They’re one thing

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you’ll understand why, by the end of this episode, I hope. I hope that’s my hope that you’re going to feel inspired to rethink of your approach to productivity, and consider how, working closely with plants and the wisdom that they share in their way of being will guide you towards this more, this flow and this fulfilling way of

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not just working, although working is an element of it. But I think of doing things or of being

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much of this episode, not this episode, but much of this, podcast, and much of my work, my work, especially with my one on one clients, as you know, and you’ve heard in my different

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episodes, where I’ve talked about when I shifted from different kinds of coaching and just decided to settle on life coaching. The reason I call it life coaching is because it gives me the opportunity to look at your entire life, to work with you to create a more harmonious life, a life that really fulfills you at 360 degrees.

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So sure we talk about work, and we talk about specific elements, because I do have a lot of experience as an entrepreneur and also as somebody who’s been in many different types of business from the arts to technology.

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So we do talk about that. And we do talk about family dynamics and family relationships. And we do talk about trauma. Sometimes I am not a psychologist, and when it comes to looking at that trauma as a backwards, thinking, I always will recommend that you have a therapist with you.

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I am helping you apply what you and your therapist discover into your future life slightly different. But I just wanted to clarify that because it’s something. Some people ask me when they start working with me, especially if we are going to talk about traumas or behaviors from the past, and things like that we look at them, but we bring them into the present and move them into the future. I do not work on the past anyways, just a slight clarification. But I really want you to understand that about work, that working with plants helps

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change again. Your way of being. We’re talking about your plantness.

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your humanness, your animalness, your beingness, who you are, and your authentic self, and how you integrate that into your day to day life. But before we keep going. I want to take a moment to share with you one of our eco-conscious business partners

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This very music is what sparked my own plant, reawakening, guiding me to reconnect with nature in an entirely new way.

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It’s an experience that has transformed my life and the lives of so many other people.

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Plant music is great for healing, sharing, and personal connection. Let’s continue our journey of personal evolution and plant consciousness, together

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with the songs of flance.

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So with that said, Let’s get into the 1st one ecosystem thinking.

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Now, ecosystem thinking is an approach that views kind of systems in general, whether we’re talking about natural or human-made systems as interconnected and independent, interdependent. Excuse me, interdependent networks.

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It really

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goes down to the heart of understanding how different components of an ecosystem interact and influence each other, leading to a more holistic perspective on problem, solving, on growth, on sustainability, on regeneration.

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So the reason we think about ecosystem thinking different than maybe even systems. Thinking is that systems thinking is almost mechanical in nature. There’s a lot of cause and effect. There’s a lot of how these things sort of interact with one another. Ecosystem thinking takes it a little bit a step beyond that.

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I was just recently studying with one of the people here in Dominhur I have 2 groups that I teach 2 groups of initiates that myself and I have another person that works with me on this. Who’s amazing. She’s so fantastic, and we are co-teachers or co-instructors, as we call them, of the School of Medicine for one of the groups, and then I have another group by myself.

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And in one of those groups we were talking about synchronicity. And what does synchronicity look like, and how one of the biggest elements of being able to read and work with synchronicity is to step out of cause and effect. In other words, synchronicity is not cause and effect. One is a law, a law of the universe, of how things happen in a synchronic way.

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The other one is sort of a principle that can be applied in very limited circumstances. And I think of that as like

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systems, thinking versus ecosystems, thinking systems. Thinking is a lot of cause and effect. Right? I do this. And then this is interactive. So it’s interconnected. So therefore, this happens and systems thinking really works on a more mechanical level. For me, this is the way that I have applied it.

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Ecosystems, thinking, being more holistic, is more about capturing that synchronicity. Sure, there are causes and effects like I do something, and that affects the system in some way, but it doesn’t necessarily affect the system in a direct way. It might apply itself synchronically in a very elongated way. And so

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I think of it more as having a layer of.

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I have to understand the different elements in the ecosystem, not just from what they do, but what they experience. So a big piece of ecosystem thinking has been interconnectedness, recognizing that all the parts of the system are linked and they’re linked on multiple different levels. And so, therefore, any change I make has a ripple effect throughout the system.

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Now, this is the same in biological ecosystems, but it’s also in social networks and in business environments in all kinds of different aspects. So when I am aware of that interconnectedness, and that the interconnectedness, as it does in an ecosystem is not just at the physical level, but it happens on multiple, physical as well as subtle levels. Then it changes the way that you interact with that.

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Another perspective that you start to experience when you start to shift into an ecosystem. Way of being is that there are adaptive cycles. Right? You have these. There are rhythms, there are cycles, there are phases of growth, there is moments of decline and of renewal.

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It really involves being aware and responding to all of these different natural cycles much how like plants react to the seasonal changes. A very simple one is seasonal changes.

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But let’s be honest. We know that moon cycles change the way that I experience things. There are other kinds of cycles that even get created at a cultural level, that change things. I’ve done a whole episode on this which you can go back and look through where I’ve talked about cycles. But once you allow yourself for yourself

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into this type of cycle

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to recognize how these cycles are a part of who you are and of your life.

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Oh, my goodness, there’s so much freedom! Because, for example, I just came out. I’m coming out right now of a period which is funny that we’re talking about productivity, where, from an external perspective, I was very unproductive. I was very unproductive. I spent large swaths of time in this cycle where I did nothing that was

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quote unquote for the external world. Productive. I would maybe watch TV, or I would sit on the couch and stare out at the, at the, at the scenery. I just.

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I felt like it was really important for me to just sit. This wasn’t a day. This wasn’t even a week. This was a period of time.

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and in that time my body was, you know, experiencing things. My mind was just randomly going over stuff I kind of at some point about halfway through it realized that there was a goal, but I couldn’t tell you. Oh, I’m working on this in some ways. There was no rhyme or reason external other than in my bones. In my very body, and especially when I would reach out to my plant. You know, partners was

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rest, just rest.

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and I knew I knew that there would be a day where I would wake up, and there was a lot of stuff that was just going to become clear. I have experienced these cycles before, and I trust myself so much

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that I know that these cycles for me, for the way that I am come and go, and I know that these cycles are always productive, even if they don’t feel productive while they’re happening. So, understanding from an ecosystem perspective, your cycles is not as easy as just saying, this is a rhythm like of the moon. This is the rhythm of the seasons. This is the rhythm. This is about getting to know yourself so much that you know your own rhythms

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and these rhythms might have a cadence like they happen at specific moments, but they could also just be things that happen to you, and that you know that when you enter into them for somebody else, they might have labeled it as depression, and it was a little bit. There was a little bit element for me of depression. I’ve had depression in the past. I’ve worked with therapists through it, but it was.

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how do I say this I don’t want to say feeding into it, because it wasn’t that it was allowing the depression to run through me.

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not getting stuck in it, but allowing myself to go through it, knowing that there was light at the end of the tunnel.

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And you know again, this is the reason why going back to what I had said earlier. For some people you need to work with a therapist to work through some aspects of it, and then with me to help you work on the future on how do you read those signs? How do you put things in place in order to ensure that going forward. It’s going to be productive like, how do you really plan for these cycles? For myself? Since I know

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that these cycles are mine, I’ll give you an example economically. I cannot rely for myself on just

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monthly income in a certain way, because when these cycles hit, I know that I’m not going to be as economically solvent as I usually am.

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So, because I know this, and I can think about my life as an ecosystem. I plan for this and ahead. I have moments where I make more. I have savings that I work through. I think about my life in the sense that this cycle is going to hit, and there is going to be a period of time where I am not going to be bringing in large amounts of money that is independent of the seasonal cycles that I know how my work goes with my clients that I know. So I plan

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that for the case, that because I don’t always know when these types of cycles are going to hit. I plan in advance for the ability to ride that, to let myself be in it without stressing myself out that oh, my goodness, I need to snap out of this because I need to. I need to make money. And so this goes to another principle which is about, you know, diversity and resilience, that when you recognize that you yourself.

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as well as the people around you, and the systems that you’re tied into have a certain amount of diversity. They operate in different things. Then you build up a certain type of resilience because your resilience is made up of the recognition of how to move in these different cycles.

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The resilience comes from knowing that because there’s diversity within your own thinking, but also within the elements and the people and the opportunities around you. You can build up on what looks like an overarching resilience, even if you in a moment are in a moment of weakness. So

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basically recognizing and like an ecosystem, the diversity around you having lots of elements of diversity around you. Remember, we’re all multipotentialites. Man we have tons of different strengths to pull from.

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I’m better equipped to adapt to any kind of change or challenge that might come my way, because I know this again. We’re going back to that authentic self because I acknowledge to myself that I have depression. You know, moments that are depressive moments. I have my these types of periods that happen because I can accept that. That’s who I am.

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and because then I look for the diversity around me. I’m better able to adapt when things happen, either by allowing it and changing things in my circle in my purview, in order to be able to

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go through it, or because I myself can change. You know what’s going on in my life. Hopefully, that’s clear. Again. If you have any questions on this, you can always ask me, just send me an email, or you know, book a call with me, or you can find me in the naturally conscious community.

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So a few other little elements that I think are important when it comes to ecosystem thinking. It’s also that has helped me with productivity. Because, again, what we’re talking about in all this is that productivity?

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Well, I’ll get to that at the end. We’ll get there because I want you to understand the concept so well, and then we’ll put it all together at the very end.

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The other thing that we’ve talked about a lot in this podcast and I do encourage you if you haven’t, you know, if you’re new, if you haven’t heard it, or even if you want to hear it again, is to remember about flow.

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Flow is what you want to go through. It is not about balance to create a static, but it’s about being able to move through states of balance and imbalance in order to create a harmonic flow. So in a system, when you’re thinking about again your ecosystems

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you’re thinking about, I’m getting to know myself. I’m pulling in parts around me that do things, or can experience things in ways that I don’t necessarily know how to do. Well, or maybe that’s just not my skill set. I often talk about this relating to people who are very chaotic thinkers, who are people who, you know. They just don’t have a lot of those logical elements, and how important it is to have people around you that have those logical elements.

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but also to remember that because of that, because one might have a preponderance of

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putting together things in a way that’s outside the box, and somebody instead might be very can see all of those connections, and can put them together. And then what’s happening is that you have a harmony that gets created between these 2 types of, let’s just say people or structures or stuff. But in order for that to even grow there is going to be times of

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strife. There’s going to be times when you’re out of sync. And that’s good, because the out of sync forces you to reevaluate the system, to see what it takes to put it in sync, and more likely than not. The in sync is going to be an evolution, a growth, a move in another direction.

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So all of this brings about a more comprehensive view that integrates multiple dimensions, environmental, social, economic, and all of this becomes part of your decision making and your problem solving so that your productivity increases, not because my output

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on a regular basis is the same, but instead, because there is an overarching productivity, and in doing it in this way the sense of satisfaction, the sense of beingness, the sense of being your true self

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enhances your sense of success.

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and so that the productivity is not just about an output, a number a product. It’s not about that. It is. Again, it goes back to a way of being so. My productivity becomes a state of mind

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feeling productive. Even if I’m sitting on the couch doing nothing.

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nothing from the perspective of the external world. But if I’m sitting on the couch watching TV,

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I know I am being productive, because I know that this respite, this this taking time for my own self in the long run, is creating, or even in that moment is creating a peace of mind. That overall means that when I do sit down to work I am going to be able to just

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get things done physically. So my productivity doesn’t come from the individual moments. My productivity comes from an overall state of being aware that I am able to accomplish all of my goals while still taking care of myself while still being present while still being in it.

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in whatever way is in it for me for that moment. So by adopting this type of ecosystem thinking individuals and organizations and the things around you create a more sustainable, because now I can do this for a longer period of time unadaptable.

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because I’m able to weather any kind of challenge that comes my way, because I have this deep sense of knowing myself and of knowing the elements around me and my ecosystem, and how I can lean on them, or take on more, or move through it, or step out of it completely, and then step back into it. I get to understand all of these pieces.

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and it ultimately leads to what is called flourishing. Flourishing is not an element of everything is amazing.

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Flourishment is what’s called positive mental health. Positive mental health is definitely a term we don’t talk about enough.

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but when I’m flourishing. I have my moments of negative mental health, like I was talking about my bout of being, you know, depressed and down, and having, you know I did my fair share of crying and of getting things through my system, and of experiencing and not wanting to get up and stuff like that, but because I know that my overall state is in flourishing in positive mental health. This becomes just a part of a cycle.

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and I know that. And I know inside of myself the things that I need to permit, the things that I need to allow and give myself in order to go through it, learn from it in whatever way that learning is, and then apply that learning going forward. So it’s about really seeing the big picture and working with the flow of life with the capital. L, like, I always say, rather than against it.

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And this is really what productivity looks like for a plant. Rhythms, cycles reacting to changes, anticipating problems, adaptability when to push forward and compete versus, when to let go learning about, integrate and integrating all of these elements slowly over time has allowed me to redefine what productivity means for me no longer is it just output

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now it incorporates my own health status, and how that affects the collective that I’m a part of from the micro pieces all the way out to the micro.

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Wow. I spent a lot of time on that one, but it’s such an important concept hopefully, that makes sense

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and take a sip of my wonderful hibiscus, Egyptian hibiscus tea.

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Luckily I have a friend that brings it to me from Egypt, which is great.

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Okay, the second element that I want to talk about presence.

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I love this word so much. I used to think that my answer, that what I was looking for and what I needed most was patience. Now I’m a quick thinker. Okay, that often means that I’m a quick reactor.

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I thought that part of what I needed to do and learn was how to sit with things longer, how to be patient, how to let things unfold.

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and while this is

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partly true, it is true. But what I realize more than anything right now is that without presence

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that period of patience

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doesn’t take anything in. Therefore, even when you do react, or when something happens to you, you only have partial data

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being present, changes. The timeframe of things

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being present allows me to receive, even if it’s in a passive mode or an active mode. In other words, patience seems to be thought of as I’m going to be passive, which is fine, totally necessary. And there are moments. I definitely am one that over time, even with my quick thinking, even being somebody that loves to act.

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I now have a slower pace in life, and I love it so much. I definitely get lots of things done. If you ask anybody. The most common question I get from my clients and my students is, how the hell do you do so much?

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And I do so much because of everything I’m talking about. I give myself large amounts of time in order to just be.

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but when I’m inspired

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I could work 12 HA day, 14 HA day, not from an external pressure, not because I have a deadline, but because I am so inspired. So I do that that’s my rhythm. My rhythm is to be present with my feelings, and to allow that when you’re present

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your timeframe changes, it allows you to receive and expand your view, and then it also allows you to integrate and consciously choose the actions that take that are based on your authentic

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reaction, your authentic expression.

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And if you think about this for for plants who are sessile, which means they don’t move. This is crucial, and that’s 1 of the biggest, probably one of the biggest lessons that plants ever taught me.

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I’ve talked about it multiple times about how, when I was in the woods one time I was sitting, and and the plants really helped me

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anchor in. How much was happening around me, even in that moment of stillness, how stillness with presence

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is recharging and relaxing in so many different ways, and yet still active and

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invigorating while being all calming. It’s this interesting dichotomy. Now, when we think about it from a plant perspective, right? We think about, for example, environmental awareness, right? How do I optimize my resources? Because plants really need to be aware of their environment in order to use

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resources like light and water and nutrients efficiently. How do I know when to grow and maximize my growth? And when do I step back? All of this is based on presence and presence in 2 different directions, presence external to myself. What is happening in the environment around me? Right? We were talking about ecosystem thinking. In order to get into that ecosystem, thinking I have to know my ecosystem, I have to be present and aware. I have to allow myself

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to sort of stop and take in what is happening and not always. Do you know you’re doing this? It’s not. It can be an act of action, but it cannot be when I was sitting there watching Youtube, you know, and Netflix. And and you know, relaxing.

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I was taking in a lot I was learning from the shows that I was watching, not because I was watching educational shows, but because I was giving myself permission to be in it.

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and to allow feelings to come up and allow expressions, and even to distract myself. But in those distractions things were always coming in. I didn’t necessarily actively process them, but I was present with them, and I allowed my mind to just go in whatever direction it needed to go, because that’s an important way of how I learn, being a multipotentialite with so many different

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different passions and talents, but also being a very alternative thinker with out of the box, I have to give myself permission to. I don’t know. Put together what the chilling adventures of Sabrina has to do with this court case, that I’m watching and has to do with this lesson that I’m learning in spiritual physics.

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Those are things that might not seem for most people to come together, but in my mind they can connect, and I can find the Union. That helps me better. Understand this right now. I am watching the chilling adventures of Sabrina on Netflix, and we’re talking about

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a rewrite inside of the plant inspired masterclasses. We’re doing a rewrite of the Garden of Eden from the focus of the plants and of the other characters. And it’s we’re talking about Lilith. And so Lilith is coming up in both of these, and it’s really helping me expand some of my thinking to bring these 2 elements together in some ways, and that ended up manifesting itself

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in a budding artistry which is our once a month in the Sprouts, writing and Creativity group. It’s a once a month where we, instead of writing, we actually draw. And we brought Lulith together in there. And it was really fascinating because it was giving myself permission to be educated from all these different

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stimuli that are coming around the aspect of Lilith and relation to plants. And all these different aspects that then manifested itself in a very.

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very different theory of the Garden of Eden. Like I, I now have a very different perspective of the relationship between

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Adam and Eve. More than anything, Eve Eve showed up really strongly, in a way that I did not expect. Anyways, I don’t. I’m

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I digress. If you are interested in that, come into blooming sprouts, you can participate in the planted, sir. Master classes as well as in the sprouts, writing and creativity group. Okay, let’s go back to presence. Another piece of presence is again what we are talking about relating to cycles

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adjusting my growth and my development in response to these different cycles. So when do I bloom? When do I fruit? When do I shed leaves? When do I absorb? When do I go into a more stillness. All of this requires

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presence, presence again to the external cycle happening around me, and presence to my internal cycles, and how that relates. And again, patience sort of naturally comes from that, because when I feel like I am within one of these cycles, it’s not hard for me to kind of wait until the cycle has finished its course in order to move on to a different area.

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Another piece of presence is that it allows me to be more adaptable to adapt to physical, to be responsive. I think that’s a better answer. When I am present it is easier for me to take stock of everything that I have, and that I am, and that I’m experiencing, and therefore I can adapt more easily to physical changes, or to any kind of emotional or spiritual change that is happening in my environment.

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This is something that plants do really well, right? When does a plant

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adapt to the growing environment. Like, I’m going to grow towards a water source, or I’m going to grow towards the light. And when, instead, does a plant know how to create the environment that is necessary, and this ties into, for example, regeneration. When does a plant allow themselves to heal

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where they are? But they just heal a piece that has been snipped off, or something that when do I allow this piece, this, this part of me, such as a leaf? When do I allow that leaf to naturally dry off, because I’m going to regenerate in a completely different direction in order to adapt better or to

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be more in tune with my environment versus. No, I’m going to feed that particular leaf, even if that leaf is not getting enough water, because overall the direction that I want to take. I’m

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I know that something else is going to come when that leaf passes a certain area, so

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plants have to be able to know when to heal and regenerate damage versus when, instead to allow that damage to to let go and move into another direction. And this is what presence allows me to do so when I’m present I can do that same thing. Regeneration takes on a much broader understanding, because regeneration now is connected to adaptability

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and as well as to integration of pieces, and I can. Then I have a wider breadth of reactions, especially when I’m looking at it. Going back to our 1st point in an ecosystem perspective. I might not need to regenerate that particular thing, because I’m going to get it from my ecosystem in that moment. But then, in the future. I might

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not have that in the ecosystem, so I need to generate it for myself.

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So this, this amount, this movement, this flow, as we keep talking about happens when I step into presence. And of course, then I’m much more productive because I’m not

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spinning my wheels. I’m not wasting energy into things that might not be useful. I am very deliberately

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and very naturally putting energy into the things that work well.

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All of this, though, really works with

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extremely good communication, and we’re going to touch on communication across all of these points. But I just want to emphasize it here in presence, because many of us think that presence is only the passive piece of presence, right, the receiving of it. And that is definitely a part, because a big chunk of communication is what I receive. So, without a doubt, receiving is important.

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But don’t discard the fact that presence is also about communicating your own needs, experiences, direction, action, and all these things plants, for example, communicate across multiple different streams. They use chemical signals, electrical signals. They have many different ways, some of which we still haven’t even discovered.

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So when you’re thinking about, I am being present, or especially, I’m present in an ecosystem. That two-way communication is so important. This is a reason in so many aspects. This is why I started

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my sharing of my work with plants, with the course reconnect with the plant kingdom, which is all about learning two-way communication. Because when you learn this two-way communication with plants.

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two-way communication with humans becomes so much easier because I now see different types of relationships. I see different types of communication. I start to learn that as a plant in my plantness, I have multiple ways that I can express myself, and it makes it easier for me to learn how to express myself with others in this way, so

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don’t discard communication, or think that it’s just about receiving communication presence is very much about being able to be in

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a state of receptivity, but also to be able to express out

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to whatever to whomever or whatever what is needed as well. It is about a two-way type of communication.

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So in essence, a plant’s form of presence really allows the plant to interact dynamically and interacting dynamically again, increases the plant’s productivity. Or, better, said efficiency, because it’s that efficiency with the surrounding that ensures survival as well as growth as well as evolution, and very important for a plant reproduction.

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Very important for all of us to be honest. Reproduction is not about only about children. Sure, that’s 1 aspect of it. But reproduction is about reproducing or sharing out what you are in order to ensure that it becomes a part of the ecosystem, and it can continue to carry on. And all of this is very is a kind of a sophisticated level of responsiveness and adaptability which

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serves as an inspiration for us to cultivate our own sense of presence and interaction with the world around us, and that is what leads to a sense of increased productivity. Because now I am. Every interaction has its purpose, its place, its movement, its way of being, its way, its reason for existence.

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So that’s why presence becomes such an important piece of productivity.

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The 3rd one that I wanted to go into is going to be around interaction and connection.

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And in this particular case we’re talking. It’s it’s a nuanced aspect of

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the ecosystem, because this is really about the fact that we are also in in order to be productive. It’s about interconnected growth. This is

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emphasizing how it is that both as a plant as well as as a human, we have to rely on our community, on the environment around us in order for us to grow and evolve. So

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it’s almost impossible for us to do things. Nor should we do things completely in a vacuum, and by ourselves, so interaction

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can make can look many different ways, right? The relationships with others can take on many different forms. But plants, for example, require interactions with the surrounding to ensure that can receive all the necessary resources and support in order to accomplish their goals. And you, having a part of plantness in. You

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also need that human connections of all different types. Some are going to be romantic, some are going to be business, some are going to be support, emotional support. Some are going to be spiritual support. And even within each one of those big buckets there are so many different levels. There’s going to be spiritual teachers that you just learn from. There’s going to be spiritual teachers and spiritual people around you that you interact with and that you explore.

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You’re going to share spirituality out. There’s going to be relationships that are going to be temporary. There’s going to be a long term. There’s so many different connection points.

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and all of these connection points when with presence, in order to not overwhelm yourself and try to do it. All which doesn’t help is what provides us with the emotional and intellectual nourishment that we really need to thrive. And in thriving we’re productive. The other piece of this is symbiotic relationships. So this is about.

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how do we engage in mutually beneficial partnerships? Kind of like, you know the mycorrhizal networks with the fungi?

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All these mycorrhizal networks that help plants

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get their message out and spread their nourishment around, and they also can enhance nutrient absorption. It’s just not just. I’m going to take things out, but or I’m going to move things. But it’s also I’m going to help you be better so, for as a human being it’s really important for you to build supportive networks and collaborative networks.

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Keep in mind something that I think is important to say, a symbiotic relationship

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can take on many different forms

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mutually beneficial. And I’ve done some episodes in this. I know I need to do many, many more episodes around relationships. And I’m going to, because it’s such. A.

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The human definitions are so limited, where the natural definitions are so much broader, and we’re only just starting to reconquer or rediscover a better word. What are all the different types of connections and relationships that we as human beings can’t have. And as we reawaken our inner plantness, and as we reconnect to our inner animalness

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we start, and even our divineness, we start to see that relationships can be much more, much broader, much more expansive, many more kinds than what we’re used to, but at a minimum, take into consideration that a competitive or antagonistic type of relationship, parasitic types of relationships.

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All of these are symbiotic relationships in and of themselves, and they can be very supportive. So when I say interaction and interconnection right when I’m talking about connections, do not discount the fact that an antagonistic connection could be really productive in a limited time, in a limited form, that parasitic connections. Either you being a parasite on someone.

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I rely on someone economically, while I’m going to school, or somebody relies on me while we’re working on a project. And they’re in the learning phases.

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All of these different symbiotic relationships can be extremely successful and extremely useful in limited times. So go back through some of the old episodes to understand relationships. But I just wanted to add that

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productivity requires me to allow space for lots of different types of relationships in their own period and cycle and longevity, rather than just relying on only making mutually beneficial relationships.

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The last 2 pieces that I want to touch on is adapting to your response, interaction and connection.

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learning how to adapt to what is coming at you from the environment?

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Whether that’s because through by growing into it, by changing myself, by applying it is not always bad.

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Yes, you always want to be true to your authentic self, to that core element of who you are, that part of it that is your element, your deep pattern. All of your personalities will need things. But that doesn’t mean that I can’t adapt, and as a matter of fact, I should adapt to what’s happening to me. I myself talk very freely, especially if you’ve done the befriend your limiting beliefs. Interactive webinar.

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You know that I talk really freely about periods of my life where I was very negative, and that negativity was very detrimental. But it wasn’t detrimental just because I was negative. It was because my negativity was tied to my ability to be very critical.

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and I didn’t know how to use that skill. Now, as I’ve learned how to use that skill, I am sought after because I can be really critical. I’m sought after because I can get into nitty, gritty details, and I could break it down in a way that allows you to see

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where there’s a problem. Or in my response, I had to learn how to back off

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from certain ways of speaking and certain ways of thinking because they weren’t giving me the ultimate goals that I wanted. I ended up mastering the skills that were important and then allowing the shape, the way that they get expressed to change, based on what my overarching goal was. And that has been the productivity.

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Sure, am I different? Yeah, of course, I’m different. But that’s how we grow. We grow because these feedback mechanisms we evolve faster together. So therefore, all these different mechanisms that I was receiving this feedback, this harsh

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harshness that was coming after me

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ended up teaching me how to use my skill sets better, and how to present that skill set. And now I am much more effective in being able to show problem spaces because I allowed the elements around me. I allowed people as well as situations to sort of show me other and new ways. I spend a lot of time in presence, listening to really good communicators to learn

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what are or to experiment with, I think, is a better way of saying with, How does my own authentic voice? How can it better express itself? And so that feedback mechanism from the community, that interaction, and that connection that I have really helps me become a better version of myself.

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And all of this leads me to a state of holistic wellness or holistic well-being, just as plants maintain their balance and imbalances, and flow through that and health

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and overall health through their ecological connections, sometimes taking in a little bit more damage than they can, but in order to overall, help the ecosystem, and then, later on, being nourished by some elements. We, too, can achieve that same level of holistic well-being by thinking of ourselves much more as cycles

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rather than a thing. I don’t need to always produce a physical product or a physical service or a physical output in order for me to be productive. Taking care of my health is also productive. Taking moments where I’m parasitic to somebody or something can be very rewarding in a long term. If that moment of being a parasite, whether it’s because you’re taking in knowledge, or because you’re resting, or because you’re taking economic help, or whatever is

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part of an overall flow, and it is in its own way, giving back to the overall ecosystem in some way, shape or form. That’s what truly nurtures a relationship and stays connected.

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So all of this requires that i, 1 get very much in touch with my authentic voice, which means liberating myself from all kinds of different conditioning, and evolving my limiting beliefs in order to find my true essence, because all of this

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requires me to truly know my true essence.

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And the thing is that when you apply these principles that I’ve talked about the work is actually much faster and more complete because I allow the others around me humans and other kin to be a part of this process.

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They provide very, very valuable mirrors, nourishment, and also context.

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I see myself more clearly through the behaviors of others, sometimes, or through the ways others act. There are moments when I have a really visceral reaction to something, somebody said.

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And I realize that the reason I’m having that reaction is because I do that, and that must be the way others interpret it, too. That mirror is valuable, and also on the other side, when I see a person making a really strong connection with somebody, and I recognize that I have those talents, too, and I can see how that person is applying those talents to create that connection. And I can be like oh, let me let me play around with that now, in order to not be.

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I play with it. I experiment with it. I give myself space to find my authentic way of expressing myself for it to pass. I take everything in, and I pass it through my own internal essence, and this allows me to be

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to take much more decisive action, and also to act with confidence. Right in general, we evolve better with others. We need to remember this. This is a principle of nature. Evolution is faster together.

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So, working with plants as mentors as models, and as measure, you know not only what would a plant do but what would a plant not do? We expand our own capabilities to sense and respond to the world as a being of nature in harmony with rhythms and needs, yet without losing ourselves in the process.

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So I invite you to reflect on these 3 lessons that we’ve talked about today. And again. I don’t know if they’re called lessons. I think of them as ways of being, but I want to hear from you, and I want to hear how you can apply them in your own life, so share your experiences with us in the naturally conscious community, and don’t hesitate to book a free call, a free discovery. Call with me to explore, and let’s learn and grow and evolve in together.

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and also in harmony with our own true nature. I hope you enjoyed this episode if you did remember to like to subscribe, to leave a comment.

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and I look forward to seeing you next week. Thanks for tuning in to this episode of reconnect with plant wisdom

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connect with like-minded individuals collaborating with plants to integrate these insights into life, intro and outro music by Steve Sciulli and poinsettia from the singing life of plants. That’s it for me, Tigrilla Gardenia and my plant collaborators until next time. Remember, resist the urge to hold back your emerging green brilliance. I’m out bye.