# Harness Your Gift, Don't Try To Control It | DIVO- Ted Talks

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Published: 2026-04-27T15:11:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nicholas-wade-kimps/episodes/Harness-Your-Gift--Dont-Try-To-Control-It--DIVO--Ted-Talks-e3ihliq
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## Resource

If working with your own gift feels like a fight, you might be confusing control with collaboration. ⸻ Quote from the Episode “Be authentic and know what the difference between control and collaboration is.” ⸻ Description There is a difference between forcing your gifts and learning how to work with them. Sometimes a skill, ability, or part of ourselves comes back into our life, and the real practice is knowing whether we are trying to control it, avoid it, or collaborate with it. This talk moves through authenticity, perfectionism, high standards, yoga, Ayurveda, and the right amount of effort. When we learn how to meet what is coming through us with awareness instead of force, the practice itself can become part of the healing. ⸻ A Map of Wisdom Here are some of the places we go together in this talk: ✦ Control Versus True Partnership ✦ Control vs. Collaboration ✦ Your Gift Wants To Be Shared ✦ Yoga And Ayurveda At The Heart Of It ✦ The Right Dose Is the Medicine ⸻ Markers on the Path (00:00) - Why Harnessing Got a Bad Name (01:27) - The Harness Is How You Communicate (03:48) - The Gift Is Meant To Be Shared (05:00) - High Standards Are Not Perfectionism (06:11) - Find Your Right Amount ⸻ Something to Sit With Where in your life are you trying to control a gift that's actually asking you to collaborate with it? ⸻ A Restorative Step: Take 60 seconds. Close your eyes. Bring to mind one skill or gift you carry. Ask quietly, am I working with this, or am I trying to force it. Notice what the body answers before the mind does. __________ Stay Connected: 🌐 DIVOWellness.com 📬 Subscribe to Newsletter 📍 DIVO Wellness — Greensboro, NC — 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way

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