Three Tips to Manage the Fire Personality
1. Stay Cool! Avoid excessive sun exposure. Avoid excessive spicy and sour foods.
2. Leave Time for Play: Play for the sake of playing, not winning. Find non-competitive ways to play and enjoy life.
3. Non-Judgement: Meditate on being non-judgmental. Judgement is at the root of being critical and getting angry. Start by seeing your judgements. When others are doing something, you see as “wrong” or “bad”. Rather than get angry, get compassionate!
Fire is the Force of Transformation
In the mind, fire is responsible for the digestion of information or comprehension. While everyone has each of the five elements present to some degree in the mind, some individuals have more fire than others.
Fire is hot, dry, light, unstable, hard, sharp, flowing, subtle, rough and clear. Individuals with more fire in their personality will have more of these qualities present. Fiery personalities are passionate. They have strong feelings with great clarity. This is a function of the hot and clear natures of fire. They are also focused, a function of the sharp nature of fire. Focus and passion lead to being goal oriented and the greater likelihood that the fiery person will achieve their goals and do so through persistence, great effort and detailed planning. The fiery person can also use the light of their fire to see clear solutions to problems and to plan strategies to overcome them.
When the fire is burning too strongly, those with a fiery personality become too intense about achievement. Their tendency for clarity and clear perception turns into arrogance as they begin to believe that they know best. They become critical of others who think or believe differently, and they are prone to heated emotions such as anger, resentment and jealousy.
