Tory Schafer

I don't need to always give in and react to the environment I'm in.

I can actually choose how I wanna step into the environment.

And going back to being in Minnesota, I hope you listened today because I am truly touched by how many people are going out and being activists.

The one thing that I think is truly important is I believe activism has a beautiful thing and has a platform for change when we come from a place of love.

and a place of truth.

And it's really easy in this world today, because you see so much divisiveness.

I might have just made up a word there.

But when something doesn't go the way that I truly believe, I point a finger and go, no, you're wrong.

And as soon as we start doing that, the ears shut, we no longer are able to listen and a conversation can't happen.

But it's coming from stress.

But if I can slow down and take myself from sympathetic to parasympathetic state, and I can go, I know my truth.

Okay, I wanna speak my truth.

How do I do that with kindness?

And when I do it from a place of love and kindness, I'm more open to having conversations and understanding their perspective.

Hopefully they'll get a little bit of my perspective and that's always gonna hopefully build community with purpose.

And I think those are key elements that when you do have a consistent yoga practice or meditation practice, by the way, when I say yoga, that includes learning how to breathe,

That means moving your body in a way that is helping you connect.

It's helping to calm the fluctuations of the mind and do anything that brings light and joy into your life, whether that's singing, dancing, moving.

Those are all things that we should add more of into our lives before we go step into these hard conversations, whether it's with significant others or at jobs or just in the political state of what we are.

No, it's more than okay.