Wance Revolution no thats not a typo
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thank you thank you
so what did you just witness
you may have had a few thoughts running
through your brain like
is she okay
is she in the wrong place
she crazy
maybe but in a highly functional and fun
sort of way what you just witnessed is
what i have deemed as vance
it’s a combination of dancing while you
walk
putting a little extra pep in that step
it’s the subtle art of not giving a hoot
while also spreading good vibrations
and it really is that simple you
literally just have to dance
as you walk
walk plus dance equals wins
i’ve been wanting and spreading it to
local communities for over a year now
and i haven’t looked back
so i gave you a nice visual voice as i
found my way onto this very prominent
red circle but there’s a lot that you
couldn’t see that’s really at the core
of wands
the cardiovascular the cardiovascular
effects or the smiles that emerged in
the audience or the energy that filled
the room
but more than anything
it was the release of shame and judgment
that i had to experience before coming
onto the stage and performing such an
act
it’s amazing what happens in your life
after you’re able to eradicate yourself
from fear and opening yourself up to
you
so wan says nothing new per se i’m sure
most of you have wants without even
realizing it
i for one can’t help but groove along to
my favorite tunes if i hear it pop on
which is exactly how this initiative
began
so travel back to 2020. oh i know i know
i know
many of us do not want to go back there
it was very dark and heavy for a lot of
us
but as i reflect on that time i also see
the beauty and potential that can come
with those darker phases
as per
so here i was april 2020 furloughed and
sequestered to the home front adjusting
to the far overuse phrase the new normal
and as an extrovert who gets their
energy from being around people
that first month was rough it was rough
mentally physically emotionally i saw my
screen time skyrocket week over week
my time energy
lots of fake money was getting invested
into jackpot party casino
it wasn’t good it wasn’t it wasn’t a
good use of time at all
but finally the facebook algorithms gave
me something productive to do with my
time
it was a class for free from yale
university called the science of
well-being i was like all right let’s do
this
so i started hitting the books and
stopped hitting the fake slats
my stint as a yale student
if you will
was quite a catalyst
okay so i didn’t actually finish the
class but man did i get a lot from it it
really started changing my previous
perceptions on what it meant to obtain
happiness and what that really meant
at this point i was going down a rabbit
hole on my quest for true authentic
happiness and the meaning of life i was
reading book after book doing the
homework from class
i joined some really amazing
transformative community online
communities and met some just incredible
people through those means
i was basically information hoarding
from absolutely any perspective i could
learn from
it finally made a real impact
when i put these in with the information
i was hoarding and these self-care tools
to practice
and when i stopped absorbing external
information perspectives and opinions as
my own
and started creating my own standards
one of the things i started to do more
was go into nature more go into walks
often listening to my favorite music
and previously indicated can’t really
help but not want to groove along to my
favorite music as i’m going on this
block so here i was having the time of
my life on these nature walks just
grooving along
but
i would stop every single time a person
would walk by a car would drive by or
i’d walk by a neighbor’s house
it was the day i stopped caring if
anybody saw me that i experienced the
biggest sleep in self-growth
i mean why stop the joy with me imagine
spotting someone on the side of the road
just grooving along with the utmost
enthusiasm and expression let me tell
you i’m pretty enthusiastic
wouldn’t that make your day
yeah at the very least make you smile
with the assumption i was getting some
smiles out of this i never stopped
dancing on my walks and i never felt
better or more sure about myself in my
life
on one of those walks that really hit me
i just found the most amazing way to
consolidate radical self-love
and the ability to spread an abundance
of joy all into one experience
and it’s exercised
what kind of impact could that have on a
larger scale
from those really exciting thoughts
lance was born
so by july august 2020 i really started
devoting more of my time to wants and
starting it in a group fashion in local
communities
the more i lanced the more benefits i
noticed
so let’s start with the internal
benefits
i mean we all know exercise is good for
you i’m no health expert but i’m pretty
sure there’s a long list of benefits to
exercise but i won’t go in it go through
it i’m not the expert
but i know it’s like really really
really good for you but it’s not
necessarily everyone’s cup of tea
especially if it’s not something you’re
looking forward to
but wants
it seriously feels more like you’re
doing the cupid shuffle at your favorite
cousin’s wedding more than it does a
full body workout but it is
you’ll end up profusely sweating well at
least i do
working muscles through your entire body
all while going at your own pace
and it’s so fun and it’s so rejuvenating
and what’s even cooler than that
it starts to
rewire your brain and brain and thoughts
on exercise
and then what was even cooler it started
rewiring my thoughts and perceptions on
other more mundane repetitive boring
aspects of life too
i mean
if you can turn a walk into a dance
party you can make anything fun
and i think it’s time we learn to have a
little fun again
so channel that inner child and make fun
a high priority on that list of
self-care
because i’d be willing to bet the
happiness that most of us are searching
for
are right in those moments
another theory i developed on this
venture is that if you can rance on a
busy street
you can do anything
i mean it if you can land on a busy
street a plus good for you because that
means you have a much higher propensity
to not care what anyone thinks of you
and those thoughts hold us back so much
more than we ever realize
so if you find yourself kind of in that
cycle of thoughts being paranoid about
other people’s thoughts judgments or
perceptions of you i have a secret and
you’re going to hate it
it’s not that it’s you
those are your thoughts that’s your
imagination being negative it’s your
brain creating false stories and
narratives of situations you have no
idea whether whether or not it’s true
and with the smallest small small small
small small chance that it is true one
you’re probably way over inflating it in
your head to who cares
who cares what people think of you at
the end of the day big picture
who cares what anyone thinks of you
besides yourself
so if you find yourself in the cycle
those cycle of thoughts i have some tips
first of all figure out where it’s
rooted from because i promise you it’s
rooted somewhere
tend to it
and then cut out the crap because it’s
only keeping you playing small
another tip that i have for that is from
lance
i highly encourage you all to get out
there and vance on your own because it’s
an amazing experience in itself but i
created these group based events so that
people wouldn’t have to do it by
themselves so it could be a collective
experience
so that those feelings those fears that
naturally arise when you put yourself
out there
you don’t have to do it alone
it’s as much of a social and creative
outlet as much as it is a tool for
improving your health
self-care and
learning to have fun again
so we know how wands can impact you as
the individual
but you know what i think is one of the
coolest parts about wands
the potential it has to impact our local
communities and future generations
one of the first reasons i started wands
at the time i did as a free and public
option was because
the world needed it the world needed
lightness positivity fun playfulness
positive yeah
the world was basically begging for
someone to start something like this if
you ask me honestly so i did
like i said i probably got a few smiles
out of you as i came out of this stage
lancing
but imagine a group of us
there is power in numbers my friends
sure we get some weird looks on our
wednesday wants us but more than
anything we make a heck of a lot of
people’s days
we get people grooving on the street
with us people from all the crap from
across the street people are honking by
as they fist pump past us
it’s absolutely incredible to see that
visual impact that we’re making
but i hope that there’s an impact that i
don’t see too
that those children that i always notice
observing these grown humans as they’re
pronouncing on the sidewalks
that when they see that
it gives them the courage to always be
themselves
that when they see these grown humans
prancing away
that they know that there’s no reason in
the world to have shame for any any
reason
we can preach these things all day long
but
i think what’s most important
is that we lead by example and create a
space space safe space for the next
generation to be themselves
so the invitation to join me in rants
revolution is out there to all of you
here today as i’d really like some help
in making this a thing because i think
it’s got a lot of potential i really do
right now we’re lancing on everyone’s
wednesday on wednesdays because mid get
over the midweek hump and alliteration
makes it a little bit more fun makes a
good hashtag too
there’s anywhere between five and 20 of
us spreading joy through that town
so that invitation helped me make this a
thing is out there to everyone
but what i’m really here to do is to see
how you can integrate those basic
elements of wants into your everyday
life
where can you spread a little bit more
light into this world
where do you let fear or anything
outside of yourself pave your own path
where do you need to let go of fear
and let in a little bit more fun
how can you live in each moment and turn
each moment into an adventure
how can you turn exercise or anything
more mundane
into an expression that lights you up
where do you need to just let go
and let lance
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