Simran: In sports, we talk about practice as a way to prepare ourselves for the big moments. But what I found is without real intention behind bringing those ideas into practice, like they just are so distant from who we actually are. "I've seen that in their most vulnerable moments, when people have lived lives where they've practiced daily," he says.
Following 9/11, Simran Jeet Singh's Sikh family in Texas was subjected to extreme racist abuse. And yet, Simran's father chose to look on the bright side and offer thanks instead for the acts of kindness friends and neighbors showed them. How was such optimism possible?
Simran - author of The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life - explains how practicing positive habits and living by our values as often as we can will really help when a crisis arises.
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