“If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change you will get results.”
_Robert Bloch
Have these chaotic times made it difficult for you to focus? I see young Philip, my nephew trying to attend school online – and how hard it is for him to focus. I see others trying to work from home. These are not our supportive environments where our body and mind automatically knows what to do, where to focus and what we should be doing. Not only are we surrounded by everyday distractions like that piece of cake calling for our immediate attention but we are also experiencing unprecedented emotions that either we don’t understand or can’t process quick enough.
Dance always brings our attention back to our body. We focus on the music, the movements and the beautiful experience of moving through space and time. For the duration of the dance we are totally focused. This seems to me a really powerful way to develop focus, learning to bring attention back to what we are engaged in at any moment. The concept of Deep Work (read more here) talks about the positive effect of work in which we are actively engaged and focused instead of distracted and scattered.
Dance supports this focus. We embody focus in our dance and if we take these lessons out into life we can beat the chaos. Let’s dance so that we can turn everything into a dance; with a beginning, an end, focus and a positive outcome.
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