“There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them.”
_Vicki Baum
Feeling tired – DANCE!
Feeling low – DANCE!
Feeling uninspired – DANCE!
Dance is the magic that works on so many levels. It releases the feel-good endorphins into our body so that physiologically we change our endogenous mood from wherever it may be to a lighter, brighter and higher mood. This interrelationship of body and emotion has a positive effect on the mind. It influences our motivation. It gives us a different perspective on life and it releases our creativity.
Contributing to these shifts of the way we feel is, music. Music contains within its structure some universal emotions that are recognisable across all cultures. These musical structures are closely aligned to our motor system so that moving to music as in dance, gives us a four dimensional experience of feeling and emotion.
At some level this direct and embodied experience of the dance can short circuit the brain taking us out of the rut we may find ourselves at times. It’s as if music and the dance give us a gentle (and sometimes not so gently) nudge shifting our perspective and experience of life. The nature of the music and dance often determines what type of emotion we connect to. Personally I have my own library of feel-good music I fall back on when I want to life my mood. Do you?
Feeling uninspired – DANCE!
Dance is the magic that works on so many levels. It releases the feel-good endorphins into our body so that physiologically we change our endogenous mood from wherever it may be to a lighter, brighter and higher mood. This interrelationship of body and emotion has a positive effect on the mind. It influences our motivation. It gives us a different perspective on life and it releases our creativity.
Contributing to these shifts of the way we feel is, music. Music contains within its structure some universal emotions that are recognisable across all cultures. These musical structures are closely aligned to our motor system so that moving to music as in dance, gives us a four dimensional experience of feeling and emotion.
At some level this direct and embodied experience of the dance can short circuit the brain taking us out of the rut we may find ourselves at times. It’s as if music and the dance give us a gentle (and sometimes not so gently) nudge shifting our perspective and experience of life. The nature of the music and dance often determines what type of emotion we connect to. Personally I have my own library of feel-good music I fall back on when I want to life my mood. Do you?
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