“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.”
_Albert Einstein
Have you ever felt your eyes sparkling, your heart singing and your body feeling totally alive? Those are the sensations can be felt when we dance. The more we let go of our hold on ordinary reality and enter the magic of movement, the more we can experience our world as transforming, morphing and changing. This is a mirror to the amazing things that are taking place in our body as we dance.
At the ordinary physical level, increased heart rate facilitates the easier flow of blood to our organs and skin. This begins to create more sensitivity in our senses and our connection to the world is heightened. At an emotional level, as we move and connect with the positive effects of dance our body is flooded with molecules of happy emotions. Candice Pert in Molecules of Emotion first identified the relationship of our body cells to the information molecules we generate through our emotions. We are all familiar with the concept that ‘we are what we eat’ when it relates to food and body. However more important is what do we feed our heart? Our heart and our experience of life depend on the emotions we feed upon. When we hold onto negativity – that translates into the dis-ease of the body. Dance give us the opportunity to change that!
Dance releases endorphins and other neurotransmitters that change our endogenous mood. If we are willing to let go of negative emotions and thoughts and immerse our self into the dance, we access the transformative power that makes dance sparkle – makes US SPARKLE!
_Christos Daskalakos
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