How often do you dance? When was the last time you danced? If you are not dancing and moving your body to music this blog is dedicated to you. Think of all the great times you have enjoyed while dancing at celebrations, parties, reunions, and weddings. What if dancing was one of the easiest and most beneficial things you could do for your emotional, mental, and physical health during these crazy coronavirus conditions?
This blog is dedicated to energy psychology strategies and helping you begin health behaviors and habits with powerful benefits. Dancing has been found to easily help boost your emotional, mental, and physical health for peak performance. The energy psychology benefits of dancing may be one of the easiest and most effective ways to benefit people of all ages right now during these crazy coronavirus conditions. Dancing is easy to do alone or with a partner…so there is no excuse to prevent you from giving it a try right now.
Many people set New Year’s goals to be happier and healthier and dancing is the perfect way to accomplish these goals, boost health, and reduce stress.
“Dancing can help you improve your balance, breathing, coordination, endurance, and memory. A regular routine of dancing can help keep you fit and healthy.” — Michael Morningstar
Any kind of dancing is beneficial and learning new dance routines and steps can help enhance your emotional, mental and physical health. Dancing has many benefits for people of all ages including improved: agility, balance, coordination, endurance, flexibility, memory, relationships, and rhythm. Many people are looking for a fast way to be more energized, fit and healthy and dancing is a great way all this and more.
Anyone and everyone can benefit from dancing, which is an easy and fun way to be part of a fun celebration, community, gathering, or group anytime during the year. Children, parents, and seniors can all make dance a valuable part of their rituals and routine. Everyone can benefit from various dancing styles to calm the mind, energize the body and improve social bonding. There are so many reasons to let dancing be part of your daily routine to help improve your life, mood, and well-being.
Dancing to be Happy Healthy and Wise
Dancing is a simple energy psychology technique to boost your emotional, mental, and physical health and well-being. It is a great way to make everyday leisure and life more enjoyable. Our emotions and psychology shifts when we shift our focus to the music, patterns rhythms, and steps need to participate in a dance routine. Big benefits can come from small steps and dancing is setting our steps to specific music and rhythm. Dancing is the art and science of combining synchronized movements, music, and steps by our self, in a group or with a partner.
Dancing is a great way to enjoy emotional, mental, and physical benefits as you allow yourself the freedom and pleasure to let yourself go. Dancing is probably one of the oldest celebrations and community parties humans have created to have fun and be a bit crazy and wild. Dancing shifts us from out of the head and into the body to reconnect with our primal and primordial spirit and state. The benefits of dancing are backed by research that shows that humans go into an altered state of being which can change our chemistry, endorphins, hormones, and mental state.
The benefits of dancing include:
- Energy enhancement
- Feelings of being more connected and community-oriented
- Increase endorphin and mental boost
- Memory and mental clarity, focus, and plasticity
- Mood enhancement
- Refined coordination and motor skills
Basic Dancing
My first dancing memory is when I was in elementary school. Both left good and long-lasting impressions and memories that greatly influenced my enjoyment of dance and music. I started school in 1959 while living in Japan and the teacher was having the class dance to different types of music and dance styles popular in the United State. Maybe it was a way for her to help connect us back to our families and friends in the United States. I was also able to watch traditional Japanese ceremonies and dance so it was an interesting contrast and education to experience.
My next memory was at a wedding reception and people were doing Country and Western and Polka dancing. People of all ages were having a great time on the dance floor moving to the music of the band. Dancing is a great way to quickly create a shift in our body and brain. It can also offer better awareness, energy, mood, and performance for kids, adults, and seniors.
There are so many methods and styles of dancing that are easy to do and easy to learn. Like anything in life, the key is to just start dancing and then enjoy the results. Just do five minutes of dancing twice a day to your favorite music for 21 days and see how it helps you feel. Maybe that is enough to have you convinced and committed for life. Maybe try several different music types to see if one type influences you more than another.
Over time you will likely be able to find music that perks you up in the morning better than coffee without the negative side effects. Then you may find different dances and music to enjoy that calms your mind and relaxes your body after a stressful day.
Dance Opportunities and Options
- African dancing and drumming
- Caribbean dance workout
- Chakra Energy and Kundalini dance
- Country and Western – Line dancing and Two stepping
- Chinese Dragon Dance for Chinese New Year celebration and Martial arts-inspired dance
- Ecstatic, Five Rhythms and Trance dance
- Flamenco
- India classical dance and puja
- Irish dance, Celtic dance, and Riverdance
- Latin dance, like Meringue, Salsa and Tango
- Middle eastern dance
- Native American dance at a Pow wow is very easy to do and is a great cultural experience
- Polka
- Swing dance
- Twist
- Waltz
There are a couple of movies and shows to help inspire you to give dancing a go and make it a part of your daily routine. Check out movies like Dancing with the Stars, Dirty Dancing, Flash dance, Foot Loose, and Shall We Dance.
When doing something like ecstatic dance, Five Rhythms, or trance dance you may experience some initial dizziness, lightheadedness, or tingling. This is normal due to the increased flow of energy and oxygen.
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The passion and purpose of Morningstar NEWS are to condense many hours of research down to two minutes of education, information, and inspiration for a healthy lifestyle and mindset. This blog shared the energy psychology benefits of dancing to help your emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual health in 2021 and beyond.
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