Sometimes I'm just not feeling it.
I'm too down to dance. But when I turn on the music, (good music!) and start stepping my feet into the rhythm of the song, stretching my arms into the air, lifting my head up, and feeling the beat propel me into a rhythm, then my feeling changes. The energy starts to flow. And, along with my body getting energized by the dance song, my mind gets pulled in too. Too often, grey thoughts fill my brain, weighing my spirit down from the difficulties of my week. But when I start moving to the music (again, I mean GOOD music), that greyness starts turning into yellow, green, blue and purple hues of happiness. Not only does my cardio-muscular self grow stronger, my mental health is growing happier with each step I take to the beat of the music. On top of that, when I start sharing this kinetic happiness with other, real, live people, even if across the zoom screens, it adds an extra layer of goodness. When I share smiles and words with real people, seeing them dance with me, roughly the same moves, to the same music ... yeahhhhhh... this is how we step up our minds into health. First it's with the smallest of physical steps, we move our feet. Then that momentum begin to pump the good energy into our minds, pushing out those heavy negative and depressing thoughts. As music soaks into our brain, flows through our muscles, it transforms our stiff tendons & heavy bones into musical instruments. Each song translates into a different flavor of movement, unleashing a force in our spirit to light up with bliss, a bliss which is then multiplied exponentially by each person we share it with. And that, my friends, is how dance steps up our mental health.
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FOOT Notes from Teacher PeggyAuthorPeggy Pollard has been teaching social/ballroom dance in Santa Cruz since 2010. Archives
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