In my mentally frazzled state this month--
feeling overwhelmed, discouraged and depressed after a crazy all-online launch of UCSC classes last week-- I really needed an emotional lift. Sunday's dance did it for me. The weekly dance has become a dependable boost for my spirit into that higher plane of happiness. The combination of physical aerobics, wonderful music, and most of all seeing other REAL people dancing with me, really gets the happy vibes flowing. Judging from the glowing faces and happy comments from the others, the dancing sparked a happy feeling in them too. Tonight I watched an ominous docu-movie "the Social Dilemma" about how our social media is rigged to powerfully manipulate all of us to engage in NON-healthy behaviors (usually for corporate profits). Our primal instincts are powerfully triggered to watching lots of unhelpful, even deceptive media, and neglect less powerful, but more beneficial interests that we actually want. Like THIS one! So I realize my small dance news is competing for YOUR attention against some overwhelmingly POWERFUL forces that are highly designed to KEEP YOU too busy with MUCH less worthwhile things. They are FORCES that suck your attention away from the interests that you actually want to do, that you know are healthy and BEST for you... like this DANCE community! So I commend you few people, dear reader, who have said NO to those powerful forces calling you away with a siren song to those less worthwhile things, and you've resisted enough to keep reading THIS far. HOORAY! People like YOU who prioritize the quieter , truer voices that speak life to you, not deception and destruction. Ironically, some of the people I've befriended at my favorite SOCIAL dances up over the hill, are among the very people helping develop those powerful tools (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix) Yes, they REALIZE how valuable and satisfying social dancing is for our MENTAL-SOCIAL-PHYSICAL-SPIRITUAL HEALTH to combat social TECH media with physical social activities like Social DANCING!!! So THANK YOU dear dancer, Thank you for being wise enough to make that choice too, that you want to pursue the goodness of the art of dancing. May the FORCE of happiness grow powerfully deeper and stronger in you as you spend time connecting with our dancing community! -- Teacher Peggy
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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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