5 Psychological Benefits Of Dancing
Still do not know the valuable psychological benefits of dancing in your life? Haven’t you tried everything that dancing can help you with? Know these 5 psychological benefits of dancing and you will understand that there are 5 powerful reasons to start moving your feet, your mind, your body to the rhythm of the music.
Dance is a universal language, two or more people can connect and communicate with just the movement of their bodies, music sets the rhythm and your desire to move does the rest. That is why dance offers you the possibility of meeting new people without having to speak and express yourself without using words.
Here are some of the most prominent psychological benefits of dance for our mind and body
Dancing to develop creativity
When we allow our body to flow with the music, we make the brain work freely. We do not need language, just feel and express it in a bodily way. Spontaneity and creativity open us up, allowing us to advance along new paths and seek new solutions, the brain seeks alternative routes, testing and releasing some of its knots.
Peter Lovaat, director of the Laboratory for Dance Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, conducted a study in which he claimed that dancing helped the brain generate new thought paths and new neural circuits.
Dancing as a way to connect
Dancing allows us to connect with ourselves, with our interior. When we dance, we express feelings that may inhabit us unconsciously, or we even release everything that weighs on us. Dancing gives us the opportunity to get to know each other through a new language.
Connecting is not just for oneself, dance gives us its social part and opens the doors to meet new people. Dance unites people of all ages, dance allows two people from different countries to speak the same language and, above all, brings together people with totally different tastes, only united by music and rhythm.
Dancing improves mood and self-esteem
When you dance your mind frees itself and allows you to forget about your problems to focus on your feet. When you dance, your brain releases dopamine and serotonin, substances that allow your mind to release stress and generate happiness. Other studies found data to support the hypothesis that dancing could help improve body aches, as well as headaches and back pain, and some of the symptoms of depression.
Dance allows us to unite body, mind and soul, improves connections and strengthens the self – esteem of those who practice it by improving the relationship with oneself and with others. It also allows you to generate more confidence with yourself and with your dance partners. By uninhibiting and testing our creativity on the court, we open our doors within ourselves that help us love ourselves a little more.
Dancing slows the aging of the brain
A study by M. Joe Verghese (2003) was able to show that dancing favors neural synapses, slows the loss of volume of the hippocampus that occurs naturally with age, and protects the brain in general in the long term. This author found in another of his studies that dancing stimulates the central nervous system and brain activity.
Knowing now all the psychological benefits of dancing, enjoy the music, let your mind free itself, protect your brain from the passing of the years. Think that dance offers you the opportunity to stimulate your creativity. In short, give free rein to your feet, because music and dance make your heart beat.
