Dancing

I love dancing so much. I just learned that it is a form of Reiki. It makes sense, as you are connecting to an inner lightness, to something jovial and uplifting. You are also moving around the energy of your body, and cleansing old energies from your aura and energy field. Before, I used to just do it to feel good and have fun, but it’s amazing to look at it from the Reiki perspective as well. My mom brought us up this way, we would have at least one night a week where she would turn up a random cd and we spend the entire evening dancing in the living room! What a great idea and how wonderful for us young-ens. She really taught us to appreciate music, and what activities you can enjoy alongside it. I really believe dancing in the living room is something, and one thing everybody can do for their mental health. It’s an amazing feeling to be able to shake the day and the worries away, and really enjoy just being with yourself, discovering your inner creativity, and hopefully someone else to share it with. But dancing alone can be great too, lord knows I’ve done it so much in my solo apartment and then you really feel free to dance how you like!

Dancing makes you feel sexy. You are in touch and in rhythm with your own body, with every step and move you make. What could be sexier than that? There is something so sexy about feeling comfortable in your own body, enough to dance how you like. When you are connected with your own body, you can really learn so much about yourself and the mechanics of yourself.

Dancing isn’t just about your body though, the mind-body connection is prevalent. When you feel connected to your body, you are learning about yourself through both the intuitive and analytical sides of your brain. You can start to learn how you think and feel in the present moment when you are creating and having fun.

This means that when we dance, we are deepening the relationship we have with ourselves. We start to learn what makes us feel good, have fun, and look good! We also learn how we treat ourselves when we make mistakes, because we are inevitably going to. Even professional dancers make mistakes.

Some other really positive things about dancing are that you feel beautiful when you do it (hopefully lol, we all have our days), it helps us process anxiety and it helps to let our emotions flow. I am someone that has suffered from serious anxiety for years, and I can say that it often helped my anxiety dramatically but bringing me back to the present moment and releasing stagnant energy. It also helps us to feel and process emotions. Music is usually quite emotional, so if we are dancing to it and listening to the lyrics, it gives us an avenue to express our own emotions by helping us to relate to the artists. A lot of times, I believe our emotions, especially when we are overly emotional, is just energy that has not been channeled correctly. If we provide opportunities to allow it to flow through us instead of get stuck in us, like dancing, than we are so much better off.