5 reasons why dancing makes you happy!

Of course it’s true! Dancing is an activity that lets loose a rainbow of benefits for your mentality and your mood. The next time you slip on your dancing shoes, think of all the good that you’re doing for your mind. Here are a couple of motivational pointers to which will encourage you to keep on dancing!

1. Endorphins

When you start moving your body, your brain starts to release endorphins – pleasure chemicals – in response to your body’s heightened motor activity. Ever noticed how sitting still at your desk keeps you feeling restless and bored? Your body craves physical activity and the pleasure associated with it. Dancing is a great way to keep your body and your brain on its toes as you move in time to the music to get these endorphins flowing.

2. Self-Esteem

Dancing helps you feel more self-assured. When you dance, you start to lose all inhibitions and gain self-confidence in your body and its movements. It effectively frees yourself of thinking too much about yourself, you become so involved in the rhythms and the music that you become impervious to self-criticism.

3. Dancing combats depression

It has been proven that many forms of aerobic exercise fight off depression. This applies to dancing too; as your dancing develops over a longer period of time, your body adapts and changes a depressive mentality into a more relaxed and positive one. You know that feel-good feeling after dancing for so long? That feeling is fortified the more you dance.

4. Sensitivity

Dancing can be a gateway into understanding more about how you feel and about who you are. Moving your body around and engaging your mind to steps and music strengthens all your senses – you naturally feel more grounded and acquire a higher sense of both physical and emotional sensitivity which stays with you off of the dance floor.

5. Creativity

Like painting, writing and playing music, dancing is an art – a performing art. It connects us to our capacity to think creatively and our ability to explore self-expression. Moving in time to rhythm and music triggers all kind of inspiration that can apply to other areas of life.

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