Releasing Energy Through Dance

Dancing is Just Like Playing an Instrument – Releasing Energy Through a Creative Outlet

Releasing stress is the most therapeutic ritual that is available to a human being. This can be anything from talking, creating (painting, sculpting, drawing), writing (poetry, stories, music), or exercising and everything in between but we all need a form in one way or another. Self expression is the number one form of release that we all don’t think about as being that way. The power of music and its ability to allow release is something that most people do even if they don’t realize it.

Listening to a good song can make you not worry about life’s suffocation for the time in which you are listening. This can be a great way to just shut your mind off and release that negative energy even if just for a few minutes. When you play an instrument this is even better than just listening but we all can’t play an instrument to maximize the full potential of therapy that music invites.

This is where dancing comes into play. Everyone can dance whether you want to admit it or not. We might not all be the best dancers but we can all physically move our bodies to a beat. This is just natural human instinct. Music has been used throughout the ages to communicate emotion and to release self expression. Dancing is just a product of the wonderful things that music can do for us and to us.

If you take problems on the dance floor you can literally dance them out. Once you are done dancing you have a feeling of peace come over you that can only be achieved through forms of release or self expression. In this world today there are more anxieties and stresses that fill each day than ever before. If you have no way of getting rid or managing that stress it could make you lose who and what you are in a sea of the said stress and anxiety.

When you dance you are playing your body to the music much like how you play an instrument to make music. Your body becomes the notes and rhythms that are being played. You become the music as you dance to it and you become a mannerism of self expression through your interpretation of the music through dance. This is the most primary way to relinquish the awesome power of music and its full potential.

We all need to find a way to release emotion because television and video game do not do this for you. Turning off your mind to some TV is not the world’s worst thing but too many people are consumed by the glow. As much as we take from television it has nothing to give that will help us on our journey through this life. Expressing what you think and what you believe in without using words and thoughts is what this life is all about. As amazing as the written word is and the value that it has we have the potential to say so much without ever saying a word. This is what it truly means to release.

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