Twenty reasons why dancing is great for a guy's wellbeing.
This is my list of twenty reasons why dancing is great for Well-Being. Over the next few weeks I will add my own personal comments to each reason in my blog which you can link to from here. The boundaries between emotional, physical, mental and spiritual well-being are very porous, if the boundaries exist at all. This is not an exhaustive list. You may wish to add your own reasons why dancing is good for your own well-being. How many more reasons can we find? Feel free to add your own comments here or on my blog
http://dancetours.blog.com I will regularly comment on the next reason in this list of 20. So check back regularly
Emotional
1. Endorphins give a natural high
http://dancetours.blog.com/1347415/2. Forget life's pressures for a moment or longer
3. Feel gracious as you bow to your partner and escort her off the floor
4. Catch the rhythm of different music styles. Know your tango from your rhumba
5. Dance in your head and in your heart when it's not possible to dance on the floor
6. It feels good when a woman asks you to dance.
7. Novice dancers melt in your arms as you gently but firmly lead
8. Feels three times better than it looks
9. Physical contact without getting your face slapped
Physical
10. Improved posture
11. Burns calories
12. Tightens leg and thigh muscles
13. Creates new patterns in the brain and reduces risk of Alzheimer's
14. You drink plenty of water
Mental
15. Lifelong learning? Learn to dance. No-one lives long enough to learn them all
16. Dance is an international language that you can speak anywhere.
17. As a competent pilot and navigator, you engender trust in your partner.
18. Thinking about and recognizing the rhythm is a prerequisite to ˜feeling' it.
19. Those smiles of appreciation from a dance partner get embedded in memory
Spiritual
20. Everything in the world is connected. Dancing builds connections.
21. From East to West, dance is a spiritual expression
That makes 21 but who's counting??
