The benefit of dance

Perhaps you have experienced something like the following. There was an incident that makes you very angry. So angry, you won’t be able to say a word. You just keep quiet. Unbeknownst to him, a few days later, he feels bad. Dizziness, weakness, laziness to perform any activity. In fact, emotions can be stored, even long after the triggering event appears.

When emotions are not channeled, levels rise and cause frustration, anxiety, anger, self-destructive behaviors, and even illness. How are emotions expressed? In fact, words are just a way to express feelings. The body has a ‘vocabulary’ of its own which causes it to be able to ‘speak’ before words are taken from it.

In fact, often gestures or body language seem more “honest” than words to express the real you. One of the body movements that can express emotion is dance. Moving your body freely, such as dancing, is believed to ‘cure’ your emotional state that may have been ‘disturbed’.

Uniting the body and emotions

In addition to expressing emotions, the dance has used a variety of ethnic peoples to tell stories or fairy tales, treat illnesses, celebrate important events, and maintain social ties. On the other hand, psychiatric experts believe that dancing can reduce mental and emotional problems because there is a relationship between emotions and the body. Being tense muscles and body movement is one of them atrophied. On the contrary, what happens to the physical can affect attitudes and emotions, both positive and negative.

Dance moves to ‘heal’ in various ways. Moving in a group can make individuals independent of isolation, create social bonds and emotional strength, and evoke feelings of pleasure, among others.

rhythmic movements

Dance as therapy is a combination of modern dance and psychiatry. Originators is Marian Chace (1896 -1970). She studied dance in New York, United States before finally establishing studios in Washington, DC in ’30. She is known for her dance classes always provide an opportunity for students to express themselves, communicate and interact in groups. Therefore, many psychiatrists in Washington refer their patients there.

In the mid ’40’s Chace began lecturing and relieved stiff muscles, eased anxiety and increased energy. Spontaneous movements accompanied by music will help people learn to recognize and trust their impulses.

You will be aware of the barriers that exist in themselves and the fear of expressing themselves. Move creatively to help the demonstration. Little by little the other dancers follow in his professional footsteps, which uses dance to help people with emotional, mental and physical problems. Little by little dance therapy gains professional recognition.

In 1966, Chace helped establish the American Dance Therapy Association and became its first president. As of today, the association has approximately 1,200 members in 46 states and 20 countries around the world. increases self-expression and creates new ways of thinking and acting. “So with dance, all the emotions can be channeled. The term catharsis,” said dr. Martina Wiwie Nasrun, SpKJ of the FKUI-RSCM Psychiatry Section.

The concept that the body, mind and feelings are related to each other eventually gave rise to ‘dance therapy’. According to the American Dance Therapy Association, dance therapy is the psychotherapeutic use of movement to unify the emotional and the physical. For physical therapy, dance provides benefits like fitness dance therapy over other benefits.

– Improve body image, self-confidence and communication skills.
– Reduces stress, fear, anxiety, feelings of isolation, tension, chronic pain and depression increases the function of the body’s circulatory and respiratory system
– Assist in the management of learning disabilities, visual and hearing disorders, mental disabilities and dementia.
– Help cure brain injury, arthritis, amputation, stroke, cancer and other physical diseases, overall you are healthier, fitter, increase body coordination and muscles are properly formed.

For emotions, therapy can help create a sense of excitement and trust and help explore anger, frustration, and sadness that can be very difficult to express verbally. In addition, dance therapy is also effective in improving body image and communication skills.

For mental, this therapy can improve cognitive abilities, motivation and memory. Dance therapy programs may also target some specific problems. For example, to help relieve the stress a person is experiencing. The therapist will first observe the patient’s body reaction to stress. Then explore specific movement techniques to increase blood circulation, reduce muscle tension, and deepen your breathing.

Dance therapy is to help people with stress or depression. Especially if he enjoyed the dance. Basically, people with depression should have a hobby. It could be anything. That way, your mood will improve, because you feel happy”, says Martina. The treatment of social dance is a therapy, which belong to non-pharmacological therapy. dance, those who are not required to participate like dance therapy, perhaps you can look for other therapies such as music therapy.

the potential of dance

Ballroom dancing (and all kinds of partner dancing) will burn 200-300 calories per hour or the equivalent of brisk walking. Other fitness benefits: improve posture and train the whole body. You can select the types of dance according to the desire and ability, such as: classical ballroom dance: waltz, tango. The steps are easier to do in Latin dance: mambo, salsa, cha-cha.

His movements were fast, lots of circling, whole body movements, and lots of tiptoe swinging. Varied, from slow motion and romantic to spinning and ‘inflating’ the heart.