Any form of music and dance can be magical and transforming. Researchers are learning that singing and dancing can help keep your body, including your brain, healthy as you age.
They increase the level of brain chemicals that encourage nerve cells to grow. And anything that requires you to remember steps, tunes, verses and sequences boosts brain power by improving memory skills.
Benefits galore
Research shows that both music and dance can help improve wellbeing by:
- Influencing bodily processes. They can affect our heart rate, blood pressure and muscular responses.
- Influencing mood , making relaxation more effective.
- Evoking imagery and imagination – varies for each person , culture, previous musical experience and history.
- Entertaining – music and dance have the potential to entertain, and create a sense of wellbeing.
Dance, like other moderate, low impact, weight bearing activities, such as brisk walking, cycling or aerobics, dancing can help.
- Strengthening bones and muscles without hurting joints
- Tone your entire body and manage weight
- Improve your posture and balance, which prevents falls
- Increase your stamina and flexibility
- Dance is a multi-beneficial form of exercise for kids.
- Ward-off illnesses like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, osteoporosis, and depression.
Dance and Music as therapy
Music and dance boost your mood more than exercise alone. The effects of dancing are multi-faceted, along with physiological effects, there are many psychological effects of dance.
Dance can help to treat people with serious psychological and behavioural problems, including schizophrenia, depression, autism and eating disorders.
So if you are tired of the treadmill, or rat-race just being to sing and dance!
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