How to Stay Happy – The Art of the Happy

How to Stay Happy – The Art of the Happy Dance

When you’re happy and you know it clap your hands! When your happy and your know it clap your hands! When your happy and you know it, than your face should surely show it! When your happy and your know it clap your hands!”


When I began to give some serious thought to The Art of the Happy Dance, this child hood ditty immediately came to mind. It might sound like a bit of an oxymoron to be thinking seriously about a Happy Dance, but let’s give it a shot.


So what in the heck is a Happy Dance? Oh come on, everyone’s does it. You know, it’s that mini dance routine that occurs when something really great happens. It’s the celebration sensation that bubbles up and spills over, affecting you from the inside to the out and ends up as a shake, shimmy, two step and a hop with some smiles sprinkled on top!


I profoundly believe that acknowledging moments of joy and happiness with a little ritualistic shimmy or two step in honor of whatever has given me so much pleasure helps grow my positivity reserves and thus, makes my life much happier and healthier.


There’s lots of great research out there that has shown that a positive outlook can profoundly affect our health, finances, and our relationships. And the Happy Dance is another way we can reflect our positive vibe. A good Happy Dance is spontaneous. Born from the moment. It’s a kinetic occurrence that jolts you from the inside and than transfers its energy to an outer manifestation. Your soul bearing witness that you are capable, you are worthy and you are here. The happy dance provokes thoughts of more productivity, a more positive outlook, and just feelin’ good. A Woo Hoo! kind of moment.


One of the most visible examples of the ‘Happy Dance’ can be found in the world of football. Over time, those end zone dances have gotten to be quite an elaborate celebration. Unfortunately, end zone antics have been curtailed if not outright banned. What a shame that the officials would shut down the exuberant energy and transformative power that doing a happy dance can elicit. When those players celebrated their touch down it always made me want to get up and join them. Made me want to shrug my shoulders in unison; as if some of their confidence, talent, and good fortune could be transferred to me. Well actually, that powerful transformative energy is transferred. We’re always affected by the energy we witness.


The true power that lies at the core of the Happy Dance is all about agreement. Agreeing with the Universe that you should be affirmed. Agreeing that you are entitled to come up with a great idea, deserve to win a prize, or that your hard work should be validated is incredibly life affirming.


Witnessing someone in the midst of engaging in and experiencing this life affirming celebration and agreement can affect you, transferring its power to you, leaving you, the witness, feeling uplifted and empowered in both discernible and indiscernible ways. At bear minimum, witnessing a Happy Dance makes you smile.


There isn’t really an ‘art’ to the Happy Dance, not in any kind of artsy high-brow way, but in my opinion, the real art is to simply allow yourself to let go of the social conditioning and negative thoughts that can make us believe the Happy Dance is just so much tom-foolery, and separates us from being free.


So the next time you have a great idea, or get a promotion, or even something as simple as finding something that you’d lost, go ahead, do a little or even a great big Happy Dance. Agree with the Universe: celebrate, validate, and affirm you.

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Dance Groups Are Key to Good Health

There is growing evidence that being a member of a social ballroom dancing group can significantly reduce the risk of health conditions that are commonly spoken about in the media. This highlights the importance of belonging to a range of social dancing groups, of hanging onto social dance groups and of building new social dance groups in dealing with life changes.


There have been studies that show evens one’s increased affluence will have no impact in the pursuit of increased happiness or good health. It has been said that most people in the developed world were no happier than people were in the 1950′s when money was scarce and affluence was hard to obtain. Today a typical twenty five year old is between three to ten times more likely to suffer major psychological problems compared to the 1950′s when they were less affluent. Also comsumerism and the pressure to succeed is creating an epidemic of unhappiness for people who are incapable of realising that certain desirable things in life are unattainable, and the inability to disengage from important but unreachable life goals maybe more common in our modern society. This explains the fundamental disappointment of modern life, the discovery that satisfaction of our desires for comfort, safety and material well-being do not reliably lead to personal well-being.


The highest level of happiness comes when people can give a wider meaning to their empty lives. Helping others through groups like social dancing can help people realise that there is something bigger and more important than themselves.


Well-being or good health isn’t just the absence of illness, it is very much a positive state. The single most potent and richest source of happiness is our relationships, companionship and love between friends and family. Humans are naturally highly social and crave the comfort of knowing they are valued members of a group that share experiences and emotions. The important thing is depth, the building up of relationships with people you know or the place you know or the job you do. One of easiest ways of securing long term happiness is to take up an activity that involves making friends. Taking group class lessons in ballroom dancing is a great way of creating and securing friendships. In today’s world the fun of partner dancing in groups and the physical exercise combined create on of the most effective stress releases of any recreational activity.


Ballroom dancing clubs are the perfect environment to meet new friends and are warm and friendly places. Ballroom dancing provides an ideal social climate in which to meet new groups of people. Learning to ballroom dance is a skill that will stay with you for the rest of your life, the benefit of being able to continuously meet new groups of people will never disappear.


In today’s negative pressure cooker world we live in, exercise and the fun of social partner dancing together create the best stress releases for all ages. Social ballroom dancing provides a relaxed atmosphere for both men and women to gather together and develop friendships and sometimes relationships. Social ballroom and latin dancing is a way to help you dress up and have a great time. Going out dancing and taking group class dance lessons allows you to forget about work and other problems life throws at us and focus on fun and friendship at any age.

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Dance Groups Are Key to Good Health

There is growing evidence that being a member of a social ballroom dancing group can significantly reduce the risk of health conditions that are commonly spoken about in the media. This highlights the importance of belonging to a range of social dancing groups, of hanging onto social dance groups and of building new social dance groups in dealing with life changes.


There have been studies that show evens one’s increased affluence will have no impact in the pursuit of increased happiness or good health. It has been said that most people in the developed world were no happier than people were in the 1950′s when money was scarce and affluence was hard to obtain. Today a typical twenty five year old is between three to ten times more likely to suffer major psychological problems compared to the 1950′s when they were less affluent. Also comsumerism and the pressure to succeed is creating an epidemic of unhappiness for people who are incapable of realising that certain desirable things in life are unattainable, and the inability to disengage from important but unreachable life goals maybe more common in our modern society. This explains the fundamental disappointment of modern life, the discovery that satisfaction of our desires for comfort, safety and material well-being do not reliably lead to personal well-being.


The highest level of happiness comes when people can give a wider meaning to their empty lives. Helping others through groups like social dancing can help people realise that there is something bigger and more important than themselves.


Well-being or good health isn’t just the absence of illness, it is very much a positive state. The single most potent and richest source of happiness is our relationships, companionship and love between friends and family. Humans are naturally highly social and crave the comfort of knowing they are valued members of a group that share experiences and emotions. The important thing is depth, the building up of relationships with people you know or the place you know or the job you do. One of easiest ways of securing long term happiness is to take up an activity that involves making friends. Taking group class lessons in ballroom dancing is a great way of creating and securing friendships. In today’s world the fun of partner dancing in groups and the physical exercise combined create on of the most effective stress releases of any recreational activity.


Ballroom dancing clubs are the perfect environment to meet new friends and are warm and friendly places. Ballroom dancing provides an ideal social climate in which to meet new groups of people. Learning to ballroom dance is a skill that will stay with you for the rest of your life, the benefit of being able to continuously meet new groups of people will never disappear.


In today’s negative pressure cooker world we live in, exercise and the fun of social partner dancing together create the best stress releases for all ages. Social ballroom dancing provides a relaxed atmosphere for both men and women to gather together and develop friendships and sometimes relationships. Social ballroom and latin dancing is a way to help you dress up and have a great time. Going out dancing and taking group class dance lessons allows you to forget about work and other problems life throws at us and focus on fun and friendship at any age.

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