Throughout the world, there are few common base themes or expressions that have served in the creation and conservation of every culture, and which have been carried from the beginning of our cultural development to still stand as equally important parts of modern life today. Amongst these there is perhaps one more personally powerful, fundamentally meaningful, and collective unifying expression than all others, hailing shared value to most each and every human, regardless of size, color, shape, class, or education in a special way - and that is dancing. This is the heart of embodiment.
Dancing means letting one’s being express itself fully- freely, ecstatically, joyfully, naturally. When dancing, we become ourselves more so than ever before, letting the most primal instinct to become one with the rhythm of life take over us. Surrendering every cell, bone, muscle and joint in our body, the whole of our being may be summoned in the process, clearing the mind for the flow of the soul to overtake the physical vehicle. The effects can be healing, hypnotizing, and blissful beyond belief.
It’s hardly something to think about. It just happens. From one moment we can be walking this earth as very serious, boring, robotic creatures- and in the next, we can be dancing through time and space as magical creatures in celebration of our bodies, playing with our potential for ecstatic living through a range of motion with no rules, no limits, and no effort needed. To me, for this very reason of allowing humans to be in their own unique expression while rejoicing in this common act as a shared force, dancing is of incredible service to humanity's evolution. When we give ourselves up to our dance, we unify the mind, body and soul to realize and embody our potential as individuals, as well as as a collective.
Dancing As Healing
In these fleshy vehicles, most of us walk around with unconsciousness almost ingrained in our bodies, carrying tense muscles and contracted cells due to past trauma, as well as everyday self-suppression and negative emotions that our bodies unknowingly hold onto. This taxes all layers of our being, depriving our potential essence from coming through, and handicapping a pure experience of our true presence.
Dancing is a way of self-healing. It is using our own selves as our medicine. In surrendering to the intuitive wisdom of the body, we let the higher part of ourselves (soul) beneath the mind, that holds and brings life to the mind and body, and that always knows what to do to heal us, carry us where we need to go. It is always here- all we have to do is dance with it, as it. Perhaps the answer to all our problems is that rather than attempt to think our way away from ourselves while only finding ourselves more tangled and weighed down then before, all we have to do is simply shake it out, and process our being in a way that allows what is within to become expressed in an authentic, open, creative, and beautiful way.
