The Happy Factor

When I dance, I'm happy. I forget all my worries, even if it's only for 3 and ½ minutes (the average length of one song), I forget them. It's near impossible, at least in my experience, to stay mad, or unhappy, or focused on real life difficulties when you're dancing! This is what I like to call the HAPPY FACTOR.

This happy and free way of living is something we experience so naturally as children. For some reason we forget how to live life with abandon when we grow from childhood through adolescents and into adult hood. Many of us forget to have fun, to play, to do the things that make us feel happy.

Understandably, life can be hard, and those hardships can have lasting effects on responsible adults. You can loose motivation. It is even possible to become so sad that you can't get yourself to do something that will make you feel happy! I know this, I've had these times, too. I think most of us do.

But, what if there was a simple solution to finding the a way back to the feeling of daily happy abandon, to that part of the self?  What if there was an easy way to nurture the happy young child that still lives within your very responsible adult self?  What if it could be as easy as dancing to get back in touch with that part of YOU?

Yea, I know, nothing is really that easy when your having a tough time or in a rut. But, I'm here to share with you some ideas on why this Happy Factor is so very important, what you can do to access it and how you can use it everyday to feel good, be better, and enjoy life!
I'll be posting more blogs on this topic to help you with felling HAPPY through dancing and moving!

Here's a little story to start:
While I was planning my blog outline for The 30 Day Blog Challenge I am participating in, I was brainstorming with a friend on some ideas. So, we we asked her daughter what she thinks of when she dances.

In the words of a 5 year old named “G” -  She said “I like it.” So needing a little more, we then asked her for 'feeling' words to go with that. She said “Happy, I feel Happy! Special and great.” What I just loved was that her response was accompanied by a great big smile on her face and a little bop in her body.

You can usually depend on getting an unfiltered truth from the young. So, there you have it, from the mouth of babes - as they say. Did you connect to your Happy Factor today?

I'd love to know if you have any Happy Factor Experiences...

Be Happy.
Dance, Move, Live!

Patty Rose

Meaningful Movement

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