Dance Like No One is Watching!

Dance Like No One is Watching!

My personal goals may seem somewhat simple at a quick glance. They are however chosen with much thought and purpose. The goal that I want to discuss today is 10 minutes of dance done consecutively for 100 days. Known as a 100 day challenge. I have a few of these 100 day challenges planned for the Year of the Ox. 

This particular goal was chosen to add some joy and fun into the year and to also add some feminine energy to help balance all the goals for the year. Dance is also being used as a means to developing increased body awareness, flow, rhythm and freedom of movement, with the desire to transfer and apply all of this to my forms in Kung Fu.

Something that I struggle with in Kung Fu is awareness of my body and trusting what feels right and what doesn't. In my world something can feel good, but I am still unsure whether it is correct? This is partially because I over analyze most everything. I've also realized very recently that an even bigger issue stems from a comment made many many years ago. Two people very close to me made a critical comment about my dancing. I remember being surprised and hurt at the time. For someone that had always been shy and lacked a bit of self confidence, this was damaging. I became much more self conscious when dancing and no longer trusted myself in how I moved. I have managed over the years to gain some of that confidence back, but definitely struggle with trusting what feels right. 

Words have tremendous power and that power can boost us up when needed or bring us down and have long term effects. Especially when at the time you don't even realize how much damage has been done. At least now I know the root cause and can work on building up my body awareness while having fun.

When I'm dancing at home I move freely and feel the music. I play with movements and enjoy myself, not worrying what anyone may think. I dance for me. I dance like no one is watching!

Namaste!