<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Sounds good to me! Dance on!<div class="">Only love,</div><div class="">Lee<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 3, 2022, at 1:21 PM, Ron Nadeau via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class=""><a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.michaelswerdloff.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Dancing-Makes-You-Smarter.jpg" rel="gallery" class="fancybox"><img data-attachment-id="2218" data-permalink="https://www.michaelswerdloff.com/dancing-makes-you-smarter/dancing-makes-you-smarter/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.michaelswerdloff.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Dancing-Makes-You-Smarter.jpg?fit=480%2C480&ssl=1" data-orig-size="480,480" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Dancing-Makes-You-Smarter" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.michaelswerdloff.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Dancing-Makes-You-Smarter.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.michaelswerdloff.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Dancing-Makes-You-Smarter.jpg?fit=480%2C480&ssl=1" decoding="async" class="jetpack-lazy-image size-full aligncenter wp-image-2218 jetpack-lazy-image--handled" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.michaelswerdloff.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Dancing-Makes-You-Smarter.jpg?resize=480%2C480" alt="Dancing Makes You Smarter by David Avocado Wolfe. - Providence Holistic Counseling Services" data-recalc-dims="1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.michaelswerdloff.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Dancing-Makes-You-Smarter.jpg?w=480&ssl=1 480w, https://i0.wp.com/www.michaelswerdloff.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Dancing-Makes-You-Smarter.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/www.michaelswerdloff.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Dancing-Makes-You-Smarter.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.michaelswerdloff.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Dancing-Makes-You-Smarter.jpg?resize=250%2C250&ssl=1 250w" data-lazy-loaded="1" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" loading="eager" width="480" height="480"></a></p><div class=""><span id="more-2217" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
<h2 class="">Dancing Makes You Smarter – The four primary benefits are:</h2>
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<li class="">“Flexibility physically is important is supporting the brain’<a href="http://www.michaelswerdloff.com/the-art-of-knowing-is-knowing-what-to-ignore/" class="">s</a>
flexibility. Dancing keeps oxygen and blood flowing, nourishing your
mind and body for maximum efficiency and performance. Dancing helps
your body maintain the a full range of motion for all major muscle
groups, because it blends stretching and bending</li>
<li class="">Strength is gained when muscles are exerted; when there is force
against resistance. Dancing requires that muscles resist against body
weight, thus strengthening the body.</li>
<li class="">Endurance is built as muscle work harder for increasingly longer
periods of time. Vigorous dancing elevates heart rage and can increase
stamina.</li>
<li class="">Positive Well-Being is elicited, whether you are in a social setting
or by yourself. Dancing activates positive neuro-energy in your brain,
reduces stress, and builds confidence.” by <span class="entry-author"><span class="entry-author-name"><a class="entry-author-link" href="http://www.susiehayesnow.com/author/susiehayes/" rel="author">Susie Hayes</a></span></span></li></ol><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
<h2 class="">Dancing Makes You Smarter – What kind of dancing?</h2><p class="">“Let’<a href="http://www.michaelswerdloff.com/the-art-of-knowing-is-knowing-what-to-ignore/" class="">s</a> go back to the study:<br class="">
Bicycling, swimming or playing golf – 0% reduced risk of dementia</p><p class="">But doesn’t golf require rapid-fire decision-making? No, not if
you’re a long-time player. You made most of the decisions when you
first started playing, years ago. Now the game is mostly refining your
technique. It can be good physical exercise, but the study showed it
led to no improvement in mental acuity.</p><p class="">Therefore do the kinds of dance where you must make as many
split-second decisions as possible. That’s key to maintaining true
intelligence.</p><p class="">Does any kind of dancing lead to increased mental acuity? No, not
all forms of dancing will produce this benefit. Not dancing which, like
golf or swimming, mostly works on style or retracing the same memorized
paths. The key is the decision-making. Remember (from <a href="http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/intelligent.htm" class="">this</a> page), Jean Piaget suggested that intelligence is what we use when we don’t already <em class=""><a href="http://www.michaelswerdloff.com/the-art-of-knowing-is-knowing-what-to-ignore/" class="">know</a></em> what to do.” <a href="http://rustyfrank.com/lbs-smarter.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="">Rusty Frank</a></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Thespiritexpress mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a><br class="">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>