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My random opinion is that dance or dance like activities are a sweet spot between low intensity and high intensity exercise that involves a lot more balance, co
by agumonkey 2y ago
My random opinion is that dance or dance like activities are a sweet spot between low intensity and high intensity exercise that involves a lot more balance, coordination and fluidity than most physical activities promoted for health overall (they're either too simple or too hard), these traits are (I believe) very important to your brain. Add the social aspect as an important bonus.
- pjerem 2y agoTotally anecdotal and probably 99% placebo but I started rollerblading (which also require _a lot_ of balance and coordination) for the first time in my life, like, I take courses in a skatepark and never wore rollerblades before (I’m 33). After some weeks I’m totally perceiving "something" changed in my brain. It’s like doing mental things is somehow easier. I also happen to microdose since a few months ago but the change I felt coincided exactly about when I felt my fear to fall disappeared, when I "got" the balancing. That’s totally an anecdote and not science but this feeling of change in my brain was so strong that I perceived it.
- agumonkey 2y agoI'd put all our stories in the same bag as taxi drivers having brain areas very deeply developed. I'm not surprised by your story. After health issues, my brain was clogged most of the time, and anything involving balance, rotation, rapidly moving surroundings. I tried a lot of stuff to feel my brain working again, one of the most impactful was balancing on a wood beam and trying to pivot (not far from roller skates moves). Our brain respond very well to some primitive stimuli (visual, balance, geometry).
- WalterBright 2y agoYes, moving as one with your partner is a big part of it, and where much of the pleasure comes from.
- agumonkey 2y agoYeah I believe that our brains are extremely sensitive to shared experience, work, art, movement or else (singing in harmony would work too). It might even tap in primitive toddler brain phases.
- uoaei 2y agoThere's thousands of years of human societal development, and millions of years for mammals. Hard to believe we'd learned nothing about promoting social cohesion during that time.
- agumonkey 2y agoSomehow I believe that the last decades (and post 2010s even worse) completely altered our notion of social-ness. We're running away from forming groups because it has some non trivial entry cost (you have to fit with different people) and instead enjoy remote interactions with people just like "you" want, when you want.
- 082349872349872 2y agoDance is very Gemeinschaft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinschaft_and_Gesellschaft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinschaft_and_Gesellschaft > singing in harmony would work too I believe at least some Amish sing at very low BPM. Two possible interpretations: (a) they share the opinions of Baptists when it comes to dancing, so the BPM is deliberately so low as to be clearly undanceable, and (b) at normal BPM individual participants might just be staying in rhythm, low BPM requires close attentiveness to the whole to stay together.
- gradschoolfail 2y agoMax Damien’s Riverian monologue: >>Gemeinsamkeit<< (usually translated to English as neither C nor S) (Also contrasted with Gesangverein)
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