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Walking Encourages Creativity

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Walking encourages creativity

As movement is a natural mood enhancer, a link between positive mood and divergent thinking may play a role in these scores. The authors note that negative moods have also been shown to increase creativity as well, so it appears that any movement away from an emotional baseline is useful for creative thinking. 

The exact causes as to why walking inspire creativity are still unknown, though this study puts forward a number of potential reasons. Most important, the authors conclude, is that we move. Data might be mixed but anecdotes and test scores are not. 

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Dance Moves That Are Scientifically Proven To Be Sexy

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The study was published Thursday in Scientific Reports by a group of researchers based at Northumbria University, who previously identified the sexiest dance moves for men. Whereas the best male dance moves were centralized in the upper body, the best female dance moves centered around the hips, thighs, and arms.

Here’s an example of what the paper found to be a ‘good’ female dancer, performed by an over-sexualized avatar:

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7 Rules For a Highly Effective Movement Practice

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1. You are a human being before you are a dancer.

Or an “x”, “y”, or fill in the blank with your activity.

2. Fundamentals are not of lowest level, but of highest importance.

In the world of athlete development there is this thing called the performance pyramid which we can use as a guide for how the flow of an athlete’s training life would ideally look like. Life, however, isn’t ideal, and this is especially true in dance.

3. Move honestly.

Honesty… On all levels of life, it is something I am trying to understand. What is truth? Is honesty the same as truth? What is “truth” when it comes to our bodies in motion, and how does it serve us?

4. If you cannot breathe during the movement, you do not own the movement.

Breath is an incredible built-in indicator of what your body is experiencing (making it an excellent tool for moving honestly). Your emotional state and physical health can be interpreted via the quality of your breath, as well as you ability to load and use core musculature to provide dynamic stability and decelerate spinal motion.

5. Slower is better at first- You can’t do it fast until you master it slow.

Until it becomes an unconscious process, movements often need to be practiced very slowly in order gain competence.

The more slowly you move, the more awareness, the more control, and the more honesty you’ll have in the motion.

6. Get out of your comfort zone, don’t be afraid to make mistakes and fail.

Unfortunately for your sense of pride, failure is how we learn and there’s no way around it.

7. Check-in before and after your practice.

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Dance Speaks Truer Than Words

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Dance speaks truer than words

“I hate the written word,” the choreographer Reggie Wilson said with an almost wicked edge, as he sat in his cozy kitchen in Brooklyn, drinking sweet tea on a recent blustery day. Then, acknowledging my confusion, he added, “Now breathe, breathe.”

This remark is doubly surprising, coming from a choreographer who routinely provides reading lists for the audience before his shows — his “Citizen” has its New York premiere on Wednesday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music — and who has been described as a kind of cultural anthropologist working in dance. Mr. Wilson’s creations develop out of personal obsessions that lead to years of reading and research trips before he even sets foot in the studio.

The suggested reading list for “Citizen” includes Valerie Boyd’s biography of Zora Neale Hurston; a monograph on Mother Rebecca Jackson, an itinerant preacher who taught herself how to read through prayer and joined the Shakers; and a study of African-American culture during the Jazz Age, “The Practice of Diaspora.”

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