How dancing can help you get rid of dizziness and become smarter

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Many men do not take dancing seriously and consider it an activity exclusively for girls, and even then not for everyone. Especially often from our men you can hear: "Men don't dance!" And rightly so, the occupation is not serious!

But in fact, dance is not only an exercise for your body. It is also a kind of brain trainer! We have already published articles that sports, and running in particular, boost a person's cognitive abilities. Now it was the turn of the dance.

Dancing improves brain function at various levels. Two recent studies have shown how different types of dance allow dancers to achieve peak performance by mixing cerebral and cognitive processes with muscle memory and proprioception.

Proprioceptive, proprioceptive (from Latin proprius - "own, special" and receptor - "receiving"; from Latin capio, cepi - "to receive, perceive"), deep sensitivity - a sense of the position of parts of one's own body relative to each other.

Through aerobic exercise at least twice a week, which combines different types of dance, everyone can maximize their brain functions. Of course, we are not talking about the convulsive impulses of the body, which many try to pass off as a dance, but specifically about a dance in which not only the body, but also the brain is involved in the work.

Professional dancers never get dizzy. Why?

If you are prone to dizziness, then you need to learn how to dance! A new study has shown that dancing can help cope with dizziness and improve balance. In September 2013, researchers at Imperial College London reported that choreographers have a slightly different brain structure than a non-dancer. And it is these specific differences that help them avoid dizziness during pirouettes.

Visualization of movements helps improve muscle memory

Another study, published in an article on psychologicalscience.org, showed that dancers are able to lay out dance in their minds and mentally go through each movement, leaving a kind of "markers".

Findings published in Psychological Science suggest that such labeling may ease the conflict between the cognitive and physical aspects of dance. This is what allows dancers to memorize movements and perform them smoothly. They seem to be in a stream.

And at this time, their brain works to its fullest, thinking over each step and connecting it with the next as smoothly as possible. So that from the outside it looks like one single, smooth movement, and not a set of separate intermittent ones.

How can this be applied?

How can the above research be applied to the daily life of a common person and not a professional dancer?

Learning to control the part of the brain responsible for this can help many people who suffer from dizziness that is not associated with other problems in the body. Scientists are just working on this problem.

Dr. Barry Simungle of Imperial College Medical Department has worked with many patients for whom vertigo has become a real problem. Ballet dancers are able to train their brains so that they stop feeling dizzy. So doctors wondered if they could use the same principles to help their patients.

Visualization and synchronization are quite applicable, for example, in the study of foreign languages. As with dancing, the brain needs to do two things at the same time - translate a word from one language to another. And not just translate, but put them into sentences. Plus, if languages differ significantly, you have to work twice as hard.

It turns out that in order to benefit from dancing, it is not at all necessary to become a professional dancer. Dancing for the soul just a couple of times a week is a great way to improve the functioning of the cerebellum, keep the body in good shape, remove the unpleasant feeling of dizziness from your life (one in four people at least occasionally dizzy) and facilitate the process of learning, for example, foreign languages … I am generally silent about the fact that dancing is an excellent socializing factor.

How do you feel about dancing?