Make You Mentally Fit With Dance - If you've ever watched ABC's hit TV show "Dancing with the Stars," then you know that dancing is hard work. Recently, a major study from Albert Einstein College of Medicine reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that dance can be a powerful way to improve brain health. Research focused on the effect of dancing on the brain. That exercise, you guessed it, is frequent dancing.
Scientists found that dancing combines many beneficial facets as we age including recreational benefits and creative thinking. Dancing holds clues to health benefits such as stress reduction, increased serotonin level and a love of life.
It turns out dancing incorporates several simultaneous brain functions like rational thinking (keep in step with your partner), music and an emotional sense of well being.
How does dancing actually improve brain health? Dancing helps rewire the brain.
If you try new things like dancing, researchers say you are opening up new pathways in the brain that improves mental capabilities. If you keep many brain pathways active and simultaneously generate new pathways, this will help maintain your brain's health and fitness.
No matter what brain activity you engage in - simple art projects with kids or grandkids or you study ancient philosophers like Plato, your brain will benefit. Put dancing on the docket too. Novelty stimulation, like a learning a new type of dance, is essential to exercising the brain. The point is to challenge the brain and stimulate those pathways for long-term better brain health.
