Stress is a common denominator of all cultures forever. And how people encountered stress before and how they dealt with stress was a number of different kinds of ways. So, what I’ve done in my work to kind of demonstrate how stress can be dealt with are very, very traditional things of human cultures. One is movement. Movement can not only make your brain better, it increases neurogenesis. So you grow more brain cells when you run and you exercise and get your heart rate up and you laugh and you play and you get your heart rate up and you walk up hills and your heart rate goes up and you do that, it’s not only going to grow more brain cells, or what they call neurogenesis, it’s going to protect your existing brain cells. That is important because stress takes a toll on our brain cells. It eliminates them, it damages them. And just movement and exercise and walking fast, walking, or running. If you want to run, even Elders should be able to run, increases that. So that\u2019s movement.
Another form of movement we know that’s very powerful, that reduces stress, is dancing. And we should be dancing every day a few times a day, not just during a ceremony, not just on a weekend, but dancing. We evolved to dance in human societies, we move in unison. When we move in unison. We’ve evolved to kind of do that like all other creatures, just like murmurations of birds. When you see thousands and thousands of birds fly in this kind of very similar pattern, they’re called murmurations. Or we see big schools of fish when they start to circle, when the sharks are watching them, they call that schooling. Human beings are the same thing when they dance, they dance in unison. When you’re dancing with your people, your friends, increases your level of oxytocin. Like these are my people. I love dancing. So dancing is a very powerful tool for decreasing stress.\u202f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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