Healing: An Insight of Dance
LETS HEAL US, LETS HEAL THE WORLD, AND LETS HEAL THE SELF.
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ody is the sole importance of Dance.
And healing is the core of Dancing. Healing is also
known as also referred in the context of the grieving process. Healing can be
understood as going into a concentration. While dancing, we do not only
enjoy our bodily curve but also release our terrors and confusions as a form of
destructions from our mind. We cannot throw them so easily too but we can
dissolve them taking them out as an outlaw. Similarly we also release laughter
so as to replace extreme happiness in our day to day life. We perform Dance
similar as to perform rites and ritual, marriages or social ceremonies even
exhibiting art work where body is used. The physical and the intent are curved
to a body with positive reflection and deflection. Unlike the thoughts and
skills, we may shape and curve any solid matter into an art piece. It becomes a
piece of art work. It is same as Dance technique where body curves and gestures
indicate a specific thought with a skill. Involvement in an emotion and
concentrations in a rhythm are the basic teachings of dance lessons. It’s a
skill and technique by which a dancer needs to involve so that she can combine
together her body and mind into one constant thought. But in reality it is very
difficult to merge these two. Body is unaware of many things until and unless
the mind instructs the body to curve a shape. The more you deeply involved in
the stories of Dance, less you think about the happenings in between the dance
and more you excite about the ending part of it.
Culture is always
barrier to support your insights as it is reverse to human nature. It is the
‘taboos’ which bound us about ‘do’s and ‘do not’s and justify social norms in a
culture. And it is the Culture which helps to absorb against longings and make
us socially acceptable and adaptable at least in a group of people.
Notwithstanding, innumerable problems are at door steps and always hit us to
justify the right and most convenient way to solve out. Culture, which is men
made discourse, is indeed a complex hole!! It is in that sense of including all
the Folklore with practice. There are many obstacles in our day-to-day life.
Some are big and some are undefined and some are unsolved. When there is no way
out to solve a problem, it’s wise to heal them. But what is this healing and
how to do this? Is it a medicine or medicinal package which sort out all our
conflicts, mental and therefore the physical disorders? Or, is it an
examination by which body will be detected by any diffluent? Or, whether it is
an exercise by which you will be mentally fit forever?? Or either a way to
survive a life?
Now, it is the Dance
which teaches us to learn the body very well- love the body, except the body
and release the tiredness of the body? Yes, the phillosphy of dance teaches
this to us. The teaching of invocation to Moksha
in a dance lesson is very helpful to proceed in a without any expectation. And
it is the Dance, which cognates this body into the mind. The mind accepts the
tiredness of the body. Dancing along with a concentration is indispensible to
reflect the mingling of mind and body. This is, I would like to say as
‘Healing’-the technique and the procedure through which you can curve your body
most efficient and elegant way to settle the mind concerned. In other words,
the mind is also settled around towards a positive and better around.
It’s so happened that
while dancing, the mind got diverted from the outer world-entire being is
involved into a point and that is how able to develop curve at the body.
Exercises also have curve and benefits but Dances have emotions with the curve
of the body. And hence Healing is achieved with the help of both body and
emotions. Healing is a remedy to come back to a normal state as we come across
extreme emotional stages in our day to day life. In this context, Dance is
realized as an art because of its curving concept, an entertainment because of the
openness of the body and also a therapy because of its healing attitude. A
dancer experiences healing and she may also become a Healer by transferring the
knowledge of Dance in a more implicit but traditional way. Therefore, it can be
seen that traditional Dancers and traditional dancing are more powerful in its
practices and deliver.
Earlier, the Healer
therefore preferred meditation to divert and control self to solve disorders.
It is all about divert your attention to a different angle and then dissolve
them at one point in your body or mind or both. On the other hand, it can also
be tried to release the energy from the body to regain more energy into the
mind and so the body. Bodily energy do not follow mind, it helps to stand a
body and the mental energy helps to curve the body. Dance as a bodily art and
artistic communication, it communicates a matter. So, the energy level is
released as emotion. The communication created by the Dance received responds
as a form of ‘Clapping’ which also symbolizes acceptance. Clapping is the
ultimate communication while accepting a performance. This is actually a
behavior we found out of a performance piece at a performance area. As a non
verbal communication, Dance has been observed that limbs, eyes, neck, head,
torso etc. all are as essential communications to release a complete emotion.
Releasing emotion is said as Abhinaya or
‘to enact’ a character or nature in art performance. Whereas emotions are
highly advised to control in Indian society, this actually helps the society to
grow culturally. This is actually a reflection of their practices as a form of
either ritual or an art form. More or less, the artistic practice by a single
artist indicates the emotional fights against a social norm or dilemma. Dance
may define an outer beauty of the body. But beauty of realizing emotions in a
rhythm in dancing feet has the accuracy to fulfill your wants and longings.
This is how the concept of experiencing ‘Rasa’ is!! Dancing is not only dancing
the body but also transforming the self aftermath where the dancer turns into a
different being. As if she embodies a different entity into her body and this
involvement finally welcome a tiresome body. This is actually not only taking
the tiredness but also releasing the problems out of the body. The sweating is
your satisfaction or symptoms of release. You feel cool and calm insight the
body and so the mind. The process of Healing thus has been occupied. This
effectiveness actually helps the mind to heal the problems insight. Otherwise
why our elders say ‘be strong’ even if you are physically unfit to stand! It’s
a belief now that you can raise yourself on ‘any belief’ although people
criticize about belief is not a belief to be believed rather a superficiality
to ignore!! That is why belief is relieve may not be reality.
Healing can be looked
as transforming self into another being and apply the energy further to get
realize the power. For eg. Deodhani-
a shamanistic practice of Assamese ritual is actually embodied the spirit from
traditional verse with the help of singing and dancing. This is a verse of
beyond life and death and struggle between truth and victims. She has tremendous involvement into the
stories and also considered as healer, fortune teller, shamanist etc. She is
therefore also said as sacred woman who is not necessarily to be a social being
but dedicated to the welfare of the society. In other words, she is dedicated
to the social welfare considering her as the most unsocial being whose
livelihood is totally depended upon the power of god. For instance, while the
malevolent power increases, the Deodhani has a lot to do.
Performing dance
definitely is a self-imbibe of inner shyness, open up division of mind and
increasing body resistance. To involve into an emotion without any bodily
obstacles is the ultimate realization of a dancer. Dance cannot improve your
body defect but it may help your bodily resistance and absorption. During a
field visit of a ritual in the year 2008-09, it has been observed that the
ritual specialist acted like an experienced healer. She was confident about the
supernatural world and her presence into that world with conversations with few
animals. This is quite an unnatural. And accepted as power of the shaman. She
is at trances by which her entire being is on the process of healing. Now this
may be either accepting or protesting the happenings as a sole experienced of
power by her From powerless to power, its being an extraordinary trance state
by which she won’t harms others rather becomes a problem solver in a more
constructive way. It’s noteworthy that she can solve a problem only in the
state of trance during the ritual period and periphery. Hence it can be argued
that this involvement leads the dancer to heal self as well as the other by
various hand to hand performances at the ritual space. This is so happened that
she could divert herself into the epic-character and release the emotion
aftermath and come back to a normal life. Frequent changes of emotions are
actually helpful sometimes to acquire more space in the mind and so the body.
The body and mind have
two different routes of acceptance and understanding. This healing is using the
body to settle a mind by absorption and dedication. It is also believed that
she is dedicated too deep to absorb all the troubles to solve out for the well
being of her society. With the help of singing on her back by few choral
singers, the Deodhani actually gets into a divine zone of power and prosperity
and this defines her state as a trance state and extremely capable to heal self
and solve others problems-either physical or mental.
What happens in Dancing
is that body movements often go along with a hand gesture or a posture. If ‘Alapadma’ a gestural connotation
signifies ‘a half opened flower’, here actually a dancer diverts her mind from
fingers to gesture and deeply involved in the subject i.e., lotus and its connection
to the subject. In other words, in dancing, it is diverted the mind into the
visual of a flower and gradually a dancer falls over that emotion. This is how,
involvement transform into a separate being. Healing may not completely reduce
your entire problem. But diverting and later converting those into much a
constructive way of thought or resemblance becoming much help directly the body
to accept and activate. It gradually develops concentration.
Rules are mandatory to
prospect any work smoothly either a doctoral or an aptitude test. Any cognitive
writing therefore always helpful to proceed any task. At the same time we are
to define our body very well. Both the body and the mind need power to nurture.
You may provide food as an indispensible supplement to the body to survive.
But, powers of digestion, power of immunity, power of absorption are the
requirements too to the survival of the body and so the mind.
Healing is a silent
phenomenon to the body. It’s an outcome of an action or reaction which absorbs
both good and bad towards the body. And then evolve a powerful mind and
fighting spirit to dissolve the degradation of all sorts. As mentioned above,
to reduce or to fight the chaos of any kind develop from self may find the
Dance or dancing as a healing to survive. A dance of aggression, a dance of
suppression, a dance of peace etc. are all dances of healing the insights-to
reach a balance of both body and mind. The cultural barrier and a single
philosophy disturb within you but let’s Dance be the best healing to overcome
our hurdles and live beyond than we imagine ourselves!!
Let’s move the body, let’s do something
artistic way, let’s Dance and heal ourselves, let’s achieve power this way to
survive, Let’s fall on healing. Let’s dance be the best healing and source of
inspiration to live and to be lived !!!
