Dance like there's nobody watching!

Dancing makes me happy! Here is a little secret for all of you out there, in case you didn’t know, women love to dance or at least most Salvadoran woman love to dance. I LOVE LOVE LOVE to dance. Anyone who spends five minutes with my family pretty much know that my mom and sisters are always throwing impromptu dance parties pretty much any place, anytime for any reason.

Every celebration has to have music. Life is just better when you have music playing that you can dance to. A happy song can change any mood from sad to happy within the first few bars of the song. Music can totally take you away from hyper focusing on problems to dancing and enjoying yourself. Music and Dancing are powerful tools to help you be happy.

This past week was my niece’s Paola graduation party from her school in El Salvador.  My mom, sisters and the entire Flores clan attended.  We were invited to the traditional prom party for the class of 2015. In El Salvador and here in the DR too, the American School throws a big party for their graduates. The idea is for the graduates to go to prom with their parents, family and friends. Before the party begins, we had the parent and kids all joined in together to cheer on the graduate as he or she walks with a parent down a long pathway and at the end of the stroll they all meet at the dance floor to dance the first dance.

The daughter with her father, and the son with his mother. Everyone dresses elegant. The huge ballroom at the fairgrounds is the only big place that could hold sitting for 3300 guests so it’s a big party and everyone there is having a fantastic time. Toward the end of the party at around 11:00 p.m. the dancing turns into a type of carnival theme and people just simply let their hair down. You wear masks so you are free to be silly. You can’t worry about how you look or what other people think of your dancing…it’s just being confident enough to put yourself out there and MOVE!

My point is this, I think is very therapeutic and I am not an expert it's just my own opinion to try to be happy and to let go! So what better way to do that than having your own little dance party? You can dance with friends, you can dance at work, you can dance in your car, or you can dance all by yourself if you can’t find anyone to dance with you – it doesn’t really matter where or how…it just matters that you DANCE!