April Daily Practice: Happy Dance

In March, I had started to feel that my Daily Practices for this year had all been just a little bit sensible! Getting outside in January, 10 Minute Tidy in February and Trusting your Body, Mind, Heart and Soul in March. I am all about the Joyful Life, and pursuing your Big Dreams, living to the full…but mostly, Living Joyously. So, this month I decided we needed a slightly sillier, more fun Daily Practice. I had a few ideas, but none were really jumping out at me…until Friday 30th March (talk about leaving it to the last minute!) when I got my 150th ‘likee’ on my Facebook page.

And I did a Happy Dance! And took a photo!! If you pop over to my Facebook page you will see said photo! And it struck me – there’s nothing better than a Happy Dance! So this month, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find excuses to Happy Dance every day. You could also take a photo and share it on my Facebook Page! I’ll be doing that a few times through the month too. So join in!

And because this is a bit of a ‘silly’ practice, I feel compelled to explain why this is a GREAT practice to adopt for a month. Firstly, Happy Dancing is FUN! But if you need more reasons than ‘it’s fun’ to do something, here are some more: When you look for reasons to Happy Dance, they are almost always there – even on the shittiest of days, there is an excuse for a Happy Dance, and this practice will train you to see the good stuff that is there in your life. When you get used to looking for good stuff, like any other skill, you get better and better at seeing it. So your life gets better. Simply because of a small perspective change (and a Happy Dance).

And Happy Dancing is good exercise! And lastly, if you’ve not Happy Danced before, you will learn a new skill! 😀 So just in case you need instructions on how to Happy Dance: imagine you are Super Happy about something, then do a dance that expresses that happiness. Happy Dances are usually silly, fun, involve lots of limb waving and smiling…with the occasional whoop thrown in (for experts only). Are you going to join in?? And before you ask, no, this is not an April Fool’s joke…I’m serious about Happy Dancing!

Love

Donna.x