Raving As Therapy? 👇 I've never been great at sitting still and watching my breath. But put me on a dance floor for three hours and I'll come out the other side calmer than any app has ever made me. Turns out that might not be as ridiculous as it sounds. A meta-analysis pulled together 41 controlled studies with almost 2,400 people and looked at what dance does for mental health. For anxiety specifically, dance came out about even with meditation. Not better, not worse. About the same. It also beat plain physical exercise, which suggests it isn't just the movement doing the work. Now to be fair, these were dance classes and dance therapy sessions. Not warehouses at 2am. Nobody has run this study on a rave yet. But I've spent 30 years watching people walk into a room carrying everything and walk out lighter. Maybe the mechanism isn't that different. Read the research: doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01806 👉 Follow wardandrews for more on music, healing, and building your...