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Emmett Shear@eshear• over 1 year ago

I don’t know if this study will replicate…but I’ve long believed humans have a basic need for synchronization. It’s available through team sports, dancing (especially if everyone is dancing the same dance), choir, complicated group photos where everyone jumps… https://t.co/rWsYGhXrpC

Erik Hoel@erikphoel• over 1 year ago

They buried the lede on this new study. It's not that exercise beats out SSRIs for depression treatment, but that *just* dancing has the largest effect of *any treatment* for depression. That's kind of beautiful. https://t.co/9EQZXOtk7s

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Emmett Shear@eshear• over 1 year ago

Replying to @eshear

There is a special feeling to being physically synchronized in motion with other people. It is not replaceable with other forms of connection or belonging. You can’t get it over the internet.

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Emmett Shear@eshear• over 1 year ago

Replying to @eshear

It’s sort of similar to sunlight, human touch, real green nature…their lack will eventually give you a disease of deficiency. If vitamins are “minerals” required for life, perhaps these are vitaqals — the qualia needed for life.

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Ra@slimepriestess• over 1 year ago

Replying to @eshear

@eshear *finger snapping lightbulb going on* yooo vitaqals is an amazing concept, i am gonna take this and run with it

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leric@LericDax• over 1 year ago

Replying to @eshear

@eshear good stuff https://t.co/ZVI0PnEnVj

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Ra@slimepriestess• over 1 year ago

Replying to @eshear

@eshear it doesn't specify if it needs to be group dancing or not, and ime it doesn't, but the less other people there are the louder the music needs to be to compensate.

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Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️@Malcolm_Ocean• over 1 year ago

Replying to @eshear

@eshear you might like the book Resonance by Hartmut Rosa. I'm only a few chapters in (going slowly) but it's been helping me see stuff about this https://t.co/TuFzLzYaYB

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pontil marx@thankyoudando• over 1 year ago

Replying to @eshear

@eshear see: "EMDR". pretty widely used in trauma therapy etc.but also I can't help but point out... dancing makes you happy whilst exercising? thank god someone unearthed the, umm... *data*.

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