How do you stay centered through life's ups and downs? It's through the Body Knowledge Dance.

The dance keeps you awake and alive with your body. Dance opens you up to functioning on all levels, not just the mental level where many of us function much of the time.

Dance brings you back into your body, where you find deeper self-knowledge. You illumine your understanding of your style of functioning, and you trust your way of operating a little more than you did before. You know what you truly want in life.

Here's an example:

Let's say that you want to reduce your intake of sugar. Start moving. Let your body tell you how he/she wants to move. What would it look like and feel like in your body if you didn't eat as much sugar? Close your eyes, move with her, let your body decide. It might be a big hooray. Your body might feel a lot of excitement that you're eating less sugar.

State this as a positive intention:

'I am ecstatic because I'm consuming less sugar!'

With that movement and intention, make a picture in your mind. Visualize it. Now, you've captured it. Practice it. Perform it again and again until it's solidly in your body. Once you commit the dance to memory, practice the dance.

Let the movement change; be your own choreographer. I encourage you to add music; add song ;see your visualization even more clearly by seeing a scene in a movie that touched your heart or made you cry or made you laugh ;see something in nature that brings more aliveness to your choreographed sequence of movement.