How can I keep writing about my job search and finding my path when I just keep running around in circles? I’m good with an answer for about 3 hours before I find something wrong with it and need to rethink the whole thing all over again. So far, I’ve played with the following ideas (in no particular order):
a dance MFA
a theatre MFA
a directing MFA
Web design and developing certification
CNA certification
Masters esthetician
Medical esthetician
Dance/Movement Therapy
DIY MFA
Kinesiology
Neuromotor science
Maybe take it as far as a Doctorate degree?
Neuromotor science seems to be the perfect program and path, but I can only find it in one place, and they don’t have it available online. So, I’m stuck yet again.
I think another part of the problem is though I’m narrowing in on what I want to learn… I don’t know what to do with that knowledge after graduation.
This knowledge that is incomplete started when I was an undergraduate. I heard there was something called “The Brain Dance” (sound familiar?), and one professor I greatly admire said that the brain dance can help you think better. I was fascinated. I read a lot about the brain dance, finding more claims that your brain can change through consistent use of the brain dance. But somehow, just their saying so was not enough for me. A desire was born in me to scientifically prove that the claims from the brain dance were true… that desire is still in me…
Well, its mostly the same, but the desire has shifted slightly.
Remember my own experiment? For about a month, I’ve been closely watching my behavior. Every Fall, I slip into a pretty deep depression because of Bipolar, and I wanted to see if the brain dance could keep me less buried in Brain Fog. I haven’t really been using the brain dance yet, but I have been moving. I get up and change activities on purpose, even if I don’t feel like it.
So far, it looks like movement is helping me stay alert and on top of things… that I haven’t needed the brain dance yet. On the other hand, it may just be that I haven’t entered my depression yet, so I technically haven’t “needed” any treatment yet. In either case, it has got me wondering if there’s nothing special about the brain dance… that maybe there’s not a sequence of movement that is better than another for your brain… or it it’s just movement itself that our brain needs.
So now, my focus is not to prove that the brain dance IS needed… but IF it even makes a difference in our cognition… I want to write research papers along these lines. Is movement good for the brain? How? Does it affect cognition in any way? Can the brain dance vs movement help test scores improve? And what might we do with this information once tested properly? (For starters…)
I started organizing a research paper in my head already- thinking of contributing to a scholarly journal through an organization that might help me decide to do with my future.
Oh, right… that’s how this all started. Like I said before, I know what I want to learn, but I’m unsure on what to do with that knowledge. I would like to maybe do something medically with that knowledge. Maybe help people physically… or maybe to help others mentally. It has been an idea of mine to find specific movements that can treat specific mental illnesses. Maybe I can just write books and get the knowledge out there… but I’m not sure I could do that all the time. Maybe I could travel and make presentations about the benefits of movement and/or the brain dance to the brain.
Any ideas? I could use some creative outlets for this soon to be acquired knowledge.