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Salsa
On focus
In my beginner salsa classes, our teachers told us the most difficult move could be mastered using a simple trick.
Which move? A 360-degree spin. The right spin differed from the left. That’s the first half. The other half was coming back to where you had started.
Our instructors’ spins were flawless. Ours were an eyesore.
Then they shared a trick. We were to pick a spot that we narrowed down to, say a handle of a window, the head of one of our instructors, or an imaginary red dot on the wall. And as we spun, our goal would be to swiftly move our heads and return to that handle, head, or red dot. The body would then follow your axis.
It worked like magic.
This technique got me thinking about a spinning world and the power of focus. Every normal person has a pair of legs and eyes. Without focus, even with a set of perfectly functional legs and eyes, the dance turns awkward. With focus, one moves with grace. Especially when your world is spinning, such as the world we are living in right now.
