Dancing Star

Why Dancing Star????

I am just a hulahooper so do not brainstorm much about philosophy :) but I am grateful to all the great people who can put great concepts into words, concepts that I agree with or those that inspire me.

The dancing star idea comes from Nietzsche who was a German philosopher of the late 19th century.

He said: " I tell you: one must have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

To my undestanding this quote covers my whole hooping evolution & I hope it will be true to others. A lot of us find some sort of solution in the hoop. Solution to a problem that prevented us from living a happy life. I had problems with my health, I was stressed out & took life too seriously + I was a fat young woman. From the moment I woke up I was a mess: picking up black clothes that make me look a bit slimmer, then getting changed when I looked in the mirror because I did not like what I saw. From the moment I started working I was waiting for the time I can go home. At home I was just as miserable as everywhere else & sought comfort in food, shopping etc. When I realised that things do not have to be accepted as they are presented to us I became immensely powerful. I had the chaos & that fuelled my engines to become a dancing star.

I feel fit & healthy. I can wear whatever I want to. Although I am very busy, I love my job. I love people the way they are. I am no longer looking for comfort.

No need to blame others or the circumstances - it is only me who can make a difference.

Another example is the Hungarian Waterpolo Team ( if you google it you find that the lads won one Olympic Gold after the other) - I can still remember watching an interview with Tibor Benedek (one of the players) who said that the majority of the team started swimming only because when they were kids they all had postural problems, asthma etc & in Hungary docs would prescribe swimming for kids with postural or pulmonary deficiencies to get them stronger. So when they were weak little kids they spent a lot of time in water for therapy & that is where they did not get bullied & had their own little achievements. In other things they did not do particularly well but in the water they got powerful & exceptional. So powerful that they won the Olympics. Now you look at any one of these athletes & pulmonary or postural deficiencies are the last things that come to your mind :D
They had their own chaos in their early life & that made them more dedicated - not dancing but waterpolo stars :)

What good is it for you?

With hooping you get taught if things do not work, it is only you who needs to do something differently. You control the hoop - if it is not doing what you want please do not get frustrated or give up. Try to do things differently, explore the possibilities & stick to what works the best.

If you do it well, that hoop will say "well done" in its own ways: it will spin around you & do all the tricks you wanted. The hoop is not temperimental, it is not going to make you feel bad because it is having a bad day. Play with it & the more time you spend spinning the more beautiful your hoopdance will be.

Frustration

The beginnings will be full of frustration.

It is not easy to keep doing things that do not work. Trying again is not always the first thought. With hooping, however, I found that I am just playing and there is a drive in me to keep going & nail the next trick. It also helps to think of the benefits: it is healthy, slimming, it might work one day...

The hoop can teach us to take failure differently, to start putting the blame where it belongs & think about all the possibilities we could try next. Giving up is not too hoopy.