If You're Happy and You Know It, Stand Up

This article by Belle Beth Cooper is exactly the sort of evidence I aimed to find, to support the idea of dancing changing our thinking, as opposed to the other way around.
http://blog.bufferapp.com/improve-posture-good-posture-science-happiness

          This sort of thinking led me to Kenneth S Pope's scholarly chapter, "How Gender, Solitude and Posture Influence the Stream of Consciousness", the ninth chapter of "The Stream of Consciousness".
Pope, K. (1978). How Gender, Solitude, and Posture Influence the Stream of Consciousness. The Stream of Consciousness (pp. 259-299). Los Angeles: Springer US.

          In fact, multiple studies have proven us to have more confidence in the decisions we make, and in the opinions we hold, when we are upright and with more correct posture. I wonder how much of this is attributed to the spacing of the vertebrae in the spine?

          In studio, we focussed on Body Mind Centring and tried to feel if there were imbalances or incongruities in our skeletal structure, on the floor, and compared how we felt afterward with each other. In a chair, the cushions between the vertebrae of our spine are compressed by gravity, and the practices of dancing, or of body mind centring, do more for our spine protection than we may think. It would make sense that the wider spacing of the spine, either from staying upright, or from the above practices, is what may be connected to the mental capacity to be stoic in our decision making; it also affects out self-belief and positivity of self-assessment.

          I imagine there is validity to the thinking that others can be more or less impressed with us with varying postures in how we present ourselves to them.

          A prospective employee holding themselves correctly is proven above to more likely to rate themselves positively, and create an aura of more confidence, than a hunched interviewee. The more likely to successfully get a job is the one with a more optimistic and competitive mentality, but this can come about purely from the body's expansion in space.

          A constrained body, a compressed spine, is more susceptible to injury and pain (spine), and is congruent with a more negative mentality; there is much evidence for the body's ability to dictate the workings and emotions of the mind.