How did I come up with my Thesis topic?

IMPROVISATIONAL CONTEMPORARY PARTNER WORK AS EXERCISE FOR STRESS AND ANXIETY REDUCTION FOR NONDANCER COLLEGIATE STUDENTS

Since the age of 3, I've experienced many things in dancing even the stress and injuries that most dancers get. I sometimes feel the urge to give up my dancing career because of the lack of motivation and the love for dance. Having said this, I got curious why this is happening to me? What triggered me to lose my love for dance? I even asked my other teammates if they feel the same way and found out that there are times that they feel it too. 

The time I took my Sports Psychology Class in College (SS 161), I learned that there are a lot of factors that can lose one's motivation in a specific sport. One of it is overstress. How can we cope up with it? Usually you will be asked to rest and change your training schedule if possible. In my case in college, we have a 4-year varsity contract. We can not rest whenever we want to. We should always be active and take consideration that we are representing the name of our school. At the same time as students, we have to maintain our grades and make sure that we will be able to pass our subjects.  With this, I questioned myself on how can we be able to gain our motivation back and at the same time reduce the stress that we get from all the  school works and the hectic training schedule that we have. Thus, this led me to the research on how we could handle stress at the same time being able to manage my time with all the responsibilities I have as a student and dancer. 

While looking for my final topic in my research method class (SS 199), I found out that there's this Dance Movement Therapy, where they used dance to treat mental illness including stress and anxiety. This made me realize that there are some dances that can help us feel the love we had before with dancing. Having Zumba as our training, being able to learn new dance moves, and experiencing a new genre of dance like the contemporary. This brought me to the idea that there are still other dancing experiences that can help reduce my stress and anxiety level and at the same time be able to enjoy the talent I have. I chose contemporary dance as my research topic because personally being able to dance this genre made me feel light and free while learning the different techniques of this dance. As for my teammates, I can feel that they're able to express the feelings that they have while they dance. It helps us feel stress free and at the same time have the enough energy that we will be needing as varsity student. 

With my thesis, I would like to know if this would be effective to non dancers as well.