This paper designs a controlled experiment of dance therapy intervention on college students’ mental health level under the guidance of theories of embodied cognition and implicit memory. Basic data on positive/negative emotions of the subject students were collected through pre- and post-tests to test the effect of dance therapy based on embodied theory. After that, the students’ basic personal and social characteristics were modeled, and quantile regression analysis was used to find out the extent of the dance therapy’s impact on college students’ mental health, so as to provide the dance therapy intervention based on embodiment theory for the optimal intervention target. At the end of the 6-month controlled experiment, the mean positive mood score of 35 students in the treatment group increased from 37.606 to 83.898, and the mean negative mood score decreased from 86.414 to 29.577. Dance therapy based on embodied theory helps to improve positive thinking ability and reduce negative passivity in students with poor mental health status.
