Can winter blues do you any good?

If you live in a location where you can experience winter with cold temperatures and less sunlight, you may have experienced Winter Blues (or SAD for Seasonal Affective Disorder). You may feel more sleepy and with less energy than in other season. You may feel like eating more. You may feel moody or sad without a reason. There is a lot of reading on the subject already...

You may live in a sunny and warm place all year though and still notice some of the symptoms I described above. They may be lighter and easy to ignore. They can also come in a form of a big wave of inner winter caused by various life events.

I feel like there are some similarities with these 2 winters. And similar things can help us go through both. Getting enough of sleep, eating warm and well balanced meals, drinking hot tea with fruits and spices, getting out to breath the fresh air and charging vitamine D (always discuss supplementing with your doctor!), reading, listening to relaxing music, taking warm baths, adding small lights here and there - there's a lot to pick and try.

There is also something we can learn from nature... do not fight it...

Deciduous trees shedding their leaves late autumn, many annual flowers and plants disappear, bears and squirrels and co. hibernating...

Inner winters like seasonal winters come and go. The more we can learn from past one, the better we are prepared to live through the next one.

They happen for us and not to us. They happen so that we remember to take a little more care of ourselves. To cuddle, get warm, slow down, admire the stillness, restore...