In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) health is heavily centered around the ideas of optimizing balance and harmony; not just within the body, but between ourselves and the natural forces of our environment. TCM views the human body as a microcosmic mirror of its environment; influenced by and reflecting the natural forces that surround it. We are therefore heavily influenced by our surroundings and the natural themes that take place within our environment. TCM stresses the importance in health of aligning ourselves with these natural themes and attuning ourselves with the natural changes that take place within them. One of the greatest example of this alignment and attunement with our natural environment comes in the form of seasonal changes. For all our technological and scientific advances, we still find ourselves revolving around nature’s seasonal changes. For the 2000+ years that TCM has existed, these seasonal themes and their influences on the human body and health has been abundantly observed, tested and recorded. This information has created an understanding of how to balance and harmonize with these seasonal changes in order to optimize health and wellness. Observed by TCM, there are four seasons and between each are a transitionary period; each season and transitionary period has an underlying theme and aspects that are particular to each. It is important in health and wellbeing that one adapts to the transition and changes fluidly, and follows the seasonal currents smoothly. Difficulty to adapt in times of transition can lead to imbalances in the body; which can result in impacts on physical, mental, emotional or spiritual levels. Surrounding us now is the transitionary period from winter to spring. Soon we will be in the full awakening of spring. In terms of our health, it is during this transitionary period that one should begin to attune to the energies of the Spring season. Join me in part II of Seasonal Attunement for Spring, where I will provide an understanding of the Winter-Spring transition, of the themes particular to Spring, and with these understandings, suggestions and practices for aligning oneself harmoniously with the season of Spring.
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