Healing Seasonal Stress

This time of year holds many festivals and celebrations of light, and those of us who live in the northern hemisphere can really need those moments of light to lift our spirits when it’s dark and cold. Reminding us that there is light in the dark; the sun will return.

It’s tempting to fight the darkness and cold of winter, battling through it busily, doing our best to ignore the season until spring. But the seasons each have their part to play and gifts for us. It can be incredibly healing to take inspiration from Mother Earth at this time of year and sink our attention deep within ourselves. Taking our power within to nurture and heal inside; keeping our energy within ourselves to germinate seeds of new ideas and prepare the ground for spring when all our plans can come to fruition.

If you’re struggling with the short, dark, cold days, take time to nurture yourself, create a cosy nest of blankets and cushions, light some candles (safely) and do some self healing. Meditate and go within, visualising any worries you have or plans for the future and bring beautiful light energy to them, see your troubles eased and your plans blossoming.

You may wish to treat yourself with a couple of Reiki sessions that would help ease your stress.

You can write or draw the things that you are working on during this season of hibernation , keep the words and images somewhere so that you can see them regularly and see a Reiki practitioner for finding out how to work on them regularly.

Nurture yourself as the Earth does in winter; you can take this inspiration from the Earth further in any way that you are inspired or guided to do, this may include:

• Cover yourself in a white blanket and lay comfortably underneath. Visualise the calm quiet that comes when the land is covered in snow. Breathe in that sense of peace as you inhale, filling yourself with the tranquillity of the earth as she sleeps in winter.
• Meditate, taking your attention within to nurture and heal yourself, preparing yourself to expand in consciousness and grow in wisdom, just as the Earth draws her energy from the plants back into her soil to enrich it ready for the next stage of growth.
• Bring evergreens into your home or healing space to lift your spirits and remind you that life goes on even during the darkest, stillest and most silent times. 
• Write your ideas for how you would like to grow on pieces of paper and roll them into ‘seeds’. These can be areas you’d like to learn about, healing you’d like to receive, people you’d like to forgive, moves to make in home or career; anything you’d like to achieve. Discuss about them with your Reiki practitioner that will help you materialize your ideas,  make them grow and blossom fruitfully into your life. 
• Light a candle to remind you of the light that is on the Earth; the goodness of people, the abundance of the Earth that supports us, the light of the sun that feeds us, any Deity or Divine beings of light that you honour.