13/10/2025
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) affects millions of people around the globe yearly. Every year, as the light fades, days get shorter and something inside me dims.
I used to think it was winter blues, until Ayurveda helped me see it differently.
Ayurveda regards winter as the brmhana season, or building season, the time to slow down, meditate and enjoy more warm, nourishing foods.
Some common symptoms include:
✨Low motivation
✨Dull, foggy mind
✨General feeling of heaviness mentally and physically.
Ayurveda has a lot to say about this.
In Ayurveda, the rhythm if our emotional and physical health is governed by two powerful natural cycles:
✨Dinacharya - our daily routine and dance between light and darkness every 24 hours.
✨Ritucharya - our seasonal routine with cyclical changes across the seasons.
And weaved into these are the daily 24 hour cycle of the three Doshas, Vata, Pitta and Kapha.
In classical Ayurveda, there’s a famous quote - it’s said. “He who lives in harmony with time, light and season remains free of disease.”
The reality is our biological clock is ruled by the same solar and lunar cycles that regulate our circadian rhythm.
With long nights, low sunlight, the cold, heavy, slow qualities of Kapha accumulate.
When these qualities of Kapha are weaved into a disturbed daily rhythm (Dinacharya) - waking late, less light exposure and less movement - our digestive and mental fire weakens.
That’s when I’ve turn to:
🌿Tulsi
🌿St.John’s Wort
And Ashwaganda in my own life to help awaken my mental clarity and uplift my mood.
Each body holds it’s own story - check contraindications for your health and interactions with current medications - illness and honour your body’s cues; they’re natures quiet guidance.
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