21/01/2024
Are you still on slow winter mode? Or are you in the anew year’s resolutions team? 😜 ❄️
❄️New Year - new you, it is time to start the January diet and a new gym regime, we are told. It is relentless and we are told to keep moving, keep going, create new things, start new projects. But if we look to nature at this time, what is actually happening? Very little indeed. Light levels are low, with days almost as short in January as they are in mid-winter. The temperature is colder and the weather more inclement. Birds may be out and about, but what are mammals doing? They are either hibernating or doing something very close to it, tucked away and expending as little energy as possible.
❄️I think this is a moment in the year to remember that we too are mammals and to behave much like them. Get cosy, eat comfort food, rest and sleep as much as you can. When you start off the year with huge energy and new projects you quickly run out of steam. Better to use this time to think, imagine and dream. Make like a seed under the soil and wait, dormant. When the light and temperature start to increase we often find that our energy naturally does with it. We can enter the lighter, warmer part of the year having dreamed up ideas, done the groundwork and taken the rest. This is the way to avoid burnout, and to make sure your energy is at its peak when it is most needed.
❄️What do you think? 🏹
