After a particularly hot and sunny autumn, we entered the winter season at the beginning of November. The Yin energy has settled and will reach its peak at the winter solstice to decrease until spring in February.
The winter season related to the “water” element puts a strain on our body and more particularly, according to Chinese medicine, the kidneys and bladder, the organs related to energies. If the Kidney is in good emotional health, you will be more inclined to self-preservation, to recklessness. Otherwise, fear, phobias, even in extreme cases, fear, panic, terror, despair are emotions that can occur.
Like nature sleeping in order to spend as little energy as possible until spring arrives, you too, slow down your pace and take time for yourself and your loved ones, to do nothing and recharge your batteries. Go to bed early (with a hot water bottle!) and allow yourself to get up late… Take advantage of this time of introspection to read and meditate. Go and question the emotions buried deep within you, such as fear, or faculties such as will.
Adapt your diet to preserve the organs that contain all our vital energy. Fortunately, nature offers us root vegetables that are full of useful nutrients. Serve them with satiating foods such as beans, legumes (all kinds of peas, lentils) or rice, buckwheat or spelt. Salt will also help you keep water in your body.
If you feel overwhelming fatigue and emotions, a few acupuncture sessions can help you refocus your energy and channel your anxieties. If the kidney bladder system is weak, the acupuncturist will focus on the “water” point to support it.
You will have understood that the end of the year period is a wonderful opportunity to take care of yourself, so give yourself this gift: think of yourself!
