Reach Out for Community. Isolation is a slow death.

Date:   12/24/2008 11:15:57 AM ( 16 y ago)

How Not to Get Depressed This Winter
by Christopher Ricardo Scipio
Homeopath/Herbalist

Change Your Lighting. Switch the light bulbs in your home to Full Spectrum Compact Flourescents with a colour temperature of 5100 Kelvin or higher. This is the closest artificial lighting to the sun's rays and will help combat seasonal depression along with reducing your lighting bill by as much as 67%.

Vary Your Routine. Lack of stimulation, lack of variety and lack of challenge all contribute to depression. Don't allow yourself to stay in a rut. Try new foods, go to new places, reach out and try to make new friends, move the furniture around in your house, change the colour of your walls. Examine every habit you have and try to shake things up.

Reach Out for Community. Isolation is a slow death. No matter who you are and what you are into there is a community out there either in the real world or on the internet ready to embrace you. You need to feel connected to others and others will benefit by being in your circle.

Have More Sex. I hope the benefits of physically and emotionally fulfilling sex are obvious. So why aren't you getting more? Perhaps your rules are limiting your opportunities. If this is the case, it's time to re-examine the priority you have placed on sex. loosen your restrictions, make it easier and not harder for yourself to get more sex. You do not have to be in love with someone or in a relationship to have sex. I am no promoter of meaningless sex, but I know from personal experience that it is possible to have abundant, healthy, uplifting sex in your life if you choose to.

Humidify. Drink lots of unfiltered spring water and teas like siberian ginseng, rhodiola and tulsi. Take a good fish oil supplement and make sure you have a humidifier in your bedroom if you have electric heat in your house.

Find Meaning in Who You Are and What You Do. If your daily life isn't full of joy and meaning, you will get depressed, it's only a matter of time. Some try to self-medicate themselves from this morass by doing recreational drugs or drinking too much. There is ultimately no escape from your internal judge. You know in the depths of your soul whether the life you live and the things you do have enough meaning. If meaning is lacking in your life, strip away all the dead wood and see what persists at your core. Who are you? What do you wish your life to be about? What dreams still remain unfulfilled? How would you like to impact the world around you?

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