Kicking the Winter Blues Part 2

Winter is the season of the Kidney, a Yin season characterized by cold, damp, slow and quiet. It is also a time of year when activity in the plant kingdom is taking place deep at the root level. In humans, this is reflected by our body's intuitive desire to rest, reflect, conserve and store energy. On a silver platter, Mother Nature literally provides the opportunity to dig deep into oneself and grow at the root level.

In Oriental Health Philosophy the kidneys store and generate our fundamental life energy. Like the root of a plant, they are the deepest source of life energy for a human being. The emotional components connected to healthy kidneys are will, courage, and confidence. When the kidneys are weak the related emotions are fear, discouragement, lack of will, and anxiety. Strong kidneys give us the will to survive, while weak kidneys make us want to go back to bed. Which can you relate to?

Much like plants and trees, our bodies continually tap into kidney reserves to sustain us through the long winter months. Unfortunately though, we're not plants and we're not trees. Although many of us would prefer to plant ourselves on the couch until spring, we have jobs to go to, kids to feed, and errands to run. Yet we find ourselves in the midst of winter's throws, trudging along or lacking the ability to get started, because our vital energy reserves are depleted.

Winter is a time for storage, but the average person is storing the wrong kind of stuff. If you read part 1, you understand that after a long holiday celebration vital energy isn't what's tucked away deep in our root system. Instead, we have toxicity which weakens the body and steals from its reserves. A tree can withstand months of harsh winter conditions, because it has a strong root system. With a weak root system it may not come back in the spring as lush and vital as the year before. We humans are not too different in that respect. Winter Detox 101...Give your kidneys a kick start!  

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