of sleep, practicing relaxation exercises and incorporate EFT Tapping into your daily routine.
Some of the common winter blues symptoms are lethargy, excessive need for sleep, weight gain, craving carbohy- drates and foods with a high fat content. All were evolutionary benefi ts when we relied on natural light. A great strategy was to fatten up, conserve energy and stay out of the cold and wet. This would have kept many of our ancestors alive and healthy and enabled success in the gene pool. Like many of our biological imperatives, however, this hasn’t caught up with the way we live our lives now. We have artifi cial light and heat and a very different lifestyle to those ancestors.
One reason that you might struggle to beat winter blues is that it’s been hardwired epigenetically into your DNA, an ancestral pattern. This is something that can be worked on and changed with EFT Tapping and other practices, such as Matrix Re-imprinting.
There will almost certainly be specifi c reasons from events that have happened in your life. These could be causing you to experience symptoms that are labelled
as SAD. For example, someone you love, a grandparent perhaps, died when you were young. This happened at a time of year when it was getting cold and wet. Your subconscious mind might associate that time of year with the extreme sadness that you felt at that time. You might be triggered into that behavior pattern even though con- sciously you don’t link the reasons.
Or it could be something seemingly
insignifi cant to you as an adult, but which had a big impact on you when you were young. Maybe as simple as being told, “you can’t go outside, it’s too wet,” or even the dreaded, “you’ll catch your death of cold.” All you wanted to do was go out and splash around. Over and over, you heard these messages until they became an embedded unconscious command that this time of year just isn’t safe.
Now, when the events that have hap-
pened in your life trigger an epigenetic switch for something that is already in your DNA (ancestral pattern), it is likely that it will affect you profoundly. Finding the spe- cifi c events and releasing your emotional attachment to them with EFT can change that for you. Planning a healthier lifestyle is always a good idea and asking for help
is a sign of strength and movement toward a better version of yourself. Consider how you can start managing SAD today and live a healthier life in every season.
Contact me today if you’d like to explore creating a permanent shift in how you feel this winter and in every season.
Karen St. Clair is a highly skilled EFT Tapping Practi- tioner, PSYCH-K® Facilitator, Matrix Re-Imprinting Practi- tioner, Usui Reiki Master of Masters and Founder of Reiki
Tap Renewal with a true gift for facilitat- ing her clients’ life-changing outcomes.
Book a private appointment at Touch Point Studio in Cumberland Foreside, ME or via Zoom video conferencing. 207.878.8315.
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