4 Reasons to Attune to the Seasons
The most amazing thing can happen when we live attuned to our natural surroundings. For some this equates to the four traditional seasons and the ebbing and flowing of light and dark, warmth and cold. For others, it’s around weather patterns of rainy and dry seasons. Whatever the climate may be where you live, the wisdom lies in harmonizing with it. As we orient ourselves to the seasons happening before us, we live more in sync with our bodies, nature, animals, and each other. It’s a recalibration. Let’s dive in.
Here are 4 Reasons to Attune to the Seasons:
It will help you live in sync with the natural flow of energy throughout the year
It’s an ancient and modern practice by many peoples and cultures
It’s a reason to set aside time for space, stillness and self-care
It helps you become one with the world around you
1. It will help you live in sync with the natural flow of energy throughout the year
Aligning to the wisdom each season holds is like a powergrid that we tap into. Living in harmony with, rather than separate from the natural forces that occur in nature and in the cosmos, creates a prosperous, in tune, aligned, way of living that supports us as an undercurrent throughout the year.
By living as one with Mother Earth’s rhythms and cycles, we return to our own rhythms and cycles, which supports our homeostasis. When we are balanced, our health, creativity, wisdom, and vibrancy can flourish.
2. It’s an ancient and modern practice by many peoples and cultures
Millions of people from cultures all over the world have gone before us, building sacred sites and holding ceremonies to celebrate the solstices and equinoxes. These transitions in the sun’s journey throughout the year have a significant influence on our inner lives. When we attune to these seasonal shifts, we join the human practice of embodying the season within and without.
For example, let’s take a look at three cultural practices that do this.
The Celts, the ancient people of Ireland, were strongly influenced by the seasons and used the Wheel of the Year as a cyclical guide through eight seasonal festivals. Four align to the main solar events of solstice and equinox and four are for the midpoints between them, each with unique, subtle energies. This tradition continues to this day.
The Medicine Wheel and the Four Directions have been used as a sacred symbol by Native Americans for generations. The Medicine Wheel orients to the seasons of the year as well as to the elements (fire, air, water, earth), foods, plants, phases of life (birth, youth, adult, death), aspects of self (spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical), and more.
Ayurveda, which originated in India over 3,000 years ago, is an entire wellness philosophy and way of life of “living in harmony with nature”. The three doshas, or three personality/body constitutions - vata, kapha and pitta - also line up with the seasons. Following the specific needs of your body type can be enormously nurturing and healing for holistic wellbeing throughout the year.
These are just a few examples of how humans connect to the power of the seasons, both in ancient times and contemporary living.
3. It’s a reason to set aside time for space, stillness and self-care
As we honor the change in season and reconnect with the themes, vibrations and wisdom each holds, we realign with a ubiquitous, natural way of being that nourishes, empowers and brings us back into relationship with our souls. Creating a practice to pause and hold space for the current season is strengthening, sustaining, and grounds our wellbeing, rooting us in collective and intuitive wisdom.
4. It helps you become one with the world around you
For so many of us, we live in a bubble of our personal view of the world. Orienting to the seasons can help us realize that we are not separate from but inextricably connected to everything. We all go through seasonal shifts and each season has challenges and gifts we are all influenced by (in any given hemisphere, that is). That awareness can bring compassion to our interactions with others, to what’s happening in the world, to suffering and joy, to collective pain and healing, to darkness and light.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge proponent of creating space, stillness and self-care. I think it’s an integral component of wholeness. Yet when we are solely focused on our own wellbeing, we can lose touch with our interconnectedness and responsibility to humanity, to earth, and to all of her inhabitants. Combining self-care with service creates that equilibrium of giving and receiving, masculine and feminine, doing and being that fosters true balance.
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