🌷 Spring is upon us! Yea 💐
The time between each season is crucial to support the health of your body, mind, and soul. In most aspects of our lives, we strive for balance.
Balance is where our optimal health lives. Although it is not a destination but a place to aim towards, we can learn how to be fluid.
Shifting our lifestyle slightly and creating awareness around seasons is highly beneficial for a solid immunity, robust digestion, and a clear mind.
Spring is a time of rebirth, cleansing, and renewal. As nature moves us out of the cold, wet, and dark winter, the earth awakens, warms, and blossoms, bringing new life after the dormant winter months. 🍃
Your body mirrors nature, and what is happening outside is also happening within you. In the Spring, the sun’s heat warms the earth and melts the snow and glaciers, causing water and rivers to flow. In our bodies, we accumulate mucus and congestion from winter start to liquefy and spread in the body. Mucus weakens the digestive fire, leading to typical seasonal symptoms like colds, runny noses, wet, phlegmy coughs, and sinus problems.
During springtime, flowers bloom and shed their pollen which can sometimes irritate the mucous membranes. The extra mucus buildup can lead to an onslaught of allergies, sinus infections, asthma attacks, and hay fever symptoms.
Start to notice what nature is doing and then reflect inwards.
To create balance, bring in the opposite qualities of Spring.
What are things you can do to create dry, warm, and light qualities into your diet and lifestyle?
Food wise try eating more bitter, pungent, dry, and astringent foods while reducing your diet’s sweet, sour, and salty tastes. Consume lighter, more easily digestible foods and avoid fatty, oily, and fried foods and cold or iced beverages. Eat fewer dairy products and less rice, bread, and pasta.
Spring foods include peas, lentils, beans, barley, buckwheat, corn, millet, oats, quinoa, radishes, spinach, artichoke, asparagus, beets, broccoli, carrots, lettuces, apricots, cherries, mangos, peaches, pears, pomegranates, and raisins.
Transitions can sometimes be complex on our bodies and our minds. By following these simple tips, you can better support and nurture yourself during seasonal changes.
What’s one thing you will do to take care of yourself going into Spring?
Let us know!