Meditation and Winter Blues

Meditation and Winter Blues – by Melissa Collins

It’s easy to feel the winter blues when the weather turns cold, the skies are gray, and it starts turning dark so early.  The days of winter give less sunlight.  View this as an opportunity to be more contemplative by looking deeper to see what can only be seen in the dark. Winter can cause seasonal depression, emotional grief and attachment.  Winter can wear you down and create the desire to curl up under the blankets until spring.

Through your meditation practice you can shift your energy from feeling a lack of and scarcity (why do I live in such cold place?) to a deep sense of gratitude and abundance. Meditation can quiet your anxiety, elevate your attitude, and give you the motivation you need to get through this winter season. * One way to meditate on abundance and gratitude is by adding a mantra to your meditation.  A mantra is a word or phrase repeated in a meditative way. The repetition of a mantra is meant to affirm its meaning and to potentially change our thought process. This is why mantra meditation can be so powerful. Mala beads are often used to count the mantras. Here are a few examples of mantras. Use on below or practice creating your own.

Namaste: I recognize my true essence in every soul I meet.

The most powerful, abundant and life giving phrase I can use today is thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

*While mediation is not a cure all, it can help lessen the symptoms and suffering.