How aware are you of seasonal stresses?

Question

Do you admit you go through seasonal instinctual restlessness?

especially in the fall....preparing for winter....and in the spring waiting for the bounty?

Answer 1

I got stressed quite a lot in the past. But I've just learned something from it. Now, I don't let the tasks of the day push itself over the line of tomorrow...nor force my spring into summer, or my summer into fall, or my fall into winter...through hastening things to their quick ends so as to start another set of seasons. Looking back, I can now see how much of the seasons' wonders had I missed in those foolish years!
Now, I've learned to savour each season's day allowing a natural transition without worry or haste. Now, I wait to see each season coming,..and changing from one wonder to another.

Answer 2

Well, there's the loss of light in winter - I'm more aware of that now my eyes are failing. And there's the increasing heat of summer which knocks me around now though it never used to. Each makes me value the other, and tinges the joy of autumn (fall) and spring, both of which I adore, with the piquancy of regret, and of anticipation. So I just wallow in them all, glad to have survived. It's a dull world without seasonal and daily variations - I know, I've been there too. But the greatest seasonal stress for me now is the awareness of climate change which I've experienced increasingly over the past 10 to 15 years. (I wonder what planet the "denialists" live on! Under rocks?)

Answer 3

VERY@!!!
Especially in the fall...I get very active!! Fall and winter are my power months. I have always been at my best and worst between summer solstice and winter solstice.
I have yet to really take a look at my spring and autumn self as I am usually.......busy =]

I suppose to really answer your question, the "Bounty" comes in the fall, when traditionally crops get harvested. Spring is a working and (birthing) harsh time. Historically any culture that were able to feed their children every spring were able to prosper. I myself am Irish and enjoy the seasons and the hard work that comes with preparing for those seasons! (especially making babies=])

Answer 4

I am indeed. The path working exercises practiced by the ancient Celts is very very much influenced by the changing seasons. So I am very aware but that doesn`t mean the seasonal change doesn`t bother me. There are a lot of Celtic ritual for the change of season and I find psychologically they definitely help. Of course I live in a country who change the clocks twice a year so that adds to my frustration some times

Answer 5

There is nothing for me to "admit." Seasons don't cause me stress or restlessness. It seems some people are flinging themselves through life, falling over their own feet to rush Spring or Summer, (the most commonly preferred). All seasons have their special faces, & I enjoy them.
It seems a waste of joy to identify one season as better or worse than another, as more happy or sad, as if they had "personalities," affecting our lives--when we can be enriched by all of them.

Love jach v's answer!

Answer 6

Seasonal stress is often argued as something historical, or an issue like seasonal affective disorder.

Like any stress in life, there is positive and negative stress. A change in season may have caused anxiety in the past, but there is no reason now for me to have anxiety about the approach a season.

Answer 7

yes, naturally. It is primary to why I stay in Maine. I was born learning to adjust and continue. It was easier as a child because young bodies and minds are more resilient to change. Wisdom replaces wonder, acceptance calms the struggles. All is as it should be.

Answer 8

Wow, very- In summer I want to be lazy, In fall I want to run away, in winter I want to sleep, and in spring I want to run around naked. I really love the spring.

Answer 9

I used to get SAD every winter

Answer 10

winter months make my bones hurt.the bounty is the cure