You may believe that bad weather and the lack of sunlight are the reasons why people tend to feel low on energy, melancholic, or even depressed during the winter period. In fact, you only experience low mood and low energy on dark, cold, gloomy days, because your brain wants you to feel that way in such conditions.
If you understand better how your body participates in the creation and regulation of your emotions you can learn to gain much more control over all your positive or negative feelings.
If you sometimes struggle to fall asleep or wake up feeling tired, you might not be meeting all of the fundamental requirements for a good night’s sleep. By developing more awareness about them, you can immediately raise your sleep quality to a much higher level.
Your body has priority over your mind in expressing feelings of stress or relaxation. This is because your nervous system’s communication to your brain about whether everything is functioning properly inside your body is more important for your survival than responding with feelings to your thoughts.
Turtles can bring themselves into a deeply relaxed state when diving underwater to use as little oxygen as possible. It allows them to stay there for a very long time without breathing. You can learn to induce the same neurological mechanism in yourself through a simple exercise, which can also bring you to an exceptionally deep and joyful state of relaxation whenever you desire.