April has arrived to push the memory of the winter cold aside, and we typically respond to the increased light exposure with added energy and improved mood. Along with the change in our external environment, there are often shifts in our internal outlooks. Our mood usually brightens, our energy increases, and we seek more social interactions and activities. As we experience more light, our hormones and neurochemistry also shift, affecting dopamine and serotonin, and making socializing more likely. These changes with warmer weather suggest a shift toward a better mood and more energy in relationships. Perhaps Spring really is for Lovers.
However, with increased social interaction can also come an awareness of our relational challenges that have not been resolved during those more isolated months of winter withdrawal. We may have been able to ignore our internal conflicts and self-judgments by isolating ourselves and choosing favored numbing habits. We haven’t seen those in our social circle often enough to bereminded of our unresolved conflicts with them. Now, with more relational interactions and renewed energy to love our friends, we can address the conflicts and irritations we have chosen to ignore. The best place to start is by identifying the traumatic injuries we have been carrying and trying our best to ignore.
Because we don’t usually live with awareness of the emotional injuries we have internalized, we can most effectively uncover our protective and relationally unhealthy strategies by using a mind-body energy protocol that can both identify and resolve those responses to others in our lives. We become free from the harmful memories, both remembered and forgotten, that are stored, and we no longer respond to others out of those damaging experiences.
Spring can be for lovers who are living out their healing!
P.S Spring for Lovers, Langston Hughes