This morning as my alarm was going off, I felt as if the world was in slow motion. Once I roused myself enough to see that it was raining outside, I decided I'd stay in bed a bit longer, skip my yoga class, and practice at home instead. For the next hour or so, I occupied that not quite conscious place between wakefulness and sleep. My ipod was on in the background, and David Gray provided music and lyrics (and with the video, pictures) to describe my sleepy state:
While I was watching you did a slow dissolve
While I was watching you did a slow dissolve
While I was watching you did a slow dissolve
Did I imagine or do the walls have eyes
Did I imagine they held us hypnotized
Did I imagine or do the walls have eyes
Life in slow motion somehow it don’t feel real
Life in slow motion somehow it don’t feel real
Life in slow motion somehow it don’t feel real
Snowflakes are falling I'll catch them in my hands
Snowflakes are falling I'll catch them in my hands
Snowflakes are falling now you’re my long lost friend
Snowflakes aren't falling just yet -- but they're coming. I finally got my light therapy light out of the basement on Saturday. I used to suffer mightily from seasonal affected disorder, now I just observe that my energy level is a bit lower and my mood a bit darker. I attribute the fact that I suffer less with s.a.d. now than I did before to four main factors:
1) I have, and use, light therapy to help me get the (simulated) sunlight I need to feel good.
2) I am careful to do my yoga and get my aerobic exercise -- much of it outside, even in the colder months.
3) I am happier overall, have more love and more support in my life than I used to; but most of all:
4) I recognize that seasons are, that there is a time for budding and a time for dropping off, a time for warmth and a time for chill, a time when we are closer to the sun and a time when we are farther from it, and I do my best to be with all that.
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