Spring cameee!!! Wake up!!!
By Oana Lis
Wake up from your stupor, nature is reviving and we, along with it! Or so it would be indicated. Why are people from the city more prone to anxiety, burnout and all kinds of mental and emotional ailments!?
Of course yes, the causes can be multiple, but one thing is clear that the connection with nature has been lost, the one that the *Romanian peasant* has had for hundreds of years and which is slowly starting to be lost due to industrialization and globalization.
*A good year is heralded by its spring*
Spring is the season that symbolizes the return to life, the awakening from winter sleep, the beginning of sunny and longer days…
*April brings the spirit of youth to everyone.* (William Shakespeare)
Spring has the quality of restoring people’s lust for life, as Freud called libido. Which does not strictly refer to sex, but is an appetite for life, to feel, as if more intensely than ever, everything, enthusiasm, energy, joy come back to you. All nature is reborn, the earth bears fruit, spring can recharge your batteries naturally, if you let it. And yes, the desire for love, for human connection, for touch, for sex can increase as the degrees on the thermometer rise.
When was the last time you walked barefoot through the grass? When you stayed without your phone in the evening in nature, to contemplate the stars and simply feel that you exist and that alone is enough to feel happy and fulfilled?
*Flowers always make people better, happier, more bouncy, Flowers are sunshine, food and medicine for the mind.* (Luther Burbank)
When was the last time you felt that you are one with nature, that you are part of this huge macrocosm, perfectly connected with the microcosm inside you!?
*Life hurts, nature heals.*
When can you say that you last ate something totally organic, natural, raw, straight from the source, fresh from the ground or from the domestic animal in the yard, as it was in the time of our grandparents? That yes, all the gentlemen are drawn from the country somehow.
The new luxury now is to eat healthy, the new luxury now is to take time for yourself more often, and not just a 2 week vacation a year…or to leave everything thinking that you will have time in retirement to take care of money produced by working…
The new luxury is to have a piece of land of your own and go and work it with your hands… Even after the pandemic, people felt the need to reconnect with nature and many forgotten houses in different villages were bought by young people and they they gave a new breath.
The new luxury now is to feel free, to enjoy what you have produced, not just to buy things, but to live experiences.
*What an incredible thing! to be alive, under the cherry blossoms.* (Kobayashi Issa)
Everything around us starts to take on color, and if you are in alignment with yourself, inside and with nature, outside, it is possible, as sexologists say, to feel a positive effect, namely, that the sex hormones in us start to throb and increase our sexual appetite.
Spring cameee!!! Wake up!!!
*I want to do with you what spring does with cherries.* (Pablo Neruda)
Spring increases the desire to live and implicitly, to feel. The sun’s rays are received by the retina, thus stimulating the neurohormones, which in turn stimulate the male and female sex hormones that begin to activate.
*It’s spring fever. This is the name of the phenomenon. And when you have this fever, you want to, you don’t quite know exactly what you want, but it makes your heart yearn, you want it so badly.* (Mark Twain)
Thanks to the light, melatonin secretion also changes, which also affects the mating process. Young of all species are born in the spring.
Of course, we, especially as adults, are not as instinctual, we think and live in society according to some rules, but we can also enjoy these experiences in a pleasant and calculated way.
Only the fact that our good mood increases in the spring and it is enough to enjoy and have better relations with those around us.
*Spring greens our…souls!* (Costel Zăgan)
Many writers have been inspired and tried to describe spring, poems, plays have been written about this inspirational season, the important thing is that you allow yourself to feel and enjoy this wonderful season, which is already here . . .
*Can words describe the very smell of spring?* (Neltje Blanchan)
You can choose to spend more time in nature, to simply walk through a park, to go on a mountain hike with a group of friends, to give a spring flower. Spring flowers are among the most beautiful smelling flowers, you can start with a beautiful and daring gesture this spring, to give a bouquet of freesias or daffodils to someone you like. Spring urges you to bloom and love unconditionally.
Spring cameee!!! Wake up!!!
With love and with spring in my soul, because I was born in spring, I hug you, psychologist Oana Lis.
