S T A Y I N G I N T U N E W I T H T H E S E A S O N S
We are all aware what the seasons are, right ? They are Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. But if you stop and think about them,
what do they mean to you ? Like most people, they simply represent changes in the weather, times to go on different holidays, like skiing in the Winter or camping in the Summer, and times to buy new clothes,
like for that special Summer holiday or for children starting school again in the Autumn. What about health, what do the seasons mean to you ? Most people would probably say 'that Summer time can mean having to work
around the tiresome symptoms of hayfever or Winter can bring the expectation of catching a cold, or worse, Flu.' And if I were to ask
you about food in relation to the seasons, most people would probably think of salads and barbecued food in the Summer, with hotter, more roasted foods in the Winter. But there is much more to the
seasons, and in this thesis I am going to inform you on how seasons can affect our health. No matter what part of the world that we live in, the influences of our climate, the daily cycles of light
and dark, and the food that we eat, all have an affect on our body's natural rhythms. The body's natural rhythms are influenced by the seasons, and it is these natural rhythms that help to keep
harmony within the body, and therefore help to keep us healthy. The Chinese, in their traditional herbal medicine, recognised the importance of the seasons The seasons are a continual cycle of life; starting with energy rising in the Spring, reaching a peak in
the Summer, then gradually falling in the Autumn, to eventually becoming dormant in the Winter. The seasons could be looked at as Earths cycle of life, just as we have a cycle of life or living.
Everything living has a cycle, from the sowing of the seed, to the birth of the living entity, to that living entity growing and maturing, thus reproducing another life and finally dying.
This cycle of living is ever present in the every day circumstances that occur. It could be related to a business meeting for example; the meeting starts in Winter. There's a sense of unknowing, we are not
sure what to say and we are not sure about each other. We are listening and wondering, then something starts to push up out of the ground ( an idea or realisation ) and we move into Spring. The
growing "something" may be a tulip instead of the rose we expected, we may try to push it down, making judgements. Then we move on and the meeting reaches a peak, theres warmth, its Summer
and we join together. Then we harvest all the important aspects of the meeting and let go of everything else, so from Autumn the cycle of this meeting is complete.
Also in this thesis I am going to show you what foods Nature produces for us, together with their nutritional and healing properties and hopefully help you to understand why these foods should
become available in each season and that how our modern way of living is causing us to eat out of season and what effects this may have on our health.
Natural daylight is also important to our health and for most people, our modern lifestyles restricts the amount of natural daylight that we receive.
( they recognise five seasons, including a late summer season ) and developed a philosophy called the five elements. This consists of the five elements of metal, earth, water, fire and wood, each of these
elements corresponds to a season. These five elements are linked with our body, linking our bodies to the seasons.
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