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About 95% of the things going on in your head, are things you are completely unaware of. Awareness skates along the thin ice veneer of consciousness.<\/p>\nAbout 95% of the things going on in your head, are things you are completely unaware of. Awareness skates along the thin ice veneer of consciousness.<\/p>\n
Light itself is one of those things that affect us, under the hood, subconsciously moving the emotional needle in one direction or another.<\/p>\n
If you are one of the millions of people who’s brain absorbs the winter gloom as your own, a solution is to be around sunlight. The effect is cumulative as well, so the more consistently you are around it the better.<\/p>\n
Being outside moving in it is best. If you can’t do that, being by a window with sunlight streaming through is also good. And if you can’t do either of those, there are artificial lights developed specifically for the winter months.<\/p>\n
As is true in many many senses, the right answer is to Be In The Light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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