As we transition from winter's quiet depths into spring's vibrant emergence, many people notice their emotional landscape shifting dramatically. They may feel heightened sensitivity, creative restlessness, or sudden emotional clarity. It's your nervous system responding to nature's most powerful seasonal transition.

Ayurvedic wisdom has long recognised spring as the season of Kapha (earth and water elements), representing stillness and introspection, yielding to Pitta (fire and water), representing movement and transformation. Winter's Kapha qualities of heavy, slow, stable, and moist create the perfect conditions for rest and inner reflection. These qualities encourage deep sleep, contemplation, and the gentle accumulation of reserves needed for spring's eventual awakening.

As daylight extends and temperatures warm in September and October, Kapha begins transitioning into Pitta's hot, sharp, intense, and penetrating qualities. This ancient understanding explains the dynamic emotional shifts many experience during this period. Your body is literally awakening from winter's protective, heavy dormancy into spring's light, mobile, and transformative energy, which creates a profound creative force stirring within you.

During winter, our nervous systems naturally downregulate, embracing Kapha's stable, grounding influence. Like the eucalyptus trees that store energy in their roots, we're designed to rest deeply in winter's cool, moist, and steady qualities. But as spring arrives with its warm, dry, and increasingly mobile characteristics, our entire system begins to flourish, hormones shift, energy moves, and emotions that were safely held in winter's heavy embrace now emerge with spring's characteristic vibrancy and life force.

Ayurveda teaches that spring is a renewal season, when accumulated Kapha, the heavy, sticky qualities built up over winter, begins to transform and move through the system. This includes emotional clearing. The heightened sensitivity or animated thoughts you might experience may feel like personal challenges when truthfully, they're your system releasing winter's dense accumulations to make space for new growth, just as the wattle sheds its spent blooms before fresh buds burst forth.

This is the most excellent time to cleanse and detox the body, mind and spirit.

Ayurveda offers a gentle spring cleansing approach you may wish to try. This is not medical advice, simply an offering if you choose to test it out.

Begin each day with a ginger, lemon and honey drink. To a cup add:
ㅤ◾ some fresh ginger chopped
ㅤ◾ some fresh lemon juice
ㅤ◾ fill cup with warm water *
ㅤ◾ a teaspoon of honey

*The temperature of the water is important because it affects the actions of the honey if too hot. The actions of the ingredients are: Ginger scrapes the intestinal tract, honey binds what is scraped, and the lemon juice flushes it out. If the water is too hot, then the honey has a clogging action. Mix well and drink to kindle your digestive fire without overwhelming it.

Favour light, warm meals with bitter greens like dandelion or rocket, and pungent spices like ginger and turmeric that help move stagnant Kapha and support this energetic transformation.

Reduce heavy, oily, and dairy-rich foods that can slow this natural clearing.

Simple dry brushing before your shower helps move lymphatic fluid and supports the skin's elimination process. Most importantly, honour your body's rhythm during this cleansing renewal, supporting your body's innate wisdom as it prepares for spring's creative expression.

Your nervous system mirrors the bushland's spring awakening, moving from winter's grounded, slow qualities into spring's light, sharp, and mobile characteristics. Trees don't hesitate in their dramatic budding as they shift from dormant stability to active growth, and you need not hesitate as your own energy transforms from Kapha's steady calm to Pitta's dynamic fire and creative potential.

Simple practices can ease this transition: gentle movement that honours your emerging vitality, warming foods that support digestive fire while maintaining balance, and spending time outdoors during the gentler morning hours when spring's sharp qualities feel most inspiring and manageable.

Remember, spring emotional intensity is temporary, a bridge between winter's stable, heavy rest and summer's full, radiant vitality. Trust that your nervous system knows exactly what it's doing as it awakens alongside the natural world, transitioning through these ancient seasonal qualities that have guided all life for millennia. Like the bushland bursting into bloom, you're breaking open into the beautiful potential that has been quietly developing through winter's restorative embrace.

Please share your experience of transitioning from Winter to Spring.

May you be well, may you be happy and may you have inner peace