Have you ever noticed that even if it is a gloomy day outside if the sun is shinning you feel better about it? The shinning of the sun does something to us that really makes us feel better inside. This has been shown to be a scientific fact about our human bodies.
“We’re used to hearing about how too much of the sun’s warm rays can be harmful to your skin. But did you know the right balance can have lots of mood-lifting benefits?
Sunlight and darkness trigger the release of hormones in your brain. Exposure to sunlight is thought to increase the brain’s release of a hormone called serotonin. Serotonin is associated with boosting mood and helping a person feel calm and focused. At night, darker lighting triggers the brain to make another hormone called melatonin. This hormone is responsible for helping you sleep.
Without enough sun exposure, your serotonin levels can dip. Low levels of serotonin are associated with a higher risk of major depression with seasonal pattern (formerly known as seasonal affective disorder or SAD). This is a form of depression triggered by the changing seasons.”
The article continues to discuss the relationship between sunshine and mental health and other benefits that we obtain from daily sunlight exposure. My personal (and very unprofessional) opinion is that we as humans simply enjoy being in the sunshine more than we do not being there. Every year we see people, as the spring and summer months approach, begin to come out of their winter abodes to more fully engage in activities that they enjoy being in the sunshine. And they seek out such activities as long as they can to prolong the feelings that they have for enjoying such activities.
That feeling that we receive from enjoyment in the sun (although we must be cautious and balanced in such activities) can be passed on to others by our very personality. Although performed by many artists over the years, the 1973 single release of “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” by Stevie Wonder expressed it so positively that it’s very hard to say it any other way. The lyrics of the song show how an individuals’ very life can be affected by the radiance (sunshine) of another person. Just as our very lives depend upon a certain amount of sunshine, we can become so attached to another individual that it’s as if we cannot exist without them.
An article by solarponics.com shows that we need sunshine for our very existence. [https://www.solarponics.com/learning-resources/do-humans-need-sunlight-to-survive/#:~:text=Humans%20get%20our%20energy%20from,need%20the%20sun%20to%20survive.&text=Sunshine%20vitamin%20D%20may%20protect,prostate%20cancer%20and%20colon%20cancer.]
“Humans get our energy from the food we
eat, and all of that food is derived from the energy of the sun. So, we need
the sun to survive.” It adds: “Sunshine
vitamin D may protect against a host of diseases, including heart disease,
cancers, osteoporosis, prostate cancer and colon cancer. Sunlight vitamin D
also has other health benefits, like protecting against depression, insomnia,
and an overactive immune system. Submariners have gone without sunlight for
periods exceeding 6-months, using vitamin D supplements.”
We would probably not die from exclusion of
sunshine in our lives directly, but we would probably develop others illnesses
that would conclude in our deaths. As I
have stated very often, we are strange and yet marvelous creatures. That is
what makes us so unique within the universe.
The very fact that we’re only human!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
"Always try to light up
the room when you enter."
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