Today is the first day of Spring in Australia and somehow, psychologically, it has put me in a better mood. I've opened the windows to let the sunshine in the house and declared that we will no longer be sick ( having had a couple of weeks of colds and flu). I've been out in the garden this morning, celebrating the new season. Spring euphoria is not an illusion — it can be scientifically explained. Three German researchers in different disciplines were asked to describe the relationship between good weather and happy moods. ( from World Crunch ) The psychologist . Human beings are programmed to rest when it’s dark, and to be active and in high spirits when it’s light, says Peter Walschburger, professor emeritus of biopsychology at the Freie Universität Berlin. “We react massively to light,” so conscious experience and human behavior change radically on fine spring days. Scents and bird song also influence u...
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