Dr Sophie Jayamaha

We have a natural tendency to avoid darkness and move towards the light. We are light seekers. Darkness brings us a sense of danger and insecurity. Our fears are heightened by darkness. We feel vulnerable and unprotected in the darkness, because darkness blocks our ability to see clearly. Inevitably we experience darkness in our daily life literally and metaphorically. Literal darkness sets in with the sunset.  As the night time creeps in, our eyes get adapted to the low level of visibility, the body makes certain changes to keep it warm during the coolness when the sunlight is no longer heating the earth's surface and the air around us. The body produces more melatonin in the dark and makes us sleepy perhaps to keep us out of trouble as a protective mechanism preventing us from danger by lurking in the dark. Our body's natural response to the darkness is by accepting it and adapting to cope with it until it disappears. We are in the dark metaphorically, when we are experie