A Psychologist Says This Exercise Can Make You More Hopeful in 14 Days

For much of my life, winter was something to be endured. Preferably, indoors.

On dark winter mornings, I’d start the day under a light-therapy lamp to mimic sunlight. I’d count the days until I could expect the first daffodils, that glorious time of year when flu season subsided, the days grew longer and I could creep out, squinting, from my self-declared hibernation.

"If Winter comes," Percy Bysshe Shelley asked, "can Spring be far behind?" And so I waited.

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