Anxious About Autumn?
simple tips and healthy hacks to enjoy your this part of the year
Autumn...
So it happened. Autumn is officially here. The weather is still warm and sunny with the temperatures peaking on average at 25 degrees in Northern Italy but you cannot deny that Italian’s long, hot summer is already over even if none of my friends want to admit this.
The world outside my house seems to transform in a magical garden with colorful leaves and delicious flavor of roasted chestnuts in the air makes me fall in love with this season. This autumn vibe actually inspired me to create a beautiful reality and cozy atmosphere for this Autumn.
Thoughts Create Reality & Cozy Atmosphere Creates An Autumn Vibe
Reality is truly subjective because we create it with the power of our thoughts. What we think or feel manifests in real-life events. In other words, if we think in negative terms we will most probably get negative results because negative thoughts attract negative energy into our lives.
Whereas if we intentionally focus our mental energy on thinking in positive terms we can easily attract positive things, people, event and experiences into our lives. That’s pretty amazing, isn’t it?
Sounds like magic but it’s science or more precisely quantum physics. Of course, I am not saying that you can control everything in life with the power of your thoughts because some things just happen without our input. But you can always choose how to respond to things you cannot control and make everything work to your advantage.
So what autumn reality are you creating for yourself? Are you using your energy to create a pleasant autumn experience or you’re self-sabotaging your happiness and wellbeing comparing autumn to summer? Are you using your potential to enjoy the autumn season? You’re not sure how to do it? Here are my favorite tips, tricks, and hacks to slow down and make the most of autumn. Enjoy!
adjust your routine this autumn
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5 dimensions of wellness
- MENTAL – revitalize your mental energy
🍂Adopt a healthy and productive daily routine
🍂Create powerful and cozy evening rituals for better sleep
🍂Set new goals this autumn
🍂Set intentions for every day
🍂Stimulate your brain this autumn
🍂Get autumn-inspired
🍂Keep yourself successful and productive throughout Autumn
🍂Practice being present
🍂Declutter your mind and free your mental space
🍂Create space in your life for new things to find you
2. PHYSICAL – celebrate your body
🥧Adopt healthy eating habits
🥧Stay hydrated & warm
🥧Practice Mindful Relaxation
🥧Boost your happy hormones with a physical activity
🥧Get a quality rest
🥧Self-care like a boss
3. SPIRITUAL – nourish your soul
🔥Nourish your inner child
🔥Embrace creative chaos
🔥Practice the law of attraction
🔥Practice gratitude
4. EMOTIONAL – put yourself in a positive mood
🌰 Practice self-reflection
🌰 Keep your daily journal to manage your emotions and thoughts
🌰 Fuel your passion
🌰 Do a digital detox at least 1 hour before going to bed
🌰 Declutter your physical space
🌰 De-stress and clear your energy field
🌰 Practice positive self-talk in front of the mirror
5. SOCIAL – treat yourself in a good company
🎃Stay connected & spend quality time with your loved ones
🎃Go outside & connect with nature
🎃Engage yourself in positive & pleasurable social situations
2. Spend Time Alone on Purpose This Fall
Have you ever thought how much time and effort you put into creating relationships with others completely forgetting to build a healthy relationship with yourself? That’s insane, right? The only person you spend your whole life with is YOU so it’s time to focus on this relationship. So instead of wasting your “me time” on things that don’t really matter learn to indulge in your solitude. Teach yourself how to spend alone time with a purpose. And DO IT this autumn!
- Practice Self-Reflection
- Practice Self-Study
- Practice Positive Self-Talk to boost your self-confidence HERE
- Take care of your Mental Health HERE
- Cultivate Relaxation HERE
- Cutlivate 5 Dimensions of Self-Care
- Practice Being Present HERE
- Go on a Solo Date HERE
- Gain Inspiration
- Unleash Your Creativity
- Connect With Nature HERE
- Improve your Daily Routine for better results HERE
alone time on purpose
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Outdoor activities
- Enjoy a crisp autumn walk in the forrest
- Go on a scenic road trip with your friends
- Go to a drive in an outdoor theatre
- Jump in a pile of leaves
- Have a salted caramel latte
- Indulge in hot chocolate under the stars
- Attend a fall festival
- Have a fall photoshoot
- Visit a fall fair
- Hug a tree
- Watch a sunset
- Go star gazing
- Host a bonfire
- Watch a football game
- Visit the ZOO
Indoor activities
- Decorate your home for fall
- Make your home smell like fall with scented candles
- Create your Halloween costume
- Create an autumn collage using all natural materials gathered on a walk
- Create a photobook titled “My autumn memories”
- Carve a pumpkin
- Roast marshmallows with your friends
- Make a caramel apple
- Make a pumpkin pie
- Bake a Halloween cookies
- Try warm and cozy autumn recipes
- Prepare a spicy hot chocolate for sacred indulgence
- Create your own tree leaf collection
- Make your own nutty creatures out of chestnuts
- Make a list of things you’re grateful for
- Prepare a delisious dinner for your friends
- Throw a surprise autumn party for your tribe
- Watch Halloween movies
- Have a scary movie marathon
- Indulge in pumpkin hot chocolate
- Have a sleepover
- Drink apple cider
- DIY delicious dessert treats for your family and friends
4. Be Mindful
5 Senses Of Fall
- Sight
- Go outside and capture the perfect landscape photo
- Collect colorful autumn leves and turn them into art that you can hang all over the house
- Dress warm & cozy and spend your evening outside to watch autumn sunset sipping a delicious cup of tea with cinamon
- Smell
- Light up your house with fall scented candles
- Use essential oils extracted from spices to to make the whole house smell like fall
- Bake a caramel apple pie
- Sound
- Make a fall playlist on Spotify
- Listen to the autumn nature sounds
- Jump in a pile of leaves
- Taste
- Prepare spicy hot chocolate for sacred indulgence
- Try warm and cozy fall soups
- Prepare delicious caramel apple pie for cold evenings
- Touch
- Pick chestnuts and make your own nutty creatures out of chestnuts
- Embrace the tree
- Carve a pumpkin
- Create an art piece using leaves
5 senses of autumn
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set your goals for autumn
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- Create your Vision Board for this Fall
- Create your strategic vision for this Autumn
- Make Decisions and specify your Goals for this Fall
- Set top Priorities and give your life a new direction this Fall
- Set your Intentions for this time of the year
- Decide how do you want to Improve this Autumn
- Set the Schedule up so that you have more productive daily routine
- Stop comparing Summer to Autumn
- Set yourself up for Success this Fall
- Practice the Law of Attraction and attract great things into your life
- Show Appreciation and Express Gratitude
6. Create Cozy Autumn Vibes
- Create your cozy as f*ck Spotify playlist
- Get your watchlist ready to fall
- Binge-watch Netflix for Autumn gloomy & windy evenings
- Create your Booklist for Autumn on Audible
- Plan Autumn roadtrips with your tribe
- Get outside and explore autumn nature
- Collect chestnuts and make nutty creatures with your friends
- Create a photobook titled “Autumn vibes”
- Gain inspiration from Autumn scenery
- Sice Up your Autumn Meals
autumn vibes
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create your autumn playlist
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- Time by Hans Zimmer
- Careless Whisper by George Michael
- Autumn In New York by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
- September Song by Frank Sinatra
- Early Autumn by Ella Fitzgerald
- Almost Blue by Diana Krall
- Purple Rain by Prince
- Changes by David Bowie
- Every little thing she does is magic by The Police
- Every Breath You Take by The Police
- Pale September by Fiona Apple
- Champagne Supernova by Oasis
- Scientist by Coldplay
- Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve
- Show Me Love by Alicia Keys & Miguel
- I Shall Believe by Sheryl Crow
- Gone Till November by Wyclef Jean
- November Rain by Guns N’ Roses
- Nothing Else Matters by Metallica
- Circle of Life by Elton John
- Japan by Mike Ost
- Searching my soul by Vonda Shepard
- Crazy by Seal
- That Day by Natalie Imbruglia
- Pure Shores by All Saints
- Affairs Of The Heart by Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley
- N.Y. State of Mind by Nas
- Ready or Not by Fugees
- In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins
- I Wanna Dance with Somebody by Whitney Houston
- What Goes Around… Comes Around by Justin Timberlake
- Billie Jean by Michael Jackson
- Eye of the Tiger by Survivor
8. Autumn Movies
- Autumn In New York
- This Is Where I Leave You
- Joe Black
- Midnight in Paris
- To Rome With Love
- The Seven Year Itch
- Birdman
- The Fall
- Dead Poets Society
- Sleepy Hollow
- Addams Family Values
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula
- Inception
- Death Becomes Her
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Red
- Four Rooms
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Miss Meadows
- Pieces of April
- He’s Just Not That into You
- Lost In Translation
- St. Vincent
- A Beautiful Mind
- Planet Earth
Kids’ Movies - because we all have our inner child to take care of
- Inside Out
- Frozen
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
practice being present
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- Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
- The Stand by Stephen King
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- After the Bloom by Leslie Shimotakahara
- New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
- Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
- What Every Body Is Saying by Joe Navarro
- It by Stephen King
- How to Be Yourself by Ellen Hendriksen
- The Six Bullerby Children by Astrid Lindgren
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Birdy by William Wharton
- Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll
- Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
- The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
- Unfu*k Yourself by Gary John Bishop
- You Are a Badass Every Day by Jen Sincero
- Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy
- Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Good Egg by Jory John, Pete Oswald
- The Self-Esteem Workbook by Glenn R. Schiraldi
10. Netflix For Autumn Evenings
- Friends
- Grace and Frankie
- Orphan Black
- Black Mirror
- Happy
- Wired
- Ozark
- Orange is the New Black
- Better Call Saul
- Atypical
- Maniac
- How to Get Away With Murder
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus
- Santa Clarita Diet
- Sense8
- Westworld
binge-watching netflix
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cozy and warm autumn recipes
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- Add spices and herbs into your autumn menu to make you feel cozy and warm
- Make a slow cooker Bone Broth to boost your immune system
- Prepare Warm & Cozy Autumn Soups
- Try Slow Cooker Beef Stew
- Prepare a Slow Cooker Lemon Garlic Chicken for a family dinner
- Indulge in Slow Cooker Apple Cider Chicken
- Incorporate roasted veggies into your autumn meals
- Try Turmeric Gilden Milk Latte for better sleep in cold fall nights
- Drink Spicy Hot Chocolate for dessert
- Bake Salted Caramel Apple Pie and invite your friends for a dessert
- Drink an Apple Cider Spice mix with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and honey for cold and windy fall evenings
- Drink Hot Spiced Orange Tea to warm you up this fall
- Indulge in homemade Pumpkin Spice with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, cloves
- Bake Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies for your family and friends
- Try low carb Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake for Netflix binge-watching evening
- Eat Raspberry Oatmeal Crumble Bars as your pre-workout snack
- Try Sage Turkey Meatballs for Sunday dinner
- Make an Apple Pecan Fall salad
- Prepare an Autumn Apple Salad with a Maple Vinaigrette
- Try a Mediterranean Marinated Balsamic Pork Loin Skillet
- Prepare a Chicken Avocado Caprese Salad
- Indulge in Baked Parmesan Sweet Potatoes
- Make a Roasted Beet Salad with Tahini Lemon Sauce
- Bake Penutbutter brownies for guilt-free evening indulgence
- Bake Soft & Chewy Red Velvet Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting
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P.S.
Stay Positive
Be Mindful
and embrace your Autumn Experience!
xo Kate
