Autumn, Jazz, and Mindfulness

Listening to jazz music throughout the autumn season can be calming and practicing mindfulness can be included to help you have a relaxing hour with family and friends. Also, you can practice mindfulness at work while listening to jazz music. Set up an area to use essential oils such as pumpkin spice, cinnamon, sandalwood, vanilla, clove, ginger, and other scents that are calming to you. Creating a cozy area to help you relax while you are at home or at work can assist in reducing your stress especially before the holidays. Decorate the area with autumn symbols. 

Using a diffuser with essential oils can be enough to help you relax at work or at home. Yet, seeing the decorations can help you practice visual meditation and mindfulness combined for a relaxing hour. Add fresh flowers or faux flowers that remind you of the autumn season. Select a jazz song to decorate your dinner table or an area in your workplace. While you are listening to it, begin by inhaling and exhaling slowly. Say an autumn affirmation after you do your mindful breathing technique. 

Wear an essential oil that reminds you of a relaxing time during the autumn season. Use a carrier oil to dilute the essential oil that you want to wear during the autumn months. Also, make a jazz playlist with a combination of swing music, jazz musical theatre, improvisation, harmony, and with unexpected jazz sounds. Do online research for jazz fusion, cool jazz, Bebop, and swing to help you make your jazz playlist. As well as listening to jazz music while you are writing your autumn affirmations. 

Practice mindfulness before having lunch or dinner. Search online for mindfulness games and play a matching memory game during your lunch break. While you wait for your lunch at a restaurant or before you start eating your lunch in the lunch room, do say an autumn affirmation with gratitude. Select a matching memory game without the game music. Instead of the game music from the game applications, listen to jazz music as you match the memory cards. 

Another way is by making your matching memory cards with index cards or purchasing a matching memory card game. Playing a matching memory card game can also be helpful for children while they wait for their dinner with the family at the dinner table. Practice calligraphy on your journal by making paper leaves and writing in calligraphy style about what you let go to enjoy the autumn season. Practice mindful eating, mindful walking, or mindful journaling with an autumn theme. Select seasonal food and prepare healthier meals as you practice mindfulness. 

Make an autumn trail in your garden by planting seasonal flowers or herbs during the autumn season. Play your jazz playlist music as you walk in your garden. Dance to the swing music or practice tapping your feet while you enjoy the autumn season in your garden. Do stop to say " Thank you " and remove ragweed and other types of weed in your garden. Lastly, before going to sleep, take a warm bath with autumn scents while listening to jazz. 

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