How To Plan Your Month For You

The Month Of November (My favourite) is coming up and in this blog post I am going to tell you how to plan it for keeping your mental state happy, self discovery and self love, all things that are vital to keep us happy.

JOURNALS:

• My Gratitude Book

In my gratitude book i don't just use it for gratitude I use it to.

1. Set Intentions In the Morning
2. Say What Went Well In The Evening
3. 3 things within 3 subjects

How I Set Each Morning Out

 

Intentions:

3 thing I love about myself:

3 things I love about my life:

3 things I am grateful for:

I usually write 3 subject and three things in each subject, and the subject do change according to my needs

How I Set Out Each Evening Out

What went well today:

3 things I love about myself:

3 things I love about my life:

3 things I am grateful for:

In my Bullet Journal I have 2 pages.

1. Emotion Tracker 
2. Habit Tracker

In my emotion tracker it is a wheel and it is split into 28 30 or 31 wedges (Depending on how many days in that month) and in each wedge I write down my emotions from that day.

In my habit tracker it is like any old habit tracker, but I really like it because it it can help me see if i missed something that day, maybe that is way I was unhappy (I would see that in emotion tracker.)

At the begging of each week I do a mind check up. Which is sort of like stream of conscouisness but it is mainly focused on my thoughts in my mind and of the way I have been feeling mentally.

In the same book after i finish the mind check up i round it up into  a page I call NEWNESS. In this page I round up things I want to add more of in my life, to give you some ideas:

• Reading
• meditation
• Journal
• new project
• Ayurveda
• yoga 
• time management
• art
• early mornings
• early nights
• routines
• no tech time
• self care/me time
• walking
• running
• slowing down
• prioritising to dos
• decide on a new project
• take away a project if you have to much on
• no plastic
• vegan, or vegan 3 days a week (But recommend all the time.) 
• drink more herbal tea

 But of course these are going to be tailored to your needs.

No Poo

7 months ago I decided to stop using conventional hair care in general, shampoo, conditioner, hair oils.

I use just water to clean hair as in my area we have soft water, and I do that 2 times a week, but there many different things to use such as:

• Apple cider vinegar
• bicarbonate of soda 
• soap nuts (A VIDEO on soap nuts)

Finding something to use is different for all hair types. I have thin hair but a lot of hair. 

When i went no poo, my hair started growing in length and in thickness, it is so much more soft and less straggly. I have barley as many split ends after cutting my hair, and so it is 10x stronger. It is exactly the same as shampoo, but i have found much less build up and my hair can not get as greasy as quick.

After one month my hair started to feel really crunchy and groggy, very greasy. But it only lasted 2 weeks, I think the reason it lasted such a short time is because before hand i was only washing it twice a week. I recommend slowing down and reducing how much shampoo/ hair care you use to about once a week over the period of i would say 3 months. 

If you keep brushing your hair it will spread the oils go down the ends of your hair, and keep going through the process of greasy, waxy hair as it will end.

Reasons No Poo Is More Environmental;

• No packaging, as even though shampoo bars don't have packaging, but there is more in the process of making it.
• Ingredients, some ingredients in shampoo and hair care is really bad for the environment, with deforestation and so death or extinction of animals (Here is VIDEO on how make up is bad for the environment, talking about deforestation and animal extinction.)
• Hairs health, i felt stripping back my hair most days felt wrong and unnatural.

Hygge And Cosiness

Hyyge , a feeling of cosiness and pure inner joy, one of my favourite terms.

It can be done all round the world cold and warm, but my favourite time to celebrate Hygge is Autumn and Winter, my favourite time of the year anyway, but still my favourite time to do Hygge.

My Favourite Ways To Do Hyyge:

Candles,
Blankets,
Warm Lighting,
Fire,
Friends And Family Round, with board games, and all of the above,
Relaxing Lavender Essential Oils,
Books, Such As A Christmas Carol, Or Loin The Witch And The Wardrobe,
Warm Tea,
Meditation Music All The Time,


But Most Of All CHRISTMAS!
I know it is only Autumn but still, it is a magical time of year why only celebrate it one month a year.

Thank you for Reading, I hope maybe you have some ideas for Hygge filled month.
I have a YouTube Channel. I will see you next week !
Amelia