Your home office has many more choices than a company office when it comes to using essential oils for focus, accuracy, productivity, and brain power in general. For example, you can use a diffuser to enjoy the benefits or you can wear them as cologne and apply them as often as you like, without wondering if a co-worker will object. You can look in the Essential Oils Desk Reference for additional ideas and try them out without a concern for what others might think.
Clear Thinking, Focus, and Accuracy
The essential oils of peppermint, lemon and lavender have all been studied for this purpose and have been shown to increase accuracy by as much as 54%. The exact figures are lemon, 54%; peppermint, 28%; and lavender, 20%. Jasmine is ranked at 33%, but I don't experiment with it as much because it is one of the essential oils that should never be ingested.
For clarity and focus, some people prefer a combination of basil, bergamot, cardamom, geranium, jasmine, lemon, palmarosa, peppermint, Roman chamomile, rosemary, rosewood, and ylang ylang. Other people prefer to make their own blends.
Brain Power
Recently, I've been delighted with the results I get from inhaling a therapeutic grade of cedarwood essential oil. Why is it so powerful? Because out of all of the essential oils discovered thus far, it has the highest amount of sesquiterpenes. Yes, that's a big word, but it's important because when sesquiterpenes are inhaled, the have the ability to cross the blood-brain barrier and supply the brain with more oxygen! This is huge!
King Solomon from the Bible times of old was regarded as the wisest man in the known world at that time. And what was the main material for the construction of his house and temple? Cedarwood.
Some people prefer to make their own brain power blend from oils such as cedarwood, sandalwood, frankincense, lavender, helichrysum, blue cypress and Melissa. Once again, others prefer to make their own blends.