Essential Oils And Your Home Office - Greater Creativity With Essential Oils

When you work in your home office and want more creativity, there are many different tools and techniques that you can use. What I'd like to share with you today is the fastest and easiest way I've discovered to date - essential oils!

Why Essential Oils?

Because when they are inhaled, they go through the nose to the brain in seconds! However, because of this, one should use only therapeutic grade essential oils. A number of essential oils on the market have been adulterated with synthetic chemicals and I certainly don't want that going directly to my brain! That's why I stick with therapeutic grade essential oils.

How to Use

Two of the easiest ways are (1) to diffuse them in a cold-air diffuser and (2) to simply inhale them directly from the bottle.

I was taught that the proper way to inhale essential oils is as follows:

• breathe in through the left nostril
• breathe in through the right nostril
• breathe in through both nostrils

Why this way? When one inhales through the left nostril, the message of the essential oil first goes to the right brain, which is the creative side of the brain. Of course, it is fine to just inhale naturally.

Which Essential Oils?

Some people prefer single oils such as cedarwood, Idaho balsam fir, frankincense, sandalwood, spruce or other conifer oils. Other people prefer essential oil blends using combinations of the following oils: blue cypress, blue tansy, cedarwood, cinnamon bark, frankincense, geranium, ginger, hyssop, jasmine, lavender, mugwort, myrrh, myrtle, orange, patchouli, rose, rosewood, sage, sandalwood, white fir, and ylang ylang.

My Favorite

Recently, you'll find me inhaling a blend of frankincense, myrrh, hyssop, spikenard, cedarwood, Idaho balsam fir, cinnamon, lavender and rose oils when I want more creativity. I sit down with my blend of these oils, close my eyes, and think about what it is I want to accomplish. I continue inhaling the oil for a bit, and then sit there with my eyes closed for awhile. When I get up, I have the inspiration I need and can envision myself accomplishing what it is that I set out to accomplish. I even have the sensation of finishing the project!

Essential Oils And Your Home Office - Benefits In Focus, Accuracy And Brain Power

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.

Essential Oils For Beginners - 7 Favorite Oils For The Soles Of The Feet

Essential oils can benefit the body most quickly when inhaled or put on the soles of the feet. Recent research is showing that oils placed on the soles of the feet can enter the bloodstream within seconds and can reach virtually every cell of the body very soon thereafter.

With this in mind, you can imagine that people are putting a variety of oils on the soles of the feet. I'd like to share seven favorites with you.

1. Lavender

Entire books have been written about the many uses for lavender, but most people know it for its relaxing properties. What most people don't know is that a therapeutic grade lavender oil contains compounds with antifungal, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antiseptic properties. According to the Essential Oils Desk Reference, it also helps reduce blood fat or cholesterol. This is huge!

2. Oregano

This is a very hot oil, and hot oils don't bother most people when they are placed on the soles of the feet. It contains compounds that have antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antiparasitic, and antiviral properties. For baby boomers, the powerful anti-aging and immune-building properties of some of the compounds in oregano are becoming increasingly important.

3. Anti-microbial blend

The blend I use contains the essential oils of clove, lemon, cinnamon bark, eucalyptus radiata, and rosemary. A therapeutic grade of clove oil has the highest ORAC (antioxidant) rating of all the essential oils tested thus far. This blend is such a powerful protector that it has become the oil of choice to put on the soles of the feet before leaving the house during cold and flu season.

4. Peppermint

Because of its cooling properties, peppermint is often put on the soles of the feet during hot weather. Moms often put it on the soles of their children's feet to help bring down their temperature.

5. Idaho Balsam Fir

This is one of my personal favorites. The Essential Oils Desk reference states that balsam contains compounds with anti-inflammatory properties, but people are increasingly using balsam for many things in addition to this.

6. Frankincense

A therapeutic grade of frankincense essential oil is rather costly, so it feels luxurious to put it on the soles of the feet. This oil contains compounds with immune-building, antidepressant, muscle relaxing properties, and more.

7. Balancing Blend

I've saved this blend for last because it is the last oil that I put on the soles of my feet before going to sleep. The combination of rosewood, blue tansy, frankincense and spruce oils can create a balancing effect on many levels.

If you're wanting to experiment with essential oils, putting them on the soles of the feet is one of the safest applications. This article is written with the assumption that you are using only therapeutic grade essential oils and that you are using them in accordance with what is recommended in the Essential Oils Desk Reference.