Five Amazing Essential Oils to Get You Motivated

Brain fogginess is a terrible plague on productivity. Do you know that feeling when not all your circuits are firing? Your thoughts feel vague, the right words are elusive, reaction times slower, and your motivation levels slump into the doldrums.

What’s the solution for mental fatigue? More coffee...maybe. But there are more sustainable, natural substances that won’t leave you with that jittery buzz, caffeine withdrawal, or an energetic nosedive.

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Essential Oils: a Natural Way to Jumpstart Motivation and Support Health

Oils are a wonderful alternative to uplift yourself, motivate your brain, boost your mood, and wake up in a natural way. They might even be better than coffee!

Try incorporating these holistic recipes into your everyday routine—especially when you need to focus and get work done—for a powerful pick-me-up. 

doTERRA’s Motivate® Blend is described as “fresh, clean and minty,” this blend includes peppermint, clementine peel, coriander seed, basil, yuzu peel, melissa leaf, rosemary leaf, and vanilla. The result is an encouraging blend of citrus and mint that gets you going asap.

“Feelings of confidence and courage will replace negative emotions like guilt and pessimism, with the doTERRA’s Motivate Encouraging Blend of mint and citrus essential oils,” says the doTERRA site.

To Use:

• Diffuse in your home or office for an all-around energizing effect.
• Inhale directly from the bottle for a quick pick-me-up.

Ginger

If you’ve ever taken a bite of raw ginger or even pickled ginger at a restaurant, you’ll understand the powerful boost it can send straight to your nervous system. Ginger essential oils harness that power to invigorate you and your nervous system when it’s feeling shot.  

Ginger naturally carries these benefits:

• Boosts energy
• Helps with digestion
• Decreases inflammation

To Use:

Consume internally by adding a drop or two to a large bottle of water or adding it to your tea.

Inhale from the oil bottle or add to a diffuser.

Caution: Be careful if you’re on blood-thinning medications, as ginger is known to increase blood flow and can be a natural blood thinner.

Cinnamon

Like ginger, cinnamon helps your blood get flowing and its natural spiciness can excite a dragging nervous system. Like the cinnamon in a good apple pie or a spiced-up hot toddy, this oil can be the perfect secret ingredient to take your energy to the next level.

Cinnamon oil benefits:

• Increases blood flow
• Helps to regulate blood sugar levels
• Fights inflammation
• Helps immune system

To Use:

Ingest by putting a drop of cinnamon in your favorite tea, or mix with honey and hot water.

Gargle with water and a few drops of cinnamon oil.

Put in a spray bottle with water for an effective cleaner that will fill your office or home with an uplifting smell.

Caution:  Be careful of skin irritation when applied topically.

Peppermint

That fresh, clean feeling isn’t just for chewing gum in your mouth. Minty oils can have the same refreshing benefit to your mind. They’re like a breath of fresh air for your strained brain.

Peppermint carries these benefits:

• Boost energy
• Naturally cleansing
• Helps with digestion and focus

To Use:

• Blend with other oils, like Spearmint, Rosemary, and Basil.
• Mix a few drops into a carrier oil and rub on the back of your neck.
• Add to a bath with Epsom salts
• Inhale from the bottle for a quick brain boost
• Diffuse throughout your office or living area for a fresh scent.

Caution:  Be cautious to avoid eye contact.

Citrus

Much like mints, citrus oils are natural mood boosters and help with mental clarity. Most citrus oils are derived directly from the peel of the fruit—you know that powerful, refreshing burst that emanates from the peel when you break open an orange. Thanks to essential oils, you can get that refreshing sensation even without freshly-picked mandarins.  

Orange Carries These Benefits:

• The energetic scent wakes up your brain

• Great natural cleaner
  
  
• Wonderful boost to creativity and focus

Lemon Carries These Benefits:

• Refreshing scent
• Can reduce seasonal respiratory discomfort

Grapefruit Carries These Benefits:

• Helps suppress an overactive appetite
• Encourages fatty acid release into the bloodstream (which is great for weight loss and also energy levels)
• Combats bloating and improves digestion

To Use:

Blend Wild Orange in a diffuser with oils like frankincense and peppermint.

Blend Lemon with ginger, basil, and/or rosemary in a diffuser or spray bottle for cleaning.

Add a drop or two to water and drink for a refresher throughout the day.