On Writing: How to Create a Motivational Workplace or Study Environment

Being able to adjust your motivational workplace or study environment to suit your ever-changing moods as they come along is a key component in achieving writing success. One great way to go about creating your motivational writing area, or room, is to make efforts to tend to each of the five senses. Here are some examples:

Appeal to your sense of smell
Use a form of aromatherapy to soothe your senses and stimulate your brain activity. Two great ways to alter your setting in order to appeal to your sense of smell include incense and essential oils. Both of these types of products are manufactured in probably hundreds of aromatic variations to cater to all mood types. A good idea is to purchase a couple of different scents in whatever form you enjoy and alternate them according to how you feel at the beginning of each new writing or work study session.

To prepare for an adaptable motivational workplace or study environment, I suggest looking into aromatherapy online and selecting at least one scent that is energizing and stimulating and one that is relaxing and anxiety relieving. For me, the Nag Champa, in either the incense or the essential oil forms, tends to amazingly work well to achieve both reactions.

Oils can be exposed into the air through various types of diffusers, most which use some sort of glass dish that sits above a lit candle which heats and circulates the oil. Sticks of incense are placed in incense holders and lit at the top.

Keep in mind if you choose the incense form of aromatherapy that the stick, as it slowly burns, tends to make a bit of a mess as the ashes fall. I recommend purchasing a holder that takes into account where the residuals will fall. The last thing you want to do in the middle of writing a killer sentence is to have to get up and worry about cleaning.