Jet Lag and Energy Work
Natural Remedies & Energy Medicine Tips for Travel Across Time Zones
Travel can stress the body and mind, but traveling across time zones is most difficult. Common-sense and Energy Medicine tools to help prevent jet lag.
Frequent fliers know that traveling across time zones without throwing your body out of balance is tricky. It takes sensible precautions, a bit of exercise, and plenty of sleep to bounce back quickly from a flight across time zones. But what most travelers don't know is that simple Energy Medicine tools can also help to reduce jet lag and speed recovery after long travel. The following techniques may sound a little strange, but for most people, they work to prevent jet lag and improve the travel experience.
What is Energy Medicine?
Energy Medicine is a set of gentle assessment tools and adjustments using the body's energy systems – the Chinese energy meridians, the Ayurvedic chakras, and other less complex energies – to improve health and reduce illness. Energy Medicine works on some very subtle levels but has real effects that are usually felt by even the most skeptical. To learn more, see Donna Eden's Energy Medicine.
How Can Energy Medicine Help With Jet Lag?
The human body operates on a 24-hour daily cycle, tuned in with the daylight and darkness (as well as the Earth's subtle energies) of the time zone you live in. Jet lag is caused by the body's imbalance and adjustment period after a change in time zones.
Energy Medicine tools can be used to alter the daily cycle, to help the body learn and adjust faster to a new time zone.
How Can I Use Energy Medicine to Prevent Jet Lag?
Like most energy techniques, the corrections for jet lag work best when they are used as a preventive measure, during the flight.
In Energy Medicine, each of the twelve lateral meridians (all except the two central meridians) corresponds to a two-hour window of the day. The energy of a given meridian is especially strong, and especially important, at that time of day. In order to adjust for jet lag, we must reset the body's energies so that the meridian cycle of the new time zone takes charge over the body's time "settings".
During every hour of travel, look up the meridian active in the "old" time zone and the meridian currently active in the "new" time zone to which you are traveling. Points on the old meridian are held, then points on the destination time zone meridian. Doing this with the appropriate points every hour or two helps reset the body's internal clock, preventing jet lag.
Other Tips and Tools for a More Pleasant Trip
- It's common advice because it works: drinking lots of water during the flight, and avoiding caffeine and alcohol, works wonders for the body's ability to bounce back from stress
- Sleep, exercise and diet play an important role in the body's adaptability to change, so take care to get enough sleep, to move around during long flights, and eat healthy, nutritious food with plenty of protein before and during travel
- Herbal and natural supplements such as ginseng and MSM are helpful for many travelers
- Techniques from Brain Gym and dowsing may also be helpful in balancing the body's energy system and combating the impact of EMF disturbances during flights
