Nomad jet lag tips

Jun12

London, UK

Although this trip gave my body a bit of a bashing, I was blown away by just how well I held up physically. This was by no fluke chance... here are some of the normal and strange ways I managed to make it out in one piece!!!

1. Hydrate
The most obvious one, but probably most effective. Each flight I drank at least 2 Litres of water.... and always asked for an aisle seat!

2. Vitamins
I took four small Vitamin C and Centrum Multi-V and Arnica every day I was away. Still can't believe I didn't get sick. Arnica is good for bruising and a friend from work recommended it for jet lag! Remember not to take zinc for too long as it can build up and do bad things to your bod.

3. Body Clock Corrections
Pam Mountfield has developed an awesome Jet Lag cure using ancient Chinese meridian points called 'Body Clock Corrections'. They are super simple exercises you do during your flight and once you land but make a massive difference in how quickly your body adapts to the local time zones. I wouldn't be surprised if an airline snaffles this one up if they haven't already.

4. Sleepeaze Herbal sleeping tablets
My sleep time was precious and minimal, so I needed to make sure every second counted. But I also needed to be on the ball as soon as I woke, so sleeping tablets were not an option... they mess way too much with my body... So I found some really cool herbal sleeping tablets that basically just relax you into more of a sleepy state.

5. Eye mask & good ear plugs
Not naturally a good nanna-napper, I often needed to catch sleep whenever I could find it... whether that be on a plane, on a noisy train, in the middle of the day on a bus, or on the deck of a boat in the Baltic sea.

6. Jin Shin Jyutsu (JSJ for short)
While flying I balanced my body through pressure points by holding each of my fingers and steadying my pulses... sounds strange I know, but amazingly it works! Basically, you just hold each of your fingers one at a time so you can feel the pulse. Hold each for about 30 seconds or until your pulse steadies to a normal rate. (You may find that one is more rapid than the other). You can balance your whole body by doing the main central exercise, but I like the hand option because you can be doing it without anyone knowing and thinking you are a freak!

7. Holosync audio technology
Centrepoint research has developed meditation tracks using special sound waves. Basically they activate a different part of your brain that is only active when you are sleeping. I think it's like that REM state. Whatever it is, it seriously drops you into a super chilled out zone in no time at all. 20 minutes listening to one of the tracks is apparently equivalent to a couple of hours sleep. I made sure I fell asleep listening to this cd on my IPOD and sometimes woke up after just 2 hours feeling quite fresh!

1 response(s) to "Nomad jet lag tips":

jonny.co2 says:

Rebecca_Nomad, good day, would like to know if you are better! Its badly to be, in its trip, was one stress and physical exhaustion or broke for a depression passenger. I believe, that you already must be very well; had the great ability of its doctors and the medicine practised in its country, first world. I am certain that, when you to read these words its badly to be, already it is passed! am I that I am uninformed? Where country you are now? My son, you are working, a little beyond! He comes to make a visit to Brazil, and very pretty, many beaches bélizimas, and other places in the interior of the country that are wonderful, the Brazilian people is very considerate and receptive. Many Americans pension that is land alone here of indians, but are not, were colonized 90% for Europeans. He has twenty years, that I come sensible " death eminente" that is, he is one badly to be that it appears without informing to me, for example: one of them, is the followed cardiac attack of a pressure in the head, air lack, and body heats demasiadamente and the extremities freeze ............ in a word: about some seconds I think: I do not arrive in the first one would drug or hospital, living creature? because, I worked directing, the entire day. Physically, already confirmed, I do not have nothing…. e what I have? Syndrome of the Panic! ......... Rebecca, excuse for being commenting this my particular problem ..... but, here in Brazil, I find that not yet the cure for this exists my problem; now to exist itself is only for the chaste nobleman! You or somebody of the Skype, knows on some in case that similar to mine, in its country, and that the ill person, got success in the treatment and if she cured? Sincerely only I want to know on this reply, nothing interests more me. Necessary to take some attitude, therefore necessary to come back to work, to support my family. Excuse for my relief, if the Srs. will have conditions to indicate me a doctor in its country? I am thankful of heart! what it comes after the presentations, it is interest and problem, of my Obliged person ............! In time: voces does not have the obligation to answer me, and she will be necessary, will be able to deletar this commentary.

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