I travel internationally on occasion and have found that if I do my Yoga practice going over and then keep at it on my return it seems to help me get back on track less painfully.
Usually it’s at least a 12 hour time difference and so the not sleeping aspect can be not good for the body.
I do not take any drugs so in the past I have been in jet lag hell for at least a week.
Any one else out there have similar experience or other advice for combating the time change?
The best is to rest for some days and catch up. Some people do take melatonin with good results.
I have discovered that the length of sleep and lack of it are important factors; but what matters the most is to be in sync with the surroundings. When one is traveling eastwards, 12 hours journey sees 2 day-night successions, while in 12 hours westwards sometimes has continuous daylight.
During the travel I always carry loads of reading-writing work and take short naps as and when compelled. As a rule, as soon as a nap ends I get up and stay on the feet for at least 10 mnts. The naps leave me sleepy enough after landing at the destination, and I only hold on till night falls at the destination.
Equally important are digestion issues. It helps to keep only 60-70% hunger satisfied 2 days before and during the travel. (luckily, the airlines are good to us, they don’t feed us any more as they used to!)
[QUOTE=Suhas Tambe;82525]I have discovered that the length of sleep and lack of it are important factors; but what matters the most is to be in sync with the surroundings. When one is traveling eastwards, 12 hours journey sees 2 day-night successions, while in 12 hours westwards sometimes has continuous daylight.
During the travel I always carry loads of reading-writing work and take short naps as and when compelled. As a rule, as soon as a nap ends I get up and stay on the feet for at least 10 mnts. The naps leave me sleepy enough after landing at the destination, and I only hold on till night falls at the destination.
Equally important are digestion issues. It helps to keep only 60-70% hunger satisfied 2 days before and during the travel. (luckily, the airlines are good to us, they don’t feed us any more as they used to!)[/QUOTE]
Thankyou.
I’m in a state of transit for about 80% of the year. Most of my travel goes through time change, but even the trips that don’t usually throw me off due to packing late or waking early. It’s really easy to get thrown off. Having any sort of marked ritual activity that I do every day helps to re-cement me back into place upon arrival. Physical activity is best. If I arrive at my hotel and go immediately for a jog or do a yoga practice, this will help tremendously more than taking a nap or eating. I also set a defined time to go to sleep every night. After some trial and error I discovered that I will wake up naturally, refreshed, at aproximately 7.5 hours, so I make sure to mandate sleep by 9pm every night the first few nights, in whatever time zone, so that I will be waking up with time to spare (and time to snooze if the trip took too much energy). In addition, the first thing I do on landing is stop at the grocery store to make sure that I don’t wake up with low blood sugar and overdose on free hotel cookies, falling into a sugar coma for three day. Also handy: If you are going to arrive early morning, sleep on the plain as much as humanly possible and go for a walk when you get there. Avoid heavy foods and pastries, drink lots of water, only have coffee when you are really ready to get up.