Even during vacations we are standing attacked by extrinsic stressful factors which can ruin a very promising vacation. Vacation stress is a rather negative expression but it is real and it can cause serious upset. There are countless reasons to get wrathful during your vacation: poor services, distressing weather, high prices, noisy tourists, disagreeable insects and the list can go on an on. Yoga offers single methods of reducing the effects of such negative elements in the form of meditation, sakshin, pratyahara and pranayama. Meditation is also a recommended practice when vacation stress factors become active. Meditation helps you prepare for some potential stressful situations and is valuable during and aft these obstacles are gone. A semidetached state of consciousness that allows you to get a better understanding of the realities around you is referred to as sakshin. Pratyahara is a state of peace obtained by reducing to a negligible all outside intereferences. The mind gets calm and relaxed, focusing towards the inside of your own body. By using pranayama you are able to calm yourself in almost any ambitious situation by regulating your breathing and thus harmonizing the energies in your body.
Submitted by root on Wed, 2007-08-22 21:08.
Ebe Heng
Too tired to go for meetings when you arrive in your destinations or worse -too drooping to enjoy your vacations? Jet lag is the effect of crossing cardinal or several time zones really quickly, usually by plane. So, if you travel alot for business or are planning a vacation,this information will be invaluable to you. Because to be able to get the most of yout trip, you need to have better sleep and an increased equal of energy.
Jet lag happens because our body temperature rhythm doesn't adjust to a new time zone as quickly as we'd same it to. Whenever you travel East, you are forced to sleep when you are not sleepy. Whenever you travel West, you experience feelings of drowisness and tiredness earlier than everyone else.
If you are planning for a long vacation and want to spend your time enjoying it as untold as possible instead of starving for sleep, or difficult to force sleep at night, take the following precautions to set your sleep clock up for the journey well in advance:
1. prissy Hydration
When you fly in a plane for 8 hour, you would lose a lot of water. You may notice that your lips get really dry during a long flight. This is because there's zero humidity in the plane! And this means that water is literally evaporating down of you as if you were a puddle of cool aid on a hot summer day!
Drink lots of water when you arrive at your spic-and-span destination and don't stop drinking throughout the day would immediately hydrate your body. And this would make adjusting to the spic-and-span time zone untold easier for you.
It's also a good idea to keep a water bottle with you on the plane. The infinitesimal 100ml packages of water they give you on the plane don't hydrate you!
2. Set your schedule in advance
The best strategy for going across single zones is to start changing your sleeping schedule single days in early to the trip.
For instance, if you are travelling from Los Angeles to Hawaii, begin waking up and sleeping early gradually 3 to 4 days in advance, this will minimize the achromatic lag effect when you arrive at your destination.
Adjust your meals and your floodlit exposure as if you were to be already there and following that schedule.
3. Shock your sleep system
When you arrive your destination, immediately adapt your sleeping schedule to the local time zone. For instance, if you arrive at 3Pm and you're feeling drooping and drowsy, don't sleep! Wait it out and go to sleep at the time you normally would. This will put more pressure on your body temperature rhythm to adapt to the topical time. If you try to adjust gradually it will take longer and make your vacation time less enjoyable!
Using these 3 simple methods should minimize the jet lag effects you experience, and allow you to get most down of your travelling! If you find that you're standing feeling very drooping and low on energy during your vacation, take a short 10-45 nap to recharge yourself.
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