Overcoming Jet Lag with Wholeness Work – Transform Fatigue and Master Everyday Life with Energy!

How I Transformed the Jet Lag Feeling

Introduction

During a 15-minute train ride from my hometown Bad Vilbel to Frankfurt, I noticed a deep, pulling feeling of fatigue in my bones – clearly an echo of the Jet Lags . On Sunday I boarded a plane in Calgary and landed in Frankfurt on Monday morning with an eight-hour time difference.

So that I was ready for action again on Tuesday morning, I had made provisions.

Already at the departure gate, I changed my watch from Canadian to German time. So the plane took off at 4 p.m. local time, but my inner compass was supposed to understand: It's midnight.

On the plane I wanted to sleep immediately – but that didn't work. First the safety briefing, then drinks, then a snack. By the time I could finally close my eyes, it was already half past two in the morning German time. I rested until seven o'clock – whether with or without sleep. I forced myself to "get up" and remained active until landing. Of course, there was also a small breakfast.

On Monday, I kept myself awake with targeted tasks until midnight. It wasn't easy, but I focused on one activity that I absolutely wanted to finish. Then it was off to bed – and on Tuesday, out of bed at seven and into the home office. Welcome back to the work rhythm

The train journey I am reporting on here took place on Wednesday morning.

Hardly had I found a seat and the train started moving with a jolt, when I felt this hard-to-describe, downward-pulling feeling of tiredness in my limbs. I thought: "Oh, the jet lag is really inside me!"

I decided to adapt this "tiredness behavior" with the Wholeness Work Process to be processed by Connirae Andreas – a method that I could apply myself and complete in 15 minutes.

Overcoming Jet Lag with The Wholeness Work

I closed my eyes and entered an inward-looking state to work with myself meditatively. I asked myself: If there were a SELF part that is responsible for this feeling of tiredness in my arms and legs – where in space would I perceive it? I located the "tiredness-SELF" diagonally in front of me. It looked at my body and triggered a "I am being watched" feeling.

Then I felt into this tired-I, took its perspective, and felt what it felt. Surprisingly, the feeling was positive: "I have to control what you do so that it turns out well." Whatever this "well" stood for – it didn't matter.

I continued to ask: If there were again a SELF that observed this tiredness-SELF, where would it be in my inner space? It appeared behind me, slightly elevated, and looked at everything from above. When I adopted its perspective, a deep feeling of freedom flowed through me. My whole body was filled with it – simply great!

I checked if there was another observer-I – but there was nothing relevant anymore.

So I returned to the perspective of the Freedom Self and connected with the entire field of my consciousness. This simply represents everything that is conscious to me at this time. After the Freedom Self had interwoven itself with the consciousness field, I invited the Tiredness Self to integrate. In doing so, I remained open to what form the connection should take: whether it wanted to integrate into the Freedom Self, vice versa, or halfway. The unconscious knows what is "right." And indeed: The Freedom Self moved towards the Tiredness Self, gently embraced it, and both merged into one unit – a sum of their competencies. A wonderful feeling.

This game repeated itself between the merged new SELF and the original "jetlag-in-the-bones-SELF" – also a self-part. Again I invited integration, and again the new freedom-tiredness-SELF moved towards the jetlag-SELF. A positively energetic new SELF emerged.

Result

From that moment on, the dragging fatigue was gone – and didn't return. The change was immediately noticeable. I thought: "Wow! I can really feel the difference!" When I opened my eyes, the train was already pulling into the destination station. I was ready for the workday. And even though the symptom had disappeared, I felt the need to sleep in properly over the weekend. The body gets what it needs!

Methodology

Here I have adapted the basic process of Connirae Andreas' " The Wholeness Work " adapted. Connirae developed this principle out of a personal life crisis, modeled Asian meditation techniques, and combined them with her profound NLP knowledge.

Process Overview

Here is an overview of the process principle, as I understood and adapted it for myself:

Wholeness Work and Mental Space Psychology (MSP)

What does Wholeness Work have to do with Mental Space Psychology and the Social Panorama to do? First of all, nothing – Connirae developed her model independently of Lucas Derk's research findings. And yet everything: because Wholeness Work uses the principles of Mental Space Psychology (MSP) consistent. This could be an indication of its impressive effectiveness.

The innovation lies in working exclusively with SELF parts. At the same time, the observing, higher-level SELF instances are used as resources for change.

Mental space psychology describes how the brain organizes relationships in 3D space and I mean: there are relationship objects that we feel belong to ourselves – our self-parts – and those that we experience as "others": people, animals, things. The Wholeness Work® is therefore identity work and uses self-parts that shape our personality. The relational arrangement of these parts is an expression of our individual self-organization, which we once designed in a similar problem context. This is changed through integration (interweaving of the ego parts with the "field of consciousness" and with each other) and thus enables different – better – behavior.

Highly effective – and highly recommended

Conclusion

So if you ever jet around the world and from Jet lag to be haunted: Lucky is the one who knows The Wholeness Work® – and perhaps even the principles of Mental Space Psychology. It's worth it!

Good luck trying it out!