During a 15-minute train ride from my home in Bad Vilbel-Dortelweil to Frankfurt, I noticed a deep, pulling feeling of tiredness in my bones – clearly an echo of the Jet lag . On Sunday I had boarded the 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 taken precautions.

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 should understand: It's midnight.

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

On Monday, I kept myself awake until midnight with targeted tasks. It wasn't easy, but I focused on an activity that I really wanted to complete. Then off to bed - and on Tuesday at seven o'clock out of bed and into the home office. Welcome back to the rhythm of work

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

As soon as I had found a seat and the train started to move jerkily, I felt this hard-to-describe, downward-pulling feeling of tiredness in my limbs. I decided to stop this "fatigue behavior" with the Wholeness Work Process by Connirae Andreas – a procedure that I was able to use myself and complete in 15 minutes.

Edit Jet Lag Fatigue with Wholeness Work

I closed my eyes and went into an inward state to meditatively work with myself. I asked myself: If there was an "I" part that was responsible for this feeling of tiredness in my arms and legs, where in the room would I perceive it? I located the "tiredness ME" diagonally in front of me. It looked at my body and triggered a "I'm being watched" feeling.

Then I felt into this tiredness I, took its perspective and felt what it felt. Surprisingly, the feeling was positive: "I have to control what you do to make it good." Whatever this "good" stood for – it doesn't matter.

I asked further: If there was an ME observing this fatigue ME – where would it be in the inner space? It appeared behind me, slightly elevated, and looked at everything from above. When I took his perspective, a deep feeling of freedom flowed through me. My whole body was filled with it – just great!

I checked whether there was another observer ME – but there was nothing relevant anymore.

So I returned to the perspective of the freedom I and connected with the entire field of my consciousness. Then I invited the fatigue I to integrate – open to any form of connection: whether it wanted to integrate into the freedom ME, vice versa or halfway. And indeed: The freedom ego moved towards the tiredness ego, embraced it gently, and both merged into one unit – a sum of their competences. A wonderful feeling.

This game was repeated between the fused ME and the original "jetlag-in-the-bones-ME" – also an "I" part. Again I invited to integration, and again the new freedom-fatigue ME moved towards the jet-lagged ME. An energetically new ME emerged.

Result

From that moment on, the pulling tiredness had disappeared – and did not come back. The change was immediately noticeable. I thought, "Wow! I can really feel the difference!" When I opened my eyes, the train was already entering the destination station. I was ready for the working day. And although the symptom had disappeared, I felt the need to sleep in properly on the weekend. The body gets what it needs!

Methodology

I have here the basic process of Connirae Andreas' " The Wholeness Work ". Connirae developed this principle out of a personal life crisis, modelled Asian meditation techniques and linked them to her in-depth NLP knowledge.

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

Process overview according to Rainer Wawrzik

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 results. And yet everything: Because Wholeness Work uses the principles of the Mental Space Psychology (MSP) consistent. That could be an indication of its impressive effectiveness.

The innovation lies in working exclusively with ego parts. At the same time, the observing, superordinate ego instances are used as resources for change.

Mental Space Psychology describes how the brain organizes relationships in 3D space and I mean: There are relational objects that we perceive as belonging to ourselves – our self-parts – and those that we experience as "others": people, animals, things. Wholeness work is therefore identity work and uses self-parts that shape our personality. The relationship arrangement of these parts is an expression of our individual self-organization, which we have shaped at some point in a similar problem context. This is changed by integration (interweaving of the ego parts with the "field of consciousness" and with each other) and thus enables a different – better – behavior.

Highly effective – and highly recommended

So if you ever jet through the world and Jet lag Lucky are those who know wholeness work – and perhaps even the principles of mental space psychology. It's worth it!

Good luck trying it out!