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   - Jet Lag

+ Where I bang on about Jet Lag and treating yourself. - November 06

   ....... I have some very important findings to share with you about jet lag.  As you know I've just moved back to Ireland.  The night we arrived here, my wife said she had a backache and asked me to have a look at it.
   Now here's the interesting bit.  When I tuned into her system, I found that her cerebro spinal fluid was all over the place. 
   No, I don't mean in an 'Aliens' sort of way.  I mean her system felt like one of those snow domes that had been shaken. 
   What's a snow dome?
   You know, one of those little glass domes filled with water that you shake and it looks like snow falling on the inside.
   Why was her CSF so disturbed?
   Well, as I stayed with her system, it revealed that the source of the disturbance was, and this is from her CSF's perspective, the sudden movement across a huge distance. 
   Wha?
   I know,
   but there was a really strong sense that the connection between her CSF and it's external environment had been disturbed greatly by the change in location. It was in turmoil because it had nothing to orient itself with. 
   Orient itself?
   Yes, there was definitely a sense of her CSF sloshing around trying to find reference points to attune with.
   And in that effort to orient itself, it was very clear to me how linked our CSF is to it's environment on a local and global level.  
   It reminded me of the way bats use sonar for navigation in the dark.  They emit a high pitched sound which bounces off the surrounding terrain. 
The bat can tell where it is by how long it takes the sound to bounce back to it. 
   It doesn't feel like our CSF emits something, it feels more like the sort of connection that we as therapists make when we entrain with a patients
system.
   It's the same with our CSF, it entrains with the energetic rhythms of it's environment.
   This is probably obvious but I'll mention it at this point, the moon stood out as the main point of triangulation for our systems.
   The moon?
   Yeah, it felt like the moon was crucial to orientation.  It worked something like this.
   The first point of orientation was the system itself.  The second point was the systems position on earth.  These two reference points, while crucial didn't seem to provide enough dimension. 
It felt like the moon provided a third point of dimensional reference and so triangulated the system in space.
   The disturbance in my wife's system felt like it was caused by the sudden change in two of the reference points.
   That's all very interesting but what did you do about it?
   Well, like most things, seeing what the problem is is 90% of the solution. 
   I acted as a sort of conduit for her system.  I consciously attuned to the locality. 
   As soon as I started to do this her system paused.  It felt like it was listening to a rhythm my system was drawing its attention to.
   Then I consciously attuned to the location of the moon.  Within minutes her system had settled into deep harmony with itself, and its current location.  She popped off into a deep sleep.
   I was able to partially orient my own system but not completely.  As to why that is I can only include it with all my other experiences of trying to treat myself.  Never with much success.  
   It could be just me but I suspect it's the same for everyone.  A classic example is in the release process, which as you know, involves the practitioner holding as the patient's system encounters its restrictions. 
   The patient needs to let go, the therapist needs to hold.  It doesn't make sense to me that you can do both at the same time.  None the less, never being one to allow good sense to get in the way of having a go, I tried it anyway,
....a few times. 
Always the same result. 
   Just when I was about to release, one of two things would happen.  The part of me that was releasing would take over and my whole system would go into letting go, including the part that was supposed to be holding. 
   End result = No release. 
   Or the part of me that was holding would stay in charge so my system would never let go. 
   End result = No release.
   So as I said I didn't have as much success attuning myself to the new time zone. 
   My wife, on the other hand, woke up the next morning feeling FANTASTIC!  Over the next few days she commented, more than once, on how everyone had greatly exaggerated the effects of jet lag.  She couldn't see what the big deal was.
   If you get a chance to treat someone who has moved time zones recently, can you include what I have described in your treatment and let me know
if you find something similar.  I suspect you will.
   There is a great opportunity there for someone who is interested in pursuing the commercial applications of treating jet lag.  Think of all the business people who travel through time zones regularly.  You could set up in an airport, nay airports around the world and help all these people deal with their jet lag in a more painless way.
   No, don't thank me, it's the least I could do, what are chums for.  Royalty cheques accepted graciously.

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