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Adventure travelers must not only cope with ordinary travel dilemmas of time changes and sleeping away from home, but must often deal with discomfort and noise as well. As a result, jet lag and travel insomnia can affect adventure travelers particularly harshly. Basically, adventure travel comes in two basic varieties: soft and hard. In the soft kind of adventure travel, travelers can expect a bed at the end of a day of hiking, cycling, or other activities. In the hard kind of adventure travel, travelers might sleep in shelters with several other people, in communal dorms, in tents pitched on snow and ice, in crowded buses, or on middle-of-the-night air flights. Sleep is by no means guaranteed. Jet lag is caused by the body's "lag" in being able to adjust to a new time of day. Tr...

Frequent fliers know that traveling across time zones without throwing your body out of balance is tricky. It takes sensible precautions, a bit of exercise, and plenty of sleep to bounce back quickly from a flight across time zones. But what most travelers don't know is that simple Energy Medicine tools can also help to reduce jet lag and speed recovery after long travel. The following techniques may sound a little strange, but for most people, they work to prevent jet lag and improve the travel experience. What is Energy Medicine Energy Medicine is a set of gentle assessment tools and adjustments using the body's energy systems – the Chinese energy meridians, the Ayurvedic chakras, and other less complex energies – to improve health and reduce illness. Energy Medicine works on s...

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Treatment tips for jet lag and travel insomnia

Natural remedies and energy medicine tips for Jet Lag