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Traveling the world can be an expression of life\u2019s struggle.\u00a0 While experiencing new places and cultures and meeting new people, you also have to manage the necessities of daily life \u2013 eating, drinking, moving from place to place, finding accommodation, sticking to a budget and so on.<\/p>\n
At the beginning of your trip, you are full of curiosity and eager to have new and unique experiences.\u00a0 As your time on the road grows longer and your tiredness accumulates, however, you start getting used to having unusual experiences and rather sick of constantly being in a totally different culture.\u00a0 Eventually, during your long travel, even extraordinary experiences start to feel ordinary and you sometimes miss the comfortable routine of your life back home.<\/p>\n
These feelings can be signs from your body that you need to restore your energy. This condition is similar to mild adrenal fatigue syndrome. At these times, you need to let your body and mind settle down for a while by turning off your unconscious tension.<\/p>\n
The Case of the Traveler, Ms. B<\/strong><\/p>\n When Ms. B came to me for a session, she was almost completely run down following a 6 month trip throughout India and South East Asia.\u00a0 She really enjoyed the cultural differences during the first part of her travel, but she gradually got worn out from her constant wandering from place to place.\u00a0<\/p>\n She woke up with a little burst of energy one morning, then came in to have a session with me.<\/p>\n Her symptoms:<\/strong><\/p>\n Fatigue, loss of enthusiasm, needing more coffee than usual to get going in the morning and stay alert throughout the day.\u00a0 In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), this condition is known as kidney yang deficiency.<\/p>\n By palpating various energy nodes, I got a sense of emptiness around her tantien (center of Chi energy, slightly below the navel).\u00a0 This indicates kidney dysfunction and loss of energy.\u00a0 From the TCM perspective, \u201ckidney\u201d does not mean only the organ as it does in western medicine, but rather what might be called a broader \u201ckidney system.\u201d \u00a0TCM uses organ patterns to help describe the processes and relationships within the body.\u00a0 I also got a sense of tension around her head.\u00a0 This indicates lung and liver imbalances with blockages in her energy flow.\u00a0<\/p>\n Using a combination of Japanese style gentle acupuncture and shiatsu, I devoted her session to \u201cdeep rebalancing and re-energizing\u201d treatment.\u00a0 This treatment is characterized by calming the nervous system and regulating the energy balance.\u00a0 As a result, her self-healing power activated again and she entered a state of calmness and felt completely rejuvenated after the session.<\/p>\n When people enjoy different circumstances or face an unusual situation positively, they feel energized.\u00a0 On the other hand, when they notice that they are starting to suffer from the different customs or are fed up with the cultural differences, their body might be telling them that it is time to stop and rejuvenate themselves.<\/p>\n Every time I facilitate the activation of a patient\u2019s self-regulatory system like this, I get the sense that something much more profound than simple relaxation has occurred.\u00a0<\/p>\n This cannot be learned conceptually, only experienced for yourself.\u00a0<\/p>\n My advice is that if you feel exhausted like this by your travels at some point, stop for a bit and find a way rebalance and re-energize yourself.\u00a0 Once you\u2019ve done this, by all means get back to it and keep on learning from the experiences. \u00a0That is life.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Traveling the world can be an expression of life\u2019s struggle.\u00a0 While experiencing new places and cultures and meeting new people, you also have to manage the necessities of daily life \u2013 eating, drinking, moving fro \u30fb\u30fbread more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/japan.naokihattori.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/japan.naokihattori.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/japan.naokihattori.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japan.naokihattori.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japan.naokihattori.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/japan.naokihattori.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japan.naokihattori.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/japan.naokihattori.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japan.naokihattori.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japan.naokihattori.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}