Help With Foot And Leg Cramps And Insomnia
VideoJug presents fresh ideas for dealing with two problems - foot and leg cramps, and insomnia.
Step 1: Problems Causing Foot & Leg Cramps
If you're having trouble in bed at night with leg and foot cramps or with tingling in your legs then this video is for you.
Often the problem with leg and foot cramps in bed starts when you're sitting in a chair. If you're one of those people who likes to curl up to read a book or to watch television, with one foot under the other like this. You're cramping or pressing against the leg muscles and that can cause you trouble later.
The other thing that people do is to cross their legs, so if you cross your legs and have one leg suspended over the other, you're pressing the muscle of your legs and this again can cause trouble later when you're in bed.
Step 2: Ways To Combat Cramp
Now we are going to go into the bedroom and I have a couple of more suggestions for you from there.
If you're in bed and you feel your toes curling from a cramp or if you feel tingling in your legs, then it does help to lie on your side and dangle both legs over the side of the bed. That helps a lot, however it's not likely to last for very long.
So when I get up or I awaken in the middle of the night and I've tried dangling my legs over the side of the bed and I'm still not in good shape, then I get up and I go into the kitchen and drink a teaspoonful of cod liver oil and that solves the problem for the rest of the night.
Once in a while the leg and foot cramps are so severe that I have to do something more and I soak my feet in very hot water and that takes care of the problem also for the rest of the night.
Step 3: Robert's Routine
My routine is to wake up around 2 o'clock in the morning with discomfort in my legs, I get up I take a teaspoonful of cod liver oil then I do walking meditation for about twenty minutes.
Information about walking meditation can be found on the internet by doing a search for it.
Then I use my computer for a while and around 3:30 I am ready to go back to bed.
Step 4: A Water Pillow
This pillow is a water pillow and it is very nice. I found it on the internet, the brand name is Medi-Flow.
The only problem with it is that if you want to move it, it is heavy and you have to hold your hand under the stopper, so the weight of the water doesn't stretch the fabric surrounding the stopper and cause a problem.
Step 5: Step One For Fighting Insomnia
Now if you have trouble getting back to sleep when you go back to bed there are four things you can do:
Firstly. Lie on your back and touch your fingertips together as if you are holding a grapefruit or a melon, leave your elbows on the bed and rotate your fingertips back and forth over your body.
It is a peculiar thing that when you do this you notice a reaction in your body. It requires in my case, about 60 of these in order to have a good effect.
Step 6: Step Two For Fighting Insomnia
The second step is to hold your hands 2 or 3 inches away from your head and just kind of move them around on top on the sides over your eyes not touching the skin, but moving your hands around your head in this manner for maybe a minute.
Step 7: Step Three For Fighting Insomnia
Then the third thing to do is get under the covers and cover your head and you'll get sleepier, you'll get sleepier if your head is covered than if your head is out in the open.
Step 8: Step Four For Fighting Insomnia
Then the fourth thing to do when your closing your eyes is say to yourself "I sleep, I dream, I look for dream images, I look for dream images, I sleep, I dream".
Dream images occur maybe 3 or 4 inches in front of your face, and if you purposely look for dream images, that is the point at which you fall asleep.
