My Legs Want to Move!

My Legs Want to Move!

By Cynthia Bergsbaken

Do you ever have it where your legs just want to move?  This use to happen to me quite a bit when I was a child, sleeping.  If I ever had to share a bed, I'd be promptly told to "stop moving your feet".  It felt good to move my feet back and forth in the bed sheets, getting rid of the restless feeling.
This is what I call "Restless Legs".  

Now that I'm older, I've had this happen occasionally during my sleep.  I will have slept about 4 hrs., and I wake up to this feeling.   My legs felt like they had drunk 5 glasses of dark coffee while I slept!  Feeling restless legs makes me feel like I want to get up and walk or jog around.  Trying to sleep with restless legs is just about impossible for me.

Well, I used to think taking magnesium supplement would help relax my legs.  I found out the magnesium with calcium at a 1:1 or 1:2 ratio did nothing for my restless legs, but it did give me a relaxed feeling to fall asleep to.  

What I found that alleviates my restless legs is to get up and drink 1-2 cups of water.  After I do this, my restless legs tend to go away within about 3 minutes.  It's like magic!  So, this tells me, I'm not drinking enough water during the day.  I go to bed dehydrated.  If I ate a salted snack within a couple of hours before bed, the salt would enhance the Restless Legs making it worse.  Salt activates muscle to tissue, getting it ready to move.  I wonder how many people are dehydrated, complaining to their medical doctors their legs are restless and then leaving with a prescription for some drug?  

If you have restless legs, try drinking water when you feel it.  Better yet, drink plenty of water throughout the day.  Leave the salty snacks for early afternoon.  See if this simple remedy helps. If it does, this maybe telling you to drink more water during the day.  

Written by Cynthia Bergsbaken of Reiki in the Prairie LLC

Written for The Perceptive Blogger, September 24, 2018 

Disclaimer by Reiki in the Prairie LLC and Cynthia Bergsbaken copyright 2015

I am not a psychologist, psychiatrist, or medical doctor.  These articles I have written, are from reading and experiencing them.  Many of these articles are my own experiences with my own inventions to heal as well.

If you have a medical condition-physically/mentally/emotionally, please see a qualified medical doctor.  Do not substitute my articles for proper medical care.  You are too important to the world.

I have used all procedures I have written about and have found them to be helpful as tools to help myself become a better person.   I am sharing them with you because used as a tool, they are helpful in Shadow working on ourselves.  (Shadow working is healing our inner shadows that are unconscious or subconscious.  Inner shadows are our belief systems, our thoughts, our behaviors, our life experiences.)

I created this blog for my Reiki clients originally.  Combining these tools with Reiki creates a happy, healthy person.  These tools, when used alone are also beneficial!

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