Leg cramps

[Jhanananda]

I have been awaking from sleep with random leg cramps for decades.  I thought it might have been an electrolyte imbalance from years of consuming low sodium foods, which might be part of it; however, a fellow mystic recently reported he had started having leg cramps and asked me if it was related to becoming charismatic.  So, maybe.

My early morning leg cramps are associated with awaking with a full kundalini energy rise that tonifies certain muscle groups.  Pretty much my whole body, lying prone, becomes ridged, and sometimes my calves cramp painfully, which pulls me out of an OOBE.  My solution has been to salt all of my food to taste, drink lots of coconut water, which is full of electrolytes, and eat bananas, which are high in potassium.  I have found doing so, does reduce the leg cramps.

So, if anyone of the mystics on this forum have been experiencing early morning leg cramps in association with OOBE and/or kundalini, then please reply to this thread and report the details, and any solutions you may have come up with.

[Sam Lim]

Leg cramps could be a symtom of low sodium diet or it could be high uric acid. So, check which is which first. I used to have leg cramps early in the morning around 4 or 5am and it's due to high uric acid. It's all the beans I took. So I took a herb called commonly here as "Cat's Whiskers" to neutralize the uric acid.

The url :  http://herbalmiracles.blogspot.com/2010/11/secret-benefit-of-cats-whiskers.html

I took the dried form and after about 4 days, the cramps are gone. Hope this helps

[Jhanananda]

Thank-you, Gandarloda, I have not heard of the herb "Cat's Whiskers."  I will have to track down a source for it.  Thanks for the link.

I had not thought that a diet high in uric acid would lead to leg cramps, but it is reasonable to consider.  Having been a vegetarian for about 37 years, I tended to eat a lot of beans of various varieties, so perhaps that was part of the cause of my leg cramps; however, I am inclined now to consider that they could be the byproduct of charisms, especially since you too had them. How long has it been since you have had early morning leg cramps?

Normally a western diet high in alcohol and meat is known to be a  diet high in uric acid, which has not been my diet since I turned 21.  Such a diet is known to cause gout.  Gout is common among people of European extraction, especially of those cultures where wine and meat are a major feature of the diet, such as the French and Italians.  I wounder if they also experience early morning leg cramps?

[Sam Lim]

Gout is not solely through consumption meat or alcohol but beans as well. One of my friend who is a vegetarian got gout through eating too much beans. I had to treat him with cat's whiskers and the pain is gone but I had advised him to drink cat's whiskers periodically to keep the pain at bay. I have also treated many with cramps using cat's whiskers who had high uric acid and all the symptoms are gone within a few days.

I am quite good with herbs as well. I am treating one of my god-son with lichen planus which is incurable from the western medicine standpoint.

Link : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001870/

He have been to skin specialists and been too India for cures and none works. Miraculously, through my knowledge of herbs, he is cured 85% and in a couple of months he will be completely cured. I also doubt that cramps are charism.

Incidentally, you can drink lemon or lime juice to abate the cramps as well. It's good for uric acid.

[Jhanananda]

It is good to know that you study herbal therapies.  I too have been studying herbal medicines for quite some time.

I also recalled that my leg cramps are more frequent on cold mornings, so if I keep my legs warm, then I am less likely to awake with leg cramps.

I doubt if I have an issue with uric acid, because my diet is not high in uric acid producing substances, nor has any doctor notified me that I had a blood stream high uric acid.  However, my case might be associated with low electrolytes over a long period of time.  So, I now salt my food to taste, and I drink lots of coconut water, which is high in electrolytes.

[Econetic]

I doubt that any change in your diet will make a difference.  I experience muscle-tightening as well, and the best that I can do is to shift about to ease the stress.   Sometimes I can hear my skull creak because of the tension, or my neck will click when I swivel left-right to release the stress.  I always wake up with this tension, to a greater or lesser degree.  This tightening arose as a direct result of a specific meditational event, an initiation, and it has been with me ever since, and this is why I don't see it as having a dietary cause.  It can be problematic at times, causing severe headaches; however muscle tension seems to be par for the course when feeling subtle body sensations. 

As an aside, have you ever read, 'The Haunted Woman'?  One of the main characters in that book would experience a migraine whenever an 'upper room' would reveal itself within a house she had bought.    The author is David Lindsay, who also wrote 'A Voyage to Arcturus', which is a book I think you'd probably enjoy reading (it is a 20'th century mystical tale).

[Jhanananda]

Econetic, I too experience snapping and clicking of my cranials and vertebra, but they seem to do so due to deep relaxation, which precedes the energy events of kundalini.  There is a kind of tension I associate with the energy events of kundalini, but it is not like normal stress-oriented tension, but a tension in the muscles related to the rising energy, like a hose being pressurized when the water faucet is turned on.

No, I have not read the books of David Lindsay.  Most of the books I have read that were produced in the 20th century that had a focus on mysticism seemed to be mostly fiction.  This is why I prefer to read the mystics instead.

[Cybermonk]

Aloha to you Jeffrey,

Vitamin "K", or the lack of, can be a cause for leg cramping. Once
you become a "well to do" author, perhaps a good natural vitamin
each day, will put you right.

Also.... as you are aware.... "gmo" foods are a curse for us all.
I've researched the growing problems and a lot of your health
issues are the hidden toxins in our food supply. I'm sure you
eat cleaner than me, however I, being human, will still go get
an ice cream cone, full of bt toxin and the cone is full of gmo
corn, corn syrup and more. I even hit "burger king" last night,
just being lazy and it was great, but my guts cramped all night,
my blood got polluted with "prion's", ie, damaged dna from the
gmo process, which put my immune system into overload,
punishing me with night sweats, foot cramps and a host of
toxin overloads. Yeah... it tasted good going down.
So it goes,
Kimo

[Jhanananda]

Thanks, Kimo, I ate vegetarian organic for 30 years, so no GMO, or artificial anything during that time period, then I became homeless and broke when I could no longer get work as a demonized mystic.  After that I had to eat what was free. So, maybe it is the chemicals and GMO that I have eaten in the last 10 years or so that explains my diabetes now, although I am inclined to reject the hypothesis.  Nonetheless, if vitamin K will reduce the leg cramps, then I am all over it.  So far adding salt to taste to every thing that I eat works great at reducing the leg cramps.  If leg cramps come back, then I add more salt to my diet.

[Cybermonk]

Hi Jeffrey,

Still bothered by leg cramps,eh. Please check your ankles for slight
discoloring/swelling. If you find these symptoms, consult a physician
about your blood pressures, especially when the body/beast is resting.

It may be you need to increase exercise/stretching as well. It is
something to consider, since cramping/burning is caused a lot by
the lactic acid the cells naturally dump and the circulation systems
usually remove, to the filters of the body.

Low blood pressure at night could slow this process. Hence...using a herb to thin the blood would help this. I don't know what "cat whiskers" is, however, my
guess is its a blood thinner. If your getting older, like the rest of us,
be careful with herbs of this type. Over medication, coupled with
an older heart and blood system can be problematic.

Later,
Kimo