The needlessness of pins and needles

Ok, you have been here: You’re sitting on a chair, reading a book and you’re leaning on your legs with your elbows. You lose track of time and suddenly you realise what you did, and you sigh or laugh. You’ve compressed the nerves in your legs and now they are ‘sleeping’. Maybe you experienced this after sleeping on your arm or hand. It’s called paraesthesia. By compressing your nerves, you block the communication between your brain and your leg, arm, or hand, and cause them to go numb. To me that happens on the toilet and I’m reading emails or an article or playing a game on my phone. What follows is funny. First there is the tingling, or the pins and needles moment. But then, when you want to get up, your leg doesn’t seem to work, you can’t lean on it and every move causes a strange sensation that produces laughter. At least for me. Hilariousness when trying to move around in the bathroom without falling over. Give it a minute and everything should go back to normal. 

How to avoid this? You don’t lean on your leg, arm, or hand for longer periods. This way, it doesn’t block the communication between your brain and your body part. It doesn’t get numb. You don’t fall over in the bathroom. Easy.

Same here: If I don’t block the communication between God and me, I don’t fall asleep, I don’t cause extra unnecessary pain, I don’t get numb and I won’t fall over that easily.

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