Merry Christmas!
I want to thank everyone for thier kind words. Today was a good day. No stomach cramps. I did another
Epsom Salt bath tonight. I went to the store and got some essential lavender oil and added some to the water. It smelled wonderful. It reminded me of my summers in France with my family when I was growing up (I was born in France). After the bath, I climbed lightheadedly into my bed and watched a great movie called "Warm Springs." It was about Franklin Roosevelt just after he got polio and how he struggled through it to become president. It was very inspirational and uplifting. I highly recommend it.
I had kinda of a wierd thought about the stomach cramps. Most of my life, I have experienced some anxiety when I get stressed and it has usually manifested itself with "butterflies in the stomach." I felt that my cramps were some sort of an emotional cleansing through some deep-seated anxiety. I'm not really sure if that's correct, but that is what comes to mind.
Early on in my cleanse about the second week, I had another interesting experience. I had developed a painful pimple under my tongue. When I was younger, I had done a lot of acid (LSD) and when I was living in Denver there was this stuff called Orange Phoenix which was not very clean, kinda speedy. Every time I would take it, I would get this tightness under my tongue in the exact same spot that the pimple developed a couple of weeks ago... I have long since given up my drug taking days but I honestly felt that the pimple under my tongue was a physical manifestation of the cleansing of that dirty acid from my body. The pimple has since gone away.
So. An emotional cleansing and a physical cleansing. Very interesting.
I hope you all have a very merry Christmas!
take care
Nick