How to Lower Blood Pressure
Very often I am receiving emails from people who have tried each and everything to lower their up to 210/140 high blood pressure. They are using medicines for about a decade and also tried all the supplements that are known to humans.
I also came to know that their parents, grandparents and also their aunts and uncles had suffered from soaring blood pressure. So, it is present in their genes, right?
Nearly every time, they do have the same sort of question….
“Is this program really going to help me in this critical condition?”
Since this question is so common, I decided to explain this right here on this blog.
You see, hypertension is of course partly caused by genetic factors or wrong bad modern days diet. But that is only a small part of the problem. Emotions and thinking patterns plays much bigger part.
Everyday for 24 hours we are reacting to stimulation around us. We don’t sleep for at least 16 hours and we are constantly under some kind of internal or external pressure. Our body is not fit enough to deal with these types of stimulation as this technological world is very new in existence.
Never do we realize as we are use to it, as to how unappealing this constant stimulation is.
I am giving a little example from the simple world where I grew up .
When I was a young boy, my father and mother lived in the city but had a farm in the country side. My grandmother took care of the farm.
I love to spend the summers on the farm, and most importantly i loved the horses.
Out on the farm we did not require to cross the road and we could ride forever. There were only a few tractors and we had a few cars but they were far between.
When the youngsters were four years old, we began training them in the summers, though they were calm and easy to handle we took it slowly. By the second or third year in training we brought them to the stable in the city during the winters.
Now here comes the important part…
Perhaps you won’t believe, as to how frightened these young horses were when they faced the city. These fast cars, screaming people and big houses all over the places. Even in their quiet stable area, The stimulation was overpowering them. They use to run away or freeze or just shook all over when we use to take them out for riding.
How did we help them in overcoming this ?
On the first hand, we took them out with an older horse who was very much relaxed and unaffected by the static. The youngster became more confident that everything after this.
Significantly…
In the evening – when the hey had been fed and everything was quiet – we spent hours brushing and combing them. We knew we were making progress when the youngster enjoyed his treatment so much that he closed his eyes and stopped eating even if the hey was right in front of him.
After some time, the youngster didn’t seem to bother much about the traffic and static situations. He did have his focused brake in the evenings which gave his nerve enough soothing so that he could deal with the difficult tasks during daytime. You could feel them relax as the tension disappeared from their back.
At present, it is very different. Even if the horses comes from the countryside they are more used to the fast world. They do benefit a lot by getting a long quiet brushing in the evenings. And it too benefits me just like the horses.
As like the youngsters in training, not only we need to deal with the fast world around us. Everyday we do require to deal with difficult people and tasks. This definitely puts our nerve system in the high gear and keeps it tense for 24 hours .
Even if everything is calm and there is no external stimulation for a short time, our brains are not relaxed. The brain keeps spinning with all the tensions we are facing or any type of resentment about something like “somebody did to us” during the day. The system is still in high gear. So, our blood pressure might be even worse than before.
Even to the last moment before we fall asleep, the mind keeps on going.
Some of us may be genetically open for hypertension, our diet might temporarily flair up our blood pressure. But most importantly, our head that is our own emotions and mind are the one which actively bugs us from morning to night.
Meditation proves to be somewhat effective for hypertension. But many people has the difficulty to sit and to silence their mind for 30-60 minutes a day. Because the mind begins to spin faster than before.
There is totally no efforts required for my focused break exercises. All you need to do is to follow the direction on the audio. The second exercise is little bit like the feeling in the stable when we groom the horses when everything is quiet. The first exercise is more like a technique which I learned from one of the famous horse whisperer, who is still alive.
The idea is that everybody can follow these exercises and start benefiting very fast. There is no skill to practice and nothing to learn about. It works only if you use it, and it does not matter how bad your situation might be.
The most interesting part is , that it gives you a small break from the world. A period where there is no worries and pressures. That is the best of it. Have fun.
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