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Lower Blood Pressure
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by: ChristianGoodman
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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.
We are so used to this, we often don't realize how overwhelming this constant stimulation is.
Here is an example from the simple world where I have grown.
When I was a kid, my parents use to live in the city but they had a farm in the country side which was taken care of by my grandmother.
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 we had youngsters, we began training them in the summer when they were four years old. We took it slowly and most often they were very calm and easy to handle. It wasn't till second or third year in training that we brought them to the stable in the city in the winter time.
Now here comes the important part...
You couldn't believe how frightened these young horses often were when they were faced with the city. Fast cars all over the place. Screaming people. Big houses. Even in the quiet stable area, the stimulation was overwhelming for them. They either froze or run off or just shook all over when we took them out riding.
How did we help them in overcoming this ?
First of all, we always took them out with an older horse who was relaxed and wasn't affected by all the static. This gave the youngster confident that everything was all right.
But even more important...
After feeding them with hays, and when everything was quiet we spent hours brushing and combing them in the evenings. We saw that we were making progress when the youngster enjoyed his treatment that he would close his eyes and even stopped eating even if the hay was in front of him.
Shortly, they were not bothered enough about the static and traffic. In the evenings they had their focused brake which gave enough soothing to their nervous system so that they could deal with the difficult tasks of the day. There was no more tension on their back and you could even feel them relax.
Nowadays it is much different. The horses are more used to the fast world. Even if they come straight from the countryside. But they still benefit a lot from getting their long quiet brushing in the evening. And I think I benefit just as much from them.
Similar to the youngsters in training, we not only have to deal with the fast world around us. But we do need to tackle the difficult tasks and people every day. This is the reason why our nerve system is on high gear and is tense since morning till night.
Yet if the environment around us is quiet and there are no external stimulation for a brief period, our brain would not be relaxed. It continues to spin with all the worries and tension we are facing or even resentment about something like "somebody did to us" during the day. The system is not relaxed and is in high gear. So, our blood pressure becomes worse than ever.
The mind keeps on going until we fall asleep.
Some of us may be more genetically open for hypertension, our diet may also temporarily flair up our blood pressure. But nothing is on us like our own emotions and mind. Nothing actively bugs us from morning to night like our own head.
Meditation has been shown to be somewhat effective for hypertension. But I don't know many people who have the discipline to sit and quiet their mind for 30-60 minutes a day. The mind often begins spinning with more force than ever.
My focused break exercises are totally effortless. All you need to do is to be lead by the directions on the audios. The feeling from two of the exercises is a 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 I learned from one of the most famous horse whisperer 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.
And the most excellent element is, it gives you a moment off from the world. A moment where there is now pressures and worries. That's what I love about it. So have a good time.
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About the Author
Christian Goodman is a noted health researcher and an writer of several natural health alternative solutions. One of his resent breakthrough is on his cause of High Blood Pressure. You can find out more about Christian on his blog on how to lower blood pressure.
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