Tried Everything To Lower Your Blood Pressure?
Over and over again I receive emails from people who have tried everything to lower their - up to 210/140 high - blood pressure. They’ve been on medications for years and take every supplements known to man.
These people often tells me that their father, mother, grandparents and their aunts, uncles, did suffer from soaring blood pressure. So, it might be in their genes, correct?
Most often, their question is pretty much the same…
“Could this program help me in such a bad situation?”
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.
Let me take a little example from the simple world I grew up in.
In my childhood , I use to stay with my parents in the city, they had a farm in the country side, and my grandmother use to look after the farm.
I love to spend the summers on the farm, and most importantly i loved the horses.
In the farm we could ride for a long period without requiring to cross a road. There are only a few tractors present and we did had a few cars but 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 the main part comes…
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…
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.
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.
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.
Just like the youngsters in training, we don’t just have to deal with the fast world around us. We need to deal with difficult people and difficult tasks every day. This puts our nerve system in the high gear and keeps it tense from morning to night time.
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.
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.
My focused break exercises are very much easy and there is no effort required. All you need to do is to follow the instructions as on the audio. The feeling generated from the second exercise is little bit like the feeling in the stable where we groom the horses when everything is quiet. The first exercise is like a technique which I learned from the most famous horse whisperer still alive.
The bottom line is, everyone can follow these exercises immediately and begin benefiting very quickly. There is nothing to learn and no skills to practice. It works if you work it no matter how bad your situation may look.
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.