Methods of dealing with Hypertension
Thursday, March 13th, 2008I keep on receiving emails from people who have tried everything to lower their high blood pressure which rises up to 210/140. These people are on medications for many years and have taken each and every supplements that exists.
Like that wasn’t enough, they also tell me their father, mother, grandfather and grandfather plus several aunts and uncles suffered soaring blood pressure. So it must be in their genes, right?
Time and again,their question is very much the same….
“How could this program possible help me in such an impossible situation?”.
As this is a frequent question, I have decided to explain it here on this blog.
Hypertension is caused by wrong diet or genetic factors. But it is only a small portion of the problem. The biggest part is because of thinking patterns and emotions.
We’re reacting to stimulation around us almost 24 hours a day. At least the 16 hours we’re awake, we’re constantly under some kind of pressure. Either internal or external. And our body is not fit to deal with this stimulation. After all, the technology world is only a few decades old.
Never do we realize as we are use to it, as to how unappealing this constant stimulation is.
Let me take a little example from the simple world I grew up in.
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.
We began to train the youngsters around four years old during the summers. We started slowly and later on they were very calm and were easy to handle. By the end of the second or third year in training we brought them to the city in 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.
So what did we do to help them get over 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.
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.
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.
Even to the last moment before we fall asleep, the mind keeps on going.
Hypertension might be genetic for some of us, blood pressure might be temporarily flared up due to our diet. But the main reason is our head like our own emotions and mind, which actively bugs us from morning to night.
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 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 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.
And the best part is, it gives you a little time off from the world. A time with no worries and no pressure. That’s what I like the most about them. So enjoy.
About the Author:
Christian Goodman is a well known health researcher and an writer of several natural health alternative methods. One of his resent breakthrough is his natural method for high blood pressure. You can learn more about Christian on his Natural Health Blog.
