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…
“How could this program possible help me in such an impossible situation?”.
Since this question is so common, I decided to explain this right 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.
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.
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.
The entire summers I loved to spend on the farm. And above everything else 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 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.
Here comes the part that is important…
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.
What did we do to help them to overcome it?
Firstly, we use to take them out with an older horse who was much relaxed and was not affected at all by these static. This made the youngster regain their confidence that everything was perfectly fine.
But more essentially…
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.
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.
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.
Unless we sleep the brain keeps on spinning.
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 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.
Everyone can start following these exercises and benefit very quickly. You don’t require to learn anything and no skills to practice. It works only because you want to work and it doesn’t matters how bad your situation may look.
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.
