I 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?
Nearly every time, they do have the same sort of question….
“Could this program help me in such a bad situation?”
I have decided to answer this question in this blog, in view of the fact that it is so common.
The reasons for hypertension may be bad modern day diets or genetic factors. But emotions and thinking pattern plays a bigger part.
We react to stimulation around us for approximately 24 hours a day. We are awake for at least 16 hours, and we are under internal or external pressure constantly. Our body is not in its top form to deal with these stimulation. In any case this technological world is only a few years old.
We do not realize how irresistible this constant stimulation is as we are very much used to it.
I am giving a little example from the simple world where I grew up .
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 loved spending all summers on the farm. And more than anything, 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.
Here comes the part that is important…
These young horses were very frightened when they faced the city they saw fast cars all over, screaming people and big houses. The stimulation was overwhelming for them even in the quiet stable area. When we took them for riding they would either froze or run off or just shook all over.
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 more essentially…
During evenings after feeding them with hays and when everything was quiet we use to spent hours brushing and combing them. The youngsters use to enjoy his treatment so much that he use to close his eyes and even stopped eating even if the hay was right in front of him and we saw that we were making progress.
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.
The horses are more used to this fast world, even though they are from the countryside. They do gain a lot by getting a quiet long brushing in the evenings. And the same goes for me as I think I do benefit as much from them. But nowadays its far more different.
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.
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 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 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 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.