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….
“Could this program help me in such a bad situation?”
As this is a frequent question, I have decided to explain it 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.
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.
Out there, we could ride forever without ever having to cross a road. There were a few tractors around and of course we had cars but they were few and 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…
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 ?
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.
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.
Even when everything is quiet and there is no external stimulation for a short while, our brains won’t let go. It keeps spinning either with all the worries we’re facing or resentment about something “somebody did to us” during the day. Our system is still in the high gear. And our blood pressure may be 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 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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