Will Nothing Heal High Blood Pressure?
by Christian Goodman

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.

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?

Most often, their question is pretty much the same...

"Is this program really going to help me in this critical condition?"

I have decided to answer this question in this blog, in view of the fact that it is so common.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

What did we do to help them to overcome it?

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...

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.

Soon, the traffic and static didn't seem to bother the youngster as much. He had his focused brake in the evening and that gave his nerve system enough soothing so he could deal with the difficult tasks during the day. The tension in their back disappeared and you could feel them relax.

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.

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.

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 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.

There is totally no efforts required for my focused break exercises. All you need to do is to follow the direction on the audio. The second exercise is 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 which I learned from one of the famous horse whisperer, who is 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.

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.