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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.

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…

“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.

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.

We are so used to this, we often don’t realize how overwhelming this constant stimulation is.

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 love to spend the summers on the farm, and most importantly 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…

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.

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 even more important…

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.

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.

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 .

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.

The mind keeps on going until we fall asleep.

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 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 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.

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