Mind Your Blood Pressure

We know that there are many things that can cause or contribute to high blood pressure. It can be passed on through generations, one of your parents or grandparents may have suffered from it. Stress can cause the rise in our BP and there are certain foods that are said to contribute to this condition, such as salt, coffee and alcohol. Although there are other things that may cause this condition, this article is not about the causes, but about how we can control or cure it.

We know there are many different medications that are designed to control this condition and our Doctors are more than willing to prescribe them. The trouble with these drugs is that they have a lot of side effects and although these do not affect everyone, they do affect most and to add to that sometimes the side effects can be worse than the condition that the drugs are treating. So with that said, it is probably safer and more effective to try and control or cure this condition without the use of drugs.

There are two renowned methods of controlling blood pressure, the first being a healthy diet, if we eat a balanced healthy diet, then this can help to lower and control this condition. Avoiding processed foods that contain a lot of salts among other undesirables. Fresh healthy food is the answer. The second thing is exercise and this can have an amazing effect on someone with high BP. It really does help to bring it down, just taking a thirty minute to one hour walk everyday is more often than not, enough to get the right results, as long as you are walking briskly and not strolling, you do need to get that heart rate up. So do not under estimate the power of exercise.

Another important thing that can help us with this condition is breathing. Not many people realize how important our breathing is, yes I know we all breathe, but how many of us do not actually breathe properly, too many. It is not a hard thing to learn and there are plenty of techniques to help you learn how to breathe properly. Right this second just become conscious of your breathing, how fast are you breathing, probably to fast. Doing daily exercises to slow this breathing down is one way to let your breathing help your health.

Another to add in is meditation, I am not going to explain this in detail, but it is connected with the previous one mentioned, breathing and it is also connected with the next one I am going to mention and that is what is in our heads.

Now what about our minds, this one will get you going. You see our minds are the most powerful thing that we have and probably more powerful than any computer. The trouble is that not many people use the potential that we have in our heads. It is all about what we think, how we think and what we use those thoughts for, everything we do starts with a thought. So all that we think is what we feed our mind. Now think about that for a minute. How do you think, are you the type of person that lets negative thoughts constantly enter your head or are the type to always think positively.

We control all that we do with our thoughts, yes we think our life and our health. So if we are always thinking the worst then that is what our life and health will reflect. If we think with optimism and are always positive then that is what our life and health will reflect. So it is possible to use our thoughts to feed our mind to control our blood pressure, the same way we use our thoughts to control everything in our life.