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?

Time and again, their question is very 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.

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.

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.

The entire summers I loved to spend on the farm. And above everything else 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.

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 here comes the important part…

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.

So what did we do to help them get over 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.

Significantly…

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.

At present, it is very different. Even if the horses comes from the countryside they are more used to the fast world. They do benefit a lot by getting a long quiet brushing in the evenings. And it too benefits me just like the horses.

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.

Unless we sleep the brain keeps on spinning.

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 might be effective for hypertension. But I have not seen many people who can sit and silence their mind for 30-60 minutes every day. At that time the mind begins to spin with even more force 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.

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 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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