Using Meditation Techniques for Lowering Blood Pressure

Whether you use meditation or yoga, both are related to relieving stress and achieving a balanced wellness. Transcendental Meditation technique produces a statistically significant reduction in high blood pressure that is not found with other forms of relaxation, meditation, biofeedback or stress management.

Meditation is primarily breathing and sitting while repeating what is called a Mantra. This can be a word, a phrase or a sound (white noise). Some would classify this as "Brain Washing" and that's one reason it's suggested you train with a qualified teacher.

How to use Meditation for High Blood Pressure

Stress is a big contributor to blood pressure problems. Constant stress can lead to other health issues too like stroke, kidney problems, cancer, etc..

Stress is damaging because it throws your system out of balance. Then like domino's, one problem begets another. Meditation is a way to battle this. Lets look at a few forms of this.

Relaxation Tapes - a form of meditation, the key is finding a quiet place to relax. Just 10 minutes of focused relaxation can take you through a day. The main objective is using this time to eliminate all negative thoughts and refresh your mind and body with positive fuel.

Simple Meditation - similar to transcendental meditation, but on a much lower level. You can do this at lunch, taking 10 minutes to release stress. Again, finding a quiet place, in a sitting position, deep relaxing breaths, either listening to a recording or quietly repeating a mantra. You can be sitting too, the point is to disconnect from confusion and re-balance yourself.

Transcendental Meditation - this is a seven step course, which when complete requires you to do it twice a day for 15 to 20 minutes. As an example session 5, called "First Day of Checking" is to verify the correctness of the practice and give further instruction; Session 6, called "Second Day of Checking" is to understand the mechanics of the TM technique based on personal experiences; and, Session 7, called "Third Day of Checking" is to understand higher stages of human development.

This latter meditation technique becomes part of your daily routine, especially if your trying to lower your blood pressure. If your blood pressure is to high, meditation in combination with other high blood pressure remedies can be effective in getting you back to normal.

We need to keep stressing that for long term success, you need to look for natural ways to lower your blood pressure. Drugs are a simple, convenient short term fix, but the long term side effects can be disastrous.

We've already discussed the formal meditation techniques above, but here's a few that we all do here and there.

If you think your mind can run 24/7, then your mind is telling you something else in other ways. Lets look at a few.

• Daydreaming
• Staring
• Vivid Dreams
• Concentration

These are some of the ways your mind, without intentional TM training, finds to relieve itself from stress and problems.

This is the reason a lack of sleep can create problems. Your mind needs a rest too, sleep is natures way of clearing out some of the overload your mind records. If you don't allow this to happen, physical repercussions such as high blood pressure occur.

The problems your body incurs is much more complicated than what you can do to repair it. What this means is nature has given us simple techniques and remedies, while science is still trying to figure out treatments.

So, know it or not you already are doing some form of meditation, nature is demanding it. Combating the stresses of today requires a deeper meditation technique which is TM.

Consider this as an option not only for high blood pressure problems, but for good health in general.