We are all well acquainted with the fact that stress and other mental conditions can lead to high blood pressure. In fact high or low blood pressure has become a part and parcel of our everyday life as most of us suffer from either of these two conditions. Most of are negligent towards high blood pressure as it can be dangerous to health. There are several ways by which one can bring the blood pressure to normal. The most common ways is by stress relievers. Even statistics and studies reveal that they are capable in reducing blood pressure as they eliminate any negativity physically and mentally but also boost other health benefits. Here are some ways by which high blood pressure can be treated.

Meditation-

Meditation is believed to be one of the most effective ways of bursting stress. It comes with numerous health benefits. Initially meditation can appear as a challenge and one can pick one of the meditation practices that suit the individual lifestyle and health. By putting some easy strategy anyone can start with regular meditation practice.

Yoga-

Yoga is great way in shaping the mind body and soul, and lastly the blood pressure. There are different Asanas and postures that can be put into practice. These postures help in bringing in disciple into life perks bodily movement and normalize blood pressure.

Progressive Muscle relaxation-

Another popular way to beat high blood pressure is by progressive muscle relaxation method. These can be performed at home at workplace; they are very effective and extremely convenient to perform.

Breathing exercises-

These kind of breathing exercises can be performed anywhere at anytime of the day. The best thing is that they can be done while performing regular chores like washing, doing dishes, laundry, cooking etc. these are most popular as they are believed to be best stress busters.

Music therapy-

 Music has the capacity to heal. Even doctors all over the globe have realized this importance of music and they are implementing music therapy parallel to the treatments in most of their patients. Listening to music can calm or pace up the human physiology.

Transcendental meditation-

Transcendental meditation is one of the most effective ways in treating and controlling high blood pressures. The best thing is that one can clearly steer away from the side effects of anti-hypertension drugs. This new study was conducted in the University of Kentucky and meta-analyzed and evaluated over nine random control trials, making the use of transcendental meditation. It was noted that there was significant drop of 4.7 mm systolic BP and 3.2 mm of diastolic BP on an average. Dr. James W. Anderson the lead under whom the study was conducted said that with this the chances of cardiovascular disease could be reduced to a great extent. Transcendental meditation significantly reduces meditation which was not observed in other forms of meditation.

What is Stress biology-?

Most of us are unacquainted with the fact that with stress the blood pressure gets raised. When the body is subjected to attack it switches to fight mode also known as flight mode. At this time the hormones nor epinephrine and epinephrine are released, which in turn increases the heart rate. The metabolism in turn becomes faster and more blood is pushed into the muscle, this lead to increase in blood pressure.

But the fact remains that the body fails to recognize between the psychological threat and the physical threat but in both the cases stress reaction takes place. Hence it becomes important to eliminate this threat from the roots as the condition can mount up and can become chronic.

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