ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION : -


The only thing essential about this problem is that nobody knows why it is there. The doctor proclaims his verdict condemning the patient to a lifetime of drug therapy or in other words "till death makes them apart". Again nobody realises that this is a disorder not a disease and as such needs management and not treatment. Our blood pressure is directly related to our breathing. If the breathing is deep and abdominal the pressure remains "normal", which again is misleading term as there are variations in normal. Some people register very low blood pressures which is "normal" for them. Anybody who remains disturbed emotionally changes his breathing pattern from abdominal to thoracic and slowly the blood pressure starts rising. Anybody who gets a fit of anger registers a very high blood pressure for that period of time. If however the attitude of a person is irritable towards life and times the blood pressure continues to rise till it shows some side effects. A person with essential hypertension or high blood pressure must do the following things first. He must correct his breathing by practising abdominal breathing thirty minutes at a stretch four times a day. Then he must do "stop meditation". It is repeatedly becoming aware of one s breathing doing whatever activity throughout the day. He must practise eating meditation, which means becoming aware of what he is eating by not swallowing the morsel of food till all the taste and flavour disappears in mouth. He must eat only fruits, vegetables and salads at night. He must do any exercise with nasal and abdominal breathing for at least an hour. The blood pressure is usually back to normal in a weeks time if the person is not extremely obese. However the drawback of this line of management from "Consumer Medicine" point of view is that the patient becomes independent of the doctor, he or she stops consuming drugs almost immediately, he or she does not undergo complications which further generate "business" in short they stop being consumers of various support systems developed by modern medicine to "help" them come back to the mirage of normalcy, which they never, it being a mirage.