Stress is a major factor in today's world. Stress will definitely affect your health simply because your body and mind automatically kick into the "fight or flight" reaction mode every time you are stressed. Stress is basically anything that disturbs you physically or mentally. Sometimes it is a positive thing, like graduating from school or college. But most often, when people talk about stress, they are referring to something negative: work deadlines, exam anxiety, fear of losing a job. You perceive these negative situations as a threat, and your body reacts unconsciously, or rather subconsciously, by preparing to either "fight" the perceived threat or take "flight" and "run away" from it.
To help make the necessary preparations to fight the threat, your body floods itself with various hormones and chemicals, including adrenaline. Your mind focuses solely on the threat, totally ignoring other things around. Your stomach fills up with acid, to get energy more quickly and efficiently from undigested food. And your heart raises your blood pressure, so you can react if the perceived danger ever escalates.
Now remember all of these bodily reactions happen unconsciously. And it is this reaction that needs to be managed correctly. Because if you stay in this tense state for a long time, you will soon develop high blood pressure symptoms.
Your stress management techniques are simply your conscious attempts to regulate how your body reacts to stress. And in order to make sure you are using the right stress management techniques, you need to know how the negative effects of stress are manifested, including high blood pressure symptoms.
Hypertension rarely has any other symptoms other than higher blood pressure figures. Now blood pressure is the force with which our blood is flowing through our veins and arteries. It is expressed as the ratio of our systolic (when the heart beats or pumps blood) pressure and our diastolic (when the heart rests between beats) pressure. These numbers are raised when the body is under stress in order to ensure that blood is flowing to all the parts of the body that need to react to the stressful situation.
For controlling high blood pressure naturally, rhythmic breathing is a very useful yoga exercise that has very real benefits in lowering your blood pressure numbers.
The simple action of inhaling and exhaling has the amazing power to power the body and calm the mind.
People in general, take very shallow breaths, pulling in the stomach when inhaling and never really emptying the lungs of carbon dioxide when exhaling.
The scientifically proven explanation is that long, slow breaths are more efficient than short, fast breaths.
Now to take in a good breath, your lungs must first be basically empty. Thus the key to efficient breathing lies in exhaling completely. A full and complete exhalation therefore begins with the upper chest, proceeds to the middle chest and finishes with the tightening of the abdominal muscles.
Only after a good and complete exhalation can you breathe in a good lungful of the oxygen-rich air your blood needs for nourishing the cells in your body.
When you start using this rhythmic breathing technique you may feel uncomfortable, especially if you have been used to breathing fast always. But just concentrate on visualizing your lungs as a pair of balloons that you are filling up with as much oxygen-filled air as you can, in order to provide the cells in your body with the power to perform their functions well. Just as we need air to live, the cells in every organ in our body need the oxygen we breathe in to power their batteries!
Practice deep rhythmic breathing on a regular basis for at least 5 minutes every day and you will definitely see the benefits in your body and mind.
Remember, breathe full and breathe deep!
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