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Originally Posted by JCaudill  thank you for a very useful statement. i have never taken the thought of attacking with my chi seriously, simply because i thought it would get me hit in the face, but i see no harm in trying to lower my salt ravaged blood pressure. anyone have any suggestions on meditations i might try? |
One that is effective for blood pressure is focusing on your breathing and trying to get to under 10 breaths per minute for 5 minutes. If you can get below 10, try to get below 9 (and so on). The difficult part is to do continue to breathe at an even pace as opposed to holding your breath for 10 seconds and then taking a quick one. This exercise once a day can show a good bit on improvement for you blood pressure (but it won't mean you can eat deep fried salt).
Also, one that I use from time to time is imagining that I am taking pain from an injury, bring it to my lungs and then breathing it out. It draws focus away from the pain thus reducing it. This exercise is almost entirely psychosomatic. I know this, but I can delude my self enough to believe it does something when I am in pain.