Cure #26:
After Care for High Blood Pressure: Dos and Do Nots
When your body is suffering from a serious condition
(like a High Blood Pressure/Hypertension), you need to take extra special
care of yourself. Fail to do so and you most likely will cause a
Heart Attack
or
Stroke.
Living with a life-threatening condition requires serious
after care both to minimize its effects and to assist your body
in its long term healing process.
AFTER CARE:
Here are some general rules of thumb that will
help you to reduce your High Blood Pressure/Hypertension:
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Special Instructions to Promote Circulatory Health
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About HTN:
Hypertension, better known as High Blood Pressure,
is when a person's blood pressure is chronically elevated. Persistent
HTN puts a person at risk for
heart attacks, heart failure,
strokes
, aneurysms, and kidney failure.
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Risk Factors:
People put themselves at risk for contracting
Hypertension if they are routinely stressed, if their family members
have had this condition, if they are obese, if their body has problems
with processing salt or sugar, if they are over age 50, if they have
chronic sleep disruptions, or if their kidneys are weak.
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Contributing Causes:
If you are at all overweight, you must get
on a weight loss program immediately. If you are not exercising, then
start with light, low impact exercise like walking or swimming for 30
minutes daily. If you are
not sleeping well,
seek help in normalizing your sleep. If you are
stressed,
take steps to reduce it.
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Energy Work Eligibility:
Hypertension stresses the
energy field and
energy work should be undertaken immediately to reduce that
stress and to
help reduce the high blood pressure to normal.
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Spiritual Cause:
Your high blood pressure is begging you to
SLOW DOWN and loosen up! Take time to focus on enjoying life! Stop
beating yourself up: the symptoms of Hypertension (HTN) were first
described in the 6th century BCE! Doing the following things can
help you RELAX and avoid circulatory failure!
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Forgive-Love-Live Happy:
Unforgiveness of others and life's
challenges is what fuels HTN. Do the
"Three Part Harmony" exercise
which helps you to let go of all that stresses
you out and to focus on finding joy and experiencing harmony in your life.
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Forgive Everyone Everything:
When you are forgiving everyone
everything, start first with yourself by writing a
"Letter of Indignation"
to purge any unloving feelings you have about
yourself or others until you have forgiven everyone everything. As
long as you are hanging onto unloving feelings, you are just increasing
your internal tension and inviting circulatory failure
(Atherosclerosis)
and
Heart Attack.
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Cultivate Sacred Space:
Learn to love and accept who you are
at the very deepest level. Commit to standing strong in self love and
have patience with your flaws. Do the
Sacred Space exercise
to help you experience more love and greater
levels of self acceptance.
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Do a "Relaxation Process":
Do this practice daily for an hour a day.
- Remember a time when you were the most relaxed (maybe on vacation, getting
a massage, or spending time with a loved one). - Remember this relaxing
time while you are comfortable and lying down. Breathe in and out deeply
to deepen the sensations of relaxation. Feel what it is like to be relaxed.
"Memorize" this feeling. - AS needed, when you are not relaxing, try to
connect with it.
For more on "Relaxation Process & Techniques",
click here.
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Have "Predictability Time":
Set aside time just for you where you...
- Do something you love without any interruptions from others.
- Get Vitamins "L" (Love) and "J" (Joy) every day.
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"Safe Space":
Make a spot in your home which relaxes you...
- Spend as much time in that "home field energy" as possible.
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Internalize Compliments:
Write down compliments others give you...
- Make a list of great things about yourself and review it daily.
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Dietary Restrictions:
If you have HTN, eliminate sugar and salt from your diet.
Be on the lookout for "High Fructose Corn Syrup" which
is in many processed foods. Remember that Sucrose and Fructose are other
names for sugar and are very common food/drink additives. "Licorice
Extracts" inside cough syrups, throat lozenges, and peptic ulcer tonics
are also sugary. Monosodium glutamate (MSG) contains salt and is a very
common food additive. Avoid alcohol at all costs.
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Helpful Natural Supplements:
These are: Vitamins B & C, Coleus Forskohlii,
Hawthorne Berry, Garlic, Ginger, Olive Leaf Extract, and Valerian Root.
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Be On the Lookout for Warning Signs of High Blood Pressure
These are the same warning signs as for a
Heart Attack.