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Lower Your Blood Pressure by Practicing Yoga
If you didn't know by now, yoga asanas can help you in the
treatment of high blood pressure, and help you lower blood
pressure. Yoga asanas make stable your blood pressure, so lower
blood pressure when it's abnormaly high. Asanas have favorable
effects on the nervous system. By practicing certain yoga asanas
you can not only lower your blood pressure, but also reduce the
effects of hypertension on the other organs of the body.
There are a few categories of asanas which are recommended to
lower blood pressure: forward bends, sitting, supine and
inversions group.
Forward bends have the best effects on high blood pressure, so
they can help you the most to lower your blood pressure. These
exercises have a calming effect on the brain, the blood
circulation to the brain is normalized, and they help you reduce
the stress from the sense organs, things that lower blood
pressure. So, the brain, the sympathetic nervous system and the
sense organs are relaxed, the cardiac output and the pulse rate
decelerate at the same time, and blood pressure stabilizes, so
it lowers blood pressure when it's high. Other asanas which have
beneficial effects on the nervous system and help you lower
blood pressure are Uttanasana and Adhomukha Svanasana , which
have to be practiced with the head resting on props, so the
blood circulates more freely into the aortic arch. These help
you
lower blood pressure.
Baddhakonasana and Virasana are some of the sitting asanas which
can be practiced in order to get a lower blood pressure by the
hypertensives , which in most cases are hard breathing. These
poses eliminate the tension from the ribs and the intercostal
muscles, so they help you to breathe with no difficulty, and
lower blood pressure.
Other poses which help you lower blood pressure are the supine
poses, like Supta Baddhakonasana which, by relaxing the
abdominal region, and so the entire body, bring calm on the
nerves.
Inversions asanasas such as Viparita Karanti and Halasana
revitalize the nerves, assure the control over the lungs and
diaphragm, so if you practice these exercises constantly, you
will get a lower blood pressure. There are also useful the
Svanasana and pranayama, which provide the control over the
automatic nervous system. As the senses and the mind are
chilling, the blood pressure stabilizes, and in case of
hypertension it leads to a lower blood pressure.
About the author:
This medical article is written by Grojan Fabiola during one
research session on lowering blood pressure in a natural way,
that will be using yoga. So, if you want to find out more about
how to lower blood
pressure, especially in a natural way, please click this
link.
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