In this article, you’ll learn about scientific studies on mind-body exercises lowering blood pressure. Many of these studies are conducted at the most respectful Universities and by the top medical professions in the world.
Mind body exercises have been used for centuries to improve mental, emotional and physical well-being. Although scientific research in this area is relatively young, many breakthrough discoveries have been made.
Numerous studies have proven without a doubt that mind body exercises such as muscle relaxation, meditation and bio-feedback drastically lower blood pressure, helping people either drastically lower their daily medication dose or completely eliminate medications entirely.
Despite undeniable proof of the effectiveness of these methods, the traditional medical system has been very reluctant to recommend them. If more people used these methods, the big powerful pharmacy companies would of course be out of millions of dollars. However, millions of people would not have to suffer medication side-effects.
Lets take a look at some of those studies…
People Performing mind/body exercise are FOUR times more likely to stop taking blood pressure medications:
According to a study (released in 2008) lead by Randall Zusman, M.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center, two thirds of those practicing simple mind/body exercises, could begin to lower their blood pressure medications.
The study included over 100 people for whom medications had been unsuccessful to lower blood pressure below the level of 140/90. Half the people received a mind/body audio to follow.
After eight weeks, everyone’s blood pressure was tested. Those whose blood pressure was below 140/90 (borderline hypertension level) were eligible to begin lowering their medications. If their blood pressure remained low during the following weeks, their medication doses were even further decreased or completely eliminated.
At the end of the study, more than two third of those following mind/body exercises had reduced their medications and a third of those had completely eliminated one or more high blood pressure drug.
50% Lowered Their Blood Pressure Using Bio-Feedback
According to a study published in 2003 and lead by nurse Carolyn B. Yucha, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, including 54 people, over half of them “learned” to lower their blood pressure using only their mind.
Fifty-four people who suffered hypertension underwent bio-feedback, relaxation treatment in Carolyn’s office. About half the patients managed to lower their blood pressure during the bio-feedback treatment.
Surprisingly though, 50% of those who managed to lower their blood pressure during the relaxation treatment could keep their blood pressure down after the treatment was over, without using any further mind/body exercises.
This shows that mind/body exercises can actually deliver PERMANENT results.
No drugs, no lifestyle changes, no diet change.
Mind/Body Exercises REVERSE hardening of the arteries
A revolutionary study focused on stroke published in the American Heart Association Journal proves that not only do mind/body exercises lower blood pressure; they also soften the arteries that have before hardened due to chronically high pressure.
Amparo Castillo-Richmond, M.D, professor of medicine at the College of Maharishi Vedic Medicine, who lead the research, and his team, took 138 people who had been diagnosed with high blood pressure and taught them special mind/body exercises.
Using special ultrasound technology, the researchers measured the thickness of the arteries in the heart before and after doing the exercises for a few weeks.
After the testing period, the people doing the exercises showed a significant decrease of -0.098 mm in arterial thickness. Compare that to an increase of 0.054 mm in a different group that did not do the exercises.
This shows that even if your arteries have begun to thicken due to your high blood pressure, you can reverse the process and gain a healthy heart if you practice mind/body exercises.
Relaxation Techniques Lower Blood Pressure In the Long Haul
The respected Dr. Chandra Patel, a clinical instructor at University College, London, England, recently reported to the International Society of Hypertension in Heidelberg that mind/body exercises should be a treatment of choice for people with hypertension.
He based this on his four-year study of 192 workers at a London manufacturing company, who had been diagnosed with high blood pressure and lived pretty unhealthy lifestyles (smoked more than 10 cigarettes daily and ate fatty food). None of the workers were taking any blood pressure medications.
For a month, Dr Patel and his team of researchers had weekly sessions with the workers where they taught them simple mind/body exercises and trained them to deal with stressful situations. In addition, the workers got mind/body exercise tapes to use at home to practice every day.
At the end of the four weeks, the relaxation-group had, on the average, lowered their blood pressure down to almost normal- 130/81-whereas the comparison group’s blood pressure (who did not do the exercises but were encouraged to improve their lifestyle) had hardly changed at all. The relaxation-group had also drastically lowered their cholesterol.
Now fast forward. For four years, the relaxation-group was not contacted. No encouragement was given to do the exercises. And as expected, only 3% had kept on doing the mind/body exercise daily. Despite that, the relaxation group still were, on average, 7 points lower for blood pressure than the comparison group.
This shows that doing mind/body exercises for a short period of time positively affects blood pressure in the long haul. Even if you stop doing the exercises.
At the end of the four years, the relaxation-group also reported less stress and anxiety, slept better and got better along with family and fellow co-workers than those who did not do the exercises.
Conclusion
As you can see from the above studies, simple mind/body exercises have been proven to drastically lower blood pressure. They help whether you’re taking blood pressure medications or not. They help almost everyone who uses them. And not only do they lower blood pressure, they also positively effect cholesterol level, overall health and help healing previously damaged arteries in and around the heart.
What’s more, they often deliver permanent results long after people stop using them.
Since the researchers in the above studies are medical experts, not experts in mind/body exercises, they use very traditional, general mind/body exercises in their studies.
I’ve been studying mind/body exercises for over 30 years. I’ve taken every single technique used in these and other studies and worked relentlessly to improve them and maximize their effects. I’ve tested them over and over again with hundreds of people. And I’ve developed them into, what I believe, to be most powerful mind/body exercises for high blood pressure there is. And they help even if you’ve tried traditional mind/body, relaxation or meditation without success.
Not only effective, but also simple and easy to do…
In fact, the exercises are so easy that pretty much anyone can do them, no matter what kind of shape you’re in or how old you may be. And they’re so simple; you can begin benefiting from them immediately.
Learn more about these extremely simple and effective blood pressure exercises here…
But first, make your comment below.
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ok, but it never once mentions what “mind/body” exercises are??
Is it running, meditation, yard-work..what???
Interesting article. Yes, I concur mind/body relaxation does have a positive result. I can measure it on my bp monitor.
I do transcendental meditation most days and during it my pulse decreases from 75 beats per min to 50/55 during it as measured by my G.P.
Hello there and greetings from cold,wet,windy Scotland,
I purchased the exercise program a few years back and I can honestly say I have never looked back. I still do two of the exercises every day and at 74 yrs old my BP is now ,on average, 128/80 pulse 68 from 210/110 pulse 85 . I am SURE this program works well together with a balanced diet with not too much animal products . I happen to be vegan but have eaten some meat in the past. I meditate every day possible too.
I feel ( and look so I am told) amazing for my age. No wrinkles no liver spots and my hair is still quite dark so I must be doing something right.
I have used this method myself and of course these type of methods work..(mind/body work….this is_ancient wisdom and not a new discovery )
Namaste..
We all know that these drug companies only look at the bottom line which is profit , controlling blood pressure and the side effects means more money.
Very informative article, Christian. Your Blood Pressure Program works wonders. Keep up your good work.
Blood pressure pills have never worked for me but just caused a lot of bad side effects. These mind/body exercises make a lot more sense.
If you're seeing 8-10 patients an hour, it's much easier to send them off with a prescription than council them in mind-body techniques that don't fit into the assembly-line approach of most medical groups.
The natural methods are much more benefial than a drug as they address the root cause
I have read something like this in the past , I tried it and didn't work , simple exercises, now I'm going to read this article to see if it is any different and will comment on it.
Dr. Carey Reams’ research showed that calcium enables the body to deal with all kinds of stress. A deficiency of calcium leads to hypertension. The research here shows how wonderfully the body can be trained to respond to the mind. Adequate metabolic calcium is the reason many do not have a blood pressure problem even though they do not use the techniques in this research.
Not clear if the above is in addition to the ones I've already bought from you; please elucidate.
This is my true belief and daily practice boosted by being vegetarian,and excercise walking and always be concious to do goodness,regards.
For me, this article is a candle light in the dark. I suffer from chronical high blood pressure and I’m diabetic which affected my kidneys. medications can’t help much as my average measurement 160/90. Can yoga exercises help? Thanks
Hi Christian,
As the son of the Co.Wexford Allen clan I have always had a helluva temper –
enjoyed a scrap when younger and always enjoyed the handshake with the enemy
at cease-fire ! I adult life like millions of others I was called upon to
fight for ‘liberty’ ‘justice’and against tyranny !!. Wow !We didn’t win
All of these are standard qualities of all governments !!!
These days with all the PC and ‘nice’ Saxons I guess we have to cool it so
it means that all that adrenalin is too rich a fuel for older ‘frames’ so
shazam !!! Hypertension !!!. And nowhere to use it !. So we go the
‘hydraulics’ readings which the hyper-priced ‘plastic’ medicines are used to
sentence millions to life-long dependence, and which cause other even more r serious problems,
Long ago, the incredible health values of certain China Tea varieties were were known to the intellectually advanced Chinese and other Asian races,
while the tribes of ancient were adorning their bodies with blue woad plant dye.in the 18th century, an acquisitive Britain had developed warships which
enable them to export their zest for conquest and in India and China they discovered the value of tea. China tea was of very fine quality and became
the favuured beverage of the World’s wealthy elite. So highly was it valued
as a fortune-spinner that Britain, a ‘nation of shop-keepers’ also well
skilled in the Shylockian art of making a quick buck invented ‘drug-pushing’
not with the health-benefiting tea, but the nationally demoralising Opium,
extracted rom poppy seeds and frantically shipped in boatloads from India
and Afghan poppy fields to China in order fully exploit the China Tea, as
the growers and tea-workers were plied with opium brought in by the fine,
fast British East India Company Clipper ships , which then loaded up with
the tea chests of China Tea for the Americas, Europe and Britain.
China has never trusted England to this day – and the practice of ‘tactical
‘drug games’ to gain dependence and bondage in one way or the other controls whole populations. And since no western government can tolerate the
insistence of its elderly to exist past the ‘sell by’ disposal age of 70,
treatments , philosophies and exercises known to be life prolonging and beneficial by the Chinese, Japanese,Indian and other ancient races over
millenia are denied and dismissed by the Mega-Pharma life-quality rationers
who spend millions keeping life-saving and lifeimproving no-cost or low-cost means of healing from so many who suffer.
Sorry- perhaps I seemed to bang the drum too hard. But it sure needs it.
Christian- I am 81, I have been in two wars and have seen active service in
two armies. In my old home town of Plymouth at age 11, I serve as an ARP
Messenger, and helped search for victims is the rubble of homes. My father
who served in the Navy died at 78 from asbestosis, a Naval engineer’s disease because there was no knowledge then that asbestos fibres polymerize in the lungs and organs and grow. He also had long term hypertension, but dealt with it well, using the drills you refer too.
He taught me relaxation methods and mantras…. I use them , morning on
waking , and beflore sleep, They really work.
The Beatles words in Licy in the Sky gp “picture yourself in a boat on a
river…” Really works. I had my own rowing boat at age 11, and in Summer
would delight on rowing to a sheltered cove in Plymouth Sound, on a fine
day with a light breeze, enough to ripple the water and sparkle up what I
called ‘sun-diamonds’….with the water lapping along the carvill timbers..
A calming image to hold… We have this gift…and only have to use it.
And for those who cannot…perhaps give them the means to know it through through music….perhaps a CD…or an Ipod.
Blessed are the Peacemakers !
100% truly said
agreed
This is scientifcally proven that Mind and Body excercise reduces the blood pressure drastically and evn it energies the body with increse level of stamina . It also helps in relaxation and also protects from other diseases
sorry – typo in my comment- Blue Woad was of course used back before 4000 BC
in what would eb called England. Please coreect that line is atill BLE.
RA
Everybody seems to have a magic bullet for controlling blood pressure. However, each appears to be short on details and specifics and want to sell you something. Testimonials don’t hack it…many false claims are from false testimonials. If the approach for control of blood pressure is as fantastic as claimed, let people try it for a modest investment for a time frame, of say a month, to experience the same benefits claimed. I am a doubter of all the salesmanship of these claims. Prove it too me.
Thanks for all the info. My boyfriend suffers from high blood pressure and we suspect thats what is causing his slight impotence. I hope that your exercises can help him recover fully. He also complains of weak leg muscles and a constant back pain
I’M SURE THAT THE TECHNIQUE THAT YOU ARE ADVOCATING GENERALLY WORK.I’M REALLY
CURIOUS HOW IT’S DONE.IS IT POSSIBLE TO TELL ME HOW WITHOUT ME HAVING TO BUY
ANYTHING? I’VE BEEN A HYPERTENSIVE FOR MORE THAN 30 YRS. AND HAVE BEEN ON
MEDICATIONS.I WOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL IF IT WOULD GET ME OFF MY PILLS.
THANK YOU
Restless night! Even though we think we're relaxing, we're not really enjoy the REM sleep!
Hi Christian,
Another great piece of research which keeps me plugged into your exercise program and philosophy.
Having lapsed for some time, a recent News Bulletin from you got me re-started on your BP Exercise Program. Daily exercises for just a week or so and I was starting to achieve daily “Focused Break” BP readings of around 120/80. Now that is amazing! Lowest I could get down to prior to this was around 140/85 and typically was 150/95 with medication – Losartan + Amlodipine.
I have a very healthy diet and cycle regularly but I am apparently a Classic A Type (hyper) personality – “it’s all in the mind”, and the meds I’ve been on for years failed to work effectively. Now I know why.
I was told by my Doctor I’d be on medication for life when I first started to take it in 1997. My BP then was 192/122 and dangerous and I was relieved and grateful to eventually get it down to “safe” levels. But a life sentence of drugs and side effects was a very dissappointing prognosis.
Your Exercise Program hits the BP target plumb centre and has given me a whole new outlook of health and wellbeing, drug-free.
Taking control of your own health is both liberating and fun. What else can I say but thank you and keep up all the great work!
Hi Cacdac
What the heck? Just take a chance and try it out. After all you said that you are sure the technique generally works. Furthermore, the medications you have tried over the years without sucess, the manufactures did not give you free trial period. Or did they? Sometimes you just have to take a chance, if it does not work for you,you can then post your coment
I have an open mind, but why is this not featured in the news? To Dorothy ask about taking some of your BP meds at nite as BP rises sharply before awakening naturally.
Many years ago I was advised by my GP to do meditation as a method of reducing my blood pressure, I did and have been meditating for more than twenty years, sure it does lower one’s blood pressure and that is absolutely great, but, I cannot sit contemplating my navel all day and as much as I love the meditation and the sheer bliss of being in that state of mind, there are other things that need to be done and therein lies the problem, how to keep one’s blood pressure under control when you have to get on with normal living. It’s a catch twenty two situation……………?
I go to Curves 4-5 X a week and have “white coat syndrom”. We weigh & measure monthly w/BP taken. I can take my BP at home and the numbers are higher there. This happens at the doctor’s office as well. I have many drug allergies, so/I avoid medicines whenever possible. The last thing I want is BP drugs. Hopefully whatever these exercises ar will help.
Hi Christian,
I can’t wait to get hold of this great information then i will get back to you and tell you of the progress.
winnie
I can lower high blood pressure within an hour to normal levels, and have been advertising so in my area..no exercise nor anything entering the body.
Was of course interested when I see something saying that I don't need to give my money to pharmaceutical companies for the rest of my life. I am 45 and have had a hart attack and refuse to take the drugs advised by my doctor, I have done but have stopped after doing more research of my own. Finally last week the doctor agreed I did not need to take them. I simply recognised as a person I was stressy, opinionated, excitable, emotional and decided to try and not be like that, no exercises no meditation, of course a good diet ( you are what you eat- another recent realisation). Now I read your article and was not surprised that you promised the world but wanted money before you said anything I did not already know. You said it was as a result of looking at horse whisperers, then in this article it is because of other professionals research. Which is it? Or are you just a ' writer ' with no medical background. Most sufferers would gladly donate money to a cause if something actually helps them even if it is retold information but using sales tactics in this situation is preying un the unfortunate and is immoral. Sort out which you are. All your articles a using the same tactic, prove to me that you are an honourable man and I will recommend you otherwise you are just another con artist on the Internet.
I like attitude to life, and I agree and have taken from it forgive quickly, a massive blood pressure increaser. I would gladly be your friend and spread your word let me know how you do it, I have finally learnt how, which is by having your attitude and the doctors have finally agreed I don't need to take the pills. Unfortunately it did take a heart attack me to reassess MY life, but I am pleased I finally learnt and pleased to be ALIVE. Best wishes Tom
tOM CAN I HAVE YOUR OWN FINDINGS?
Having just started such a program, I’m anxious to see the results, but everything I have read points to success. I feel confident of improving me blood pressure and general health and hope to be able to cut out all medication and not have to rely on it for the rest of my life – after all, I’m only 46!
So, I am not alone in this comment….
Hi Davenport, Sure but I think different things work for different people as it depends on your underlying causes. I have a healthy diet no dairy, salt, sugar, caffeine, red meat ( pork, beef,lamb), I also gave up wheat but this was to help me give up dairy.
I started this two weeks ago and my BP has drop approximately 10 points. This does work i will continue and i advice others to practice this as well.
i am interested to have an exercise everyday. from now on ill do it.tnx
my husband david baum has sleep apnea he dies several times a nite. he has high blood pressure heart problems, because of this problem. he sleeps with a mask and takes meds. he was never getting rem sleep. a sleep study may help you. david had a sleep study.
Peterkin Jeri
please,how [email protected]
Hi Lisa, I will send you an email, on the subject..
Hi Bob, Could you send me that info? Thank you! [email protected].
I will be on the exercise as long as I live. sure it should benefits all sufferer since it is so logical
Hi Bob,would you mind sending the information to my email id:[email protected].
Much obliged.Thanks.-Jai
i am a vegetarian, teetotaler and keep a healthy routine and meditate regularly. My BP remains about 145/65. May I know about what you suggest to correct it. Thanks
I shall be obliged to know about your technique of lowering BP.
My BP remains about 145/65. [email protected]
Can I please know your technique at [email protected]
Thanks . RANA
Bob Roger could you send me the information on lower Blood Pressure in a hour to [email protected]. Thank you
I would be interested to know any objective research stats on how your exercise program reduces B/P for patients with known established essential hypertension.
Are you able to forward a research link to validate your claims?
In anticipation
Helen
Hi Bob,I live in South Africa where everything is extreme,incuding high Bp.I have tried everything that traditional healers have to offer but with no effect.Got my cholesterol down but not my Bp.Mine is high the one moment and then very low a while later.I am also very much interested in what you have to say to see if I can't improve my situation.
Kind regards.
[email protected]
HI Bob could u send me that info thank you
HI Bob could you send me the info thank you [email protected]