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High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
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| Tuesday, December 23, 2008 |
To control your hypertension, there are two effective yoga exercises that helps lower blood pressure:
Yoga reversed
Inverted yoga reverse the action of gravity on the body. Most of the profound changes brought by yoga is reversed in circulation. Between quotes, legs and abdomen are placed higher than the heart.
Elongation through the legs and keep very active opens your spine and whole body participates actively in the pose.
One reason for this is simply because the force of gravity is reversed and the venous return becomes much more.
Normally, the calf muscles and other skeletal muscles in the lower extremities should unoxygenated contract to pump blood and waste in the heart veins.
In inverted poses, the gravity causes blood to flow easily back through the veins and bringing blood pressure in the feet to a minimum. This in effect gives skeletal muscle a chance to rest.
In inverted poses, drainage of blood and wastes from the lower body to the rear is increased heart and disorders such as varicose veins and swollen ankles are relieved.
The rhythmic breathing
It is time to learn more about breathing, because inhaling, exhaling has the power to nourish the body and mind calm.
Not just any breath will do. If you're like most people, you take little breaths, pull in your stomach when you inhale and never empty your lungs of carbon dioxide when you exhale.
Here is the physiological explanation: Long, slow breaths are more effective than short, faster.
To take a good breath, the lungs must first be basically empty. Thus, the key to effectiveness lies in the breath and exhale completely. An exhalation begins with the upper chest, the product in mid-chest and eventually strengthen the abdominal muscles.
Only after a good exhalation can you draw in a good lungful of oxygen-rich air needs to feed your blood cells. |
posted by neptunus @ 6:11 AM
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