Namaste and Welcome to Namaste Yoga.
My name is Surbhi. I am a Yoga Teacher.
The Goal of my Channel is to tell you
all those little tips and tricks that
many Yoga teachers know
but somehow in class setting
they do not get conveyed to the students.
In today's video we are going to talk about
how to control Hypertension or High BP naturally.
Hypertension or High BP is a growing concern these days.
Not even in old people, but also in many young people.
People in their 40s in their late 30s.
Even if you do not suffer from hypertension right now,
the chances of you developing hypertension or high BP,
are very high, because of the lifestyle that we are living these days.
The choices that we make. The atmosphere we live in.
It is more likely to develop hypertension or high blood pressure.
Now before we start on natural process of hypertension,
it is really important to understand why it happens.
If you know the cause of your hypertension,
its easy to find the solution.
But if you do not know the cause of the problem,
then solving the problem might be difficult.
So, there are a lot of reasons that a person can develop hypertension.
So before we find the solution, it is important to know the causes.
Old age, is a main reason of hypertension.
The older you are the higher your chances of developing hypertension.
Then if you have family history
then chances of you developing hypertension are high.
Another reason of hypertension can be smoking.
Smoking reduces the blood's oxygen content in our body.
The fourth can be Alcohol.
If you are a regular alcohol consumer,
then developing hypertension or high bp is easy for you.
Next is physical inactivity.
A lathargic, inactive, lazy life
can create high bp in your body.
Another very important and becoming very common these days is Stress.
Specifically long term stress can cause high bp.
And last but not least is Toxic Food Habits.
We will go into the details of each and every one of them.
And I will tell you how you can keep your high bp under control.
Or if you do not have hypertension right now,
how you can stay with your healthy life.
So lets continue to the solutions and the things that you can do to prevent hypertension.
Number one and the most important thing is exercise daily.
At least 30 min a day, six times in a week, you should be exercising.
The best way to exercise is pump up your heart and then calm down.
So, lets say two minutes of jogging and then slow down.
Calm your heart down, let it rest. Then again two minutes jogging, then let it rest again.
Do that, it will really help you.
So exercise daily, even if
you don't want to do this, you just want to walk, you just want to jog, that's fine.
Any kind of exercise 30 min daily, it is really important that you do.
Second important thing is reduce salt in your diet.
Do not eat any processed food,
junk food, anything that comes in a packaging.
So try not to eat processed food.
Home cooked meal is the best.
You can have one or two days of cheat, its OK.
Once in 15 days or once in two weeks.
But daily consumption of processed food is not recommended.
Reduce that and reduce the amount of salt intake you take.
And in your food increase fiber consumption.
So eat lots of fruits, lots of vegetables. Take good fiber intake.
Avoid alcohol, quit smoking.
These two are the killers.
Try absolutely not to do them.
If you have to once in a while, if you are going to the party, its Ok.
But daily consumption of alcohol is not a good idea.
Same with the smoking, stop smoking.
It is not good for your blood count, it is not good for your lungs.
The next step is reduce stress.
I know it is very hard in today's modern world.
I have two young adults of my own.
And I see that their life is so stressful.
So, try to reduce stress.
Do mind body exercises, like yoga, tai chi.
do meditation, chant mantras.
If you don't have time to chant, at least
play some mantras or calming music in the background while you are working.
So in your subconscious mind, the calmness, it keeps playing.
Also Pranayama is very important.
As a continuation of this video on hypertension,
I will be making two more videos. One is going to be specifically on pranayama.
What kind of pranayama you need to do.
But in order for pranayama to become successful,
and help you to control the high bp,
you need to do all these things that we are discussing in this video first.
So keep a watch out for those next videos, they will be coming in couple of weeks.
The next thing that you can do is take a lot of sunlight.
Go outside, be in the nature.
Sitting in the sun can boost endorphins, the happy hormones in our body,
and they reduce stress.
Now don't go crazy, be smart about it.
Don't go sit outside in the sun in the middle of the afternoon,
in summer and say that I got sunburn.
So be smart about it, get some sunlight.
and create those happy hormones.
So these were all the natural ways that you can
reduce your high blood pressure,
Or you can keep your life, or you can keep your body healthy.
If you do not have high bp, you can be healthy if you follow all these things.
I know many of you might be looking for that magic trick
that I am gonna tell you and your blood pressure will go down.
I am sorry to say but there is no such trick.
You really have to watch your lifestyle.
So among all the causes that I told you,
see which one you are doing and try to avoid that.
And instead bring some healthy habits.
And you will see the difference in your life.
Yes, as I said, I will be telling you
pranayamas that you can do, yoga exercises
or yogasanas that you can do to reduce high bp.
But all those things are not going to work if you keep up
with the unhealthy lifestyle or bad habits.
So first take care of these. Lets see how you do it for next couple of weeks.
And then I will be coming up with pranayamas for high bp,
and after that yogasanas.
I hope you enjoyed the video today.
If you have any question or concern, please feel free to write it in the comment box.
I would love to answer that.
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I wish you all a very Happy and Healthy Day.
Namaste.