Published:
08/08/2011 02:43am
The Emotional Side of High Blood Pressure: Are you Stressed?
When you are under stress, your body produces hormones that temporarily raise blood pressure. However in today’s economy most of us are stressed on a daily basis. Long term stress can cause emotional, psychological, and even physical problems as well as affect blood pressure and lead to cardiovascular problems. The UC San Diego Health System is conducting a study to investigate possible reasons for increased risk of cardiovascular disease, including high blood pressure and how ethnicity and adversity interact in determining such risks in a population of healthy, working African Americans and Caucasians. You can find out more details here
Emotional stress is also a component in contributing to high blood pressure. Neuroimaging methods and theoretical frameworks were used in a study to understand the neurobiological or ‘brain-body’ pathways linking the central processing of psychological stressors to the regulation of blood pressure and other cardiovascular reactions implicated in coronary heart disease risk. The study suggests that exaggerated stressor-evoked cardiovascular reactions predict the premature development of high blood pressure among other aspects of developing cardio vascular disease.
The study summarizes emerging neuroimaging research indicating that individual differences in stressor-evoked blood pressure reactivity (a particular form of cardiovascular reactivity) are associated with activation patterns in corticolimbic brain areas that are jointly involved in processing stressors and regulating the cardiovascular system. Basically, the emotional stressors cannot be ignored.
What you think is what you manifest, or is it your energy is unbalanced, your chi is stagnate your chakra is crying out. Sounds crazy right? Everything on this planet is based on energy and how that energy vibrates; which is at all different frequencies. We as beings also resonate at different vibration frequencies, we respond to certain vibrations. You have within you 7 chakras also known as energy wheels. Each chakra is responsible for certain parts of the body as well as our emotional well being.
Blood pressure is connected to the fourth chakra, which is also responsible for the heart, circulatory system, ribs, breast, thymus gland, lungs shoulders, arms, hands and diaphragm1. Emotionally speaking hypertension has to do with waiting to blow up or pop; waiting for anything to happen. This stems from not resolving old traumas that is literally eating you up. By not dealing with past problems, and maybe some of them you could not because they stem from your childhood, you are seething with rage, and bubbling up waiting for the volcano to erupt- just one more trigger….
You could have unconscious anger from years of suppressing anger in fear of hurting another’s feelings, this is usually a family member or currently a spouse; and you feel that the negative emotions are better buried then dealing with. Like a volcano, eventually just the right circumstances and it will blow; over time suppression of guilt, fear, and incidents of the past results in you becoming angry towards everyone and everything. The fourth chakra is about letting go and forgiving; our breath and blood draw in Universal Love and radiate it throughout our body and outward to others. If this is possible, you live in tranquility, if you cannot, you live in anger, fear, betrayal, always looking for the injustices, seething, and ready to explode.
When you are out of balance, manifesting with hypertension, there are feelings of unworthiness, and the inability to receive love. You may feel demoralized, and want to give up on life, and feel powerless in your current situation; job, personal life, family. You cannot count on anyone and feel you have to do it all in order for it be done right…the pressure is mounting. You cannot relax, and tend to over eat. Your satiation for love comes from the food choices, usually creamy, high fat foods, except when you are in a rather difficult situation and turn to salty crunchy foods to release some of the ten
