Blood Pressure and Relaxation
It is well known that stress negatively affects blood pressure. To lower high blood pressure values, it is therefore important to avoid stress and ensure relaxation.
The simplest thing is to slow down the pace in everyday life. But that is often the hardest part. With all the work-related, perhaps family-related, or just everyday stress, it is one's own health that suffers. Often, one forgets how important breaks are. Times when you are there for yourself and do something good for yourself. This can be sports, a cozy get-together with friends or family, pursuing a hobby, a relaxing wellness day, or something similar. Unfortunately, this is often not feasible in a stressful everyday life - or only inadequately.
However, especially when the stress is so high, it is very important to create small islands of relaxation in your daily life. Targeted relaxation exercises do not have to take much time but bring great benefits.
There are various guides available - for example, for 10-minute relaxations or short forms of well-known relaxation techniques.
There are also various learnable relaxation methods available, such as autogenic training, yoga, progressive muscle relaxation according to Jacobson, Tai Chi, Chi Gong, and the like. It is also possible to achieve relaxation through targeted breathing exercises. Learning a relaxation technique helps to incorporate a small island of relaxation into everyday life, as practice makes perfect. Once a relaxation technique is established, it is easy to apply it in a shortened form in daily life - for example, in stressful situations. This way, you keep a cool head, and blood pressure does not rise dangerously.
Through these relaxation exercises, you not only lower your blood pressure but also improve your overall well-being, which in turn positively affects the entire organism.
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By Sabine Croci.
This article is medically reviewed. Last updated (01/2024).
Information on the website and within the app cannot replace a consultation with a doctor, but can certainly complement it.
