highblood pressure and doing breath of fire

[Guest guest]

Satnam,

I wanted to find out if someone can practice breath of fire when they suffer

from high blood pressure.

Thanks snkhalsa

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

> I wanted to find out if someone can practice breath

> of fire when they suffer

> from high blood pressure.

 

I am not sure if BOF will have any adverse effects

on people with high blood pressure, but slow,

deep and smooth pranayama sessions are a very

good and safe substitutes.

Probably people with high blood pressure should

first start thinking of lowering the blood pressure.

A very simple way to do this is to do stretching,

and yoga offers a lot of poses which involve good

amount of stretching. Stretching

improves the circulation of blood in the body part

which is being stretched. How? All the blood vessels,

veins and arteries are stretched and dilated in

the stretched muscle. This forces and squeezes the

blood through these muscles, thereby lowering the

blood pressure. Now, how to stretch better and be

more flexible? The bones carry nearly 60% of water.

So drinking lots of water helps in doing the stretches

more easily.

 

A combination of slow-deep breathing cycles, yoga

stretches and drinking more water might significantly

reduce blood pressure.

 

gayathri

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

> I wanted to find out if someone can practice breath

> of fire when they suffer

> from high blood pressure.

 

I analyzed about this a little more and it

seems to me that, perhaps, people with high BP

should refrain from doing BOF. The logic goes

like this -- the blood is not moving around

quickly enough through the veins and arteries

when there is high BP, which

means it takes longer for the oxygen to be transported

to different parts of the body and energize them.

So, many body parts are probably under-energized.

Quick exertion of the stomach muscles during BOF

might be more demanding on the system. Besides, the

long pause between the inhalation and exhalation

cycles in BOF will make this more difficult. Still,

I would not call it a sin when BOF is done when there

is high BP, but maybe it is best to experiment with

different breathing techniques and sense the comfort

level associated with them, and stick to a comfortable

more relaxing and efficient breathing technique while

working on lowering the BP.

 

gayathri

 

 

 

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