Feedback from a client, a patient of my daughter, Padma Sripada, MD, who attended 4 of my meditation classes.
Before attending the classes, he was under severe stress due to his fiancée’s verbally abusive behavior. Practicing meditation on breathing and adopting my suggestions for effectively dealing with his fiancée helped him decide to break off the toxic relationship. Apparently, the relief from breaking off the stressful relationship, combined with the relief from overall anxiety by practicing meditation, resulted in significantly lowering his long-standing high BP (Hypertension). His recent mail reads as follows.
“I met with Dr Padma Sripada this morning. My BP was 140/90 – not too bad since I have not been taking my BP medication for the last 6 weeks. Also, I have been eating out for the last 2 weeks due to my kitchen being remodeled. She has lowered my dose and said that once my stress is over and if it is OK, I can stop taking the BP medication altogether.”
Sep 2013
Report by a client who attended 3 meditation classes. “I have been on Blood pressure medication for more than 6 years. Over the last 6 months, it was 135/98, 175/124, 172/109, and 163/111. I was considering going to a stronger medication. When I got my blood pressure checked recently, it was 120/78. I have never had my blood pressure that low for years.”
June 2013
A patient of my daughter Padma Sripada, MD, said as follows -
” A young woman at my work was having hypertension. I downloaded and printed the ‘meditation on breathing’ technique from the website and gave it to her. She reported after some time that her hypertension numbers were coming down.”
2012
A lady who had hypertension and regularly visiting her doctor attended my meditation classes over several months. Whenever she visited her doctor, her blood pressure was very high.
She was determined to get over this. One day, she went to the doctor’s office well ahead of time and practiced counting breaths meditation for over 20 minutes. For the first time, her doctor found her pressure normal. She reported this with a beaming face.
A person aged 50+, a chemist, was taking a 50 mg tablet every day for the last 15 years, for high blood pressure. Within 4 months of starting this technique, he felt so much relief that he could reduce his daily dose to 25 mg tab, once in 3 days while checking BP regularly.
His doctor was puzzled about this improvement. His total personality changed at work and at home. He became more responsible and less worried at work. He turned remarkably spiritual, sitting in meditation before his favorite Goddess Kali for an hour every day.
2000 (India)
A contractor of 36 years was taking medicine for high blood pressure for the last 2 years. He was very short-tempered. He felt so much relief after practicing this meditation that he felt like stopping his medicine. But on the advice of his doctor, he was taking it once every 3-4 days.
His anger almost disappeared, for which he was very happy.
Three more cases of such significant reduction of BP were reported - a Chief Engineer, a record keeper in a Quality control department, and a security supervisor.
2000 (India)
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