High blood pressure can lead to heart attacks, stroke, and death.  You should have your blood pressure checked by a doctor on a regular basis.  If the doctor prescribes medication, you should take it as prescribed.  The main reason for having your blood pressure checked by a doctor is that there are very few physical symptoms of high blood pressure. And the ones you do see are often confused with other causes.

Some of these symptoms are: headache, dizziness, blurred vision, drowsiness, and nausea.  All of these can be explained by some other cause.  Sometimes people are under stress so long that they can’t distinguish the bad health effects of stress  anymore.  Which means that the high blood pressure is left untreated, and ti gets worse.  And stress elevates blood pressure.  But you can use aggressive stress management techniques to handle the stress, and lower your blood pressure.

Here are 5 ways to aggressively attack stress to lower your blood pressure:

1. Use creative problem solving to handle stress better.  The natural reaction to stress is “fight or flight.”  You can creatively come up with more solutions.
2. Use meditation appropriately.  Meditating can relieve some of the inner effects of stress and make you feel better. But it does nothing to eliminate the stress.  Use meditation to not only calm yourself down, but open your mind to creative possibilities.
3. Develop your own stress management process.  Any stress management system that you learn was developed by someone else for someone else’s problems.  Take the techniques that work from each system and create your own.
4. Stay in shape.  Stress weakens the various systems of your body, which gives you less energy to fight the stress.  By staying in shape, you can fight the stress, not just tolerate it.
5. Use an effective time management system.  Stress from impossible deadlines is bad.  Stress from interruptions is worse. But having a time management system that not only permits, but demands, that you reject time-wasting interruptions, can relieve much stress in your life.

If you don’t do handle stress, your high blood pressure will get worse.  But knowing what to do to relieve stress can help lower your blood pressure.  With the lower blood pressure, you can reduce the chances of heart attack or stroke.  Of course, there are other causes of those conditions that also must be looked at.  But removing stress as a cause can focus your efforts.

Handling stress involves internally handling your reactions, but also externally eliminating the stressor.   Using this dual approach might be the most effective way to reduce or eliminate the signs symptoms of panic attacks and lower your blood pressure.  Probably meditation or visualization is part of what you are doing to relieve stress.  But this is not enough.  That’s like helping a quarterback learn not to feel bad when he throws an interception.  Wouldn’t’ it be better to teach the quarterback to simply not throw interceptions?  Using a comprehensive stress management system will eliminate the stress and give you lower blood pressure.