Exercise will help get your blood moving and your heart pumping, which can have an effect on overall blood pressure. Deep-breathing exercises help to bring more oxygen into the blood stream and can help regulate many disorders of the body. Here’s a breathing exercise to try. This might make you dizzy, which is why I suggest you try it sitting down.
Breathing Exercise:
- Sit up straight.
- Breathe in through your nose, open up your throat to get more air, and concentrate on the air filling the bottom of your stomach first, then your abdomen, then your diaphragm, and, finally, the lungs, from the bottom up. (This full inhale should take approximately 8–12 seconds to complete.)
- Hold this full breath for as long as you can.
- Then push the air out of your body forcefully in three or four exhales; repeat.
Try this exercise, and take your blood pressure before and after to see if it makes a difference for you. I find it energizing and stimulating, especially when I have been at my computer writing all day!
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