Herbs That Help To Lower High Blood Pressure

There are several ways to control high blood pressure. Medications coupled with lifestyle changes is one way  including lifestyle changes and/or medications. You can also use supplements and/or herbal remedies.

Remember, whatever you choose, always get your doctor's advice.

Here are some herbs and supplements that can lower high blood pressure.

BASIL

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

CINNAMON

CELERY SEED

HAWTHORNS

Cardamom

GARLIC

FRENCH LAVENDER

CAT"S CLAW

 

14 Ways To Achieve Your Goal

1. Read Your Goals at Least Twice a Day

2. Think about way to achieve them while showering

3. Be a Giver - give what you want to get

4. Spend Time Alone - meditate on what you have to do

5. See yourself as you want to be

6. Think, talk and act positively - eliminate negative words- you are either building up or tearing down

7. Post a Sign - "what is the most effective use my time right now"

8. Are you actions neutral, punishing or rewarding

9. Expect the best

10. Recognize and give attention to behaviour you want to repeat

11. Always give your best

12. Compare what you are doing to what you want to get

13. Think, talk and act on what needs improving and not what is wrong

14. Act as if your goals have been achieved.

Effective Meetings

Conduct effective meetings. Use LEADERSHIP

 

Look after your audience’s comfort. The room – refreshments – visual aids must all be in good order

Explore the needs of your audience. Ask what they expect and need from the meeting

Arrive early – Turn up at least ten minutes and welcome others

Decide to start meeting on time. Respect those who came in early

Explain the purpose of the meeting and ask there are any other points

Read your papers in advance. This clears your thinking and creates a sense of good leadership

Stick to your time schedule as far as possible

Handle emotions and hidden agendas and address conflict as it arises.

Involve everybody. Ask people what they think has been decided

Prepare your audience for action by checking with them.  You cannot do this af the audience is too large.

10 Ways Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally

  It was reported in the online edition of Borneo Post that 1 in 3 Malaysians aged 18 and above suffer from high blood pressure.

Usually medication is prescribed but this has its own effects. Here are list of things you can do to naturally lower your blood pressure.

1. Workout - Get a good cardio workout for at least 30 mins a day. Exercise causes the heart to use oxygen more efficiently,so that it does not have to work harder.

2. Get potassium rich food into your diet. Eat bananas, raisins, prunes, melon. Drink orange juice.

3.Know your salt. Read the labels of processed food. Watch out for the word sodium.

4. Cut out alcohol. If find that difficult at least reduce its intake.

5. Avoid tobacco and second smoke. Nicotine can raise your blood pressure for up to an hour after you smoke.

6. Eat dark chocolates. It contains flavanols take make the blood vessel more elastic.


8. Drink tea. Hibiscus tea are known to lower blood pressure.

 

9. Breathe. Yes, breathe deeply, from your belly. Do this early in the morning and before going to sleep. 

10. Take it easy. Enjoy your life, feel grateful that you are given this life to live. Listen to music, look at the skies. Go to the movies, read a good book. Laugh . 

Information Filtering

This is a wonderful time to live. You can learn almost anything. And that, without leaving your house and for free. 

You get to know people from all over the world and realise that we have all the same fears and hopes and everyone needs to go the toilet.

You can look at photos of other people's house, lawn, pet. Sometimes they even let you see them having sex.

You can search for anything and everything. You have no excuse to be bored, ever.

But do you really need all the information? Do you really need to know that in 1859, 24 rabbits was released in Australia and within 6 years the population grew to 2 million.  What good is that piece of information to you?

There are too much useless stuff. You can survive well without them. You don't need to know all that is happening out there.

Filter out information that you do not need and you will be more productive

Book Review - The Art of Thinking Clearly

 I love this book. I have read it once and I am going to read it again and again and again. Written by Rolf Dobelli - a bestselling Swiss writer - this book is  sheer delight.

What started as a list for his own use which he compiled as an reminder how he can be mislead has grown and is now a best selling book.

Here is its opening :

 "This is not a how-to book. You won't find "seven steps to an error-free life...Although this book may not hold the key to happiness, at the very last it acts as insurance against too much self-induced unhappiness...If we could learn to recognize and evade the biggest errors in thinking...we might experience a leap in prosperity."

This book will entertain, surprise and most importantly educate.

I don't usually recommend books unless they are really good.  And this is one of the best I have read this year.

Go here to read the what others have to say about this book.

This Is Inevitable

Sitting in the lounge of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport a few years ago, waiting for our flight number to be called, my colleague was describing all the possible scenarios that can go wrong in a flight. He said he did not want to die, I told him neither do I and added that eventually we all will die. After I said the possibility of dying that night is real and that the airplane crashing is just one way of the countless ways we can lose of lives, he stopped talking and distanced himself from me.

We did not crash that night or the trip back. But the possibility of dying is as real and true today as it was on that day  for him, for me and for all who are living. It is inevitable, isn't it? However it is one eventuality that many of us refuse to accept. In some culture it is taboo to talk about dead. Some think talking about dead somehow increases the possibility of dying and if that is true, talking about money should then increase the possibility of getting wealthy.

I believe thinking about dead is a good thing. It gives us a whole new perspective about living. Accepting that we will die regardless of our station in life will make us all the more eager to seize our living moments and be grateful for our time on earth.

It will makes us appreciate those around us. Make us realize that nothing should be taken for granted. We will learn to give more and complain less.

Accepting the fact that we will be dead will makes us think of the legacy that we want to leave behind.