As with most diseases such as hypertension, the problem is not finding a solution, it is finding the personal will power and motivation to abstain from harmful behaviors, and to learn new healthy habits. If mere knowledge were the answer, no one would be suffering from this disease.
Some of things people struggle with when applying high blood pressure remedies are:
How do you learn to like food without seasoning it with at least a little bit of salt?
How can I manage to lose weight, when half the people around me can’t do it either?
How can a person, who is prone to addictive tendencies, learn to say no to tobacco?
How can you adopt a healthy diet, when you can’t even boil water without burning it?
Where am I going to find the time to exercise when I can’t even have time to clean my house?
These types of things and many more have befuddled not only you and me, but millions of others throughout history. Most people give up after repeated failures to tame the demon of personal satisfaction that demands they gratify their appetites, and cave in to their desires for an easy way out.
There have been short lived successes that I’m sure we all have experienced. We find the will power and become very motivated to change. This type of motivation is most common around New Year’s. But as time goes by, we find ourselves falling back into the same old routines and habits. Perhaps we are influenced by friends or a spouse who causes us to compromise a little here and there, until we almost imperceptibly drift away from our stated convictions.
So any remedies for a disease such as Hypertension, that is dependent upon our actions, must address the overall problem of the human condition in order to be successful. Our human will power is like a muscle. It is weak unless it gets exercised. It will not become strong, just because we desire it to be strong. It must be exercised, and with each small victory we become stronger and stronger.
So don’t expect amazing results right off the bat. Shoot for a small and obtainable victory over some aspect of your life, and reward yourself for making progress. Then go on to another. If you have a huge problem in your life, such as giving up tobacco, but you don’t know how you will do it; try gaining a victory over a smaller problem first. Maybe you tend to oversleep until the last minute. Train yourself to get up on time, and then reward yourself for this accomplishment and recognize the benefits of having extra time to get ready for your day. After you see that you can win little victories like this, you will be more able to handle the bigger ones like quitting smoking.
Finally, it is vitally important that you do not hide from your problem. Make yourself aware of your need for change at every opportunity. Read about it; listen to people who tell you about it. Keep it at the front of your mind so that you are constantly aware of it, even if you know that you are not ready to handle it. Eventually, your mind will process your need to make the change, and you WILL find the power to carry it through. But you cannot go on pretending that it does not exist. Welcome it, acknowledge it, and give it power by recognizing your need for it.