Vaj wrote: > Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words: > > http://www.box.net/shared/static/eycqy25sh2.jpg > > SBP is "Systolic Blood Pressure". > >
Depends on the mantra used doesn't it? Some will be stimulating and actually raise the blood pressure while others lower it. My teacher was put on high blood pressure medicine since he registered that way during a physical. Then he started getting light headed and almost passed out once. Turned out the medication was giving him extremely low blood pressure. His teacher told his doctor he couldn't have such medication because tantric blood pressure can rise and fall but generally never anything dangerous. Agni mantras can make the blood pressure rise. Good thing for me because I have a history of low blood pressure. I also have another friend who is not a meditator but once his doctor gave him blood pressure medicine and he also had light headedness and had to be taken off it. Apparently when he went for his checkup he had high blood pressure but it was not common with him. I also bought one of little finger blood pressure devices which are more expensive than the wrapper type but also consider not quite as accurate but for my purposes close enough and also much more convenient.
