Hypertension

Blood pressure is mediated by the autonomic nervous system, so in the Brain-Trainer system we talk about it as being a Tone problem.  It is often related to excessive sub-cortical drive.  In the Atlanta days, I worked with a lot of adults who had hypertension issues among their symptoms.  That tended to be a fairly quick and easy thing to change (unless there were severe hydraulic considerations related to plaque in the blood vessels), since most anything you do to truly relax (not an easy thing for some of these folks to do) will have an effect.  GSR training, which works directly on the autonomic nervous system, can be an easy and often effective way to demonstrate changes.  Also, teaching simple breathing techniques can be of benefit (I always do a certain type of breathing once I sit in the chair by the blood pressure cuff).

I’ve often found that alpha uptraining at P4/A2 or alpha coherence training at the P sites has a positive effect on blood pressure, but I can’t honestly say that I know which of the clients had “genetic” high blood pressure as opposed to other varieties.