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High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
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Also known as: hypertension · arterial hypertension · high blood pressure · hypertonus · elevated blood pressure · blood pressure too high · hypertensive crisis · silent killer · essential hypertension
Your Body Is Speaking
Your blood presses against the walls of your vessels — harder than necessary, more persistently than is healthy. From the outside, you often feel nothing. No stabbing pain, no cramp, no acute discomfort. High blood pressure works in silence. Medicine calls it the "silent killer" — because it does damage for years before it makes itself known. Heart, kidneys, eyes, brain: everything supplied by your circulatory system is under a pressure that needn't be there.
Medically, this is a matter of narrowed vessels, volume and resistance, hormones and regulation. From a psychosomatic perspective, a different question arises: where does this pressure come from? Not the pressure in your arteries — the pressure in your life. What is under such tension that your heart has to pump harder than it should?
High blood pressure is not a defect in your circulation. It is a pressure gauge for your soul.
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