Stressful situations can cause your blood pressure to spike temporarily. When you are stressed, your body produces a surge of hormones and these hormones temporarily increase your blood pressure by causing your heart to beat faster and your blood vessels to narrow.

Stress and long-term high blood pressure

These temporary spikes in blood pressure could lead to long-term high blood pressure, however, there has not been a connection made that stress by itself causes long-term high blood pressure. It may be that other behaviors linked to stress —

Studies have illustrated a strong link between insomnia and chronic stress. According to APA's (American Psychological Association) Stress in America survey, more than 40 percent of all adults say they lie awake at night because of stress.

Stress can be defined as any uncomfortable "emotional experience accompanied by predictable biochemical, physiological and behavioral changes." When you are stressed you are worried about the future or dwelling on the past.  Thoughts are continually roaming around in your head, which is especially prominent when you are lying down trying

Are you too hard on yourself when you examine how you have handled a situation? Do you make a habit of forgiving yourself or do you continually go over and over in your head the mistakes you feel you made? When is the last time you forgave yourself?

Well it is time to learn and take some steps to forgiving yourself. Forgiving yourself is essential to healing because when you forgive yourself, you open yourself to healing. Lack of forgiveness, results in a contracted emotional state.  Learn

Introducing The Arkrealm Project

When Shawngela Pierce, from Seek Within You, asked me to create an article outlining The Arkrealm Project I thought, ‘that’s easy’. However, this dynamic program has more offshoots then a giant maple tree. If I were to give this project a mission statement I would say: The Akrealm Project is the Key to Living Your Destiny.

The Key to Living Your Destiny’

Most of us live in a whirlwind of seeking approval from everyone; this takes us up many paths, often

It has been a month since the turn of the new year.  Are you well on your way into building new habits for this new year or are you "stuck" in the same patterns? Well, if you want to change a habit, you have to build new brain neural connections.  Now how do you do this? Hmmmmm…let me give you a hint...focus. Watch this short movie excerpt from the film "What the Bleep" for a wonderful insight on building new neural connections in the

Using the Law of Attraction & Meditation for Health Improvement

The law of attraction teaches us that focus is key. If you want to improve your health, you have to direct your focus towards health. Meditation trains your mind to focus. The more you can focus on health, the more health and opportunities to improve your health will be brought into your reality.   For instance, you will be guided and led to situations that will lead you to a healthy lifestyle.  You were guided here my friend

In the Meditation for Health Program we apply the Keep It Simple concept.  We also relate to health in terms of energy.  In basic terms, when you feel good you are in a healthier state then when you feel bad.  It is as simple as that. 

Now there are ranges to feeling good and ranges to feeling bad.  For instance, for physical health, you could be experiencing a minor discomfort or you could be experiencing full blown chronic pain.  The latter is more in the lower range

Stress is analagous to constriction of the body. It is a disallowing of the natural flow of the energy in the body.  If you are looking to relieve stress and improve your health, then take these quick and easy steps in the process. By taking these steps, you are literally raising your vibration by allowing yourself to relax.  Relaxation is key to the healing process.

Smile

Laugh

Listen to Music

Exercise - Try this moving meditation

Breath - Deep breathing exercise

Raise your vibration

Meditate

Laugh

"I forgive me and the words that I say, now that I am aware of the voice in my head. I do not dread, I allow the words to flow because I am in control and I know where to go.  I know to let the thoughts just float in my head.  I know to observe them with laughter because I am more than my thoughts.  I observe them with an empty mind because I am more than that.  I am that I am and that is who

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Spiritual Health Improvement

Do you find yourself asking questions involving these topics:

• What is your relationship with the world?
• What is your purpose here?
• What is your connection to a higher power/source?
• What is your life about?
• What is your motivation for being here on earth?
• How do

Raise your vibration

Do you have a routine for improving your health?  Have you set out goals?  Are you doing this routine everyday or on a consistent basis?  If you want to improve your health, you have to make a commitment to it? Don't wait until you receive news that your physical health has declined.  In actuality, your body has been giving you signs that you need to improve your health way before you start to see the physical manifestations of it.  Learn to listen to your body.  Your body is

The following is a quick list of ways to improve your health by raising your vibration.  Click on the links for additional details and articles related to the information:

• Meditate
• Nature Meditation
• Mandala Meditation
• Moving Meditation
• Couple|Family Meditation
• Laugh Meditation
• Walking Meditation
• Listen to Music
• Draw/Paint
• Write
• Laugh
• Have sex
• Play with kids, toys, outside, animals
• Sing
• Dance
• Yoga
• Exercise
• Breathing Exercises
• Do anything that makes you feel good and keeps you focused on it

Listen to the following audio for a quick and easy way of getting yourself into the habit of thinking positively and focusing on your desires. As we have discussed in the Vibrational Scale of Health and How Your Emotions affect your Health articles, your thoughts and feelings affect your health. Positive or good feeling thoughts affect your health in a positive way.  As a result, it is essential to get into the habit of thinking positive.  Getting into the habit of thinking positively is a simple matter of