Chapter Four: What sick is cured from hypertension in the first place?
On public lectures on method Buteyko, different sick people address me. And with different questions. They will ask and such: "But here is my hypertension with factor of the pressure (are identified the numerals of the pressure) will be cured by the method Buteyko or no?" I have for many years met different sick people and with needing for treatment of the hypertension sick including. And here is what conclusion for myself I have done. Quicker whole and more simply by method Buteyko are cured from hypertension that sick, which does not disturb to go their nature to the health. Cure, certainly, and the other hypertension sick. But quicker whole method helps to people, which from the very beginning are not adjusted aggressive to most theories of "Opening of the Diseases of the Deep Breathing."
I recall a small group of sick people (four persons) with whom I worked back in Novosibirsk. We worked in a big three-room apartment on the fringe of the noisy city. The landlady, Izolida Gansovna, a bright, heavy hypertension sick woman, was German by nationality. Age 65 years. She lived together with her daughter and her children. In the group were also two asthmatics and a hypertension man, a teacher of economy at one of the Novosibirsk High school, Viktor Ivanovich Dektyarev, a 43-year-old man.
We worked all together in one room. August 1999 stood outside the window. The successes of the sick were not bad. With each day of studies they noted some improvements, including Izolida Gansovna. After using training No. 1, her pressure fell from 190 to 160. And this in a short period… Less headache. But here is what is interesting, striving to treatment of the hypertension comrades in arms: Viktor Ivanovich perceived all studies with an understanding smile.
His clear blue eyes shone, he literally absorbed in himself all the information. Quite a different deal with Izolida Gansovna. From the very first minutes of our meeting, I constantly faced her mistrustful glance. She did not want to write anything. But to remember everything, certainly, she could not. The woman was quite loosening, fat, dressed in a crushed green robe; she inadvertently climbed down from the sofa and sat on a chair during the drill. Certainly she suffered from hypertension, and much powerfully. But in any, who read her cure saw only some cheater. Though I did not mob to her in friends. I did not agitate this needing for treatment of the hypertension sick to pass the course of method Buteyko. On the contrary! Her 35-year-old daughter heard my lecture and literally with tears persuaded to study in the building with her sick ma. I at first refused. It was far to go. But the daughter collected several other interested persons, and I happened to yield to their general request.
On the question: "What is the reason for your hypertension?" Izolida Gansovna well at all did not want to answer correctly. Already the whole group prompted her that the reason for hypertension is deep breathing, but… But the landlady of the apartment preferred to mumble something about the weakness of her own vessels… But after all, I gave the detailed answer to this question on the introductory lesson!
Once again I repeat: in spite of obviously not very well-disposed attitude to training, the sick hypertension did evident successes. And acknowledged them. But… very inadvertently. "The breakwater, it is necessary, and pressure beside me fell. Perhaps weather changed?" In the same time, Viktor Ivanovich reduced his pressure from 180/110 to 160/100 in the first days of training and was simply delighted with the method. I probably have not remembered this difference in perception of one and the same knowledge about the reason of hypertension by two needing for treatment of the hypertension sick so powerfully if in the middle of studies a more unattractive event had not occurred. I arrived on the outskirts, as usual, at four o'clock in the day. The whole group was in collection. But my charges were obviously alarmed and conducted their eyes aside. Izolida Gansovna was adjusted aggressive more than all. Closed floors of her green robe, this needing for treatment of the hypertension sick under my appearance so and remained to recline on the sofa. Her chair in the general row remained empty.
"I today in the night caused fast, pressure even for 200 was," not seeing me, gloomy said Izolida Gansovna. In her voice requiring in treatment of the hypertension sick so and sounded the deaf insult and suspicion. "Here is breakwater, taught, taught, but method does not help." About what that else day back she successfully lowered by the method its pressure and her achievements recorded in the general journal, the sick hypertension as it is woke, waked has completely forgotten completely…
In the work of the methodist, dear needing for treatment of the hypertension sick, miscellaneous can be. The person is not a machine. Anything can happen with him. But I brushed against other: this openly hostile tone of mistrust. He tensed the whole trained group. Each of them most certainly thought about himself, as his successes, perhaps, is a temporary deal… But Viktor Ivanovich didn't care, he held very good. "And beside me all are well," seeing wanting somehow to rehabilitate the methodist, he said not loudly. The oppressive silence was fixed in the room.
"What did you do yesterday after my care?" I asked Izolida Gansovna. "Trained, as always!" a cruel voice cut the needing for treatment of the hypertension sick. And suddenly in the room sounded the remark which in a flash made clear all the deal. "Yes, my older brother came to me yesterday at eight in the evening," somehow with difficulty explained the daughter of Izolida Gansovna. "Well, he was drunk. Yelled at me. Required money, even in fight climb!!"
Hence it is easy to draw a conclusion: by method K.P. Buteyko, quicker are cured those needing for treatment of the hypertension sick, whose soul is not covered from everything new and fresh. Hypertension, certainly, is a terrible disease. But for it (and for 100 other diseases) liquidation wholly it is enough to well adopt the theory of the Opening of the Diseases of the Deep Breathing. When I myself think what prevents the development (or origin) of hypertension in the human organism, I first of all imagine our blood vessels.
In the first place, arteries. While a person is healthy and breathes not deeply, his scarlet clean blood peacefully and measuredly flows on the riverbed of the arteries. Nowhere and nothing constrains this artery, nothing obstructs the blood vessels. And no, naturally, no hypertension. No need for treatment of hypertension. But here a person has been yelled at work (for a simple reason) by a high-handed boss. The person took offense, and, as they say, simmers with indignation, blood boiling. The person is offended, agitated, sniffles. And, understandably, breathes much deeper. Begins unrestrained (excessive) washing out of precious carbon dioxide from the lungs. The arrow of the unencountered instrument already is obviously biased to the forbidden devil. Here it passed the number four. That is to say, the CO2 content in the alveoli of your lungs is lowered below this mark. The organism yells: "Stop! If you breathe like this a little more, you will be done for. I must rescue you." And the smooth musculature of blood vessels begins to spasm… The artery is narrowed to reduce the section of the vessel and thereby suspend excessive washing out of CO2. Here it is!
It is done!! This is the very secret of turning a person from health to disease! Until recently, blood flowed freely through the arteries. But now it becomes cramped. And… the blood pressure increases. Hypertension rushes toward you with heavy steps. Immediately appears the need for treatment of hypertension.
What is the way out? It is necessary to study precisely the classical method of reducing the depth of breathing according to the method of Academician K.P. Buteyko, and at the moment of any stressful situation, use willpower to suppress the attempt of your breathing to escape from under your control!
When you know the Buteyko method perfectly, this is not so difficult. When you do not know it, it is nearly impossible. So once again I repeat: it is easier to cope with hypertension for those sick who are not locked to new knowledge. Do not finish with the general phrase: "Well, we will all die, we do not believe in anything." There is no need to believe. It is necessary to turn on the brain and understand the essence.
To be continued.