I have resistant hypertension. Maybe you do too. I haven't had it forever. I was 55 before I was diagnosed as hypertensive at all. And then for ten years everything went along nicely on the basic blood pressure drugs the doctor prescribed. Then, about, say, six months after I started therapy the old blood pressure started skyrocketing. More and more and more medication. Which works, but not that great. I'm taking four blood pressure medications now, every day. Two of them at the absolute top prescribing limit. Something has to be done.

Well, I've finally gotten in touch with my repressed anger, which is just Niagara Falls - Hydrogen Bomb - Grand Canyon size and style. And checking out "repressed anger" and "hypertension" led me to this:

Healing Hypertension: A Revolutionary New Approach ($16.87)

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-Wh...=3ALUOWNZMDRVG

This is BY NO MEANS one of those freaky tomes written in an ashram by a drug-crazed hippy (sorry if I'm prejudiced). The author is a medical doctor, specializing in high blood pressure, at Cornell-Weill Medical Center in New York, published by Wiley (entirely reputable). And he wasn't born yesterday. His point is that repressed emotions probably cause most resistant hypertension, and he talks about dealing with the real issues.

If your blood pressure is seriously out of whack it's worth a look. Take care.