@lulu59
Stress and anxiety will definitely raise your BP. Have you tried finding an exercise you like to do? With your doctors approval it can go a long way to reducing stress and anxiety and lesson the adrenaline that stores up in your body when under stress and anxiety (fright or flight hormone).

Does not need to be any professional level. Walking in a nice areas like woods walking trails, beach. I do water aerobics and love it. We exercise to music beat with water weights that come in all sizes.

Not into exercise. Look at a hoppy. Anything you would like to do that will bring a smile or enjoyment to you is going to reduce your anxiety and stress levels thus adrenaline being stored. When I post his information I always post (I am an avid reader of history books) that FDR during WWII spent an hour or more every day on his stamp collections. He loved (per history writers) his stamp collection. He also swam and would go to hot springs in Ga. because the water was full of salt and other minerals it would hold him up and become weightless.

Every consider yoga? I took this for many years until class stopped. I learned to deep breath, create a relaxing picture in my mind, stretches, etc.