Irritable Bowel Syndrome
(IBS) and Hypnotherapy
Irritable
Bowel Syndrome is notoriously unresponsive to medication. Obviously,
the first port of call for someone who is experiencing IBS is to go to
their medical doctor, because there are a selection of potent
medical treatments available, and the discomfort needs to be diagnosed
medically as IBS.
However, if you are one of
the
unlucky people who has been diagnosed with IBS, and it is not
responding to typical treatment (e.g. medication, diets, food
intolerances) some psychological treatment is frequently of
benefit.
Hypnotherapy treatment for
IBS involves
investigating root causes, for example physical or mental trauma,
helping a person to calmly deal with possible sources of stress,
checking for messages from your body, because the symptom may be a
metaphorical message from your subconscious manifesting as a physical
symptom.
There is a very rich network
of nervous
tissue around everyone's gut, and a person's digestive system is
capable of working automatically even if it gets unlinked from the
brain, which is why a paralysed person can still digest food
for
example. The term "gut instinct" is not necessarily metaphorical, as
people frequently experience emotions as manifesting as a bodily
feeling in their gut area. (Does the term "butterflies in my stomach"
seem familiar?)
Assuming any root cause
traumas
have been found and resolved mentally, the next phase is to get the
functioning of the gastrointestinal tract back into sequence. If we use
the metaphor of a car, a driver could hit a pothole with a car, and
then the tracking is out. Hitting the pothole corresponds to the root
cause trauma. If the tracking is not fixed as soon as
possible,
the car is now out of balance, and other secondary causes start
happening, tyres wearing unevenly, steering linkages getting stressed
etc. If the car has been left for a year without being serviced, all
these other secondary consequences have to be resolved also.
New
born babies don't arrive in the world with all bodily systems intact
and working correctly. Breaths are skipped once in a while. It takes
some time for newborn to regulate body temperature, regulate blood
pressure. Things like muscle movement, and digestion come later. The
unconscious mind trained autonomic nervous system functions, those
bodily functions that function at a level below conscious awareness.
Since
your subconscious mind has stored all the memories of your life, it
also has memories of when the gastrointestinal tract was functioning
correctly. It has memories of training your gastrointestinal tract the
first time around
Gut
specific suggestions are aimed at requiring your subconscious mind to
retrain your digestive tract to get back into it's normal rhythm of
functioning, so the cells that co-ordinate those muscles can get back
in their proper sequence.
If
you would like an explantory brochure, or a free
consultation, please phone
Daniel Madden ADHP MICHP BE
Phone: 085 - 1318344
Email: dmadden@experiencetheworlddifferent.com
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