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You may have used the term, ‘I need time to digest what’s happening to me’. When irritable bowel syndrome becomes cause for concern, IBS hypnotherapy is a proven technique for combatting causes and symptoms.
When we feel we cannot cope with responsibilities assigned to us, we begin to generate stress hormones. These can affect not just the way we perceive and live life, but also our bodily functions.
The organs in our body rely on one another, much like a chain-effect or relay. For example, if the liver does not function correctly, we are left with toxins in the bloodstream that can soon pollute the kidneys. When the kidneys don’t function properly, gastrointestinal motility (movement of food through the body) may be disrupted. This can lead to gastric complications such as irritable bowel syndrome and constipation.
This stands for both men and women. However, due to the physiology of the female body, IBS in women is more common than in men.
Fortunately, hypnotherapy for women’s health and wellbeing has long been supported and proves effective in countering the causes and symptoms of IBS.
What is Hypnosis and How Does Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy Work for IBS?
Hypnosis is a naturally occurring state of awareness, whereby we become aware of both the mind and the body as being separate systems yet reliant on one another. Indeed, we require both in order to function at optimum in life.
When we ignore our body and live ‘inside our heads’, disease can begin to manifest without our knowing. The importance of focusing on both systems individually cannot be underrated. In the case of IBS, we find that issues in thought-patterning and reasoning can be a major contributor.
Self-hypnosis techniques are safe and simple and serve to assist individuals in focusing on issues within the mind that can lead to disease in the body. They can be condensed in the UpNow hypnosis app for a healthy body. By using gut-directed hypnotherapy, you can enjoy the freedom you deserve.
How Does Our Mind Affect Our Organs?
Aside from the chemistry created within the body when our senses receive information (sight, smell, taste, touch and sound), the thoughts we have generate chemistry as well.
Psychological stress affects certain neurotransmitters. These neurochemical changes prepare the body to deal with recognized dangers in ways that include raised blood pressure. Such elevations can suppress the immune system.
Often we find ourselves ‘zoning-out’, as memory-urging triggers interfere with real-time stimuli. These triggers can appear even when running simple daily errands.
The brain responds to the ‘memory’. Triggers can remove us from our natural state of awareness and into memory. Chemistry resulting from adverse trigger scenarios can be more debilitating than chemistry that develops through normal sensory stimulation.
The more we fail to distinguish between thought (mind) and the physical (sensory), the closer to illness we might find ourselves. Often this constant see-saw of chemistry becomes too much for our body and organs to handle. We develop personality traits to combat these ‘waves of emotion’. But when these waves become too strong in the negative, persistent negativity and disease can be the result.
How Does the Brain Respond to the Gut?
More and more general practitioners take into consideration the gut-brain connection, where nutrition and stress-management are concerned. Because some medications for symptoms of discomfort have side-effects on the chemistry in the body, medical professionals are increasingly encouraging their patients to adopt a holistic approach.
Critchley and Harrison from the Brighton and Sussex Medical School state that visceral signals from the gastrointestinal organs in the body that form behavior, cognition, and emotion arguably go unnoticed.
When the gut faces trauma the brain does, too. The gut also houses nerve-endings and neurons, which the brain naturally responds to. Like a figure-8, they feed into one another. As this has not been well-explained to the general public, it’s seldom that individuals make the connection.
When one speaks of a ‘gut feeling’, they would be referring to these visceral signals.
According to a study by the University of Texas Medical Branch, chronic stress can aggravate or provoke symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.
We develop emotions for the discomforts (or comforts) we may feel. We use our minds and thought-processing abilities to define these emotions. These emotions then determine our responses and reactions.
How Effective is Hypnotherapy for IBS?
IBS makes us feel low and slow, fatigued, and is often painful. Experiencing illness affects us emotionally.
A case-study by the State University of New York at Albany noted a 53% improvement after six treatments of IBS hypnotherapy in their subject who suffered with IBS for thirty years.
With the subsequent use of self-hypnosis audios, the subject continued to experience greater relief with a 70% improvement 6 months later. This study concluded that hypnotherapy was a viable and long-lasting treatment for people who had not been responsive to other treatments.
While we ideally want to keep our responses to physical ‘real-time’ stimuli activated, we also would like to prevent negative thoughts and triggers from causing unnecessary discomfort.
By eliminating physical discomfort that may develop from our thoughts, we become more responsive to daily life around us. To do this, gut-directed hypnotherapy for IBS is a trusted and proven technique.
Does Hypnotherapy Work for IBS?
Among many therapists and clinical psychologists, the answer is a resounding ‘yes’. IBS hypnotherapy aids the individual in addressing issues and imbalances that derive from negative thoughts, mental triggers, and stress. Hypnotherapy for women’s health and wellbeing gives the individual time to focus and work through issues that created the triggers.
The result of hypnosis as a form of therapy for IBS is a reduction of anxiety and stress systems and as a result a reduction in the production and distribution of harmful chemicals throughout the body.
The University of Michigan Medicine states that hypnosis can help patients with IBS, and other gut ailments that cause mental and physical anguish, to cope.
Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy with UpNow
Living with IBS can be a constant struggle, impacting your daily life and well-being. But you don’t have to endure this alone or without hope. Gut-directed hypnotherapy is a promising approach that can make a real difference. It’s a technique that uses the power of suggestion to promote positive changes in the gut-brain interaction, helping to alleviate IBS symptoms. Embrace the potential of this non-invasive therapy and take a step towards a more comfortable life.
Using the UpNow hypnosis app and IBS guide is simple and trusted by individuals worldwide. If you feel this form of therapy can benefit you, download the UpNow Hypnosis for IBS app or contact us for more information.
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