Irritable Bowel Syndrome - Treating IBS with Hypnotherapy - By: Peter James Field

When first I began my hypnotherapy practice, very few people were familiar with the term IBS - Irritable Bowel Syndrome

In those times, IBS was most often referred to as 'spastic colon' and it was a mystery to all but a few perceptive specialist practitioners who intuitively identified its psychological component.

These days, however, experts widely accept that Irritable Bowel Syndrome is indeed greatly influenced by emotions.

Moreover, it is believed that as much as 20% of the general population experience this worrying and uncomfortable condition.

After all, when we are feeling stressed or troubled, anxious, uptight, angry or with any other unresolved emotional issue gnawing away at us, then it's often our digestion - or our skin - that is the first to suffer.

Generally speaking, the most common symptoms of IBS include, but are not restricted to, stomach and abdominal pain, feeling bloated, constipation and/or diarrhoea and abnormal stool frequency and passage.

The usual medical response to IBS symptoms is to prescribe drugs and pharmaceuticals in an attempt to get things back in order, and these very often include anti-depressants and tranquilizers intended to alleviate the symptoms of this troublesome condition.

From the sage position of the holistic practitioner, however, IBS is simply the body's cry for help in addressing the underlying reasons for its existence.

This being the case, it is crucial that we understand that Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a message - or, perhaps more precisely, a whole series of messages - designed to grab our attention so that we do something about the reason for the existence of these symptoms.

The symptoms are, in fact, a call to action.

In any treatment of IBS, we need to re-appraise what we put into our bodies, with coffee, chocolate, carbonated beverages and red meat either eliminated entirely or consumed only in small quantities.

We may, of course, choose to re-introduce some of these things at a later time, when the IBS has been taken care of and when we can objectively observe and monitor the results of doing this. Or perhaps we will decide that we are better served by permanently eliminating these things and simply enjoying the many other delicious foods and beverages available to us.

Soluble fibre, which can be purchased at most health food or drug stores in the convenient form of psyllium husks has also been shown to be of help with this condition, though such supplementation is not advised when chronic diarrhoea is present.

Yet it's the emotions themselves that really need to be addressed in order to achieve true and lasting relief of IBS.

Tension - both mental and emotional - stress, anxiety, anger, guilt and any other difficult emotion may easily incite intestinal spasms, which can so easily produce and magnify the condition.

Indeed, it is the emotions - and how our own mind influences our emotions - that really holds the key to true IBS relief. And this is where expertly delivered transformational hypnotherapy can be of real value.

Simply put, with correctly applied hypnotherapy, the negative concepts and drivers produced by the subconscious mind can be neutralized and replaced with more helpful, useful ones.

The simple fact is that irritable bowel syndrome will not disappear overnight. But working with a skilled transformational hypnotherapist, even long-term sufferers of this troublesome condition can quite rapidly achieve real improvement in symptoms and a feeling of overall well being. And this, needless to say, is a sound basis for any long term cure of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

If you or someone you know suffers from the troublesome condition known as Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS, real help is available.

Advanced transformational hypnotherapy may very well hold the solution that you are looking for.

About the Author

One of the foremost British hypno-psychotherapists, with clinics in both Birmingham and London, Peter Field is a Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and Fellow of the Royal Society of Health. For more interesting articles and help with Irritable Bowel Syndrome, visit his website: Peter Field Hypnotherapy

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