Irritable Bowel Syndrome affects up to 20% of people in USA and Europe. IBS symptoms are pains in the abdomen associated with altered bowel pattern and bloating. In addition there can be rectal symptoms such as irritation and urgency. Sometimes non-colonic symptoms can develop.
Treatments of IBS fall into four categories. These are patient education, dietary modification, medication, and behaviour and psychological therapy. Experts now agree that behaviour and psychological therapies are more likely to be effective that the other three.
The law of Attraction suggests that you attract into your life whatever you think about. This generalisation in simple terms means that your thoughts determine your destiny. The Law of Attraction has built up an enormous momentum after a documentary film, “The Secrets”, was shown on Oprah. The Law of Attraction is used effectively for personal growth, financial success and achievements.
In medicine, does the Law of Attraction work? A study done in 2004 on 314 elderly subjects and 196 young people associated with rumination and negative thoughts concluded that negative thoughts can damage your health. In Reikii, all processes of healing or personal and spiritual development is associated with elimnating from a person’s energy field negative KI or life forces, and removing negative feelings and thoughts that have created it.
Negative thoughts, following job loss, relationship break ups and poor assessment, affect self-esteem. These people can feel worthless, insignificant, unsure and easily defeated. A positive person usually have high self-esteem and their level of success is determined by these thoughts.
So, does the Law of Attraction apply to Irritable Bowel Syndrome? What information is given to a person when first diagnosed with IBS? There are some common ones. No one is quite sure why you have IBS.There is no one treatment that works for everyone. There is no abnormality in your gut. There is no cure. Stress plays an important role in IBS. You have to live with it. It is also an established fact that most IBS sufferers do not get adequate support from their health professionals.
Is it not likely these negative facts can affect the mind of IBS sufferers and produce negative effects? Treatments that focus on the mind are now recommended by experts. These include psychotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Moss-Morris at the University of Southampton, UK said, “Patients who have ongoing IBS symptoms might benefit from a simple, early intervention of CGT, a means of changing thought processes from negative to positive that has been shown to be helpful.” Dr .J. Lackner at the State University of New York reported that after four brief sessions of CBT and a self-study manual given to patients, there was improvement in 73% of his IBS patients.
When a new treatment come on the market, an IBS patient will expectantly try it and may gain benefits. This benefit may not last long because of the negative underbelly (There is no cure.) in the subconscious mind. Soon the benefits may wear off.
There are cases of refractory Irritable Bowel Syndrome patients following gut directed hypnotherapy living normal lives, eating foods that were previously triggers. No treatment is effective in refractory IBS. During hypnotherapy, negative messages about IBS are plucked from the subconscious mind and replaced by positive ones. The Law of Attraction is at work here. After hypnotherapy, positive thoughts produce positive results and before hypnotherapy, ingrained negative thoughts make symptoms severe.
If you believe in the Law of Attraction, how can you use it to change the course of your IBS? Focus on the positives. Convert these positives into your reality and your thoughts and feelings will change. In IBS there are many positives. Your gut is normal. Your IBS will not lead on to other illnesses. If stress is a trigger, you can control it. You can improve your IBS by getting a better balance in your life. You see yourself one day in total control of your IBS. Whatever IBS treatment you are on, keep your dreams and aspirations positive.