Using your mind to help manage and relieve your IBS symptoms
Nausea affects roughly one-third of people with IBS. Nausea and vomiting are controlled by a combination of the vomiting centre in your brain, and areas within your gut. Hypnotic suggestions can be targeted at changing how the brain interprets and responds to vomit signals from the gut, such that nausea is significantly reduced.
Hypnotherapy is effective in treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), and other gastrointestinal (GI) disorders.
Hypnotherapy for gastrointestinal health - or gut-directed hypnotherapy - addresses the 'miscommunication' between the brain and gut.
IBS and other GI problems are complex disorders with symptoms unique to each patient. Hypnosis is a brilliant way to tailor the treatment intervention according to the individual’s needs - and can also work to alleviate other occurring symptoms such as nausea and fatigue.
Systematic reviews and reports on hypnosis by the British Psychological Society, British Medical Journal, (UK) National Institute of Clinical Excellence, (US) National Institutes of Health support the effectiveness of hypnotherapy for IBS.
The British Psychological Society report findings: There is encouraging evidence demonstrating the beneficial effects of hypnotherapeutic procedures in alleviating the symptoms of a range of complaints that fall under the heading 'psychosomatic illness.' These include - Gastro-intestinal complaints such as irritable bowel syndrome.
Anyone suffering from irritable bowel syndrome can benefit to a greater or lesser degree from gut-directed hypnotherapy. It could be you.
It’s 2020 and are you resigning yourself to another year of living with your IBS symptoms?
Before you do you might want to give IBS hypnotherapy (also called gut-directed hypnotherapy) a go. It’s not a miracle cure, but multiple well-controlled studies, including one close to home,at Monash University, have shown that it improves gastrointestinal symptoms in people with IBS by 70-80% and these improvements are maintained in the long-term.
The Monash hypnotherapy study – led by Dr Simone Peters – wanted to consolidate findings by UK researchers suggesting the therapy was effective. Dr Peters is part of Monash University and the Alfred Hospital’s Department of Gastroenterology. Dr Peters says, “It was hugely surprising. We found hypnotherapy was incredibly beneficial.”
The Monash reserachers also found that:
hypnotherapy was effective psychologically, too – patients were less anxious and less depressed after esperiencing it.
a low FODMAP diet helps reduce IBS symptoms and that hypnotherapy is as beneficial as the low FODMAP diet. .
To read the full article about this research head over to the Monash University site - https://bit.ly/2tGvXpL
IBS hypnotherapy could mean the difference between another year in which IBS dominates your life and robs you of happiness, and a year in which you begin to enjoy the freedom being free of IBS brings.
To learn more about how Tony can help you gain lasting relief from your IBS, contact him today – 021 056 8389 / email tony@tycoaching.nz for a free, no obligation on line consultation. No matter where you are in the NZ or the world Tony can help.
