Lifestyle Magazine - 3 February 2010
Irritable Bowel Syndrome is one of the most common disorders of the digestive system. According to research Irritable Bowel Syndrome affects one third of people in the UK at some point, and one in ten people have symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome that are bad enough to visit their doctor. A well known Irritable Bowel Syndrome expert said: "Irritable Bowel Syndrome is not an illness many people know about or even understand and even less people know that Hypnotherapy and complimentary Health can help people who suffer from what is more commonly known as IBS."
Research that was done with Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester who offer Hypnotherapy to treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome have found that hypnotherapy can be used to effectively treat irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in 70 per cent of cases. The hospital, which treats up to 100 people per week for Irritable Bowel Syndrome, has an 18-month waiting list.
Hypnotherapy has become a natural way of dealing with Irritable Bowel Syndrome like acupuncture, which has become very popular for different illnesses and health problems, it was until a few years ago not properly understood how acupuncture can help but now thousands and thousands of people go for acupuncture treatment and this is happening with Hypnotherapy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
More and more people are now becoming familiar that Hypnotherapy can help with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and this is why more and more doctors suggest to their patients that they can see a complimentary health expert who can help them with IBS. Hypnotherapy allows a person to tap into a special mental state (the subconscious level of their mind), allowing them to alter the way in which they consciously perceive their health problems, and encourages them to respond to these problems in new ways. How? While they are in this special mental state, the person is given verbal suggestions or provided imagery to assist them in finding relief from their symptoms. The stimulation that the person under hypnosis receives from words and images has a significant impact on the way they function mentally and physically. For instance, imagery used during hypnotherapy for IBS patients would be images that encourage healing. Depending on what the image is, the patient may imagine their intestines expanding and relaxing to let fluids flow through. Hence, this imagery is meant to help the patient with their constipation problem.
Why is hypnotherapy an effective IBS treatment? The reason is because hypnosis is a therapy that can help both the body and the mind. Think of hypnosis as a treatment that helps a person put mind over matter. In other words, it’s a way to use the mind to help heal physical ailments. Furthermore, many researchers believe IBS is a primary disorder of the brain/gut axis. The what? The brain/gut axis is the term given to the important relationship between the events that have an affect on the way the central nervous system (brain) functions, and how this resulting function affects the way the intestines function through the intestinal specialized enteric nervous system. Essentially, the mind and body are connected. The state of one’s mind can have positive or negative affects on the way the body functions.
For many IBS sufferers, one of the best benefits of hypnotherapy are its ability to reduce the hold stress has on them. Most people with IBS are plagued by negative emotions such as anxiety, tension, and depression, all symptoms of stress that are caused by having to live with an incurable condition. Stress can cause chemical imbalances within the brain that can undermine the immune system and cause an IBS flare up. Hypnosis can decrease the stress one feels about IBS and help a person realize and explore new thoughts and strategies about how to cope with the illness. Hypnotherapy turns the negative to positive.
Over the course of 15 years, numerous studies have been conducted on the effects of hypnotherapy on people with IBS. The results have been very successful. In fact, hypnotherapy regularly generates long-term positive results in more than 80% of those who are treated with it. As an additional bonus, hypnotherapy is safe for all ages, and like most types of natural remedy for IBS, hypnotherapy usually requires more than one session to be successful and maintain its effectiveness.
Hypnotherapy for IBS is a pain free and drug free method to cure Irritable Bowell Syndrome. Hypnosis for IBS has been proven to be very effective in freeing clients from the pain of IBS. Hypnotherapists at the Harley Street Hypnotherapy Clinic are fully trained in IBS Hypnotherapy at our London Clinic and are achieving great success rates. Call Hypnotherapy London at our London clinic for hypnosis to treat IBS.
