The Law of Attraction and IBS.
IBS affects as much as 20% of people globally. Symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome are abdominal pains associated with altered bowel pattern and bloating. Rectal symptoms such as irritation, pain or urgency can be present. There are also non-colonic symptoms.
Treatments of IBS can be divided into four categories. These are patient education, dietary modification, medication, and behaviour and psychological therapy. It is agreed amongst experts that behaviour and psychological therapies provided better long term results.
You attract into your life whatever you think about according to the Law of Attraction. The simple explanation of the Law of Attraction is that your thoughts determine your destiny. The Law of Attraction has built up an enormous momentum after “The Secrets”; a documentary film, was shown on Oprah. The Law of Attraction is used effectively for personal growth, financial success and achievements.
The question is: Does the Law of Attraction work in Medicine? A study done in 2004 on 314 elderly subjects and 196 young people associated with negative thoughts or rumination concluded that negative thoughts can damage your health. In Reikii, spiritual and personal development and all processes of healing is associated with elimnating from a person’s energy field negative KI or life forces, along with negative thoughts and feelings that have created it.
Job loss, relationship break ups etc may lead to negative thoughts and self esteem. Feelings of worthlessness, insignificance, insecurity can develop and that person feel easily defeated. A positive person usually have high self-esteem and their thoughts determine their level of success.
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. Your gut is normal. 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.
All these facts are negative. Is it not likely that they can lead to negative thoughts in the minds of IBS patients and produce negative effects? Treatments that focus on the mind are now recommended by experts. These include psychotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). “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.” Said Moss-Morris at the University of Southampton 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 improvement is short lived 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 after having gut directed hypnotherapy enjoying normal lives, eating foods that were previously triggers. In refractory IBS nothing works anymore. During hypnotherapy, negative messages about IBS are plucked from the subconscious mind and postive thoughts are added. The Law of Attraction is at work here. Ingrained negative thoughts created negative effects in refractory IBS. After hypnotherapy, positive thoughts produced positive effects.
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. Here are some positives. There is no abnormality in your gut. IBS does not lead on to other serious illnesses. If stress is a trigger, you can control it. You can balance your lifestyle to improve your IBS. You see yourself one day in total control of your IBS. Whatever IBS treatment you are on, keep your dreams and aspirations positive.
