The Law of Attraction and IBS.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome affects up to 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.

The law of Attraction suggests that you attract into your life whatever you think about. 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. It has been used for some time for personal growth, achievement and financial gain.

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 rumination and negative thoughts concluded that negative thoughts may be detrimental to health independently of effects. 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, along with negative thoughts and feelings 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? When a person is first diagnosed with IBS, what information is delivered? 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 lead to negative outcome? Treatments that focus on the mind are now recommended by experts. Treatment such as psychotherapy and cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) are producing excellent results. 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.” At the State University of New York, Dr. J. Lackner 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 in the mind, there is fixed the thought that there is no cure.

There are cases of refractory Irritable Bowel Syndrome patients after having gut directed hypnotherapy living normal lives, having foods that previously cause severe IBS symptoms. No treatment is effective in refractory IBS. Negative thoughts are plucked out of the subconscious mind during hypnotherapy 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. Here are some 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 balance your lifestyle to improve your IBS. You can lead a full life even though you have IBS. Whatever IBS treatment you are on, keep your dreams and aspirations positive.