Reclaim Your Life from IBS by Melissa G. Hunt

Author:Melissa G. Hunt [Hunt G., Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sterling

It’s a circle because you end up back where you started—with increasing GI symptoms. It’s a vicious circle because every time you loop around, it gets worse, and there’s no obvious way out.

The good news is that you already know two places where you can intervene and stop the cycle. One place to cut the circular chain of events is here:

You do this with the relaxation exercises you learned in Chapter 3, “Relaxation Training.” Relaxation exercises are all about reducing sympathetic nervous system arousal. Since stress leads to arousal, and arousal increases GI distress, reducing arousal using relaxation techniques should help reduce the impact of stress on your GI symptoms.

But remember, an even better way to reduce the impact of stress is to reduce the stress itself! The best way to do this is to target the negative thoughts that are making you feel stressed to begin with. That means you can intervene much earlier in the cycle:

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