When dealing with stress, bills to be paid, redundancy, relationship difficulties and work related anxiety, our bodies have a physiological response to perceived threats and dangers. Adrenaline is released into the body in order to enhance alertness and give us a boost to weather the emotional storm.

However, there is always a bill to be paid and always a work concern, and excessive adrenaline responses have a negative impact on the body.

The Autonomic Nervous System controls all of the organs in the body and has three parts.
1 The Sympathetic Nervous System, which deals with stress, danger or threat.
2 The Parasympathetic Nervous System, which inhibits arousal and restores balance to internal organs and the stress response systems.
3 The Diffuse Enteric Nervous System, which controls digestion and peristaltic action (the rippling movement of the digestive tract).

When we are stressed and our Sympathetic Nervous System is active, the body’s physical energy that drives the rippling movement of the digestive system becomes diverted away from moving the food through our digestive system and is directed towards dealing with the external stress.


If the danger or stress is unremitting and constant then this leads to food stagnance, distended tummy, diarrhea, nausea, constipation, all of the symptoms of IBS.

If you can find a way to activate the Parasympathetic Nervous System (be calm and relaxed), then your body will re-direct its energy back to towards
The Diffuse Enteric Nervous System.

The best way to deal with IBS is to find a strategy that can help calm your body down. Breathing techniques work well, hypnotherapy is another, anything that gives your body a chance to escape from the stress so that your valuable energy is made available to The Diffuse Enteric Nervous System will have a profound effect on the symptoms of IBS