Irritable Bowel Syndrome - CURED!
Stress - GONE!
FREEDOM & RELIEF - FOUND!

Dear Fellow Irritable Bowel Syndrome Sufferer (IBSer):

Tired of being told it’s all in your mind?

No cure, debilitating symptoms, millions of sufferers, and it’s all in our mind?? Is it?

The incessant diarrhea, embarrassing bloating, humiliating gas, and intense sensitivity to apparently 99% off all food (including water half the time)? It hardly seems like it’s all in my mind. Not to mention the sharp pains emanating from nearly every point in my digestive track. There’s something wrong here and I’m certainly not imagining the problem. But – is my mind causing it? Really??

I’ve been battling Irritable Bowel Syndrome since childhood (I’m 45 now). I came to accept it as the norm. But, for me, the symptoms got so bad, I soon found myself afraid to leave the house. click here to continue reading below . . .

I became acquainted with a gentleman a couple years ago that developed a chain of successful weight loss clinics. It was a concept that used hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis to abolish bad eating behaviors and instill healthy eating habits. Now, if you're anything like me, you are already rolling your eyes and ready to click on to the next Google Search.

Words like hypnotist, hypnotherapy, or NLP didn't exactly inspire me with confidence or belief; A) I didn't believe in any of the crap, and B) what if it did work and I became a zombie or brainwashed?

It was my wife that introduced me to the founder. She was actually working at one of the clinics in California. I admittedly wasn't real supportive of her work, but she was constantly coming home excited about how effective the solutions were and how people were losing weight and getting healthy without dieting or laboring through a boot camp. The success people were having in the clinics was incredible, according to her.

She told me that the founder, a renowned hypnotist and NLP specialist, had developed hundreds of programs that they use in the clinics, and that I should come by and try one of their programs for stress reduction. She knew I was skeptical about anything having to do with hypnotherapy. On a dare, I went.

On a sunny afternoon, I entered their office still skeptical. I, coincidentally, ran into the founder of the company who happened to be there visiting. We talked quite a bit and he hooked me up with one of his “stress reduction” programs. I went to a quiet room, put on goggles and a headset, and laid back.

I’m a Type-A personality. If I’m not worried about something, I worry why I’m not worried about something. I’m constantly battling feelings of overwhelm, stress, and anxiety. But, within about five minutes of the program (which lasted for 20 minutes total) I wasn’t feeling any of that. At the end of the program I emerged with a “What the heck just happened” feeling. It was one of those experiences where you question whether you just dozed off and for how long.

But, it wasn’t what had happened during those 20 minutes that was startling. It was what happened during the next 48 hours that was utterly amazing.

• I was relaxed.
• I slept like a baby.
• I felt healthy.
• I wasn’t anxious.
• I tackled my work systematically and stress free.
• I wasn’t stressed over everything I had to do.
• I laughed and smiled (something I hadn’t easily done in along time).
• I felt GREAT!

I had to get more. I bought the entire Stress Reduction Series. My world transformed (or at least started to).

I then bought some of the Weight Loss programs. I didn’t have a problem with weight (that is to say I am not obese, but would be healthier minus 30 pounds for sure). So I got a couple of the programs that were supposed to eliminate junk foods, sugar cravings, and a couple others.

Again, success! – no cravings. Instead, I craved water. I didn’t care about my Doritos, Good & Plenties, Big Macs, or Snickers. They simply had no hold any longer. Immediately I started feeling even better and 18 pounds dropped off with no effort on my part.

I was like a kid in a candy store (bad metaphor since I no longer had cravings). – I got more and more programs. I bought some for motivation and ending procrastination. Almost instantly I found myself giddily toiling through the night energetically devouring my to-do lists that had been around for centuries it seemed. Mundane tasks I had put off now seemed easy and fun. I was accomplishing things with ease that had seemed arduous and difficult in the past. My life was becoming a series of successes. Each one building on the other.

My life was changing dramatically. But . . . I still had a dilemma. I still had Irritable Bowel Syndrome. It wasn’t as severe or as problematic, but it was there in the shadows. And it still hampered my plans as fear of its symptoms haunted me before going anywhere or planning anything. It was months of enjoying my new life before I realized that I was also sitting on the potential solution to my problem.

As IBSers, we have all researched the symptoms, solutions, diets, etc surrounding irritable bowel syndrome. And, 9 times out of 10, we all come to the same conclusion – no cure, no explanation, and the best bet is some kind of mental intervention according to all the experts. Well . . . . I was experiencing a mental break through in all other areas of my life. It suddenly occured to me - why not see if the founder of this amazing system and technology could develop something specifically for Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

I met with him and explained to him my success and my need. I explained that there are millions of similar sufferers and inquired if his system and methods could be customized to address Irritable Bowel Syndrome. He concluded he could definitely devise a solution.

It was so frustrating seeing everyone around me enjoying life, waltzing around without any problems at all, it seemed. They didn’t seem to suffer through crippling gas pains after every meal. They weren’t running to the bathroom every five minutes when explosive watery diarrhea would hit without warning.

I became so obsessed and fearful. I wanted so badly to be able to go out without worry. Planning trips, cruises, vacations, meeting with friends, or eating without fear all seemed like pipe dreams. I was relegated to life chained within a predetermined radius of the toilet.

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The STRANGEST IBS Trigger

I did an enormous amount of research regarding Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I experimented with nearly every trend, diet, and supplement. From diets to inhaling Immodium at strategic times before outings, I found some temporary comfort, but nothing lasting or permanent. I was convinced I had a physical ailment. After all, you can’t fake farting and diarrhea. It’s not like I was making it up.

But, on the same token, despite what I ate or didn’t eat there were certain things that would spark the onset of symptoms EVERYTIME. During such instances, it wasn’t what I ate. So, it had no physical connection. It was undeniably mental. I know that everyone suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome does NOT have this weird trigger. But for me, it pretty much solidified the body/mind component of IBS. The trigger was (and you’re gonna laugh at this) “looking for something”.

How weird is that? Everytime I would search for something – whether keys, a book, a misplaced wrench, or even house hunting, I would get intestinal pressure almost immediately. EVERYTIME. I couldn’t deny that this was mental. How can anything physical be related to this strange phenomenon? My family (kids mostly) would always make fun of me. In the rare cases when I was constipated, they would tease me that they would hide something so I could go look for it and relieve myself.

This strange and weird phenomenon confirmed in my mind that my digestive battles were indeed partially, if not wholly, mental. The problem remained, however. - I had no solution. It’s not like I could miraculously know where everything was or become the world’s most organized person in order to cure my Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Plus, this was only one of the triggers. But, it was the one that was the most easily identifiable and triggered without fail.

Coupling this knowledge with the added experience that stress and anticipation of a confrontation would nearly always result in a trip or two to the bathroom seemed to support the vast amount of research that Irritable Bowel Syndrome is most likely a mental-based illness.

This recent Irritable Bowel Syndrome Study also seems to confirm the mind’s involvement with IBS.

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Diet - The Physical Component

There is no argument that a strict diet rich in fiber can help certain sufferers with some symptom relief. But, as anyone with Irritable Bowel Syndrome will tell you, a little fiber can confine us to a bathroom for days. (I have found, however, that introducing a very little fiber at a time and increasing it over a period of weeks, can work wonders.)

Also – sufferers of IBS will typically have lactose intolerance and gluten sensitivity as well. So, cutting out milk, wheat, and sugar products will definitely go a long way toward raging this battle. And fats seem to move through our (“our” meaning fellow IBSer) system pretty quickly, so eat nothing with fat – particularly saturated fat.

At this point, even if you’re not so good at math, you have calculated that taking these foods out of our diet doesn’t leave us with much food especially if they are wholly removed from our diet. [Go Back]