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Yoga is usually associated with stretching and relaxation.

This is a good way for IBS sufferers to remain calm and collected. As you well know, any form of stress is not good for our tummy.

Yoga also works wonders to strengthen your body and mind. There are different forms of yoga and they all have different effects on our bodies, as well as our state of mind.

Stress is the root cause while mental ailments such as anxiety, depression, phobias, panic attacks and their derivatives are all symptoms of stress. So, if you can eliminate the root cause and you will eliminate the symptoms. Actually it is similar to saying remove all the water from the world and you will not have any floods. It does not appear to be such a good idea any more does it? Water will always be there, so how do we work around the flooding problem? We build dams, construct barriers, re-route the rivers and what not to prevent the flooding.
Like the ubiquitous water, stress is everywhere. We need to find ways to work-around the harmful effects of stress. So although in this case we cannot eliminate the root cause, we can definitely learn how to mitigate the risks imposed upon our psychology and physiology. I will not delve into the physiological interpretation of stress in this article, however you can visit the resource link at the bottom of this article for further information. It is important to have that background however.

Why do we feel anxious?

As you know by now, anxiety is a symptom of stress. It is a natural response of your body, triggered by your brain to indicate that you there is some abnormality in your life at the moment.

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• Anti-Anxiety agents
• Antidepressants
• Diet
• Imodium
• Laxatives
• Levbid
• Lomotil
• Maalox

9 Hidden Keys to Happiness and Success
 by: Melissa Van Rossum

I came across this article today, so I thought I share it with my readers.

Having a Positive control over our thoughts results in a lower stress levels, consequently keeps Irritable Bowel/Brain away!!

Melissa wrote:
We all love to feel motivated. I know I do. It’s absolute nirvana to be on purpose and on task at the same time. But life often intervenes in my plans and that can mean stress, frustration and setbacks and I find that I have to live my life on Inner Motivation – particularly when the proverbial chips are down. Most of us wait for someone else to give us a reason to move ahead or we wait for circumstance or opportunity to line up in just the right way so we can move ahead with the inner commitment we’ve been holding back.  We wait for our partner to say ‘I love you’ first, we wait for a sign of acceptance before we commit to revealing some part of ourselves and we wait for the evidence of the result before we commit our belief.

To many of us this seems like a smart or even shrewd way of going about business and life. We think we’re protecting and insulating ourselves by not putting too much ‘out there’ and therefore avoiding disappointment or (God forbid) rejection. In reality, though, this is actually a very dangerous way to live life because it puts your life and your happiness in someone else’s hands - a sure fire equation for misery. From the inside this may seem like a very controlled way to live life, but it’s actually a very out of control way to live life. That’s why it makes us so unhappy and leaves us so unfulfilled. There’s nothing dependable or controlled about it.

One of my favorite movie scenes is from the Indiana Jones movie where he (played by Harrison Ford) and his father (played by Sean Connery) are searching for the Holy Grail. Indiana’s father lies dying at the hands of the Nazis and to save his life Indiana must find the Holy Grail. To get to the Grail, Indiana has to accurately decode his father’s Grail diary which will enable him to make his way through certain life-threatening challenges. After successfully making his way through several of the tests, he comes to a huge chasm that lies between where he is and where he wants to be.  He reads the Bible passage from his father’s diary which has to do with “faith being the evidence of things not seen”. He picks up a handful of sand and throws it out to the chasm only to see the sand fall on an invisible bridge.

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