concepts,ambitions etc.

Now you can see how obsessed you have become about wanting to empty the waste bin several times in a day instead of once a day, sometimes going on to the other extreme of not emptying it at all for 2 to 3 days. As the problem persists, you tend to get more and more anxious and develop phobias, may be about cancer of the bowel or your future disability. This can only aggravate the condition. Thus it is all in the mind, in your nature, in your habits, in your fears and suppressions. Hence the answer must be within. The first step in the treatment is to come out of the super-added fears and phobias. Accept that: “It is my nature, my life style, and my personality that has to change to cure my problem of IBS”. You must first get convinced that you can help yourself by retraining your autonomic nervous system to get out of its bad habit of getting stuck in the loop of hyper-reactivity.

The techniques of yoga explained in this book are basically to help you to completely reverse this loop of uncontrolled surges of neuronal activities that start off from the mind to reach the bowel. A regular practice of this integrated approach of yoga has helped a large number of subjects to help themselves and be free from their IBS.

What is ulcerative colitis?

Also called Idiopathic Inflammatory Bowel Disorder or Functional Bowel Disorder, this is another stress related problem characterized by episodes of continuous diarrhoea with blood and mucus. This is due to inflammation (a fight) in the inner lining of the large intestine and rectum. The complaints of this