IBS Turning Point: Mindset Shift That Healed

The turning point in my IBS happened one summer. A change in mindset -and my IBS improved more than I thought possible. That holiday, I was sat next to the pool, bloated up like a beach ball, feeling like a wreck with my IBS.

I had had IBS for about 20 years, and my specialist told me I would probably have it for the rest of my life.

I couldn’t digest any of the treatments I had been prescribed. They just made me feel worse.

And I had no solutions.

I didn’t know it back then, but something vitally important was about to happen, the turning point in my IBS.

The turning point in my IBS

I had bought a few women’s magazines to read by the pool.

In one of those magazines were the usual articles on well-being:

Summer cooking (which I couldn’t digest), and how to look good in a swimsuit (when I felt like a beached whale!),

As I skimmed through the pages, one surprising article did catch my eye:

Gëorgia Knap (1866-1946)

From the article, I learned that this Frenchman had discovered a great deal about health

He wasn’t a doctor. As well as being an accomplished inventor, mechanic, electrician and architect, this Frenchman became a specialist in cellular biology and healing. You could do that back then.

His success came from his willingness to challenge existing solutions and experiment. In fact, he lived his entire life as one great experiment,

He developed and made known a method of acupuncture that could relieve a wide number of common complaints, from back ache to digestive problems. It is still used by many chiropractors today.

He was careful to exercise, eat a nourishing diet and get a good night’s sleep.

Knap lived a long life in very good health.

Living life as an experiment

I read that article several times during that holiday, and it profoundly inspired me.

I realised that I was waiting to be told what to do about my IBS. However, it was unlikely that a doctor would ever be able to help me out of it. Simply because it is generally accepted in the medical field that “there is no cure for IBS”.

And this was the turning point in my IBS.

Knap didn’t wait for permission. He had probably never seen a doctor in his life. And he used his capacities to be creative, inventive and was willing to carefully experiment.

Here was a man who had led an extraordinary life despite losing his parents at the age of 17, and at a time when internet and health insurance didn’t exist.

The article also got me to understand that he consciously did something for his health every single day. And that it was this repetition that got him results. That was a valuable lesson, and the turning point in my IBS and my attitude towards it.

It was my responsibility to myself to do something to allow my IBS to improve consistently, every single day.

But what?