I went to sleep early last night. Went to bed between 7:30 and 8pm. Yes, that's early, even for me! I knew I wanted to get up and go walk at the Y this morning.
IBS stopped me cold though. I've been having it for the past week or so, usually when I get up in the mornings. I thought, if I get up early and go walk, it'll help me manage/reduce the stress I have that is triggering the IBS in the first place. Well, I didn't get out of the house soon enough. It hit again, and I was reduced to reading magazines in the bathroom and then taking a hot bath to relax every nerve ending in my body.
I hate when I get like this, it's my body's way of telling me I'm doing something I don't want to do but I'm not listening. In order to make me pay attention, I'm being forced to meditate as it were on the porcelain god. Great. Thanks.
I don't want to do the festival I have coming up on Saturday. I feel like it's taxing the limits of what I can reasonably do without downtime. The pessimist in me thinks that it won't be worth the time and effort. I mean really, 10am to 7pm. On a weekend, when I could be at home relaxing.
What do I want to do? I want to get a 2 hour massage on Friday, and then conk out and do nothing on Saturday. But I feel like I can't. I have 2 students coming Saturday. I told everyone at the faculty meeting about it. I even paid to be able to be at this festival. I'd lose that money.
And of course I have another festival next weekend too. I think i'm finding the limits of my enjoyment of all this.
Oops, gotta go. God is calling me again.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Oops gotta go.
Posted by Raene at 4:57 AM
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My 9 year old has IBS - she has had problems since the age of 1. There are no pediatric medicines for IBS - so she has to control it totally by food intake and stress reduction and yoga.
I have an adult friend with IBS that has been treated for IBS for years and years. They gave her medicine ONLY. No one talked to her about food. No one talked to her about yoga.
So I am writing to see if you would like me to share the list of foods that they gave us for my 9 year old. It includes both foods to avoid and foods to eat.
Yoga helps from the relaxation view point - but also physically - because the "twisting" massages the internal organs and helps with digestion.
Please post a note on my blog - if you want more information.
http://baby-steps-v.blogspot.com/2006/09/different-way-of-looking-at-it.html
When I started looking - I realised that I had actually posted on my youngest's food. The link is above. \
If it doesn't work - go to my blog and on the left side bar - under labels - click on IBS label and it will take you there.
Yoga - you do not have to do major/strenuous yoga in order to receive benefits.
My suggestion would be to see if there are yoga classes in your area. Most studios allow you to try a class or two before committing to anything.
I would suggest going to all of them and trying everything - to pick up pointers and get ideas - if it is free.
Another idea is to check on tapes and DVD's from the library and try those - look for things that say beginning or relaxation - those are the easiest.
The women's center at one of my local hospitals offers relaxation yoga for people with health problems - so those types of places would be good ideas too.
As I said in my first note, the twisting motion(s) of yoga literally massage the internal organs which helps with digestion - so you do not have to do the stand on your head type of yoga (unless you WANT to) - the soothing type of yoga helps much with IBS.
Tai Chi would helps also - and is very relaxing.
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