Hypnotherapy for irritable bowel syndrome: the response of colonic and noncolonic symptoms.

I suffered from IBS as a child. I was admitted to Mass General Hospital for 3 days of tests in 6th grade. All those tests and subsequent ones came back negative for years until I was diagnosed with "Spasmadic Colon" during a lower GI test in high school in the 1960's. I was on anti-spasmodic meds all through school with I had to carry with me and was often needing to go to the nurse's office during class from excrutiating pain that would subside when I laid down. I finally received relief from the pain to the point where I never had to refill my prescription again when I began practicing TM during my sophomore year of college - after just 3 months of meditating twice a day. The attacks went to the frequency of merely a couple of times a year for the next few years.
In 1983, when I enrolled in the course of Alchemical Hypnotherapy when I was 30, I went into a past life session to seek the origins. My student practitioner was unskilled and although I saw the original incident as a "wicked step-mother" who poisoned me with berries in my porridge, I actually suffered a horrible bout of pain for about 2 days from that session. I realized I had unfortunately connected people professing love to me with a pain in my stomach up until that point in my life. Luckily, for the last 25 years I may not have even suffered more than a handful of times again and can't actually remember when the last occurance was. My colon and I are both doing very well, and sometimes when I think back it feels like a miracle.