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Part of all this is crawling before learning how to walk and learning how to walk before learning how to jump.

This is not an overnight process, it takes time and patients and learning and very very importantly an active participation. And perhaps some trial an error to a certain degree.

There are also some people whos minds are pretty calm, but the body is stressed, or whose minds are stressed and the body is calmer, or those whos mind and bodies are stressed. And on an everyday basis, a person can go back and forth from any of the above.

WEB MD

On pain, but tied to what I am posting here and to ibs.

Mind-Body-Pain Connection: How Does It Work?

By Michael Henry Joseph
WebMD Live Events Transcript Archive Reviewed By

Event Date: 05/11/2000.

Moderator: Welcome to WebMD Live's World Watch and Health News Auditorium. Today we are discussing "The Mind-Body-Pain Connection: How Does It Work?" with Brenda Bursch, Ph.D., Michael Joseph, M.D., and Lonnie Zeltzer, M.D.

Brenda Bursch, Ph.D., is the Associate Director of the Pediatric Pain Program, Co-Director of Pediatric Chronic Pain Clinical Service and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine. She has written about asthma, developmental & behavioral pediatrics, emergency medicine, AIDS education and prevention, chronic digestive diseases and pediatric bowel disorders. She has membership in the American Pain Society, American Psychological Association, Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy Network, and the UCLA Center for the Study of Organizational and Group Dynamics.

Michael Henry Joseph, MD, is an assistant professor of pediatrics and co-director of Chronic Pain Services at the University of California at Los Angeles Children's Hospital. He is a recipient of the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Lonnie Zeltzer, M.D., is an expert in the field of pediatric pain. She is a former president of the Society for Adolescent Medicine and member of the National Institute of Health?s Human Development Study Section. She is currently a Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology at the UCLA School of Medicine. She is Director of the UCLA Pediatric Pain Program and Associate Director of the Patients & Survivors Section, Cancer Prevention and Control Research Branch of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. She has well over one hundred scientific publications, reviews and chapters in medical journals, and has lectured internationally.

http://my.webmd.com/content/article/1/1700_50465.htm?lastselectedguid={5FE84E90-BC77-4056-A91C-9531713CA348}

Digestion works through the autonomic nervous system, you don't have to conciously think about digesting you food.

The autonomic nervous system is divided into three parts

The ANS is divided into three parts:

The sympathetic nervous system
The parasympathetic nervous system
The enteric nervous system.

The last being the "gut brain"

When your in fight or flight mode, digestion is slowed down and the sympathetic nervous system takes over.

When your relaxed the parasympathetic nervous system takes over, "rest and digest"

One reason why stress may effect someone after the fact. Although parasymapthetic is better long term.

This will help explain it.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/auto.html

A persons thoughts and emotions and anxiety and stress, all effect these systems greatly in all humans, but very importantly in IBS. Even positive stress like excitement.

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