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This is an important aspect of all this."Even though we may be completely unaware of any associated emotional feeling, such as fear, anxiety, or anger, the programmed emotional responses are generated in our internal organs, particularly the gastrointestinal tract (gut). For example, the emotion of fear is associated with the inhibition of the upper gut (stomach and duodenum) contractions and secretions, leading to the symptoms of fullness, bloating, loss of appetite, nausea, and even vomiting. The emotional gut response of fear stimulates the lower gut (sigmoid colon and rectum), which can cause diarrhea, cramping, and abdominal pain. From the perspective of evolution, this response program or pattern evolved in order to reduce exposure of the gut to ingested food and waste material while energy is shunted to the cardiovascular and musculoskeletal systems in order to maximize the effects of the fight and flight response and survival potential. In other words, the last thing that your body needs to be doing when your life is threatened is to be digesting your lunch! And to emphasize the point again, all of this emotional gut response can occur without your being consciously aware of the emotional feeling of fear. "Its like there is a gut fear were not even conciouusly awre of an why its important to calm the brain gut axis.because IBS involves the autonomic nervous system and this process is governed more my our subconcious, this is one reason HT gets to that aspect of IBS and makes changes, unlike other therapies addressing the concious aspect, but those therapies have an effect on the deep rooted thoughts to symptoms also. A thought produces a chemical electrical reeaction in the body. But some of this is the fight or flight and does not always cause a concious thought a person is in fear or in danger, and sometimes it does when there is no bathroom around and you need one. I am glad this article helps its very important all this to reead about it and see what you can use to blunt some of these responces or change them.