Check out the IBS Network’s tips for a healthy stomach over Christmas, and here are my three simple tips for managing IBS at Christmas and good digestive health over the festivities.
- Eat slowly and chew your food well (at least 20 times before swallowing, preferably 50!)
- Enjoy being with your family. Accept them – and yourself – exactly as you/they are, forget trying to change a life-time of habits and find peace in ‘acceptance’ and ‘surrender’!
- Rather than slumping on the sofa after the Christmas turkey with all the trimmings, take five minutes and sit upright in a kneeling position (use cushions to get comfy) to allow your food to be digested properly. This is an ancient Ayurvedic tip, a philosophy for health and wellbeing that originated in India around 5,000 years ago – trust me it really does work!
Merry Christmas!
For more information about yoga and Irritable Bowel Syndrome, check out my books; Everyday Yoga: The Essential Guide, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome: The Essential Guide.
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