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The Role of the Mind in Digestive Troubles · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When we experience some digestive upset, we tend to
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  engage the mind to try to figure out what the problem is.
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  And as a result, we work on adjusting our diet concluding
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  that there are certain foods that don't work for us and we
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  spend countless hours looking at the issues surrounding, our
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  body's ability to digest, and assimilate the food we eat and
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  the implications of any imbalances that occur.
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  In some cases, there are actual issues caused by the food or the
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  preparation of it, but in many cases, we get to a level of
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  sensitivity that we are always fussing about what works and
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  what does not work for us. The more attention, we pay to
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  this ever finer, sensitivity, the greater the influence of the
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  mind on the digestive process, mental intervention in
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  digestion, is an area that causes a great deal of
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  Disruption to the body's normal functioning.
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  The mother makes several important points in this regard
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  first. If one is eating ones, normal
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  diet, it is clear. That it is not the specific
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  Foods involved, that are causing the disruption.
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  So the attempt to micromanage the diet is simply an act of the
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  Mind interference in the process second much of the disruption of
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  the digestive process is actually due to emotional or
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  mental issues, which impact the body. including anxiety, worry
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  where some kind of distress in one's life or relationships
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  rather than micromanaging the digestion and thereby further in
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  balancing the bodies operations, it is best to let the body
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  continue, its normal action, and bring peace to the mind and the
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  emotions, the mother notes, quote, when I was 20, the doctor
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  told me that in cases of troubles of the Stomach or
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  intestines, the best thing is to continue eating as usual and not
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  to bother about the trouble. He said if you have acidity, it
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  will come from whatever food you take and the more you bother
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  about it, the more it will increase.
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  If you go on changing your food in the end, you will find that
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  you cannot even drink a drop of water without getting into
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  trouble, but if you remain normal and don't worry, you will
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  become alright. And I have found this advice to
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  be quite true in the effect of food on the body. 90% belongs to
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  the power of thought. and quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the
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  mother living within the yoga approach to psychological health
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  and growth, disturbances of the body, and physical
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  Consciousness, preoccupation, with illness Pages, 91 to 93,