Zita Stanley

Overcoming conditions like blushing, anxiety and psoriasis does not need to be painful.  What if you could think about your life without the problem?  Mostly we focus on what we don’t want rather than what we want.  In a hypnotic state (which is a concentrated relaxation) we can access the subconscious mind and re-write the programme in relation to blushing, anxiety and psoriasis.  Psoriasis responds excellently to hypnosis.  All hypnosis is self hypnosis and the added benefit is the relaxation which we can all do with.  Gaining emotional relief from your “problem” will have a significant knock-on effect in other areas of your life.   Remember, your subconscious mind is providing the “problem” because it is providing a need or a benefit.  In hypnosis we can address this need and provide a more beneficial and more positive which is for your benefit.

For appointments:  15 Upper Baggot Street, Portlaoise Town Centre & Thomas Street, Limerick.  Call 086 1038892 or email zita@zitastanley.com.

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Trying to conceive is very frustrating.  You are planning and planning and it just doesn’t happen.  Each month you are made aware of your lack of pregnancy.  You see pregnant women everywhere.  It is as though the universe is rubbing your face in other’s fertility and your lack of pregnancy.  This frustration builds, each month you probably check for ovulation, you let your partner know when the time is right to have sex.  It is a finely tuned procedure.  You do everything right but yet fail to achieve a pregnancy.  What do you think this is doing to you and your insides?  There is a tension and tightening of all muscles and organs when we are stressed.  You don’t take any medications just in case you get pregnant but the frustration eats away inside you.  How can hypnosis help?  Hypnosis is a wonderful relaxation technique.  When in hypnosis, your conscious mind drifts off (and thinks about mundane tasks) and your subconscious mind opens up to accept new ways of thinking that are beneficial for you.  You can learn to relax inside and out.  Your muscles and organs can elongate and become relaxed.  Your mind can focus on pregnancy being achieved.  Focusing on what you want.  Seeing and feeling yourself pregnant is an important visualisation.  The wonderful difference this baby will bring to your life.  Hypnosis can bring you back to your old self – more careful and more joyful.  When you are content, then magic happens.  How many times have you heard stories of couples you finally decide to adopt (or go away on a long holiday) only to become pregnant naturally?  You have taken pressure off yourself and your organs and body move into relaxation mode and function more easily.

Let hypnosis help you to achieve a pregnancy or at the very least remove the anxiety with trying to conceive.

Tel: 086 1038892.  Dublin 2 and Limerick.

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What makes you smoke? Having had a stressful day or being bored may prompt you to light a cigarette but did you really want it. We all have behaviours that are prompted by “cues” – a trigger to do something. This is how advertising works – making us feel we have to have the product or our lives won’t be complete. The cue to smoke is a signal to tell you that you need to smoke now – it is automatic. Your subconscious mind is enjoying the “perceived benefits” of smoking. With hypnosis you can harness and change this good feeling to something that is more beneficial for your body. In hypnosis we look at your cues to smoke – social, work and personal. You need to be able to see and feel yourself in these situations and you are smokefree. How many times have you found that the anticipation of the cigarette was better than the reality? Smokers worry about cravings but what is a craving it is immediate need to smoke. Cravings peak and then subside. With hypnosis you are gaining relaxation benefits and the ability to control a craving should it happen. There is more to stopping smoking than just stopping smoking – care needs to be given to environmental and behavioural cues to smoke. That is the beauty of hypnosis – you can rehearse events in your mind and feel confident that you will remain smokefree.

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How is blushing affecting your life? Do you dread the thought of meetings or being in unfamiliar social groups? If you find your heart racing, face/neck/back of neck going red and very hot, feeling sweaty or clammy, throat dryness, a feeling of dissociation etc this could be an anxiety or panic attack. Perhaps your overwhelming feeling is to run away or wish the ground would open up and swallow you – typical fright or flight response when the body feels threatened. Maybe you feel that something is happening to you that you cannot control and that is the most frightening feeling of all. In hypnosis we can access the subconscious mind, the subconscious knows all our fears and by accessing the subconscious mind we can reprogramme the “centre of attention” programme to one where you feel confident and your complexion is normal. We are instructing the subconscious in hypnosis to behave a different way – one that is beneficial to you. But you must believe change is possible for you – you don’t need to believe in the how – only that this change is possible and what difference it will make to your life.

For more information or book a session in Dublin 2: Call 086 1038892 or email zita@zitastanley.com.

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Anxiety is the anticipation of something happening – your mind is picturing and making assumptions about what could happen. Fear is the body’s response to a stimulus – to enable the body to fight or run away. It is about self preservation. But if anxiety becomes attached to a fear then the fear takes on its own life and in this case, fears and phobias are born. With hypnosis, by accessing the subconscious mind, we can desensitize the fear by lowering and removing the anxiety attached to it. Anxiety is driving the fear. It is about the anticipation or dread of something bad happening. The beauty of hypnosis is that you are naturally reducing anxiety symptoms of racing heart, sweating, dry mouth, clamminess. You are in effect learning to be calm and relaxed. By reducing the anxiety attached to say a fear of dogs, then the fear that was born by one dog and then became a fear of all dogs, goes back to its proper place in your mind – as just a bad experience and be saved in your mind as such. With hypnotherapy we are reframing the experience that caused your fear to develop.

To overcome a fear that bothers you call: 086 1038992.

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Dealing with the loss of a baby is never easy especially when there is nothing physical to bury. You need to heal. You need to grieve for what might have been and what is now gone. With hypnosis and this is from personal experience, I learned to relax and become at peace with my loss (2 miscarriages) and overcome the feeling that I was somehow to blame for my losses. No-one can comfort you and people will make comments that you do not need or want to hear. Only you can ever know how you feel. I found hypnosis to be helpful in beating myself up less about my loss and to know my husband too had suffered loss. We had each other. Then there was the struggle to become pregnant again, the stress of each month going by and nothing. Again learning to reduce the anxiety and being less focused on what wasn’t happening and focused on other things (I got a dog). Remembering a GP’s words of “stop watching yourself so much” – still smart within me. With hypnosis I found it was about looking into the future and not being afraid of seeing what I wanted. Sometimes we can be afraid to hope in an effort to protect ourselves. If you would like to talk and find peace and reduce your stress with regard to getting pregnant, please call me on 086 1038892.

Offices: Dublin, Limerick, Portlaoise, Kildare.

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It can be very distressing as a mother to see your child going through the usual childhood dramas but when the insecurity of growing up is hampered with blushing, all you want to do is take away the pain. Hypnosis can help develop the young teenager’s confidence in such away to dampen down the effects of blushing. Parents are present in the session but to give the teenage some comfort, parents are asked to bring some kind of personal playing device, mp3 or CD. Blushing in teenagers kind of goes – it’s learning the social mores but if it causes anxiety so that sleep is disturbed or schoolwork and attendance are affected then consider hypnosis. We tackle the aspect of heat, the redness, any sweaty or clamminess. The only side effect of hypnosis is a feeling of well being which everyone can benefit from.

Appointments: Dublin, Limerick and Portlaoise. 086 1038892

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When the body goes through panic, one of the feelings you experience is the loss of control. This loss of control can send you into freefall. You may be able to manage in your every day life but when the trigger effect – fear of crowds, fear of flying, fear of being centre of attention – occurs what can you do? The first step is acknowledging that you don’t know how to proceed. Hypnosis is a process to bring clarity to the “unknown”. Consciously you know that you don’t want to feel panic but in order to change the feelings of panic, you need to know how you want to feel rather than what you don’t want. To bring about control of your feelings of panic and anxiety, your subconscious mind must be activated and we do this through hypnosis. It doesn’t matter how logical you are, change must occur within the subconscious and to accomplish this you tell the subconscious the way you want to be a certain way in certain situations.

Appointments: Dublin, Portlaoise & Limerick. Call 086 1038892

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If you suffer from warts do you find that year in, year out you have to visit your doctor for cryotherapy to remove the re-grown wart? What if there was a way to remove warts, perhaps permanently but definitively without the yearly growth and it only involved the power of your own mind! Sounds too good to be true – well, it isn’t. With hypnosis, you are using the powerhouse of your mind and with this power you are controlling the wart and ensuring that it kills off the wart. You don’t need to do anything except as directed from your visit and the warts just disappear. This will also work for genital warts (male and female). So why be embarrassed by warts, use hypnosis to control the body temperature and stop feeding the warts. They will just fall off and be gone. The added benefit of hypnosis is the relaxation element, a lovely sense of well being.

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You are fully aware of the reasons why you shouldn’t smoke but yet somehow you still can’t seem to stop. You have two parts to your mind – the conscious and the subconscious. While consciously (and logically), you may not want to smoke anymore somehow you just can’t stop. Your smoking is now a habit whether out of boredom or to relieve stress, its need to be is stored in your subconscious mind. How do we access the subconscious? By hypnosis! hypnosis in itself is a relaxation and when you are relaxed your subconscious mind opens up and is receptive to new positive suggestions as well as offering off reasons for your need to smoke. We address these fears in your consultation so that you are literally “looking forward” to being smokefree.
Appointments: Upper Baggot Street, Dublin 2. 086 1038892

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