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Social Anxiety and Hypnosis

Zita — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:51:43 +0000

There must be nothing more daunting for a sufferer of social anxiety than to talk one to one with someone in a counselling type situation. The very thing you fear is being played out, being the focus of someone else’s attention. The beauty of hypnosis is that your eyes are closed for most of the session with your focus being directed inward. In the relaxed state of hypnosis, you can learn to separate emotion from past events which were are still running inside your mind, making you feel bad, making you feel empty and lonely. Perhaps you fear you are losing your mind, that something is “wrong” with you. In my experience, hypnotherapy gives you the opportunity to learn to like yourself and to love yourself. To stop being the victim and to lose the feeling “of course I’m wrong”. If you are constantly running yourself down, does this make for a happy person – the answer is no. But you can be a survivor, you can come out the other. You can learn to re-engage (or to engage for the first time) in life. To stop looking in from the outside. Think for a moment of what you want for yourself – all the things you want (and not what you don’t want). If you have reached the threshold of suffering and want to feel, see and think differently about your place in the world, you can do this. You may have great insight into your problem and great logic but these are conscious thoughts and conscious thoughts are fleeting. Your responses are stored in your subconscious mind (your automatic habit of feeling down) and you can change this as long as the subconscious mind feels these new changes are for your benefit. Which means you have to justify the new behaviours to yourself. This internal dialogue runs constantly but by accessing it with hypnosis (the key to the subconscious mind), you now know where your positive self lives and allow it to speak up. If you want to stop the self destructive dialogue then call me on 086 1038892 to book an appointment in Limerick or Dublin.

Difficulty swallowing food; recover with hypnosis

Zita — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:00:28 +0000

This is interesting, you are unable to eat solid foods – you just can’t seem to swallow and have to resort to a baby’s menu of soft foods. No doubt your weight is dropping too. Meal times are very stressful. Or perhaps this only occurs when eating out, when other people can see you what you eat/ (or in this case) don’t eat.

There is a tension in your body and your mind forsees the anxiety with trying to eat, the fear of swallowing food, the choking fear and it becomes a vicious circle. Hypnosis is a relaxation and in this case, we are relaxing the throat, allowing you to believe that you can indeed swallow food. The background to this needs to be looked at – was it a choking incident in public that has now made you phobic or did you have a discussion while eating that you couldn’t really swallow (mentally) the contents of it – like breaking up or indeed, stepping the relationship up. Something has caused you to feel this inability to swallow foods, and only your subconscious mind knows why and only your subconscious can change the image in your head so we take the emotion away (because we cannot change the past only the way it is viewed). To re-learn the ability to swallow and to let go of the triggering image in your head, call me on 086 1038892 or email zita@zitastanley.com. Dublin City Centre, Portlaoise, Limerick.

Stop Fear of Flying with Hypnosis: Help in Dublin and Limerick

Zita — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 08:30:28 +0000

Do thoughts of flying fill you with dread? Do you find your enjoyment of your holiday gets shorter and shorter as you feel the panic and anxiety at the thought of your return flight? Do you want to feel more in control and more relaxed? Then let hypnosis help you to regain control of your emotions and feelings so that you think and feel differently about flying.

We will explore the reasons surrounding your fears (and sometimes it has nothing to do with flying!) and reframe events so that the emotional connection is broken and you can look at flying differently. Whether your fear begins when booking a flight or waits until you are on the plane, we can work together to overcome your fear of flying.

Call: 086 1038892. Offices in Dublin City Centre, Portlaoise and Limerick City Centre.

Relaxation: Self Hypnosis

Zita — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:06:18 +0000

Hypnosis is a concentrated relaxation where the focus is on just letting go of the stresses and strains in your life. You just close your eyes and drift off into a deep, relaxing, refreshing state. The wonderful process is not only relaxes your mind but also your physical body.

All hypnosis is self hypnosis, I am your tour guide to your mind showing you how to relax and allow the conscious mind to drift off, thereby allowing the subconscious mind to give you the solutions to problems.

Hypnosis reduces symptoms of stress by slowing down your heart rate, slowing down your breathing and reducing muscle tension. Practicing self hypnosis improves your overall sense of wellbeing and this can be achieved from 5 minutes a day to 30 minutes depending on how you incorporate hypnosis into your life. You find situations which would previously have caused anger or irritation now really do not register inside you. As a knock-on effect your confidence increases and overall you feel happier and more content.

For a relaxation session at 8 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 or Portlaoise. Call me on 086 1038892 or email zita@zitastanley.com.

Social Anxiety: Changing inner thoughts and self talk

Zita — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:02:46 +0000

Being less self conscious means changing your behaviours and reactions. This means stepping outside your comfort zone, breaking through the fear and using the fear to motivate you to change rather than keep you back. In this way, you are challenging the negative thoughts and saying “no more, I deserve and have a right to be part of society, a part of it, not on the edge looking in” and using the power of hypnosis to re-programme your mind for your betterment.

The subconscious mind always has a positive intent but memories of the past have allowed the subconscious mind to set up avoidance behaviours, escape mechanisms in a bid to help but as you know well, this actually compounds the problem. With hypnosis you are moving out of your head. A lot of energy is involved in negative thinking and think of what you could do and how more relaxed your body would be to use this energy in a better way.

A recent client had dropped out of college because she could not face the crowds everyday. Now after only two sessions she is already making plans for 2011 entry to college. You give power to other people’s opinions by accepting them as the truth. Stop it now and see things for how they are and accept yourself. That is the first step, acknowledging whether these words you attach to what you think people think of you “idiot”, “weird”, “foolish” are your words about yourself and in the special relaxation that is hypnosis, we challenge these words and you know, clients find they are these words at all and yet have based their adult lives thinking this is the reality.

Let me help you go to the next level and to embrace change. Call me on 086 1038892 or email zita@zitastanley.com. Offices in Dublin City Centre (Dawson Street), Limerick City and Portlaoise.

Panic and Anxiety Attacks

Zita — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:29:13 +0000

Panic and anxiety give you a feeling of a loss of control. But the fear has a purpose, it has a positive intent whether it is to make you avoid situations that may (in your subconscious mind) cause you distress. But living a life of avoidance is not living, it is just existing and from this place, fear rules your life. But remember it is your mind and your body and you can control it. With hypnotherapy you are the making the changes within it. Hypnosis, a relaxation in itself, allows you to become aware of inner resources that have been dormant or new resources that you can tap into. Fear is about “anticipation” of something bad happening and you will be aware that once this idea takes hold, then the thoughts and body react as though it is reality.

So if you are tired of living to experience panic and anxiety attacks, experience hypnotherapy where you can tap into the subconscious mind so that you gain control of your mind and body.

For an appointment contact me on 086 1038892 or email zita@zitastanley.com. Offices in Limerick, Portlaoise and Dublin City Centre (Dawson Street).

Social Anxiety

Zita — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 08:22:29 +0000

You may have found ways over the years to reduce your anxiety in social situations but find that the shyness and avoidance tendencies have remained. Which makes you feel that you really have made no progress at all. Anxiety, shyness and avoidance techniques are three separate entities and all three need to be worked on.

The shyness and avoidance techniques are controlled by the subconscious mind and the only way to improve the ideas/thoughts about yourself is to access the subconscious mind through hypnosis.

Hypnosis is a relaxation where you have your eyes closed and you can focus on the past memories that give grief today so that you can view them with new eyes and thereby take away the emotional connection. This in turn allows you to determine how you should feel about yourself so that you can adjust your behaviours to more beneficial ones. Being proactive rather than reactive and taking charge of your mind so that you can be more more socially comfortable and take up your rightful space in society.

Once the mind and body are relaxed, then you are relaxed with your mind free to be part of what is actually happening. In this, the rumination and anxiety before an event disappears, you are less self conscious at the event and when you post mortem it, you see the fun times.

If you want to overcome your social anxiety, stop/reduce your shyness, change your behaviours, let me help you with hypnosis as you develop a new skill set and gain a happier, more relaxed you.

The beauty of hypnosis and hypnotherapy is that it is a brief therapy, we focus on how you want to be so you are not years in therapy. I help you to bring your dream of your ideal self into your grasp. You will see results even after the 1st session. Call me on 086 1038892. Offices in Dublin City Centre (Dawson Street), Limerick City and Portlaoise.

Quit Smoking With Hypnosis

Zita — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:39:28 +0000

Perhaps one of your fears is what will you do with the cravings. You fear the hold cigarettes have on you, the agony, the pains you will have suffer in order to become smokefree. These can be accompanied with mood swings and irritability.

With hypnotherapy you can reframe these fears into excitement at what you are doing. You want to embrace health and in return your lungs will reward with easier breathing and more energy. This is the trade off. How great is that thought?

Remember the nicotine leaves your body within 48 to 72 hours. Any cravings you experienced in the past after this time have been the cravings from within your mind – your psychological attachment to cigarettes.

Perhaps you have been a smoker most of your life – with the help of a qualified hypnotherapist you can address losing your “friend” – or what I like to call “frenemy”. The change is coming from within your mind and your emotions. When the decision to stop smoking is taken at the subconscious level – the same level where you learned to smoke then the magic happens and you can be confident in your ability to remain and stay smokefree. Hypnotherapy will make the transition into a smokefree you easier.

To book a stop smoking session in Limerick, Portlaoise or Dublin City Centre, call Zita on 086 1038892 or email at zita@zitastanley.com.

Becoming pregnant with hypnosis.

Zita — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:03:09 +0000

The main focus of hypnosis when you suffer from unexplained infertility is to release any blocks you may have about becoming a parent. You may be paying thousands of Euro to fertility clinics but unless your mind is clear, I am afraid you are just wasting your money. You cannot underestimate the mind-body control. Hypnosis is essentially a relaxation and it is the only way to relax both your mind and body. This allows your self healing powers to develop and you can get go of your worries and concerns. Overall wellbeing and balance is key to becoming pregnant. That is the one thing I notice is that you do change, there is a sadness about you and you lose your sense of joy. Your happiness, unfortunately, cannot depend on becoming pregnant. There is no guarantee. You have to be content with your life as it now, while exploring all the possible ways to help your mind-body connection adjust to allow you to become pregnant. With my course of treatment, I can promise that you will return to old self but I cannot guarantee you will become pregnant – no-one can do that but you are stacking the odds in your favour. If you do not heal your mind (and coming for just one session will not heal you), you are just wasting your time and money going to a fertility clinic. You have to scream, you have to cry, you have to a verbal and/or physical release of the upset inside you. You have to verbalise what you are afraid of and then we can work together to adjust or change your way of thinking so that you have the live you want and most importantly, that you can allow yourself to see your baby in the future.

Appointments: Portlaoise, Co. Laois and Dublin 2. Ring me on 086 1038892.

Social Anxiety and Hypnosis

Zita — Sat, 29 May 2010 11:19:11 +0000

Can you remember the first time you felt belittled, embarrassed, made to feel ashamed of who you were? There is significant in recalling this event through hypnosis so that you can cut the emotional tie to that memory. While we cannot change what has happened, the goal with hypnosis is take the emotional connection away so that you can be free to move forward with your life.

This was recorded in your subconscious as a scene to be protected from. With social anxiety, your thinking process and body language is inwards either trying to curl up into a ball, to disappear as you feel you have no right to take up the space you do. This idea of disappearing or wanting to escape while a protection for you compounds your social anxiety as each time you have to be with others, you struggle more and more.

If you feel you are always on the edge of the group, physically there but never quite present, then let me help you with hypnosis become the person you want to be. I can help you to move your thoughts to focus on what is actually going on rather than your perception – focusing outwards rather than inwards. There is no need to continue to suffer as you are allowing some past event to shape your future. If you want to gain control of your thoughts and emotions, call me on 086 1038892 or email zita@zitastanley.com. Appointments in Baggot Street and Portlaoise.