http://www.pinnacletherapy.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 31 May 2009 08:36:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One father of two was featured in the media this month after he quit smoking using hypnosis for his two young children. 56 year old Chris Carter from Woodley has two children aged two and six years old and having been a cigar smoker for 35 years, he decided it was ... http://www.pinnacletherapy.co.uk/dad-quits-smoking-for-children-using-hypnosis-312.html A couple of days ago, we wrote an article about how hypnosis and hypnotherapy can help the healing process, however, some people may still wonder how it is possible that hypnotherapy can actually help with physical pain. Often in real life, people have grown accustomed to believing that they have to ... http://www.pinnacletherapy.co.uk/hypnosis-and-physical-pain-311.html Despite how hypnosis is often portrayed in the media, on films and television, hypnotherapy is a real tool to help people overcome real issues in everyday life such as weight loss, overcoming phobias and quitting bad habits like smoking and nail biting. Hypnosis is also particularly useful in the area of ... http://www.pinnacletherapy.co.uk/hypnosis-can-help-healing-310.html We have talked in previous articles about how hypnosis can be used to assist weight loss and indeed, celebrities such as Lily Allen have dropped dress sizes using hypnotherapy. According to reports in the media this week, one mother has had hypnosis to help her believe she had had a gastric ... http://www.pinnacletherapy.co.uk/hypnosis-helps-mum-lose-four-stone-309.html Counselling and psychotherapy are associated with traumatic events, but when someone thinks of examples of where it might be used they often think of dramatic happenings such as returning from war, witnessing murder or other such traumas. However, trauma can come from smaller incidents too. During a robbery at the ... http://www.pinnacletherapy.co.uk/counselling-for-trauma-308.html According to an article in the Express & Star, figures released to them under the Freedom of Information Act have shown almost 1,000 police staff members in the West Midlands alone have had to take time off work citing stress as the cause in the last three years with over ... http://www.pinnacletherapy.co.uk/counselling-for-our-police-officers-307.html Many people are coming round to the idea of alternative treatments such as hypnotherapy now and recognising that although they certainly do not replace conventional medicine or seeing your GP, they can have beneficial effects and are useful in many aspects of health and wellbeing for people. Over the last few ... http://www.pinnacletherapy.co.uk/company-alternative-treatment-plans-306.html Some clients may be surprised when a hypnotherapist asks how they are paying for their hypnotherapy session, but money is an interesting topic when it comes to motivation for hypnosis. In earlier articles, regular readers may have noted that we often talk about how the hypnotherapist is only a ... http://www.pinnacletherapy.co.uk/does-it-matter-who-pays-for-my-hypnotherapy-303.html Many people feel nervous at the thought of going into a hypnotic trance, probably because of all the hype that hypnosis gets through the media such as films and television, much of which is exaggerated. So how does it feel to go into a trance? Trance is actually something that ... http://www.pinnacletherapy.co.uk/what-does-a-trance-feel-like-304.html In past articles, and speaking to clients, we have often referred to the fact that many issues can be resolved using hypnosis in as little as one or two sessions and many clients will express their surprise at this. The number of sessions that an issue will take depends largely upon ... http://www.pinnacletherapy.co.uk/why-should-hypnotherapy-be-faster-302.html