Welcome to our Blog.

During the last nine years the Phil Parker Lightning Process has helped over 10,000 people recover from M.E. and many other chronic illnesses.

With a very high success rate of over 85%, some people have been quick to discredit it. A very small minority (including those that have direct experience and others who have none) have made their feelings known publicly on blogs and websites.

The purpose of this Blog is to address those comments and concerns and to provide an informative insight into the Lightning Process  for those who have little or no knowledge and whom are considering undertaking the training.

Thank you for spending some time with us.

Steve and Kate

 

                                                                                                                                                

 

 

 

 

The Lightning Process is sometimes mistakenly called Lightning Technique, Lightning Therapy or Lightning Treatment

 

Becoming a butterfly

The spindle that has spun through years and tears slowly loses its rhythym of doubt

As she walks towards the end of the tunnel, suddenly “there’s light” she doth shout

The smell of grass, the sound of the sea pulls her gradually through the negativity

Only a glimmer of hope was needed, a need to which she could cling

Feeling the difference of doubt turn to hope she feels a glow deep within

She is changing, rearranging inside her very own cacoon

She will be different – she knows a change is coming soon

To realise she has a choice has allowed her to find her voice

So she walks through the brambles in her mind for she sees the light getting nearer in view she believes she can become a butterfly and so if you believe then you can too.

Michelle W.

Beautiful, beautiful girl

Beautiful, beautiful girl
How are you my luscious pearl?
Eyes of azure blue
Rosey is your hue
You are a shining star
Just as you are

The tunnel is lit
And I will guide you from the pit
You are enough and so much more
Bask in the sun and I implore
See your splendour and your spark
I will aid you out of the dark
And lead yourself where you dare to tread
Into the daylight that nourishes and keeps you fed.

Frances K.

The Lightning Process is easy

The Lightning Process is easy.

All we do is Stop a thought and redirect it onto another track.

We are not trying to stop a train.

We are not trying to stop an historical event.

We are not trying to stop a symptom.

We are simply noticing a thought or feeling that is not useful, and replacing it with one that is. It is repeatedly and consistently doing it that creates the amazing result.

 

Latest CFS Research

We present an integrative model of disease mechanisms in the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), unifying empirical findings from different research traditions.  Based upon the Cognitive activation theory of stress (CATS), we argue that new data on cardiovascular and thermoregulatory regulation indicate a state of permanent arousal responses – sustained arousal – in this condition. We suggest that sustained arousal can originate from different precipitating factors (infections, psychosocial challenges) interacting with predisposing factors (genetic traits, personality) and learned expectancies (classical and operant conditioning). Furthermore, sustained arousal may explain documented alterations by establishing vicious circles within immunology (Th2 (humoral) vs Th1 (cellular) predominance), endocrinology (attenuated HPA axis), skeletal muscle function (attenuated cortical activation, increased oxidative stress) and cognition (impaired memory and information processing). Finally, we propose a causal link between sustained arousal and the experience of fatigue. The model of sustained arousal embraces all main findings concerning CFS disease mechanisms within one theoretical framework. 

by Vergard B Wyller, Hege R Eriksen and Kirsti Malterud

Behavioral and Brain Functions 2009, 5:10doi:10.1186/1744-9081-5-10

Published 23 February 2009

The Fire of Life

The Fire of Life

The Fire of Life burns brightly

Deep in the Soul so lightly

Scorches away the old familiar pattern

Brings forth a heavenly lantern

Full of hope letting go the sorrow

Now eager to see the ‘morrow.

Sometimes the flame is low

Lightning strikes and revives its’ glow

Bless all who tread this path

Though it may be hard and graft

If you choose to sail this course

Joy and peace are forever yours.

Frances K

Is the Lightning Process the cure for chronic fatigue?

Last night I drove through 3 hours of snow to get back from Suffolk where I had taken the 3 day Lightning Process training. I had plenty of time to reflect on the training and even use it in my head as the snow got thicker, visibility dropped and the traffic on the roads slowed from 60 to 50 to 40 to 30.

The Lightning Process is notorious for its rapid effects on chronic fatigue and M.E. There are many reports of people restricted to wheelchairs seeing improvements within just a few days, even being able to walk by the end of the 3 day training. Even if you do not have any condition like this, what the LP is doing is worth understanding because it points to a radical new model for health and happiness.

I had experienced a mild version of what I would call Adrenal Fatigue for several years and thought that the Process might help me get back on form.

The LP is called a training, not a therapy. That means we are taught a process that we need to use regularly until our symptoms are gone.

So what is it exactly? The process is actually rather simple. You can find all the components in it elsewhere – in NLP, hypnotherapy, and life coaching. And yet I still can’t think of a way to get the same results as effectively as doing the LP training.

The Lightning Process website (and book) is very cagey about exactly what the training entails. That’s because it’s difficult to describe the process in written form and do it justice. Imagine someone writing a book on how to drive; when to press certain peddles and when to change gear. Reading it wouldn’t give you very much at all until you went and did it.

For those who are interested in the Law of Attraction and who’ve watched films like The Secret and What The Bleep Do We Know?, the LP tells you how to actually do what they only talk about. But that doesn’t mean there is anything remotely spiritual or New Age about the process – it is very practical.

The Process is based on new understanding of biology; about the plasticity of the brain (ie that we can form new connections by thinking different thoughts) and how the brain influences the rest of our biology.

If you think a stressful thought, the brain puts the body into a fight or flight state which is fine in the short term, but if you keep thinking stressful thoughts that state of readiness (with raised adrenalin and cortisol) is damaging to your health.

And the thoughts you regularly think form stronger connections in the brain that fire more readily and quickly. So thinking stressful thoughts then becomes easier, even automatic and unconscious. The resulting affect on your health is what causes M.E according to the Lightning Process. (This is not suggesting M.E. is all in the mind. The theory is that it is a way of thinking that depletes your health which in turn gives rise to M.E.)

So if you then make a habit of thinking a different, more positive thought, the old connections start to die away and the new one gets stronger. Thinking positively then becomes the habit. At first, we use the Lightning Process to do this until it builds the structures in the brain that make it easy and automatic.

Aside from how effective it is on M.E. and psychological states like depression and anxiety imagine what it could do for your creativity!

I’ll report more on how I get on using it later.

I did the Lightning Process with the wonderful Kate Simpson (the bonus is you get to stay in their beautiful farmhouse in the Suffolk countryside). You can contact Kate on 01502 675012 or visit her website  www.simpsonandfawdry.com

John Williams
www.creativemaverick.com

Lightning Process and MS (multiple sclerosis)

We have started using the Lightning Process training programme to help people with MS. The initial results are astonishingly good, so we are beginning to share the news with others. 

The pathological findings in cases of relapsing and remitting MS are characterised by lesions in the myelin sheaths which appear to be constant and unchanged in both the good and poor phases of the illness. This logically leads to a hypothesis that there is some other factor at work, in addition to the pathological findings, which is mediating the symptom picture and varying degree of disability in the remission or relapse phases. 

Our questions then are,

1.        Is there any way of accessing or capitalising on that natural ability of the body to improve and recover in spite of the consistent presence of lesions?

2.        Can the length of the remission phase be extended, say to 50 or 70 years? In other words, could remission really be recovery? 

So the point is, if the lesions or scleroses don’t change, but the persons’ symptoms go, then maybe the lesions are also a symptom, so are not the cause of the problem and something else is at work. The Phil Parker Lightning Process® has addressed the ’something else’ with thousands of people with CFS and M.E, as well as many other chronic illnesses. 

A few years ago three people with MS who trialled the Lightning Process with Phil Parker got some good results, so it looks very hopeful. There is also evidence of people with lesions who have never had symptoms. 

More recently we have had 10 people with MS with a wide variety of symptoms. They are all recovering remarkably well so far, so we have now started gathering evidence that full recovery may be possible and sustainable. In our opinion, the difference between relapsing/remitting MS and progressive MS is not crucial to recovery. The more relevant factor seems to be the patient’s willingness to commit to doing the Lightning Process training programme effectively. 

These are just a handful of cases but the results are so good they are at the very least a cause for great interest in the potential for others. So much so, that we have met with the MS Society’s research team in London to discuss what has been achieved to date. We are now putting together a pilot study with the hope that this will lead to full clinical trials, a process which could take approximately five years. 

It is early days so we can make no huge claims, but would welcome the opportunity to share this information in more detail and offer the same programme to others with MS if they feel ready to take on the challenge!  We have permission to share case notes (anonymously) so if you’d like to know more please contact us.

 

Kate Simpson & Steve Fawdry
Dip. Clin. Hyp, NLP, Coach, CPNLP. LLPP. MBIH                                                                     
Advanced Lightning Process Practitioners

01502 675012                                                                                                                    www.therowancentre.com

 
April 2009

New hope for ME and Chronic Fatigue

Steve Fawdry and Kate Simpson specialise in teaching the Lightning Process which enables people with M.E and other chronic conditions to completely clear their symptoms. 

Designed about nine years ago by Phil Parker, the Lightning Process combines aspects of NLP (neuro linguistic programming), hypnotherapy, life coaching and osteopathy. The patient learns how to use a powerful combination of physical and mind based techniques to change neural pathways in their brain. This enables the immune system to reassert itself and their body to start clearing the symptoms in a matter of days. Total wellness is achievable no matter how debilitated the patient. Even bed bound patients have recovered using these techniques. Recovery times can vary from a few days to several months but most get well quickly.

The Lightning Process is unusual in that it is not a treatment or therapy. Rather than trying to manage or treat the symptoms, the Process requires the patient to apply themselves fully to a programme designed to get to the cause of the problem. Because it teaches us how to re-pattern the brain, it has been shown to be effective for many other chronic conditions as well as M.E and Chronic Fatigue. Thousands of M.E sufferers are now well, but also patients with Depression, Fybromyalgia, I.B.S and Migraines are benefiting. A few M.S patients are starting to try it as well and report improvements.

Kate had M.E for nearly five years and after using the Lightning Process to get well, she also used it to recover from depression and anxiety caused by childhood traumas. Steve used the Process to clear the fatigue he had since having Glandular Fever as a child, and then went on to use it to recover from hayfever and asthma too. So they decided to completely change careers, trained with Phil Parker and have been practicing in Suffolk since 2007. 

They believe it is entirely reasonable to be sceptical about the Lightning Process as it clearly challenges current thinking that so many of these chronic conditions are incurable. They actively encourage people to find out as much as possible about the Process. You can get lots of information and recovery stories on their website www.therowancentre.com or talk to people who have used the Process themselves.

Kate and Steve are also giving free consultations over the phone. If you want to have an informal chat on the phone or make an appointment, please phone them on 01502 675012.

Lightning Process Practitioner Register

To become a Lightning Process Practitioner, you first have to train with Phil Parker (designer and originator of the Lightning Processs) at the Phil Parker Training Institute in London.

The training is for one year, after which you gain a Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy, NLP and Life Coaching. This is a pre-requisite for the Lightning Process Practitioner training which then follows. Only after you have completed your exams are you accepted onto the LP register of licenced practitioners.

Please click on the link to view the Register.