Thanks for your positive comments. It may be ‘clever marketing’ to be honest and open about my experiences, especially as I am now a practitioner, but I think you’ll have to decide what you think about that. To me it is just a way of getting the Lightning Process more known about, so more people can get out of the crap life that M.E and lots of other chronic illnesses leave us with. If anyone reads this and it helps them decide to go for it with the LP, then they are most likely to go to another practitioner, so if it is marketing, you could say it’s not too clever! (just needed to defend myself a bit there)

The adrenaline stuff is all about getting stuck in the Stress Response, a well known and researched bit of science these days. A prolonged or repetitive stress response can result in chronic suppression of the immune system. As you know, being ill is stressful, so it is easy to get stuck in the response without realising. Anyone, any age can have this problem as it is not, in my opinion, genetic, but a learned, usually unconcious response. But there does seem to be an M.E ‘type’ in my experience, (about two and a half years since getting well from M.E) which includes some of these traits… perfectionist, kind, people pleaser, sensitive, self-critical, dynamic/busy/industrious, and there is often a history of some childhood difficulties or a dominant character. Even babies can caught in the stress response, so it is no respecter of age, class or gender, although more women get M.E than men.

If you’re a gambler you’d probably be suspicious that the odds of getting well with the LP are so high. About 85% of participants are still well at the 6 month follow up. The only reason it’s not 100% is because some people don’t use the Process when they need to. I know that sounds tough, but it’s what I have experienced myself and seen in lots of other people too.

Getting the LP to work is just about being detirmined and persistent, repeatedly doing the techniques to break an automatic response that mind and body have got stuck in. A bit like getting rid of hiccups, but more serious. So if you do decide to go on the training programme, it’s down to you to do the work, so the odds are you probably will, having paid for it, learnt it and been through the assessment (which is all about making sure you are ready and suitable, and nothing will get in the way of you getting well). It can be quite hard work, and you do have to be persistent, but the pay off can be fantastic.

Hope this helps you figure it all out…I always recommend people talk to others who’ve done the Lightning Process, to get an idea if it seems right for them. If you talk to a practitioner, they may be able to give you phone numbers of previous clients. Here comes the marketing…we are always willing to give initial consultations free, either over the phone or in person.

Good luck and best wishes

Kate

A very well written piece on LP, which comes
across as honest and faily well balanced, although it could of course be clever marketing. After
having had ME for 17 years and long-since stopped
looking for an answer, I’ve just come across the
LP, and it has got my interest. I ask myself do
I have much to lose by trying it? Only £560 and 3 days
- peanuts in comparison to 17 years and the next
50.
The stress/adrenaline stuff seems to make some sense.
Maybe all illness which falls into the auto-immune
category is due to faulty thinking. Certain
character types do seem to be prone to certain illnesses,
although that falls down when in the very young,
who haven’t really had time either to develp faulty thinking or for it to have an effect.
I don’t know what to make of the LP really, but I’ve always been a gambling type, and the odds seem to be rather good. What do you think?

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