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The Lightning Process™ can be used for a variety of symptoms and issues. Once you have seen your doctor and eliminated obvious causes of short term and acute conditions (tissue damage etc) and you have allowed your body three to six months to recover and heal, then you are deemed to have a chronic or persistent condition. This excellent video from Australia explains the issues behind chronic pain, for example, in an accessible, sensible and practical way. As the video says - it is important to retrain the brain and nervous system. The Lightning Process is a life-changing training course spanning 3 days, which I teach in two venues in Bristol and in the lovely setting of Hawkwood College on the edge of Stroud in the Cotswolds. Where does it come from?Why do some people with certain conditions have only temporary and variable improvements from interventions they try? What is it that is keeping them 'stuck' even with the aid of excellent therapists and a whole range of therapies that have been proven effective in other areas? The Lightning Process is the result of more than a decade of research, experimentation and exploration by Phil Parker and his colleagues to answer those questions. What is it?The Lightning Process is a training programme over 3 days (approximately 12 hours contact time plus "homework") where you will learn the techniques necessary to recognise and stop the negative physical and mental cycle. You will then practice these techniques in your daily life. For some people it takes days to feel well, happy and healthy and for others a number of weeks until they feel that all their symptoms are gone. It is most important to continue using the Lightning Process as instructed. Even people who feel completely well find it useful to keep in practice, using the process for life's challenges. The Lightning Process is a powerful combination of techniques, developed from life coaching, self-hypnotherapy, NLP and osteopathy. They work as a combination. Like a recipe, if you omit essential ingredients you may not get the desired results. What it isn't!It has no affiliation and isn't developed from C.B.T., Mickel or Reverse therapy. Some people think it sounds a bit like C.B.T. (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) because there are some similarities in terms of thought stopping, cognitive reappraisal and self-talk. However that is where the similarity stops. Neither is it positive thinking which is highly unlikely to do the job on its own. There is no pacing involved. The Lightning Process is fundamentally different. It is not a therapy. It is a training which gives you tools which, if practiced regularly, empower you and allow you to influence the course of your life and the way you live it. Is it all in the mind?No! I had a genuine physical illness. Painful limbs, inability to manage stairs, loss of stamina, lack of concentration, fuzzy vision, fuzzy thoughts, need to sleep many hours in the day ... etc. Most people now understand and accept that the body and mind (including the emotions) work together in complex ways which we do not fully understand. The Lightning Process recognises that the mind and body are not separate entities and powerfully affect each other on a biochemical level. If someone has suffered cardiac disease, aggravated by stress, and has been told by the consultant that they must change their lifestyle, lose weight and cut out drinking and smoking, no one would accuse the consultant of dismissing the very real physical illness as 'being all in the mind'. Some people were keen to tell me what to do! I tried "pulling my socks up", saw a psychotherapist (and several other "alternative" treatments) with little or temporary success. The Lightning Process teaches you the tools to allow you to intervene and take more control of your own health and well-being. There is as yet no evidence from clinical trials but we believe it works by rebalancing the disturbances in your immune, endocrine and neurological systems. In the future, we hope there will be scientific studies showing how and why it works, but steps towards these are in the very early stages and they typically take years to undertake and report. The Lightning Process is more than that too. The tools can be used in a host of delightful life enhancing ways. So having learned it - it is a tool for life.
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