How Does It Work?

Eating disorders often have a psychological and physiological components. The LP considers what needs to be done to make changes in both these areas.

Common psychological issues can include habits, addictive behaviours, inner conflicts and past traumas. The LP teaches you how you can move on from this by understanding the importance of the nervous system in maintaining and changing these patterns and habits.

If a nerve pathway is used a lot then it starts to become even easier to use the next time; so if you feel bad about yourself after eating, very soon the ’wiring’ in your brain will change so that the thought of eating rapidly triggers the thought of feeling bad. Trying to resist the power of this new neurology is very difficult unless you know how to make new more healthy pathways and associations. The LP can teach you exactly how to do this, whilst considering how those pathways got to be so strong in the first place.

The physiological side of eating disorders is addressed by considering the Physical Emergency Response.

Physical Emergency Response (PER)

When ever the body sense a threat, for example;

Breaking a leg
Eating ‘bad’ food
Emotional shock

It produces the PER to find a way to recover or stay safe. It does this by switching on:

Sympathetic Nervous System
Production of the powerful hormones adrenaline, nor adrenaline, dopamine, cortisol and DHEA.

This is exactly what needs to happen to help us deal with the threat, affecting our muscles and nervous system. The problem comes when we keep on switching this system on, because this leads to problems with the way our digestive and immune system works (which is the system for healing the body) and changes the way our nerve cells work.

If you want a more detailed explanation of the PER and how we can get stuck into a cycle of switching it on all the time, please download this information pack.

What’s covered on the course?

The Lightning Process three day seminar is an interactive journey of discovery that takes approximately 12 hours to unfold and is designed to teach you:

1. About the PER and what happens if it is constantly switched on.

2. How to Spot when the PER is occurring

3. How to Calm the PER through specific steps using of movement, posture, coaching. These steps are not vigorous or physically demanding and can be tailored to meet the capabilities of even the most debilitated clients.

4. How to make this change to your physiology permanent by practicing the steps so that they become automatic, leading to health and well being.

We’ve made a short film to explain more about the content of each day, it also shows Phil Parker teaching a seminar.

Any more questions?

Although this web site contains a lot of information many people want to know a bit more and speak to real person about the course. Please contact you local practitioner, they will be very happy to answer any further questions you have.