What is it?

It is a 3 day training program, designed by Osteopath, and personal development expert Phil Parker that teaches your brain and body to work together to powerfully influence your health and life. 

The curriculum of the seminars focuses on two main phases:

1.       Discovery

2.       Change

Phase one- Discovery: Training modules

1.       Beliefs: Discovering the positive and negative power of beliefs on our health and life.

2.       Influence :

a.       Discovering which areas of our health and life we feel we can influence, and which areas we feel we have no say in.

b.      Discovering if there are new ways to approach these issues which give us more choice and more influence over our well being and future.

3.       Inner dialogue: Discovering how much of our inner dialogue is useful and how much is destructive and limits our health and future.

4.       Body Posture: Discovering how the way we use our bodies and carry ourselves influences how our body works and how we feel.

5.       Expectations alter physiology : Discovering how much we create valuable or destructive expectations about what’s about to happen next which directly prepare our body physically for those imagined events.

6.       Responsibility and blame : Distinguishing the difference between being responsible for your health and well being and feeling as if you are to blame for it.

Phase two- Change: Training modules

1. How to change any of the above that are keeping you stuck.
2. How to make complicated things simple.
3. How to dramatically change our perspective and focus when we need to.

 

The process has been designed to be simple enough for anyone to use; much like taking a trip on a plane, as a passenger it seems simple enough to fly from one place to another. However this is only possible due to the pilot’s years of training; similarly, the apparent simplicity of applying The Phil Parker Lightning Process ^TM can only be achieved by being trained by Registered Practitioner who will have a comprehensive knowledge of this unique field.

 

What does it do?

Key components of the training include participants learning exactly how their brain and body have become trapped in a number of damaging unconscious responses, which have blighted their health and stunted their lives. Then using a powerful combination of techniques uniquely developed using the philosophies and research of NLP, osteopathy, self hypnosis and life coaching, they are extensively trained to successfully replace those old unhelpful responses and start to regain their health, their sense of self and their future.

How does it achieve that?

Using the LP’s technique of combining particular body movements and postures with a set of precisely targeted questions many people have got their health back into balance, quickly and successfully recovering from real illnesses that had troubled them for years.

The process is specifically tailored to an individual’s needs and abilities, and the trainee is supported and assisted by an experienced trainer throughout the seminar and afterwards as required.

Detailed description.

We know from feedback from some of our successful participants that some people would appreciate a more technical and detailed explanation of the process before undertaking it. What follows is a more in-depth breakdown of the seminars.

The 3 day training program teaches, step by step, how to influence key body systems such as the immunological, neurological and musculo skeletal system.

It’s derived from osteopathy, NLP, hypnotherapy and life coaching

Day one:

Your trainer will help you explore which factors are preventing you from getting what you want. With the M.E seminars this includes an in-depth discussion of the complex physiology of the condition, and especially considers the role of dysfunctional adrenaline levels in the maintenance of the condition.

Your trainer will take you through the key steps of the process, individually tailoring the process to your needs and abilities. The key steps include a series of body movements, postures and core questions to stimulate new neurological pathways.

As the brain has the ability to create new pathways rapidly the changes can be achieved very quickly. 

Days two and three:

Trains you further in ways to change old established neurological pathways and create and stabilise new more effective ones.

Theories behind the Lightning Process

The established scientific theories that underpin the Lightning Process are

 

• Neuroplasticity- the ability of the pathways of the brain to change and develop in response to learning and repetition. (Reference 1, Reference 2)
• The physiological effects of Adrenaline & Cortisol in the “stress” response. (Reference 1, Reference 2)
• The interaction of the body and mind. (Reference 1, Reference 2)
• The osteopathic theory of facilitation and the impact of changes in structure causing changes in function. (Reference 1, Reference 2)

Recent Research  

Dr. Bruun Wyller has published some interesting articles which concur with the clinical findings of the Phil Parker Lightning Process http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/120/1/e129 and http://lib.bioinfo.pl/auth:Wyller,VB   

You can also read the findings of our recent survey of the results and experiences of participants on the LP seminars by clicking here

 

 

The Phil Parker Lightning Process will train you to get your brain and body working together more  effectively. Research shows that the brain and body learn best when these three criteria are met:

• new information is presented a number of times, in a number of different ways over a short time period
• an instant opportunity is provided to put the new learnings into action
• feedback from an experienced source is available during this learning period to help students refine their understanding and application of the new materials

 

On day one you will learn the process, and start to use it immediately. The other sessions are for fine tuning and to make sure you are getting the results you want.

We have found that small group seminars (and when needed, one to one sessions) create the ideal environment to learn the process as well as get coaching both from the trainer and the group in how to use it to resolve your particular issues.

This means you will get to see the process dozens of times from many different stand-points during your training, discovering through observation how others apply it to their own differing issues and what a flexible tool the Lightning Process can be in your life.

No. Firstly it's not a therapy it's a training program. Secondly no other program I know of is developed from a combination of NLP, osteopathy, self hypnosis and life coaching.

 

Is it like Reverse or Mickel therapy, or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)?

We are often asked if the Lightning Process is linked to Reverse or Mickel therapy or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

The simple answer is that The Lightning Process is no way allied to or developed from or in conjunction with those approaches or the designers of those approaches. It's completely unrelated.

Is it Positive Thinking?

No, unfortunately Positive Thinking on its own is unlikely to make you recover from M.E. or the many other issues that the Lightning Process is used for.

The Lightning Process is not just another name for positive thinking.

Facts:

1. The Lightning Process considers ME to be a genuine physical illness with disturbances of the immunological, endocrinal and neurological systems.
2. The Lightning Process is a training program.
3. On completion of the training the graduates are assessed to determine if they have got an appropriate understanding of the course material. A huge percentage of trainees (about 97%) gain this understanding and make the changes we expect.
4. They will need to continue to apply the training afterwards to continue to get the beneficial effects of the process. Once this is explained, it becomes the responsibility of the individual.
5. Only candidates who understand this and can convince us that this is what they will do are accepted onto the training program.
6. As with any training process, if they don’t continue to apply the training appropriately they will get variable results and are likely to return to the state they were in before the training.
7. We provide as much follow up coaching as requested by graduates to help them implement the training in their lives.
8. There are some individuals who take the training and fail to apply it appropriately or consistently or don’t recognise areas where they should apply it and as a result they then don’t get the benefits of the training. Some of these people recognise that they just need more coaching and training and get further value from the training. Others just think the process doesn’t work for them and at that point will get no further benefit from the training.

Negative opinions and truth.

Amongst the comments on the web about the Lightning Process you will discover some negative opinions.

These stem from the fact that the Lightning Process finds

• That M.E is totally recoverable from
• That over 90% of participants gain recovery from their M.E
• That the change is rapid
• That because it’s not funded by taxpayers’ money, you have to pay for it.

For some people this goes against everything they believe and know to be true.

In fact this would be much less of an issue if our success rate was 5% and the change took months to achieve.

The sources of these negative opinions are:

1 People who have no actual personal experience of the Lightning Process, but are certain they know all about it.

2 A very small (less than 10%) group of people who have taken the training and not managed to apply it as directed by their trainer.

If you wished to cross London by public transport would you consult someone who had

1. Never made the journey
2. Consistently failed to make the journey and has got lost each time.

Or would you ask someone who had made the journey successfully a number of times?

People who have used the Lightning Process to recover from their ME unsurprisingly start to move away from groups and forums which discuss what it’s like to have ME as they don’t have it anymore. As a result the opinions voiced in those forums will be fairly unrepresentative of those who have successfully used the process to recover.

 

For practical details on the Phil Parker Lightning Process please read on...

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