We are keen to help you start a new phase in your life, however we find that, as with any training program, being "ready" to undertake the training program is essential to get the results you want. Our Practitioners therefore are trained to assess you, as much as possible, for "readiness" and will advise you to not take the course if they don't feel you are likely to get value from it.
This page is designed to help you find out if you are ready.

Step 1: If you have not already done so please watch the videos of other people's experience of the Lightning Process^TM before deciding if you are ready- we've found that this is the best way to work out if this training program is for right for you at this time.

Step 2: Our experience suggests you should only fill in an application form if you can agree with these statements:

• I understand that the lightning process is a training program and not a therapy or treatment. AGREE / DISAGREE

The process or trainer will not FIX you. We will however teach you the strategies which others have used to recover from their M.E etc.

• I understand that learning the lightning process therefore does not guarantee me any results. AGREE / DISAGREE

This is because it's a training program. We will train you in the same way as everybody else who's found this approach the key to moving their lives on. But we can't predict whether you will apply the training to your life or not.

• I accept full responsibility for the effects of applying or not applying this training program to my life. AGREE / DISAGREE

• I recognise that the mind and body can powerfully influence each other. AGREE / DISAGREE

• I am prepared to look at and challenge my beliefs about my condition/illness, my health and myself. AGREE / DISAGREE

• I am totally prepared to do the sometimes-challenging work of starting to think very differently that's required to get myself back on track. AGREE / DISAGREE

Step 3: Get as much information as you can about the Process by reading, and completing the exercising in the book, The Introduction to The Lightning Process? This is where your Lightning Process journey really begins.

This book is recommended reading for anyone interested in the process. It has been designed to help you learn more about the process and to decide if it is right for you at this time. It will also help prepare you for your assesment phone call if you chose to apply to take the training.

Please chose your Registered Practitioner and fill in their application form.

Our experience is that not everyone is quite ready to get value from the training right now. Following the steps above should make it clear to you whether this is something for you now, or not.

If you find yourself agreeing with these following statements, then maybe it's not right for you, right now- you might want to spend some time thinking about it some more or maybe talk to a practitioner-they are always willing to have an informal chat with you to give you some pointers as to what you might need to do.

We consider you are probably not ready yet to take the training if:

1 You are cynical about the process.

Having said that, we do expect people to be a bit unsure as to whether they will get the same results as the cases reported on this website- that seems entirely reasonable based on many people's histories of lack of success with other approaches.

However there is a huge difference between

• being uncertain of the outcome of the process whilst at the same time deciding to put your all into the training process to make sure you get full value from it
• or just turning up to prove that it won't work for you, or seeing how it goes.

2 If you doubt that the video footage is genuine.

3 If you'd like to give it a go and see what happens.

Because the process success is entirely dependent on YOU making changes to the way YOU think, we find that the level of commitment you have to making sure you get the benefits of the process is the most important factor in making a rapid and lasting recovering- remember this is not a treatment, it's training, and the tools of the process are only powerful when they are used as taught.

4 Certain ways of thinking are very valuable in certain fields, being cynical and analytical are great in Law and science, but not that useful in emotional relationships.

We find that a cynical mind doesn't necessarily prevent you from benefiting from the process, but it does mean it will take you much longer to get changes as you will be focusing on your usual analytical thoughts rather than doing the process.

If you are of a cynical persuasion can you allow yourself to be ready to let this pattern go whilst undertaking this training?

"I met my girlfriend, Vikki a year ago, attractive and chatty I was keen to take her out.  Her early email and telephone conversations were frank and honest as she revealed fifteen years trying to cope with ME, the various treatments she had tried and the impact it had had on her friends, family, work and domestic life. 

 What could I do or say?

 Well I simply said "All I can do is walk alongside you and see what happens".

A year later we are still seeing each other and the contrast in that time is amazing due to the "Lightning Process".  

Vikki was struggling with bursts of adrenaline causing her to crash and burn.  Enrolling on Phil Parker's Lightning Process the training program was, for both of us, a revelation.  In just those three days whilst on the training program we were able to go out for three meals in as many days, walking to the local restaurants. Before LP we had been going out once every two weeks and had had to get the bus for a one stop journey

Since then it has been onwards and upwards regularly going out watching bands, to restaurants, seeing family and friends.  Thoughts are now turning to adventurous holidays.

It's easy to be skeptical about the Lightning Process, I was.  However the results for Vikki have been amazing and I'm now not walking alongside her but very much being led by her."

If your Doctor or health care specialist is trained in Phil Parker The Lightning Process^TM then they can of course assess you for readiness to take the program.

If they are not trained in the program they will not have the requisite skills or knowledge base about this very specialised field to assess you.

A large part of the training for LP practitioners is to train them to appropriately assess potential trainees for their suitability for the process, as it is essential to distinguish, as far as is possible, that only those who are ready to get benefits from the training program are enrolled in the training.

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 85% 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.

If having made it this far you 'are ready' please apply for a place on the Phil Parker Lightning Process^TM Training by choosing your practitioner and fill in their Application Form.

Once we've received your application, we will contact you to discuss your suitability to take the training before we offer you a place in the Phil Parker Lightning Process^TM.

Not everyone who fills in an application form is accepted- if we feel you are not ready to get value from the training yet, we will ask you to do some more preparation before talking to you again.

Due to this fact you will not be expected to pay for the seminar until you accepted following your assessment. If you send a cheque with your application and you are not accepted then your cheque will, of course, be returned to you.