We are pleased to report that we are currently undertaking research, using established scientifically valid research protocols, under the scrutiny of a leading authority in the field of ME/CFS. More details will be released once the findings are collated and some conclusions are drawn, as that will be the most appropriate time to discuss the research's impact.

Please note that because we consider Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome (PVFS) & Fibromyalgia to all be part of the same type of condition, and find that they all respond equally well to the Lightning Process Training we use the term M.E to refer to all those illnesses.

Some of our ex-M.E sufferers have kindly agreed to make their personal recovery stories available for you to read or to watch videos of them as they go through the Lightning Process. Please bear in mind that these are their experiences in their own words, and although it may fly in the face of everything you've been led to believe about M.E, these stories of dramatic lasting change are all TRUE.

Like many complementary health practitioners working in the 1980's, I felt sure I had a lot to offer clients with M.E. But as time went by I found that although I could help them a bit, I struggled to help them maintain their improvements. After a while I began to almost dread new M.E clients, it was so unsatisfying, and upsetting to have to standby helplessly seeing them continue to suffer.

After developing the Lightning Process, and finding it so successful with all sorts of 'difficult to treat' cases (see the History of The Phil Parker Lightning Process) I began to consider if it would be effective in helping M.E sufferers.

To my astonishment the effects were instant and profound. Clients with all kinds of different M.E symptoms got better over night. At first I was cautious of the initial success.
Would it last, did it just work for a few people and had I just been lucky with my first clients?

After seeing my first five M.E clients, who all reported the same dramatic improvements, and a complete remission from all their symptoms, and following them up over the following 2 years I discovered three important things

1. M.E can be turned around rapidly.

2. The Phil Parker Lightning Process is an extremely effective approach for rapidly recovering permanently from M.E

3. There appears to be a set of common findings in M.E cases, which are a number of repetitive and specific thought patterns. It's is important to emphasise however, that this does not mean that I or the Phil Parker Lightning Process considers M.E to be all in the mind, it is not; it's an illness with major physical components. However, physical approaches to this condition have a poor and slow outcome, whilst addressing these thought patterns seems, so far, to consistently produce rapid and lasting recovering. I consider this to be yet another example of how the body and the mind powerfully influence each other.

To give an example of some of the elements that seem to be common in all M.E sufferers, I present ONE aspect of my M.E research below.

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CATCH 22

Many sufferers they find themselves stuck in the following downward spiral

1. You fall ill due to an initial 'bug', chemical or in some cases stress, or other external factor that started your M.E. This event causes extreme demands on your immune and neurological system.

2. You feel very unwell. The symptoms were either very strong or lasted so long that you begin to wonder if you'd ever get better. You consult your doctor and specialists in a number of fields, but nobody seems to have any answers, or provide much useful help, and the illness continues.

3. Your physical response to the illness now combined, understandably, with these concerns for your future, creates even more for your body to deal with. This in turn makes your body produce the hormones adrenaline (also known as epinephrine), nor-adrenaline and cortisol. The powerful hormones are a good and normal response to short term stress, but long term production of them exhausts us, it affects our blood sugar and thyroid levels, it suppresses (and messes up the proper regulation of) our immune system and makes us prone to illness and tiredness…..this unfortunately makes you loop back to step 2.

Please note: The physiology of this cycle is well documented by other authorities (Selye et al), and is explained more fully during the seminar. We've tried to keep the above description brief and simple, but it is of course only a partial glimpse of the complex interactions of the mind, body and hormonal systems, and should not be taken as the entirety of our understanding of the physiological mechanisms involved. More complex events can result from long term stimulation of this cycle, such as adrenal exhaustion and low cortisol levels which in turn create different physiological responses and immune system regulation issues- again these more advanced issues are explained in detail on the seminars.

People with M.E are very rightly concerned at any suggestion that M.E is a psychosomatic illness. It's not. It's not all in the mind. It's a physical illness.

It's taken medicine a long time and much campaigning to get M.E recognised as a physical condition, and we are very keen to emphasize that we concur with that view.

Our approach relies on an understanding that the body and the mind are interrelated and interact with each other. We have used this training program to successfully help people get over all sorts of other physical conditions, like back pain, migraines, asthma etc., but that doesn't mean we consider those conditions to be all in the mind either.

It's also true for most people that attempting to recover from M.E using physical methods rarely succeeds. The Lightning Process however has been very successful at changing people with M.E's physical condition rapidly and for the long term.

We would suggest that if what you are doing isn't working, then it's time to do something different.

We are often asked if once you have recovered using the process is it possible to relapse (which of course is huge fear of many M.E sufferers as it happens with so many other approaches). The simple answer is NO, not if you continue to use the process as you have been taught it.

Consider if we were training you to speak French and you left our French course with a good understanding of how to speak French, then, would you expect to be able to speak French a few months or years later?

The answer would not depend on our French training, it would depend on whether you had kept up practising your newly acquired skill, and because The Lightning Process is a training program, it's exactly the same-if you don't use it you will lose it!

Naturally if you learnt the Lightning Process, and didn't apply it, but tried to push yourself do activities that your body was just not phycially capable of, it would cause the same problems as for anyone who still had M.E, in that you would probably crash. This however is not because of taking the Lightning Process training, it's due to magically expecting your body to be different inspite of not using the Lightning Process to restore good physcial health and function.

"I just can't say how grateful I am to you for choosing to work with this problem and taking it on so thoroughly and with such resolution, and for recognising that people with ME are motivated to get better. It really does feel like I spent 12 years in a hole with crowds of people passing by and miraculously you stopped and showed me how to build a ladder. It's what you do - you patiently go round all the holes showing the stuck people how to get out." Zoe

Ruth before and after more...

Sarah before and after more...

For more personal recovery stories to read or to watch videos participants as they go through the Lightning Process.

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