The Lightning Process™- What is it?
The Lightning Process™ is a TRAINING PROGRAMME not a therapy and so you will be trained in techniques by Jan a lightning process practitioner, over a three day course (3 hours per day on each of the 3 days) which you will then practise at home whenever you recognise the negative fatigue cycle starting. Some people find they practise regularly in the beginning whilst others barely ever need to use it after a short while. The Lightning Process™ is a powerful combination of techniques using philosophies of osteopathy, NLP and life coaching. Some people think LP is like Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) but I attended CBT groupwork, when referred by the ME consultant, and it had no effect (apart from making her feel really despondent about ever recovering). There are some similarities in terms of thought stopping, cognitive reappraisal and self talk. However, the Lightning Process is fundamentally different in that it teaches you how to overcome ME in an incredibly short space of time, using a range of techniques. There is absolutely nothing “quirky” about The Lightning Process™, as suggested on certain forums by people who have never seen it! It is based on proven theories, studies and techniques, combined in such a way as to provide a successful recipe for recovery.
Is it like any other therapy?
No. Firstly it's not a therapy, it's a training programme. Secondly, no other programme I know of is developed on a combination of NLP, osteopathy, self hypnosis and life coaching.
Is it like Reverse or Mickel therapy, or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)?
Some people are concerned that the Lightning Process might be similar to Reverse or Mickel therapy or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and because they've already tried RT, MT, CBT they are not sure whether the Lightning Process will help them. However, The Lightning Process™ is in no way allied to or developed from or in conjunction with those approaches or those approaches designers.
Is it Positive Thinking?
No, Positive Thinking on its own is unlikely to make you recover from M.E. The Lightning Process™ is not just about positive thinking.
Facts:
- The Lightning Process™ considers ME to be a genuine physical illness with disturbances of the immunological, endocrine and neurological systems.
- The Lightning Process™ is a training programme.
- 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.
- They will need to continue to apply the training afterwards to continue get the beneficial effects of the process. Once this is explained, this becomes the responsibility of the individual.
- Only candidates who understand this and can convince us that this is what they will do are accepted onto the training programme.
- 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 at before the training.
- We provide as much follow up coaching as requested by graduates to help them implement the training in their lives.
- 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- 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, and others just think the process doesn’t work for them and at that point will get no further benefit from the training.