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The Lightning Process TM

Next Lightning Process courses in Clapham, London:
Saturday 23rd - Monday 25th August 2008 : space still available
Saturday 27th - Monday 29th September 2008 : space still available
Location: The Awareness Centre, 41 Abbeville Road, Clapham, London, SW4 9JX.

Courses are also available in Sydenham, London SE26 (near Bromley, Dulwich and Croydon) and in Bromley, Kent.

Please contact Kate by calling 07964 844375 or emailing kate@everylife.co.uk for available dates and further details on all courses or complete the application form below to book a place.

What is it?

The Phil Parker Lightning Process is a training programme that teaches you, over three days, how to use your mind and body to work together to powerfully influence your health and life. It is already having amazing results for people with:

  • ME
  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  • Post Viral Syndrome
  • Fibromyalgia
  • depression
  • obsessive compulsive disorder
  • low self-esteem
  • panic or anxiety attacks
  • and similar conditions

The Lightning Process draws on the philosophies of neuro linguistic programming, osteopathy, coaching and hypnotherapy. It is a training programme, not a therapy, and therefore the learnings stay with you for the rest of your life. Kate Gare is one of the few, hand-picked, Lightning Process practitioners trained by Phil Parker.

Already thousands of people have recovered from ME, overcome depression, or low self-esteem, something that they never thought possible. Your trainer, Kate Gare, used the Lightning Process herself to fully recover from ME, after being ill for seven years.

The picture below shows just twenty-five of the people who have used the Lightning Process to recover from ME - they were ill for a total of 330 years! They all now have their lives back (Kate is one of these people)

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The NHS is currently trialling the Lightning Process and when the results are published they will be referenced on this website.

TV presenter, Esther Rantzen's daughter used the Lightning Process to recover from ME. You can read her story from the Daily Mail here. photo of Esther Ranten and daughter

Former international rugby player, Austin Healy’s wife also used the Lightning Process to recover from ME. He recorded this video message.

How does it work?

The Lightning Process is a three day training programme which considers how the body and mind influence each other. The structure of the course focuses on two main phases:

Phase One Discovery
Phase Two Change

Phase one - Discovery

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

Influence :

  • Discovering which areas of our health and life we feel we can influence, and which areas we feel we have no say in.
  • Discovering if there are new ways to approach these issues which give us more choice and more influence over our well being and future.

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

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

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.

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

How to change any of the above that are keeping you stuck.

How to make complicated things simple.

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 Lightning Process can only be achieved by being trained by Registered Practitioner who will have a comprehensive knowledge of this unique field.

A number of established theories underpin the Lightning Process, including:

  • Neural plasticity – the ability of the pathways of the brain to change and develop in response to learning and repetition
  • The physiological effects of adrenaline and cortisol
  • The interaction of the mind and body
  • The osteopathic theory of facilitation and the impact of changes in structure causing changes in function.

How does the Lightning Process work for ME/CFS and related illnesses?

Through the development of the Lightning Process for people with ME / CFS and related illnesses it was found that:

  1. ME/CFS can be turned around rapidly and the Lightning Process is an extremely effective approach
  2. There appears to be a set of common findings in ME/CFS cases, which are a number of repetitive and specific thought patterns. It is important to emphasise however, that this does not mean that I or the Phil Parker Lightning Process considers ME/CFS 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. We 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 ME/CFS sufferers, ONE aspect is outlined below:

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CATCH 22

Many sufferers find themselves stuck in the following downward spiral:

  1. You fall ill due to an initial 'bug' or some stress, or external factor that started your ME. This event caused an extreme stress on your immune system.
  2. You felt very unwell. The symptoms were either very strong or lasted so long that you began to wonder if you'd ever get better. You consulted your doctor and specialists in a number of fields, but nobody seemed to have any answers, or provided much useful help, and the illness continued.
  3. These concerns, understandably, made you even more stressed than you were when you got ill, which in turn made your body produce adrenaline and cortisol. Adrenaline (also known as epinephrine) and cortisol 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.

Structure

The structure of the training:

  • Initial discussion (over the phone)
  • Initial assessment (over the phone)
  • Training
    • Day 1 : 3-4 hours
    • Day 2 : 3-4 hours
    • Day 3 : 1 hour individual session or 2-3 hours group session
    • Final session : 1x 1 hour 2 x 30 mins (usually over the phone)

The cost of the training is £590 inclusive of the above and includes the follow up CD for you to take home.

Day 1

Your trainer will help you explore which factors are preventing you from getting what you want. With the ME 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 condition

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

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

Day 2 and 3

You will be trained in further ways to create and stabilise new more effective neurological pathways.

Readiness

Because the Lightning Process is a training programme, and not a therapy (ie it is not 'done to you') it is important that you are ready, so that you can truly benefit.

Answering the questions on the application form may help you to decide if you are ready to take the course. We also recommend that you read and listen to the testimonials and evidence on the Lightning Process site (Kate's is on there). If you would like to talk directly to people who have recovered using the Lightning Process we would be happy to put you in touch with others who have used the Process to transform their lives.

However, if, after all of this, you feel cynical or just want to see what happens, then now is probably not the right time for you, you will probably be wasting your time and money. Should this be the case, you can contact Kate on 07964 844375, or email kate@everylife.co.uk, to discuss what you can do to prepare yourself, and how she can help you do this.

Next Steps and Application Process

To find out more about any aspect of the Lightning Process, or to reserve your place on this remarkable programme, please contact Kate directly on 07964 844375 or email kate@everylife.co.uk. You will then need to download and complete the application form and return it to Kate. She will be in touch shortly to discuss your application.

The Lightning Process
helping you to live a life you love

The Lightning Process course at The Awareness Centre in Clapham is within easy reach of many parts of London, including Balham, Wandsworth, Twickenham, Richmond, Chelsea, Brixton, Tooting and Bromley, Croydon and many other parts of Kent and Surrey.