Ten years comprehensive study brought about a break-through with a technique which he has since fully developed.

The Lightning Process™ has been so named because it is so quick!

Topics covered here:

What is the Lightning Process™?
The Objective of the Lightning Process™ Training Program
Who is the Lightning Process™ for?
How Does the Lightning Process™ work?
M.E. is a Physical Illness
Addressing the common issue with M.E. patients
How Was the Lightning Process™ discovered?

What is the Lightning Process™?

To quote some of Phil's text on his website:
"It is a 3 day training program, designed by Osteopath, Hypnotherapist and NLP master practitioner Phil Parker that step by step teaches your brain and body to work together to powerfully influence your health and life.

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

It is a training program (NOT a therapy), that combines concepts from

* NLP
* Hypnotherapy
* Life Coaching
* Osteopathy

It is a process in which you are trained and coached, step by step by, by your personal instructor. The whole Lightning Process™ is explained and demonstrated to you so that you are trained in using the process for yourself.

This means that when you have learnt to use the process you have the knowledge to put it into practise as soon as you leave the clinic and will never have to return to the clinic, or anywhere else, for your illness / symptoms ever again!

Because the Lightning Process™ is a training program, the student must apply the lessons for themselves. When people apply the lessons of the Lightning Process™ to their lives they can start to change old patterns of thinking, which in turn influence their health and happiness.

To use the training effectively to begin with, you must be willing to accept responsibility for your own thought patterns.

The objective of the Lightning Process™ training program

The objective of The Lightning Process™ training program is to teach the student the whole process. This is the important point - that the students know HOW to use the process, it is then up to the students to apply the lessons for themselves.

Once the students know HOW to use the process, they then have a choice - if the student applies the training, then they will see a huge benefit, conversely if the student does not apply the training then there will be little or no benefit, obviously.

Who is the Lightning Process™ for?

The Issues and Symptoms that the Lightning Process treats are

* M.E (myalgic encephalitis)/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
* Weight issues
* Stuckness
* Getting Overwhelmed
* Anxiety & Stress
* Perfectionism
* Destructive behavioural patterns
* Low self esteem, self-doubt and even self-hatred.
* Fear of failure
* Guilt
* Anxiety & Panic attacks
* Stress
* Depression
* Obsessive compulsive disorder
* IBS
* Procrastination
* Insomnia

And it's also effective for enhancing

* Happiness
* Business success
* Peak performance issues
* Relationship
* Discovering what you really want
* Interview performance
* Confidence
* Sleep

How Does The Lightning Process™ Work?

On this subject Phil says:

This is one of the most commonly asked questions about The Phil Parker Lightning Process, but it's the most difficult to answer, not because it's a secret, but because it takes two hours to explain how it works - that's what's covered in the first session.

The basic steps involve training you to recognise the negative cycles that you've got into that have blighted your health and stunted your life. Then using a powerful combination of techniques uniquely developed using the philosophies and research of NLP, osteopathy, self hypnosis and life coaching, you will be extensively trained in how to successfully break those cycles and start to regain control of your health, sense of self and your future.

Why do we do it like this?

The Phil Parker Lightning Process will train you to use your brain more effectively. If you currently have problems, this new way of using your brain will be a bit unfamiliar to you in some situations.

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.

The first 6 hours training are the same for everyone and so are delivered in small groups. Why in groups? We have found that a combination of small group seminars and one to one sessions create the ideal environment to learn the process and get one to one coaching on how to use it to resolve your particular issues. It also means you don't have to wait a year until the next available training course!

It is important that it is made clear that all illnesses like M.E. / CFS / PVF and Fibromyalgia are physical illnesses and are NOT all in the mind

M.E. IS a physical illness...

There are still, even now, two opposing beliefs regarding M.E. in the medical profession. The first belief is that M.E. is not a real illness and that it is "only in the mind" and the second belief is that it really is a physical illness.

It has often been the case that M.E. patients would be lucky if they were able to find a doctor who believes it is actually an illness. In many cases it has been those doctors who have been recently trained who have been enlightened in this way.

The Lightning Process™ is a treatment for physical illnesses like M.E. and all other similar physically related illnesses, with real physical symptoms.

The mind and the body do influence each other powerfully. To give an example.

"There have been numerous studies in which a person in a hypnotic trance is touched with a piece of ice represented to him/her as a piece of hot metal. Invariably, a blister will develop at the point of contact. What counted was not reality but belief - the direct unquestioned communication to the nervous system. The brain simply does what it is told." (Taken from Anthony Robbins - Unlimited Power P.63)

The Lightning Process™ does NOT put you in a hypnotic trance. The above example has only been used to demonstrate the power of the mind.

To give another example:
In 1992, Brandon Bays was diagnosed with a football-sized tumour in her uterus. Through a process of directed thought patterns (which she did herself), she was able to completely eliminate the tumour in just over six weeks! She was pronounced "textbook perfect" with no drugs and no surgery. "The Journey" is the book in which she describes the process she used.

Such is the power of the mind!

Addressing the common issue with M.E. patients

Phil terms this as the:

PHYSIOLOGICAL CATCH 22

Phil has found that many sufferers find themselves stuck in the following downward spiral:

Phil says:

1. You fall ill due to an initial 'bug' or some stress, or external factor that started your M.E. 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.

It is by addressing this "loop" to begin with, which allows the Lightning Process™ to work so quickly.

The key steps:

* Recognising the patterns which cause the destructive feelings in your life
* Creating an effective way of stopping these patterns
* Creating more useful alternative patterns of thinking and action.

The new, more useful, alternative patterns of thinking and action replace the old ones often within hours. Because it is so quick and effective, it allows you to make happier and more productive choices in your life.

For many, it seems hard to believe that the process works so fast. This is because of people's past experience of M.E and the therapies or programs of treatment previously tried. However, the treatment has been found to help all who use it.

Get your life back!

The Phil Parker Lightning Process™ will teach you how to regain the control in your life no matter to which teacher / trainer you go, and so give you the opportunity to break the old patterns of illness.

The Lightning Process deals with M.E. / CFS / PVF, depression, anxiety & stress, overwhelmedness, stuckness or low self esteem, or any other destructive patterns you have in your life.

How was the Lightning Process™ Discovered?

Phil Parker studied for many years with the best personal development trainers and scientists in the world. He read the most cutting edge books of the time and became a highly respected authority in the world of change.

The problem was Phil Parker still had some clients for whom he had been unable to find a method of changing their symptoms. Even with all of his advanced skills, great track record and depth of experience, there were a group of people for whom nothing he did seemed to work.

Of course, when you are in that group of people, where nothing works, you try anything. So when you go to yet another consultant, you half expect it not to work, so when it doesn’t work, you are not at all surprised. However, it was a frustrating time for Phil Parker.

The clients often had similar problems such as:

* Anxiety
* Depression
* Fear of Failure
* Guilt
* Low self esteem, self-doubt and even self-hatred
* M.E /Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/P.V.F. (It was called Yuppie flu then)
* Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
* Being Overwhelmed
* Stress & Struggle

Some of these conditions and illnesses can actually stop people functioning at any level at any hour of the day or night. These are the kind of problems that many professional hypnotherapists and other alternative therapies could treat but could not guarantee to resolve at that time.

The wonderful road to discovery

Phil was having a similar experience with these clients. Some responded very well and their symptoms dramatically diminished or totally disappeared, while others either benefited little or not at all.

Phil Parker could see that there must be a difference between those that responded well and whose symptoms disappeared and those for whom it did little or nothing. Phil then decided to research the differences between these two groups.

The results of the research led to a very profound understanding of how people get stuck. This led to an amazing process whereby instead of trying to cure people, it led to a training program on how to simply get people to get themselves unstuck!

The summary of the Lightning Process™ history

The Lightning Process™, then, is the result of research over the last decade into why, when problems occur in people's lives, some of them hit a wall and get stuck and others seem to be able to deal with the difficulties in a different way and move forward. The Lightning Process can change YOUR life!