 Lightning Process ™
LP Training Explained
Lightning Process ™ Explained
It's understandable that people would like to know exactly what the Lightning Process™ course entails before choosing to take part. Unfortunately to fully explain the whole process would take 9 hours+ and would have to cover the entire content of the course. The following overview will hopefully give you a good idea of what the training consists of and the principals behind it.
What do the experts say about stress?
In the section Biology of Belief, Bruce Lipton, leading cell biologist, describes the chemical and vibrational signals that we produce internally as a reaction to stress. These signals instruct our system to enter into "protection mode". Heart rate and blood pressure change, blood sugar and thyroid levels are affected and our immune system is suppressed as we prepare for fight or flight. This process is quite natural and has helped our species to survive. However, dysfunctional activation of the stress response, over time, has a detrimental effect on key bodily systems. The chemicals that we produce in order to protect ourselves from danger can actually have a toxic effect. ME/CFS sufferers can become almost stuck in the stress response, whilst being completely unaware that this is happening; holding the system in protection mode whilst experiencing the consequences - see physiological catch 22 for more details.
How can we gain control over these responses?
These automatic responses are beyond our conscious control; you can't send the order to your system to alter your blood sugar and thyroid levels and turn up your immune system. What you can do though, is to learn that thought processes, feelings, expectations and emotions directly drive these responses. The next stage is to learn a technique that you can use to consciously change your perspective and focus from moment to moment. This becomes a way of indirectly controlling the involuntary responses - This is what the Lightning Process enables people to do. It then becomes possible to bring about favourable changes to the internal biochemistry, along with triggering the appropriate signals that our system needs to leave "protection mode" and return to "growth mode". "Growth mode" is the state our system needs to be in for healthy functioning.
Which areas does the training focus on?
Key components of the training include participants learning exactly how their brain and body have become trapped in a number of damaging unconscious responses. We also consider the effect that these responses have on overall health and quality of life. They are then trained in a technique which was developed using the philosophies and research of NLP, osteopathy, self hypnosis and life coaching. This technique is used by the participants to replace those old unhelpful responses. Using this process they are able to start to regain their health, their sense of self and their future.
What does the Lightning Process™ consist of?
The LP’s technique consists of combining particular body movements and postures with a set of precisely targeted questions. This versatile self-coaching strategy empowers people by giving them the tools needed to easily navigate their way through life's challenges - health or otherwise. This process has been developed and refined over years into a strategy which is easy to learn and fool-proof. Thousands of people have used the process to get their health back into balance, quickly and successfully recovering from real illnesses that had troubled them for years.
What about the long term?
We are often asked the question: after recovering using the process is it possible to relapse? (which of course is a huge fear for many ME/CFS 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. As humans we tend to learn quickly, and through repetition these processes can easily become automated. When used consistently, in time, this new healthy strategy can become the default pattern; like loading a new operating system for the mind.
All in the mind?
People with ME/CFS are very rightly concerned at any suggestion that ME/CFS is a psychosomatic illness. It's not, and it's certainly not all in the mind; It's a real physical illness. It's taken a long time and much campaigning to get ME/CFS recognised as a physical condition, and we are very keen to emphasise that we concur with that view. Our approach relies on an understanding that the body and mind are interrelated and in constant interaction 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 ME/CFS using physical methods rarely succeeds. The Lightning Process™, however, has been very successful in changing people with ME/CFS's physical condition rapidly and for the long term.
With you for life - if you choose
As it's a training rather than a therapy, once you've learnt it, it will be with you for the rest of your life; your life path, health and happiness will then be up to you to choose. The student must learn the process and then take responsibility for following the steps and applying it to their life. If they do this consistently and as they have been instructed the pay-off can be extraordinary.
Detailed description of the training
The Lightning Process™ is a 3 day training program which considers how the body and mind influence each other. The curriculum of the seminars focuses on two main phases: Phase one - Discovery, Phase two - Change
PHASE ONE - Discovery: Training modules
- Beliefs: Discovering the positive and negative power of beliefs on our health and life.
- Influence:
a)
Discovering which areas of our health and life we feel we can influence, and which areas we feel we have no say in.
b) Discovering new ways to approach these issues which give us more choice and 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 going 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.
Are you ready?
If you feel you are ready to take the training you will need to download The Lightning Process Application Form.
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