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Lightning Process ™

Physiological Catch 22

Lost trust in your body?

Whilst suffering from ME/CFS people typically experience many different physical symptoms including overwhelming fatigue. These ongoing symptoms can cause the sufferer to distrust their own body. A pattern of constantly checking for how tired or ill you are, or will be, or have been can easily be formed. This ongoing unreliability of energy and wellness pollutes the experience of our present life. It becomes easy to imagine how ill you are going to feel later if you overdo things now.

Tried different approaches with limited success?

Most sufferers have searched for and tried many different treatment approaches. Initial improvements are often followed by relapse resulting in more disappointment and fear. This cycle further strengthens the distrust of the body and the person goes on searching with less hope and confidence than before.

The Physiological Catch 22

Through five years of research into ME/CFS and related conditions, Phil Parker discovered the root cause of these illnesses. He revealed an underlying dysregulation of adrenaline production.

Here's how sufferers experience it:

Step 1.
You fall ill due to an initial bug/virus or some stress, or external factor that started your M.E./CFS. This event caused an extreme stress on your immune system.

Step 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.

Step 3.
Understandably, these concerns made you even more stressed which in turn made your body produce more adrenaline. Adrenaline is a good response to short term stress, but long term production of it exhausts us, affects our blood sugar and thyroid levels, suppresses our immune system and makes us prone to illness and tiredness - so you loop back to Step 2.

This cycle can continue for many years. The reason you haven't been able to get to the bottom of the illness is because this process has continued in the background, becoming an unconscious blind-spot. Over time your system can almost become "stuck" in the stress response. Unaddressed, you just keep slipping back into the old pattern of fatigue and illness.

The Lightning Process ™

The Lightning Process ™ is called so, because it's so quick. The reason it's so quick is because adrenaline only needs a short period in which to leave the body. Health is amazingly buoyant. Once the adrenalin levels are normalised, then the body's immune system can assert itself and all affected systems return to normal.

The Lightning Process ™ consists of a discovery process, where you make conscious and see clearly the pattern that has been keeping you stuck. You're then taught a very simple and effective way of interrupting and completely stopping this vicious cycle of fatigue and burnout. The process is taught face to face over 3 days.

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.

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