The Lightning Process was developed by Phil Parker who graduated from the British School of Osteopathy in the late 1980s and has since developed an international reputation as one of the foremost osteopaths, hypnotherapists, master practioners of Neurolinguistic programming (NLP), and healers.
It is made clear that the Lightning Process is not a therapy because the patient/client has to actively participate in the process for it to be effective. The official Lightning Process website describes it as a "training program that combines concepts from NLP, Hypnotherapy, Life Coaching and Osteopathy." Clients are provided with step by step training from a qualified Lightning Process instructor in how the process works and are then supported as they learn to apply it in their everyday lives to help with specific health conditions or simply to improve confidence or other factors they deem to be holding them back somehow.
The Lightning Process involves a 3 day training program aimed at getting mind and body to work in harmony to enhance health and well-being. This training is split into two main sections. From the Oficial website:
The curriculum of the seminars focuses on two main phases:
1. Discovery
2. Change
Phase one- Discovery: Training modules
1. Beliefs: Discovering the positive and negative power of beliefs on our health and life.
2. 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 if there are new ways to approach these issues which give us more choice and more influence over our well being and future.
3. Inner dialogue: Discovering how much of our inner dialogue is useful and how much is destructive and limits our health and future.
4. Body Posture: Discovering how the way we use our bodies and carry ourselves influences how our body works and how we feel.
5. 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.
6. 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
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How to change any of the above that are keeping you stuck.
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How to make complicated things simple.
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How to dramatically change our perspective and focus when we need to.
The Lightning Process is perhaps most well known for its use in treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome(CFS)/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) but has also been applied to many other conditions.
Again from the Lightning Process website:
Over the years we've discovered that it's such a powerful process that it seems to be effective for pretty much everything where people feel stuck. This includes:
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Low self esteem, self-doubt and even self-hatred
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Fear of failure
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Guilt
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Anxiety & Panic attacks
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Stress & Struggle
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Depression
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Overwhelmedness
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M.E. (Myalgic Encephalitis)/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Obsessive compulsive disorder
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IBS [Irrtiable Bowel Syndrome]
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Addiction Smoking
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Procrastination
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Insomnia
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Stage fright
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Happiness
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Business success
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Peak performance issues
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Relationships
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Discovering what you really want
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Interview performance
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Confidence
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Sleep
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