HEALTH NOTES
The Lightning Process TM
Over the last ten years The Lightning Process has made a breakthrough in the possibility of recovery for thousands of people suffering from ME and the related disorders of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Post Viral Syndrome (PVS) and Fibromyalgia (FM). Amongst the thousands of Lightning Process success stories are a number involving celebrities and others in the public arena, including former England International Rugby star Austin Healy’s wife, and Esther Rantzen’s daughter Emily, whose story has touched many throughout the country, and who now has a ‘full, active social life’ (Mail online). What is it? Osteopath Phil Parker invented the Lightning ProcessTM. It is a training programme, which teaches a method that enables body and mind to work systematically with each other, and in so doing, triggers a self-healing process that leads to the building of new neural pathways.The method is highly effective and it is not unusual for a victim of ME/CFS to be out of their wheelchair and walking by the end of the first or second day – hence its name, ‘The Lightning Process’. The theory For the condition ME/CFS, the body has become ‘locked’ into the flight/fight stress response mechanism. If this state is maintained, the normal functions of digestion, sleep, thyroid, and the immune and healing systems can all become compromised and ‘out of balance’. The technique teaches how to rebalance the whole system and trigger a positive healing spiral. Heather Thomas, a practitioner of the process, has now trained hundreds of people in the UK and Norway to recover from the debilitating condition of ME/Chronic Fatigue. Heather herself suffered with severe ME for 16 years, bed-bound and dependent entirely on carers. On completing 20
the course, her wheelchair was taken away and her life was able to begin again: ‘I could now cook my own meals, socialize, walk around the shops, and do all the things that I just couldn’t do before. I could even eat all the foods that I couldn’t tolerate previously as my IBS had also gone’. As a Practitioner, Heather has worked with a range of severities of ME/CFS; a particularly striking case involved one sufferer aged 50, who had been lying in bed unable to move at all, for five years. ‘She was being fed by a tube. She was also unable to open her eyes or speak. I taught her the Process in August 2008. On the second day, she was able to speak without any pain, open her eyes, get out of bed by herself and stand up. Her carers were stunned. She then started walking and in the year that followed she built up her muscles with exercise, socialized, and has now travelled to the USA twice’. Another interesting patient Heather has worked with is ten-year-old Neil, who had been out of school for a year, losing weight and who displayed many classic ME/CFS symptoms. On the first day of the process, Neil was back to school. ‘His eating and his health improved rapidly and he was able to start enjoying all the activities he did before his illnesses. The Lightning Process has an extraordinary success rate of around 85%. People aged 6 up to 80 have successfully recovered from ME/CFS and other similar diseases using the technique. For more information contact Heather Thomas on 01923 219 121 / 07941 372 898 or visit www.definitivechange.co.uk Issue 13 Jan/Feb 10 •