I got my husband back from Fibromyalgia and depression

Just got his heart warming message on facebook, which I thought was too awesome not to share

Hi Phil,

I just wanted to thank you for the Lightning Process. My husband did a course in April with Jackie White and WOW. After 10 years of suffering with Fibro and depression he is back to the happy man I married. 

It has not stoped all the pain but it has enabled him to deal with it much better. As a family we have all benefitted from the effects. It truly is amazing. 

To be honest we were sceptical but he was willing to give it a go and from the first day the change was brilliant and he just keeps getting better and better. 

Our glass is now half full if you know what I mean. And the after care from Jackie was second to none, she is great. 

So once again 'Thank You' for giving us back my husband, the children's Dad and a playful daft Grandad 

From all the Gee family

Neurological happiness and irritation - facilitation

Neurological happiness and irritation - facilitation

In the 1950s, osteopathic researchers began to use the term ‘facilitation’ to describe how and why osteopathy worked. Facilitation is a state of affairs where a part of the body has become so ‘in lesion’ (or wonky) that it starts to send signals to the nervous system about how everything is going wrong with it, so for example an achey back will send signals of pain, through the nerves, into the spinal cord and towards the brain. Because it’s not working very well, sometimes these signals can also be messed up and it is difficult for the nervous system to understand. It’s like a child who’s desperately upset trying to explain what’s wrong by yelling, stamping and crying.

The nervous system responds as best as it can to these signals that it’s receiving from the lesioned part, in this example possibly asking the muscles to relax a bit. If the lesioned area can receive and act on these messages appropriately then normal service (homeostasis) can  resumed and everything calms down again.

But sometimes the lesioned area is so messed up that it just can’t interpret the signals correctly, and hears the message wrongly. The combination of this confused information along with it’s state of irritability may mean it sends a further signal out requesting the opposite to what is actually needed (like a child shouting “GO AWAY!”, when they really want a hug). This sets up what is called a positive feedback cycle, where the problem (the lesion) now creates a response (from the nervous system) which worsens the problem (the lesion). In this facilitated state, anything that happens near or around the lesioned area creates a larger than necessary and unhealthy response, which further sets off the destructive positive feedback cycle. To use another family analogy, it’s like a couple stuck in a bad marriage. Every time the husband looks at the wife, she sees it as ‘him looking at me in that way again’, she challenges or verbally attacks him feeling wronged. He in turn feels set upon ‘again’ and responds even more emotively, and the cycle of aggression and hurt continues. Very soon the bad atmosphere is all pervading although original problem that set everything off can barely be remembered, and the marriage finally breaks down over an argument about who left the cap off the toothpaste, as now even the tiniest event causes a dramatic ‘faciliated’ response.

Because of the design of the spinal cord, where different neurological circuits are all very close together, researchers noticed that ‘cross talk’ began between the irritated circuits and their neighbours. So for example if the pain was coming from muscles about half way down the spine (D6 for those anatomists reading), it could affect any nerve circuits or synapses (nerve junctions) in the same region, in this case the nerves that control the stomach and duodenum. 

The original cause, such as aching back in this example, could cause lesions in those neighbouring systems and then because of the linkages up and down the spinal cord, the problems could spread to distant areas.

So similarly to the marital argument, until that positive feedback loop that spreads and feeds itself is broken, ill heath and poor function will prevail across the body.

The Lightning Process is an excellent way of intervening with this damaging state of affairs, and restores order and calm to facilitation; whether it be just on a small scale ‘sore back’ level, a ‘getting stressed, guts spasms and sweating at the thought of meeting new people’ or a ‘whole body in a state of chaos’, such can be found in many cases such as ME/CFS.




Little video coming on this soon

Mind body connection

Great video which shows the mind body connection at work. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Cgaa8U4eY)
What do you think of it and what examples do you have of how we use the mind body connection?

8 year old's LP success

Just found this and thought it would be good pass on 

"I wanted to share our story with you all - my 8 year old daughter had been ill with CFS for the last year, with various symptoms. 


She'd had 2/3 of the last school year off with periods of slight recovery then relapse. 


Prior to going on the course she'd been off school full time for 3 months with fatigue/sensitivity to noise/chest pain/ headaches to name but a few symptoms. 


The course completely transformed her - the week after she was back at school everyday (the first time she'd done 5 consecutive days in a year) and the week after that she did a number of full days and the school disco. 


Over the Xmas holidays she's been skating, horse riding and walking. She knows when she needs to do it and continues to apply it when needed. She totally believed it was going to work for her (having talked to another child who'd recovered) and it has. 


The LP course has given us back our daughter!"

XMRV science CFS /ME

It's sad to see that the original XMRV study has now been retracted by the editors of Science because of the concerns about being unable to replicate the findings. The more we know about ME/CFS the more chance there is of helping people to recover from it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16306646

It reminds me of Manu's important quote about CFS ME "more than any other issue in contemporary medicine, CFS reflects the unresolved conflict between the mechanistic and biophysical construct of illness"

It seems to me that looking for the ultimate and only cause of CFS ME is looking at this complex illness through the wrong end of the telescope; as the more I learn about it the more I think it's an illness that will be best understood by considering the whole person and their whole physiology rather focusing on discrete physical systems or microscopic organisms.

"You are more influential in your life than you could ever imagine" day

Friday December 16th; let's celebrate making a difference in our lives and world; 
When buddhist monks were finally released, after being held prisoner and tortured for years, they were asked "What was your worse fear during that time?"
"I most feared" one replied, "losing compassion for my captors."


Man, have we all got some catching up to do!
Celebrate this day by sharing the message 
"You are more influential in your life than you could ever imagine"
maybe drop it into conversation or post it on the web, and see what happens...

Old stuff- New futures

Wow - had quite a week training some people in the lightning process; during the three days they managed to get rid of OCD, chronic anxiety, two cases of long-term ME/cfs, and a 10 year old fear of the dark and nighttime which had resulted from a series of break-ins and stalkings. 

The participants were amazing in their commitment to apply the mind and body training tools of the Lightning Process, and dealt with the challenges that come from deciding to change neurological and physiological patterns of a lifetime. 

A good week's work, as four more people left with very different, much more positive, futures.