Recovery From Chronic Fatigue Syndrome UK
Can The Lightning Process™ Help?

The Lightning Process is offered as a treatment for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in the UK as well as in some other countries too. This page continues to offer my opinion on this process.

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What Other Techniques Does The Lightning Process™ Draw Upon?

Positive Self Talk

The Lightning Process™ incorporates lessons in positive self-talk. It calls this self-coaching.

For example, often we are very belittling of our successes when we are ill.
We meet the presence of symptoms with self-criticism.

We tell ourselves:
“I should be better.”
“I should be able to do more already.”

The Lightning Process™ can be used to encourage us, instead, to be realistic about what we can do right now and notice and focus on any progress made.

“I am doing the best I can.”“I am able to do what I am able to do right now.”

Click for an article on positive self talk when ill. The same ideas can help you develop positive self talk at any time.

The Lightning Process™ draws on and synthesizes the following techniques:

• NLP


• Hypnotherapy


• Self-coaching – positive self-talk as noted above.


• The founder is also a trained Osteopath and says he drew on this training in his development of the Lightning Process™.

The LP works by setting up new neural pathways to positively impact the immune system. See The Experiment of Rober Ader – the birth of pni.


A 3 Day Course

The Lightning Process™ is a 3 day process and, to my mind, all that time was well-used and necessary. In other words, I cannot explain in a single article what the Lightning Process™ includes.
Even if I could it would not be a substitute for being taken through the processes with an experienced practitioner who has seen the process work and is able to communicate belief in healing to you.

What Is The Difference Between The Lightning Process™ And NLP? Which Is Best For CFS/ME and other Health Issues?

I am trained up to practitioner level in NLP, so I am informed about what that training includes.

NLP definitely can be used to help with health problems. I have seen it advertised in the UK as helping with ME/CFS.

I know a very experienced and lovely NLP practitioner who has had success in reversing a case of blindness and cancer. However, it is worth noting that he does not advertise as being able to help in such cases, and wouldn't want me to put his name here. He is still rather humbled that those healings that occurred and wouldn't feel able to guarantee such results.

NLP training to practitioner level does not work specifically with illness. Qualifications at a higher level, such as Master Practitioner, are more likely to include working with health. Many NLP practitioners simply don't choose to work with health issues. Yet, many of the NLP techniques can be successfully applied to health issues, so it very much depends on the individual practitioner.

If you know the NLP practitioner and have reason to think they have good experience of healing in their own life or experience of working with others with their health, then go with them.

If not, I would recommend the Lightning Process™ above NLP to deal with health issues. The Lightning Process™ incorporates much from NLP but works it into a combination with other techniques.

Please see my notes about choosing a practitioner, and my disclaimer.

For those with ME/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in the UK, there are plenty of Lightning Process™ practitioners to choose from.
If you live in a country which does not have The Lightning Process™, and you are interested in these ideas, then look around for an NLP practitioner or someone else who is using the mind body connection in their work.

Neurolinguistic Programming originated in the USA, so there will be many practitioners there who do work with the mind body connection to facilitate healing.

Does The Lightning Process Help Physical Illness Other Than ME/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

I believe the Lightning Process can help many physical illnesses.
I did some of the techniques with someone with chronic back pain, for example, and she was free of pain for a day. (She was my carer – and this was before I had done the Lightning Process™ for myself; I used a visualisation technique I developed.) She had successfully used her mind to influence her body.

I, personally, would say, however, that the expectation of the practitioner that you can heal is an important ingredient in the success of the Lightning Process™. This expectation naturally increases each time the practitioner sees someone healed of that particular illness.

At this point in time, because there is no treatment available for the illness, people with ME/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are willing to experiment more than most with mind-body medicine. They have accessed the Lightning Process™ more. The experience and expectation of Lightning Process™ practitioners that people with ME/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome can be helped is therefore high.