Phil Parker - An Introduction to the Lightning Process

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Previously published in the UK by Nipton Publishing, 2007, 2009, 2010

Text Phil Parker, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012

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Phil Parker

For the brilliant Natasha

Id like to thank so many inspirational people for their help and assistance whilst writing this book.

Special thanks go to my amazing family, my hardworking Head Office team and the inspirational members of the Register of Lightning Process Practitioners, who have dedicated their lives to making others lives better.

A heartfelt thank you must also go to the pioneers of NLP, Hypnotherapy and Osteopathy who have inspired me so much, especially Dr Still, Milton Erickson, Richard Bandler and John Grinder, Connirae Andreas and Robert Dilts. Thanks also to Dr Eric Dolgin for Dr Stills quote in , to all those at Hay House, and my editor Sandy Draper, for being inspirational and for all their hard work in helping introduce my work to an even wider audience.

Final thanks go to all those I had the privilege to work with whilst developing the Lightning Process. They inspired me with their personal bravery and determination to get their lives back and through their endeavours, show others what is possible.

Welcome.

The purpose of this book is to guide you through the first steps of the Lightning Process (LP) a practical, intriguing and important training programme to transform your health and wellbeing. I hope you find it inspiring, fascinating and life-changing.

This book delivers part one of your Lightning Process training for health. It covers a wide variety of topics designed to stimulate change and improve your health and wellbeing. These include the Lightning Process Core Concepts, relevant research into the bodybrainmind link and some thought-provoking exercises. These topics make it an essential read, I think, for anyone wishing to create effective change in their health, whatever route they take.

Once youve worked through the steps in this book, you will be ready to take the next part of the training and learn the practical tools of the Lightning Process to change your health in the three-day Lightning Process seminar.

Throughout this book, youll find the stories, told in their own words, of just a few of the many people who have used the Lightning Process and regained their health and happiness. I possibly should add that you may think, as some others have commented, that in telling their stories these people appear a little overexcited about the results theyve achieved, and the Lightning Process. However, I simply ask you to consider this: if you had an illness which youd battled for years, or been told was impossible to recover from, and then got your health back, how excited would you be, and how much would you wish to let others know about this new option? For now, however, lets begin with the inspiring thoughts of one of the UKs top pain consultants:

I have been very impressed with the results of the LP. I have seen the lives of some of my patients transformed by this self-empowering technique. Everyone who has battled with chronic illness and wants to win should have the opportunity to do the Lightning Process.

DR RAJESH MUNGLANI, MB BS DCH DA FRCA FFPMRCA

The fact that youve bought this book and have started reading means you have a keen interest in discovering how lives can be changed for the better and have taken the first step, action.

You will probably be thinking one of the following things about making the changes you desire in your life, or if you are reading this to help someone else, in their life; you might think that achieving those goals will be:

• Extremely difficult
• Quite hard
• Complicated
• Easy
• Effortless

Interestingly, however, you are currently thinking about the ease or difficulty of that change, and there are just two things you need to know:

1. Because youve opened this book and started to read it, you must believe its somehow possible to make the changes you desire or you wouldnt even have bothered getting this far.
2. The Lightning Process and this book can teach you how to change, regardless of how easy or difficult you currently think that change is going to be.

So, allow yourself to recognize where you are, in terms of your hopefulness, as we continue what could be the most important journey of your life.

A s with many journeys, it is best started by discovering the stories of some of those who have already travelled the road that lies ahead of you and have made fundamental, positive changes in their lives by using the Lightning Process. It may also be useful to have an insight into why I originally embarked on my journey in designing it. But lets start with one familys extraordinary story. I think you can gain a sense of whats possible with the Lightning Process in these few lines that Anne wrote about her son Joseph:

Thank you for coming up with the LP as having our son back to health has been the best Christmas present possible. You trained my son Joseph in the Lightning Process last week. He is 18 today and life has not been so good for him in a long time. Thank you seems too tame. You have given him back his life.