What Doctors say about the Lightning Process
Dr Rajesh Munglani
MB BS DCH DA FRCA FFPMRCA Consultant in Pain Management“I have been very impressed with the results of the Lightning Process. 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 Stephanie Hughes
MD BSc BMBChI am a medical doctor whose life has been transformed by the Lightning Process. It is, without doubt, an extremely effective training programme which enables participants to make hugely important, life-enhancing changes to their health and wellbeing – rapidly and permanently.
Dr Lissa Rankin
MD“I have been very impressed with the results of the Lightning Process. 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 Susy Mikkelsen
MD“I hope the importance of this innovative approach to medical health will spread rapidly to the practice of medicine and to all who need it.”
Dr Anna Chellamuthu
GP“I am so impressed with the potential for positive change in health that I am currently training with Phil Parker to become a Lightning Process practitioner myself. ”
A doctor’s experience of the Lightning Process for Long Covid
I would like to tell you about my experience of using the Lightning Process (LP) for Post Covid-19 Syndrome/”Long Covid”. When I contacted one of the practitioners in Switzerland in late August 2023, it was really a last resort. I had been ill with weird symptoms for just under 3 years, lost my job as a medical doctor because of my illness and had tried every possible treatment, most of which had made the symptoms even worse.
Apart from a brief walk in the neighbourhood most days, I was house- and often bed-bound and reliant on help from my girlfriend and my parents for cooking, laundry, shopping and transportation for going to the doctors. I managed to read scientific literature for roughly 20 minutes twice a month, on average. I read Prof. Paul Garner’s Editorial in the British Medical Journal, and his experience of recovering from Long Covid made sense to me. I also read recovery stories on recoverynorway.org, but I had dismissed the LP early because most stories seemed too good to be true. Also, I simply did not want to risk spending money on a three day course somewhere else, only to lose whatever little stability I had.
But after yet another inexplicable “crash” and the onset of the familiar debilitating symptoms last summer, I had had enough. The only thing I hadn’t done was the LP, so that was all I had left to try.
I got in touch with a practitioner in Switzerland. She was very empathetic, knowledgeable and humble – qualities I look for in other healthcare professionals as well.
The audio exercise I did for preparation for the seminar didn’t contain anything unreasonable in my opinion. I found the examples of the placebo effect in medical trials very interesting and they helped me to gain a new perspective on a phenomenon that’s omnipresent, but yet still poorly understood. (Why do we dismiss the placebo effect so easily?). And even though I remained sceptical, I was curious. The seminar was deemed a reasonable fit for me, even though I had voiced my doubts. I was really nervous prior to starting the seminar because so many previous treatments were unhelpful and – truth be told – I did not want to be a gullible victim to yet another megalomaniacal health “guru”.
But my doubts were quickly dispersed, as during the course, I learned – among other skills – for the first time to calm down effectively and thereby easing the symptoms and freeing more energy for taking in new experiences and teaching my brain/mind/body healthy patterns again. Patterns that were lost during the course of this long illness.
Looking back, it was precisely during these 3 days that I stopped having post-exertional malaise. I still don’t quite understand how, but I must have learned how to break/decondition some sort of pattern. Thinking back at how all my symptoms presented themselves and particularly how quickly they set in, I don’t think it is unreasonable to assume that in some way, neurological pathways were involved. (Too quick to be just immunological, too slow to have vascular origin and certainly not purely the mind, even though psychology and perception play a role everywhere…).
Since the LP, I have been able to start exercising regularly (I started bouldering about 9 weeks ago), drive a car, finish work on a research project I started before my illness and build up my stamina to work in medicine again full-time. I am also much more calm and resilient than I have ever been. I don’t have all my energy and confidence back yet, but thanks to the coaching, I know how to get it, and things are improving reliably and quickly.
So even though I was aware of the placebo effect, was very sceptical and knew that it’s easy to be tricked into spending money for unhelpful “treatments”, I was able to improve massively by doing the LP and taking coaching afterwards. And so have many others (even some I know personally, with slightly different illnesses).
My personal goal as a medical doctor is to better understand how the LP has helped me to make this incredible progress, in order to help others who still struggle. I would also like to encourage others (including news outlets, such as the BBC) to do the same. It’s easy to be negative and dismissive, but when we are, we might miss something new and helpful.
A doctor’s experience of the Lightning Process for Long Covid
I would like to tell you about my experience of using the Lightning Process (LP) for Post Covid-19 Syndrome/”Long Covid”.
When I contacted one of the practitioners in Switzerland in late August 2023, it was really a last resort.
I had been ill with weird symptoms for just under 3 years, lost my job as a medical doctor because of my illness and had tried every possible treatment, most of which had made the symptoms even worse.
Apart from a brief walk in the neighbourhood most days, I was house- and often bed-bound and reliant on help from my girlfriend and my parents for cooking, laundry, shopping and transportation for going to the doctors. I managed to read scientific literature for roughly 20 minutes twice a month, on average.
I read Prof. Paul Garner’s Editorial in the British Medical Journal and his experience of recovering from Long Covid made sense to me. I also read recovery stories on www.recoverynorway.org, but I had dismissed the LP early because most stories seemed too good to be true. Also, I simply did not want to risk spending money on a three day course somewhere else only to lose whatever little stability I had.
But after yet another inexplicable “crash” and onset of the familiar debilitating symptoms last summer, I had had enough.
The only thing I hadn’t done was the LP, so that was all I had left to try.
I got in touch with a practitioner in Switzerland. She was very empathetic, knowledgeable and humble, qualities I look for in other healthcare professionals as well.
The audio exercise I did for preparation for the seminar didn’t contain anything unreasonable in my opinion. I found the examples of the placebo effect in medical trials very interesting and they helped me to gain a new perspective on a phenomenon that’s omnipresent, but yet still poorly understood. (Why do we dismiss the placebo effect so easily?)
And even though I remained sceptical, I was curious. The seminar was deemed a reasonable fit for me, even though I had voiced my doubts. I was really nervous prior to starting the seminar because so many previous treatments were unhelpful and – truth be told – I did not want to be a gullible victim to yet another megalomaniacal health “guru”.
But my doubts were quickly dispersed, as during the course, I learned – among other skills – for the first time to calm down effectively and thereby easing the symptoms and freeing more energy for taking in new experiences and teaching my brain/mind/body healthy patterns again. Patterns that were lost during the course of this long illness.
Looking back, it was precisely during these 3 days that I stopped having post-exertional-malaise. I still don’t quite understand how, but I must have learnt how to break/de-condition some sort of pattern. Thinking back at how all my symptoms presented themselves and particularly how quickly they set on, I don’t think it is unreasonable to assume that in some way, neurological pathways were involved. (Too quick to be just immunological, too slow to have vascular origin and certainly not purely the mind, even though psychology and perception play a role everywhere…).
Since the LP, I have been able to start exercise regularly (I started bouldering about 9 weeks ago), drive a car, finish work on a research project I started before my illness and building up my stamina to work in medicine again full time. I am also much more calm and resilient than I have ever been. I don’t have all my energy and confidence back yet, but thanks to the coaching, I know how to get it and things are improving reliably and quickly.
So even though I was aware of the placebo effect, was very sceptical and knew that it’s easy to be tricked into spending money for unhelpful “treatments”, I was able to improve massively by doing the LP and taking coaching afterwards. And so have many others (even some I know personally, with slightly different illnesses).
My personal goal as a medical doctor is to understand better how the LP has helped me to make this incredible progress, in order to help others who still struggle. I would also like to encourage others (including news outlets, such as the BBC) to do the same. It’s easy to be negative and dismissive, but when we are, we might miss something new and helpful.