I'm well!!! I've had an amazing time since I got back home! I was so happy on the flight home that I had a smile that - had it not been for my ears - would have gone around my head, and I was crying happy tears of relief. It was fantastic to feel like myself again.
My boyfriend and my parents were all very happy to see me well, and "see me well" is actually quite appropriate a description as now that my circulation is working properly, my skin tone has changed, my hands and feet are warm, and I no longer have dry skin. Not that those were ever big issues to me, but it's nice to see physical manifestations of health. My hair, eyes and posture look different as well.
I've been to Christmas parties, my boyfriend's aunt's funeral, I've celebrated New Year's with my friends, I've redecorated my apartment (I still have some things left because certain things such as tiles takes a month to arrive - I blame the Italians:)), and I've bought new clothes.
I've talked to my GP, who was very excited about the news of my recovery, and she informed me that she has two other patients who's both tried the Phil Parker Lightning Process recently and recovered as well. She always makes the list of the ten GPs with the most patients, so she probably has quite a few patients who do ME, so I'm happy that she now knows about Lightning Process and is so positive.
After having talked to my GP and social services, we've come to an agreement that I can go back to law school (starting tomorrow!) I've also started exercising again. I've decided to add one day of exercise a week every two weeks, and so far I've started doing Pilates on a reformer. My abs are really sore! Yey!
I am incredibly grateful to you for teaching me the Phil Parker Lightning Process and being such a wonderful coach. THANK YOU!!!"
- Heidi
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"The Lightning Process has really changed my life.
I had ME for about four years. I could make a list of all my symptoms, but if you have ME, you can name them by yourself.
I heard about the Lightning Process about two months ago, and I travelled to London to do the training.
Maxine explained the process for me and three other people from Norway. Maxine explained it in a very understandable and careful way, and I started to use the process right away.
My body changed at once and it is still changing.
After two weeks I still need to use Lightning Process and I'm still discovering patterns in my life that I need to change. But now I know how to do it!
I am really healthy now, and I have already been on top of the hill nearby my home in Sandnes, Norway.
I love to work out and feel the pulse, and I love when I feel good and healthy afterwards. I love to be a mum and a wife again. We have really got a new family.
I really want to recommend Maxine and this training for anyone who is struggling with me or other issues. The Lightning Process really works!
With love."
- Ingvild Feed
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"Hello Maxine!
First and foremost I would like to thank you for a great seminar.
It was spot on for me and I am doing very well. All the best."
- Jo Gjerpe, Norway
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"Hello
Maxine, First of all, I want to thank you for the three days of the seminar. I finally feel like myself again.
Since then I have been really busy! I’ve been walking a lot, meeting friends, visiting cafés, rearranged my room, cleaning the whole apartment, gone shopping, gone to the cinema, joined family Christmas parties, been driving again and a lot more.
And I’ve been having good night sleeps since day one!
I am using the Lightning Process, and I feel that it’s going more and more automatic. I’ve been really busy every day since the seminar!"
- Louise
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"When I first heard about the Phil Parker Lightning Process, I had been suffering with ME for 7 years and had spent the last six living at home with my parents, after having to leave university at the end of my first year. I spent almost all my time lying down or in bed and was only able manage a few short walks a week. My concentration was very poor and I needed a lot of help with cooking, cleaning etc.
I travelled down to London feeling quite optimistic, as a friend had made massive improvements in a short space of time after learning the Lightning Process. This made it different from everything else I had tried, of which there was many! I arrived on the first day after spending the night in a hotel feeling terrible. I had hardly slept the night before and I was nervous that I would be too tired to take everything in.
However after meeting Maxine and listening to her explain the Lightning Process I found myself feeling far more relaxed and confident.
After the first appointment, during which I sat up for 4 hours, something I would never have been able to do before, I went back to the hotel and started practicing what I had learnt. Then for the first time in 6 years I went out for something to eat which was fantastic!
During the next two days with Maxine I could feel my confidence in my body growing and growing. I learnt how the Lightning Process worked and recognized the patterns that I had been stuck in for years.
I am writing this five weeks later and my life has completely changed and I love every minute of it. I am now doing walks of 4 or 5 miles a few times a week and in the last couple of weeks started doing some running! I am going out socializing with all my friends I have been out until 1am on both Friday and Saturday night this weekend. I have started playing golf again which is something I love, and I am very pleased with how good I am after six years without playing!
Last week I drove to Sheffield to visit my sister’s house for the first time and stayed the night. I wake up everyday excited and looking forward to what I am going to do that day. I am planning a holiday abroad in September and after that I know I can do whatever I want!
I couldn’t be more grateful to Maxine who was wonderful. She explained everything in a way that I understood; gave me great confidence and always had the answers for any questions I had.
To anyone thinking of doing the Phil Parker Lightning Process I would say its hard work, but life changing, so well well worth it!"
- Ben Russell
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"Hello Maxine
I want to tell you that my health is well. I had a cold and a flu.., but I have more energy now, than for years.
My son is happy and he’s telling everybody about how I have changed since London. (my dog and the cats seem happier too.)"
- Anne
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"Dear Maxine.
At first, I want to thank you for teaching me the Phil Parker Lightning Process. I am learning more each day.
I must tell you that on Thursday I took a long, beautiful trip in good time around our small village - long hill, up and down. I took 65 minutes, only a few minutes more than in my best time!
I have not done this trip for five years, [then] I used the Lightning Process.
Once more - Thank you very much for doing helping me. I am very glad, I am singing and jumping. Many hugs."
- Randi Hamre
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"Thanks to Maxine Henk and The Phil Parker Lightning Process and EFT I have recovered after 8 years of severe ME.
My story begins in 1999 when as a 21 year old student I came home from field work in Africa with some kind of bug. I fell ill and got even worse when I in addition got Glandular Fever. It seemed like no matter how much I rested, I didn’t recover and attending school and work started too be difficult. Then I got Mycoplasma Pneumonia and infections in my intestines. I ended up in hospital and was diagnosed with ME in 2001.
I was bed- and house-bound for months and had to completely stop working. Doing housework, socialising and even the smallest tasks became very hard or impossible. The months went by before I was happy to get better with help from alternative medicine. It lasted for a while, but Mycoplasma Pneumonia showed up again and I relapsed to a much lower level. I continued the alternative treatments, and slowly over a period of 2 years I started climbing the stairs towards better health again.
But, in Summer 2005 I was infected by bad river water and had a severe relapse. I started to worry if I ever would manage to get well again. I had huge problems with my stomach and intestines, vomiting up many times daily for 6 months and ended up very skinny and exhausted in hospital. For almost 2 years I was more or less bed- and house-bound in my apartment. I couldn’t concentrate, my memory was bad, I had low fever almost all the time, my limbs and hands where cold and I needed to sleep 12-17 hours a day. It felt like the exhaustion was without boundaries and it was very frustrating. With help from alternative treatments I started to gradually get better, and managed to walk around 200-400m all together during a week if I had a optimal week.
Then I read about The Phil Parker Lightning Process. The Lightning Process sounded logical to me, and when I read the fantastic recovery-stories I started to become more optimistic of my future. There was only one problem, I live in Norway and the course was in England.
Some people found it crazy to travel to London in my condition, but lucky for me my fiancé and my sister supported the idea. I was very happy and excited when I was accepted at the course with Maxine Henk in the end of May 2007. I travelled with help from my fiancé and sister in my wheelchair, and rested for two days in the hotel before the course started. I started to notice a change already after the first day of the course.
For the first time in 2 years I had been sitting on a small chair.
In the evening the first day I abandoned my wheelchair and went for a 1,5 km walk together with the others on the course. It was a great moment, and I started to realise that my life was changing.
Maxine offers EFT in addition to the Lightning Process, something I found very helpful, and warmly recommend.
During the 3 days of the course I learned what I needed to do to resolve my issues. I went home from London with a new life. I no longer have ME and I feel completely recovered. I need to work on my physical strength and stamina, and I now enjoy walking in the forest, cycling and swimming. I socialise with family and friends again, go too meetings and are planning vacations!
To those who consider the Lightning Process; it is sometimes hard and challenging work, and you need to be consistent and committed to it. For me it has been rewarded with getting my life back, something I wish for everyone who struggle.
My gratitude to Phil Parker, who created The Lightning Process, and Maxine Henk who taught it to me, is unlimited."
- Anna, Oslo, Norway
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"After a physical collapse in November 2004, my health deteriorated dramatically and within a space of a couple of weeks I had to give up work and ended up semi bed bound. My GP diagnosed me as having ME/CFS. As I know somebody who had been suffering form ME/CFS without much improvement over the last 12 years, this was a real shock.
Over the following 8 months, I consulted a lot of therapists and specialists, determined to get back on my feet but increasingly wondering whether I would ever be successful as, by now, and on top of the crushing daily fatigue, lack of energy, brain fog, sleeping problems etc. I had ended up having to use a wheelchair for any major distances and was housebound.
By a series of coincidences, I then got to know of the Phil Parker Lightning Process. At first, this sounded a little more convincing as a successful treatment method than other approaches I was investigating. I got in touch with Maxine and after talking with her realised that I had to take my healing in to my own hands and stop relying on other people to get me well. Because, as Maxine explained, she could train me in the technique, but I would have to put the effort into applying it myself. I booked my appointments with Maxine over 2 consecutive days.
On the first day, Maxine introduced me to the Lightning Process. On that day, I decided to be healthy and on returning from the appointment I vowed that this was the last day ever that I would be using my wheelchair – and it was. On the second day, Maxine taught me how to apply the Lightning Process and importantly, used EFT on me – which I believe played another vital role in my recovery – and sent me on my way to health. That was a Thursday.
Three days later, on a Saturday, I was cruising down the motorway in the middle of the night on my way to the airport to catch a light to France – something I would never have imagined possible three days earlier. Since then four months have past and I am fully and totally healthy again. I have travelled quite a bit over the summer and now fitter than ever before. I climb mountains, cycle, walk, drive and am about to go back to work. Both the experience of ME/CFS and my recovery have been life-changing events and I am still applying the techniques Maxine taught me to reshape my life."
Update
"I’m just writing with an update - It’s nearly a year now that I came to see you and stopped having ME!
I haven’t written that elusive book yet – but it’s high on my list of priorities, as is becoming a helicopter pilot and various other things. However, what I have done this year is to thoroughly enjoy myself and pursue activities important to me – plenty of rock climbing, walking, cycling, tons of DIY etc, just generally taking it easy.
I have gone back to translating after exploring options of setting up my own business and am happy with what I’m doing, having totally changed my approach to working.
I am also on the verge of an exciting trip, which is to be the first of many: my daughter and I are going on a 5–week cycling tour of Bali in a couple of weeks…
I would like to thank you again for your help last July."
- Astrid, Mid Wales
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"Becoming Unwell
Things gradually started to go wrong for me towards the end of 2005 when I experienced work, life and everything else stress (although I didn’t realise it at the time). I was drinking a lot (more than is reasonable), going out a lot and trying to work hard but finding myself less able to.
My real problems began right at the beginning of 2006 when I developed a flu-like illness that made me feel unwell for 5-6 days. I continued to work through it, felt better for a couple of days and then began to feel unwell again, this time diagnosed with a viral chest infection. I continued to go out and stay up late etc but found myself less and less able to do so, adding to the frustration. I continued to try to join a new band as a percussionist but found myself unable to play, which upset me greatly. I was suffering from viral fatigue and stress.
I took things easy for a couple of weeks as recommended by the doctor, and then went out and had a few drinks (and I mean literally a few) and suffered a 5-day hangover, the worst that I have ever felt. I continued to try to take it easy but never really knew what that meant. I became more ill through February and March and struggled with work.
In April 2006 I had a provisional diagnosis of ME [myalgic encephalomyelitis) as all tests (for everything else) were showing negative. I started to work part-time but really was only ever answering calls and responding to emails: by this point I could do very little with my body or brain. Things continued to get worse through May, when I started to experience mobility problems that would last for the next 11 months. I had wobbly legs and sometimes couldn’t walk at all, let alone climb the steps to my 3rd floor flat. Half the time I was a prisoner in my own home, the other half struggling to get around.
I did nothing that I could associate with my life: no work, no play, no music, no TV, seeing little or none of my friends, just a miserable existence. My relationship with my girlfriend was also under threat, although she was very supportive. I quit work completely, moved to a ground floor flat and tried to get better.
Getting Better?
In June 2006 I had confirmation from the ME / CFS team at Bart’s Hospital, London, that I had ME, and was soon joining the PACE trial (a medical trial evaluating the progress of different people under different therapies). My specialist gave me good advice on management of the condition in accordance with their current understanding however this was only helping me to survive without huge ups and downs in the condition – I was helped to stabilise but was still capable of doing very little.
I practiced Yoga 5 days a week, ate tonnes of fruit and veg and walked gently with the aid of a stick when I could. I was 100% committed to getting better every day. By October 2006 I walked a short distance nearly every day (no more than 400 metres), but as people with ME will relate to, I was up and down and there was no clear sign of recovery coming.
I attended about 2-3 counselling sessions per month to go through things that were going on around the time of getting ill and to talk aver how the illness was affecting me now. I would say that these were an extremely important thing for me to do to help me get to grips with what was happening to me. I had a breakthrough in 2006 after attending a week-long yoga class at Claridge House in Surrey where I learned more about ME, yoga, diet and self actualisation as a means of recovery (self actualisation another term for enlightenment through meditation). I felt much better about my chances of recovery but never took self-actualisation any further as I was too tied-up with getting through each day.
I had a second major breakthrough in January 2007 after attending a raw food and yoga week in Lanzarote when I felt much better. I managed to keep this health for a few weeks and then went back up and down again, culminating in a short period of near-total paralysis in March 2007 whilst overdoing things. Although I generally felt better (health rating was 7 – 8 out of 10 rather than the usual 5-6) this severe event made me realise I had some big problems to get over and there was something missing from what I was doing.
I had heard of the Phil Parker Lightning Process on the Jeremy Vine show in May 2006 but discounted it as hyperbole: I considered that if 300 people did it, at any one time perhaps 5% of those people might get better, and only they would go on to talk about it, surely? My specialist at Bart’s hospital also discounted it as something I shouldn’t do.
Gradually I heard more and more about the Lightning Process and in early 2007 heard of a couple more people who had done it and recovered. I spoke to them and was then committed to going on the course.
The Course
I attended on Monday 25th June 2007 with Maxine Henk of Positive Change.
Perhaps I had a head start as I had spoken with the two others who had completed the course, but it immediately all made sense and put my illness into context. It was a lot to take in and I left day 1 determined to try out my new technique.
I went on a big supermarket shop (something I hadn’t been able to do for 18 months) and it triggered loads of symptoms but by using the Phil Parker Lightning Process I was able to complete the shop – I was out for 2 ½ hours and came home feeling OK!
The next day I was eager for more and I continued to use the process. On the final day the 4 people on the course were standing around chatting – something that couldn’t have happened before! I reckoned that I had learnt everything I needed to, and just needed to practice.
From day 1 I began to lead a normal life, just using the process as I did so. My girlfriend was over the moon and couldn’t quite believe it: she was waiting for the relapse (which never came!). I am walking everywhere and anywhere I want to, no problems, I can stay out late, drink alcohol, see friends, listen to (and play) music, everything I used to do I can do now.
I am going back to (part-time) work in 3 weeks from now. 5 weeks on I still use the process: I am still getting a bit stressed out but using the Lightning Process to work on that. I also doubt myself sometimes or feel myself becoming anxious about things: again I use the process to work through it.
Now I live a life that I love, I love every minute of every day and am moving forward in ways I would never have dreamed would happen 3 months ago. The Lightning Process has changed my life for the better and I truly believe that others can achieve this too! My specialist at Bart’s heard I was better and has taken an interest in it now…there is no denying that I am recovered!"
- Jeremy Head
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"I heard about the Phil Parker Lightning Process through a friend I had known for ten years. She told me how the course had dramatically improved her health having suffered with CFS for 2 years and so I decided to book a course and found Maxine (through Phil Parker’s website).
I developed health problems in 2000 and was diagnosed several months later with CFS. I had some success with herbal and complementary medicines to treat my illness and had regained some health, which was great, however I knew there was a root issue that we were unable to tackle and this was why I went on the course.
Using the Lightning Process has transformed my health and my life. I was able to do things on the last day of the course that were for the first time in seven years! I have also been able to break free from fear and have started to live in a totally new way.
Just to highlight one huge transformation which has happened from doing the course (and this is also greatly related to my personal Christian beliefs): through a childhood school experience where there was an unpredictable, violent boy in my class I learnt to live in fear; now I work in a school with similar aged children and the boys who are considered notorious and badly behaved are the ones I know how to help and love working with! I like to call it living by grace!
I am very grateful to Maxine for her part in this, she is incredibly wise, encouraging, experienced and great at her work. I would instantly recommend her to anyone who would like to benefit from learning the Lightning Process."
- Jenny Litten
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"Maxine,
Just to let you know that the Lightning Process is working well, I’m waking up early every morning and making great progress every day.
Thank you so much for being a wonderful and inspirational trainer. Could you please also give my sincere thanks to Phil Parker - and keep up the life changing work."
- Eva Kowalski
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"Maxine,
Hope all is well with you. I just thought I would email you an update as I hadn't been in touch since I took the Lightning Process training with you in July.
I am very pleased that I no longer take anti depressants - after 10 years of taking them, and I am doing really well and strong. I have not been in contact regarding a follow up session as I have not felt it necessary.
I am doing everything that I want to be able to do and find I no longer consider if any particular activity will affect my energy levels or not. I have also had two slight colds - not really surprising with the weather we have had this summer.
I have enrolled the Diploma course at the college and will start in September - perhaps I will see you there if you are involved in teaching this at all? I intend to get qualified to teach the Lightning Process myself in the future.
I hope the other participants who I met on my course are all doing well. Thank you for all the help you gave me. Very best wishes."
- Julie Haffar
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