Gale's Story
Since doing the Lightning Process almost 2 months ago I am still finding it difficult to take in the enormity of the change it has made to my life. Every day since then has been like an amazing voyage of discovery as I incorporate my newfound freedom into daily living, and as I rise to meet each new challenge I am continually reinforcing the empowerment and improvements I have made. Over 4 years ago I became very ill and was diagnosed with M.E. after 8 or 9 years of recurrent viral infections. In my search for a solution I tried many forms of treatment including homeopathy, reiki, reflexology, nutritional supplements, exclusion diets, E.F.T., C.B.T., pacing and a graded exercise programme. All of these helped to some degree, but much to my disappointment, I still suffered the frustrating and debilitating symptoms of ‘moderate’ M.E.
My decision to do the Lightning Process came like a ‘bolt from the blue’ one miserable Monday, when I lay on my bed still attempting to recover from a rare outing the previous Friday evening. By contrast, this very happy Monday, I am writing my success story, after having been out on Saturday night from 8 until 1, listening to a rock band, and dancing! Yes me, who struggled to walk 20yds on good day was dancing! This is rapidly becoming a regular thing for me, and although I do find I need to take it a bit easy the next day (I am 53 after all!) I just think of myself as being in convalescence at the moment. My sister, who had Fibromyalgia for many years, decided also to do the Lightning Process, after seeing my incredible transformation, now she has recovered completely too, which was wonderful for me to see and, is further confirmation of the power of this Process!
I am gaining strength and stamina as every day goes by, and as my energy levels increase I am able to do more and more. I find I actually love the feeling of muscle ache now, because it’s a different, good feeling of underused muscles building up. Since day 2 of the Lightning Process I’ve had virtually no ‘pay back’ apart from a normal tiredness, which any healthy person would expect after a long illness. Neither do I get dizziness, brain-fog, nor that horrible ‘poisoned’ feeling which was such a usual part of my life for so long. If I do hit a problem I use the Process and the problem disappears, and knowing that my trainer, Heather Thomas, is always only a phone call away is a great comfort. I really cannot speak highly enough of Heather who is an absolute star. She is great fun, and is a wonderfully caring and genuinely lovely person, but she is also a very conscientious teacher who is persistently determined to ensure the training programme is perfectly understood. When the initial excitement in the first few days after doing the Process wore off I began sleeping like a baby, to awake refreshed and alert and filled with a wonderful feeling of aliveness and joie de vie, which I never really expected to last, but it has! The added benefits of increased confidence and self-esteem, which come from doing the Lightning Process are a very welcome bonus, now all I have to do is to decide in which direction to take my new life as the possibilities are endless! I would like to take this opportunity to offer my most profound gratitude to Heather, and also of course to Phil Parker himself, without whom none of this would have been possible. How can you thank someone for giving you back your life? As far as I’m concerned the man is an absolute genius and I will be forever indebted to him, bless him!
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I recently had a postcard from Gale and her sister Heather who also did the Lightning Process with me in the autumn of 2007. She receovered just as rapidly as Gale. They were walking in mountains together this summer.
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Fiona’s success story;
It has been two months since Heather Thomas taught me the Lightning Process and utterly transformed my life. Over the course of the three days of seminars I went from having severe ME to being completely healthy. I know it sounds too good to be true, and sometimes I can hardly believe it myself, but I just have to look in my diary to see all the amazing things I’ve been doing for the evidence. Before attending the Lightning Process seminars I had had fairly severe ME for over eight years and had been virtually housebound for the whole of that time. I needed a lot of help around the house, only had the energy to shower once every 2 or 3 days and only went out once or twice a month. I had to pace all my activities, having long rest periods in bed during the day, to avoid exacerbating my symptoms which were primarily a flu-like post-exertional malaise, aching glands, muscle pains and weakness. I also had a major problem with standing: my blood pressure would drop and I would feel very ill after standing for more than a few seconds. My illness had begun on 8 March 1999 - I know the exact date as I had a very acute onset following a glandular fever type virus in the February of that year. I went on holiday to Spain when still unrecovered from the virus and overdid things both physically (walking miles every day, not eating or sleeping enough) and mentally (being in a foreign country unable to speak the language and constantly being alert) which put a great strain on my nervous/immune systems. A few months before this I had had a tetanus and polio immunisation at the same time which I reacted badly to and which I believe had also stressed my immune system. I had read about the Lightning Process in the mainstream press and AfME journals and although I didn’t dismiss it completely I was very sceptical. In fact I was actually upset that something that appeared to be a ‘mind over matter’ instant ‘cure’ was getting so much publicity as I knew my ME was a very physical illness. I had tried so hard over the years to do everything and anything I could to get over my illness and had always been so positive but I had remained as ill as ever. Also it was rather expensive and as I didn’t know of any practitioners local to me the thought of travelling up to London put me off – how would I get there and once there how would I get to and from the clinic from the B&B?? But then a friend called to tell me that someone I’d known through my local ME support group had done it and was a ‘new woman’ - and when it is someone you know it seems different. I thought I would investigate a bit more and was soon talking to Heather. She sounded very sane and intelligent and had herself been severely affected by ME for many years and had recovered her health using the Lightning Process just the year before. The venue was much more ME-friendly - a big farmhouse set in quiet countryside that I could get to without putting people out too much, the training room had sofas and I could stay overnight in the same building and use the kitchen. The next thing I knew I was booked on the course for the following week. I was still slightly sceptical but there was a lot I had read in the book (‘An Introduction to the Lightning Process’) that had made sense to me so I was optimistic and excited. I have to say that at the end of the first day of the three-day course I was very worried that it wasn’t going to work for me - so much so that I got virtually no sleep and was very close to getting my Mum to come to collect me the next morning - but doing the first bit of the process we had been taught did seem to be helping a tiny bit and in the morning I got up and had a shower standing up for the first time in years with only minimal symptoms so (thank goodness!!) I stayed.
By the middle of day two I actually managed to get my symptoms to lessen as I was standing being talked through the process so I knew something was happening and by the end of the day I was standing in comfort for quite long periods. As that had been one of my major problems I knew if I could overcome that I could do anything. All day I had been worrying about going out for a meal with my fellow trainees as Heather had suggested the night before because I’d have done two days of intensive training on practically no sleep, but when the session ended I was actually the first to mention it. Heather drove us to a restaurant in Rickmansworth and I coped pretty well during the meal doing the process in my head. Afterwards I surprised myself by suggesting we went for a walk! We just walked round the block back to the car but it was the furthest I’d walked at a normal pace in 8 years and I only had one pain which I was able to quickly banish. Back at the farmhouse that night I was standing comfortably chatting to a group of people and my confidence was growing by the minute. Even though I still didn’t sleep much and had to do the process a lot, by day three I was free from ME symptoms for the whole day. I was worried about the drive home as I usually had to lie down in the back seat of the car but I coped really well sitting in the front and only had to do the process once during the hour-long journey.
The day after I got home I got up early and did a 20 minute walk and continued to go out for walks and drives every day, visiting family and friends, shopping and actually enjoying doing exercise like step aerobics. After three weeks I had the confidence to drive 1.5 hours round the busy M25 to visit a friend and then took trains and tubes into London to see the Verve at O2 Arena. I was dancing all night and on the way home had no problem (apart from sore feet!) standing on the packed train for almost an hour. Over the Christmas period I got a nasty virus but recovered from it in about a week - the same time a healthy person would - and I still managed some Highland dancing on New Year’s Eve! This week I went to my first Tai Chi and Qi Gong class, followed by a run; the next day I went up to London ice skating and shopping in the sales and yesterday I did a yoga class. I’m getting my fitness back and it is amazing how quickly my badly atrophied muscles are building up.
I am completely confident that my recovery will continue as it is totally in my power and if I ever do get any ME symptoms or tiredness I just use the process and like magic they’re gone. In fact I am determined to achieve better health than I ever had. My only problem now is what to do with the rest of my life knowing that I can do anything!
UPDATE ON FIONA'S LIFE;
July 2008 update
It’s now eight months since
I did the Lightning Process training programme with Heather and I’d
like to report that things are still going unbelievably well. I can
do as much exercise as I like with no ME symptoms whatsoever and I have
as much (if not more) energy than anyone I know. I’m still in the
process of coming off my sleep medications and sometimes sleep doesn’t
come that easily, and I very occasionally have one of my old ME muscle-pains,
but I know why and 99.99% of the time I am totally ME free.
The last few months I’ve
been busy travelling – in March I went to Lewis, an island off the
northwest coast of Scotland, for a cousin’s housewarming party where
I had the most amazing time. It was so fantastic going back to the place
I’d spent a lot of my childhood for the first time in 10 years, seeing
all my relatives and walking over a big hill to a beach I never thought
I’d see again. In April I was off to America for three weeks, first
to visit my sister in Chicago then to New York. In both cities I walked
for miles every day, sightseeing and shopping, and went out every night.
Last month I went to the Isle of Wight Festival where I out-walked my
ex boyfriend (he kept having to go back to the tent early complaining
of sore feet and aching legs but I could stay up dancing till the last
band had come off stage!) and one day after getting back from there,
having driven through the night from Southampton, I was off to Lewis
again, this time for even more hill walking as my fitness (and the weather!)
was improved.
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Story from Marianne who attended my Oslo Lightning Process Seminar in December
I had ME for ten years. I was bedridden 24-7 for six years. I did the LP-course December 2007. The first day i arrived with a wheel-chair and layed down on a sofa with my hot waterbottles and blankets all through the day. By the end of the first day, we got to do the Lightning Process for the first time. I didn’t quite realize it at the time, but that’s when it happened; I was well! I went outdoor for a walk later that evening and had my first meal out of bed for 6 years. No symptoms returned!
The second day of the course I sat up in the sofa all day. No blanket, no hot waterbottles. No symptoms. After the third day I visited my best friend, enjoying bringing her and her whole family in awe. I really haven’t had any physical ME-symptoms after the first evening of the LP-course. And believe me; there used to be plenty of them. After 6 years in bed, my body needs some time to adjust, to rebuild, to get it’s flexibility and strength back, but the only ”symptoms” I experience are mental or emotional ones. I keep doing the process on them every day, and trust that whenever the process feels a little difficult to do, when maybe I have to do it over and over again to get back to the life I love, that is when I really rebuild healthy pathways in my brain and nerve system. That’s all the motivation I need. I have too much to loose.
I loved doing the LP-course with Heather. She has such a good heart and at the same time she is able to push a little when needed. After years of heavy ”ME-torture” it’s hard to trust or even recognize that it’s really over, and I needed to be challenged a little to get out of the habitual and destructive defence patterns I built up to protect myself. Heather is able to do that in an intelligent and loving way. She is a generous person and genuinly caring for everybody’s success.
Thank you Heather, for showing me how to get my life back.
Marianne
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MY SUCCESS STORY
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Aina Grunnsund from
I was
diagnozed with ME in 2001. The first months I was bedbound, and housebound for
the first year. Slowly I got better, but not so well that I could work. In 2003
I gave birth to my second son Albert, I got worse, but slowly recovered a bit.
For some
years I could participate i the family life, in 2007 i started on migrene
medication, and after 6 months I collapsed – totally bedbound.
From may to
february I hardly wasn`t outside my house. In february I got real sick and had
to remove a gall stone and had pancreatitus. I was in very much pain, and when
I got home from the hospital after one week, my ME was even worse.
Just before
X-mas I heard that it was possible to have the training in
In february
I went to
The next
morning we were going to have breakfast in the restaurant. When arriving there
I started having symptoms and panicking. I went to the bathroom and worked on
the process, and was actually gone for 20 minutes! When I got back my husband
and my kids were running around looking for me- they thought that I had collapsed.
.But I was doing great, and we enjoyed a 30 minutes breakfast in the
restaurant!!! This was fantastic!!!I had stayed in bed and on the sofa for
almost a year!!!! I even went to a grocerie store before going to the seminar
on the second day.
This
evening we went for 1hour walk!!! Stopped at a shopping center and back to the
hotel again!!!
The third
day I felt great!! Rushed to a grocerie store before going to the seminar.
After the
seminar we started our 3 hour drive back, doing great!!
When we got
home I cooked a meal and put my kids to bed.
It has now
been 3 weeks since I finished the seminar.
I have been
working very hard with the process and I am doing great progress.
I haven`t
laid down for a rest in these 3 weeks, and do not sleep during the day.
I go for
walks, go shopping, doing housework, reading and helping my kids with homework,
I can do anything!!
Yesterday I
drove my car again on the highway, and that feels great!!
This easter
I was able to go to the ski center with my family. My sons went on snowboard, I
was playing with them and preparing the meal (grilling). When we came home
after 6 hours I was tired of course, but that was from the sun and fresh air –
my husband was even more tired than me and went to bed at 9......I stayed up
until 11!!!!
I got
something in the mail a couple of days ago, it was about ME and a new plan from
the government. There was an interview with a woman suffering from ME....I read
it and felt very sorry for her. But I noticed that I didn`t identify myself
with her, and that was something new to me. I felt that ME was something of my
past.....and it really is.
I`m working
on the process every day, and I can do a lot more now than I was able to a
cople of weeks ago.
I`m moving
very fast forward......Some days I do a little struggle, but I trust in the
process and the next day is always a better one......
I am so
grateful for learning the lightning process, I have turned my life around doing
the process. I know I will do great progress in the future and I have a life I
love!
Many thanks
to Heather for being such a great trainer!!!!
A fantastic trainer actually....
Thank you, thank you, thank you...:-)
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HERE IS AN UPDATE ON AINA, AN ARTICLE FROM HER LOCAL PAPER; (Apologies to those who can't understand Norwegian!) www.pd.
no
Aina Grunnsund har fått livet tilbake. Det innebærer blant annet å gå tur, ta en tur på butikken eller på kjøpesenteret. Ting som var utenkelig da hun var inne i sin verste periode i fjor sommer.
Aina har fått livet tilbake
Et kurs på tre dager og hard jobbing i etterkant har gjort underverker for ME-pasient Aina Grunnsund. Hun har aldri følt seg bedre og friskere i løpet av de syv siste årene.
– Utmattelsen har sluppet taket, og jeg har rett og slett kommet meg på beina igjen. I går var hele familien på kjøpesenteret på Herkules. Mens de andre spiste, gikk jeg alene rundt og prøvde litt klær og handlet. Det er ting som var helt utenkelig for meg i den forferdelig perioden jeg var inne i frem til jeg kom på kurset, forteller Grunnsund.
Fra mai 2007 til månedsskiftet februar-mars i år lå hun for det aller meste i et mørkt rom og hadde bare noen få turer ut innimellom.
– Det var til tider nok bare å konsentrere seg om å eksistere, sier tobarnsmoren.
Lightning process
Liggende under et teppe i bilen kom hun seg på kurs i Oslo i såkalt lightning process i mars. En behandling som behandler ME som en fysisk sykdom, og hvor man baserer seg på hjernens evne til å påvirke kroppen. Informasjonen om dette fant hun på internett, og hun betalte ca. 12 000 kroner.
– Det er vanskelig å forklare, men jeg synes det er viktig å understreke at det ikke er noe hokus pokus eller mirakelkur. Det er konkrete fysiske øvelser man lærer og går igjennom, og hovedgreia er å klare å stoppe den adrenalinloopen som gjør at en tappes fullstendig for energi, forklarer Grunnsund, som også måtte gjennom et grundig intervju for å se om hun var klar for kurset.
Med hard jobbing og repetisjoner på øvelsene i etterkant, har hun også klart det. Nå gjør hun øvelsene svært sjelden, og hun har for alvor begynt å bli trygg på at hun ikke skal få noe tilbakefall.
– Jeg var selvfølgelig veldig redd for det i begynnelsen. Når man har 7 års erfaring med sykdommen, er det ikke bare lett å stole på at det skal gå bra, erkjenner Grunnsund.
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Av Edle Eidbo-Hansen Of Edle Eidbo-Hansen
Published 15.05.2008 - 08:30
Utmattelsen has released the roof, and I have simply come up on his feet again. Yesterday the whole family for shopping on the Hercules. While the others ate, I walked alone around and tried some clothes and acted. There are things that were absolutely inconceivable for me in the terrible period I was in until I joined the course, says Aina. From May 2007 to the end of February to March this year she was for the most in a dark room and had only a few trips out occasionally. It was sometimes enough just to concentrate on to exist, "said Aina's mother.
Lightning process
Lying under a blanket in the car she came up for classes in Oslo in the so-called lightning process in March. A treatment that treats ME as a physical illness, and where it is based on brain's ability to affect the body. The information about this she found on the Internet, and she paid approx. 12 000 kroner.
It is difficult to explain, but I think it is important to stress that there is no hokus pokus or miracles. There are specific physical exercises Monday and the teacher goes through, and the main thing is to be able to stop the adrenalin loop that allows a completely drained of energy, explains Aina, who also had to be through a thorough interview to see if she was ready for the course.
With hard work and repetitions of exercises after, she has also done it. Now she uses the exercises very rarely, and she has seriously begun to be assured that she will not get any relapse. I was, of course, very afraid of it in the beginning. When you have 7 years of experience with the disease, it is not easy to trust that it will go well, recognizes Aina.
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Hi Heather,
Thank you very much for a fantastic Lightning
Process Seminar! It is not possible to express our gratefulness in just a
few words. Marias father has been away for three weeks, and he arrived
Oslo yesterday. When he met Maria this morning he had tears in his eyes. He
saw that something fantastic had happened to her! She was full of
energy! Her way of walking was different and her eyes was sparkling! And
she had so many plans for the weekend! " Did you meet Jesus?," he asked with a
laugh. " No, but we met Heather and she gave me the right tools to recover."
Maria said.
Warm big hug!
Tanja
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An email from Beate who attended a seminar in her wheelchair in Oslo in March.
An email from Runi in February 2008 who did the training in December:
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An email from Beate who attended a seminar in her wheelchair in Oslo in March.
I enjoy my life! I do most of the work in the
house myself, and I also do much work out in the garden. The Spring
has been so beautiful this year.... I often take my car and go visiting friends
and relatives, and I participate more in the social life. It is great! My
neighbour ,who is an11 years old boy, told me a week ago that many people say
that a miracle has happened to me. It is true!
Beate wanted me to point out that she is still working on a few symptoms, that she hasn't resolved it all yet, but the few remaining symptoms don't bother her, she knows she will resolve them in a little more time. She also knows that SHE is responsible for the amazing change in her health, it didn't just 'happen'. She used, and continues to use the process to get well.
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An email from Runi in February 2008 who did the training in December:
Dear Heather,
I've strength and energy, catching up on a number of things,
but balancing so that it's fun to do it and not just because I feel I
should. I got my slalom-stuff and went skiing with my five-year-old,
that was great fun. But now it's only raining, so we are waiting for
new snow.
We've been skating and swimming, going to birthdayparties
and dinnerparties, I've energy at work AND when I get back home
AND in the weekends - and thats a huge change. I've already started on
the big
"fixing-everything-i-couldn't-do-in-the-house-the-last-four-years"-project,
and since it seems to be inspiring my husband as well the progress is
really good.
People I meet are telling me I look different, better, well. And
I've much more mental strength, more like before ME: Seeing
solutions and possibilities instead of problems, calmness and
constructive thinking - like I used to - , not doing stress over other
peoples issues and problems, I can now separate them from me - it feels
SO GOOD.
We're going on a weekendtrip to Rome in march, just for
pleasure, and I'm looking REALLY forward to that! AND I'm going away on
a seminar (job) for a couple of days in februray, so this is also
great. Two trips in one month and no worries - FANTASTIC!
I still have fever, though, but it doesn't slow me down as much
as it used to.
Hope you are doing fine!
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Another email from Runi a month later...
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Another email from Runi a month later...
Dear Heather,
Just had to let you know that the last symptom has left my body;
the fever. It took almost two months, but now I've had normal
body temprature for two weeks - for the first time in 4 years.
Yippi!!
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I’VE
GOT MY LIFE BACK!
(Thanks
to Heather and the Lightning Process)
I was finally
diagnosed with Postal Viral Fatigue Syndrome – ME in 1988. I tried to struggle on with my job in
teaching but after repeated and lengthening spells off sick I took early retirement
in 1992.
Over the years I tried ( and spent much
money on) most of the alternative
therapies and diets, Yoga etc and had counselling. I live alone and eventually learned to accept
my limitations and try to work my life around them and thus developed a certain
quality of life albeit carefully managed to prepare for and crash out after
some activities which other people take for granted.
A friend whose
stepdaughter had suffered ME for many years described how she had recovered
after doing the the LIGHTNING PROCESS. I
then read about it in the press and the Action for ME quarterly journal
‘Interaction’ and then heard the Radio 4 programme about it.
However I was
still very sceptical about it and worried about the expense, having tried so
many therapies in the past. I then heard
of a couple more success stories and one day my granddaughter was visiting and
mentioned that her 13 year old school friend had recovered from ME and wasn’t
that what I had.
This prompted me
to find out more about it and even though I had to struggle to overcome my
scepticism,I decided to ‘give it a go’. I contacted my friend whose daughter
had done it to find out who had trained
her and then got in touch with Heather and six months on I am still leading a ‘normal’ life
I owe so much to
Heather who showed a genuine interest in me and was inspired by her enthusiasm,
buoyant, caring and friendly personality and who GAVE ME MY LIFE BACK.
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With
permission, as with all the emails and stories, I am quoting below from
the email of Kristin from Norway who was in a seminar in Feb 2008 in
the U.K. with her friend Bjorg. They both were very limited in how far
they could walk and both had to use wheelchairs at the airport on the
way over. But not on the way home... They have since been doing A LOT
of walking...
Bjørg and I arrived back from Sorrento, Italy today.
Bjørg and I arrived back from Sorrento, Italy today.
We have been for a "kick off", for a
week.
We have walked so much, I did not think it was
possible. We have seen Naples, Rome, Amalfi.
Up in the morning from 6 - 8 every
day!
We were shopping from 10 to 8 one of the
days!!!!
Isn't that great!
Kristin
Kristin
Anne`s story
My living-boy friend
talked to Gunvor Hals in November 2007 and she told him that Heather
would held seminars in Lightning Process in Oslo. I was crying when
I heard this, because I thought I was too ill to participate . I was
severely affected with ME and bed-bounded 24 hours a day. 21 hours each
day I was laying in a dark room with no sound and light at all. I was
able to lay in the living room 1 hour 3 times a day, but I was only
talking a little with my four year old son and my live-in-boy friend.
I could only walk to the toilet. I was able to sit 15 minutes total
for the whole day.
Then a friend of mine
who was going to a seminar with Heather phoned my living-boy friend
and said “I have talked to Heather and she says that Anne is well
enough to participate”. I could not belive that. But I belived very
strongly that LP could help me and the other option was not very encouraging;
continue to lay down in the dark room; I decided to sign up for a seminar.
The result after the
seminar is AMAZING!!!!! The first day at the seminar I was
laying down the whole day. But when I got home I put my son to bed for
the first time in 18 months; I was not tired after 6 hours with english
that I had not been practising for a long time! The next day
I sat the whole day, enjoing talking to Heather and the other participants
in the breaks My sensitivity to sound and light had totally disappeard
In the evening after the seminar on day 2, after I had put ny son to
bed again – of course, I drove alone to my brother
( 20 minutes each way) and visited him and his family. The symptoms
were gone !!
My focus after the seminar is to gradually become physically stronger. So every day since the seminar I have been walking in the forrest. I went cross country skiing 12 km in March and I`m really looking forward to next winter to go A LOT! :-)
Now - five months after
the seminar- I live a completly normal life with my family and friends.
I am walking 8 – 12 km fast in the forrest each day, doing things
with my son, family and friends. I can do whatever I want of socially
activities; parties, cinema,shopping etc etc. It feels like a MIRACAL
!! And I know that I would get even better as long as I do the
process when ever I `m in the pit ! :-)
It is hard to express
how greatfull we are that Heather came to Norway and that she gave my
little son his mum back and that we now know that ME is history and
we would only looking forward; living a great life that we love.
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Dear Heather!
I was in Oslo in May -08 at The Lightening Process with you.
I am so happy to tell you that I now am living the life that I love!:-)
In the beginning I was having some difficulties with the Process, but now it is easy.
I am now able to take good care of my husband and our three children, and as you can imagine, that feels REALLY GOOD.
In June we were one week on holliday to the Netherlands, and I was walking for a whole day in Amsterdam!
Earlier I was really afraid to fly, but now I am completely relaxed.
We have also been 10 days in our cabin. There we were walking a lot in the mountains.
Every day I am walking and training with my dog, and tomorrow we are going to compete in obedience!:-)
I have also been able to read a lot of books.
So, you see - I can do everything that I want!!
Heather, I am SO GREATFUL for what you and the Lightening Process gave to me and my family!!
With love from Marianne and Jan
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Hi Heather!
There`s been a lot of positive changes since I spoke with you. I still have a lot of energy every day - and I do a lot of things everyday! I still get up at about 0830 every morning - feeling good and ready for a new day :-) And I don`t have to lay down and rest during the day. I sleep well and I don`t use any painkillers for my back and muscles. I tolerate sounds (like in cafès) and I can stay many hours in town shopping and talking to friends at cafès. Me and Kent go for long walkes and that is very nice. I get stronger in my legs and in my body. We`ve been on several trips this summer - being much more active then we`ve been in years :-)
I`m much more positive and calmer now than before the seminar. It`s been so nice to be able to spend more time at my parents house - helping my mother cleaning the house - and they are really happy to see the changes that`ve happened. As all my friends are too!
Tone at Loudwater Farm
Kent, Heather and Tone at Loudwater Farm
Tone after the seminar
I am so grateful that you taught me the LP the way you did. You are so positive and energetic - you show me that it`s possible to recover fram ME and live a life you love - and that makes me belive that it`s possible for me too! Thank you for giving me the tools to bring back my life that I love :-)
With love,
Tone
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Dear Heather.
I am so pleased to tell you that my life has become
SO GOOD after the Lp seminar.Most of my physical ME symptoms were gone during
that week end and I am now doing great prosperity. I am busy gardening , going
for long walks and going by bice in to town shopping. I keep my house in order,
what I used a week doing , I now do in between, so I am living a normal life
again. I have made two travelles, organised by myself and have had summer guests
for 3 weeks, and I am still feeling well. It is amazing and FANTASTIC.
Today I have gone the second part of the Pilgrims Track, enjoing nature and
being so proud of myself.
My friends and family are making comments about my
progress and my husband is also very happy about it now.
Lot of love to you from Ingrid (name changed)
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Hi Heather!
How are you? I'm doing absolutely great!
It's been about a month since I went to the LP seminar and my life has completely changed. It's actually a bit difficult to remember all the changes I've made because it feels so natural to be well now.
The first days after the seminar I was improving a lot on my sleep pattern. That is, I started sleeping around 7-8 hours a night and not at all during the day. This was a really big improvement for me being used to sleep about 11 hours per day/night and being tired the rest of the time
I also felt less tired during the day, and whenever I started to feel tired I was able to stop it by using the process. I was also using the process a lot when I was feeling stressed. I used to get really stressed up about almost everything. Every little thing that happened and every little thought led me into a pattern of stress, and it felt as though I couldn't control it. This happened a lot in the beginning, but now it's almost completely gone!
The days after the seminar I started going for little walks, listened to music and spent some time with a good friend who earlier attended the LP seminar with her sister. It was very nice to spend the next days with someone who understood what LP is all about and understood that I needed to do the process every now and then. I noticed that when I used the process very consistently in the beginning, it soon became more automated and I didn't have to do it so often anymore. I was soon able to go shopping for clothes in a shopping centre - something that would have made me collapse earlier! I did this several times and every time I would last longer without getting tired.
The first days after the seminar I would wake up feeling terribly tired, my usual ME condition, but I managed to get out of bed and do the process and I soon felt much better. This condition improved a lot in a week or so until the ME morning tiredness was completely gone.
About a week after the seminar I felt like I was ready to leave my mom's house and go back to Trondheim where I live with my boyfriend. He was really amazed by my improvement. Still he wasn't being as excited about my improvements as I was, since he wanted to 'see if it lasts'. Sometimes it felt as I had to 'prove' that I was well. Except from a few episodes of tiredness I was already doing great. I made sure to use the process whenever there was a problem and now he has finally stopped checking for symptoms. During week 2 after the seminar we saw some friends and played strategy board games (I could already feel that my concentration had improved and I could think more clearly). We also went rollerblading, shopping downtown and swimming in the sea.
It felt so great to all those things that I hadn't done in such a long time! I should probably add that my muscles have been really sore during the last weeks since I'm not used to moving at all (just lying on the couch). I see this as a very good thing though. It gives me a good feeling to know that I'm building muscles even when I?m just taking a walk or going shopping.
Week 3 after the seminar my boyfriend and I went to a cottage with some friends. It was a really steep 1 hour walk to the cottage and we were carrying backpacks, but the trip went great! Of course I got tired walking up since I?m really out of shape, but that was a good type of tired, not ME-tired. Later we went for a walk in the forest that lasted for many hours in steep terrain, picking blueberries and cloudberries. Simple things like that means so much to me now!
I've also started to drink a little alcohol and I handle it very well. It used to be like poison to me. I went to a wedding where I drank 2 glasses of wine and a cognac, danced a little and stayed up till 2 a.m. and I felt fine!
The last days I've played badminton, gone rollerblading, fixed my bike (from now on I take the bike downtown instead of the bus), spent more time with friends and made some more plans for what I want to do.
People tell me that I look better and I feel great. Everybody is positive to the changes I've made and they are happy for me. Even if I did get some negative feedback I know I could handle that too and not let it bother me. I feel a lot more confident than before and happy about myself.
Since the seminar I've spent all my time doing whatever I want, without thinking about work or studies. I really feel like I need a long holiday to do whatever I want to do, all those things I've missed out on, so I've decided to let studies wait until I'm ready to start again. Until then I'm just going to give myself the long holiday I deserve. It's a get well gift to myself. I've booked a travel to Amsterdam next month with my friend. I'm really looking forwards to it!
Thank you Heather for helping me back to life!
Ingrid
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This is an email from 14 year old Sigrid who came to a seminar in April 2008
Dear Heather!
Here comes a greeting from a lucky, healthy and active girl.
I’m fantastic, and I live the life I love!
I join the classes a 100%, I play football and meet friends,
This summer I joined a lot of camps and I live a social life!
A Thursday in the summer holiday, I was on a trip on the bike, with my dad,
We was biking 80km!
Two days later, I was rafting on the Otta River.
That was very cool!
And the day after the rafting, I was on a trip on a glacier called the fairy-tale ice.
That is something you should do next time you are in Norway!
Thank you so much for teaching me Lightning process!
Love from Sigrid!
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