I am going to the BBC tomorrow to be interviewed about the Lightning Process and Long Covid. They want to know if I have talked to anyone who has had the Lightning Process for Long Covid. I don't think I have yet but if anyone here has tried the Lightning Pro9cess for Long Covid I would be very happy to talk to them before lunchtime tomorrow!!
And if anyone has talked to anyone about this I am interested to hear anything relevant.
I learned the techniques of Lightning Process (LP) many years before the inventor of Lightning Process (Phil Parker) did .... from NLP/mindmethod courses in the 1980s (though not in the context of curing disabling diseases).
Lightning Process is a bog standard coaching/NLP course, but taken to the level of an Obedience Training.
I recognised all the NLP tricks from the LP advertising and the application forms. I had examined and critiqued Lightning Process since 2005ish, to warn other ME sufferers to avoid being conned.
Not even Richard Bandler (one of the 2 inventors of NLP) would have had the nerve to claim to cure disabling illnesses by shouting "Stop" at the symptoms. 'Recover with' is just NLP-speak for cure.
This is a good description of Lightning Process from a person with ME who did it. Joan McParland describes the psychological manipulations of Lightning Process that led her to insist she was well/recovered long after her family were clear that she was still very, very sick and not recovered at all.
Joan McParland interview: “I have been conned” - When sick patients are sold psychological snake oil
'In the 3 day program, Joan and the other participants were told not to share anything about how the lightning process works with anyone else, or talk to each other about the lightning process, and to only talk about themselves in positive, healthy language and to tell people they were cured --- some people even had to sign contracts with those constraints.
But Joan is not one to be complicit in promoting self-blaming brainwashing and is telling the truth about what secretly happens in the costly lightning process.
It works basically like this: you stand on a piece of paper that has ‘
stop - I have a choice’ written on it. Then you say that aloud.
Two arrows point to your choices.
One arrow points to a piece of paper that has ‘
the pit’ written on it. This represents your symptoms and illness.
The other arrow points to a piece of paper that has ‘
the life I want to lead’ written on it.
You choose which piece of paper you want to stand on and say that aloud.
That’s it -- you do that repeatedly and it will cure you.
Doing a little bit of googling and it turns out both the British Advertising Standards and the Nordic Consumer Ombudsman have ruled against the lighting process for making false claims on its website.'
https://medicalerrorinterviews.podb...ck-patients-are-sold-psychological-snake-oil/
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