Most Lightning Trainers commercial websites (including the main Phil Parker Lightning site and that of Alastair Gibson who are the LP Trainers on the Lightning Trial) feature one or more high profile celebrity endorsements of Lightning.
The celebrity endorsement most featured on LP commercial websites (including Phil Parkers Lightning site ) is by Esther Rantzen regarding her daughter Emily Wilcox’s experience of LP the “Saved from a Living Death” story from the Daily Mail.
Esther Ratnzen, who is President of AYME, heard about Lightning from Jill Moss who was founder of AYME according to Esther in – the Daily Mail 2007 (article below) .
Phil Parker’s own main Lightning site:
http://www.lightningprocess.com/ME-CFS-Home/
Find out how Esther Rantzen's daughter Emily used the Lightning Process for her ME/CFS.
Click here for her story.
Westcountry LP Trainer Donna Paris features Esther Rantzen’s 2007 Daily Mail story prominently on her commercial website, described by Donna as a “rapid recovery” story:
http://www.donnaparis.com/
Daily Mail
Esther Rantzen’s moving story
“Read Esther Rantzens Daily Mail article about her daughters rapid recovery from ME with Lightning”
Westcountry LP trainer Lyn Atkins Advanced Lightning Trainer:
Lyn’s site features Emily’s story from the Daily Mail too:
http://www.lynatkins.com/
Esther Rantzen’s daughter Emily recovered using The Phil Parker Lightning Process™
Read Saved from a living death
published by The Daily Mail
Emily Wilcox’s SECOND “ME cure” by Lightning in 2007. Emily’s first “ME cure” was also reported in the Daily Mail in 2001 by Emily herself “How one woman found a cure that worked for her” )
Daily Mail February 2007:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...#ixzz145qtUb7S
‘Saved from a living death’
By ESTHER RANTZEN
Emily revitalised, and Esther, the mother who never stopped believing
For 14 years, Esther Rantzen's daughter Emily had her life destroyed by ME. Trapped in a wheelchair, wasting away, she wanted to die. Now, thanks to radical "mind over matter" therapy, she's cured herself.
“For 14 years I have watched her struggling like a fly in a web while the sticky strands of fatigue paralysed her. Now at last I can say it: Emily is well”.
…“Luckily our consultant neurologist was one of the few at that time - this was 12 years ago - who recognised ME as a genuine illness, and told us that Emily was a classic case. There wasn't much he could do, and he was quite honest about that. He told us that nobody knows what causes ME or how to cure it.
He put her on a management course - to increase gradually what she could do - which she stuck to heroically, alternating two-hour periods of activity and rest all through the day.
But in spite of all her efforts, I watched the illness take over her body. She became hypersensitive to light and noise so that she had to wear earplugs and sunglasses constantly, and we lined her curtains with blackout material.
She lost the capacity to walk upstairs, so we installed a stairlift. When she was unable to walk at all, we got a wheelchair for her. In the end, she spent all day in bed, eyes shut, earplugs in. I used to come home from work and run to her room. She was sheet-white, and her limbs were cold.
Desperate to try and find a way to keep her positive about the body that had become her prison, I would massage her legs, which felt completely lifeless. ME is not officially a life-threatening illness, but this was a living death.”
“When I held her hands they were icy. As I watched the fatigue remorselessly overcome her, and she lay on the sofa each afternoon, and struggled to get up each morning, my heart sank like lead. I had seen all this before. Would we have to install the stairlift again and bring back the wheelchair?”
……“Six months ago we heard about the Lightning Process from Jill Moss who founded the Association for Young People with ME (AYME) and had seen it work well with a member of her family. As explained in Good Health last month, The Lightning Process is based on the theory that ME is an illness that affects the body's capacity to deal with adrenaline. This is the hormone the body releases when stressed - in people with ME the levels are abnormal, and they need to "train" their brain to normalise the body's response.
The first step is to tackle the thoughts that trigger the stress reaction - halfway through a negative thought they have to tell themselves to stop. This stops the stress response, and in theory creates new connections in the brain, stimulating the production of endorphins - feel-good brain chemicals.
At "600, the course - in Crouch End, London - wasn't cheap. But Jill doesn't believe in miracle cures any more than I do. She thought it was worthwhile, so Emily, now 28, enrolled. It took three days.
On the day after Emily finished the course I went down to our kitchen and found she had got there before me. There was a sparkle in her eyes I hadn't seen since she was 14. I asked what had happened. "I've done the Lightning Process about 30 times since I got up," she told me.
I continued to watch her all morning. Every few minutes she would talk to herself, coaching herself to withstand the fatigue.
It's a process that takes effort, and I understand that it doesn't work for everyone.
But with joy and relief I am now confident the Lightning Process has worked for Emily. After six months she has started a job, working with children. She has a full, active social life.
I can give up being irrationally, stupidly positive and optimistic, because now, at last, I have a good reason. Emily is well.”
