What’s your Yeah But?
If you search you will find lots of stories of people successfully recovering from ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, CRPS, PTSD, anxiety or depression. When people come across a success story from a person who once had what they are now suffering from there is often a very familiar response……. YEAH BUT…….. There are thousands of endings to […]
Continue ReadingJoin the Pain Revolution
Are you ready to join the pain revolution? There is a massive mismatch between what research now tells us about pain and the public perception about it. Given that we find ourselves with Chronic Pain as the number burden on human health AND a massive over-prescription of Pain medicine, is it time to join the […]
Continue ReadingYou are not at the mercy of your Emotions
One of the concepts of the Lightning Process is to use current understandings of how the brain and body interact to have a positive influence over our health. While we might be a product of our past we do not have to be at the mercy of it. Learning to engage in the PRESENT moment and our automatic […]
Continue ReadingGetting better or just getting better at managing?
The understanding of NEUROPLASTICITY has become a valuable tool in working with both physical and mental health. NEUROPLASTICITY is the process where the brain alters its structure and function as an adaptation to experience. The implications of this are huge. One implication is that the things that people do to ‘manage’ their problem are also […]
Continue ReadingHow Stress can Make you sick
Stress hormones can keep us safe. But Chronic Stress hormones can make us sick. A nice overview of how chronic stress changes our body. The problem is not stress it is CHRONIC stress. Our body starts changing instantly with stress. We are designed to respond to a threat with the Physical Emergency Stress response. But long […]
Continue ReadingLife’s Ups & Downs
Nothing in life is static. There are ups and downs. One follows the others follows the other. BUT If you fear the downs – the ups become a THREAT. An up becomes a predictor of a down. If you fear failure you will fear success. If you fear fatigue you will fear […]
Continue ReadingRAS – A Piece of the Puzzle
The video below is a useful way to think about just how the brain processes all the information that comes its way. With the brain located inside our skull it relies on our nerves to send it important information. This includes information about the world around us and the working of our body. All of this […]
Continue ReadingAutobiography in Five Short Chapters
I sent out this poem recently to my Lightning Process Graduates and so many replied to say how much they related to it. The process of getting out of auto-pilot and retraining our brain / body to respond differently is not always smooth. It’s a journey that this poem captures well. Autobiography in Five Short […]
Continue ReadingShocking MRI results for Back Pain
MRI RESULTS FOR BACK PAIN – SHOCKING FINDINGS This post is all about PAIN. It relates to you if, and only if, you have experienced pain before. So I guess that means you! What follows might challenge you. Modern pain science is showing us that most of what we used to think about pain was […]
Continue ReadingAha Moments
I love the look on someone’s face during a training when they get an ‘aha moment’ – the penny drops, the light bulb goes off, something finally makes sense. These moments come when people are receptive, searching and open. There’s a willingness to recognise that there may be a mis-match between what is true […]
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