Ian Cleary

Avoid or push through? Or….

Many people I work with are stuck with two choices. Avoid the things that trigger them (exercise, movement, food, light, touch, chemicals, people, noise etc) or push through and suffer the payback. The Lightning Process offers a third alternative – retrain your brain and body to respond differently to the triggers. This approach also moves […]

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Not Broken…Just Stuck

Here’s a radical thought.  What if the way you are thinking about your condition became an obstacle for full recovery. Would you be willing to begin to think about your condition differently? __________________ What would it be like to begin to think about yourself as just stuck rather than broken. What would it be like to […]

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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 […]

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Join the Pain Revolution

February 8, 2018IanChronic Pain/ Fibromyalgia, Lightning ProcessComments Off on Join 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 […]

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You 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 […]

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Working with bias

October 31, 2017IanUncategorizedComments Off on Working with bias

An ‘Aha’ moment is a time when our understanding shifts and we change our awareness of the nature of our world. The science of perception is fascinating – how we perceive others, ourselves, our bodies, the world, our past, our present and our future. We are all biased YET we can work on correcting our biases. […]

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Lightning Process research findings

October 9, 2017IanChronic Fatigue Syndrome & ME, In the News & Research, Lightning ProcessComments Off on Lightning Process research findings

The Archive of Disease in Childhood has published a paper on a trial involving the Lightning Process and CFS. The results have certainly created a lot of interest with the conclusion: ” The addition of the Lightning Process to standard medical care may be helpful to children with CFS/ME. However, this study needs to be replicated before the Lightning Process […]

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Getting better or just getting better at managing?

September 9, 2017IanChronic Fatigue Syndrome & ME, Chronic Pain/ Fibromyalgia, Lightning Process, NeuroplasticityComments Off on Getting 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 […]

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How 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 […]

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What is fatigue?

August 7, 2017IanChronic Fatigue Syndrome & MEComments Off on What is fatigue?

What is fatigue?  It’s worth pondering if you are suffering from chronic fatigue that rest and sleep USE energy. Lying still uses energy. Sleeping uses less but only a fraction less. It’s still ‘draining your energy resources’. It’s interesting to ponder that healthy people wake up each morning having used energy to sleep but feel […]

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