Wednesday, 16 February 2011

The Physiological Emergency Response

One of the things that made the most sense to me about the Lightning Process was its explanation of the Physiological Emergency Response. At last, something I could get hold of that explained why I had got stuck in this cycle of exhaustion and strange symptoms that doctors could give me a label for but could not explain. For some reason my body had got stuck in a way of responding to physical and/or emotional stress, whether it was an initial illness or a bereavement or something else entirely, that meant my sympathetic nervous system was sending and receiving confused messages.

Now I have met many people with unexplained symptoms and I realise this response may be affecting all sorts of people at different times in their lives - sometimes after a virus or an operation; anything which puts stress on their body.

What the Lightning Process gave me was a way of interrupting that response and creating new ways of responding. Quite simple really!

Please see http://www.lightningprocess.com/Research/ for further information about the research that underpins what we do.

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