Who Might Benefit from the
Lightning Process?
Although it was developed as a result of working with people who had had quite complex problems for some time, I’ve found that the Lightning Process is such a powerful training that it also produces amazingly rapid change with many of the common issues that can prevent our lives from being great.
Below are just some of the common problems people have told us they have resolved using the Lightning Process:
People have reported that it has also produced amazingly rapid change with a whole range of physical conditions that they had suffered from. Some examples include:
The Lightning Process, and related programmes that I have subsequently developed from it, gets excellent results and enhances the following:
As you can see from these lists, it seems that anywhere you are not achieving your best, you can use the Lightning Process for working out how to stop those destructive patterns and enhance your current skills and abilities.
For some people this raises a few important questions. These are usually, ‘Can one thing really work for all those differing issues?’ or the favourite of cynics and pessimists, ‘If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is’.
Let’s look at both these important perspectives.
Somewhere we became used to assuming that one thing worked for one problem. I think it might have been how we learned as children about medicines: ‘this pink liquid is for this but these white pills are for that’. But even that’s not really true; there are so many medicines that were developed for one condition and have subsequently been found to be useful in completely different ones. Aspirin, for example, was developed for headaches and pain relief, but is now used to prevent strokes and heart attacks.
One of the most commonly used tools of today is the computer. Originally developed for number crunching, we are now quite happy to use them for listening to music, watching movies, surfing the net, writing reports, filing our holiday photos and so on. The same ‘it’s multifunctional and I love it’ statement applies to the almost universally owned smartphones.
Electricity can make things move, warm things up, cool them down, light them up and so on, and we’re fine with that.
So, with many common and well-tried products and services being multifunctional, it seems completely reasonable to me that a well-constructed method of approaching problems such as the Lightning Process can be applied effectively to a number of fields.
This can seem like sound advice, but if you consider for a moment the alternative ways of saying this phrase, they would be something like, ‘it’s so bad it must be true’, or ‘it’s so mediocre and unreliable, it has to be right’. You can see how this way of evaluating things can lead us to make very poor decisions.
Now, being realistic and thoughtful is a valuable skill, but it is different from outright cynicism and has to be used appropriately. If someone tries to sell you magic beans, you should want to know exactly how magic they are, and have that demonstrated before even considering parting with your money. But being cynical and doubting everything, all the time, as a default way of approaching the world will probably end up costing you even more. Most world changes have been made by those who weren’t pessimists; those who were open to possibility and who chose to ignore the cynical critics. Martin Luther King Jr., for example, didn’t light up the world with ‘a cynicism’, although he had much evidence to draw on to create one. Instead, he saw what was possible and spoke of his ‘dream’.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Ask yourself, ‘Who do I know who is more cynical than me?’ And then write down in one or two sentences what you consider it costs them by approaching life in this way.
Based on your answer, decide whether you wish to hold on to this type of cynical perspective, or if you think there’s more to be gained by considering what might be possible if these things are actually true (and they are!)…
If being cynical, or being too analytical, has been a factor in your life, then please select one the statements below: