Over three days on Zoom, the course taught the ritual that forms the basis of the programme. Every time you experience a symptom or negative thought, you say the word "stop", make a choice to avoid these symptoms and then do a positive visualisation of a time you felt well.
You do this while walking around a piece of paper printed with symbols - a ritual the BBC was told to do as many as 50 times a day.
This costs £1000. Their target market is people who are often far too sick to work, and who have extreme difficulty accessing disability benefits due to the politicized nature of long covid.
In some cases the Lightning Process has encouraged participants to increase their activity levels without medical supervision, against official advice - which could make some more unwell, according to NHS guidelines.
A large proportion of people with long covid, and many of the most severely affected, have ME/CFS, which is a disorder of cellular energy production. People with ME/CFS deteriorate with overexertion, and for most this is irreversible.
The only way to manage this and prevent ongoing decline is pacing, which refers to a practice of monitoring your body for symptoms and restricting activity before it becomes too much. This is exceptionally difficult to practice from a psychological standpoint. It's also the exact opposite of what this process programs people to do.
High quality article on long covid fatigue here for those interested - archive link
The coach on the course stressed the importance of avoiding negative thoughts and words like "pain" and "fatigue", claiming using them can continue symptoms.
When we put these specific claims to Dr Parker [founder of this program], he said our questions seemed to be "informed solely by the rumours and misinformation" circulated by what he called "anti-recovery activists".
I have noticed that people in positions of power who push psychological therapies for neglected physical diseases like ME/CFS often use language like this - they speak of "rabid advocates" who "attack them." In general these types maintain that these patients, who almost without exception are not able to access any medical care for their illness, simply "don't want to get better" because of "secondary gains" (e.g attention, disability benefits) of being sick.
When the bullet is about to enter your head, you say the word "stop", make a choice to avoid these consequences and then do a positive visualisation of a time you weren't being executed for your crimes
Every time you experience a symptom or negative thought, you say the word "stop", make a choice to avoid these symptoms and then do a positive visualisation of a time you felt well.
Literally telling people to gaslight themselves out of symptoms of a debilitating disease. Incredible
this is the sort of thing i would expect to read about in the US, except instead of skimping out and just offering a free seat to the athlete, they would have offered a multi-million dollar paid contract for endorsement. the athlete, being broke and unable to access healthcare in america, would take it. and there wouldn't be a critical story about it, until the "program" had grown to becoming the 6th largest managed health service provider in the country, owned 4 major sports stadiums, and had patrons in high office
the critical story would appear in alternative media and feature decades of public health officials sounding the alarm bells for no one in particular, because major outlets would not want to interfere with the lucrative advertisement purchasing by the company.
When we put these specific claims to Dr Parker [founder of this program], he said our questions seemed to be "informed solely by the rumours and misinformation" circulated by what he called "anti-recovery activists".
Yeah, I'm an anti-recovery activist, how could you tell?
Wishing all covid denialists a very happy anti-recovery
Over three days on Zoom, the course taught the ritual that forms the basis of the programme. Every time you experience a symptom or negative thought, you say the word "stop", make a choice to avoid these symptoms and then do a positive visualisation of a time you felt well.
You do this while walking around a piece of paper printed with symbols - a ritual the BBC was told to do as many as 50 times a day.
Holy fuck lol. I never thought I’d say they need to shoot these hippies unironically. What the fuck is wrong with people
What's wrong with this quack doctor! Where are the crystals and necessary energies for this sort of healing to work??? 🙃
Actual peasant medicine. No, worse, because that occasionally includes herbs that do something. This is fucking...I feel a darkness at the back of my throat, and behind my eyes. This is evil.
This is basically what cults do in various types of 'group therapy' to enforce submissiveness and entrench their own control. It's psychological abuse designed to instill the belief that any problem or negative thought is a failing of the victim. And now thr government is using it to convince sick people that they're not sick, but bad.
