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By Dove, www.TarowithLove.com   Quite the synchronicity with this one… 
Yesterday I read my friend Tawny’s post on her experience with being hit by lightning (!) …  it ties in amazingly to all this Tower stuff (and my getting that number 16 so much ) lately. 

Then this morning, I casually did a Google search with the phrase “too much adrenaline.”  I clicked on a link and freakily enough, I began reading about a “therapy” for CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) called the “Lightning Process” :)  But I don’t get it, all it seems to encompass, for the most part, is stopping our negative thinking. 

It ties in with the mind-body connection (and the “Secret” — it’s all our energy, that’s where the power is.  That is the real “secret.”).  But it seems to be a very determined, repetitive effort — and I like the cards part :)  Excellent.  I just don’t see why we can’t do this for ourselves at home, rather than zipping off to Wales :)  But I think it’s awesome that many are being healed with this “Lightning Process.”  Ah, it’s exciting, just a matter of time before so many more of us get it — that we have the pow-uh! :)

Here’s an excerpt (and the gist of it) from the article (see link below to read the rest of the article) on the “Lightning Process.”

Peace,
Dove

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The first step is to recognise the thoughts that trigger the stress reaction, such as: ‘I’m worried that I’m not going to be well enough to go out shopping,’ or ‘I’m never going to get my school work finished.’

To stop the triggering thought, the ME sufferer must firmly say: ‘Stop,’ to themselves half way through the thought. This physically ‘cuts off’ the stress response to stop it from progressing.

The next step is to create new, more positive thought patterns to replace the negative ones. For example, instead of worrying about not being able to do something because you will feel ill, you are taught to imagine feeling well and being able to do that activity.

The theory is that this creates new connections in the brain, which then stimulate the production of endorphins - feel-good brain chemicals - rather than stress hormones such as adrenaline.

The patient has to continue using the process repeatedly until their ME symptoms have abated. To help the process, special cards with key words - such as ‘the present moment’, and ’stop’ - are placed in a pattern on the floor. The idea is that stepping on the cards reinforces the thought process.

You start with the ‘present moment’ card (which represents the need to stay in the here and now, and not dwell on fears about the future), then move on to the ’stop’ card to cut off the triggering thoughts. As you perfect the technique, you no longer need to step on the cards but can visualise them until it becomes second nature.

‘It sounded a bit weird at first,’ says Leonie, ‘but after practising over the weekend, it really worked.’

Within two days of her treatment, she was walking unaided along the beach with her mother. ‘I telephoned my father and said: “Guess what I’m doing?” He was so gobsmacked he couldn’t speak for five minutes,’ she says. She then folded up her wheelchair and told her mother: ‘I will never use this again.’ One year on, Leonie is still feeling great.

Three months after his sister’s recovery, Adam also made the trip to Wales. He is now back at college and learning to drive.

But the Lightning Process does not work for everyone. As well as the success stories, ME chatrooms feature the ‘failures’ for whom the approach has not been effective.

Mary-Jane Willows, chief executive of the UK Association of Young People with ME, believes it’s important to exercise caution before embarking on unproven treatments.

‘While we have heard of members who have been helped by undertaking the Lightning Process and are thrilled for them, we are aware of others for whom the outcome was less than positive. We cannot recommend this therapy or others for children where there is no clinical data or research available.’

Dr Neil Abbot, director of operations at ME Research UK, is sceptical about adrenaline playing a role in the condition. ‘We should like to see some evidence that there is an adrenaline rise in ME sufferers, and if there is, whether lowering adrenaline induces a “lightning” cure,’ he says.

‘The only thing that will create general acceptance of the principles and treatment techniques applied by the Lightning Process will be large-scale tests.’

But while the jury is still out in the medical world, among those for whom it has worked there is absolutely no doubt.

Source:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=427537&in_page_id=1774

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Hmmm, it makes me wonder … if any or all of these guys below knew just how literally true these declarations were/are.

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“We become what we think about all day long”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We tend to get what we expect”
Norman Vincent Peale

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right”
Henry Ford

“This world is but canvas to our imaginations”
Henry David Thoreau