“Fourteen years ago, in 1996, I collapsed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome following a respiratory flu. I was horribly ill, mostly bed-ridden for the first couple of years. My condition slowly improved over the . . . → Read More: This is why I’m so excited about working with the Lightning Process!]]> A recent client sent me this E-mail today – and gave me her permission to post it on my blog.

“Fourteen years ago, in 1996, I collapsed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome following a respiratory flu. I was horribly ill, mostly bed-ridden for the first couple of years. My condition slowly improved over the next five years. Then, I had a serious and in some ways worse relapse in 2003. Again, my condition slowly improved, but I remained very limited in my activities, unable to walk even around the house at a normal pace without inducing intense fatigue the following day, nor could I lift anything even slightly heavy. I really could not do anything even remotely aerobic.  I was easily and deeply fatigued by ordinary stressors, and I was very sensitive to the sun and had to wear a hat at all times in the sun or I would suffer from inflammation and terrible headaches.  I had heard about the Lightning Process from my husband’s niece several years ago, and I had seen how well she was doing as a result of that training, but because she was so much younger than I, (she is now in her late 20’s and I’m in my middle 50’s) and because she did the Lightning Process a couple of years after she became ill and I had been ill for so long, I convinced myself that whatever it was that had helped her probably wouldn’t help me. Then, last summer I took another dive in terms of the illness. During that period my husband and I visited his family and I spent sometime around my healthy happy athletic niece. I started looking closely at the Lightening Process website, which led me to Berit Frivold, the Lightning Process trainer in the United States. I contacted her and from the start she was terrific. Respectful and clear in instructing me in how to proceed and setting up a date to attend a workshop as soon as possible in Loma Linda, California, where she is based. Berit was kind, thoughtful, encouraging and also firm in her instructions. The entire workshop was run efficiently at the same time that every effort was made to ensure the comfort and well-being of participants. Berit has continued to be supportive during the past five weeks since the workshop, as well. Here is the good news. On the last day, I left the workshop walking at a normal pace and carrying my heavy bag without any help and I felt fine the next day and the next, and so on. I will never ever forget the way I felt walking through the airport with a swing in my step to meet my husband. Such a liberation! This alone was cause for great joy. Then, a week later, I hiked up a steep trail in the mountains to an aspen grove I had not been able to walk to in eight years and I did so at a normal pace. The following weekend, I hiked two and half miles up a very steep trail to a lake (plus the two and half miles back down) — it was a hike I had been unable to do in fourteen years! Once I accomplished those two feats, I took on the sun and slowly over a period of about two weeks, I built up my system to where I am no longer wearing my hat. This is the real proof to me that the Lightening Process works. I am now walking about a mile in the sun everyday and at a normal pace, and sometimes I walk two miles.  All of this is tremendously exciting to me and to my husband and the friends who watched me suffer for so long.   When I was first considering trying the Lighting Process,  I found the fee for the workshop to be prohibitive. Now,  experiencing the results, the cost of the workshop seems like mere pennies. Suddenly, so much is possible.  Doing the Lightning Process is not easy, it requires tremendous commitment, but it works. Thank you Phil Parker. Thank you Berit!
– S.E. Morris”

To witness such life-enhancing transformation is rewarding beyond words. Can you see why I’m excited about my work? The sad reality is, however, the fact that there are scores of other people out there that could regain their vitality and greatly enhance their quality of life, but end up wasting some of their potentially most productive years of life in a desperate struggle with disabling fatigue. Because they don’t personally know anyone who have recovered in this way, they don’t believe it to be possible. The stories just sound too good to be true.
- I understand – I wouldn’t have thought it possible either – had it not been for my mother   (to read that story – click here)

The message is getting out, but it’s mostly through word of mouth – one client at the time…

-Berit-

www.living-a-life-you-love.com

The really interesting thing about Tina is that she has suffered severely from ME/CFS. Less than two years ago she was bed-bound with severe light and sound sensitivity, barely able to take . . . → Read More: WAY TO GO, TINA!]]> 17 year old Tina Røe Skaar won gold in Taekwondu in the international competition Global Open arranged in Los Angeles this weekend.

The really interesting thing about Tina is that she has suffered severely from ME/CFS. Less than two years ago she was bed-bound with severe light and sound sensitivity, barely able to take care of her most basic needs like showering or using the restroom.

Then she attended a Lightning Process Seminar, and the rest is, as they say, history.

Read her story as told in Aftenposten (Norway’s largest newspaper) on October 30, 2010: http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/sport/article3881784.ece

For a ‘Google English translation’ click: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=no&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmobil.aftenposten.no%2Farticle.htm%3FarticleId%3D3881784

(The Google translation is ‘choppy’ and does not read well, so I will provide my translation underneath the picture. – Click on the bar below to see Tina’s picture)

By Maria Nydal

She won the final 18-0 over Karten Baronas from USA in the Junior Heavy light class Friday Night (October 29, 2010)

The young girl from Romerike, (Norway),  who also is Nordic Champion, has recently excelled greatly. She won a large International competition in Manchester two weeks ago.

Next is the Norwegian Championship and the Paris Open, and she has also been elected to participate in a promotional project initiated the Norwegian Federation of Martial Arts.

Tina Røe Skaar’s history is almost like a fairytail, tells Dag Jacobsen in  the Norwegian Martial Arts Federation (Norsk Kampsportforbund).

Two years ago she was bed-bound with the fatigue syndrome ME.  For two years Tina Røe Skaar did not tolerate exposure to light or sound.  The ME/CFS caused her to be bed-bound and she barely managed to go to the restroom.

Taking a shower was the worst.  I had to use a chair in the shower to be able to clean up and I was only 15 years old.  It was hard to swallow my pride”, she says.

Today Tina is one of Norway’s greatest taekwondo talents and ranks number 14 in the world.

Believes in Olympic Gold

Tina became well in December, 2008. She has had a great season since, which culminated with Gold in a large international competition in Manchester in September this year. Additionally this girl from Romerike (Norway) won the Norwaycup and is reigning Nordic Champion.

When I regained my health, I set as my goal to participate in the Nordic Championship. My goal was just to participate.  And then I won Gold.  This was an unbelievable bonus which gave me motivation and proved that I was back (in the game). When I won in Manchester, I got the confirmation that I am ‘good’. Now I dare to dream about the Olympic and World Championships, she smiles.

And Tina’s coach, Inge Gammelli, believes in the chance of Olympic Gold.

Tina has an enormous self-dicipline. She has great talent and trains hard and long.

If she is not scared by the transition to senior-status next year, but continue to work just as hard, she will guaranteed take Olympic Gold in 5-6 years, he says.

Did not have the strength to get better

That thought was very distant two years ago.  After having been sick for one year she suddenly ‘reached bottom’. Drained of energy,and with intense chest pains she was rushed to the hospital. After two weeks at the University Hospital of Akershus she was diagnosed with ME. Her poor health continued for two years, in spite of trying many different therapies.

“I did not have energy for anything, and no motivation to get well. I did not even have the strength to want my health back.”

Then she tried the Lightning Process.

“I noticed improvement after the first day, and after a month I had recovered my health. I learned how to deal with stress and negative thoughts. I had to change my whole way of thinking, and gradually my energy and strength returned”, says Tina.

Came back to life

One month after she was declared well she attended her first taekwondo practice.

“ – Being back meant everything. I got my life back, and taekwondo is life!”

Tina says that the illness helped her grow. That she is stronger now.

“- I appreciate everything more now than I used to. I am also stronger psychologically, which is important in taekwondo. I will be a senior next year, and I expect challenges.

But I know I can move beyond it and aim for the World Championship and the Olympics in the future”, she says.

This Lightning Process™ training is now also available in the US

When everybody kept saying that nothing could change and I just had to accept my very limited life after being struck down by some unknown virus, my mom was on a mission. The first few years of my illness we . . . → Read More: My Mom on a Mission]]> I can’t even begin to tell you how grateful I am for my mom.

When everybody kept saying that nothing could change and I just had to accept my very limited life after being struck down by some unknown virus, my mom was on a mission. The first few years of my illness we did not quite know what we were up against, and were probably all (mercifully) in different degrees of denial. – It just needed a bit more time to clear the “bug”, maybe I was feeling low because I was a new mom, it’s normal to feel low when you just had a baby and I had had a very hard pregnancy, I would/should “snap out of it” soon, it’s the vegetarian diet;- B12 deficiency for sure, she is probably homesick for Norway, and on and on.

13 years on (and no babies to keep me up at night), I was more limited than ever. We now knew that what I suffered from was called fibromyalgia and ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). I had been told for many years that very few people recovered from these conditions, and if they did so they usually recovered in the early stages of the illness. Needless to say, that did not leave much hope for me. After many years of relentless search for a cure, trying every treatment under the sun (you name it – I tried it), I was facing the very real possibility that this was something I just could not beat. After spending thousands of dollars on a last ditch effort with a medical clinic who specialized in ME/CFS, I had nothing to show for it except a failing thyroid, and an empty bank account. I felt I finally had to accept my fate, and follow the general counsel of learning to live within my “energy envelope”. That was not much cause of celebration. – Most 80 year olds I knew had more energy than I had, and I was half their age!

Back to my mom. She sure has not been lacking in energy. And the last few years of my illness she committed part of that energy into searching for the hope that I no longer was able to support. Anytime she heard of a product, food, or theory that offered some promise in the treatment of ME/CFS she swung into action. Like the time she invested her hard earned resources (working part time as a nurses aid, and starving artist) in a 250 dollar t-shirt (!) that supposedly had some healing and pain relieving metal weaved into the fabric, or the time she bought detox drops for a small fortune because she felt the reason I was sick was that I had been exposed to mercury when she worked as a dental assistant in the early months of being pregnant with me, or the Herbalife powder that someone convinced her could give me much needed strength, or the many times she and my dad left their busy lives in Norway to give me a chance to rest and recover, when they took care of the children and the house and the laundry and the cooking and the yard work and the poor overworked husband, not to mention the time they cancelled everything to nurse me back to health after I suffered the second pneumonia in just over three months one year. She was always on the lookout for magazines and news reports about my condition, and when I was not able to hope for myself, she kept on hoping and exploring and net-working and researching.

After my very disappointing (not to mention expensive) experience with the Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Center concept, I was in no mood for another let down. The last thing I wanted to hear about was another “cure”. But my mom was on a mission, and she was keeping at me with reports of soundingly miraculous recoveries through a new treatment called “The Lightning Process”. Even the name was enough to turn me off. Fortunately she kept at it. When she sensed that I was not really listening she started telling my husband about it. After a while she managed to have me promise to look into it. She had talked to one of my nursing colleagues who had travelled to England to undergo this new treatment, and after suffering for almost 20 years, most of the time being on disability, housebound, and the last few years bedbound, she had made a full recovery.

The rest, as they say, is history. I attended a Lightning Process training in Oslo July 4,5 and 6 of 2008. The 4th of July will forever be my “Independence From ME/CFS Day”.

It is more that 1 1/2 years later, and I have been able to do things that I had never thought possible. The relentless fatigue is gone. So is the brainfog and the muscle pain, the frequent headaches and strange infections. The push-and-crash cycle that had become an all too familiar pattern in my life. The irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and food sensitivities. The sensitivity to chemicals, and even everyday stimuli like sound! The hopelessness and terror of not being able to trust my body for the most basic functioning.

This post is already too long. But what I want to share with you is so important. – I recovered from ME/CFS. – So has thousands of other people of all ages and varying degrees of symptoms and severity. For some reason these stories have not yet been told in the US. That clearly has to change! – Not everybody has a mom like mine, so I am on a mission to get the word out.

Thank’s mom.

PS.  Over the past 2 years I have made no less than 14 trips from Los Angeles to London to train to be able to offer this kind of training here in the US.  Feel free to visit my web-site: www.living-a-life-you-love.com

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