The cause of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy (CFS/ME) is not well understood and is disputed, and therapeutic options are limited. Many patients who attended the Lightning Process course reported positive effects. This should lead to a randomised controlled intervention trial.
Since 2008 several thousand patients with CFS/ME have attended the Lightning Process (LP) course in Norway (1). The course is a three-day intensive brain rehearsal programme with the option for follow-up. Although what triggers CFS/ME in the individual case may vary, it is assumed that symptoms maintenance and chronification can be attributed to a stress response with elevated state of alertness and persisting activation of the sympathetic nervous system, driven by classic and operant conditioning mechanisms. The Lightning Process is based on these theories of stress.
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Source: Landmark L, Lindgren RM, Sivertsen B, Magnus P, Conradi S, Thorvaldsen SN, Stanghelle JK. Chronic fatigue syndrome and experience with the Lightning Process. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2016 Mar 15;136(5):396. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.15.1214. ECollection 2016. [Article in English, Norwegian] http://tidsskriftet.no/en/2016/03/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-and-experience-lightning-process (Full article)