Overview

Time Line Therapy is a collection of techniques that allow you to gain emotional control over your life. Inappropriate emotional reactions, such as bursts of anger, periods of apathy, depression, sadness, anxiety, and chronic fear, are responsible for preventing people from achieving the quality of life they desire.

Limiting decisions, such as "I'm not good enough," "I'll never be rich," or "I don't deserve a great marriage," create false limitations and hamper your ability to create reachable and attainable goals and outcomes.

Created by Dr. Tad James, Time Line Therapy techniques enable you to eliminate many types of issues in your past, thus allowing you to move forward toward your goals and desires.

History

Throughout history, man has been aware of the passage of time. Aristotle was the first to mention the "Stream Of Time" in his book Physics IV. Dr William James spoke of linear memory storage as early as 1890. Also mentioned in Edward T. Hall’s book - Hidden Dimensions, 1969 & Robert Ornstein’s book - The Experience of Time. The concept was nearly forgotten, until its revival in the late 1970’s by the developers of NLP - Bandler, Grinder & later Tad James. In 1985, Tad James applied a therapeutic process to this concept of an internal memory storage system. The result was a collection of techniques, which produces long lasting change very quickly. The powerful Time Line Therapy techniques are becoming the method of choice to make fast, effective, long-term changes in behaviour.

Benefits

You will learn to:

• Release emotions attached to past events
• Remove unwanted limiting decisions
• Dissolve the impact of phobias and trauma
• Dispel anxiety about future events
• Discover your own arrangement of time - through Time Line elicitation
• Change the location and direction of your Time Line for better results
• Improve your health and healing abilities
• Create more balance in your life

Procedure

Time-line therapy is chiefly a permissive technique. The client chooses the events on his time-line, the client chooses which negative emotions to release and the client chooses the lessons that he is to learn. The key words in the last sentence are "the client chooses." Empowering the client with choice follows the Ericksonian tradition. As Erickson so eloquently puts it, "An incubator supplies a favourable environment for the hatching of eggs, but the actual hatching derives from the development of life processes within the egg." The time-line therapist is the incubator who provides the favourable environment; the client is the one who cracks open his problem.

Time-line therapy has built-in safeguards. Time-line therapists are trained to make sure that the client starts releasing negative emotions going back to the very first event related to the problem. Time-line therapist’s check and recheck, insuring negative emotions have been cleared. When necessary, time-line therapists insist that the client chunk up to avoid superficial lessons. Time-line therapists future pace to verify that the client will be able to apply his lessons in the future.

The importance of the client's lessons should not be understated. Once the client feels his negative emotions, he moves on to his lessons. After the client discovers what his lessons are, he once again feels around for negative emotions. Most of the time, the client is able to release all the negative feelings from one event in one try. Occasionally, some negative emotions remain, so the client returns to his classroom for more lessons. If the client is successful in his second attempt, then all the negative emotions have been released; if not, the hypnotherapist and the client repeat the "process" until all the negative feelings have been purged. The client uses his lessons as a cloth to wipe his negative emotions clean.

During time-line therapy, the client learns lessons that are valuable for his future. For this reason, time-line therapy is about teaching a client how to fish instead of just feeding him a fish. Because lessons are such a valuable part of time-line therapy, I wondered if we could instil a client's lessons with something other than future pacing?

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