Time Line Therapy

Time Line Therapy is an offshoot of Neuro Linguistic Programming and Ericksonian Hypnosis. Developed by Tad James in 1985, the first book about it, called Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality, was published in 1988.

Your Time Line: Your Time Line is how your unconscious mind encodes and
stores your memories. It’s how you know the difference between a past memory,
and a future dream? Your Time Line is largely an unconscious process, and like
remembering your home phone number, you may be more or less aware of it from
time to time.

Releasing Negative Emotions: With the Time Line Therapy techniques, we now have for the first time, a way to resolve significant events in a person’s past. We also gain the ability to release the negative emotions in those memories easily and quickly, in a reasonable amount of time. Obviously, the release of negative
emotions in a substantial number of a person’s memories will have an impact on
their behavior. Stop, and think about it for a moment, what would be the impact
on you, if we had released all of the anger in your past memories, while
preserving the learnings from those events. Or how about the sadness, fear,
guilt or any other negative emotion.

Eliminating Limiting Decisions: Next, what if you could go back and re-do any old decision that you made in the past, and decide in a new way… a way that supported who you want to be now? Then, what if we could have every event in the past be re-evaluated in such a way as to support the way you wanted to be now? With Time Line Therapy, we also have the ability to re-evaluate our past, and change any decision which limits us. To a certain extent our behavior is guided by the decisions that we’ve made in the past. Whether conscious or unconscious, these decisions affect our behavior in the present. Our decisions are stored in the
Time Line, and through our Time Line we gain access to them.

Create the Future: Finally, what if you had a reliable way to create your
future the way you wanted it, and actually have that thing or event happen? The
processes for creating your future are as powerful as the processes for
releasing negative emotions, and clearing out limiting decisions.