Timeline Therapy
Timeline
Therapy (TLT) is a technique that I highly recommend!
This form of therapy allows
you to (symbolically) go back into your past to issues that cause you to act in
a self-limiting way, take the learnings, and move on by "dropping"
the negative emotions.
I know that this sounds
crazy, but from what I have read it really seems to work. However I will be
doing some more research and then I will (if possible) write a more in-depth
article soon, but in the meantime using these notes should help you to at least
give it a try.
About Timeline Therapy
Generally speaking we tend
to view and use a linear structure for time. People store and encode time
differently – i.e. for some of us we imagine the future to be in front of us,
for others it is to the side, or it could be above us.
Some people are “in time”
and others are “through time”.
People who turn up on time,
plan well, schedule events and carry diaries are “through time”. This is
typically represented by a timeline going from left to right in front of them.
People who turn up late, are
absorbed in the moment, and are not aware of the passing of time are “in time”.
This is typically represented by a timeline flowing behind them to in front of
them. (I'm very much "in time!")
When working with TLT, we should
trust our UNCONSCIOUS to give us the right answer as to where our timeline is,
and not put it where we “think” it should be consciously.
Step One – Elicit the Timeline
You can use the following script
to find out how the person stores time.
Do this with the client
awake – not in a trance – to increase unconscious trust and co-operation.
“If I were to ask your unconscious mind, where your
past is, and where your future is, I have an idea that you might say, “it's
from right to left, or front to back, or up to down, or in some direction from
you in relation to your body.
It's not your unconscious concept that I'm interested
in, it's your unconscious. So, if I were to ask your unconscious mind where is
your past, which way would you point?”
And “what direction would you point if I asked your
unconscious mind, where's your future?”
Step Two – First test of elicitation
Now, be aware of the
directions that you pointed to. Do you notice that they imply a line?
If no: Could you notice
that?
If still no: Is your past
arranged by location, i.e. where you lived?
If yes: how would it look
if, for the purposes of this exercise, it was stretched out in a line?
Now I will ask you to float
up above the line. Can you just float up above your timeline and see it, or
feel like it would feel to float up above your timeline?
Make sure you are looking
through your own eyes, and are looking directly (or feeling) your timeline.
Now, remaining above your
timeline just float back over the past. (pause). Are you there?
Good, now float back towards
now and stop there
Are you there? Good.
Now keep facing towards the
future, and float up higher and further back - over the past.
And now, float out above
your future. Are you there?
Next, float up higher!
Float SO HIGH that it makes
your timeline seem like it is an inch long.
Good, float back to now, and float down into the now and
come back into the room.
NB - Be sure to run through this script many
times BEFORE attempting any TLT – and always elicit the timeline first!
Step 3 – Discovering the Root Cause
We experience problems and
negative emotions much more than we need to!
Emotions started at some
point in your life. So if we can go to some point before the first event and amend that, there
can be a massive impact.
So, we need to go back to
the original event.
How to experience a bit of
the emotion now.
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS
UNCONSCIOUSLY! This process requires you to TRUST your unconscious mind AND
follow the instructions. That's it!
1) Experience a memory of
the negative emotion now (do this to light up the neurology)
Ask: Is it totally alright
for your unconscious mind to release this (emotion / limiting decision /
belief) today and for you to have a conscious experience that it is gone today?
2) Find the first event:
Ask your unconscious mind:
what is the root cause of the problem, the first event which, when
disconnected, will cause the problem to disappear?
If you were to know, was it
before, during or after your birth?
If it was before? Was it In the womb or before?
Womb? What month?
Before? Was it as past life
or passed down to you genealogically?
Past life: How many
lifetimes ago?
Genealogically: How many
generations ago?
After: If you were to know,
what age were you?
1) Just find your timeline, and float up above your timeline, and
over the past, facing the past, until the event is down below you and in front
of you and when you get there notice the event. Let me know when you're there.
2) Now, float directly up above the event so you are looking down
on the event. Ask your unconscious mind what positive learnings do you need to
take from the event, the learning of which will allow you to let go of the
emotion easily and effortlessly. Next, ask your unconscious mind to preserve
the learnings so that if you need them in the future, they'll be there. Let me
know when you have the learnings.
3) Now, float back up above your TL, back over the past so you are
high above the event and well before the event, and are looking towards now.
Make sure you are well before any of the chain of events that led to that
event/ And ask yourself, “now, where are the emotions? Have they gone? Have
they all gone?
4) Float down inside the event so you are looking through your own
eyes, and check on the emotions. Are they there? Or have they disappeared Now!!
Good, go float back above the TL well before that event. (If some emotions
remain: Ask your unconscious mind if there is an earlier event than this one?
(And then repeat previous steps for that)
5) Now, come back to the now above your TL only as quickly as you
can let go of all of the (name the emotion) on the events all the way back to
now, follow the same steps and float above the TL well before the beginning of
each event, preserve the learnings, and let go of the (emotion) all the way
back to now. When done, float back into the now, and come back to the room.
6) Test: Can you remember any event in the past where you used to
be able to feel the old emotion, and go back now and notice if you can feel it,
or you may find that you cannot. How do you feel differently? Good, come back
to the now.
7) Future place: I want you to go out to a time in the future which
if it had happened in the past, you would have felt inappropriate or
unwarranted (emotion), and notice if you can find that old emotion, or you may
feel that you cannot. How do you feel differently?
OK? Good, come back to the now.
Take some time to settle down, always knowing that you are
perfectly safe, perfectly secure and perfectly at peace.
perfectly safe, perfectly secure and perfectly at peace.
perfectly safe, perfectly secure and perfectly at peace.
DAve.
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