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" or "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.
Throughout history, humankind has been aware of the passage
of time. Aristotle was the first to mention the "stream
of time" in his book Physics IV. William James spoke of
linear memory storage as early as 1890. In the decades to follow,
the concept all but faded into obscurity. It was finally revived
in the late 1970s by the developers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
(NLP). Drs Tad James and Wyatt Woodsmall then combined these
ideas of time being an internal storage system with therapeutic
processes and the result was Time Line Therapy"!.
In a nutshell,
TLT works with our knowledge of how people actually store
their memories and the effect that the system used for the
storage of memories has on the personality of the individual.
The suggestion is that the concept of Time Line or the notion
of time that you have stored in your mind, shapes and structures
your experience of the world and therefore shapes your personality.
We now
believe that the way people talk about their internal experience
(including their gestures) of time is a literal (as opposed
to metaphorical) description of the composition of their experience.
How people talk about time is an actual representation of
what they do mentally. Use of temporal language is just a
description of how they store time.
What's
the difference between aIl these:
- "You're
going to look back on this and laugh"
- "Put it behind you"
- "Time is on my side"
- "I just don't see how I'm going to get it done in time."
TLT works
on the presupposition that there are basically two different
KINDS of time: what James calls through Time and In-Time.
The former is based on the kind of white, western, industrialised
notion of time where we ring bells or klaxons to say "time
to start" and "time to stop" and punish people
for not keeping inside the parameters. In-time is more laid-back
and "manana" like - an appointment is something
that goes against the grain and a personal appointment can
include several people.
Your personal
"time-line" is how you unconsciously store your
memories and how you unconsciously know the difference between
a memory from the past and a projection of the future. It
has been established that behavioural change takes place at
an unconscious level and releases the effects of past negative
experiences and changes "inappropriate" programming
in minutes. This is deep, lasting change, documented by two
decades of research and experience and some 20 "Approved
Institutes" of TLT throughout the world.
What is
Time-Line Therapy ?
Time-Line Therapy"! is a branch of Neuro-Linguistic programming
(NLP) which has evolve into an independent discipline.
TLT was
developed by Drs Tad James and Wyatt Woodsmall from the groundwork
of NLP co-founders Richard Bandler and John Grinder.
In addition,
Dr Tad James drew on the reflections of the Greek Philosopher
Aristotle, the turn-of-the-century American Psychologist William
James and ancient Hawaiian culture to produce a distinct and
profoundly effective form of psychotherapy now known world-wide
as TLT.
TLT works
with how the unconscious mind organises time and memories.
TLT practitioners can use learning at the unconscious level
to assist clients to release deep-seated negative emotional
baggage and limiting beliefs from the past without having
to relive painful events - or even consciously know what they
are. It is an astonishingly powerful yet gentle form of brief
therapy.
TLT techniques
are also the most powerful means we have yet found of setting
goals so that your unconscious mind knows they are in the
future and works to make them real. They can be used in therapy,
for business coaching, goal-setting and team building, as
a different approach to time mangement and for personal development.
What can
you achieve with TLT ?
- discover
how your unconscious mind organises time
- learn why conventional time management courses don't work
for everyone
- improve your own time management
- release emotions attached to past events
- remove old, inappropriate limiting decisions and beliefs
- dispel anxiety about future events
- clear the way for a brighter future
- create achievable outcomes in tune with who you are and
who you want to be
- learn how to shift your personal time-line so that you can
be relaxed or highly motivated, as is most appropriate for
the situation
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