“You are a lover of your own experience …

not of me …

You turn to me to feel your own emotion”

— Rumi

NLP is widely regarded as a powerful approach to personal development, promoting positive growth and reducing negative emotions. A number of different healing therapies have been developed, all variants of NLP, many of which have proven effectiveness. The concept of a Timeline invariably comes up in most of these therapies. It emphasizes learning from our past events and the associated emotions in order to not only overcome them, but to use our new found knowledge and insight in the future to deal with similar negative emotions. Its popularity is increasing in the field of psychology because of its effectiveness, brevity, and permanency in positive behavior change. Timeline is being used in Business Coaching, Executive Coaching, Life Coaching, and Peak Performance Coaching etc.

What is a Timeline?

Our “Time Line” is our unconscious memory storage mechanism, which not only stores events, but also emotions linked to the events, causing us to later project assimilated emotions to similar negative events such as the first. You can refer to these memories and behavioral patterns as schemas, mental maps, or Gestalts which are continuously formed throughout our lives. It helps you master your negative emotions by releasing them and allowing you to replace them with positive emotions. This is done by focusing on eradicating the negative emotion from the root instead of just focusing on the event. This results in you being able move toward building a more positive mindset and ultimately a better life.  Trained NLP Practitioners use Timeline often during Coaching or Therapy sessions.

Negative Emotions

Harvesting negative emotions can lead to detrimental health problems, both medical and psychological.

Our perception and response to stress is ultimately influenced by our past unresolved emotional baggage, which can distort our ability to reason and logic, and cause us to react counter productively.

The therapy is most effective with problems related to anxiety and depression, including fear and anger, which are linked to poor quality of life, disturbed relationships, lack of ambition, and even failure.

Limiting Decisions

When you embark on a new venture, do you ever find yourself trying to silence the voice in your head that says “I can’t do this” or “I shouldn’t do this”? Did you ever wonder why you find yourself thinking in such a way? Here’s a secret: there aren’t really your thoughts. Limiting beliefs tend to result from parental issues or past failed experiences which have somehow made you believe that you’re not “good enough”. Integrating these thoughts in to your Time Line/Schema/Gestalt hamper your ability to reach your goals, or even carry out a task to full potential. This is in turn creates not only feelings of being a failure, but solid evidence that you might indeed be a failure. Through Timeline healing coaching, one can learn how to leave the past in the past, learn from your experiences and emotions, and move forward without letting you settle for less.

The Future 

Once you know what went wrong, where the voices in your head come from, and why you feel the way you do, you are more able to learn from and about yourself, including your strengths. As the techniques of Timeline related NLP therapies work at resolving the problem from the root, you can focus on shaping your future with a new approach and outlook on life to reach the point of self-satisfaction and happiness.

Are you looking for answers to some of these questions: “How to get more success?”, “How to have a better Life?”, “How to earn more money?”, “How to find a better life partner?”, “How to excel in life?”, “How to achieve financial freedom?”.  “How to become a better cricket player?”, “How to get selected in top engineering college?”. These are just a list of indicative questions that a person (Professional, student, homemaker etc.) thinks, and the simple answer from an NLP perspective is ‘Well-formed Outcomes’, and achieving those using application of NLP Timeline Goal Setting.