What is timeline therapy?

What is timeline therapy?

John McGrail, C.Ht. (Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist) gives expert video advice on: What are the most common types of hypnosis? and more...

Timeline is a marvelous tool that allows us to visualize our experience in terms of time. So we can look at negative emotional patterns like chronic anger or sadness or fear or guilt or a limiting belief like "I'm not good enough" in terms of "When did I learn that?" Since we learn almost all of our emotions, our beliefs, our values, our attitudes and how we act and react to the world, we can travel back along our timeline and look at some of those moments of learning and then say, "What can I learn now from that moment that allows me to release this?" It is amazing how powerful healing that can be, and I have seen people, in the course of 15 or 20 minutes, release a lifetime of anger or excessive sadness or fear or guilt, simply by using the concept of time. Then we can have them go into the future and see themselves not having the problem anymore, in fact, not being able to remember what that problem was. Of course, they're in a light state of trance when they do this work and suddenly, they realize, "Hey, you know what? There's not only hope. I've seen myself out there. I know what's going to happen." Once we establish that expectation, the mind will take care of the rest, and this is the clear benefit of using timeline.