Week 4 NLP 4the February 2009 Getting familiar with your timeline

Pasage to India after receiving my Cancer Support Certificate 2nd November 2007

Although I missed this session I was keen to get the info sent by email to me.

I am very interested in this area so what do I think about the 'timeline?'

The Timeline is a way of exploring challenging situations and life opportunities from different perspectives of time. It can be easier to come up with a plan to meet a challenge or opportunity from a perspective in the future when it has already been solved. It can be easier to resolve an issue which happened in the past from the perspective of going back to that particular time.

The Timeline can be done in many ways including visually, auditory and kinaesthetically. Different people tend to have a preference for using a particular sense I believe.

I recently wanted to travel back to write a history of my working career at my University I managed to see myself back to 1988 when I entered the dept te first time and then travel to specific points in the timeline to review what i was thinking and doing. Little by little I put together the Continued Professional Development (CPD) route I have travelled. For some reason this CPD* (* I prefer Continued Personal Development) has been so important to where I am now and where I am going. As I have the opportunity daily to make new choices I like to review where I was say in 2005 and how the time line has changed or been modified as a result of a particular action plan or not as the case may be. NOW I think everyday should be a great chance to plan a successful strategy in how my CPD is going to take me and how the past has contributed to the present but how the future can change depending on the route I take.

Some inteesting websites http://www.timelinetherapy.net/ with Tad James the founder of this type of NLP work

http://www.nlpcoaching.com/whattlt.html Sister website of above

Reflecting back a little the timeline idea is quite like regressing back with a therapist and in doing so one has the conscious control under guidance to get rid of SLB (self limiting beliefs)