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Use your timeline to systematically plan your goals and gain clarity in incorporating your past personal experiences into your future. Develop an irresistible vision.
This page describes the basic idea of the timeline and how to discover a timeline to use for later work. Basic idea: How do we manage to encode memories in time, so that we know immediately of two different memories, which is earlier, and which is later? How does our brain differentiate between future and past? The basic hypothesis is that our brain spatializes temporal differences. This has been empirically confirmed in many people. The discovery of a timeline puts us in a position to make a large number of changes in a very short time. Basic idea: Take some daily activity such as making coffee, brushing your teeth, getting dressed, taking a shower or something similar.
Remember (or just pretend to) as you
Now pretend to be able to perceive these memories all at once: how do you know that one memory is older than the other?
For example, are these memories all in the same place or are they in different places or at different distances? Are they all in the same brightness/colour etc.? Is there anything to hear and if so, is it the same loud/quiet, the same sound quality etc.? Do you have the same feeling to all of them / a different one / no feeling at all?
Imagine (or just pretend to) how you
Now pretend to be able to perceive these future activities all at once: how do you know that one situation is farther in the future than another?
Act as if you could now perceive these situations from the future and the past all at the same time: How do you know that one situation lies in the past and the other is in the future? What is the crucial difference in the submodalities (VAKOG) of past and future?
Here are the two characteristic timeline types: The In-Time type and the Through-Time type (also Out-of-Time type) are presented and explained with their properties.
The timeline passes through the present point in time (in the body).
Timeline runs completely outside of the person.
Some people can change between the two types very well, e.g., on holiday. Acting in the now.
Different spatial arrangements of timelines are possible and are presented here in their peculiar forms. There are quite characteristic forms, e.g., time bumps, time horizon, that are the expression of a specific traumatization.
With this type of timeline, the person in question can no longer visualize future images due to this horizon. However, this does not automatically mean that their lives are endangered or insecure, although that does happen. Example: Heart attack patient sees only a black hole in 3 years. At shorter time periods: fear of death.
Here there is a period of time that is difficult or impossible for patient to visualize. If you want to make an appointment with this person within the next 7 days, then you have no problems. But if you want to know if you can go to the theater together in 14 days, you will get the answer that he cannot plan so far into the future, because he does not know, if he will feel like it, etc. But if you want to know whether this person would be willing to go to America in four years, you will get a definite answer.
This timeline comes from a man about 40 years old. He had a divorce three years ago, which was still bothering him a lot. If you asked him how the last three years had gone, he could talk about it normally. The same was true for his future. However, the moment he talks about something three years in the future, he becomes depressed and expresses despondency and hopelessness. However, his mood changed immediately as he looked further into the future. Obviously, his grief for the past influenced his vision of the future. In addition to the bumps or holes, the "angle of attack" of your timeline is important. This refers to the angle your timeline has to the horizontal. Your timeline can be horizontal, ascending or descending.
The types of timeline and the way we represent time are represented by our language and expressions. Based on the vocabulary used, we can draw initial conclusions about the timeline. What difference do you notice in your response to the following phrases?
And now I invite you to be in the distant future and to think back to a past experience that has not really happened yet:
Think of a time when you will have done a hike. 1st therapist: "So you have had anxiety? Is that how you felt?" 2nd therapist: "So you are afraid? What is it that always frightens you?" We constantly influence ourselves and others with such speech patterns. This is what we achieve, what we want?
Here's how to free timelines from holes and bumps.
Discover the special features of your timeline. For some, this is one of the most impressive sections in your NLP training. In which system of representation do you first perceive your timeline, how does it develop further? Suppose you could still (see, hear, feel, ...) your timeline. How it is now?
The more flexibility you gain with the submodalities the time, the greater your understanding of the perception of time of other people and cultures. And the more you use your freedom to use your brain and not just possess it.
and discover how that changes your feelings and perceptions. Make sure you can return to your original timeline. What affect does each change have? Which submodalities make the biggest difference?
Direction, extent, form, arrangement of past and future, being associated or dissociated with the timeline
V:Color, brightness, sharpness, size, distance A:Sounds, noises, voices, volume, pitch, background music K:Intensity, quality of your feelings O:Smell G:Taste How does this change your perception? What would you feel more comfortable with than before? In what situations could it be useful to you? Make sure you return to the original submodalities of your timeline (ecology). If you want to keep a modified timeline, set a time frame as a trial period (ecology) or determine the contexts in which you want to have this variant available as an option.
How does this change your perception / your feeling? Make sure you return to the original SM of your timeline (ecology).
Try out how your own representation of time is in different contexts. For example: Once when I was depressed, very busy and successful, during an absolutely relaxing holiday, in love. What differences in the SM of your timeline can you determine and what reactions do they cause in you?
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What reactions do the individual variations trigger in you, what could you do with such a future representation well? What less well?
How might the future of a dynamic-optimistic, or that of an oh-it-all-has-no-point type be designed? That of a future-oriented manager / of no-future type / of an archivist, a future planner / of a punk, a pedant / of a notorious unreliable? What is the timeline of a nun, a globetrotter, of a Bedouin compared to an Englishman? etc.
The Tempting Future format is a technique for planning your future and preprogramming it on the timeline. It contains 8 steps that are explained here in more detail:
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