Adventures With Time Lines [Paperback]

Bob G. Bodenhamer (Author), L. Michael Hall (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0916990427 | ISBN-13: 978-0916990428 | Publication Date: June 1, 1998

Time is one of the major controlling influences of our lives. This book explores the very many different meanings that time has for us and its impact on the way we run our lives. However, perhaps the most important aspect presented in this book is how we can use our internal representations of time to empower us.
The concept of time-lines is a simple one. All of us have some spatial representation of where the past, present , and future lie in relation to our own individual view of the world. Most of us, if we close our eyes and think of a past experience, will often find it is to our left or behind us, and our future is in front of or to the right of us. This is our time-line. Others of us will have different representations of time, and there can be many variations. However, our past, present, and future memories always form a continuum.

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About the Author

In the mid 1980's, Tad James and Wyatt Woodsmall discovered a completely new domain of therapy based on time-lines. The authors of Adventures With Time Lines have now taken this technology a step further. They discuss TIME, the applications of time-lines, and most importantly the development and expansion of this field. It is a practical book showing how these patterns work and how they can be used for dramatic change in oneself and others. They also enable us to explore new avenues, which is immensely valuable and will lead to even further development and utilization.

Product Details

• Paperback: 281 pages
• Publisher: Meta Publications (June 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916990427
• ISBN-13: 978-0916990428
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,117,840 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book on working with Time Lines, October 27, 2004

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Laura De Giorgio "hypnotherapist" (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adventures With Time Lines (Paperback)

Not only is this book my favorite book on Time-Lines, but I consider Time-Lines the most valuable NLP process. Time Line techniques have helped me to create virtual healing miracles, by going back to the past before the problematic situation began and going through the time-line to the present and future, as if the problem never existed. Health problems which were diagnosed as terminal and without hope for recovery - were gone in only few days of working with Time-Lines.

It will be well-worth your time to learn how to work with time-lines whether you desire to use them for your own benefit or to assist others, if you are a therapist.

This book will thoroughly guide you through Time Line Patterns and Processes, and many different adventures you can have with time-lines - whether you desire to resolve emotional issues from the past, accelerate learning of new skills, re-create your life (or if you prefer the programming which is impressed upon your subconscious mind / neurology), accelerate spiritual growth (I have had some out of this world spiritual experiences thanks to working with Time-Lines).

You'll also learn how to work with logical levels, use advanced Time-Line Patterns, how to use linguistic time-lining and much more - you'll have extra fun when you learn to use time-lines through conversation.

Get this book - you'll be grateful you did!

32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Back to the future, May 6, 2001

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George Zee (www.frzee.org, Hong Kong) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adventures With Time Lines (Paperback)

You don't need high-powered jets to crash through time zones. Knowing how to use your brain through "Time-line" does it. Foreword by Tad James and Preface by Wyatt Woodsmall. These two co-authored "Time-line Therapy and the Basis of Personality" in 1988. Bodenhamer and Hall again successfully synthesize and transform traditional NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming) materials and bring them to new frontiers of understanding and applications. The ways we code and experience "time" have close connections with our personalities, our thoughts and feelings, states and experiences, beliefs and values, sense of reality and self. Cultures also differ in their sense of time. The book gives an in-depth exploration. We learn how to elicit time-lines and use them to get unstuck from old dated emotions: guilt, grief, fear, anxiety, trauma and abuse... We can also use "Time" as a resource for creating a bright and compelling future, a "life well lived" (borrowed from Benjamin Franklin). Time is not a thing. We don't manage time, but only ourselves... There is also more advanced material. Background in NLP is helpful. [The author's new book, a complete manual for the NLP Practitioner Certification, "The User's Manual for the Brain" includes the introductory section of the present book as the last chapter.] Many chapters are worth repeated study. You'll appreciate the authors' creative uses of NLP, language and "Time-lines". [The book is written in E-prime, without the verb, to be.]

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, December 11, 2008

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Tony Smyth (Tokyo) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adventures With Time Lines (Paperback)

I bought this book based on the reviews here and I must say I am very disappointed. First of all, its title is misleading. Only part of this book deals with timelines, and even this part is not explained very clearly. I have Master Prac and Hypnotherapy certification and have had some training in timelines. I wanted a book that would be introduce more advanced techniques that I could use for myself and clients. I find most of the stuff introduced here pretty basic, and the introduction of timelines into the fast phobia cure (basic level NLP) seems to just overcomplicate a simple and effective technique. Using timelines to eliminate negative emotions is certainly very useful(though I already knew this stuff). The Swish pattern is certainly not advanced NLP, though useful.

That brings us to halfway through the book. We come then to Chapters 7,8 & 9 which are about travelling in time, being in the present, creating a bright future, and a ridiculous section on a `life well lived' based on the thoughts of Benjamin Franklin. The problem for me with this section is that I found it boring, often stating the obvious, at times featured somewhat flippant pop-psychology, was very poor on specifics, and for the life of me I cannot see the relevance of Franklin - other than to pad out the book. There is nothing here at all on timelines.

The book, written in e-prime, also wanders into Korzybsky and General Semantics, and makes sizeable quotes from Kodish and Kodish's Drive yourself Sane GS book, another book I read on a recommendation and found poorly written and not terribly useful. (Try Robert Anton Wilson on E-Prime, far better explanation and free to Google).

Hall and Bodenhamer's book does have some useful sections, and perhaps can be of use to those with limited NLP knowledge of timelines, and none of General Semantics, but if you want detailed, practical, useful, advanced level TIMELINE information IMHO this is not the book.

The blurb on the back of the book states 'it is a practical book showing how these patterns work and how they can be used for dramatic change in oneself and others'. Erm, no, in my opinion it is more a poorly written, sometimes repetitious, rambling book that tries to philosophise about 'time', and only about one fifth has NLP timeline information, and this rather vagely presented.

At very least try and have a look through it rather than buy blindly as I did. Caveat Emptor.