Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality [Paperback]

Tad James (Author), Wyatt Woodsmall (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 282 pages
• Publisher: Meta Pubns (June 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916990214
• ISBN-13: 978-0916990213
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,418 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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65 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Let go those emotions, April 6, 2005

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L. Power "nlp trainer" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality (Paperback)

I came across Time Line Therapy during my self improvement travels and use the audio cd Journey on the Time Line which the author has also produced.

My thoughts are do I really need the book, or do I want to use the method. If you are like me, and not a specialist, you may find the audio a quicker and more effective way to put the therapy to use.

Each time, after I listen the world seems a little brighter, my memories are brighter and my outlook is brighter because I have tackled a limiting behavior or belief.

Have you ever you noticed that people seem to behave the same way over and over with a similar negative outcome because they have not known how to overcome patterned behavior.

There are situations such as guilt, public speaking, phobias, shyness, unhappiness, anxiety, obsession, self esteem. Perhaps you have a problem getting past a certain situation or trauma.

With this therapy you have the tools to address these issues, by going back beyond the first time you experienced this behavior. Can you imagine going back in time and changing the way you felt before you were in that situation and to replace those feelings with more positive emotions. Then, as you go forward in time back to the present, you see all those other similar situations and all these are replaced up to the present time and going on into the future where you visualize yourself acting in a better way.

You also visualize your life as a (time) line, with a color. As you make these changes you imagine your line filling with color. You can see dark patches, bad memories being removed.

Because you have taken this action your world has changed for the better. These changes are made on a subconscious level.

I also highly recommend EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) which is a simple acupressure technique which can be done in less than two minutes. Can you imagine easily letting go of emotional issues such as anger, anxiety, fear, forgiveness, sadness, stress, phobias, procrastination, trauma etc. You can research this further and download a free manual at [...], and buy various EFT books at Amazon. I hope this was helpful.

66 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 3 books for the price of one, September 20, 2001

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Patrick Merlevede (Eeklo, Vlaanderen (Belgium, Europe)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality (Paperback)

In the 260 pages of text this book contains, you'll actually get 3 books.

The first one is mostly Tad James' work and discusses the notion of "time line therapy", which are essentially NLP techniques in which a time line is used (the basic idea it to look for part occurrences of a problem that announces itself today, and "change" one's subjective experience, in order to live one without the problem - for instance, if one has a phobia of mice, go back to the first experience you had of being scared of mice, etc). You'll find more extended versions of the ideas discussed in this part in other NLP books, such as Bandler's Magic in Action, his "Using your Brain for a change" or the book "Magic demystified" by Lewis & Puchellic.

The second and the third part are mostly Wyatt Woodsmall's work. The second part deals with meta-programs, and borrows heavily on the MBTI (see Myers' "Gifts Differing) and the work of Leslie Cameron and her students (such as Rodger Bailey) - a more extended version of that work can be found in "Words that Change Minds". In the part on "values" you'll find the Graves model, which in meanwhile also has a full book dedicated to it, namely "Spiral Dynamics" by Don Beck and Christopher Cowan.

Unless you are already specialized in the topics covered in this book, you'll find them introduced in a readable way here. That by itself makes this book a good place to start. Afterwards you can always find more precise information in to the other books I referenced here.

The only reason why the book didn't get 5 stars is because it fails to quote some of the sources they got the material from, especially in the area of meta-programs. The fact that nobody filed a claim against the authors for that is probably the best proof that this material in now in "the public domain".

Patrick E.C. Merlevede -- co-author of "7 Steps to Emotional Intelligence"

34 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Difficult for the lay person, July 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality (Paperback)

I've practiced time line therapy for a few years now and find the technique invaluable. The book, however, left a lot to be desired in that it referenced concepts not explained and jumped around alot. If you have taken a class or seminar this may be a good reference, but if you are just exploring the topic, I wouldn't suggest this book.