by Drs. Tad and Adriana James

As mentioned in the movie Beyond Belief – by Dr Tad and Adriana James, Time Line Therapy® is one of the fastest ways to get results. There are only four steps to make your life change and be better than you could imagine. Using these four steps you can make a change beyond belief!

Step One: getting in contact with your time line

Many people are not aware that they have their very own internal time machine. This can affect the very basis of your personality. Are you always concerned with time? How do you use time? Would you like to be on time more often, or would you like to know how to switch off on the weekends and relax? Inside your mind you have an understanding of time. You can tell the difference between yesterday, 3 weeks ago or five years ago. Time Line Therapy® uses your concept of time to remove negative emotions like Anger, Sadness and Limiting Decisions that lead to Limiting Beliefs (statements such as “I am not good enough” or “I will never find love”.

Step Two: let go of the past

The first thing Time Line Therapy® will do is to allow you to let go of negative emotions from the past. Starting with anger, then sadness and leading all the way to fear and guilt. Once the negative emotions have been removed from past memories, you will truly move forward and will not carry with you all that emotional baggage.

Step Three: Limiting Decisions

Limiting beliefs are always preceded by limiting decisions (consciously or unconsciously); and limiting decisions are the very reason why you have not had the success you would like in life. Be it in career, relationships or health. Limiting decisions are the decisions that you made before you had a belief about yourself. An example would be “I will never be wealthy because I did not go to university”. Or “Everyone in my family has heart disease or heart problems – therefore I will, too”. As a belief it is hard to change – be it unconscious or conscious. However, when you work using Time Line Therapy® with the decision that led to that belief you are working with something that can be changed and the effects are remarkable. And on the spot.

Step Four: Creating your Future®

The most exciting part of any Time Line Therapy® session is the seeing how Time Line Therapy® can help with the future. As mentioned by Dr. Tad James in Beyond Belief DVD, “the future is what you make it and you start now”. Once the past is cleaned up, the future is ready for you to make it exactly what you want. Using Time Line Therapy® and the Creating Your Future® process to create the ideal future is just a matter of taking the last step of your success and dropping into your time line. Let’s say you want to go on a holiday.  When do you know you are on holiday? Is it the planning of the trip, or arriving at your destination? What’s the last step so you know you’re going? Whatever it is, if you put that in the future – it will happen!

So, with Time Line Therapy® you can change how you feel about your past, improve your time in your daily life, let go of what’s holding you back and create the future you have always dreamed of!

Time Line Therapy® and Creating Your Future® are worldwide Registered Trademarks to Dr. Tad James.
Tad and Adriana James are two of the experts featured in the documentary Beyond Belief: Get the DVD at www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com

Excerpt from TimeLine Therapy and the Basis of Personality

by Tad James, M.S., Ph.D.

THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND: In the context of Time Line Therapy®, the words “unconscious mind” are not intended to signify anything mysterious or unusual, simply the part of your mind of which you are not conscious, right now. Your unconscious mind is a very important part of you. Think about it for just a moment. Here is a part of you that runs your body; it makes your heart beat, causes the lymph system to circulate, your breathing to continue, your eyes to blink, your stomach to digest your food, and many other tasks that perhaps you had never even considered.

The first thing to appreciate is that your unconscious mind is the source of all learning, all behavior and all change. Let us look at each one of these individually:

LEARNING: Your unconscious mind is the part of you that learns, not your conscious mind. Now, you may have thought that you learned consciously in the past, and although your learning has to go through the conscious mind, it is your unconscious mind that remembers everything. Everything, once learned, resides in the unconscious mind

Think about all the things you have ever learned. Until the subject was mentioned, how many of them did you remember consciously? Probably none! If you had to remember all the phone numbers you know consciously, there wouldn’t be enough room for anything else, would there? So all learning takes place at the unconscious level.

Think of all the phone numbers you have learned, and which you now know. For example, you know your home phone number, do you not? If you’d like to do this with me, please say it to yourself. Now before you were thinking of your home phone number, where was it? Obviously it was stored somewhere, of which you were not conscious — that is your unconscious mind — the part of your mind of which you are not conscious, right now. What’s important about that is that all your learning — everything you have ever learned — is stored in your unconscious mind.

BEHAVIOR: I was approached by a student at one of the hypnosis seminars I teach & he asked, “Can you make me move my arm unconsciously?” I asked the student if he had ever considered that he can’t move his hand consciously. I said, “Do you know how many muscles there are between the tip of your fingers and your shoulder blade? There are 159 muscles. So, you couldn’t move your hand consciously. You have to move it unconsciously. It’s not just your hand, either — all behavior is generated at the unconscious level. Think about walking. You just put one foot in front of the other, don’t you? When you do, however, you don’t think about it. You just do it. In fact if you think about walking, that thinking can be counter-productive. Thinking about walking is conscious thinking. The fact that it interferes with walking shows us that the behavior is generated unconsciously.

How about this, the last time you drove to work, how conscious of it were you? Do you remember the whole trip? Or do you remember none of it? If you want a real scare just look over at the person next to you on the freeway, the next time you drive somewhere. They too are probably unconscious.

One more example. You get on an elevator, punch a button (say #8)  and the doors close. Your eyes go up, and you watch the floor numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 … 6, and the doors open, and the person next to you gets out, and you follow. “Is this the 8th floor.” I do that all the time, I must admit.

CHANGE: Think of a bad habit you wanted to change in the past. Was it easy? Probably not. Most people find it hard to change a bad habit. For them it’s something that takes time.

Many people go on doing the same old things over and over, year after year and they complain about it. If change isn’t that easy for us, it is simply because we aren’t fully in rapport with our unconscious mind. In the real world people are often not in rapport with the unconscious mind, and that is why change isn’t that easy for them.

Your unconscious mind would really like to be in rapport with your conscious mind. In fact your unconscious mind yearns for rapport, and looks up to your conscious mind like a 5 or 6 or 7 year old brother or sister might look up to you. It wants your direction and support, and it would like to&127; do what you asked if it only knew how. If you are not feeling like there is rapport between your conscious and unconscious mind, it may be because you were giving confusing messages to the conscious mind.

Let us look at this idea a little further: Your unconscious mind cannot process a negative in consciousness. It’s true. In fact, it’s also true for the conscious mind as well. Think about this. You cannot think about what you wish to not think about without thinking about it. Think about that. For example, if I said, “Don’t think about a blue tree,” what are you thinking about. unless you were semantically trained, you are probably thinking about a blue tree. Even though I asked you not to!!

Most of us go through our lives telling ourselves, “I don’t want to think about a blue tree. When you go in to see the boss, do you say, “I hope he doesn’t get angry like the last time.”? Or when starting out in a new relationship, do you say, “Gee, I hope I don’t get hurt.”? Or how about a salesperson going in to make a sale and saying, “I hope I don’t blow this sale.”?

Do you do that? If you do, it may be the wrong signal to be giving to your unconscious mind. If it is the wrong signal, it is because the unconscious mind cannot process a negative in consciousness. So, to facilitate communication between the conscious and the unconscious minds let us find out a little more about this part of us which is so important, and of which we are so little aware — the unconscious mind.

To See Tad and Adriana James in the film Beyond Belief go to:  www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com

Excerpt of Article by Adriana James, M.A. Ph.D.

For Empower Magazine

Let me ask you a question: Could your life be better? If you were to commit to massively enhancing the areas that are most important to you, could your life improve, maybe even dramatically? If you know there’s more for you, then you know what you’ve got to do. But what if you don’t?

All of us have unwanted thoughts, emotions and behaviors that we want to get rid of. Maybe we have repeated thoughts like “I’ll never lose this weight” or “I’ll never meet the right man or woman to marry” or maybe we repeatedly feel sad or get really angry and blow up at our spouse or kids again and again…

Maybe we have behaviors that we keep repeating like overeating or cheating on our spouse or gambling or some other behavior like sabotaging ourselves before a great success.

We also have things we’d like to replace:  those unwanted thoughts, emotions and behaviors,  with those that are positive and good for us.

It that’s not enough to handle, we also have goals in general that we want to achieve for our future. Maybe we want to retire in a few years but our finance look grim, or we want to get married but there are no prospects, or we want our children to be successful but we don’t know how to assist them.

Time Line Therapy® techniques were developed by Dr. Tad James in the early part of the 1980’s. At that time Dr. James was already a Master Trainer of NLP, and during his trainings, working with thousands of people, he noticed a common question that women and men asked equally: “When you really have a fear of failure, or fear of intimacy, or fear to change something in your career, or fears surrounding sex, or maybe even phobic fears like fear of eating broccoli-if you could do something to change this so that it never bothers you again, what would you do?”   These questions provided Dr. James with the drive and motivation to create Time Line Therapy® techniques.

Christine de Waart (name changed) is from Perth in WA. She is a vivacious, intelligent, cheerful and hard working woman. Before she learned Time Line Therapy® she was involved in two abusive relationships. Both relationships made her feel powerless: they made her feel really bad about herself.

She had very low self esteem as a result of these relationships, and she was quite overweight. She had no self-worth or clarity about the direction in her life and if you talk to anyone who has ever been in an abusive relationship-this is how most people end up feeling. Plus she was the mother of two small children at the time that she had to support and she was holding very low income jobs. She was very capable, however the way she felt about herself prevented her from even trying to apply for higher income jobs. So she felt like she had no way out, no way to be able to provide a future for her children, and no way to provide for herself.

She knew that she had to change a major pattern in her life but she did not know how to proceed. Time Line Therapy® gave her the easy, clear and concise steps of how to release and let go forever of all her past traumatic emotions and beliefs about herself which were the source of her unwanted thoughts and behaviors.

She had a major breakthrough right away that broke this cycle of abuse whith herself and others. As a result, she ended her abusive relationship, and she has not had another one since. She lost all the excess weight wich amounted to three dress sizes, she regained her self-worth back, and she began for the first time to feel a direction in her life. She developed her own company where she’s now earning five times what she was before and her company is growing rapidly. She became extremely empowered by using Time Line Therapy®. Life is truly fabulous for her now. She could have been devastated for the rest of her life, but put herself together and made it though successfully.

Time Line Therapy® can really help people break through any obstacles created by negative thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and create what they really want and deserve in their lives. Time Line Therapy® techniques are based on a Time Line with your entire history = your joys and fears, your happiness and sorrow, you loves and hates, your limiting and empowering decisions. Ask yourself: where is my past? And notice that you can actually point to a direction. It could be either behind you, or to your right or left or in some direction in relation to your body. Now do the same for your future. Trust your intuition. In fact, people often say “my past is behind me”, describing in words how they store time. This is the first step – discovering where your Time Line is located, and this allows us to store memories, from the past and for the future.

Dr. Tad James wrote the book “Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality” in 1987 and it was published in 1988 and ever since this technique has proven to be a vital tool for assisting people to let go of all their unwanted thoughts, emotions and behaviors and to create the future they want.

Stop and think about it for a moment, what would be the impact on you, if you could release all of the anger in your past memories, while preserving the learning experiences from those events. Or how about the sadness, fear, guilt or any other negative emotion?

What if you could go back and re-do any old decision that you make in the past, and decide in a new way – a way that supported who you want to be now? With Time Line Therapy® we also have the ability to re-evaluate our past, and change any decision which limits us. To a certain extent our behavior is guided by the decisions that we’ve made in the past. Whether conscious or unconscious, these decisions affect our behavior in the present. Finally, what if you had a reliable way to create your future the way you wanted it, and actually have that thing or event happen?

To learn the power of Time Line Therapy® techniques visit:  www.nlpcoaching.com

Adriana James is one of twenty four experts featured in the documentary film Beyond Belief: www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com

“I am sure this DVD will be a great success, and we were both thrilled to see that it came out, in a time of great need for quality information. It is very well made, very dynamic.”

Diana Stefani MD/MBA, Co-Founder of National Conference of the American-Romanian NLP Organization

“We just showed the movie…the students loved it.  They are 5 or 6 days into the training and have finished NLP and Timeline.  The movie really made the concepts sink in.  It was very powerful.”
Sara Lewis Murre,   BSU Training Assistant