Neuro Linguistic Programming

220 Part III: Opening the Toolkit

Comforting the younger you

When you travel back along your time line and find an event that involves

you when you were young, you can embrace the younger you, reassure your-

self that all will be well, surround your selves with light, and let your selves

be healed. Now, imagine bringing all that joy and relief along your time line,

right into the present.

Getting rid of anxiety

Anxiety is simply a negative emotion about a future event. In the earlier sec-

tion ‘Releasing negative emotions and limiting decisions’, we explain how to

remove a negative emotion or limiting decision by going to before the event

that created the emotion or when you made the decision. Similarly, you can

remove anxiety by going into the future beyond the successful conclusion of

the event about which you’re anxious.

Healing along the time line

Kate’s friend, Tara, shared an inspiring expe-

rience with her. Tara had suffered severely

with blocked sinuses since she was 18 years

old. This condition was so bad that she needed

antibiotics at least three or four times a year in

order to alleviate the debilitating symptoms. By

the time Tara attended a workshop on Time Line

Therapy®, she had undergone four unsuccess-

ful operations to clear her sinuses and been

told by her doctors that she would have to live

with her illness or stay on steroids.

During the workshop, Tara discovered that her

symptoms became particularly severe when

she felt overwhelmed by people and events.

She explored the possibility that her physical

symptoms were psychosomatic. By investigat-

ing any limiting beliefs and benefits she was

getting from her illness, Tara realised that she

had built a Gestalt (a structure) around illness.

She remembered that, as a child, her brother

had received a lot of attention from their mother

because he was asthmatic and the only time

Tara received attention was when she had ton-

sillitis. Tara’s father also suffered with chronic

sinusitis and Tara found that her illness gave

her something in common with her father. She

also believed that she was unable to clear her

disease by herself.

During the workshop, Tara realised that she

was able to get attention from people without

being ill, that she could ask for tender loving

care, and that admitting to feelings of being

overwhelmed was okay. She went back along

her time line to where she believed the first SEE

happened. She realised that it was when she

first became jealous of the attention her brother

received. She was able to let go of the Gestalt

associated with this event and has been free of

sinusitis and steroids since March 2002.