Neuro Linguistic Programming

Chapter 13: Travelling in Time to Improve Your Life 217

Although you create negative emotions and limiting decisions in your past,

they influence you in your present. If you can go into the past, by travelling

back along your time line, and understand consciously what your uncon-

scious mind was trying to protect you from, you can release the effect of the

damaging emotions and decisions more easily.

Dealing with negative emotions can be extremely powerful and you must

ensure that you have all the support you need. So, before you attempt to use

the techniques in this section to release negative emotions or understand

your limiting decisions, keep the following points in mind:

✓ In order to tackle extremely serious emotional issues, for example, the
trauma of child abuse or divorce, we definitely recommend that you see
a qualified therapist.

✓ Working with another person is best when examining time lines because
that person can keep you grounded if you forget the exercise and suc-
cumb to the emotions you’re experiencing. Someone else can also
ensure that you follow the steps correctly.

The diagram shown in Figure 13-5 is very important to the following exercises

because it clarifies the locations along your time line that you need to be

aware of. The diagram is particularly useful to people who are more visual,

those who create pictures in their minds.

Figure 13-5:

Locations

on your time

line.

Past

Present

Future

SEE, or

Root Cause

3 2 1

✓ Location number 1 in the figure represents the position you float up to,

which is directly above the present on your time line.

✓ Location number 2 is directly above the SEE (Significant Emotional

Event) or root cause.

✓ Location number 3 is still way above your time line but 15 minutes

before the root cause.