James Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality

and the basis of personality
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78583-285-7
Verlag: Crown House Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten

Written by Tad James and Wyatt Woodsmall, Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality is a compelling study of the important elements that make up a person's core personality, and a detailed exploration of and introduction to how Time Line therapy works in practice. Utilizing discoveries made by Richard Bandler, Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality expands and updates our knowledge of how people actually store their memories, and sheds light on the effect that the system used for memory storage has on the individual. The authors contend that the concept of Time Line, or the notion of time that you have stored in your mind, shapes and structures your experience of the world, and consequently shapes your personality. Time Line therapy is therefore based on the premise that the client goes back to the first time they remember a particular problem, does change work utilizing Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) to eliminate irritating behaviors or issues and, if necessary, goes to subsequent times when their behavior or response was a problem, and undertakes further change work to resolve it. Written in an informative and engaging manner, Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality offers readers the opportunity to see how Time Line therapy works providing a clear description of how to elicit the Time Line, and sharing step-by-step methods to subsequently help the client to release a limiting decision or trauma, remove anxiety, or set a future goal. All of these key aspects are explained using clear language and easy-to-follow steps, and the authors' expert commentary is further complemented by examples, exercises and transcripts in order to help the reader transfer the theory into effective practice. In Section I, the authors explain the NLP Communication Model and share their in-depth analysis of the filters values, beliefs, attitudes, decisions, memories and meta programs which we subconsciously use as we process the world around us and which form the basis of our personalities. Section II provides a comprehensive description of the Time Line and how it works: laying down a theoretical basis for the technique before offering insight into its practice and application with a demonstrative transcript of Time Line elicitation and change work in order to illustrate the concepts explored. In Section III the authors move on to carefully survey simple and complex meta programs (and how they can be changed) before exploring the formation, evolution and changing of values in Section IV, which includes a helpful exercise that gives guidance on how to elicit values from the client. Exploring many interesting contexts and how personality can be positively changed to help people live happier lives, Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality is a worthy addition to any therapist's or NLP practitioner's library and is suitable reading for anyone interested in behavioral change. Sections include: Section I Introduction; Section II Time Line Therapy; Section III Meta Programs; Section IV Values. Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality was originally published in 1988 by Meta Publications.

Charismatic and possessing a profound ability to bring out the best in people, Dr Tad James was a staunch believer in the inexhaustible inner potential of human beings. He was an exciting, dynamic and transformational seminar leader, and a pioneer in the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). As a successful personal success coach and NLP Master Trainer, Tad was the creator of a revolutionary new paradigm for human change known as the Time Line therapy technique.Tad James taught NLP, Time Line therapy and hypnosis for over 35 years, and served as President of the American Board of Hypnotherapy for over 20 years. He was the author of seven books and numerous audios and videos in the field of NLP, including the bestselling The Secret of Creating Your Future, which shows people how to realize their goals in life. In 1999 Tad wrote Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Guide, a bestseller in the hypnosis field, and in 2001 he co-authored Presenting Magically, which details all his training expertise and secrets. Actors James Brolin and Linda Gray loved his work so much that they hosted an infomercial with Tad in 1994 that promoted audiotape versions of his book, The Secret of Creating Your Future. In addition to his interests in NLP and hypnosis training, Tad was a student, researcher and respected teacher of the healing and shamanistic science of Hawaiian Huna. His two volumes of The Lost Secrets of Ancient Hawaiian Huna were published in 1998.Tad James attended Syracuse University and graduated with a master's degree in mass communication. He began his career as a manager of a radio station, and went on to manage his own station at a later date. At this time, the plight of the small businessman led him to become a business consultant. While doing business consulting he realized he could not help everyone he wanted. Even though his master's degree was in mass communication, he found something missing in the art of communication between humans. He began to research into powerful ways of communicating and creating change within both people and organizations, and this led him to the field of NLP. Made the second NLP Master Trainer by Richard Bandler, one of NLP's founders, Tad quickly recognized the value of high involvement and shorter trainings.Because of his dedication, hard work and unmatched discovery of the Time Line therapy technique, it did not take long before Tad rose to become a leader in the field of NLP. His name duly became synonymous with NLP excellence: he trained and certified more successful trainers than even the founders of NLP. His sole aim was to give his best and to bring out the best in every person he met in his trainings.Tad James was the first NLP trainer to do a Learn NLP Training in an accelerated format. A leading advocate for expanding human potential and efficiency, he designed and implemented the seven-day NLP training program before anyone else did. His innovative spirit sometimes led to controversies, however. Initially met with opposition, his accelerated seven-day format (with pre-study) has since become the industry standard.In 1988 his research became more widely known with the publication of his first book, Time Line Therapy and The Basis of Personality. Since then, Time Line therapy techniques have become a major modality for creating powerful change in business, education and therapy. Time Line therapy utilizes a person's own internal 'Time Line' to work with their unconscious minds in a variety of ways, including healing emotional traumas and eradicating unwanted thoughts, emotions and behaviors. It has been so successful in its results that thousands of people - including psychiatrists, psychologists, marriage and family counselors, social workers, life and business coaches, and even athletics coaches - have utilized it for over a decade.

Autoren/Hrsg.

James, Tad

Leseproben

Introduction to Time Line
Time Line is the first element in the Basis of Personality. It is a key element to an understanding of personality. Our memories, our decisions, our experiences good and bad are collected here over time and determine how we relate to the world. How we store memories affects how we experience our lives and how we experience time. Now, time is something that fascinates me. I used to own a time management seminar company and that was a long time ago. I became really fascinated with the notions of goal setting and time management, and how time seems to work in some people’s favor and against other people. I wondered about the nature of time. I read in the dictionary that time is an “… indefinite, unlimited duration in which things are considered as happening in the past, present and future.” That didn’t seem to help. It gave me a definition, but not the reason why. I noticed that some people had all the time they needed while others did not. I noticed that some people seemed to be organized while others were not. I noticed that some people who set goals achieved their goals and others did not. I became more and more fascinated with the issue of time. I then learned about Meta Programs, which led me to the discovery that I had a Time Line! Lo and behold, so did other people! What an interesting idea! People DO have, inside them, a way of coding the past, present and the future so they know which is the past, which is the present and which is the future. You do, do you not? Otherwise how would you know that you already had paid your taxes, and didn’t need to pay them again? Not knowing that might be horrible! Further, I am certain that the IRS would find a way to tax you again if you were unsure!! Fortunately you do know the difference between the past, present and future. YOUR TIME LINE
If you were to stop and think about it, you might discover that you have your past arranged in a certain way so that you can tell the difference between it and the future. Otherwise, how would you know which event was in the past and which event was in the future? How would you know whether you were looking at a memory of the past or a memory of the future? But you do know the difference, you know. How you know is dependent on the way you encode the memories of past and future—it’s how you store the information in your brain. Almost everyone stores time in a linear way, and how they store it makes the difference. Edward T. Hall says that this simple ability of knowing what is a real event (outside), and what is a remembered, or a made-up event, is necessary for our survival. COMMUNICATION PATTERNS
Many of the language patterns that we use in NLP or that are used unconsciously by an excellent communicator are a result of knowing (either consciously or unconsciously) how people organize time inside their heads. I’ve also noticed that people who know how other people store time are much more facile in using temporal language shifts to produce changes and shifts in clients in therapy and business situations. You may have noticed that as people talk, they will often give you a description of what they are doing mentally. Could it be that this description is not metaphorical, but is literal? Have you ever heard someone say, “You’re going to look back on this and laugh.” Or how about, “Put it behind you,” or “Time is on my side.” Well, we wondered, “What does this mean?” We now believe that the way people talk about their internal experience (including their gestures) of time is a literal (as opposed to a metaphorical) description of the composition of their experience. How people talk about time is an actual representation of what they do mentally. Use of temporal language is just a description of how they store time. We will begin by describing the Time Line and how it works. First, a bit of theory. Then, how it works mentally and some exercises, and then an actual transcript of some demonstration change work. You will have the opportunity to see how it works in yourself and other people. TIME STORAGE
Internal time storage is actually a fascinating subject. The notion of how time storage affects personality comes from a number of several different sources including Edward T. Hall’s book, The Dance of Life.5 Hall talks about two kinds of time. ANGLO-EUROPEAN TIME
Anglo-European time, as described by Hall, seems to have been born out of the Industrial Revolution. You see, back in the early days when factories were first built, people had to be on time. Why? Because if you started the assembly machines at 9:00 and half the people weren’t there, then all the products would run off the end. (After all, who would put them in boxes?) Factory owners realized that they needed a system for getting people to the factory on time. The assembly line led to a notion of time as being linearly structured where one event happened after another. Thus, the Anglo-European notion of time has its roots in the Industrial Revolution and the assembly line, where there is one thing after another occurring in an orderly sequence or series of events that stretches from left to right (or vice versa) like an assembly line. In the Anglo-European view of time, if, for example, we have an appointment at 9:00 and my next appointment is at 10:00, we meet for one hour alone. At 10:00 you and I are done whether or not we have completed everything. You and I are done and I go on to my 10:00 appointment. That is an example of the Anglo- European conception of time. ARABIC TIME
Arabic, Islamic and other southern (warm climate) countries have a completely different notion of time—Islam, India and the southern regions like the South Pacific, Caribbean and even the southern United States have a completely different notion of time. Their notion is that time is something that’s happening now. If you and I have an appointment at 2:00, and you show up at 2:30, well that’s OK, because I was doing other things anyway and I didn’t really notice that you were late. If we start at 2:30, that’s fine and we’ll go on as long as it takes. If somebody else was expected to show up at 3:00, great!! When they do, they can sit in and watch us finish our first meeting. The Caribbean and Mexico are famous for their notions of time, where if you say, “When are you going to have something done?” they say, “Well, tomorrow, manana.” In Mexico, for example, if you say, “When are you going to have it done?” they’ll say, “Well, you know, tomorrow, we’ll get it done tomorrow.” If you’ve dealt with this type of thinking about time, you know that “tomorrow” can be any time after the sun sets tonight and three weeks from now. And if you’ve ever spent time in Hawaii, you’re probably familiar with Hawaiian Time, which is at least 30 minutes behind clock time. When Westerners first go to countries like Iraq and have the first meeting with an Iraqui businessperson, they may be upset because the Iraqui businessperson might have nine or ten people meeting with him, and he will have discussions going simultaneously with all of them. The American businessperson will say, “But I was supposed to have a personal meeting.” They’ll say, “This IS a personal meeting.” MAJOR DIFFERENCES IN CONCEPT OF TIME
In the Arabic notion of time, since time is happening all at once and happening now, there is no real notion of a future. Arabic people are well known for not having a notion of time beyond two weeks from now. You see, future planning is not possible where all time is now and there’s nothing beyond two weeks from now. These are the two ways that people organize time. One is Anglo-European, where there are linear, sequential, planned events. The other is Arabic, where time is an all-at-once event. So people do have different notions of time. Now, in the Anglo- European notion of time, if you and I have an appointment, you expect to see me alone. In the Arabic view of time, if you and I have an appointment, don’t expect to see me alone, expect to see me with three or four other people. IN THE UNITED STATES
Now, in the United States both of these modes of experiencing time are operative. Edward Hall says that the American businessperson frequently runs on the Anglo-European model of time and the American housewife often runs on the Arabic model of time. She will typically handle all family members simultaneously, being in the now. The husband may say, “We’re going out to the theater at 7:00.” At 7:30 she may be putting on the last of her make up because she’s finishing up, tucking the kids in and cleaning the kitchen. As soon as it’s all done (doesn’t matter how long it takes, when we’re done, we’re done) it’s OK to go. Interestingly enough, whether you use one or the other of these two models is totally determined by your internal coding system. We can discover how you store time by asking a simple question about how you code your memory storage of the events that make up your history and future internally. HOW YOU STORE TIME
So what I would like you to do for a moment is to stop and think of where the past is and where the future is for you. When you stop to think of it, consider that...