{"id":46,"date":"2019-12-06T07:06:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T07:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalstresstherapy.com.au\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2019-12-06T07:06:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T07:06:05","slug":"timeline-therapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/naturalstresstherapy.com.au\/index.php\/timeline-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Your\nTime Line<\/a>
\nThe\nUnconscious Mind<\/a>
\nThe\nSource<\/a>
\nThe\nPrime Directives<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A simple process that allows you to let\ngo of all the negative emotions and limiting decisions from the past and to\ncreate your future the way you want it. Time Line TherapyTM<\/sub> is a\nprocess of active imagination that utilises the incredible power of your\nunconscious mind to release limiting beliefs and unprocessed emotions that are\nimpacting your wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n


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\nYOUR TIME LINE:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who are you if not your collection of\nmemories? For almost 100 years, psychologists have agreed that our past\nexperiences do determine who we are, and how we act. Memories are recorded and\nstored as we age and with time they have more and more influence on us. Our\nTime Line is the index to the memory encoding of the unconscious mind, and it\nis usually wholly unconscious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the context of Time Line Therapy\u00ae,\nthe words “unconscious mind” are not intended to signify anything\nmysterious or unusual, simply the part of your mind of which you are not\nconscious, right now. Your unconscious mind is a very important part of you.\nThink about it for just a moment. Here is a part of you that runs your body; it\nmakes your heart beat, causes the lymph system to circulate, your breathing to\ncontinue, your eyes to blink, your stomach to digest your food, and many other\ntasks that perhaps you had never even considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nTHE SOURCE:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first thing to appreciate is that\nyour unconscious mind is the source of all learning, all behaviour and all\nchange. Let us look at each one of these individually:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LEARNING<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your unconscious mind is the part of\nyou that learns, not your conscious mind. Now, you may have thought that you\nlearned consciously in the past, and although your learning has to go through\nthe conscious mind, it is your unconscious mind that remembers everything.\nEverything, once learned, resides in the unconscious mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about all the things you have\never learned. Until the subject was mentioned, how many of them did you\nremember consciously? Probably none! If you had to remember all the phone\nnumbers you know consciously, there wouldn\u2019t be enough room for anything else,\nwould there? So all learning takes place at the unconscious level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think of all the phone numbers you have\nlearned, and which you now know. For example, you know your home phone number,\ndo you not? If you\u2019d like to do this with me, please say it to yourself. Now\nbefore you were thinking of your home phone number, where was it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obviously it was stored somewhere, of\nwhich you were not conscious \u2014 that is your unconscious mind \u2014 the part of your\nmind of which you are not conscious, right now. What\u2019s important about that is\nthat all your learning \u2014 everything you have ever learned \u2014 is stored in your\nunconscious mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BEHAVIOUR<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of our behaviour is an unconscious\nresponse to external stimuli. When you walk you just decide to move from point\nA to point B. It is your unconscious mind that takes care of all of the\nintricate muscle movements to get the job done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When your colleague asks you \u201cHow Are\nYou?\u201d, you respond \u201cFine\u201d without even thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you are driving your car to work\nyour conscious mind drifts and the unconscious mind takes care of all of the\ncomplexities of driving. One day when you need to stop somewhere unusual on the\nway you are just as likely to forget because your unconscious is just running a\nprogram called \u201cGo to work\u201d which does not include today\u2019s stopover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unconscious mind is the automation\nengine of the mind. It is responsible for the bulk of the work. Successful\npeople have effective software programs running in their unconscious mind while\npeople who struggle tend to have less effective programs stored in their\nunconscious. A simple software upgrade can make a world of difference.
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\nCHANGE<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think of a bad habit you wanted to\nchange in the past. Was it easy? Probably not. Most people find it hard to\nchange a bad habit. For them it\u2019s something that takes time. If change was\nconscious we could change our habits easily at will, right Now! In the real\nworld, change isn\u2019t always that easy. Many people go on doing the same old\nthings over and over, year after year and they complain about it. If change\nisn\u2019t that easy for us, it is simply because we aren\u2019t fully in rapport with\nour unconscious mind. In the real world people are often not in rapport with\nthe unconscious mind, and that is why change isn\u2019t that easy for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your unconscious mind would really like\nto be in rapport with your conscious mind. In fact your unconscious mind yearns\nfor rapport, and looks up to your conscious mind like a 5 or 6 or 7 year old\nbrother or sister might look up to you. It wants your direction and support,\nand it would like to do what you asked if it only knew how. If you are not\nfeeling like there is rapport between your conscious and unconscious mind, it\nmay be because you were giving confusing messages to the conscious mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us look at this idea a little\nfurther: Your unconscious mind cannot process a negative in consciousness. It\u2019s\ntrue. In fact, it\u2019s also true for the conscious mind as well. Think about this.\nYou cannot think about what you wish to not think about without thinking about\nit. Think about that. For example, if I said, “Don\u2019t think about a pink\nelephant,” what are you thinking about. Unless you were semantically\ntrained, you are probably thinking about a pink elephant. Even though I asked\nyou not to!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of us go through our lives telling\nourselves, “I don\u2019t want to think about a pink elephant. When you go in to\nsee the boss, do you say, “I hope he doesn\u2019t get angry like the last\ntime.”? Or when starting out in a new relationship, do you say, “Gee,\nI hope I don\u2019t get hurt.”? Or how about a salesperson going in to make a\nsale and saying, “I hope I don\u2019t blow this sale.”? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you do that? If you do, you may be\ngiving the wrong signal to your unconscious mind. If it is the wrong signal, it\nis because the unconscious mind cannot process a negative in consciousness. So,\nto facilitate communication between the conscious and the unconscious minds let\nus find out a little more about this part of us which is so important, and of\nwhich we are so little aware \u2014 the unconscious mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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\nPRIME\nDIRECTIVES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/strong>.\nTO STORE OUR MEMORIES<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unconscious mind provides he\ncoordination for the storage of memories. Research as far back as 1957 (the\nPenfield Study) indicates that everything that happens is recorded faithfully\nand stored as memory. You may remember that in 1957, they probed a woman\u2019s\nbrain with an electrode, and she remembered everything that happened during a\nbirthday party when she was a very young child. She remembered the feel of the\nkrynolin of her dress, the taste and smell of her birthday cake, how her mother\nand her friends looked, etc.., as if she were there. As a result of that study,\nneuro-physicists postulated in 1957 that everything that happens to us is\nstored in the brain in full detail. In 1960, Carl Pribram won the Nobel Prize for\nhis theory that expanded the place of storage of memories from the brain to the\nentire body, when he postulated that memories were stored holographically in\nthe nervous system. It is the unconscious mind that is responsible for the\ncoordination of the storage of and for access to these memories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2<\/strong>.\nORGANIZES ALL OUR MEMORIES<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unconscious mind organizes all the\nmemories which are stored in the nervous system \u2014 in the body. The way it\norganizes these memories is that it uses “indexes” to point to the stored\nmemories and to allow for and to facilitate your access to these memories. Your\nTime Line is one such index, the organization of your Values is another such\nindex that the unconscious mind uses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3<\/strong>.\nTHE DOMAIN OF THE EMOTIONS<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unconscious mind is the domain of\nthe emotions. Even though they are often felt consciously, emotions are not the\ndomain of the conscious mind. They are generated by, maintained by, and are the\nresponsibility of the unconscious mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4<\/strong>.\nREPRESSES MEMORIES WITH UNRESOLVED NEGATIVE\nEMOTIONS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unconscious mind is also charged\nwith the responsibility of repressing memories with unresolved negative\nemotion. The emphasis here is on “unresolved.” The memory will be\nrepressed with the emotion intact until it can be resolved. The aim is simply\nto avoid the associated emotional pain. The unresolved negative emotion may\ncause some repression of the content of the memory. The repressed negative\nemotions are trapped in the body, and in many cases can cause blockages to the\nflow of communication through the neural network pathways of the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n5<\/strong>. PRESENT REPRESSED MEMORIES TO RELEASE THE EMOTIONS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memories which have been repressed are\nthen presented to release the trapped negative emotions. This is the next\nfunction which the unconscious mind is “supposed” to perform, and it\nis a function which can be a long term function. Supposed is in quotes because\nin a number of cases, and with disfavour from the conscious mind, the\nunconscious mind will stop presenting the memories for release and keep them\nrepressed. If the conscious mind can, at the time of presentation of the\nmemory, release the emotions by “rationalizing” (making rational, preserving\nthe learnings) the memory can be cleared of the negative emotions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

6<\/strong>.\nKEEP REPRESSED EMOTIONS REPRESSED FOR\nPROTECTION<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Unconscious Mind also has the\noption of keeping the memories repressed. In some cases this is what the\nunconscious mind does. This is a short term function, however, and in the long\nrun the unconscious mind will continue to attempt to present the memories so\nthat they can be released, because repressed emotions are just not good for the\nbody. (See Prime Directive number 8.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

7<\/strong>. TO\nRUN THE BODY<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unconscious mind has also been\ncalled the “body-mind” or the mind of the body, and in performing\nthis function it provides the consciousness, and the direction for the\nfunctioning of the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8<\/strong>.\nTO PRESERVE THE BODY<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unconscious mind is also in charge\nof preserving the body. This means, other things being equal, that if you walk\nout to the street and step in front of a bus, your unconscious mind will jump\nyou back out of the way, and you will be safe. In times of extreme danger, many\npeople notice that the unconscious mind takes over, and the conscious mind is\nnot at all involved at that moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9<\/strong>. TO\nBE A HIGHLY MORAL BEING<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not necessarily a Prime\nDirective as much as it is an instinct that is built in. The unconscious mind\nwill enforce any morality which it has been taught and has come to believe is\ntrue. This Prime Directive is included, however, because it is so important in\nhealing. If the Unconscious Mind thinks that you have been bad, then of course,\nyou will have to be punished. In healing, then it is important to know if the\nunconscious mind feels as though it needs to punish you. The question might\narise, “What kind of morality are we talking about?” We are talking\nabout any kind of morality which the Unconscious Mind has been taught and which\nit believes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. TO TAKE DIRECTION, FOLLOW ORDERS<\/strong>:\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unconscious mind likes to have\ndirection from a conscious mind with which it is in rapport. If there is no\nrapport, the unconscious mind will not follow the orders or directions from the\nconscious mind. With rapport the unconscious mind will follow just about any\ndirection from the conscious mind. Trust is important to develop in this\ncontext, because if the unconscious mind is in charge of our physical and many\nof our mental processes, rapport with it is a must.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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11<\/strong>.\nTO CONTROL AND MAINTAIN ALL PERCEPTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As our sensory perceptions come in to\nthe neurology from outside the body, they must pass through the unconscious\nmind before they become available as conscious perceptions. The unconscious\nmind is in charge of filtering the massive amount of data that comes in, and\nmaking it manageable for understanding by the conscious mind. You may have\nheard that one estimate is that we have approximately 2,000,000 bits\/second of\ninformation coming in through all our sensory input channels. The unconscious\nmind filters these down to a manageable 7 plus or minus 2 chunks of\ninformation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

12<\/strong>. TO\nGENERATE, STORE, DISTRIBUTE AND TRANSMIT ENERGY<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the “manager” of the body,\nthe unconscious mind also is in charge of the energy of the body. Most of the\nenergy in the body is generated by the interaction of glucose with oxygen.\nSince the unconscious mind is in charge of the energy, it can be asked to\nincrease the energy in the body for various purposes including weight loss and\nhealing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13<\/strong>.\nTO RESPOND WITH INSTINCT AND HABIT<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some instincts are built-in at birth,\nsuch as the Fight or Flight response. Habits are cultivated over time. The\nunconscious mind is responsible for generating and maintaining both instincts\nand habits over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14<\/strong>. NEEDS\nREPETITION BUILDING HABITS<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When cultivating a habit it is a good\nidea to repeat it often until it is taken-over by the unconscious mind. The\nunconscious mind is really in an on-going “now” most of the time, and\nso needs a fair amount of repetition to build a habit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

15<\/strong>. TO\nCONTINUALLY SEEK MORE AND MORE<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unconscious mind is directed to\ncontinually seek more and more. So the new car you just had to have, and you\nfinally bought seemed like “just any old car” after a short period of\ntime, and perhaps you were prompted to wonder, “what\u2019s next?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n16. WILL HAVE OPTIMUM FUNCTIONING WITH A\nMINIMUM OF PARTS<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unconscious mind will function\nperfectly with a minimum of separate parts. In fact, the fewer parts the\nbetter. Since more parts mean more possibility of inner conflict, and since\neach part cannot be expected to have the intention of the whole as its highest\nintention, the fewer parts the better. The most perfect functioning occurs as a\nwhole integrated functioning unity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

17<\/strong>. IS\nSYMBOLIC<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unconscious mind is symbolic. It is\nin many areas, pre- literate, so it creates and uses, and responds to symbols\n(thank you Carl Jung for first pointing this out to us). Much of what the\nunconscious mind gives us is symbolic. This does not mean that it is\nmeaningless, quite the contrary, the symbols can be interpreted, and will have\nsignificant meaning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

18<\/strong>. WORKS\nON THE PRINCIPLE OF LEAST EFFORT<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unconscious mind works on the\nprinciple of least effort, and that means it will do as little as it can get\naway with. This principle serves the unconscious mind well in energy\nconservation, but not necessarily in healing various symptoms. For example, if\nyou are asking the unconscious mind to clear up certain symptoms, you must ask\nthe unconscious mind when it will start and when it will finish the process, or\nyou may find six months later the process is incomplete. When asked,\n“why?” The unconscious mind may simply say, “I haven\u2019t started\nyet.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

19<\/strong>. TAKES\nEVERYTHING PERSONALLY<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember that old saying when you were\na kid, “One finger\u2019s pointing out away from you, but three are pointing\nback at you?” That is because the unconscious mind takes everything\npersonally. The good news is that what you like about your friend, is you. The\nbad news is that what you dislike about your friend, is you. The saying in\npsychology is, “Perception is projection.” What you see is who you\nare. So think the best about everybody you meet. Based on the work of George Estabrooks\n(1943) and Andre Weitzenhoffer (1957), that what the therapist (or educator, or\nmanager) does not believe to be true will not be actualized by the client. If\nyou believe that they can do anything, then they will. If you see your clients\nas magnificent they will be magnificent. The more good you see in your clients\nthe more they will actualize that good for you, and for themselves. The more\nyou do that, the more your own unconscious mind will feel good about you, and\nprosper. Honour and respect the unconscious mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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20<\/strong>. CANNOT\nPROCESS A NEGATIVE<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, and we have already discussed\nthis earlier, make sure you are telling your unconscious mind what to do,\nthink, be; as opposed to telling it what not to do, think, be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your Time Line is how your unconscious\nmind encodes and stores your memories. It\u2019s how you know the difference between\na past memory, and a future dream. Your Time Line is largely an unconscious\nprocess, and like remembering your home phone number, you may be more or less\naware of it from time to time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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