James Tad - Time line therapy and the basis of personality

Time Line Therapy

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The Basis of Personality Section I: Introduction Section II: Time Line Therapy Chapter 1: Introduction to Time Line '

Chapter 2: Through Time and In Time

The Two Types

Chapter 3: Discovering The Time Line Chapter 4: Memory Management Chapter 5: Language and Time, The Meaning of Words

Chapter 6: Your Client's Internal Representation of Time

Chapter 7: Handling Trauma Chapter 8: The Language of Time Chapter 9: Time Line Therapy

A Demonstration

Chapter 10: Programming Your Future with Time Line

Chapter 11: Time Line Therapy Outline Section III: Meta Programs Chapter 12: Introduction to Meta Programs Chapter 13: The Simple Meta Programs Chapter 14: Complex Meta Programs Chapter 15: Changing Meta Programs Section IV: Values

Chapter 16: Introduction to Values Chapter 17: The Formation of Values Chapter 18: The Evolution of Values Chapter 19: Resolving Beliefs and Values Conflicts

Chapter 20: The Hierarchy of Ideas Chapter 21: Changing Values Chapter 22: Utilizing and Changing Values Time Line Therapy and The Basis of Per-sonalityis a study of most of the important elements that make up a person's core personality. These include Time Line Therapy (Memory Storage), Meta Programs and Values.

Time Line Therapy. Utilizing discoveries by Richard Bandler, the authors have expanded and updated our knowledge of how people actually store their memories, and the effect that the system used for the storage of memories has on the personality of 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 therefore shapes your personality.

Meta Programs. Meta Programs are the most basic filters that process the sensory data that we receive from the outside world. Knowing a person's Meta Programs can assist in the prediction of their behavior, and can assist in communicating to them. The authors' work in this area is well known, and is the most thorough available on the subject of Meta Programs.

Values. Values also serve as filtering mechanisms in the processing of our sensory data, and as such they are the most basic level of filters that have content in and of themselves. Values are more basic than beliefs, providing the push behind our motivation, and provide the selection criteria for our strategies.

Values are how we evaluate right and wrong, and are the basis for our evaluation of our behavior.

Tad James, M.S., Ph.D., is certified by the Society of NLP as a Master Trainer. He has a Master's Degree in Communication and Doctor of Philosophy in Erickso-nian Hypnosis. Tad James is a business consultant, and the Founder and Chair-man of the Board of The Profitability Group, Inc., a publicly traded, Hawaii based corporation, offering the latest techniques in human resource development combining Neuro-Linguistics, Neural-Physics, General Semantics and Time Line TherapyyRichard Bandler, co-creator of NLP has described Tad James as being a "trainer's trainer, having the ability to teach even the most advanced patterns of NLP in a way that makes them easy to learn and master." He added,

"There's no one who is doing more in business with NLP than Tad James."

Wyatt Woodsmall, Ph.D., is certified by the Society of NLP as a Master Trainer and Master Modeler. He has a Doctor of Philosophy in Divinity, is a pioneer in applications for modeling excellence having done it both in government and the private sector, and continues to be actively involved in on-going modeling projects, and related training. Richard Bandler, co-creator of NLP has said that

"There's no one who knows more about NLP than Wyatt Woodsmall, and is one of the few people in NLP today who are actually doing modeling and extending the limits of its applications."

Time Line Therapy

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The Basis of Personality Time Line Therapy

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The Basis of Personality By Tad James

and Wyatt Woodsmall

Meta Publications

P.O. Box565

Cupertino, California 95015

Copyright 1988 by Meta Publications. Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved. This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form without written permission of the Publisher.

Library of Congress Card Number 87-063197

I.S.B.N. 0-916990-21-4

Table Of Contents

Dedication vii

Warning ix

Section I: Introduction

Introduction 3

Section II: Time Line Therapy Chapter 1: Introduction to Time Line 15

Chapter 2: Through Time and In Time

The Two Types 23

Chapter 3: Discovering the Time Line 31

Chapter 4: Memory Management 35

Chapter 5: Language and Time, The Meaning of Words 43

Chapter 6: Your Client's Internal Representation of Time 47

Chapter 7: Handling Trauma 51

Chapter 8: The Language of Time 57

Chapter 9: Time Line TherapyA Demonstration 65

Chapter 10: Programming Your Future With Time Line .. 79

Chapter 11: Time Line Therapy Outline 85

Section III: Meta Programs Chapter 12: Introduction to Meta Programs 91

Chapter 13: The Simple Meta Programs 95

Chapter 14: Complex Meta Programs 111

Chapter 15: Changing Meta Programs 147

Section IV: Values

Chapter 16: Introduction to Values 155

Chapter 17: The Formation of Values 161

Chapter 18: The Evolution of Values 173

Chapter 19: Resolving Beliefs and Values Conflicts 179

Chapter 20: The Hierarchy of Ideas 193

Chapter 21: Changing Values 201

Chapter 22: Utilizing and Changing Values 205

Appendix 1: Changing the Basis of Personality 219

Appendix 2: Cocaine Therapy 231

Bibliography 265

Glossary 269

Index 275

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To Milton Erickson

Who Knew This Long Before We Did, To Richard Bandler

Who Showed Us Where It Was To Ardie James, and Eileen James For Their Assistance In Editing And For Their Support.

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Acknowledgements

I would like to personally acknowledge all my teachers. Some of whom I met, and some of whom I have not met. The most important include Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Swami Muktananda, John Garner, Leonard Orr, Werner Erhard, Stuart Novick, Trinidad Hunt, Dana Hall, Milton Erickson, Ernest Rossi, Richard Bandler, John Grinder, Steve Andreas, Wyatt Woodsmall, Robert Klaus, Cathy Modrall, Robert Dilts, Tony Robbins, Richard Roop, and of course all my students who have taught me as much.

These people are responsible for who I am today. They gave me the information. Of course, I accepted it, so I bear at least an equivalent responsibility. I thank them all for their part.

WARNING: The techniques described in this book are extremely powerful, and have the possibility of changing a person's personality totally and completely in a very short period of time.

It is therefore important, for your safety and the safety of your client, that any therapeutic use of these techniques be done by someone trained in Time Line Therapy. For training in Time Line Therapy in your area, contact: Tad James, ProfitAbility Group, Inc., P. O. Box 3768, Honolulu, HI 96812.

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Introduction

Introduction

We are at the beginning of a new era of understanding. Over time, as we worked with a number of clients, it became obvious that we had discovered elements that make up a person's personality. We tested and found that, as we used this model for change, we were able to create seemingly miraculous changes in individuals, and at the deepest level of personality.

Models are interesting devices. They are descriptions or simulations of how something works in a certain area. In essence a model is a blueprint or a map. Like a map, a model is not necessarily "true." It is just a representation of reality. So we are not necessarily looking for truth in making this model; we are only attempting to describe how the human personality works.